OpenAFS Foundation Meeting Notes 2015-10-02
In Attendance
Dave Botsch, Todd DeSantis, Margarete Ziemer
Topics
- Discussion of candidates for Foundation membership
Margarete's general thoughts:
Board as fundraisers, "face", "politicians", "evangelists", and public representatives
- Technical Advisor Group
- AFS superstars and/or users will focus on AFS technology concerned
- standardization
- new feature development
- writing RFPs
- selecting winning bidders on a given project
- "save" for this group, best fit/etc:
- Ben Kaduk - Commiteter/Gatekeeper
- Andrew Deason - Committer/Gatekeeper (no longer w Sine Nomine as of Sep 1)
- Mike Meffie - Standardization
- Jeff Hutzelman - Standardization
- Mark Vitale - Security (game changer/area of grave concern at BpW)
- Phil Moorer - info source and "coach" for the Board's corporate reachout
- Thoms Keiser - unknown if he wants to remain active
- AFS superstars and/or users will focus on AFS technology concerned
One of the major problems, IMHO, with "reserving" these people is that one or more of them may actually make gread candidates for the Board. And, with our resources being limtied, I'm not sure we can afford to really "reserve" someone.
During one of our previous calls, we had decided and voted to approach Ben if we didn't get any other self nominations, which we have not. I think Ben could be a great candidate in that he's great at interfacing with people.
It would certainly be good, also, to get Phil's advice/training/coaching etc on Corporate Reachout, regardless of his current involvement with AFS. We also still need to finalize things w. our Corporate Sponsorhip discussions, there.
Finally, Jeff Hutzelman is rotating away from his current position in the standardization committee. I don't recall anyone else stepping up there (several declined, as a matter of fact). Though, Jeff still may be knowledgeable/etc.