[ZOO-PSC] PSC meeting on 2010/04/27

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi PSC,

The draft summary of PSC meeting held on 27 April
2010 is as below.

Please suggests corrections etc. If PSC agree on
the draft, it can be uploaded as official minutes
on the ZOO-PSC-Meetings wiki.

Best regards

Venka

------------------Draft Summary-------------------
                 Summary of ZOO-PSC meeting

Date/Time: 27th April, 2010. 13:00 till 16:40 UTC
Members: Nicolas BOZON, Massimiliano CANNATA (aka Maxi), Gerald FENOY, 
Hirofumi HAYASHI, Venkatesh RAGHAVAN (aka Venka), Satoshi SEKIGUCHI were 
present. Daniel KASTL, Jeff McKENNA, Markus NETELER could not be present 
because of other engagements.

Summary:

1)	PSC members decided to have a meeting chair on rotation basis. Venka 
volunteered to be the Chair for the meeting.

2)	Venka presented the first item as below;
Agenda 1) PSC guidelines proposal page review and approval 
http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/process

Members agreed in general about the proposed guidelines. Maxi suggested 
the about the PSC guideline
a)	Add mention that PSC we also vote for ZOO svn access.
b)	Clarifying the PSC voting process by clearly stating that “A proposal 
will be accepted if it receives +2 with the voting of the majority of 
all eligible members and no vetoes (-1)”. All members agreed to this 
clarification. Maxi will edit the PSC guideline wiki to reflect this 
clarification in the PSC Guideline and approval for corrections will be 
by voting on PSC ML.

Venka mentioned about electing PSC chair. PSC members agreed on one year 
tenure for the Chair. Gerald moved a motion volunteering to the the PSC 
chair for the next one year. Nick seconded the motion and all PSC 
members concurred. Gerald was unanimously elected as a PSC Chair for the 
period between 27 April 2010 till 26 April 2011.

3)	Venka presented the second item as below;
Agenda 2) Launch review (discuss initial feedback) and next steps

PSC members agreed about the need to a) make installation easier b) 
Address issues brought up in the ZOO-Discuss mailing list c) Develop 
more examples and Documentation for ZOO-API d) to further discuss this 
agenda item on ZOO-PSC mailing list.

4)	Venka presented the third item as below;
Agenda 3) Possible funding for development (includes documentation
           and quality assurance)
a)	PSC members agreed that the best way would be to seek funding
         through research projects to keep the ZOO development going.
b)	PSC members suggested EU, FP7, G8 initiative and Japanese
         private company as a possible source of R&D funds.
c)	PSC members from Japan also proposed to look into opportunity
         for inviting ZOO developers to Japan on short-term visits.

5)	Venka presented the fourth item as below;
Agenda 4) should the Users page have an interactive map of where users
           are located, or maybe we should display a map of where ZOO is
           being downloaded? Thoughts?
a)	PSC members concluded that it was too early to have the
         interactive user location map
b)	Need to make ZOO-Project page Webstats (viewed pages,
         downloads, etc.) available to PSC members. Appropriate measures
         to make Webstats available will be discussed in the ZOO-PSC ML.

6)	Venka presented the fifth item as below;
Agenda 4) Next meeting Schedule
a)	It was agreed that the next PSC meeting to be scheduled as below; 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=5&day=19&hour=22&min=0&sec=0

7)	Venka moved motion to close the meeting and provide draft
         summary of PSC-ML
a)	The motion was accepted and the meeting was closed.


On 2010/04/28 22:59, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi everyone, can someone add the meeting summary to:
> http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/meetings/PSCMeet2  Thanks! :)
>
> -jeff
>
>
> Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> PSC meeting will be held today as per schedule
>> below in another 30 minutes;
>>
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=4&day=27&hour=13&min=0&sec=0
>>
>> Agenda is as below;
>>
>> * PSC PSC guidelines proposal page review and approval
>>     http://www.zoo-project.org/trac/wiki/PSC/process
>> * Launch review (discuss initial feedback) and next steps
>> * Possible funding for development (includes documentation and quality
>> assurance)
>> * should the Users page have an interactive map of where users are
>> located, or maybe we should display a map of where ZOO is being
>> downloaded? Thoughts?
>> * Next meeting schedule
>>
>> Venka will setup the conference chat.
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