OpenSocial Founation Board Agenda and meeting info: Friday, Feb 27, 9am PST

[Dan Peterson]

Hey folks,

I'm looking forward to Friday's board meeting at 9am PST. In the proposed agenda below, we have a lot of good content to cover.

Additionally, as I have mentioned previously, I think we should experiment with having more community involvement in the board meetings. This would add greater transparency/accountability, provide a good opportunity for community oversight, and help us learn from the community about what they'd like us to address. Thus far, I've seen at least 3 requests for participation in (or observation of) our board meetings.

Below, I've put together a light process for getting more community input/observation, while also balancing the need to be focused enough to get our work accomplished. As an aside, even if we have public board meetings, we can certainly decide to go into "executive session" when appropriate.

The process:

• Allocate up to 15 minutes at the beginning of each board meeting to "Guest Topics"
• Prior to the meeting, individuals wishing to present "Guest Topics," would propose such topics on the opensocial-board list
• Topics would be reviewed ahead of time, and the selected topics would be baked into the agenda
• After the "Guest Topic" period, we would work through the board agenda where only members of the board may actively participate
• However, the meeting would remain open to any interested observers from the community on a conference call line.
• At the end of the meeting, we would reserve time for an "executive session," to make sure we can work through any sensitive topics

Based on conversations I've had with many of the board members, may I suggest we try this out for Friday's meeting, though it isn't clear that we'll have any "Guest Topics" for this particular meeting, given that it is in the morning. If you have any additional thoughts, suggestions or concerns, I'm all ears.

For those of you who would like to observe Friday's meeting, we'll use the following bridge line: 866-457-4646 (Participant code: 70977874). Perhaps some folks will also get on the OpenSocial IRC channel as well -- #opensocial on irc.freenode.net.

The topics I have in mind for our agenda:

• Review and approve the meeting minutes from December 15, 2008 (as attached)
• OpenSocial Foundation Contributor Licensing Agreement
• OpenSocial Specification Process
• OpenSocial Foundation Intent Agreement
• Update on OpenSocial Trademark
• Update on OpenSocial Domains
• OpenSocial Foundation Treasurer position
• OpenSocial Foundation Corporate Dues
• Potential "Change The Web" sponsorship
• Discussion of recent launches, events, activities (happy to hear about others as well):
• New OpenSocial.org
• Upcoming Central App Directory demo
• WeekendApps: OpenSocial
• OpenSocial Compliance Tests --> Foundation-endorsed "Certification"?

For those board members joining from the south bay, David Glazer will be your host at building 46 of Google's Mt View campus: http://tr.im/gbldg46

For those board members joining from San Francisco, I'll be your host at 345 Spear St. (Floor 4): http://tr.im/gsfospear

See everyone at 9am,

-Dan

[Dan Peterson]

Update to the agenda: Mark Weitzel from IBM will be joining as our first "Guest Topic."

-Dan

[J]

Dan, Thank you.

On Feb 26, 4:57 pm, Dan Peterson <dpeter...@google.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm looking forward to Friday's board meeting at 9am PST. In the proposed
> agenda below, we have a lot of good content to cover.
>
> Additionally, as I have mentioned previously, I think we should experiment
> with having more community involvement in the board meetings. This would add
> greater transparency/accountability, provide a good opportunity for
> community oversight, and help us learn from the community about what they'd
> like us to address. Thus far, I've seen at least 3 requests for
> participation in (or observation of) our board meetings.
>
> Below, I've put together a light process for getting more community
> input/observation, while also balancing the need to be focused enough to get
> our work accomplished. As an aside, even if we have public board meetings,
> we can certainly decide to go into "executive session" when appropriate.
>
> The process:
>

>    - Allocate up to 15 minutes at the beginning of each board meeting to
>    "Guest Topics"
>       - Prior to the meeting, individuals wishing to present "Guest Topics,"

>       would propose such topics on the opensocial-board list

>    - Topics would be reviewed ahead of time, and the selected topics would

>       be baked into the agenda

>    - After the "Guest Topic" period, we would work through the board agenda

>    where only members of the board may actively participate

>       - However, the meeting would remain open to any interested observers

>       from the community on a conference call line.

>    - At the end of the meeting, we would reserve time for an "executive

>    session," to make sure we can work through any sensitive topics
>
> Based on conversations I've had with many of the board members, may I
> suggest we try this out for Friday's meeting, though it isn't clear that
> we'll have any "Guest Topics" for this particular meeting, given that it is
> in the morning. If you have any additional thoughts, suggestions or
> concerns, I'm all ears.
>
> For those of you who would like to observe Friday's meeting, we'll use the
> following bridge line: 866-457-4646 (Participant code: 70977874). Perhaps
> some folks will also get on the OpenSocial IRC channel as well --
> #opensocial on irc.freenode.net.
>
> The topics I have in mind for our agenda:
>

>    - Review and approve the meeting minutes from December 15, 2008 (as
>    attached)
>    - OpenSocial Foundation Contributor Licensing Agreement
>    - OpenSocial Specification Process
>    - OpenSocial Foundation Intent Agreement
>    - Update on OpenSocial Trademark
>    - Update on OpenSocial Domains
>    - OpenSocial Foundation Treasurer position
>    - OpenSocial Foundation Corporate Dues
>    - Potential "Change The Web" sponsorship
>    - Discussion of recent launches, events, activities (happy to hear about
>    others as well):
>       - New OpenSocial.org
>       - Upcoming Central App Directory demo
>       - WeekendApps: OpenSocial
>       - OpenSocial Compliance Tests --> Foundation-endorsed "Certification"?

