Draft minutes for November 11 meeting

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Wichert.

SPI board meeting, November 11, 2003
Meeting opened: 19:04 UTC
Meeting closed: 19:30 UTC

Attending:
Bruce Perens
Drew Streib
Ean Schuessler
Ian Jackson
Martin 'Joey' Schulze
Wichert Akkerman

Absent with regrets:
John Goerzen

Attending SPI members:
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
David Graham
Greg Pomerantz
Jimmy Kaplowitz
Michelle Ribeiro
Otavio Salvador

Agenda:

1. Opening
2. Roll call
3. Approving minutes from previous meetings
4. Debian trademark Brazil
5. Date for next meeting

3. Approving minutes from previous meetings

Vote to approve the minutes of the October 14 meeting minutes:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert: in favour

The minutes are accepted with six votes in favour and none against.

4. Debian trademark Brazil

As a result of the work of the trademark committee Mako proposed resolutions
2003-11-11.bmh.1, which regulates the registration of Debian trademarks in
Brazil, and 2003-11-11.bmh.2, which regulates actions to gain control over
the debian.com.br domain.

As Wichert had already remarked in email there is no acknowledgement from
the Debian Project Leader. Ian proposed to amend 2003-11-11.bmh.1 to add
a clause to require DPL approval and add a spending limit. Nobody objected
to this amendment and a vote is called for:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert: in favour

Jimmy Kaplowitz noted that the resolution calls for trademarking the official
logo which is only used rarely and not well known. Wichert added he would
like to change that since trademarking the rarely used official logo is
in his opinion not very useful and proposed to amend the resolution to
allow the DPL to choose the logo to be trademarked. Nobody objects to the
amendment.

Drew was concerned that the proposed resolution 2003-11-11.bmh.1 was unclear
about possible expenses and could authorise a civil suite for which SPI
would be billed. Ian proposed an amendment that adds a clause that restricts
the possible expenses to $100 subject to approval of the Debian Project Leader.
Nobody objects to the amendment and a vote is called:

Bruce : in favour
Drew : in favour
Ean : in favour
Ian : in favour
Joey : in favour
Mako : in favour
Wichert : in favour

The resolution is accepted with seven votes in favour and none against.

5. Date for next meeting

The date for the next meeting is set at December 2, 19:00 UTC.

--
Wichert Akkerman <wichert(at)wiggy(dot)net> It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.