The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 22 October 2000 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 9:00pm BST +0100 after the ASF Members Meeting. After some delay rounding up the board members, a quorum was recognized by the chair and the meeting started at 9:25pm. The meeting was held by at the upstairs lounge at the London Hilton Olympia 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Brian Behlendorf Ken Coar Roy T. Fielding Ben Laurie (arrived 9:30pm) Rasmus Lerdorf Doug MacEachern (arrived 9:30pm) Randy Terbush Dirk-Willem van Gulik (arrived 9:30pm) Directors Absent: None Guests: James Duncan Davidson (V.P., Jakarta) 3. Minutes from the meetings of 24 July 2000 The minutes from the board meeting of 24 July 2000 were approved by general consent. The minutes are recorded at . 4. Officer Reports A. Chairman [Roy] Roy reported that he had more time available to focus on the ASF. First on his agenda was to update the ASF site to reflect reality. B. President [Brian] Brian reported that he was working on various Licensing issues, including a "write-up" of sorts describing the Apache License and how it compares with other Licenses. This is in response to discussions on various mailing lists. C. Treasurer [Randy] Randy reported the current status of the ASF banking account. Detailed account information can be found in the Funds directory of the foundation CVS tree/site. Randy reported that the ASF has received notice from the IRS of our filing for 501(c)(3) status. D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim had nothing to report. 5. Committee Reports A. Apache Conferences Committee [Ken] Ken reported that the Conference Committee was working the issues for the next ApacheCons, including addressing the feedback received that an ApacheCon in Australia would be a positive venue. 6. Special Orders None. 7. Unfinished Business None. 8. New Business A Round-table discussion was held on 2 topics: A. Scheduled Board Meetings It was agreed that a Board Meeting would be held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 9:00am Pacific Time. It is anticipated that by having monthly meeting they will be short and concise. These could be supplimented by the use of irc. Jim was to determine the feasibility of procuring telecon services under the ASF directly, instead of using telecon services provided on the ASF's behalf. B. Webmaster Employee for ASF It was agreed that it made sense for the ASF to look into hiring support to serve as a "webmaster" for the ASF sites. Brian was to generate a Job Description for such a position to be reviewed and possibly voted for at the next board meeting. 9. Announcements None. 10. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 10:25pm BST +0100. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ End of minutes