OSI Board Meeting Minutes, March 28, 2007

Attendees:
Mr. Michael Tiemann, President
Ms. Danese Cooper, Secretary & Treasurer
Mr. Bruno Souza, Dirctor
Mr. Matt Asay, Director
Mr. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Director
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar, Board Observer
Mr. Mark Radcliffe, Esq., Corporate Legal Counsel
Mr. Eric Raymond, Founder Emeritus, Board Observer
Mr. Bdale Garbee, Board Observer
Ms. Sally Khudairi, PR

Meeting called to order at 8:08AM PST with voting quorum established.

Agenda:

1. License Proliferation Report:

Mr. Tiemann moved to accept the approach that the License Proliferation Committee has taken with respect to License Proliferation which is to first organize existing OSI-Approved licenses into useful categories which prepare the Board to discuss how in the future licenses will be considered. He further moved that the The Board thank the License Proliferation Committee for its work in researching and preparing the report.
Mr. Souza seconds motion. Passed by general consent.

2. Face to Face meeting.

The Board will conduct a Face to Face meeting with all Board Members present in San Francisco March 8th through March 10th, 2007. Specific venue still TBD.

3. Upcoming Conferences.

Discussion of calendar of Board Member speaking engagements underwritten by the OSI.

As resolved earlier, any individual OSI Board Member who wants to represent the organization at a given conference should do so, and should seek assistance from OSI as needed. Current Calendar for appearance by the Board Entire:

*OSCON 2007 (July 23rd to 27th, 2007, Portland, Oregon)
*Fosdem 2008 (February 2008, Brussels, Belgium)

Mr. Tiemann agreed to create a public calendar of OSI Board Member speaking engagements.

4. Board election update

Election will be held at OSI Board Face to Face meeting on March 9th. Candidate applications currently being solicited.

5. New OSI Website

Mr. Coar moved to approve Terms Of Service subject to his corrections.
Mr. Tiemann seconded motion. Passed by General Consent.

This is the last item remaining before publication of the website.

6. Legal Services Coordinator

Mr. Coar agreed to take on the job of coordinating OSI’s pro bono legal counsel for 2007.

7. Comittee reports

*Finance
No change since last report.

*Development
No change since last report.

*License Approval
Mr. Nelson verified that the "Honest Public License", although proposed was never actually submitted to License Discuss. Discussion of Attribution Licenses is currently the primary issue.

*License Proliferation
There has been adequate opportunity for stakeholder discussion of the License Proliferation Report. Mr. Nelson will prepare the report for Board Ratification for the March 9th meeting.

*Membership
Mr. Coar has created a forum on the new OSI Website for public discussion of Membership topic.

Mr. Tiemann moved to adjourn the meeting at 9:57am PST
Mr. Coar seconded the motion. Meeting Adjourned 9:58am PST