[Tinyos-alliance] 7/11 Meeting notes

[David E. Culler]

Attendance:
   David Culler
   Jack Stankovic
   Adam Wolicz
   Phil Levis

Topic 1: Approval of the two-page overview.  Drafts and edits sent 
around over last couple of weeks.
     The attached overview is appoved - so holler right away if you have 
any issues with it.  It will be posted on the working group page.  Each 
of the WG were to select a set of organizations that they were going to 
engage.  Please send those around and send this out.

Topic 2: Exercising the steering committee function of ushering TEPs 
from draft to Final
     We agreed that the Alliance WG would provide this function till a 
proper steering committee is in place.  Following the Govindan proposal 
in the TEP, the committee should assign a Review Organizer to each TEP 
that is ready to move from draft to final.  That person would be 
responsible for conducting the review process and should not be a member 
of the WG forwarding the TEP.  They would solicit public comment, 
analysis by experts, or other forms of feedback as they see fit.  The 
TOS2 group has forwarded three such TEPs.  We took the liberty of 
proposing review organizers to establish this precedent.

TEP 101 ADC:     Jack
TEP 102 Timer:   Deborah
TEP 103 Storage: Ramesh

Will you be so kind as to accept.  I will work with Kristin to 
facilitate the public solicitation through tinyos.net, sourceforge, and 
the development mailing lists.  We hope to have feedback to the working 
group in 30 days.

Topic 3: Creation of the non-profit

WSGR has agreed to do the legal work pro bono.
Adam agreed to assist me in the process.
We will have a large number of specific issues to resolve, we will do 
this by email.  (Please chime in.)
I will try to organize this as a secquence of specific email threads.

We will end up creating two primary documents: Articles of Incorporation 
and ByLaws.  The first is short and most basic, as it is hardest to 
change.  The Bylaws lay out most of the processes for conducting 
ourselves.  Most of what we have discussed in the working group meetings 
will end up turning into legalese there.  In addition, there are some 
fairly hefty state and federal forms.

I have provided a set of samples articles/bylaws on the web pages.  They 
run the spectrum from lightweight legal structure centered on individual 
participation to heavy weight indutrial organizations where $s translate 
into control.  We will tackle a family of key questions in follow-up 
threads:

1. Which organization is the closest to what we have in mind, so it can 
serve as a template.
2. What should be the composition of the Board of Directors / Trustees?  
What characteristics define the suite of people we would like to have?  
Who are exmples?
3. Initial officers.  We need at least President, Sec, Treasurer.
4. What is the actual name?



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