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# Description: Minutes of the March, 2008 Board meeting | |
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<h3>October 22, 2012</h3> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US">A Meeting of the Board of Directors (the | |
“</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><I><B>Board</B></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">”) | |
of Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the | |
“</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US"><I><B>Corporation”</B></I></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">), | |
was held the <A HREF="http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2012/venue">Forum | |
am Schlosspark</A> in Ludwigsburg, Germany, at 8:30 local time on | |
October 22, 2012 as a regularly scheduled face to face meeting. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US">Present at the meeting were the following | |
Directors:</SPAN></P> | |
<TABLE WIDTH=619 BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0> | |
<TR> | |
<TD WIDTH=89 VALIGN=TOP> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Present</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230 VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Director</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300 VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Organization</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Chris Aniszczyk</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Committer Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">John Arthorne</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Committer Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Jutta Bindewald | |
</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">SAP AG</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Cedric Carbone</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Talend</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Eric Clayberg</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Sustaining Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Paul Clenahan</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Actuate | |
Corporation</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Etienne Juliot</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">OBEO</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Hans Kamutzki</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Sustaining Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Pat Huff</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">IBM</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">No</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Mik Kersten</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Sustaining Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Jochen Krause</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Innoopract GmbH</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Dennis Leung</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Oracle</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">No</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Paul Lipton</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">CA Technologies</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Achim Loerke</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">BREDEX GmbH</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Ed Merks</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected | |
Committer Representative</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
<TR VALIGN=BOTTOM> | |
<TD WIDTH=89> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Yes</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=230> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Wolfgang | |
Neuhaus</P> | |
</TD> | |
<TD WIDTH=300> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">itemis AG</P> | |
</TD> | |
</TR> | |
</TABLE> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US">Present at the invitation of the Board was Mike | |
Milinkovich, Executive Director, Chris Larocque, Treasurer, and Janet | |
Campbell, Secretary, of Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc. </SPAN></P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>General Business:</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich introduced the full and abridged | |
minutes for the Board meetings of September 19, 2012, a copy of which | |
is attached hereto as <a href="2012_09_19_Minutes.php">Exhibit B</a>. The Board passed | |
the following resolution unanimously:</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>RESOLVED</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, the | |
minutes and abridged minutes for the Board meeting of September 19, | |
2012 are approved.</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
introduced changes to the IP Advisory Committee Charter that | |
addressed typographical errors in the document. The Board | |
passed the following resolution unanimously:</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>RESOLVED</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, | |
The Board approves the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee | |
Charter, as attached hereto as <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitC.pdf">Exhibit C</a>.</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
introduced a proposal to have Jody Garnett declared the leader of the | |
LocationTech PMC. The Board passed the following resolution | |
unanimously:</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>RESOLVED</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, | |
The Board approves the appointment of Jody Garnett as the leader of | |
the LocationTech PMC.</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
provided an update on EclipseCon Europe, the related slides for which | |
are attached as <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitD.pdf">Exhibit D</a>. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Year to Date Financial Results and | |
Forecast</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Chris Larocque provided an update on the August | |
year to date financial results and forecast. In so doing, Chris | |
commented that the first eight months of the year had been quite | |
successful. Membership dues were stronger than expected, there | |
had been a little more deferred revenue than expected, and | |
conferences were performing well. Chris added that there was | |
some risk however given the economy. Chris added that another | |
risk was the strength of the Canadian dollar but that that was | |
