Community Council/Minutes
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Minutes of Meetings
2010-03-18
IRC Log
See Community Council Log 20100318
Minutes
ID |
Topic |
Status |
Responsible |
Last Update |
Details |
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0 |
List of Action Items of previous meeting for approval |
none |
all |
none |
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2010-03-04#1 |
CC Elections (Martin, Pavel, John) |
Accepted |
Louis, Christoph |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#2 |
Refresh Incubator and NLC Project processes |
Accepted |
Louis |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#3 |
Publicize the open slot at the start of the CC meetings |
Accepted |
Martin |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#4 |
Work with Clayton on estimates for Developing developers documentation |
Accepted |
Jürgen |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#5 |
Talk to Google about 2010 SoC |
Accepted |
Cor, John |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#6 |
Talk to Education Project Leads about structure and remit |
Accepted |
John, Cor |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#7 |
Talk to NLC about ‘NLC of the Month’ for OOo Newsletter |
Accepted |
Charles |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#8 |
New template for CC meetings |
Finalized |
Christoph |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#9 |
Refresh Budget Pages on the Wiki with input from Matthias |
Finalized |
John |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#10 |
Confirm/discuss proposed dates for future council meetings |
Finalized |
All |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04#11 |
Trademark |
Rejected |
Stefan |
2010-03-18 |
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2010-03-04
IRC Log
See Community Council Log 20100304
Minutes
Minutes and action items are not available.
Agenda Items
Since no meeting minutes are available, the original agenda will be used instead.
No | Action Item | Owner | Due Date | Additional Information |
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0 | List of Action Items of previous meeting for approval | All |
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See Community_Council/Minutes#2010-02-18. |
1 |
Hold CC Elections (Martin, Pavel, John) | Louis / Christoph |
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2010-03-03: Louis sent the mail for nomination on 2010-02-27. The nomination phase will end 2010-03-15 15 at 24:00 UTC. Next Steps: ??? |
2 |
Refresh Incubator and NLC Project processes | Louis | |
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3 |
Publicise the open slot at the start of the CC meetings | Louis |
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4 | Work with Clayton on estimates for Developing developers documentation | Jürgen |
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Next Steps:
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5 | Talk to Google about 2010 SoC | John | |
Next Steps:
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6 | Talk to Education Project Leads about structure and remit | Cor | |
Next Step: Cor will prepare a draft and present it to the Community Council. |
7 | Talk to NLC about ‘NLC of the Month’ for OOo Newsletter | Charles | |
Next Steps:
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8 | New template for CC meetings | Christoph | |
2010-03-02: The revised proposal is available at Proposed_Improvements. It has been refined to make working with it easier and more efficient. Basically, it is now a continuous table which can be sorted according to several status labels. Originally, I proposed to use different sections to markup the status of action items. Additionally, the proposal to move the "record date" to the action item ID has been incorporated. Please review the proposal - or even better - accept it :-) Next Steps:
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9 | Refresh Budget Pages on the Wiki with input from Matthias | John | |
Next Step: John will work on that until the next meeting. |
10 | Confirm/discuss proposed dates for future council meetings | Christoph | 2010-03-04 |
2010-03-02: The revised proposal is available at Community Council Calendar. Next Steps: None planned. |
11 |
Trademark | Stefan |
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Next Step: Stefan will provide some updates in the next meeting. |
2010-02-18
IRC Log
List of attendees and IRC log can be found here: Community Council Log 20100218
Minutes
No | Action Item | Owner | Status | Additional Information |
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0 | List of Action Items of previous meeting for approval | - |
Approved |
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1 |
Prepare wiki page for ‘Events’ | Louis | Done |
List of events interesting for OpenOffice.org available at Events, Year 2010. From now on, it needs to be completed by MarCon. |
2 |
Hold CC Elections (Martin, Pavel, John) | Louis / Christoph |
In progress |
Louis is currently preparing the initial email "New election for Community Council". A second draft is already available and feedback has already been provided. Next Steps:
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3 |
Refresh Incubator and NLC Project processes | Louis | |
