The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 20 December 2000 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 9:00am PST -0800, to begin as soon thereafter that a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum is recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held by teleconference hosted by Intuit (Ben Hyde). The meeting was called to order at 9:07am PST. 2. Roll Call Directors Present at roll call: Brian Behlendorf (arrived 9:11am) Ken Coar Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Rasmus Lerdorf Doug MacEachern Randy Terbush Directors Absent: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Ben Laurie Guests: None 3. Minutes from the meetings of 22 October 2000 and 15 November 2000 See . See . Minutes were not approved at this meeting. 4. Officer Reports A. President [Brian] Brian reported on the status of locus, and on the server upgrades for the various ASF projects. Brian also informed the board of some private, non-ASF related discussions with Stallman regarding the APL and the GPL. B. Treasurer [Randy] Randy reported a current balance of $108,011.92 in the ASF bank account. This included 2 donations: $746.86, from O'Reilly royalties, and $1,400, for Linux NewMedia. As of this date, the ASF had not yet received the payment check for ApacheCon2000 - Europe. $688.55 was spent on the crypto research effort. Randy also at this time reported that efforts were still underway in creation a relationship with Colley Gorward LLP to serve as the ASF's legal council. Efforts are also underway to obtain a merchant account for the ASF, to allow for the use of credit card donations. The delay has been due to the fact that the bank that Randy had been working with has been taken over by Well Fargo. C. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim reported little activity required during the last month. It was requested that a report, detailing the status of all member agreements be written, which Jim agreed to do. 5. Committee Reports A. Apache Conferences Committee [Ken] Ken reported that the number of proposals obtained from our CFP for ApacheCon 2001 has been impressive, with over 190 submissions. Ken informed the board that Mad Dog and David Brin have agreed to be keynote speakers at AC2001. The ConCom has a scheduled planners meeting in Santa Clara on Jan 22 and 23rd. 6. Special Orders A. Apache Portable Runtime Project ====== Resolution R1: [Roy] WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) products, for distribution at no charge to the public. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee, to be known as the "APR Committee", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the APR Committee be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to the APR software product based on software licensed to the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, APR" 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 APR Committee, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the APR 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 APR Committee. Greg Ames Jim Blandy Ryan Bloom Branko Cibej Ken Coar Ben Collins-Sussman Ralf Engelschall Brian Fitzpatrick Karl Fogel Brian Havard Jim Jagielski Ben Laurie Chuck Murcko David Reid William Rowe Wilfredo Sanchez Sascha Schumann Greg Stein Bill Stoddard Jeff Trawick NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Ryan Bloom be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, APR, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial APR Committee be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the APR Project. ====== By unanimous consult, Resolution R1 Passes. 7. Unfinished Business A. Status of relationship with Cooley Godward LLP See Treasurer's report, above. B. Plan for registering Apache trademarks Discussion was placed on hold until item 7A is defined and such a relationship in in place. 8. New Business None. 9. Announcements There was some discussion regarding the possible impending beta of Apache 2.0 and release of Apache 1.3.15. 10. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned by 9:47am PST -0800. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ End of minutes