The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes November 2, 2010 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 3:30pm (Eastern) and began shortly thereafter when sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized. The meeting was held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA. 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Shane Curcuru Doug Cutting (arrived at 3:45) Bertrand Delacretaz Jim Jagielski Geir Magnusson, Jr. Sam Ruby Noirin Shirley Greg Stein (arrived at 3:52) Directors Absent: Roy T. Fielding Officers Present: Philip M. Gollucci Officers Absent: Craig L Russell Guests: Henning Schmiedehausen Brian Fox 3. Discussion Items A. Maven trademark issues Jim did attempt to call Wayne on Tuesday... will try again with Wayne's cell phone. Shane recapped the previous conversation in which Sonatype's CMO requested details supporting the assertion that the ASF truly owned the mark, and they were provided. Shane emphasized how important it is that the PMCs are involved in this discussion. Jim mentioned that Maven is not the only PMC in which we are working through these issues. Brian indicated that this is a legacy issue where the guidelines in the past were not as clear as they are now. Philip indicated that the new CMS will enable us to enforce consistent trademark usage in headers and footers across the entire site. B. Java 7 vote responses Doug suggested that any press release include information which identify what actions Oracle could take to get us to stay. Geir indicated that the condition is a unencumbered TCK for Java 6. Geir indicated that he would produce a Q&A. Bertrand suggested that now that we just got elected in, it would be a good time for a blog post which thanks people for their support and uses the opportunity to lobby the new and remaining JCP SE/EE Executive Committee members to vote against the umbrella JSR for Java 7 unless it comes with JCK terms that we can live with. Geir to draft a call to action and revisit the exiting FAQ by Thursday, with the plan to post on Monday. C. Java-related issue (Sam) [executive session] 4. Announcements 5. Adjournment Adjourned at 5:30pm (Eastern) ------------------------------------------------------ End of minutes for the November 2, 2010 board meeting.