expected to ease up by the end of 2013.</SPAN></P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Management Reports</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich provided a Marketing, Membership, | |
and Projects update, the related slides for which are attached as | |
Exhibit <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitF.pdf">F</a>, | |
<a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitG.pdf">G</a>, and <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitH.pdf">H</a> respectively. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich introduced a discussion of the | |
Topic and Issues Report. Mike noted that the JCP was starting a | |
major overhaul of the JSPA and that he would be devoting a | |
significant amount of time to the effort. Pat Huff asked | |
how many people would be involved in the effort. Mike responded | |
that everyone on the Executive had the opportunity to be involved. | |
</SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Jochen Krause raised a concern that while the | |
Development Process requires that a Project have an API in order to | |
release, the Eclipse Project released 4.2 without an API. | |
Jochen further indicated that this was not just a concern for the | |
EMO, but the community as a whole. Mike Milinkovich suggested | |
that Jochen raise the issue on the Eclipse PMC list. Mike | |
highlighted that this was a problem for the Eclipse PMC to solve. | |
</SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Open Discussion: How to Attract More | |
Resources to the Eclipse Platform</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">The Board engaged | |
in an open ended discussion on what could be done to attract more | |
resources to the Platform. Dennis Leung suggested that perhaps | |
the Board could reverse engineer the problem by looking at who is | |
currently working on the Platform relative to who should be. | |
Mike suggested that Oracle would be one such candidate. Google, | |
Red Hat, and Salesforce were identified as others. | |
Wolfgang Neuhaus suggested that the Foundation could consider hiring | |
resources to work on the Platform. Mike Milinkovich responded | |
questioning who would pay for the resources and determine their | |
priorities. Dennis Leung indicated that choosing the priorities | |
for any such resource would be very important. Jochen Krause | |
noted that there is a notion that the Foundation will not bind itself | |
to Java and OSGi much longer. He questioned then how important | |
the Platform would be to the Eclipse Foundation in the future. | |
With respect to funding developers, Jochen indicated that there were | |
companies like Bosch and UBS that don’t want to be Members of | |
the Eclipse Foundation but may be willing to provide financial | |
support. Jochen added that the Long Term Support program was | |
one such way to do that. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Dennis Leung suggested that the Foundation may | |
want to consider sponsorship funds to fund developer resources. | |
Hans Kamutzki added that the Foundation could consider focusing on | |
the “corporate responsibility” budget in some | |
corporations. Jochen Krause commented that if you look at the | |
fundraising efforts of Wikipedia, the majority of the donations come | |
from large institutions. Wolfgang Neuhaus suggested that | |
the Foundation could consider charging for the binaries. Mike | |
Milinkovich responded that that had been considered four years ago | |
but had been rejected because it was believed to be too disruptive to | |
the ecosystem. Jochen Krause added that if the Foundation | |
were to do that, he believed that someone else would step up to | |
provide the binaries for free. </SPAN></P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Dennis Leung asked John Arthorne how many | |
resources he needed on the Platform. John indicated ten, and | |
Pat Huff added that ten would go a long way. Mike | |
Milinkovich commented that he had thought getting Eclipse into the | |
Mac Store would be helpful, but that Apple had changed their rules on | |
the download in a way that made this initiative far less useful. | |
John Arthorne suggested that perhaps the Foundation should consider | |
expanding Long Term Support (LTS) to deal with feature requests, | |
adding that it would help increase the amount of feature work that is | |
done in the Platform. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
commented that there were a large number of European Projects that | |
are based on the Eclipse Platform and questioned whether European | |
funding may be a possibility. Jochen Krause indicated that a | |
substantial amount of funding was available, some 8.1 billion Euros, | |
but that a portion of the funding still had to be paid. | |
Mike questioned whether some of the investments that are already | |
being made by IBM and others in Europe might count as part of that | |
investment. Mike Milinkovich suggested that if the Foundation | |
were to proceed to set up a consortium based in Europe, it may be | |
possible for participants to have a portion of that European | |
investment recovered. Pat Huff asked if this was | |
something that the Foundation would go forward with. Mike | |
Milinkovich responded that there were a number of factors that would | |
need to be considered. The Foundation would want IBM’s | |
support to go forward. Mike indicated that companies like | |
Itemis do this all the time. Mike added that the downside | |
risk is that there are a number of companies that are very practiced | |
at getting involved in these kinds of programs that don’t | |
deliver successful technology. Mike further added that | |
with the right consortium, it could work. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
summarized to say that the notion of extending LTS, and exploring the | |
possibility of leveraging European funding were two of the best ideas | |
arising out of the discussion. Pat Huff added that getting | |
other companies to participate in the development of the Platform was | |
also an important point raised. Mike Milinkovich commented that | |
the Foundation had always taken the high road in that respect. | |
Paul Clenahan asked how many other companies were using the Eclipse | |
Platform strategically but not contributing. Mike Milinkovich | |
responded that that would likely be a long list, but that it would | |
depend on how you characterize “strategically using”.</SPAN></P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Proposal to Add a Third EclipseCon in | |
2013 in Toulouse, France</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
provided an overview on planning for EclipseCon France, the related | |
