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Annual General Meeting, Annodex Association, 14th January 2010
On Thursday 14th Jan 2010 we had the fourth AGM of the Annodex Foundation since incorporation. We met on irc channel #anxassoc, freenode.net and at Level 10, 155 The Terrace, Wellington for the Wellington crowd.
Start at 17:10, Close at 17:27
Attending members: Silvia Pfeiffer (ginger), Conrad Parker (kfish), Michael Dale (mdale), John Ferlito (johnf), Denis Crowdy (denisc), Jan Gerber (j^), Victor Gal (wiking), Ralph Giles (rillian), Andy Nicholson (andycat)
AGENDA:
0. Confirmation of last AGM minutes
1. President's report 2009
2. Treasurer's report 2009
3. Election of 2010 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 2009
The committee had about six meetings during this last year, all bar one of which were open to the public. The Annodex Association has had a bit of an identity issue in this past year, seeing that many of its original goals around technical adoption of specifications and software into Standards and software have been achieved. In this course, many of the documents and software that were available through the annodex.net website have been moved to Xiph's repositories and website. Also, a lot of its specification and ideas have now been integrated into W3C and HTML5 standards, or are in the process of getting incorporated. The Annodex Association thus is in the process of fulfilling its technical goals. Its Website and community activities have to refocus on other issues.
Activities that the association was involved with this past year include:
- sponsorship of the FOMS workshop in Wellington,
- engagement with the W3C on media fragment standardisation and HTML5 media element standardisation,
- engagement with Australian ethnographic language researchers, browser vendors, and of course Xiph.
public meetings: April, May, June, September, November
private meetings: February
The main challenges of this year were the creation and improvement of collaborations with different groups towards standardisation of open media technologies.
collaborations and results:
- Xiph
- Mozilla, Apple, Google, Opera
- W3C
- Wikipedia, MetaVid, Kaltura
- Dailymotion
- CSIRO
standards work involvement:
- accessibility work
- media fragments
- media annotations
- HTML5 video/audio
projects continued to be undertaken:
- liboggplay
- liboggz, oggz-tools
- libannodex, mod_annodex
- ROE
- accessibility scripts
maintainerships sorted:
- libfishsound
FOMS Workshop:
- sorted financials for 2009, including Google sponsorship
- prepared FOMS 2010 and acquired sponsorship
plan to update website:
- delayed for other priorities, but a new server has been prepared at annodex.com in preparation for moving old content and adding new
The Web servers www.annodex.org, www.annodex.net, media.annodex.net, and validator.xiph.org have been moved to a Xiph server and the Annodex Association is preparing to move off the vmware server graciously provided by Chris Double. Many thanks go to Chris Double for his generosity!
The president's report was accepted without objections.
2. Treasurer's report 2009
St George account access was transferred across to John Ferlito late last year.
Bank statements where ordered from St George in order to create a full financial record for the last few years.
The current financial status can be found in the Media:Financials 20091212.ods spreadsheet.
As of the end of December 09 Annodex had a surplus of $748.72 and had a closing bank balance of $7429.50.
All income and expenses for the year (barring bank charges) were FOMS related.
FOMS is still expecting $840 in unpaid invoices and $950 in sponsorship and $2000 back from a cancelled flight. It still has approximately $3,600 in expenses to be paid.
So we should have a closing balance of around $3,800 once FOMS is finalised.
FOMS as an event is expected to make a $1,200 surplus.
3. Election of 2010 Annodex Association committee
The following nominations have been received for the 2010 committee of the Annodex Association:
President:
Conrad Parker
Vice-President:
Silvia Pfeiffer
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!
4. Other business
None.
