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2016-07-19 - ESCo - Meeting agenda / minutes

2016-07-19 - ESCo - Meeting agenda / minutes

Nov 15, 2017

Table of Contents

Date

Jul 19, 2016 

Attendees

Member

Organization

Present / Absent

@Michael Harmon

Symphony

Absent

@john.stecher@barclays.com

Goldman Sachs

Absent

@Lawrence Miller (Deactivated)

Symphony

Present

Gabriele Columbro [Administrator]

Symphony Software Foundation

Present

@Former user (Deleted)

Markit

Present

@Former user (Deleted)

Credit Suisse

Absent

@Peter Monks (observer)

Symphony Software Foundation

Present

@Maurizio Pillitu

Symphony Software Foundation

Present

Action points from previous meeting

This is a record of items to be discussed in this meeting:

@Michael Harmon to provide a sprint #39 update and roadmap for impacts on the Foundation

@Gabriele Columbro: Have a separate meeting with the ESCo/then Members to discuss scope for the Legal / open Source readiness WG (including @Aaron Williamson)
@Peter Monks: To work on Project Governance, as discussed previously on ESCo (how to retract projects if not active, at least 2 committers on a project, adding commiters to the project, how to transition in product lifecycle, how to retire a project, project reporting requirements)
@Peter Monks: To work on Working Groups Governance  (how to act on Working Gorups if not active, adding new Members to Working Group, working group reporting requirements, working group success measurements) and connection with projects
@Gabriele Columbro: add agenda items for Working Groups improvements.

Agenda

Time

Item

Objectives

Who

Comments

Decisions / Resolutions

Action Items

Time

Item

Objectives

Who

Comments

Decisions / Resolutions

Action Items

5min

Discuss Internal Symphony LLC Hackathon (and other events)

Discuss the Contribution process to apply for such event.

Develop directly in SymphonyOSS github or start with personal githubs? 

@Maurizio Pillitu

  • 18/07 to 8/08 - LLC hack-a-thon

  • Options

    • Personal Github

    • In SSF repo directly

    • Create a /Labs

Consensus on a Labs folder prior to CONTRIB (to lower barrier) assuming ICLA/CCLA is in place.

 

5min

Introduce proposed new Working Group members

Proposing to add

  • Matt Garder (Blackrock) and Nick Kolba (OpenFin) to Desktop Wrapper WG

  • Nick Kolba (OpenFin) to the Financial Objects Standardization WG.

To be approved by the respective WGs.

@Peter Monks

 

Add people to the WG roster on the wiki, get chair to add to ML and send welcome.

Consensus on federated governance.

 

5 min

Minuet contribution update

Waiting on GS. @john.stecher@barclays.com any news?

@Gabriele Columbro

Waiting for GS, targeting next week.

Streamline legal process:

  • CCLA embedded in Membership

  • Open Source legal working group

 

10 min

Feedback on BOD meeting

 

@Former user (Deleted) / @Lawrence Miller (Deactivated) /
@Michael Harmon

  • General Feedback

  • Strong consensus to get Source code for the success of the Foundation

 

 

5 min

Upcoming events

  • Symphony LLC

  • RBC 

  • BNY Meetup (August - Palo Alto)

  • Blackrock (September - London)


@Gabriele Columbro

  • @Former user (Deleted):

    • majority of developers wanted to get hands on the code.

    • Keeping preso to the minimum.

    • Have dev experience ready end-to-end in advance

    • Find participants that have their own environment (to enable cross-firm communication)

 

 

5 min

Project and Working Groups governance

Delegation and federation, while ESCo retaining veto / retracting rights on Project / Working Groups

 

@Lawrence Miller (Deactivated): Agree with delegation but ESCo should retain fundamental power

@Peter Monks: Agreed

@Gabriele Columbro: Delegate, but retain coarse grained veto / revert power and measure (through periodical reporting)

 

 

5min

AOB

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred discussions (ESCo backlog)

The following discussions have been deferred to the next meeting(s) - in decreasing priority order: