RT/meetings/PMC Minutes 090715

Attending

• Jeff McAffer
• Mark Rogalski
• Ian Skerrett
• Thomas Watson
• Christian Campo
• Oliver Wolf
• Jochen Krause

Agenda

New Swordfish project lead

Oliver is proposing to step down as lead and nominate Zsolt as the new lead.

• Oliver has multiple roles and this seems like too much for one person
• Looking to split up the roles to move leadership
• There was some discussion around co-leadership, or how the roles should be split.
• As a result of the discussion, Oliver will go back to the project team and discuss. We will defer the vote until he comes back.

Approving own project things

There are a few instances of people self approving things. Mailing list, CQs, ...

• Jochen proposes that we formalize this a little bit and consider self-approval as a bad practice.
• Conflict of interest issues are apparent/possible
• There is a tension between openness and the knowledge of what is going on in the projects
• VOTE: "We will avoid PMC members being the sole approver for requests/votes from their own project." - Unanimously agreed to.
• Jochen to send a message to the RT PMC to report.

Logo next steps

There were some more images sent out last June.

• Looking good
• a few tweaks
  • no gradianet on letters
  • RT in different color (just ask the artist)
  • Complete top disk to see
  • Smooth the gradients on the disks from front to back just to see.
  • Also try remove all the gradients from the disks

Update on RT days

Ian is starting to reach out for sponsors on RT days

• thinking sometime in Nov
• 1-2 North American cities
• about 100 people
• looking for better idea by the next meeting
• potential for back to back event with a Modeling day

Amazon Web Services hosting

Eclipse RT in the cloud as examples

• Amazon is donating services for downloads, look to get some images running there as well.
• Put together a program to have some projects hosting examples and testbeds (e.g., scalability)
• Ian is going follow up with Amazon and get back next call