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

Table of Contents

Date

 

Attendees

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

TimeItemObjectivesWhoCommentsDecisions / ResolutionsAction Items
5minDiscuss 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? 

  • 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. 
5minIntroduce 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.

 

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

Consensus on federated governance.
 
5 minMinuet contribution update

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

Gabriele ColumbroWaiting for GS, targeting next week.

Streamline legal process:

  • CCLA embedded in Membership
  • Open Source legal working group
 
10 minFeedback on BOD meeting

 

  • General Feedback
  • Strong consensus to get Source code for the success of the Foundation
  
5 minUpcoming events
  • Symphony LLC
  • RBC 
  • BNY Meetup (August - Palo Alto)
  • Blackrock (September - London)
  • 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 minProject and Working Groups governanceDelegation 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)

  
5minAOB     

 

Deferred discussions (ESCo backlog)

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

 

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