Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting

Board of Directors - June 27, 2013 Meeting
The OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors will hold a conference call from 9:00am PST/1700 UTC - 11:00am PST/1900 UTC on June 27, 2013. --- To join the session
 * 1) Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/k2/j.php?ED=229452887&UID=1614021422&HMAC=719194f6db3d8c7ec456cd6183da44c33f5d0ba7&RT=MiM0
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Agenda

 * 1) Set up and roll call - Alan
 * 2) Review meeting policies
 * 3)  Amendment to our certificate of incorporation with Delaware for IRS (Board vote) - Jonathan
 * 4) Introduction of the Transparency Policy Draft - Lauren
 * The draft document is being distributed with the board packet. Feedback and discussion the draft will be through email rather than during the board meeting


 * 1) Marketing Committee & Summit planning update (Board discussion) - Lauren
 * 2) Legal Affairs Committee - Alice King, Nissa, Van, Steve Pentlicki presenting
 * 3) Thank you to Alice King for leading this committee
 * 4) Legal Affairs Committee Update on Patent Cooperation Initiatives (Board discussion)
 * Committee has narrowed the range of options to three: (i) do nothing, (ii) Google patent pledge, (iii) OIN style cross license, with the OIN-style license having the greatest critical mass at this point. Committee will present a high level summary of each option for the Board, and ask Board members to take some detailed legal language regarding each back to their internal legal organizations.
 * Committee members on the call: Alice King, Andrew Sinclair, Brad Haque, Nissa Strottman, Steve Pentlicki; unofficial members are Richard Fontana, Marc Ehrlich, Van Lindberg
 * Slides from the Legal Affairs Committee as presented to the OpenStack Board on June 27, 2013: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/File:OSLAC_Update_for_Board_062713.pdf


 * 1) update on the "spider chart" discussion - Rob and Alan
 * 2) Project usage of Open Source software - Monty
 * 3) Quick reports https://etherpad.openstack.org/BoardUniverse
 * 4) Training
 * 5) Election (timeline on target?)
 * 6) User