Stewards Council Telecon: 2008 August 6

Call in number: 1-605-475-4333 access code: 181783

= Attending =
 * Mary Ruddy

= Agenda =

New item(s)


 * Discussion of proposal to change frequency of quarterly reports to semi-annually.

Updates on Action items from last call


 * Chris R Budget proposal - update for how things should work with small items
 * Patrick Reilly with Kaliya's help - update on collecting IPR best practices from other groups
 * Kaliya, Mary and Eugene - update on working on some best practices for mentoring new groups into the community
 * Mary - update on outsource nonprofit service provider options for the organization. See discussion item below
 * Eugene - update on working with Dan on getting paypal set up so we can pay for Electric Embers hosting
 * Static Website - Who owns next steps for attention and improvement?
 * need to figure out how to have a diagram of our community that is understandable and clickable
 * Kaliya - Update on collecting Stewards contact information for Media call tree, etc.


 * Eugene is holding three votes
 * 1)  Dissolving the Standards, Identity Mashups and Collaboration working groups.
 * 2) Adding the proposed groups (that are ready for the vote.)
 * 3) Changing Working Groups to Action Groups.


 * Next round of voting will be for
 * 1)  Elect new Stewards Chair
 * 2) Adding proposed working groups


 * 1) Policy and Practice Questions
 * 2) Process for updating charters /notifying of charter changes

SERVICES
There has been an ongoing discussion about the desirability for the community to provide more services to action groups. Services Brainstorm. We propose to brainstorm some on this call & talk about highest priorities.

We propose an Operations Group to focus on getting core IC functionality working more smoothly and potentially bringing up some of the high priority services coming out of the Brainstorm. We see meeting weekly for the 8 weeks.