Proposed - OpenCSA Steering Committee (StC) Proposed Agenda - 13 June 2008- Draft 2

DRAFT 2 - OpenCSA Steering Committee
(StC) Proposed Agenda - 13 June 2008 9:00 AM PST

        

Changes from original posting based
on electronic inputs in last 12 hours:

        1)
Corrected date to be Friday June 13th (rather than Friday June 12th).

        2)
Added input from Jeff Mischkinsky for item #2 below. 

        3)
Added requested discussion item for next Steering Committee F2F (item #6
below).

        4)
Added names to Agenda bashing (item #0 below)

        

0. Agenda bashing and Roll

        Attending:
                 Voting Members
(X = Attended)        

         
               
               
               
              

         
               
              David
Burke

         
               
              Mike Kaiser
(Secretary/Vice-Chair)

         
               
              Mark Little
       

         
               
              Jeff Mischkinsky
(Chair)

        

         
               
               

         
               
               
               
               
               
               

        Apologies:
               
       

         
               
              Sanjay
Patil                  

        

        OASIS
Staff:                    
   

         
               
              Robin
Cover

         
               
              Jane Harnad

         
               
              Scott
McGrath

         
               
              Mary McRae

         
               
              Dee Schur

         
               
      

        Identified
Observers:         

         
               
               
               
      

           
 

        Notes:
                     
       Mike Kaiser 

        Agenda
Items added:                 None.

1. Minutes Approval 

        -
05 May 2008: 

        http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/opencsa-ms/download.php/28244/Open_CSA_SC_20080509a_Draft.txt

        

2. Open Action Item Review and Discussion

   

        #0028
Draft Q4 Member Section Report for SC Review - Jeff Mischinsky - Due: 2008-01-11

         
      http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/opencsa-ms/members/action_item.php?action_item_id=2072

         
 -         

        

        OpenCSA
Steering Committee was holding on this until Process Committee completes
its discussion

        thread
regarding suggestion that Quarterly Reports should not be necessary for
Member Sections which

        have
no OASIS funding.

        

        Any
updates regarding this?

        DISCUSSION:
 

        

        (Jeff
provided the following update per email.)

        There
is general agreement/consensus within the Process committee in  

        favor
of the suggestion. I also brought it up during an OASIS Board of  

        Directors
meeting, as part of a Process Committee update/report to the  

        Board.
There was general (informal) agreement there too. In addition  

        staff
(Dee/Scott) are in favor. I think it is safe to say that the  

        suggestion
will be adopted. Actually making the change is not the  

        highest
priority right now for the Process Committee and there are  

        other
improvements/changes to the MS Policy that are under  

        consideration,
which will probably be batched up.

        

3. Continued discussion on what information/status
the Steering Committee like to see from TC's?

        It
might be helpful to have some input from TC's such as the following from
each of the

        TC's.

         
      a. Issues that the Steering Committee might
be with.

         
      b. General status on progress towards spec
completion.

        The
Steering Committee does NOT want to micromanage the TC's. But the Steering
Committee

         
      does care if the next version of the spec
is scheduled for June or December.

         
      

        Should
change the LSC charter to add the periodic reporting of TC status to the
Steering 

         
      Committee.  We'll leave it up to the
LSC on how to report.  Sanjay was to draft 

         
      some words to do this.  Once reviewed
a web ballot was to initiated.

        The
Steering Committee needs to review the status of this action item from
the 05/09/2008

        meeting
and take appropriate action.

         
      

4. The Steering Committee needs to address
the question of how it pushes work forward w/o 

        micromanaging

.

        It's
very easy on TC's to loose inertia.  Even if you have a couple companies
pushing 

        it's
sometimes hard to keep the TC's moving. 

        The
Steering Committee may need to outline a high level scheduling expectations.
 

        That
might help the TC's decide how much time to focus on any particular problem.

        

        Discussion
around this topic requested.

5. Election Activity

        

        David
Burke, Mike Kaiser, and Mark Little were elected to the Steering Committee
position

        in
the most recent elections.  They will be serving a term until June
2010.

        

        Nominations
for the two remaining Steering Committee seats remains open until June
17th.

        Steering
Committee members should be encouraging nominations.

        

        REMINDER:

        There
is also the Steering Committee elected positions that we need to close
on a plan for.

        The
time is quickly approaching where new the OpenCSA will need to hold elections
for the

        following
Steering Committee positions before the end of July:

        1.
       Chair:        
       Re-election due by:      
  July 31, 2008

        2.
       Vice-Chair:        Re-election
due by:        July 31, 2008

        3.
       Secretary:        Re-election
due by:        July 31, 2008

        Current
status is that we were going to keep positions in place through end of
July.  Mike  

        to
fill Graham's vacated positions until positions updated by ballot results
in August.

        

        Any
further discussion needed?

6. Next Steering Committee Face to Face
Discussion

7. Any Other Business?

        -

8. Future SC Agenda Topics? 

        -

9. Next Meeting 

           -
The next regular teleconference is scheduled for July 11, 2008 

         
      9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 5:00pm UK

        The
Steering Committee meets the second Friday of each month throughout 2008.
 

10. Adjourn