Minutes for the SPI Board meeting of July 2nd, 2002

Minutes for the SPI Board of Directors meeting of July 2nd, 2002
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Agenda:
* Approving minutes of previous meetings
* TeXmacs support infrastructure
* OFTC domain ownership
* Bruce Perens's `Sincere Choice' platform
* Next meeting

Attending:
Branden Robinson
Ean Schuessler
Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava
Martin `Joey' Schulze (presiding)
Wichert Akkerman

Absent with Regrets:
Nils Lohner

Absent without Regrets:
Drew Streib

Advisors present:
Rob Levin

Invitees present:
David Graham (OFTC)

Recorder: Wichert Akkerman

The Board meeting was held using Internet Relay Chat. Joey opens the meeting
at 19.07 UTC.

1. Approving minutes of previous meetings

Minutes for the May 7th meeting were sent too late to be voted upon.
Approval of these minutes has been shelved and will be done via mail or
during future meetings. Minutes for the June 4 meeting have not been
written yet.

Joey makes a note to prepare the minutes in a timely fashion after the
corresponding meeting so that the Board can compare it with their own
recording in time.

2. TeXmacs support infrastructure

The GNU TeXmacs team has asked SPI to provide a support structure for
their project within the context of SPI. The Board proposed resolution
2002-07-02.iwj.3 for this purpose.

Vote on resolution 2002-07-02.iwj.3 to accept GNU TeXmacs as an
affiliated project:

Branden : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Joey : in favour
Manoj : in favour
Wichert : in favour

The resolution was accepted unanimously with 6 votes in favour.

3. OFTC domain ownership

The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) project has asked SPI to hold
their domain (oftc.net) in ownership in order to be able to enforce
their constitution. Wichert proposed to take a more general approach
and offer to hold things in ownership for them. Ian suggested that SPI
adpot OFTC as an affiliated project to implement that offer. Joey asked
David if that was acceptable for OFTC and he confirmed it was.

Votes for resolution 2002-07-02.iwj.5 to adopt Open and Free Technology
Community as an affiliated project:

Wichert : in favour
Ian : in favour
Joey : in favour
Branden : in favour
Ean : in favour
Manoj : in favour

The resolution was accepted unanimously with 6 votes in favour.

4. Bruce Perens's `Sincere Choice' platform

Bruce Perens started the `Sincere Choice' platform
<http://sincerechoice.org/> to counter the Initiative for Software
Choice <http://softwarechoice.org/>, which appears to be an
anti-Open-Source and anti-GPL organization. Bruce asked SPI to sign
onto the platform and suggested it might be a good idea for SPI to take
ownership of it if possible for a 501(c)3 organization.

Ian had a problem with the statement "We support a broad range of
copyright policies, from Public Domain through Open Source and Free
Software to Proprietary": SPI does not support that range but is a
Free Software organisation.

Branden noted that the rest of the statement of principles is
not objectionable. Wichert suggested that someone talk with Bruce
about possibly rewording the statement, and if Bruce agrees to
resume the discussion later. Ian volunteered to take this task.

5. Next meeting

In accordance with resolution 2002-05-07.wta, the next meeting of the SPI
Board of Directors will be on August 6th at 19.00 UTC.

--
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