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20200227-Minutes

2020-02-27
zoom web conferencing

Attendees

    Cedric Thomas (OW2)
    Karsten Reincke (D.Telekom)
    Philippe Carre (Nokia)
    VMBrasseur (Juniper Networks)
    fredaatz (Microsoft)
    Pierre Levy (City of Paris)
    mchn3500 (Oliver, Siemens)
    Yury Glikman (Fraunhofer)

Minutes

Initiative:

  • Share ideas, questions, experience, concerns around managing FOSS (incl. compliance)
  • Build more awareness around large users/system integrators: creating, using, & contributing to FOSS
    Goals of this meeting:
  • Common understanding of what we'd like to do
  • Develop initial action plan, aiming to launch this initiative at OW2con in June
  • Build / establish our roadmap around this initiative

Introductions:

  • Karsten Reincke, principal OSS adviser deutsch Telekom, interested in set of jointly elaborated documents, set of tools
  • Philippe Carre (Nokia Open Source Initiative); part of FOSS assessment team reviewing outbound contributions
  • VM Brasseur Helping companies with their OSS strategies, cuurently at Juniper, inbound-outbound lic, 
  • Frederic Aatz Proxy for OSPO in Redmond, we have some work to do with OSS governance in large organization in Europe/France
  • Pierre Levy: using FOSS for ~22yrs; Paris produces FOSS & has released many projects; interested in launching an OSPO for Paris & collaborating w/other cities
  • Oliver Fendt: governance owner of FOSS at Siemens (runs "OSPO", but it's a decentralised thing), inbound, outbound, & contributions
  • Yury Glikman: Deputy head of department for digital services; dev'ing software for working w/data (esp. for public sector), most solutions are FOSS, member of OW2 BoD

G2I Charter:

  • Initiative of OW2 to address a market concern (FOSS governance)
    • Go beyond compliance & raise awareness in large users so they can become good FOSS citizens
    • Prep work done driven by Christian Paterson
    • Progress / Status since last call
  • Step 1: create a charter for the initiative
  • Question re: clarity of privacy of the meetings
    • "No NDA, Chatham House rules" -> ? Changing for clarity:
      • No NDA, 
      • Meetings ruled under Chatham House Rule
      • No legal transfer of copyright, branding or otherwise
      • All docs published CC BY SA

Question: Who's the audience for this charter?

  • Documents that kicks off the initiative (commits OW2, not the participants)
  • Accessible by anyone interested in the initiative
  • Doesn't preclude from developing other marketing docs

Question re: licensing of the docs:

  • CC BY SA 2.0…?
  • Possible to do 4.0 instead? Would allow it to be consistent with opensource-compliance-tooling.
  • Agreed: CC BY SA 2.0 or any future version

Next step:

  • Updated charter to be approved by board of OW2 dir (March 19th)  - Report back on the call March 26th
  • Cedric will publish charter v3.02 and move the motion for approval by the OW2 board on the March 19th meeting.
    Good governance initiative slide deck:
  • Quick marketing exercise to introduce the initiative
  • https://www.ow2.org/download/OSS_Governance/WebHome/2002-Good-Governance-initiative.pdf
  • Please share these slides w/anyone who might be interested
  • Can iterate on the slides as needed Cedric will share the .odp

Question/Comment: BoD agrees in March, need to be clear about what we hope to deliver by June

  • Will develop a plan for that
  • To be discussed at next call or asynchronously on the mailing list

Todo for the next agenda:

  • Aiming for an initial launch/press release in April or May 2020
  • Face2face meetings on June 17-18 @OW2'con
  • Cedric will drive the "backoffice" of this initiative / laying the ground
  • Something to discuss later: How does this initiative coordinate/overlap with/complement other efforts around the world?

Technical resources:

  • Mailing list
  • Have user management so can create a group to manage access/collaboration
  • Will need to set up a private wiki for initiative members for sharing/collaboration

  • Todo list in the issue tracker (Gitlab)

    • Not set up yet but will be soon
  • Will set up wiki in next week
  • Will set up Collabora Office docs
  • Will publish an entry points for all these, naturally

Financial model:

  • Just in case, ya know, you feel like sending some resources to the initiative. ;-)

  • OW2 resources include:

    • Annual dues
    • Sponsorship for specific events
  • Currently there's a single pool of money; directing money to a specific initiative is an exception but not a problem
    • Can do this by having some activities being sponsored (such as the initiative)
    • Can send a sponsorship agreement if someone would like to sponsor this initiative
  • Very flexible and lightweight model
  • Cedric will add this financial model to the motion to the BoD for the March 19th meeting

  • Budget

    • Currently have no draft budget for the initiative
    • OW2 will provide technical resources for free, of course
    • Budget will be determined later (printing, travel, booth) as needed
    • Still very early in the process