The Apache Software Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 18 April 2001 1. Call to order The meeting was scheduled for 9:00am PST -0800. A quorum was recognized at 9:08am and the meeting commenced. The meeting was held by teleconference hosted by Covalent (Randy Terbush): 2. Roll Call Directors Present: Ken Coar Dirk-Willem van Gulik Jim Jagielski Greg Stein Bill Stoddard Randy Terbush Directors Absent: Brian Behlendorf Roy T. Fielding Ben Laurie Guests: None 3. Minutes from the meeting of 21 Mar 2001 See . Not all directors had read the minutes; the minutes of the meeting of 21 Mar. 2001 were not approved at this time. 4. Officer Reports A. President [Brian] Brian was not available and so the President report was tabled. B. Treasurer [Randy] Randy reported no changes since the last meeting. C. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim] Jim reported that work has been continuing on matching all ASF members with signed CLAs. 5. Committee Reports A. Conference Planning [Ken] Ken reported on the preliminary results of ApacheCon 2001. Early numbers indicate that the show did at least break-even. Ken reminded the board of the conflict of the Dublin-based ApacheCon 2001 European show with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference scheduled for the following week in London. Jim reported on the meeting between members of the planning committee, Camelot and the O'Reilly conference planners while at ApacheCon. During the meeting, the ASF planners were given the opportunity to "re-craft" the conference topics for the O'Reilly conference, to avoid as much as possible the conflict between the ApacheCon topics; the O'Reilly show was heavily web-services based. A mutually agreeable charter was determined. It was also agreed that O'Reilly would present to planners their final conference/ session lineup, at which point, if it was agreed to by all parties, cross-promotion and other mutually benefical arrangement would be considered. There was some discussion at this time regarding the fact that the Zot Group, which had been performing PR work for the ASF was "going away" and, in fact, 2 members of Zot were hired by Camelot to expand their PR and Marketing capabilities. Because of the already existing relationship between the ASF and Camelot, it was agreed that the ASF should consider making Camelot the prime PR firm for the ASF. It was further agreed that Ken and Jim would contact Camelot to arrange for a RFP from Camelot to address this opportunity. Final decisions would be based after the ASF received the proposal and quote from Camelot. Ken further reported that the ConCom is seeking a 3 year term with Camelot, subject to our conditions and qualifications. 6. Special Orders Dirk reported no addition work or effort had been done on the XML list. 7. Unfinished Business None 8. New Business A. Discussion of suitability and next steps with proposed "License 1.2". There was extensive discussion regarding the proposed "License 1.2" designed to specifically address the misconception that the Apache License is incompatible with the GPL. Some points raised were: 1. We should not adjust our License to work around the deficiencies of other licenses. 2. The general consensus is that there is no conflict. 3. That up to now, the ASF has been silent on this issue, which has allowed for more vocal "opinions" to sway people. It is most likely in the ASF's best interest, as well as the board's obligation, to become an educational resource to the public regarding some basic facts about our License. It was agreed that the Licensing subproject would seriously discuss and work these concerns. 9. Announcements None 10. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 11:19am. __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ End of minutes