Quorum

Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 14:00 UTC.

Attendees

Board Members:

• Deborah Bryant
• Richard Fontana
• Leslie Hawthorn
• Patrick Masson
• Mike Milinkovich
• Simon Phipps
• Allison Randal
• Bruno Souza (remote via Etherpad/IRC)
• Tony Wasserman
• Stefano Zacchiroli

Sent Regrets

• Mark Radcliffe
• Luis VIlla

New Business

OSI Board Communication Survey Results:

• Deb led a review of survey to help define OSI value proposition, craft messaging and development marketing, identify audiences
• Working group has two volunteers.
• Deb introduced the idea of working with the Board on a workshop to define / develop instituional identify to help inform messaging, branding, marketing, etc.
• AgilePR volunteered to work with OSI Board at OSCON to help develop above
• Might require a three hour session
• Would favor in-person participation, but we should not preclude remote participation.
• The need for this impacts our abilitiy to undertake other strategic goals
• We should expand beyond he open source community to include passive or even confrontational people / orgs.
• Discussion
  • A question was asked what role will the public have and how will we communicate our activities. We would like to include anyone who will volunteer to contribute.
  • How deep / wide is the scope should this effort include? Mission?

GM SIx-month review

• Patrick  will put together a personal assessment for his  six-month review. This  should provide a review of his and the  organization’s successes and  challenges for presentation to, and  discussion with, the Executive  Committee. The Executive Committee with  then discuss at the Face to  Face meeting

• Patrick introduced that he is keeping a log of his work activities which can be viewed and commented on: http://wiki.opensource.org/bin/XWiki/Masson_work

Term Extension

(This item was picked up from the previous day’s meeting)

• Should we modify the term length for Individual Members’ seats to two years?
• Should we extend the current Individual Member seats to two years?
• Should elections be staggered?

• Elections committee made of (chair: President)  Individual, Affiliate, infrastructure
  • Election Committee to discuss term extensions and year schedule to address technology and timing (e.g. announcing winners)

Dates/travel For Next Face to Face Meeting

• The Board selected the dates of November 11th through 13th, 2014
  • The Board asked that Directors commit to the three days in order to attend both the meetings and the sidebar events.
• The location will be San Francisco, CA
• We should begin arrangements immediately.

Software Freedom Conservancy proposal for SFC-FSF-OSI “keep your copyrights” campaign

• Introduction and discussion on proposal to collaborate.

Outreach Program for Women

• Leslie and Allison introduced the program and opportunities.
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women
• A request was made for OSI support / funding for the program.
• As this has budget impact, it was decided that it should be included in our annual planning.
• Questions for consideration during planning:
  • How does the program and outcomes leverage the OSI or open source?

UPL

• An introduction and status update was provided regarding the UPL submission an review.

Use of OSI email and identities.

• Board members are in consensus that they will use their opensource.org when corresponding with the public on behalf of OSI.

Meeting adjourned at 17:00 – UTC