slides for which are attached as <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitK.pdf">Exhibit K</a>. Dennis Leung | |
suggested that one way to support the conference would be to locate | |
the next Eclipse Foundation face to face Board meeting there. | |
The Board unanimously passed the following resolution:</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>RESOLVED</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, | |
that the Executive Director of the Corporation is hereby authorized | |
and empowered, for and on behalf of the Corporation, to retain such | |
advisors, to execute and deliver such documents, papers or | |
instruments and to do or cause to be done any and all such other acts | |
and things as he may deem necessary, appropriate or desirable in | |
connection with the organization and execution of the EclipseCon | |
France 2013 conference, including without limitation the selection of | |
vendors responsible for the operations and logistics of the event, | |
and the taking of any such action shall be conclusive evidence of the | |
approval thereof by this Board of Directors.</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="page-break-after: avoid"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Location | |
Industry Working Group Licensing Proposal</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="page-break-after: avoid"> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich turned the Board’s | |
attention to the licensing proposal that had been previously | |
circulated to the Board in the Agenda to this meeting. The | |
Board unanimously approved the following resolution:</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm; text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><B>RESOLVED</B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-US">, | |
The Board unanimously approves the use of the following licenses for | |
projects hosted by the Location Industry Working Group. Such projects | |
must be clearly identified as separate and distinct from Eclipse | |
Foundation projects, hosted on a web property other than eclipse.org, | |
and not using the org.eclipse namespace.</SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 3.81cm; text-indent: -1.27cm">1. | |
MIT</P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 3.81cm; text-indent: -1.27cm">2. | |
BSD (including the Eclipse Distribution License)</P> | |
<P STYLE="margin-left: 3.81cm; text-indent: -1.27cm">3. | |
Apache License v2</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Foundation 2.0</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich | |
introduced a discussion of Eclipse’s future, the related | |
presentation material for which is attached as <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitL.pdf">Exhibit L</a>. | |
Jochen Krause commented that the slides make reference to the | |
belief that infrastructure is no longer sufficient to define an open | |
source organization, noting that many of the things that we see in | |
relation to the Foundation relate to hardware. Jochen | |
questioned whether competing on infrastructure was the right choice | |
for the Foundation. Mike Milinkovich reflected back asking | |
whether Jochen’s question really was a question of why the | |
Foundation doesn’t move its infrastructure to GitHub. | |
Mike addressed that question by highlighting that GitHub does not | |
require its projects to display their license and it’s terms of | |
use do not address licensing. While Mike had attempted to | |
persuade GitHub to make changes in this area, they had declined to do | |
so. Mike further added that GitHub is a commercial entity and | |
going to GitHub would mean endorsing one vendor where there are many | |
other competitors, including some at the Board table. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Jochen Krause commented that the Foundation | |
setting up its own infrastructure was costly and questioned whether, | |
in considering Foundation 2.0, the Foundation should be looking at | |
alternatives to running its own infrastructure. Hans Kamutzki | |
pointed to the need to define the term “infrastructure” | |
in this context. Mike Milinkovich commented that the Foundation | |
had looked at how much it would cost to run the Foundation’s | |
infrastructure in the cloud and once you take into account that most | |
of the Foundation’s hardware is donated, it is much less | |
expensive for the Foundation to run the infrastructure itself. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Jochen Krause noted that the Eclipse Foundation’s | |
“secret sauce” is that it is the place where people | |
collaborate within the context of the Foundation’s Intellectual | |
Property (IP) Management and Development Process; it has very little | |
do with where the source code is hosted. Jochen questioned how | |
far we push vendor neutrality and whether being vendor neutral by | |
necessity means that the Foundation must make everything itself. | |
Chris Aniszczyk added that he didn’t really care where the code | |
is hosted provided the Eclipse Projects subscribe to the Eclipse | |
Foundation’s rules. Chris added that he could envision | |
tools to enforce both the Development and IP Processes. John | |
Arthorne added that Git does not present much work for the | |
Foundation, but that CBI requires more effort. John suggested | |
that there may be examples other than where we host the code that we | |
should re-visit. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich asked what GitHub would offer. | |
Jochen Krause responded that it had the notion of enterprise and | |
organizations within organizations. Jochen added that there are | |
a lot of things that the Foundation is building for LTS that are | |
already available on GitHub. Jochen highlighted that being | |
vendor neutral has cost implications and questioned whether it was | |
something the Foundation wished to stick with. Mike Milinkovich | |
responded that Sonatype would likely give the Foundation a free | |
license to Sonatype Pro but that the Foundation had always had the | |
policy that if it goes on our servers we wanted to be vendor | |
neutral. Dennis Leung suggested that the Foundation may want to | |
consider going another way – having a vendor pay the Foundation | |
to use their software and having the Foundation recognize the | |
vendor. Ed Merks asked what benefit the Foundation would get | |
from using GitHub. Jochen Krause responded that the Foundation | |
would not have to manage the infrastructure itself. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><SPAN LANG="en-US">Jochen suggested | |
that the Foundation use commercial products on our servers provided | |
it doesn’t lock the Foundation in. Jutta Bindewald asked | |
