Stewards Council Telecon: 2008 July 2

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

= Attending =

= Agenda =

Community and Action Groups

 * 1) Current vote
 * 2) Dissolving the Standards, Identity Mashups and Collaboration working groups.
 * 3) Adding the proposed groups (that are ready for the vote.)
 * 4) Changing Working Groups to Action Groups.
 * 5) Next vote
 * 6) Approve budget proposal from Chris.
 * 7) Elect new Stewards Chair.
 * 8) Subsequent votes
 * 9) When will more working groups be ready for the vote?  How often should these vogtes be scheduled?

Static Website

 * 1) Started process of updating and publishing content before ICF press attention.
 * 2) Need to continue to update and reformat based on feedback.  Thanks for feedback, keep it coming.   # Need to revise the other content that is not yet back up on the site.
 * 3) Have ecosystem picture professionally redrawn after the next vote.

IT Infrastructure

 * 1) Electric Embers hosting status update (in time for use by new groups and email forwarding cutover). (Mary to follow up with Identity Gang stewards about moving the Identity Gang mailing list over to open list with IC mail address after have new service in place.)

Other Community Processes (from informal Stewards meeting at IIW)

 * 1) Status of Chris R's proposal for spending money (and the vetting of that proposal) –
 * 2) Status of hiring outsourced non-profit services provider.
 * 3)  Best practices for IPR – there is an opportunity to put forward an option for best practices.
 * 4)  Next steps for formalizing mentoring new groups. Kaliya to provide best practices.  Eugene and Mary have volunteered to help. Can we put this in a wiki?
 * 5) There has been an ongoing discussion about desirability for the community to provide more services to action groups.

= Summary =

TBD