Minutes for November 11th, 2003

[David Graham - SPI Secretary]

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The following minutes were adopted (as written at the time) by the Board
of Directors on September 7th, 2004:

SPI board meeting, November 11, 2003
  Meeting opened: 19:04 UTC
  Meeting closed: 19:30 UTC

Attending:
  Benj. Mako Hill
  Bruce Perens
  Drew Streib
  Ean Schuessler
  Ian Jackson
  Martin 'Joey' Schulze
  Wichert Akkerman

Absent with regrets:
  John Goerzen

Attending SPI members:
  Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
  David Graham
  Greg Pomerantz
  Jimmy Kaplowitz
  Michelle Ribeiro
  Otavio Salvador
  Peter Palfrader

Agenda:

  1. Opening
  2. Roll call
  3. Approving minutes from previous meetings
  4. Debian trademark Brazil
  5. Date for next meeting

3. Approving minutes from previous meetings

Vote to approve the minutes of the October 14 meeting minutes:

  Bruce  : in favour
  Drew   : in favour
  Ean    : in favour
  Ian    : in favour
  Mako   : in favour
  Wichert: in favour

The minutes are accepted with six votes in favour and none against.

4. Debian trademark Brazil

As a result of the work of the trademark committee Mako proposed
resolutions
2003-11-11.bmh.1, which regulates the registration of Debian trademarks in
Brazil, and 2003-11-11.bmh.2, which regulates actions to gain control over
the debian.com.br domain.

As Wichert had already remarked in email there is no acknowledgement from
the Debian Project Leader. Ian proposed to amend 2003-11-11.bmh.1 to add
a clause to require DPL approval and add a spending limit of $700. Nobody
objected to this amendment and a vote is called for:


  Bruce  : in favour
  Drew   : in favour
  Ean    : in favour
  Ian    : in favour
  Mako   : in favour
  Wichert: in favour

Jimmy Kaplowitz noted that the resolution calls for trademarking the
official
logo which is only used rarely and not well known. Wichert added he would
like to change that since trademarking the rarely used official logo is
in his opinion not very useful and proposed to amend the resolution to
allow the DPL to choose the logo to be trademarked. Nobody objects to the
amendment.

Drew was concerned that the proposed resolution 2003-11-11.bmh.1 was
unclear
about possible expenses and could authorise a civil suit for which SPI
would
be billed. Ian proposed an amendment that adds a clause that restricts the
possible expenses for legal action to $100 subject to approval of the
Debian
Project Leader.  Nobody objects to the amendment and a vote is called:

  Bruce   : in favour
  Drew    : in favour
  Ean     : in favour
  Ian     : in favour
  Joey    : in favour
  Mako    : in favour
  Wichert : in favour

The resolution is accepted with seven votes in favour and none against.


5. Date for next meeting

The date for the next meeting is set at December 2, 19:00 UTC.

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David Graham, SPI Secretary
cdlu at spi-inc.org

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