Stewards Council Telecon: 2008 July 2

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

= Attending =


 * Kaliya Hamlin
 * Mary Ruddy
 * Judi
 * Chris Allen
 * Fen Labalme
 * Bob Blakley
 * Pat Reilly
 * Chris Reynolds
 * Marty S.
 * Jeff Hodges
 * Dale Olds
 * Drummond Reed
 * Mark Lazar
 * Paul Trevithick
 * Dean
 * Bill Washburn
 * Brett M.

= 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) Things for 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 votes be scheduled?
 * 10) NEW GROUP Welcome + Updates
 * 11) I-Card Foundation
 * 12) ID-Legal
 * 13) "Kids Online" group may form to do an event post IIW
 * 14) VRM Workshop upcoming, July 14-15 at Harvard
 * 15) IIW planning/design group forming (input needed)
 * 16) Policy and Practice Questions
 * 17) Process for updating charters /notifying of charter changes
 * 18) Media Contact points - we need this - who is it? how does it work?

Static Website
(Evangelism & Marketing)
 * 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.
 * 3) Need to revise the other content that is not yet back up on the site.
 * 4) 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)
Brief Updates
 * 1) Status of Chris R's proposal for spending money (and the vetting of that proposal) (in process coming this month)
 * 2) Best practices for IPR – there is an opportunity to put forward an option for best practices. (who owns this?)
 * 3) 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? (no action forwarded to this coming month)
 * 4) Status of hiring outsourced non-profit services provider inquiries (Mary is working on this)

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.

We need volunteers.

Proposed Meeting
For all who care/can be there morning of the 16th Identity Commons meeting following VRM Workshop at Harvard. Who is going - who can make it? We could also have a dial in.

= Summary =

very rough notes to be reformatted

Eugene will get the vote out today.. Got ok to disolve the inactiv working groups.

New legal group that came out of IIW. Had second call on July 1st. Are developing an outline for goals for why the organization is being created and for a a conference. There is a wiki page that can be googled. Wnat to cross polinate between legaly trained flks and technically trained folks.

Following IIW in November a kid day. with Denise from Privo. Bob had a great idea. If wa are going to have somthing about kids on line, we should bring them along.

VRM workshop in two weeks in Boston Chris R will be there and offered to take notes

Kaliya is starting up a planning design group. She will talk about it on the list.

the marketing and evangelism charter is up for vote in the next vote.

???s is staring an informal credit card group.

Policy and practice questions

Kaliya - good to think about over the next month. Not urgent. but should think about it.

One of the challenges Eugene had about contacting different groups, is getting people to use the community list so that people know about wiki changes. So need to do it on the list and ultimately need to put it to a vote, but the big thing is that people need to be on the community list and engage people, It isn't enough to put it on the wiki.

Bob - I tried to join the list again today.. Can anyone confirm that.

Eugene in terms of IT stuff. Dan needs to check with his accountant, then he can set up a paypal account, then use it to pay for Electronic embers.

The goal is to migrate all the mailing lists over.

Media Contact: Chris Reynolds - can we just start talking and nominating? Mary and Kaliya. Eugene is happy to have any steward talk to the press. Kaliya we need a way for press to knock -have an Info a@idcommons.ne Chris moved that we be prime contacts.. Dale - this is dale It is a natural role for stewards to talk. Agree May and Kali Bob - it is important to be aware that press people arr on deadline. You can only satisfice. Need soome who can get back to the, So the best think might be a call tree. Mary - Need contact information.. Kaliya asked board already for contact info.

Mary - website thing.....

question about ecosystem picture... They always change and never reflect reality... Is there a way to make it more dynamic. Kaliya it is good to have a non text representation for people who learn thru images Judi - I would like to make it clickable. Kaliya - we will put together a group to work on this. Eugene - We should set up a group and provide time to voice input.

Chris R. Budget planning update. He offered to contact other charities for best practices.. He got cnflicting data hopes to resolve after the holidays. He hope to have the goru agree on a short list of rules.. The ball is still in Chris R's court

Chris Reynolds is the credit card person. At IIW 16 people expressed interest.

Intellectual Property Rights Bob: Best practices depend on objective.

TBD