The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 16 January 2002 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 10:00am PST -0800. At 10:19 a quorum was recognized by the chairman. The meeting was held by teleconference hosted by Covalent. 2. Roll Call Directors Present At Roll (or soon thereafter): Brian Behlendorf (10:26am) Ken Coar Roy T. Fielding Jim Jagielski Ben Laurie Greg Stein Directors Absent: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Bill Stoddard Randy Terbush Guests: Jason Hunter Chuck Murcko Sam Ruby 3. Minutes from the meeting of 28 Nov 2001 were approved via unanimous consent. 4. Officer Reports A. President [Brian] Brian had no news to report. B. Treasurer [Randy] Absent, hence no report. C. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim reported that he was collecting the 2nd round of data from ASF committers and members, with the intent of populating a MySQL database with the info for our internal and public use. The data is required so that the ASF can have a complete and comprehensive list of all those working on the various projects. 5. Committee Reports A. Conference Planning [Ken] Ken reported that there has been very little discussion with Security Travel over the last few months regarding the ApacheCon events. It has only been in the last weeks that discussion has re-started, with the items for discussion being posted on the ConCom list. A summer event in Las Vegas is still baselined for this year. 6. Special Orders A) Conference supplies Ken requested a budget for the ConCom for purchasing wireless network equipment for use at ASF meetings and ApacheCon. The general consensus was that at least 4 units would be needed. Rasmus Lerdorf had indicated offline that he had obtained at least 2 units that he could "hold" for the ASF. By unanimous vote, the board authorized a budget of $1,000 (US) to the ConCom to purchase wireless equipment for the above specified purposes. B) Trademarks Ken requested formal approval for reimbursement on potential expenses related to registering the Apache name and feather as trademarks. By unanimous vote, Ken was tasked to obtain the required trademarks, as previously discussed as being the 2 trademarks in 4 classes, on behalf of the ASF, and, as such, reimbursement was authorized. C) Java Community Process Sun has not made visible progress towards making the JCP specs acceptable to open source implementations. There was much discussion among the board and guests on whether it would be best to discountinue association with an organization that generates closed standards, or if it would be possible to create a plan to convince them to open the JCP specs. In addition to the ASF's mission of open standards, there is also the restriction the ASF faces that our efforts in the Java specification environment can be perceived as benefiting a sole organization. The general consensus was that the team should work on a Position Paper, creating a statement on what is wrong with the current specifications/JSR. In addition, by unanimous vote, the board authorized a budget of $6,000 (US) to Jason Hunter in order to obtain legal advice, information and feedback on the current JSPA and other ASF-related interests in this matter. 7. Unfinished Business A. ASF License 2.0 Roy has made some changes to his suggested License, and received some additional feedback from Drew. Further discussion will be held at the next meeting. 8. New Business Sam Ruby reported that the Jakarta PMC Chair election is due soon. Sam also reported that the Jakarta PMC will also hold a renewal of all members in the PMC. Roy reported his intent to have each ASF project submit status updates to the board at the monthly board meetings, on an ongoing rotating basis. 9. Announcements None 10. Adjournment The meeting was scheduled to adjourn by 11:00am PST -0800, and was actually adjourned at 11:19am PST -0800. __________________________________________________________ End of minutes for the 16 Jan 2002 board meeting.