Stef,

I forwarded your request to the board.

This report is about the meeting on the 17th, you sent the mail on  
the 21st. Due to general shortage of time-machines around here I  
didn't send it in time for the last meeting. ;-)

Next meeting will be first Wednesday of February, which is the 7th.  
I'll be on vacation at that time, but as I wrote, I forwarded it, and  
the other guys can deal with it accordingly.

- Bert -

On Jan 25, 2007, at 16:29 , stephane ducasse wrote:

> Hi board members,
>
> I have sent an email related to Bert but apparently he did not  
> mention it.
>
> So this is a point for your next discussion:
> 	- how can we consolidate the effort of the relicensing?
> 	Will we accept code in 3.10 by people that did not sign the MIT  
> agreement?	I hope not.
> 	How can the release team access this information? Do we have a  
> list available?
> 	How a squeaker can sign such an agreement if he was not originally  
> contacted?
> 	A suggestion for ViewPoint: I would be nice to be able to have  
> scanned copies
> 	of the licenses somewhere on the foundation server too.
>
>
> Stef
>
> On 25 janv. 07, at 01:47, Craig Latta wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all--
>>
>>      The Squeak Foundation board meets online for one hour on the  
>> first
>> and third Wednesday of each month. Thanks again to those of you  
>> who have
>> submitted agenda item suggestions[1]. Please keep them coming!
>>
>>      At the 2007-01-17 meeting, Bert, Craig, Marcus, Tim, and Yoshiki
>> attended; Cees was absent. The meeting had seven agenda items.
>>
>> 1.   Review previous action items.
>>
>>           There was one action item from the previous meeting.
>>
>>      1.1. Craig will continue the incorporation process.
>>
>>           The first big decision we need to make is our state of
>>      incorporation in the United States. Under US IRS requirements we
>>      need to have a legal physical presence in that state.  
>> Practically,
>>      this means we can either use a state in which one of us live, or
>>      pay a third party to maintain that presence for us (typically
>>      Delaware). I'm the only one on the current board who even  
>> lives in
>>      the US, and I live in California. Given the expense and possible
>>      complication of hiring a third party, the likelihood of future
>>      Squeak Foundation board members from California, and the fact  
>> that
>>      Viewpoints Research Institute is there as well, we decided to
>>      incorporate in California.
>>
>>           Stay tuned.
>>
>> 2.   Discuss pricing of Squeak badges and other fundraising details.
>>
>>      Tim awaits an official fresh quote from the badge  
>> manufacturer. In
>> the meantime, he will set up a group of people from the community to
>> help with order fulfillment (storage, payment, and shipping). We  
>> decided
>> that using a third party for that was financially prohibitive  
>> given the
>> cost of goods. We currently anticipate a cost of USD 1.80 per badge,
>> offered with USD 5 "general" donations (for a silver badge) and  
>> USD 50
>> "gold" donations (for a gold badge).
>>
>>      Marcus will retire the old donations web presence, along with  
>> the
>> rest of the old Squeak Foundation site, and create a new one.
>>
>>      We don't anticipate that fundraising activity will reach full  
>> speed
>> until we've incorporated and gained tax-exempt status.
>>
>> 3.   Cees will report on the state of the Squeak wiki (apparently,
>>      at least as of 2007-01-11, it has been successfully moved from
>>      Georgia Tech to wiki.squeak.org).
>>
>>      Cees wasn't present, but it does seem that the move was  
>> successful.
>>
>> 4.   Consider Chris Cunnington's proposal for a public relations
>>      team.
>>
>>      The board was unanimous: go for it, Chris!
>>
>> 5.   Start the next election process.
>>
>>      Yoshiki, as board liaison to the Elections team, will ask  
>> Daniel to
>> get things going.
>>
>> 6.   List the current action items.
>>
>>      6.1. Craig will continue the incorporation process.
>>
>>      6.2. Tim will report the official badges quote and create a  
>> badges
>>           fulfillment team.
>>
>>      6.3. Marcus will retire the old Squeak Foundation site, and  
>> create
>>           a new one (or at least an up-to-date way to donate to the
>>           Foundation).
>>
>> 7.   List the next meeting's agenda items.
>>
>>      7.1. Review previous action items.
>>
>>      7.2. Craig will report on code contributor response to VPRI's
>>           relicensing message. (Notices have been sent to all known
>>           contributors[2]. If you've received a notice, please  
>> respond
>>           as per its instructions, if you haven't already. If we  
>> missed
>>           you, please let me know.)
>>
>>
>>      thanks again,
>>
>> -C
>>
>> [1] http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/64.html
>> [2] http://netjam.org/squeak/contributors
>>
>> -- 
>> Craig Latta
>> http://netjam.org/resume
>>
>>
>>
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