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#mer-meeting: Mer advisory board meeting 17/2/2012
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Meeting started by Stskeeps at 12:01:21 UTC. The full logs are available
at
http://mer.bfst.de/meetings/mer-meeting/2012/mer-meeting.2012-02-17-12.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* LINK:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/mer-general@lists.merproject.org/msg00250.html
  (Stskeeps, 12:01:50)
* Confirm project governance model at  (Stskeeps, 12:04:02)
  * LINK: http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Governance as official project
    (Stskeeps, 12:04:02)

* Confirm project governance model at
  http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Governance as official project
  governance  (Stskeeps, 12:04:29)
  * AGREED: http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Governance as official
    project governance, votes for yes: david greaves, marko saukko,
    jukka eklund  (Stskeeps, 12:13:52)

* Discuss and probably re-confirm meritocratic claims and instate them
  in that position officially  (Stskeeps, 12:15:05)
  * Plasma Active has nominated Danny Bennett as their interest group
    representative  (Stskeeps, 12:15:38)
  * Nemo Mobile has nominated Jukka Eklund as their interest group
    representative  (Stskeeps, 12:15:53)

* Carsten Munk/Stskeeps made a meritocratic claim as Project Architect,
  based on his project contributions and architectual & project guidance
  up to now  (Stskeeps, 12:17:07)
  * LINK:
    http://mer.bfst.de/meetings/mer-meeting/2012/mer-meeting.2012-02-17-12.01.log.txt
    to catch up  (Stskeeps, 12:17:46)
  * AGREED: Carsten Munk as Project Architect, yes votes: jukka eklund,
    david greaves, marko saukko  (Stskeeps, 12:23:51)

* David Greaves/lbt made a meritocratic claim as interim Systems Vendor
  Relations Technical Lead, based on contribution to Mer Infrastructure
  and vendor interface/philosophy up to now  (Stskeeps, 12:24:56)
  * AGREED: David Greaves/lbt as systems & vendor relations technical
    lead  (Stskeeps, 12:29:49)
  * AGREED: David Greaves/lbt as systems & vendor relations technical
    lead (yes votes: marko saukko, jukka eklund, abstaining: david
    greaves)  (Stskeeps, 12:30:05)

* Marko Saukko/Sage made a meritocratic claim as Packages Maintainer
  (better title to be selected), due to extensive contribution to the
  Mer Core (see http://review.merproject.org , All->Merged)  (Stskeeps,
  12:30:42)
  * AGREED: Marko Saukko as Packages Maintainer (yes vote: david
    greaves, jukka eklund, abstaining: marko saukko)  (Stskeeps,
    12:33:50)

* Presentation about project finances pre-Advisory Board times (who
  currently contributes what and what for) by project architect
  (Stskeeps, 12:34:33)
  * LINK:
    http://releases.merproject.org/~carsten/merexpenses-advisoryboard-feb17-2012.pdf
    (Stskeeps, 12:37:04)
  * ACTION: According to governance we're supposed to move towards being
    a non-profit and plan towards this, starting with a mailing list
    discussion  (Stskeeps, 12:46:56)
  * ideas about sponsorship identifiers, how to deal with anonymous
    financial support (low-key involvement), etc  (Stskeeps, 12:47:30)

* Confirm length of advisory board terms, initial proposal is two
  months.  (Stskeeps, 12:51:47)
  * AGREED: 3 months term length with re-check of length before end of
    term (david greaves voted for 6 month  with review every two month,
    jukka eklund and marko saukko voted for 3 month with review before
    end)  (Stskeeps, 13:06:22)

* Confirm schedule of advisory board meeting, initial proposal is once a
  month.  (Stskeeps, 13:06:48)
  * AGREED: Schedule of advisory board meeting every 14 days, change in
    case it's too frequent, initially today + 14 days  (Stskeeps,
    13:10:23)

* Establish if there's any additional nominations needed for  (Stskeeps,
  13:10:36)

* Establish if there's any additional nominations needed for remaining
  Technical Lead and Maintainer Representative positions.  (Stskeeps,
  13:10:47)

* AOB (any other business)  (Stskeeps, 13:13:27)

Meeting ended at 13:39:10 UTC.




Action Items
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* According to governance we're supposed to move towards being a
  non-profit and plan towards this, starting with a mailing list
  discussion




Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
  * According to governance we're supposed to move towards being a
    non-profit and plan towards this, starting with a mailing list
    discussion




People Present (lines said)
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* Stskeeps (129)
* lbt (114)
* aseigo (26)
* Sage_ (20)
* jukkaeklund (18)
* phaeron (7)
* slaine (4)
* MerBot (2)
* vgrade (1)




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