OpenNTF Alliance Steering
Committee
Meeting Minutes: February
1, 2010
Conference Call
Members: Vince Schuurman (Chairman),
Nathan Freeman, Ludwig Nastansky, Justin Hill, John Head, Brent Peters,
Scott Johnsen
Others Present: Peter Tanner
Proceedings:
Meeting called to order at 12:00 pm
ET by Vince Schuurman
General Business – Vince Schuurman
Voting results not in as the voting
is still open until 5:00 pm ET, February 1, 2010.
Bruce Lill – Kalechi Designs
Corey Davis – Conxsys
Bruce Elgort – Elguji
Strategy Working Group – Nathan Freeman
Lotus Awards – to ensure there is no
conflict next year, the SC would like for OpenNTF to be more involved to
ensure no conflict of interest. Note: The awards are Lotus awards, not
OpenNTF awards.
The SC is requesting IBM continue with
the OpenNTF category of Lotus Awards. The SC is requesting the SWG to come
up with guidelines discuss awards and competitions for 2010 including the
Lotus Awards, prizes, rules, judging, etc. Come back with a proposal.
IP Working Group - John Head
John has posted the IP Working Group
Priorities
Individual membership voting rights
Finding a GPL IP manager
Long term direction
Legal status - Not for Profit status,
etc.
IP Manager (Peter Tanner) will be away
for 4 months starting February 3, 2010. We don’t have anyone in place
as a backup for this process. What alternatives do we have? Note: This
role does not have to be filled by an attorney. This person would have
access to the IBM scanning tool (potentially licensed to OpenNTF) to do
the IP scanning.
John Head knows a person who could do
this, but there are confidentiality issues.
There are 5 companies who could potentially
help to pay this fee during the next 4 months. We will take this conversation
offline to determine if we can do this. Nathan will initiate this “conversation”
via email. We will also look at other options.
We will also look at paying this fee
2 months while Peter trains another person to take this over.
Election results will be announced at
5:00 pm ET on the blog. Peter will notify the candidates prior to the blog
post.
Technical Committee – Nathan Freeman
No update at this time.
Marketing Working Group – Scott Johnsen
No update at this time.
Meeting adjourned at 11:45 am ET
Minutes submitted by Scott Johnsen
Next meeting:
Tuesday, February 9, 2009
10:00 am ET