No update. Will be discussed in next meeting. |
4 |
Publicise the open slot at the start of the CC meetings | Louis |
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No update. Will be discussed in next meeting. |
5 | Work with Clayton on estimates for Developing developers documentation | Jürgen |
In progress |
Clayton has send a first draft to council-discuss (Draft of the Community Council proposal to hire a Tech Writer), we need some confirmation how to proceed keeping the proposed quote in mind. Discussion:
Next Steps:
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6 | Talk to Google about 2010 SoC | John | In progress |
John has sent a mail to the Google representative Leslie Hawthorn a couple of days ago. We are waiting for an answer. Discussion: It has been raised that the applications for "would-be mentoring applications" is open from 2010-03-08 to 2010-03-12 (source). Next Steps:
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7 | Talk to Education Project Leads about structure and remit | Cor | In progress |
Next Step: Cor will prepare a draft and present it to the Community Council. |
8 | Talk to NLC about ‘NLC of the Month’ for OOo Newsletter | Charles | In progress |
Announcement has been made on the NLC list. One "volunteer" project found for the first month month, the Irish Gaelic project. Discussion (a little bit off-topic):
Next Steps:
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9 | Talk to Marketing Project about OOoCon support for remote attendees | John | Done |
Request has been discussed with the Hungarian OOoCon team and with MarCon. The proposal that the MP should set up a 'permanent' arrangement for video for all OOoCons may need finance - probably next year's budget though. The Marketing Project is still discussing if this is a better approach. Discussion (a little bit off-topic):
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10 | Reply to FSF Extensions Repository | Louis | Done |
Louis sent the mail and the FSF (Peter Brown) already replied. |
11 | New template for CC meetings | Christoph | In progress |
Some of the proposals from the face-to-face meeting in Hamburg have been summarized. Work on a draft has been started. It is available at Community_Council/Proposed_Improvements. Discussion:
Next Steps:
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12 | Refresh Budget Pages on the Wiki with input from Matthias | John | |
No update. John will work on that until the next meeting. Remark: The budget has already been accepted in the face-to-face meeting in Hamburg. |
13 | Confirm/discuss proposed dates for future council meetings | Christoph | In progress |
A first proposal is available at Community Council Calendar. Discussion:
Next Step: Christoph will re-work the proposed dates and inform the Community Council members. |
Update of the OpenOffice.org logo and the branding initiative | - |
Additional discussion. Discussion:
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Trademark | - |
Additional discussion. Discussion: Stefan will provide some updates in the next meeting. |
2010-02-04/05 (F2F Meeting in Hamburg)
Attendees
Name | Initials (not the OOo user name) |
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Martin Hollmichel | MHo |
Matthias Huetsch | MHu |
Cor Nouws | CNou |
Christoph Noack | CN |
Louis Suarez-Potts | LS-P |
Charles-H. Schulz | C-HS |
John McCreesh | JPMcC |
Stefan Taxhet | ST |
Jürgen Schmidt | JS |
Minutes
Status Updates from CC Sponsored Activities
Trademark Policy
ST reported that the draft trademark policy was being reviewed by Sun Legal, but no major changes were expected.
Developing developers
The CC welcomed Clayton Cornell for this item
The CC discussed three areas where documentation could be improved:
- how-to get into core development (technical)
- how-to engage in the community development process (people)
- how-to get into extension development (technical)
There was a discussion on the merits of traditional paper-based documentation versus webinars etc for each of these.
The CC agreed to focus on extensions, possibly based on Per’s current work with Kai on a gallery extension. Clayton was actioned to come back with a budgetary estimate for the work.
The CC agreed to talk to Google to see whether the Oracle takeover meant that OOo would be accepted this year for the Summer of Code exercise. If not, the CC should press on with its own internship exercise.
Pootle Infrastructure
The CC welcomed Rafaella Braconi for this item
- A new Pootle sys admin was now in place and was actively managing the system
- Some background scripts had been removed. Feedback from the engineers was that performance of Pootle was not hardware constrained.
- the latest version of Pootle would be installed as soon as OOo 3.2 was released
Overall the position had stabilised. Engagement with the Pootle developers was good. We should look to get feedback from the community again in Q2 after the software upgrade. The CC would be willing to help the Pootle team carry out developments to meet OOo requirements if required.
Download Infrastructure Migration (MirrorBrain)
JPMcC reported that the Marketing Project download reporting system was now being fed from both Bouncer and MirrorBrain, and 3.2 would be released via MirrorBrain. He thanked the MirrorBrain team for their help in meeting OOo’s requirements.
