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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
