Discussion about new "Admin organizer" internal-use website for managing tasks, admin votes, etc.
Some discussion took place about possibly organizing a physical "admin gathering" somewhere.
Michael Lotz has volunteered, and is currently a primary candidate for "Project management" type tasks.
Mention of the need to assign/complete the Haiku, Inc. 2006 financial publication.
Discussed Haiku Compatible Badges:
It appears many are currently in favor of Stephan's designs.
Mention of possible "Haiku powered" or "Haiku inside" on a badge.
Should open-vote be used similar to the icon sets? Further discussion about decision will be moved to Admin mailing list.
Currently collecting all the "entries" from the General Mailing List.
Some WalterCon scheduling options discussed:
Discussed what types of content should be provided for attendees.
Reminder of survey results. (Ed note: Survey should now be closed as of June 1, 2007)
Note that most attendees could fall into "User" and "Application Developer" categories.
Possibly an audio driver API presentation?
Discussion about Haiku Compatibility List:
Should it remain as an external site - or try to move it to the official site?
If hosted internally, should it still be primarily a community-driven effort? This would probably ensure it remains up-to-date.
Karl should be contacted to discuss options.
Discussed possibility of opening a "bounties" section on the official site:
Bounties should be reasonable.
Could both Haiku-sponsored bounties and community-initiated bounties be supported? If yes, they should be clearly separated to avoid confusion about sponsorship.
That wraps it up for the May 28, 2007 meeting. I would like to remind readers that any official discussion about the decisions made by the Haiku Admins should be directed to the General Mailing List. Any mistakes in this summary may be posted in the comments if desired or you may use my contact page.
Admins discussed OpenBFS Team broadening - it has currently been renamed to File System Team and should probably include all file system-related aspects of Haiku.
There was some further discussion about other OSS projects and their similar struggles with "Openness" - Mozilla's recent scrutiny was cited as an example.
There was a request for any final comments on the list of non-dev/non-admin tasks posted on the Admin mailing list.
It was discussed that the Admin mailing list needs to be relocated - and preferably self-hosted on the Haiku-os.org server.
It was mentioned that once the current T-shirt supply is exhausted, they will be looking for a new store/shop to create the next round of T-shirts (and possibly other merchandise). The hunt is on for high-quality shops cheaper than Cafepress - with the company that Mozilla currently uses as a possible prospect.
The Admins discussed adopting a new method for managing meeting agendas in the future.
That wraps it up for the May 21, 2007 meeting. I would like to remind readers that any official discussion about the decisions made by the Haiku Admins should be directed to the General Mailing List. Any mistakes in this summary may be posted in the comments if desired or you may use my contact page.
The decision to summarize and publish regular Haiku Admin meetings is a step being taken to improve transparency and openness largely as a result of recent and past community feedback on the mailing list. Additionally, there has been an Admin Team Page provided with some details about the current membership and responsibilities of the Haiku Admin Team. Haiku Admin Meeting 2007-05-14:
The meeting started off with a reminder to subscribe to the new Haiku Development Mailing List if any attendees had not done so yet.
