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Community Council Meeting Minutes 2007-09-18

Attendees:

• Stefan Taxhet
• Sophie Gautier
• Pavel Janík
• Matthias Huetsch
• André Schnabel
• Marin Hollmichel
• Michael Meeks (stand-in for Laurent Godard)
• Louis Suarez-Potts (note taker)
• Absent: John McCreesh (conflicting event)

• AI: Sophie to contact candidates for creating the support/certification criteria. Discussions can be held on the public certification list in documentation project.
• AI: LSP: start elections for CCR
• AI: LSP: ask at trademark list for reasons to actively defend trademark (would we loose trademark, if we do not defend it?)

Nothing significant happened on 17 October during the meeting: absentees. Work was done via mail list

Next meeting November 22, 14:00 UTC or some other friendly time

• See The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council Agenda for next meeting

Minutes for 2007-09-18, Barcelona in-person meeting

• Note: We used—or tried to—the wiki for the agenda this meeting. That did not work out.
• Elections
  • Proposal: To start them immediately after OOoCon, beginning with the Community Contributor followed shortly (two weeks later) with other CC elections. As usual, we will announce elections to all the major lists.
  • Action: accepted
• Trademark
  • Synopsis of the issues regarding the trademark: status quo of team OpenOffice.org e.V. Owning US trademark and Sun the defending it elsewhere.
  • question about reasons to sell trademark to sun arose. Possible reason: we would loose trademark if we do not defend it (Team OOo who actually owns the TM in US does not have the ressource to defend it)
  • Proposal: to vote to continue discussions on the above point—status quo.--on the trademark list.
  • Action: let's discuss it more on the list and find out precisely from Sun the legal issues at stake.
• Training and certification: yes, this again.
  • Proposal: to clarify the issue. ECDL and others want to certify users of OOo and the issue is, how do we participate. Drafting criteria has not worked out: no one wants to do it. But if we want to postion OpenOffice.org so that it s relevant, it seems needed.
  • AI Sophie inquire about funding someone to drive the criteria for payment. The CC would provide the funds via Team OpenOffice.org.

Other items

• Do we need to change the structure and charter?
  • Action: There was a fair amount of discussion on the issue and the answer was no. Of the things that were suggested (see below) the changes were procedural, not substantive. The issue was that we need to enjoin participation by the council members. It's too easy for things to go slack. Regarding a change of the Council due to new companies joining the community, it was discussed, that this would rather imply a new board instead of adding companies to the concil.
• After discussion, in which we even re-read the Charter, we agreed on the following:
  • Timeframe must be stipulated in the message to discuss@council (if a council member fails to vode within the timeframe she is considered as "Absent from Council Participation" as written at pt. VI n of the Council Charter)
  • We keep with consensus (if one member continously blockes votes, this might be considered as misconduct and dealt wiht according pt. IV, b, iv, iii of the coincil charter)
  • Use wiki to post agenda, minutes
  • Drop agenda@council and use a wiki page, the last week's minutes; minutes would also be posted to the date titled page and linked to from the usual places, such as the OOo logon page.
• We also more tentatively agreed to have standard agenda items:
  • finances
  • community events
  • And we agreed, provisionally to hold meetings once a month at minimum but also whenever there are pressing issues
• We also discussed the possibility of including new permanent members, in the same capacity as Stefan, but the conclusion was that though this may be in fact what occurs, it's at the moment hypothetical occasion,.