>
> For those board members joining from the south bay, David Glazer will be
> your host at building 46 of Google's Mt View campus:http://tr.im/gbldg46
>
> For those board members joining from San Francisco, I'll be your host at 345
> Spear St. (Floor 4):http://tr.im/gsfospear
>
> See everyone at 9am,
> -Dan
>

>  OpenSocial Board Minutes 121508.doc
> 95KViewDownload

[Dan Peterson]

Also, attached you will find the documents that the legal team has been working on for the contributor licensing agreements. Review and approval of these documents is item #2 on the agenda.

-Dan

[Allen Hurff]

Dan,

Is there a dial in for me other than a public one.

Thank,

Allen

Sent from my iPhone

<OpenSocial Board Minutes 121508.doc>

[Mark W.]

Dan,

Thank you for the invite. I've posted a reply to Joseph's post
regarding the questions on the IPR policy. Because of the delay in
posting, I could not link from this post to that one. Would you be
kind enough to do that for me?

Thanks,
-Mark W.

On Feb 27, 12:05 am, Dan Peterson <dpeter...@google.com> wrote:
> Update to the agenda: Mark Weitzel from IBM will be joining as our first
> "Guest Topic."
> -Dan
>

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Dan Peterson <dpeter...@google.com> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
>
> > I'm looking forward to Friday's board meeting at 9am PST. In the proposed
> > agenda below, we have a lot of good content to cover.
>
> > Additionally, as I have mentioned previously, I think we should experiment
> > with having more community involvement in the board meetings. This would add
> > greater transparency/accountability, provide a good opportunity for
> > community oversight, and help us learn from the community about what they'd
> > like us to address. Thus far, I've seen at least 3 requests for
> > participation in (or observation of) our board meetings.
>
> > Below, I've put together a light process for getting more community
> > input/observation, while also balancing the need to be focused enough to get
> > our work accomplished. As an aside, even if we have public board meetings,
> > we can certainly decide to go into "executive session" when appropriate.
>
> > The process:
>

> >    - Allocate up to 15 minutes at the beginning of each board meeting to
> >    "Guest Topics"
> >       - Prior to the meeting, individuals wishing to present "Guest

> >       Topics," would propose such topics on the opensocial-board list

> >    - Topics would be reviewed ahead of time, and the selected topics would

> >       be baked into the agenda

> >    - After the "Guest Topic" period, we would work through the board

> >    agenda where only members of the board may actively participate

> >       - However, the meeting would remain open to any interested observers

> >       from the community on a conference call line.

> >    - At the end of the meeting, we would reserve time for an "executive

> >    session," to make sure we can work through any sensitive topics
>
> > Based on conversations I've had with many of the board members, may I
> > suggest we try this out for Friday's meeting, though it isn't clear that
> > we'll have any "Guest Topics" for this particular meeting, given that it is
> > in the morning. If you have any additional thoughts, suggestions or
> > concerns, I'm all ears.
>
> > For those of you who would like to observe Friday's meeting, we'll use the
> > following bridge line: 866-457-4646 (Participant code: 70977874). Perhaps
> > some folks will also get on the OpenSocial IRC channel as well --
> > #opensocial on irc.freenode.net.
>
> > The topics I have in mind for our agenda:
>

> >    - Review and approve the meeting minutes from December 15, 2008 (as
> >    attached)

> >    - OpenSocial Foundation Contributor Licensing Agreement
> >    - OpenSocial Specification Process
> >    - OpenSocial Foundation Intent Agreement
> >    - Update on OpenSocial Trademark
> >    - Update on OpenSocial Domains
> >    - OpenSocial Foundation Treasurer position
> >    - OpenSocial Foundation Corporate Dues

> >    - Potential "Change The Web" sponsorship
> >    - Discussion of recent launches, events, activities (happy to hear
> >    about others as well):
> >       - New OpenSocial.org
> >       - Upcoming Central App Directory demo
> >       - WeekendApps: OpenSocial
> >       - OpenSocial Compliance Tests --> Foundation-endorsed

[Dan Peterson]

Hi folks,

Here is the thread Mark was referring to:

http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-board/browse_thread/thread/7abe4126b1f5122f/966475c9c4ec1782#966475c9c4ec1782

I've also attached the feedback from IBM, which includes suggested new language for some segments of the IPR doc.

-Dan

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Mark W. <weit...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Dan,

Thank you for the invite.  I've posted a reply to Joseph's post
regarding the questions on the IPR policy.  Because of the delay in
posting, I could not link from this post to that one.  Would you be
kind enough to do that for me?

Thanks,
-Mark W.

On Feb 27, 12:05 am, Dan Peterson <dpeter...@google.com> wrote:
> Update to the agenda: Mark Weitzel from IBM will be joining as our first
> "Guest Topic."
> -Dan
>

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[abdulkarriem khan]

I hope it isn't to late to offer a Guest topic. I am interested in the board members perspectives on sms to chat as a potential cross-container international emerging monetization standard? I work with independent music labels & content developers. We see alot of growth  of international commerce in this space.  For more detail Check out the Mobile World Congress Award Winner safaricom http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=2263 . Combine this with the Opensocial API's from Google &  http://zeepmobile.com and others and your view on its place in the Opensocial Spec. I will be available on the conference call to explain my topic Quesyt in depth. 

http://thebirthofwebd3.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=649887460&ref=profile
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Dan Peterson <dpet...@google.com> wrote:

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