Potential board members?

[Paul Lindner]

I'm going to start some outreach for more board members.  I'd hope that Atlassian would consider joining.  Here are some others.

Asian social networks:

51.com

Mixi

Yahoo Japan

Developers:

Zynga

Playdom

Appirio

ManyMoon/Salesforce

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[Mark Weitzel]

I think this is a good list.

I'd add on here Mitre, Lockheed Martin, LinkedIn, SAP.

One thing I'd like to do on the board meeting is level set on expectations. I don't want to add a company in "name" only--they have to be willing to contribute resources, time, as well as dues.

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[jason...@us.ibm.com]

Huawei
QQ
Baidu
NTS (Singapore)
(I'll think of more)

In a parallel thread, perhaps we should give some thought to making a board seat available, on a yearly rotating basis, to a startup (say under 5M in revenue). This would better connect OS with the emerging drivers in social computing. I saw a need for this when I was out at TechCrunch in SFO a few weeks ago. Some candidates:

Carbyn
Mashery
Betterworks

[Mark Weitzel]

One thing that we can talk through on the meeting is the dues requirement. Some of you may recall that there was initially a sliding scale of dues that was based upon the number of employees a company had. It was established as follows:

Initial dues 30k for companies with 1k employees or more.

For companies with <1k employees you paid the % of 1,000. So if you had 500 employees, you paid 50% of the dues, or 15k.

However, as we realized, no dues were ever collected. What started out as a good idea in practice, turned out to be unfair in execution. You might recall that right around the time Jive joined the board, we set the dues, based on projected budgets, to an even 16k each. The spirit is that we don't want finances to ever prevent a company from becoming a corporate designator. Clearly we need to get agreement and consensus on this matter before we approach prospective companies. I have added this to today's board meeting for discussion.

-Mark Weitzel

President.

[Matt Tucker]

Looks like I'll be late due to another meeting. Mark W -- you have my proxy!