Minutes for November 11th, 2003

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The following minutes were adopted (as written at the time) by the Board
of Directors on September 7th, 2004:

SPI board meeting, November 11, 2003
Meeting opened: 19:04 UTC
Meeting closed: 19:30 UTC

Attending:
Benj. Mako Hill
Bruce Perens
Drew Streib
Ean Schuessler
Ian Jackson
Martin 'Joey' Schulze
Wichert Akkerman

Absent with regrets:
John Goerzen

Attending SPI members:
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
David Graham
Greg Pomerantz
Jimmy Kaplowitz
Michelle Ribeiro
Otavio Salvador
Peter Palfrader

Agenda:

1. Opening
2. Roll call
3. Approving minutes from previous meetings
4. Debian trademark Brazil
5. Date for next meeting

3. Approving minutes from previous meetings

Vote to approve the minutes of the October 14 meeting minutes:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert: in favour

The minutes are accepted with six votes in favour and none against.

4. Debian trademark Brazil

As a result of the work of the trademark committee Mako proposed
resolutions
2003-11-11.bmh.1, which regulates the registration of Debian trademarks in
Brazil, and 2003-11-11.bmh.2, which regulates actions to gain control over
the debian.com.br domain.

As Wichert had already remarked in email there is no acknowledgement from
the Debian Project Leader. Ian proposed to amend 2003-11-11.bmh.1 to add
a clause to require DPL approval and add a spending limit of $700. Nobody
objected to this amendment and a vote is called for:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert: in favour

Jimmy Kaplowitz noted that the resolution calls for trademarking the
official
logo which is only used rarely and not well known. Wichert added he would
like to change that since trademarking the rarely used official logo is
in his opinion not very useful and proposed to amend the resolution to
allow the DPL to choose the logo to be trademarked. Nobody objects to the
amendment.

Drew was concerned that the proposed resolution 2003-11-11.bmh.1 was
unclear
about possible expenses and could authorise a civil suit for which SPI
would
be billed. Ian proposed an amendment that adds a clause that restricts the
possible expenses for legal action to $100 subject to approval of the
Debian
Project Leader. Nobody objects to the amendment and a vote is called:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Joey : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert : in favour

The resolution is accepted with seven votes in favour and none against.

5. Date for next meeting

The date for the next meeting is set at December 2, 19:00 UTC.

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David Graham, SPI Secretary
cdlu(at)spi-inc(dot)org

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