======minutes/may_2_2008======
=====Contents=====

  * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#TAB_Meeting.2C_May_2.2C_2008|1 TAB Meeting, May 2, 2008]]
  * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Agenda|2 Agenda]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Attendees|2.1 Attendees]]
  * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Minutes|3 Minutes]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Status_Doc-fellowship|3.1 Status Doc-fellowship]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Legal_Summit|3.2 Legal Summit]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#USB_.26_PCI_SIG|3.3 USB & PCI SIG]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#Discussion_on_kernel_bugtracking|3.4 Discussion on kernel bugtracking]]
    * [[https://www.linuxfoundation.org/#OSAPA_update|3.5 OSAPA update]]

=====  TAB Meeting, May 2, 2008 =====

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=====  Agenda =====

  *  LF Fellowship Doc Writer Status.
  *  PCI/USB SIG membership.
  *  Legal summit update.
  *  OSAPA update.
  *  Discussion on kernel bugtracking
====  Attendees ====

  *  James Bottomley
  *  Arjan van de Ven
  *  Jim Zemlin
  *  Jonathan Corbet
  *  Greg Kroah-Hartman
  *  Ted Ts'o
  *  Chris Wright
=====  Minutes =====
====  Status Doc-fellowship ====

Michael Kerrist will start in one week.
====  Legal Summit ====

There wasn't a huge amount of novel stuff with the legal summit.
There was a lot of convincing corporate summit for the people who
aren't in the LF inner circle why binary modules are a bad idea.
They were taking EMC's tack which is why isn't a problem.

We should have a statement saying that binary modules are evil;
not a legal statement, but a social statement.   Greg K-H  will
draft distro and kernel maintainer on modules.
====  USB & PCI SIG ====

We only need read-only access.  Both James and Greg isn't interested
in a two-tiered access where only some kernel developers have
individual access.   Ted will talk to Dan about shifting strategies.
Two-tiered access is a non-starter; we would much rather settle for
read-only access.

Greg has similar issues with the USB SIG.

We should try to shoot for read-only access to published specs,
followed by read-only to evolving specs, and the ability to inject
suggestions into the spec should be our lowest priority.  (And given
the Rambus court decision, the last may be largely impossible.)
====  Discussion on kernel bugtracking ====

After a heated discussion on LKML, how  to make this into
productive discussion.  There is a lot of good stuff that is
happening, but it isn't being acknowledged.

TAB will have call with Andrew next week.
====  OSAPA update ====

IBM is trying to set up a trial run
of maybe 2 weeks with USPTO, using new search terms, focused in
just a few of the classifications/areas, preferably ones in which
we have open source experience/background.  One backup area of
interest is databases (open source), but we/they need to find
the right people to help with that (like MySQL or Postgres help).