AB Meeting/January 2014 Minutes
Attendees
- Lars Kurth (Citrix, chair)
- Mike Dolan (Linux Foundation)
- Sarah Conway (Linux Foundation)
- Ian Pratt (Bromium, voting)
- Mark Hinkle (Citrix, voting)
- James Bulpin (Citrix)
- Demetrios Coulis (CA, voting)
- Daniel Kiper (Oracle, voting)
- Matt Wilson (Amazon Web Services, voting)
- Richard Phelan (ARM, voting)
- Don D Dugger (Intel, voting)
- Sherry Hurwitz (AMD, voting)
7 organizations with voting representatives : we had a quorum
Referred to documents
[1] Xen project Budget v4 (attached) – this is the same document as version 2, with some additions: I added a column with approval status as per today’s meeting
Actions
Action Lars: Ask for input from Russell and update budget spreadsheet for January meeting {{done, see [1]}}
Action Lars: Ask for PR services contract and share with AB
Update: as the Xen Project is no legal entity, there would be no contract. We were given wrong information in the previous meeting. Accountability would be achieved through monthly reporting and PR plans, that would be reviewed by the AB
Confirmed with Sherry Hurwitz that this is acceptable
Collaboration Summit
Checked briefly as to who had plans to attend the LF Collaboration Summit Confirmed: Mark Hinkle, Lars Maybe: Sherry, Richard
Action Lars: Check whether any more AB members are planning to attend to verify whether there is momentum for a face-2-face meeting
Chairmanship of March Meeting
Lars cannot chair/attend the meeting as he is travelling that day.
Action Lars: Find AB member who is willing to chair the March meeting
Agenda
- Budget status/approval
- Attached v4 of preliminary budget
- This includes a new item as requested by Mark Hinkle : line item called Website Development Work based on a quote by cloudaccess.net
- Intel, AMD were going to raise issues related to the Test Framework budget line item
- Added update on Verizon, Samsung and Rackspace status
- The Linux Foundation has assigned Sarah Conway to the Xen Project as PR manager. I had an initial meeting with Sarah on Jan 6th. Sarah will be putting a PR plan together and we will engage the AB at every step of the way. Sarah is also on the call. I did attach the latest media report.
- RedHat/CentOS announcement: I have been asked by RedHat to endorse this move on behalf of the Advisory Board. Before I do so, I need to get your input. I was also asked to apply for SIG status (see SIG) within CentOS)
- We also need to get clarity on Calxeda membership based on the news : I have not had time to follow up unfortunately
Budget
Remaining items as outlined in attached document are approved
| Item | Total in USD | Percentage of total | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operational | 6,900.00 | 2% | Approved in December Advisory Board meeting |
| AR/PR | 115,000.00 | 27% | Approved in December Advisory Board meeting |
| Supporting the Developer Community | 70,725.00 | 17% | Approved in December Advisory Board meeting |
| General Marketing | 21,850.00 | 5% | Approved in December Advisory Board meeting |
| Website Development Work | 17,250.00 | 4% | Approved in January Advisory Board meeting |
| Test Framework | 190,612.50 | 45% | Approved in January Advisory Board meeting |
We covered some of the potential practical issues such as COLO and Hardware, as some AB members indicated that they may have concerns in the December meeting.
No concerns raised during the January meeting
Xen SIG in CentOS
RedHat/CentOS announcement : I have been asked by RedHat to endorse this move on behalf of the Advisory Board. Before I do so, I need to get your input.
The board in principle did not object that the Xen Project would endorse the RedHat / CentOS announcement
Update: after discussing with Sarah Conway (Linux Foundation) and Karanbir Singh (RedHat/CentOS lead), we came to the conclusion that an endorsement for an endorsements sake makes little sense. To continue Xen in CentOS, we need to create a formal SIG within CentOS and get CentOS board approval. This is ongoing. Agreed with CentOS to wait with any PR/statement until there is something more positive to say. Also the relationships between the proposed CentOS hosting and cloud SIGs as well as the Xen/Virtualization SIGs need to be better understood.
Calxeda
Action Mike Dolan: Mike will follow up on Calxeda membership status
AR/PR
Action Sarah: Share 6 month PR plan for review before next meeting Template:Done
