Re: Board Report due within the half of January

Posted by David E Jones-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Board-Report-due-within-the-half-of-January-tp176188p176189.html


Jacopo,

That's great, thank you for taking the time to start this summary.

As I understand it I am ultimately responsible for reporting to the  
board, so I'll start with this take care of the rest. They have  
automated notices for these, which is pretty cool, and I have already  
received the one for the January report. I'll be reviewing the  
instructions related to that, and it will be interesting doing our  
first report... Just as in the incubator it looks like we will have  
one report per month for the first 3 months, and then once each  
quarter after that.

On a side note, thanks again Jacopo for your efforts in keeping the  
incubation status page updated, and in taking care of the reporting  
during the incubation process. I welcome your continued involvement  
in this and as I go through the first pass I'll look for a way to  
make this more collaborative, perhaps using a page on docs.ofbiz.org  
to maintain draft reports and comments.

BTW, the Developers Conference is not really an official ASF  
conference or event, but rather just an event that Hotwax is  
sponsoring in order to further collaboration and help move the  
community forward and so on. In the past the Users Conferences have  
been similar: someone in the community proposes the conference and  
coordinates it with others in the community and simply invites any  
who would like to attend. Going forward we plan to continue  
similarly, and of course in addition to any such events also  
participate in ApacheCon and where possible other things such as  
OSCON, etc.

-David


On Jan 7, 2007, at 1:02 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is just a reminder for the Status Reports that the OFBiz PMC  
> has to prepare and submit to the ASF Board within the half of this  
> month (the Board meeting is scheduled, if I'm not wrong, in  
> 2007-01-17, Wed).
>
> This is our first report as a TLP and I think we have a lot of  
> things to log; here is just a draft:
>
> Exiting from Incubator:
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the creation of new DNS  
> entry for ofbiz.apache.org (done)
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the web  
> site (done)
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the Jira  
> issue tracker (done)
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the svn  
> server (done)
> *) updated all the resources of the ASF site to refer to OFBiz as a  
> TLP; submitted request to the projects.apache.org to be listed  
> there, still waiting
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the mailing  
> lists (pending)
> *) interaction with Infrastructure for the migration of the
>
> Community:
> *) a lot of activity in the user and dev mailing lists
> *) public discussion and plans for a new release happening in early  
> 2007; the idea is to issue one realease per year (TODO: add more  
> details)
> *) the task of cleaning up the project website and documentation  
> has been started
> *) plans for a Developers Conference (TODO: add more details)
>
> Unfortunately I will not have time to prepare the report so this  
> draft is just my small contribution to it.
>
> Jacopo
>