Steering Group Telecon - June 16th 2009

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Announcement

WHAT: Steering Group Teleconference
WHEN: Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 21:00 - 22:00 UTC
* San Francisco: 2pm
* Boston: 5pm
* London: 10pm
* Berlin: 11pm
* Sydney: 7am (June 17th)
* Time Zone Chart: [http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=16&year=2009&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=0&sort=2]
* Countdown to call: [http://timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=6&day=16&year=2009&hour=21&min=00&sec=00&p0=0]

WHO: Open to any contributors
WHERE:
* Skype: +9900827043965594
* Dial-Up: 1-201-793-9022 Room Code: 3965594
* Back Channel: [http://snipr.com/dp_steering_skype]

PRE WORK:
* Review Minutes: (see below dates to review)

PROPOSED AGENDA:

• Introductions
• Approval of Previous Minutes:
  • May 19th : http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/ogBn
  • June 2nd : http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/pQBn
• Task Forces Updates:
  • Legal Entity (Steve R.) [1 min]
  • EULA and TOS (Steve G.) [5 min]
  • Healthcare Taskforce (Anthony)
• Action Groups Updates:
  • Communications (Alisa) [5 min]
  • Governance Advisory link (Steve R.) [1 min]
• Additional Discussion
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Minutes

ATTENDEES:
Real Name (Skype Name) + denotes a voting member

• Daniela Barbosa (medanielabarbosa) +
• Brady Brim-DeForest (bradybd) +
• Elias Bizannes (elias.bizannes) +
• Steve Greenberg (greenbes) +
• Drummond Reed (drummondreed) +
• Steve Repetti (steve.repetti) +
• Christian Scholz (herrtopf) +
• Steve Williams (sbwilliams) +
• Phil Wolff (evanwolf) +

APPOLOGIES:
Real Name (Skype Name) [+ denotes a voting member]

• Dan Brickley +
• Anthony-Broad Crawford +
• Chris Saad(chrissaad) +

ABSENT:
Real Name (Skype Name) [+ denotes a voting member]

MEETING MINUTES:

• Introductions
  • Meeting started on schedule, quorum recognized
• Approval of Previous Minutes:
  • May 19th : http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/ogBn APPROVED
  • June 2nd : http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/pQBn APPROVED
• Task Forces Updates:
  • Legal Entity (Steve R.)
    • DPP is having difficulty securing E&O Insurance due to the small size of the organization
      • Daniela to touch base with Perkins Coie to see if they can intervene
      • Steve R to reach out to previous Texas vendor
  • EULA and TOS (Steve G.)
    • Draft document proceeding slowly (complicated material), but making progress
      • Plan to reach out to Identity Commons Law Group for review
      • Invite Lior from Perkins Coie to review
  • Healthcare Taskforce (Anthony)
    • Not present, Daniela to follow-up
• Action Groups Updates:
  • Governance Advisory link (Steve R.)
    • Plan to consolidate governance framework and make available to all community members
  • Communications (Alisa)
    • Chris Saad to resign as Chair of Communications TF
    • Alisa appointed new Chair
    • Discussed TF Member participation
      • Who can vote
      • Requirements for participation
      • In general, must be active engaged to participate in policy; trying to convert "casual" participation to "active" association
    • Analysts are now part of the Communications Call (instead of separate)
      • 2 Analysts participated in last call
    • Reviewed Communications Road Map
    • Establish "ownership" of communications channels
      • Twitter, DP, FB, Groups, etc.
        • Create (update) MASTER USER/PASSWORD List; access to:
          • DPP Chair, Committee Chair, Channel Owner, and DPP Secretary
          • Need PUBLIC-FACING channel view for web assets; plus admin page
          • Currently at: ASSETS & SERVICES LIST http://wiki.dataportability.org/x/LYIj
    • Define Metrics for Success
• Additional Discussion
  • DPP Website discussion
    • Brady has reached out to the Open Source Lab for hosting of the DPP website
    • Daniela is working with Faraday (Ash Angell) for domain issues
      • Point grid.dataportability.org to the grid project
      • Transfer the data portability domain to the DPP organization
        • Thanks to Faraday Communications for hosting services!
    • Still need a THANK YOU/RECOGNITION page on the DPP site:
      • Atlassian for the wiki
      • Faraday for hosting, domain, and so much more
      • Perkins Coie for legal assistance
  • Drummond engaged in conversation regarding OpenID Foundation/Open Card and the US Government
    • [ADDITIONAL NOTES PENDING DISCLOSURE AUTHORIZATION]
    • Drummond and Elias to touch base re: US/UK/AU

• • Daniela was attending CenTec conference
    • Organized DPP meet-up; 50-60 in attendance!
    • Chris Saad was on the panel
    • DP continues to come up in all topics/conversations
      • DP part of conversations regarding the semantic web

• • Elias is moving to San Francisco, USA
    • To manage accounting and finance for search engine: www.vast.com
  • Daniela & Elias to plan the next Quarterly Plenary meeting

MOTIONS PASSED:
none

Conference call recording, back channel transcript
* Listen: (available for 30 days) https://www.hidefconferencing.com/wav/conf268933_2585228.mp3

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* Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 21:00 UTC

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