The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 10 March 2000 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 9:00am EST -0500. A quorum was recognized by the chair and the meeting started at 9:27am. The meeting was held in the AC2K "Press Room" at the Caribe Royale Conference Center, Orlando, Florida, coinciding with the ApacheCon 2000 conference. 2. Roll Call The following directors were in attendance at roll call: Brian Behlendorf, Ken Coar, Ben Hyde, Jim Jagielski, Roy Fielding, Randy Terbush, Dirk-Willem van Gulik. The following directors joined after roll call: Ben Laurie joined at 9:45am. The following directors were absent: Sameer Parekh The following guests were in attendance: None 3. Special Orders / Unfinished Business A. Proposal from ZOT Group for continuing media management services. Ben Laurie reported that ZOT Group wished to continue their services gratis. There was general agreement that the board was very happy with the services provided by the ZOT Group over the past year, and further that the ASF should obtain a list of actual expenses from the ZOT Group so that we could at least reimburse the fixed costs of past press releases. The President [Brian] was assigned the task of extending the contract with ZOT Group. B. Perl-Apache PMC Roy presented a resolution to incorporate the mod_perl project as a formal ASF project. The following resolution was approved by unanimous consent. WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Corporation and consistent with the Corporation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the Perl computer language for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee, to be known as the "Perl-Apache Project Management Committee", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Corporation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Perl-Apache Project Management Committee be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of Perl software based on software licensed to the Corporation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Perl-Apache" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chairman of the Perl-Apache Project Management Committee, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Perl-Apache Project Management Committee; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Perl-Apache Project Management Committee. Doug MacEachern Stas Bekman Eric Cholet Ask Bjoern Hansen NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Doug MacEachern be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Perl-Apache, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Corporation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Perl-Apache Project Management Committee be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Perl-Apache Project. C. XML and Data Channel License. Dirk presented information regarding various License statements desired and required by Data Channel. The board agreed that continued work on the effort was required. Dirk agreed to handle the issues and keep the board informed of its status. 4. New Business None 5. Announcements None 6. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 11:00am EST -0500. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________