======Minutes of the March 2015 TAB Meeting======

Present:\\         Amanda McPherson\\         Chris Mason\\         Grant Likely\\         Greg Kroah-Hartman\\         John Linville\\         Jonathan Corbet\\         Kristen Accardi\\         Matthew Garrett\\         Peter Anvin\\         Sarah Sharp\\ \\ 0) Action item review\\ \\    Grant to talk to Jim about TAB input into Linux Foundation projects:\\    this hasn't happened yet but will by the next meeting.  Grant would like\\    a presentation from Amanda or Jim on upcoming LF projects with an eye\\    toward how the TAB can help.\\ \\    Kristen to provide a new draft on the electoral process proposal: This\\    item fell off the list for a bit and the last draft has proved hard to\\    find; the TAB distributed email backup system will be used to recover it\\    and push this item forward.\\ \\ 1) The VMware lawsuit\\ \\    The Linux Foundation is looking at the action with input from Karen\\    Copenhaver.  There seemed to be general agreement that there is no need\\    for statements from the LF or the TAB; it's mostly a matter of watching\\    the case play out.\\ \\ 2) Internet trolling\\ \\    Matthew said that interest has moved from doing a developer survey\\    toward mining the commit logs for information on new developers,\\    developer retention, etc.  Jon offered his gitdm scripts just in case\\    they might prove helpful there.\\ \\    Greg has sent the "code of conflict" proposal to some 85 developers and\\    maintainers, getting something like 65 acks.  The patch adding it to the\\    documentation directory has been sent to Linus.  It was purposely not\\    posted publicly to avoid unpleasant bikeshedding discussions.  Greg is\\    working on a blog post.\\ \\    The other thing that is needed is some sort of checklist for the TAB to\\    follow describing how the response to an abuse claim should go.  Greg\\    will post a draft for discussion.\\ \\ 3) Project updates.\\ \\    Testing is "going good."  The Critical Infrastructure Initiative is also\\    going well; more proposals have come in and more money has been passed\\    on to the GPG maintainer.\\ \\    Plumbers is going well, not much news.  Three microconfs have been\\    approved so far.  Greg has dropped out of the organizing committee,\\    leading to concerns that the TAB should put forward somebody else to\\    take his place.  Jon noted that the group seems to have things pretty\\    well in hand, but no harm can come from having another TAB observer\\    there. Only a small amount of arm-twisting was required before Kristen\\    volunteered.\\ \\ 4) Public communications from the TAB\\ \\    Grant wants to put together a blog post on TAB activities as a way of\\    answering the perennial "what does the TAB actually do?" questions.\\ \\ 5) Vice chair\\ \\    Jon was re-elected for another year.