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The Council Meeting on 2006-01-08
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On Sunday 2006-01-08 at 22:00 UTC, the council held a meeting on IRC[1].
There was a pre-planned agenda[2]. Greg, Julian, Mark, and Wayne were
present; Meng was absent.
Wayne's resignation from the council. Julian wanted to discuss Wayne's
resignation briefly before the council would formally accept it. He asked
Wayne whether there were any specific reasons that had caused him to
resign. Wayne answered that his main reason was his lack of motivation to
do what needed to be done as a council member, such as organizing this
meeting and preparing the agenda for it, and that he had been supposed to
write up the council's proposal for the council election procedures[3] but
had not done so, for which he apologized. Julian explained that he had
suspected that he or someone else might have annoyed Wayne and that
perhaps this had been the reason for Wayne's resignation, but Wayne
assured that this was not the case. Greg said that even if Wayne chose
not to formally resign, there were hardly any upcoming responsibilities
that Wayne could not be excused from. Julian expressed his deep regret
over Wayne's decision to leave, and he said that he considered Wayne as
having been a huge element of the council and the project, to which Wayne
replied that he did not intend to leave the project. Mark also commended
Wayne for his work for the project and added that he could only respect
his decision to resign for his lack of motivation.
Then Greg proposed that Wayne only resign as the chairman and keep his seat
in the council until the end of the term. After a short conversation
about whether or not it would have been appropriate to bring in a
replacement council member for Wayne for the remainder of the term, Julian
picked up Greg's idea and asked Wayne what he was thinking of it. Wayne
replied that if the others considered it helpful, he could resign from his
position of chairman only. Greg and Julian confirmed that they would
appreciate that. Julian remarked that he was disappointed that Meng had
not shown the council the respect of resigning months before. Finally,
Wayne moved that the council consider his resignation to be from the
position of chair only, which was promptly accepted by everyone. Julian
again thanked Wayne for his work as the chairman.
Selecting a new chair. Julian explained that a new chairman should be
selected for the remainder of the term, and, being the secretary himself,
that either Mark or Greg should be chosen, or otherwise a new secretary
would also have to be selected. He asked Mark whether he would be willing
to become the new chairman, and Mark said that he could do it. After it
was determined that it was the Executive Director[4], not the Secretary,
who was supposed to act as the Vice Chair in case of the Chair's
unavailability, Julian moved to select Mark as the new chairman for the
rest of the term. Everyone agreed and Mark accepted the appointment.
Appointing a neutral election officer for the 2006 council elections. Mark
said that he had had John Pinkerton in mind for the role of election
officer for the 2006 council elections, who had stepped forward[5] to
organizing the first council election in November 2004. But he pointed
out that Wayne, who before the start of the meeting, in the context of his
resignation, had offered to do the job, was now an option, too. Wayne
emphasized that he preferred someone else. Julian reported that only John
Pinkerton[6,7], Nick Nicholas[8], and Frank Ellermann had been nominated
or had volunteered theselves on the spf-discuss mailing list (although
Frank did not really volunteer, but Scott Kitterman did[6]). Julian
remarked that however the council was not bound to those nominees or
volunteers. He went on to report that he had contacted the three of them
the day before but had not received any confirmations so far. Wayne
pointed out that this was probably due to it being weekend, and Julian
admitted that he should have contacted them earlier. Wayne repeated that
he could act as election officer if it was required, and then Greg also
offered to assume the role, explaining that he did not intend to run for
the next council. The others gladly accepted the offer and thanked Greg,
who was thereby officially appointed.
The "Thanks for the donated domains" note on the project website. Wayne
had proposed[9] to replace the "Thanks for the donated domains" banner on
the project website by a less prominent note at the bottom of just the
front page, especially since it had been inappropriately used by search
engines as the summary of the website. The others agreed that it was time
to make the note less prominent. After a brief debate, it was unanimously
decided that the thank-you banner should be toned down at the webmasters'
discretion, but that at least a note with links to the donators on the
front page had to stay[10].
The council extends its thanks! In the very end, the council extended its
thanks to...
* the council members present, and especially Wayne Schlitt, for enabling
the sitting council to conclude its business gracefully,
* Chuck Mead for being with the council for the first half of the term
and for acting as the chair during that time,
* Greg Connor for joining the council when Chuck left,
* Meng Weng Wong for attending countless conferences while the other
council members were wasting their time with useless meetings ;-)
* Wayne Schlitt for his outstanding work on the SPFv1 specification,
* all the great folks who contributed to the project with commentary,
code, and help on the mailing lists!
The meeting was then concluded at 23:15 UTC.
Julian Mehnle,
SPF Council Secretary.
References:
1. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2006/01/08_irc_log.html#20060108T2216
2.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-council(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200601/0006.html
3. http://new.openspf.org/Council_Meeting/2005-11-20
4. http://new.openspf.org/Council_Resolution/6
5.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200411/0207.html
6.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200601/0025.html
7.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200601/0029.html
8.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200601/0033.html
9.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-webmasters(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200601/0003.html
10.
http://new.openspf.org/?action=browse&diff=1&id=Council_Resolution/14&revision=11&diffrevision=10
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