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Annual General Meeting, Annodex Association, 16th January 2009
On Friday 16th Jan 2009 we had the third AGM of the Annodex Foundation since incorporation. We met on irc channel #anxassoc, freenode.net and at SocSci213, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania for the Hobart crowd.
Start at 18:25, Close at 18:37
Attending members: Silvia Pfeiffer (ginger), Conrad Parker (kfish), James Purser (purserj), Michael Dale (mdale), Shane Stephens (shans), John Ferlito (johnf), Denis Crowdy (denisc), Jan Gerber (j^), Victor Gal (wiking)
AGENDA:
0. Confirmation of last AGM minutes
1. President's report 2008
2. Treasurer's report 2008
3. Election of 2009 Annodex Association committee
4. Other business
Minutes:
0. Confirmation of last AGM minutes
The minutes of the last AGM are available here.
accepted without objections
1. President's report 2008
The committee had a monthly meeting every month of this last year apart from April, October and December.
Activities that the association was involved with this year include sponsorship of the FOMS workshop in Hobart and Annodex codefests in February, April and August.
public meetings: April, June, August, November
private meetings: March, May, July, September
The main challenges of this year were helping CSIRO open source old Annodex code, and collaborations with different groups in particular towards standardisation of open media technologies.
collaborations and results:
- Wikipedia, Mozilla, Xiph, MetaVid
- CSIRO
- liboggplay adopted into Firefox in August
- W3C meeting in September
standards work involvement:
- accessibility work
- media fragments
- media annotations
- HTML5 video/audio
projects continued to be undertaken:
- liboggplay, firefox plugin
- liboggz, oggz-tools
- libannodex, mod_annodex
- libcmml
- ROE
maintainerships sorted:
- liboggplay
- oggcodecs
FOMS Workshop:
- sorted financials for 2008, including Google sponsorship
- prepared FOMS 2009 and acquired sponsorship
plan to update website:
- delayed for other priorities
CSIRO relationship clarified:
- CSIRO open sourced AnxCreator (DMTagger) and Annodex IE Plugin (see http://ict.csiro.au/downloads.php).
- CSIRO professional membership on the Annodex Association Advisory Panel at $400/year.
- CSIRO to donate Trademark to Annodex Association.
The Web servers www.annodex.org, www.annodex.net, media.annodex.net, and validator.xiph.org are continuing to run on a vmware server graciously provided by Chris Double of the Mozilla foundation.
One open challenge for the next year is to negotiate with CSIRO on the Annodex trademark.
The president's report was accepted without objections.
2. Treasurer's report 2008
The Financial statement for 2008 and the last few years can be found in a new spreadsheet at Media:Financials 20091212.ods
3. Election of 2009 Annodex Association committee
The following nominations have been received for the 2009 committee of the Annodex Association:
President:
Silvia Pfeiffer
Vice-President:
Conrad Parker
Secretary:
Michael Dale
Treasurer:
John Ferlito
Ordinary Committee Member:
Jan Gerber Viktor Gal Denis Crowdy
As these nominations fill all available positions without contest, there is at present no need for an election of office bearers.
During the meeting, all nominees accepted their position. Congratulations!
Thanks to outgoing committee members James Purser, Michael Smith, Shane Stevens for their service for the last year.
4. Other business
None.
