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Jul 3, 2013, 4:10 PM
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+1 to Alice and Sabina.
regards,
AlanClark
>>> On 7/3/2013 at 09:10 AM, "Mark Collier" <mark [at] openstack> wrote:
> I also wanted to take the opportunity to thank Alice King for all of her
> contributions to OpenStack over the years.
>
> Many of you may know that she led the drafting committee, who helped craft
> our bylaws, as well as leading the legal affairs committee after the
> Foundation was formed.
>
> However, you may not be aware that she was instrumental in the early stages
> of openstack, even before it had a name (she helped us with the name, in
> fact) including the search for a suitable license (Apache 2.0 ftw!). While
> I'm at it I'll give a shout out to Sabina Jausovec who also did a huge amount
> of work to support OpenStack from a legal perspective.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, June 28, 2013 7:10am, "Jonathan Bryce" <jonathan [at] openstack>
> said:
>
>
>
>> Yesterday, the Foundation Board of Directors held another telephone meeting.
> The
>> agenda for the meeting can be found on the wiki:
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/27June2013BoardMeeting
>>
>> The first action item was approving a minor amendment to the Foundation's
>> Certificate of Incorporation to correct an error in the 10th article
> covering the
>> disposal of assets should the Foundation corporate entity ever be dissolved.
> The
>> Board unanimously approved the amendment.
>>
>> After that, Lauren Sell briefly introduced a draft Transparency Policy that
> she
>> had been working on with our legal counsel and the Transparency Committee.
> There
>> will be a mailing list discussion to finalize the Policy before it's
> adopted. Next
>> Lauren and Mark Collier provided an update on the November summit in Hong
> Kong as
>> well as some of the preliminary venue searches for the 2014 summits. They
> also
>> discussed the activities of the Marketing Community
>> (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing). If you
> are
>> involved in marketing with an OpenStack organization, I'd encourage you to
> join
>> the Marketing Community and help out with some of the initiatives that are
>> underway there.
>>
>> Alice King, Nissa Strottman and Steve Pentlicki of the Legal Affairs
> Committee led
>> a discussion on potential options for patent cooperation among OpenStack
>> organizations. Board members are going to follow up with their individual
> legal
>> and IP departments to provide feedback on the options presented. The Board
>> approved adding Van Lindberg to the Legal Affairs Committee to replace Alice
> King
>> who is stepping down as she starts her own law practice. Many thanks to
> Alice, who
>> has provided legal guidance for OpenStack since the very beginning and was a
>> leader of the drafting committee last year as the Foundation was
> established.
>>
>> As the meeting wrapped up, the Board had brief updates on the continuing
>> discussion around definition of core and status updates on a number of other
> items
>> that are being scheduled for discussion at the next Board meetings.
>>
>> The next Board meeting is scheduled for August 6th at 9:00am PDT/1600 UTC.
>>
>> Jonathan
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