Site Infrastructure Migration (Kenai)
ST reported on the project to migrate OOo from Collabnet to Kenai. Kenai is based on open source technologies such as Zoomla, Bugzilla, and Rails, but will be managed as a service by a team within Oracle. The OOo Project Leads and Web Project are now actively engaged on the migration which is planned to have three phases:
- fit-gap analysis of Kenai features vs OOo requirements (underway)
- any resulting OOo ‘must have’ features implemented in Kenai
- data migration scripts developed and proven (underway - Collabnet data dump received)
Migration must be complete by end of June. ST believed this was ambitious but achievable, as a pilot project (netbeans.org) had already migrated successfully. There would still be a requirement for a ‘*.services.oo.o’ for OOo-specific requirements.
Link: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home
Agenda Items
The additional agenda can be found here.
Oracle / Sun
The CC noted the contents of the recent webcasts by Oracle, and that the formal Legal Entity Consolidation of Oracle and Sun Microsystems was due this month. The CC had always valued the relationship with Sun, and looked forward to a similarly fruitful relationship with Oracle. The CC extended their best wishes to the formerly Sun-sponsored community contributors in their new home as a global business unit within Oracle Corporation. The CC had no comment to make on Oracle’s announcement of a commercial ‘Cloud Office’ product other than to state new entrants are always welcome to the ODF ecosystem.
Education Project
Following on from the Developing developers initiative and the work with Seneca, the CC debated where these activities should be best placed with OOo. The Education Project would seem an obvious home, but the project had recently undertaken a number of initiatives which were already taking it in several different directions. The CC agreed to talk to the project leads about the structure and remit of the project, to give greater focus and avoid conflicts with other projects.
Branding
The CC welcomed Rosana Ardila Biela for this item
RAB gave a presentation on the work to refresh and relaunch the visual identity of OOo, as part of a branding initiative within the Marketing Project. She presented a revamped OOo logo which was still work in progress within the working party. The CC warmly welcomed the activity, and encouraged the team to reach consensus on a new logo. If the team was unable to do so, then they should present options to the CC for another decision / route - however, it was far better for the experts in the team to decide, rather than the amateurs on the CC!
Native Language Community development
The CC discussed ways of encouraging NLC development.
- Requests for financial support for Regional Conferences would be considered on a case by case basis. Funding would be start-up only, as conferences are expected to be self-financing. The CC recommends that OOo teams should be encouraged to join forces with other open-source projects to share the costs and efforts involved in running conferences.
- NLCs should be encouraged to volunteer for a ‘Native Language Community of the Month’ spotlight in the OOo Newsletter - C-HS to organise.
- The CC discussed direct funding of new localisations e.g. at the request of a government. Past experience suggested these did not lead to sustainable versions. The success of the NLC within OOo was based round a team of activists providing a complete package of localisation, QA, training, support, etc.
‘Greening’ OpenOffice.org
The CC discussed ways of minimising OOo’s carbon footprint. OOo’s infrastructure is mostly donated by third parties, which means the CC cannot make direct decisions about e.g. using only renewable electricity in datacentres. The CC agreed that OOoCon should be made more accessible for remote attendees as a priority, e.g. improved web streaming, dial-in access to sessions, mandatory advance submission of papers, etc. Support of remote attendees should be made a key deciding factor in awarding the 2011 OOoCon. The Marketing Project was also asked to consider options - e.g. should the MP be responsible for a web capability centrally every year rather than rely on local teams?
Extensions Repository
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has notified the CC that the OOo Extensions Repository does not conform to FSF principles, as it hosts ‘non-free’ software. As a result, any software distributions wishing to conform to FSF standards should not make use of the OOo Repository. The CC agreed that licence information could be improved on the Repository, as this is an important factor people should consider when choosing extensions. The FSF would be welcomed to help in providing this sorting / filtering mechanism. However, the CC would not support a forking or partitioning of the Repository to exclude ‘non-free’ extensions. OOo respects the right of its users to make their own informed choice of software, and believes this is best achieved by a single Repository offering a full selection of extensions.
Community Council Effectiveness
CC members used the opportunity of this face to face meeting to brainstorm high and low points of 2009, and consider community goals for 2010/2011. An offline presentation by CN highlighted the lack of a consistent trail from the overall OOo mission statement down to project or release goals.
