Old Business:

Minutes from 9/6 meeting

Dave Cleary was the facilitator of that meeting, and none of us had gotten minutes from him. Geoff Crawford will review the transcript and write up the minutes over the weekend.

Staffing the Code Steering Committee

The board selected the following individuals to serve on the Code Steering Committee:

• Steve Southwell
• Anand Kumar
• Steven Lichtenberg
• Peter van Dam
• Paul Galvin

This committee has been tasked with the following:

1. Define coding projects
2. Assign projects to Project Managers (PMs)
3. Accept code submissions
4. Coordinating and Delegating Documentation for the product. (Added in today's meeting)

Steve Southwell will notify the members of this committee and try to make arrangements for an initial meeting for organizational purposes. The group will be responsible for deciding whether it needs a leader, and if so, who it shall be.

Incorporation of The FreeFrameWork Project

Dave Cleary was unavailable and had not reported any new developments in the last week.

FreeFrameWork WebSite

The board discussed the need for a review of the website, and specifically the need to revisit the mission statement and "What is FFW" pages. We do have a volunteer lined up that is willing to help with this. The board voted to delegate this to the volunteer, with whom Steve will be getting in touch soon.

FreeFrameWork License

Geoff proposed to make some modifications to further indemnify board and contributors, and to make the board final authority on licensing issues. All agreed that this would be fine, subject to final board approval. Steve suggested that FFW retain an attorney to review the license. Most board members indicated that the cost would be prohibitive. Geoff suggested that there may be reduced cost services available for non-profit organizations like ours. The board voted to remand this issue to the business committee.

Steve suggested a change or clarification to the license that would allow ASP's not to list FFW in their user licenses. There was discussion about this, but it was tabled for now.

Source Forge

The board voted to remand this issue to the Code Steering committee, pending final approval by the board.

FreeFrameWork Article

We need to spread the word about the article that Brian has written for Progressions.

Sending approved minutes to the main FFW PEG list.

The board voted to start sending approved FFW board meeting minutes to the main FFW PEG list. We will continue to post minutes on the website as soon as they are written, but will start emailing them as well when they are approved.

Format for Board Meetings

Brian Laferte had suggested earlier in emails to the other board members that the current format that we're using: Meeting online each Wednesday on Yahoo Conference was not working that well. He proposed a 1 1/2 day email conversation. All board members present approved of the current format, but agreed that we could examine other ways of staying in communication. Among options discussed were email, threaded message boards like UBB, chat, and combinations of each. It was decided to table this issue and move it to email discussion.

Meeting Adjourned at 12:33 ET

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