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=== Annodex Foundation Committee Meeting Minutes === === 9th October 2006, opened: 20:32, closed: 21:26 on irc #anxfnd === Secretary: Silvia Pfeiffer Chaired by: Silvia Pfeiffer ===== Agenda: ===== 0) Minutes 1) Incorporation 2) CSIRO and Annodex 3) Other business ===== In Attendance: ===== James Purser, treasurer Silvia Pfeiffer, secretary Michael Smith, ordinary member Zen Kavanagh, ordinary member Shane Stephens, guest from CSIRO ===== Absent: ===== Andre Pang, ordinary member Jeff Waugh, chair Conrad Parker, vice-chair === Minutes: === ==== 0) Previous Minutes: ==== * ratified the minutes at http://annodex.org/wiki/Committee/Meetings/2006_09_04/ '''ACTIONS:''' * Silvia to lock minutes and send to membership ==== 1) Incorporation: ==== * Silvia summarised that all the options that we have, apart from incorporating as a NSW association, are either costly, complicated, or don't serve the purpose (see discussions in previous meeting minutes) * James mentioned that the creation of an Annodex Foundation as a subgroup of Linux Australia was to be on the next LA committee meeting * joining LA would be bothersome and we would connect us strongly with Linux, which would upset some * Silvia suggested to go away from the name "Foundation" and simply incorporate an Association under a different name * name suggestions: * Shane: Annodex Association, Annodex Anonymous, Annodex Caretaker Fellowship * Mike: Annodex Awesomeness Association * Silvia: Annodex User Goup, Open Media Association * Conrad: Annodex Consortium, Annodex Task Force (contributed later) * voted: to incorporate under "Annodex Association, Inc." - supported by James, Mike, Silvia, Zen * Mike registers an official "Yay!" '''ACTIONS:''' * Silvia to reserve "Annodex Association, Inc." name * everyone to work over current constitution ==== 2) CSIRO and Annodex: ==== * Shane invited to be a more permanent guest on the committee to maintain more active connection with CSIRO * Shane explains: * there will be an active team continuing to work on Annodex in CSIRO under the Information Engineering lab * until the end of CeNTIE in June 2007, there will be enough hardware and bandwidth for the project * he is working on the OpenRoadTrip server and its fibrechannel connections to get tannewt into a better position * there will be a replacement for Conrad at CSIRO * Shane suggests implementation of a backup policy, possibly to xiph.org servers: * Shane doesn't have xiph server access yet * we need a volunteer to look after the backups '''ACTIONS:''' * Silvia to talk to rillian about server access for backup purposes & about server access for Shane ==== 3) Other business: ==== * Zen explains that he may not be able to continue working on oggcodecs after joining Microsoft in January: * he will not be able to attend December or January meetings * he would would probably need to be replaced on the committee from January on * Silvia mentions that the "Annodex Association", once incorporated, should be a sponsor of FOMS (http://annodex.org/events/foms2007/) - it is already providing hosting

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