The CC discussed issues with its current processes:
- CC members over-committing to Action Items, which they then fail to deliver
- the quality of the minutes, which makes it hard for community members to understand what the CC is doing
- the amount of time taken up on IRC presenting status reports, which could be more efficiently done in advance
The CC also needs to improve its communication with the Community. The CC agreed to experiment with starting meetings with a public session. The Minutes should be prepared in a form that anyone can understand without having to work through IRC logs. It should also be possible to copy and paste from the Minutes into the monthly OOo Newsletter to give a ‘This Month in the Community Council’ article.
CN (the current facilitator) agreed to work on a new meeting template including these improvements. JPMcC agreed to write up the minutes for this meeting.
2010 Budget
MHe reported that the current level of monthly donations was sufficient to support the proposed budget. The majority of these donations came from small contributions via PayPal. The CC agreed to adopt the draft budget for 2010 but review it quarterly to see if the allocation between different headings should be amended. MHe agreed to publish a summary of ‘actual vs budget’ quarterly on the wiki. JPMcC agreed to refresh the budget wiki pages for 2010. All projects should be encouraged to put forward proposals for using all the available funding.
Action Items
No | Action | Who | When | Status |
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Prepare wiki page for ‘Events’ | LS-P | |
ongoing |
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Hold CC Elections (Martin, Pavel, John) | LS-P | |
transferred to CN with help from JMcC |
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Refresh Incubator and NLC Project processes | LS-P | |
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Publicise the open slot at the start of the CC meetings | LS-P | |
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402.1 | Work with Clayton on estimates for Developing developers documentation | JS | |
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402.2 | Talk to Google about 2010 SoC | JPMcC | |
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402.3 | Talk to Education Project Leads about structure and remit | CNou | |
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402.4 | Talk to NLC about ‘NLC of the Month’ for OOo Newsletter | C-HS | |
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402.5 | Talk to Marketing Project about OOoCon support for remote attendees | JPMcC | |
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402.6 | Reply to FSF Extensions Repository | LS-P | |
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402.7 | New template for CC meetings | CN | |
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402.8 | Refresh Budget Pages on the Wiki with input from MHe | JPMcC | |
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2010-01-21
IRC log
AIs
- Budget Louis: prepare a wiki page with events.
- Trademark Policy ST to take back to trademark list
- Elections: first cycle is finished. Next steps:
- Jürgen: Update council webpage: (done)
- Louis: Notification to broader community about results (done)
- Louis: Initiate phase 2 of the new election for Martin, Pavel, John.: put on hold until after holidays, viz., post 6 jan
- Louis: advertise public part at #ooocouncilpub in the beginning before next council meeting: Louis suggest we do it for next meeting.
- OpenOffice.org Internship
- Martin to put together a proposal for hiring a technical writer to document getting started on OOo development.: open
- AI: "Winter of Code"; Cor to own and cry for help if required.; list to be used is mentoring @ ooo: open
- Distribution infrastructure (Bouncer); John: We are on target to use mirrorbrain for 3.2; Louis proposed AI: that the CC publicly thanks the volunteer mirrors on the release of 3.2 for 9 plus years of heroic work including and esp. osuosl.
- l10n infrastructure (Pootle): ST: Pootle version upgrade imminent beginnig 2010; AI: Owner?: find better tool that is a closer fit, if necessary; Cor is going to contact Andre.
- Procedures for retirement of a project in Incubator and NLC. Louis: deliver final wording after the discussion that was on the mail list - carry forward; see [1] to be inforporated in http://native-lang.openoffice.org/#terminus and http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/protocols_proposing.html
- Proposal for handling incubator and NLC projects. Louis: come with clear proposal, so we can put it on the agenda for a future meeting - carry forward
- Budget 2010: AI: all budget holders to submit their requests for a share of this 100k. See proposal from Matthias [2]; Vote on Matthias' Proposal pending
- Council coordinator: choosing ST's successor (for the period from February 2010 - May 2010). (done)
- Juergen: Prepare Agenda for F2F Meeting in Hamburg, February 4/5;
- Ja added: How to handle impolite remarks in IssueTracker issues ? See issue 107456. Corresponding user ignores changes made to the issue he wrote. (done)
Log
Community Council Log 20092201
Archived Meeting Minutes
The following pages archive the old meeting minutes of the Community Council: