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| <h3>December 12-13, 2007</h3> |
| <P>________________________________________________________________________</P> |
| <P>A Meeting of the Board of Directors (the “<B><I>Board</I></B>”) |
| of Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the |
| “<B><I>Corporation”</I></B>), was held on held at 8:30am |
| Eastern time at the Hotel Monaco San Francisco, San Francisco, CA on |
| December 12 & 13, 2007 as a regularly scheduled quarterly |
| face-to-face meeting. |
| </P> |
| <P>Present at the meeting were the following Directors:</P> |
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| <COL WIDTH=231> |
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| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"><B>Attending Dec 12th</B></P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"><B>Attending Dec 13th</B></P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"><B>Director</B></P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"><B>Organization</B></P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Chris Aniszczyk</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected committer |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"> </P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Tim Barnes</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">OpenMethods LLC</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Rich Bartlett</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Nokia</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Michael Bechauf</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">SAP AG</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Ed Cobb</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">BEA</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Mark Coggins</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Actuate Corporation</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Ricco Deutscher</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">SOPERA GmbH</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Eliane Fourgeau</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected add-in provider |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Richard Gronback</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Borland Software Corp.</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Andi Gutmans</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Zend Technologies</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Jonathan Khazam</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Intel Corporation</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Konstantin Komissarchik</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected committer |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Jochen Krause</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Innoopract</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Dennis Leung</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Oracle</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"> </P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Howard Lewis</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected add-in provider |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Jeff McAffer</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected committer |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Ed Merks</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected committer |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"> </P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Eric Newcomer</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">IONA Technologies</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm"> </P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">James Saliba</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Computer Associates</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Steve Saunders</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">WindRiver</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Mitch Sonies</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Cloudsmith Inc.</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Darin Swanson</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected committer |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Mike Taylor</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected add-in provider |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">John Kellerman for Dave |
| Thomson</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">IBM</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">John Graham for David K Tong</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Sybase</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Todd E. Williams</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Elected add-in provider |
| representative</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| <TR VALIGN=TOP> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=83> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">X</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=231> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Dino Brusco for Christy |
| Wyatt</P> |
| </TD> |
| <TD WIDTH=235> |
| <P STYLE="border: none; padding: 0cm">Motorola</P> |
| </TD> |
| </TR> |
| </TABLE> |
| <P> </P> |
| <P>Present at the invitation of the Board was Mike Milinkovich, |
| Executive Director, Janet Campbell, Secretary, and Chris Larocque, |
| Treasurer of Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid"><B><U>General |
| Business</U></B> |
| </P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-top: 0.42cm">Mike |
| Milinkovich advised the Board that Serena would not be renewing their |
| Strategic Membership. |
| </P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm; margin-top: 0.42cm">Mike |
| Milinkovich introduced the minutes from the November meeting and |
| asked for any corrections and/or comments. The following |
| resolution was unanimously passed:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"><B>RESOLVED</B>, that there was |
| unanimous consent to approve the amended minutes of November. </P> |
| <P> |
| Mike Milinkovich introduced the Charter for IP Advisory Committee |
| which had been previously approved by the IP Advisory Committee and |
| was modeled after the other Committee Charters. The Charter had |
| been approved some time ago and the subject was now being brought to |
| the Board to correct an administrative oversight. No questions |
| or concerns were raised and the following resolution was passed:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, that there was unanimous consent to approve the |
| Charter of the IP Advisory Committee, attached hereto as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitA.pdf">Exhibit A</a>.</P> |
| <P> |
| Mike Milinkovich indicated that Winston Damarillo has volunteered to |
| take over the chair of the Membership committee. Mike further |
| indicated that he would like to revive the Membership Committee and |
| involve directors on the Committee that had an interest in helping |
| the Foundation grow the membership, with a particular focus on |
| Strategic Membership. The following resolution was |
| unanimously passed:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, that there is unanimous consent to approve Winston |
| Damarillo as the chair of the Membership Committee.</P> |
| <P> |
| Mike Milinkovich proposed that the governments be added to the |
| Associate Member class. A copy of the related presentation is |
| attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitB.pdf">Exhibit B</a>. The current definition of |
| Associate Member in the Membership Agreement does not expressly |
| include governments, but it does contemplate the addition of other |
| types of Associate Members by the Eclipse Foundation Board. |
| It is felt that this is the most appropriate classification for |
| governments in light of the fact that they rarely create a commercial |
| offering. The following resolution was passed unanimously.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"><B>RESOLVED,</B> that Governments and |
| government/public departments, agencies and government/public |
| departments, agencies and ministries will be accepted as Associate |
| Members.</P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">Mike Milinkovich reported to the Board |
| that the EMO had completed its action item to review all of our |
| related IP documentation to ensure that there were no known issues |
| with proceeding with the dual licensing of the Eclipse Persistence |
| Services Project. A copy of the related presentation material |
| is attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitC.pdf">Exhibit C</a>. In many cases we found that the |
| changes that were needed were really errors or omissions that needed |
| to be fixed in any event. Those changes primarily relate to |
| replacing references in our existing documentation to the Eclipse |
| Public License with the Eclipse.org Terms of Use. The issue |
| moving forward will be for the Eclipse Persistence Services project |
| to ensure that they do not copy and paste existing EPL-licensed code |
| into the Project’s code base. |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">Richard Gronback highlighted that |
| there is a clause in the Modeling top Level project that states: “To |
| ensure the scope of the project remains consistent within the |
| modeling mission, the PMC will seek Eclipse board approval for the |
| creation of new projects.” The modeling project would |
| like to strike this reference from their Charter. There |
| being no concerns raised, Richard indicated that he would propose a |
| revised version of the Charter at the next Board meeting.</P> |
| <P><B><U>Community Issues</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| The subject of the upcoming elections was raised and there was |
| discussion on how to best generate interest in the elections. |
| There was general consensus on the following topics:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.36cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Committer Representatives blogging about their experience |
| would be useful, |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.36cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Making Board Members more visible to the community at |
| EclipseCon through identifying them as Board Members on their |
| EclipseCon badges |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.36cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Adding a Q&A session with the Board at the annual Members |
| meeting. |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.36cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Improving the Board web page on the Eclipse.org website by |
| adding pictures together with a short biography for each Director. |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.36cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>The Committer Representatives raised an issue with the current |
| voting structure. Currently, the votes of all committers working for |
| the same company collapse into a single vote. This is an impediment |
| to committers getting involved in the electoral process. The EMO will |
| review the Eclipse Foundation Bylaws to determine what improvements |
| could be made both from the standpoint of the voting structure and |
| representation.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.09cm; text-indent: 0.64cm">The Committer |
| Representatives highlighted significant improvements in the IP |
| Process and Mike encouraged the Committer Representatives to blog |
| about their ability to influence for change at the Board level, as |
| these changes were largely driven at the Board level by these |
| community representatives.</P> |
| <P><B><U>Board Survey and The Imperfect Board Member</U></B></P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.25cm"> |
| Mike Milinkovich asked Board Members for feedback on the book |
| provided to each Director (the <I>Imperfect Board Member</I>) and the |
| Board Survey that the Board had recently been asked to participate |
| in. Several Board Members indicated that they found both the |
| book and the survey very useful and that they had forwarded the book |
| to other Boards that they participate in. Mike then |
| organized Board Members into 5 groups and asked each group to come up |
| with 4 strengths and weaknesses of the Board. The |
| large size of the Board was recognized as a challenge, though the |
| Board felt that the use of Committees was helping with that. |
| The Board requested that in the future all Standing Committees and Ad |
| Hoc Committees should report to the Board each Board Meeting. </P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.25cm">Further discussion was had on the |
| importance of work on the “common good” areas, but the |
| lack of influence that the EMO and Board have on the resources that |
| might do this work. Mike Milinkovich commented that there was |
| need to change the way strategy is handled so that we clearly |
| separate the pieces that the EMO can actually act on and highlight |
| things that are to the benefit of the community but the EMO can only |
| influence. We should then highlight what needs to get done, who |
| signs up to what, and then measure against commitment. The |
| benefit of a strategic working group or committee was discussed and |
| the following resolution approved:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, by majority vote of the Board, the Board approved |
| the establishment of a Strategy Committee to work with the Executive |
| Director on setting strategy for the Eclipse Foundation.</P> |
| <P>At 5:10 Pacific Time, the meeting was adjourned for the day.</P> |
| <P><B><U><FONT SIZE=4>December 13, 2007</FONT></U></B></P> |
| <P><B><U>Advertising Working Group</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| The meeting resumed at 8:30 on December 13, 2007. Mike Taylor |
| presented the Advertising Working Group recommendations. A copy |
| of the related presentation is attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitD.pdf">Exhibit D</a>. After |
| some discussion, including the observation that it needs to be more |
| painful for a Strategic Member such as Serena to quit, the Board |
| approved the following resolutions:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, that there was unanimous consent to approve the |
| following recommendations of the Advertising Working Group:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">1) |
| advertising should be added to ecilpse.org</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">2) |
| primary purposes</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.81cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">a. |
| Increase the value of membership in the Eclipse Foundation</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.81cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">b. |
| Provide valuable additional information to users of eclipse.org</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">3) |
| Include advertising as a standard part of every strategic membership</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">4) |
| Secondary goal:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.75cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">a. |
| Generating additional revenue for the Foundation</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 2.54cm; text-indent: -0.64cm">5) |
| Take care that the cost of administering the advertising not become |
| greater than the benefit.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"><B>RESOLVED</B>, that the Board |
| approves of projects who so desire to recognize on their websites the |
| contributions of individuals and corporations of those who (a) make |
| significant contributions to the project and/or (b) make use of the |
| project in a commercial product, open source project or application. |
| The Board instructs the EMO to draft and implement |
| guidelines for the projects based on the following principles:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.18cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Consistency in look, feel and navigation across project |
| websites.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.18cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Vendor neutrality.</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 3.18cm; text-indent: -0.64cm"><FONT FACE="Symbol">· |
| </FONT>Membership value.</P> |
| <P><B><U>Eclipse 4.0</U></B></P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">Jeff McAffer presented the Board with |
| the Platform Project’s vision for Eclipse 4.0. Jeff |
| encouraged others to participate in the development of Eclipse 4.0. |
| The intention is to announce 4.0 at EclipseCon and ship in 2009.</P> |
| <P><B><U>Runtime Summit</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| Ricco Deutscher, Jeff McAffer, and Jochen Krause led a discussion on |
| the Runtime Summit and proposed that a new Top Level Project be |
| created to host Eclipse runtime projects. A copy of their |
| presentation is attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitE.pdf">Exhibit E</a>. |
| </P> |
| <P>The group indicated their intent to put forward a Charter for such |
| a project at the next Board meeting.</P> |
| <P STYLE="page-break-after: avoid"><B><U>Roadmap Discussion</U></B></P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">Mike Milinkovich introduced a |
| discussion of the Roadmap. A copy of the related presentation |
| is attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitF.pdf">Exhibit F</a>. The Bylaws require that each year the |
| Requirement, Planning and Architecture Councils collaborate on the |
| <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><FONT FACE="Calibri, sans-serif"><A HREF="http://www.eclipse.org/org/councils/roadmap_v3_0/"><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">Eclipse |
| Roadmap</FONT></A>. </FONT></FONT>This document has historically |
| required a significant amount of effort from the Councils for an |
| unclear return on that investment in time and energy. Several Board |
| members found the document quite valuable in order to explain Eclipse |
| to their management and how Eclipse fits into the company’s |
| strategic direction. After some discussion it was decided that |
| there would be a roadmap, that the EMO will write the preamble and |
| create an XML template that each project complete that specifies |
| their plans by theme that can then be used to auto-generate the |
| planned deliverable portion of the Roadmap. The |
| Planning Council would be responsible for validating and selecting |
| set of themes and priorities consistent with those prepared by the |
| Requirements Council which each project in the annual release train |
| would be expected to use in their plans. Each project but would also |
| be able to add additional themes and priorities as well. |
| </P> |
| <P><U><B>Strategic Advisory Council</B></U></P> |
| <P> |
| Mike Milinkovich introduced the proposal to reform the Requirements |
| Council. The associated presentation is attached as <a href="2007_12_exhibits/ExhibitG.pdf">Exhibit G</a>. |
| This proposal is intended to refocus the energies of the |
| Requirements Council by establishing an active advisory group that |
| engages the PMCs and other advisors to provide relevant, strategic |
| input to both Project and member Product planning activities. |
| Members of the Requirements, Architecture and Planning Council are |
| eligible and encouraged to participate. |
| </P> |
| <P STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><B>RESOLVED</B>, the Board unanimously |
| approved the proposal. |
| </P> |
| <P><B><U>Budget Review and Approval</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| Chris Larocque provided an overview of the budget. Following |
| the discussion, the Board approved the following resolution:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, there was unanimous consent to approve the 2008 |
| Budget for the Eclipse Foundation.</P> |
| <P><B><U>Future Board Meetings</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| It was decided that the upcoming face-to-face Board meetings would be |
| held in Denver in June, Dallas in September, and San Francisco in |
| December.</P> |
| <P><B><U>2008 Executive Director Annual Objectives</U></B></P> |
| <P> |
| Mike Milinkovich reviewed the 2008 Executive Director Annual |
| Objectives. Following the discussion, the Board approved the |
| following resolution:</P> |
| <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.25cm; text-indent: -1.27cm"> |
| <B>RESOLVED</B>, there was unanimous consent to approve the 2008 |
| Executive Director Annual Objectives.</P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><U>Wrap Up</U></B></P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">The Committer |
| Representatives wanted to recognize the significant improvement in |
| the IP Process, indicating that people are much happier with the |
| process as a result. |
| </P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">The Board then turned to |
| revisit the discussion of the Board’s Performance and what the |
| Board members expected of their peers on the Board. The |
| importance of having strategic discussions at the Board level was |
| discussed. While it was recognized that some strategic |
| discussions about the technology created at Eclipse are difficult to |
| have because the Board does not own the resources that would do the |
| work, it was felt that other strategic-level discussions and if |
| necessary changing the Bylaws are clearly within the Board’s |
| purview. Examples included membership structure, and the relationship |
| of membership in the Eclipse Foundation and the ability to create |
| projects at Eclipse,.</P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm"><BR><BR> |
| </P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">Mike Milinkovich |
| declared the meeting adjourned at approximately 3:00pm Pacific Time. |
| </P> |
| <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">* |
| * * |
| * *</P> |
| <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 1.27cm">This being a true and |
| accurate record of the proceedings of this Meeting of the Board of |
| Directors held on December 12 and 13th, 2007, is attested to and |
| signed by me below.</P> |
| <P> |
| <U>/s/ Janet Campbell </U> |
| </P> |
| <P> |
| Secretary of Meeting</P> |
| <P><BR><BR> |
| </P> |
| |
| |
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