whether there was a risk associated with losing the vendor | |
neutrality. Mike Milinkovich responded that there was because | |
there would always be a competitor that the Foundation did not choose | |
who may be disgruntled that they were not chosen. Jochen Krause | |
commented that if the Foundation is considering such a decision from | |
a strategic standpoint, then he thought the Foundation should be open | |
to acquiring services. Mike Milinkovich commented that if | |
the Eclipse repositories were at GitHub, the Foundation would not | |
control the user management. Jochen questioned the value of | |
requiring use of a portal to send a message to push five people to | |
vote +1, and whether that was what truly defined the Eclipse | |
Community. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich asked the Board for an expression | |
of interest to continue the conversation. Jochen Krause, Hans | |
Kamutzki, Jutta Bindewald, and Chris Aniszczyk all indicated an | |
interest in continuing the conversation. Mike Milinkovich noted | |
that by the time any follow on analysis was complete, the Foundation | |
would have the LocationTech and PolarSys Industry Working Groups up | |
and running. Mike added that the Foundation would not stop | |
working on what was underway while the analysis is completed. | |
Mike indicated that he would establish a Board Working Group, | |
initially setting up three one hour calls for those that are | |
interested to attend. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich reviewed with the Board the | |
Eclipse Foundation’s Program Plan for 2013 which had been | |
approved by the Finance Committee, the related presentation for which | |
is attached as <a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitM.pdf">Exhibit M</a>. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Industry Working Group Updates</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Mike Milinkovich provided an update on Industry | |
Working Groups (IWG), the related slides for which are attached as | |
<a href="2012_10_exhibits/ExhibitN.pdf">Exhibit N</a>. In so doing, Mike highlighted the lack of a full | |
time Project Manager for PolarSys as a risk to PolarSys’ | |
success. Mike added while IWGs were coming along, there was | |
still work to be done and the Foundation was not yet generating as | |
much revenue from IWGs as it would like. Mike further | |
noted that he had not yet seen the progress in the M2M IWG that he | |
would like. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P STYLE="page-break-after: avoid"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>TCK | |
Agreement</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P STYLE="page-break-after: avoid"> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Dennis Leung commented that he had the sense in | |
the last Board meeting that there were a number of concerns regarding | |
the TCK Agreement that was before the Board for approval. | |
Dennis noted that the focus to date has largely been on the | |
consequence of the worst case, which is something that the Board | |
needs to look at. Dennis commented that the Board also needed | |
to consider the likelihood that the Agreement does not renew. | |
In Dennis’ opinion that is very unlikely given that not | |
renewing this TCK Agreement, if approved, would severely harm the | |
Java ecosystem. Dennis added that his personal opinion is that | |
something drastic would have to happen for that to occur. | |
Dennis noted that if things move forward as they are today, Oracle | |
wants to build a healthy ecosystem, and would want to have open | |
source implementations of the specifications and have that happen in | |
open source communities. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Dennis added that the benefit is that Projects and | |
Committers get access to the TCKs for free. Dennis noted that | |
Oracle and Sun before have commercial licenses and have a significant | |
in these TCKs. Dennis also added that the risks associated with | |
the Agreement are isolated on a Project by Project basis. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Dennis summarized by saying that in principle, | |
this has been done in the past and the risk presented is on a per | |
Project basis and that the likelihood of the worst case just doesn’t | |
seem to be there. Dennis added that the licensor is a Strategic | |
Member, a member of the Board, and has a significant commitment to | |
Eclipse, and said that he felt that should be factored into the | |
ultimate decision. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Jutta Bindewald supported Dennis’ comments | |
and indicated that SAP was also very interested in seeing the TCK | |
Agreement signed by the Eclipse Foundation. Jutta noted that | |
SAP considered both the benefits and the risks of licensing the TCKs | |
at the Eclipse Foundation and decided that the benefits exceeded the | |
risks. Jutta added that the failure to extend the license would | |
be damaging to the reputation of both Oracle and the Eclipse. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">Jochen Krause indicated that while he would not | |
agree to have this Agreement impact his Projects, we would not want | |
to take that decision away from other Projects and would consider | |
that in the course of voting. Mike Milinkovich added that in | |
the Eclipse Community, Oracle has always been an excellent citizen. | |
Mike further added that there was nothing that would require a | |
Project to use a TCK. Eric Clayberg indicated that his | |
inclination was to support the vote in light of the fact that two | |
Strategic Members want the TCK Agreement signed, that the risks are | |
very low and remote at ten years out. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="page-break-before: always"><SPAN LANG="en-US"><U><B>Executive | |
Director Performance Review</B></U></SPAN></P> | |
<P> | |
<SPAN LANG="en-US">The Board met privately to discuss the Executive | |
Director’s Performance review.</SPAN></P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US">The meeting adjourned. </SPAN> | |
</P> | |
<P ALIGN=CENTER> | |
* * | |
* *</P> | |
<P><SPAN LANG="en-US">This being a true and accurate record of the | |
proceedings of this Meeting of the Board of Directors held on October | |
22, 2012, is attested to and signed by me below.</SPAN></P> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="margin-left: 6.89cm; text-indent: 1.27cm"><U>/s/Janet Campbell </U> | |
</P> | |
<P LANG="en-US" STYLE="margin-left: 6.89cm; text-indent: 1.27cm">Secretary of Meeting</P> | |
<P><BR><BR> | |
</P> | |
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