=============== Zope Foundation =============== Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors ============================================== Date and Time: Monday, November 12, 2007, 14:00 UTC Location: IRC meeting, irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Directors Present: Martijn Faassen Jim Fulton Rob Page Tres Seaver Eric Casteleijn Jens Vagelpohl Jodok Batlogg Quorum Present: Yes Rob volunteered to chair the meeting until such time as a new chairman was elected. Rob called the meeting to order at 14h15m UTC. The agenda was accepted as follows: 1. Meeting notice waivers from new members Jens and Eric 2. Election of BoD officers 3. Minutes from Annual Meeting held 2007-10-31 (Rob, vice Stefanie) 4. Treasurer's report 5. Committee reports a. Web commitee b. By-laws committee 6. Old business a. Collector review b. Status of trademark issue 7. New business 8. Announcements 9. Adjournment 1. Meeting notice waivers from new members Jens and Eric -------------------------------------------------------- Rob will send the document to the secretary so that it can be updated. Rob asks Jens and Eric to then sign and send the Meeting notice waiver to the secretary. 2. Election of BoD officers --------------------------- Rob volunteers to be treasurer. Tres moves that Rob be elected treasurer, Martijn seconds. Rob is unanimously elected. Eric volunteers to be secretary. Rob moves that Eric be elected secretary, Jens seconds. Eric is unanimously elected. Martijn volunteers to be chairman. Eric moves that Martijn be elected chairman, Tres seconds. Martijn is unanimously elected. Rob suggests that the chairman should not be in too many committees. Martijn as the new chairman decided to resign from the web committee. Martijn takes over as chairman of this meeting from Rob. 3. Minutes from Annual Meeting held 2007-10-31 (Rob, vice Stefanie) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The minutes as amended, are accepted with 5 votes for and 2 abstentions. Rob will get the accepted minutes from Stefanie, and get them to the secretary. The secretary will upload the final PDF. Rob moves that *all* previously unpublished minutes be published once this has been coordinated with the secretary. Jens seconds. Motion is carried unanimously. 4. Treasurer's report --------------------- The treasurer reports no changes since the annual meeting. Financial report is accepted unanimously. 5. Committee reports -------------------- a. Web commitee --------------- Jodok reports the web design is finished, and has the slides to prove it. Dropping of jaws ensues. A server should be online by wednesday November 14, and the final version should be live around the end of the year, provided there are enough volunteers to add content. The report is accepted with thanks, unanimously. b. By-laws committee -------------------- A by-laws committee mailing list has been set up, the next step is for someone to take the Python Software Foundation by-laws and do a hack job on them. Jim will ask for a volunteer to start on this on the mailing list. Jim reminds the committee that the intellectual property document needs to be revisited to make it consistent with the new by-laws. The report is accepted unanimously. 6. Old business --------------- a. Collector review ------------------- Tres reports having closed some obvious issues already. Tres volunteers to spearhead contacting Zope user groups. Jens reports being on the board of DZUG. On sharing potentially sensitive information, or information that is not yet in the ZF BoD minutes, his discretion is trusted. b. Status of trademark issue ---------------------------- Jens, Martijn, and Eric (by way of his employer Infrae) report being members of ZEA. Jodok reports having spoken to Xavier. His conclusion from that conversation is: ZEA won't hand over the trademark without being recompensed for legal expenses and ZEA effort. An offer from ZEA does not seem to be forthcoming. Costs made by ZEA are identified as: a) Time and effort ZEA needs to spend to hand over the trademark. b1) Legal costs already paid by ZEA b2) Legal costs to be made by the ZF for the transfer. c) Time and effort spent by ZEA to secure the trademark in the first place. Of these Jodok recommends looking into a), b2) and possibly b1) for budgetting potential compensation. Tres notes that similar costs have been incurred by ZC and will also need to be compensated. There is some question of whether Xavier accepts Jodok as official representative of the ZF board. Tres moves that the secretary draft a letter to Xavier designating Jodok as our official representative. The motion is carried unanimously. The secretary will ask Aroldo for a copy previously sent letter to the same effect. 7. New business --------------- Tres will ask for a Zope Foundation BoF, to be held at PyCon 2008 8. Announcements ---------------- The next ZF BoD meeting is scheduled for Monday, 2007-11-26, 14:00 GMT 9. Adjournment -------------- The chairman adjourns the meeting at 15h40m UTC. These minutes were written by the secretary, Eric, according to the notes taken during the meeting. These minutes were posted to the foundation-board@zope.org mailing list and approved by all directors on 2007-11-26 The Chairman bid the Secretary keep these minutes on file.