[infrastructure] Infrastructure Minutes from Jan 5th call

[Terri Molini]

Create an e-mail list for comments from members (only). Comments would be
visible to anyone but to comments would only be for members. (Ean
Schuessler)

Topic: Call for Comment regarding the Principles document upon which the
OSFA's report card will be based. (Report Card team)

Location of draft document: opensourceforamerica.org/draft-principles (Terri
Molini)

Comments: Input from all members as a mail list. (Collaboration) (ALL)

Editors: (Ean Schuessler)
. Gunnar Hellekson
. Chris Hankin
. Tom Rabon
. Bruce Mehlman
. John Scott

- Subteam:
. Melanie Chernoff
. Terri Molini
. Ean Schuessler
. Josh Berkus


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Draft email (still to be finalized): (Chris Hankin)

For some time now, the OSFA Steering Committee has been considering an OSFA
deliverable for 2010: a grading or report card on the various US government
agencies and their policies and practices as regards open source software
and openness more generally. (By openness, we intend the same meaning as the
Obama Administration: transparency, participation, and collaboration.)

With the Administration's issuance last month of its Open Government
Directive <http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/documents/open-government-directive>,
we quickly came to agreement that this is a project that should go forward,
but with a new twist. We would first like to issue a set of "Principles for
Open Government Plans," to help guide the different agencies as they each
seek to publish their mandated Open Government Plan by the April 7th due
date. Our expectation would be to issue this set of principles the first
week of February, thus providing the agencies with sufficient time to take
it into account.

Please help us write the OSFA “Principles for Open Government Plans.” Go to
xxxxx, log in, and join the discussion. We have supplied a first draft,
which we expect the OSFA community to significantly improve. We are opening
this discussion today; and will close it on January 29th.

Following publication of our principles, we will then begin work on a set of
metrics/questions that we would intend to use to grade the agencies
following the April 7th launch of their Open Government Plans.

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

OSFA Steering Committee

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Attendees:
Tom Rabon
Terri Molini
Ean Schuessler
Josh Berkus
Elizabeth Ziph


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Terri Molini <tmolini at aol.com> wrote:

> Happy New Year everyone. I hope your holiday season was all that you had
> hoped. We have a very strategic meeting today and would like to be sure that
> folks are dialing into the call.
>
>
>  Agenda:
> . We will be sending an Email to all members on Friday 8 Jan 2010 regarding
> input to the principles.
> . Need need to discuss the work that has been accomplished and any that
> still needs to be completed between now and Friday to support the effort.
>
>
>  Our call today is at 4:00pm ET / 3:00pm CT / 1:00pm PT
>
>  (866) 839-8189
> 394-0011#
>
>  Best regards,
> terri and the infrastructure team
>
>  _________________________________________________
>
>  Minutes from last meeting:
> Attendees:
>
>  Terri
> Mel
> Elizabeth
> Ean
>
>  Ean gave a tour/tutorial of the new platform.
> dev.opensourceforamerica.org/partymgr
>  - Calendar
>  - Events
>  - Roles
>
>  Ean to create screen casts of the pages and functionality.
>
>  Our last meeting of the 2009 calendar year will be next *Tuesday 15 Dec*.
> We will then resume our calls on Tuesday 5 Jan 2010.
>
>  That is it for the week....
>
>  Best,
> Terri
>


-- 
Terri Molini
(415) 480-4355

Support the use of open source software, it could save the U.S. federal
government billions of dollars annually.
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