Community Council/Minutes

Community Council Meeting Minutes 2007-09-18

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

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.
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.

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.
After discussion, in which we even re-read the Charter, we agreed on the following:
- Timeframe must be stipulated in the message to [mailto:discuss@concil discuss@council;
- We keep with consensus
- 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,.