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#mer-meeting: Mer advisory board 18/5/2012
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Meeting started by lbt at 11:00:40 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://mer.bfst.de/meetings/mer-meeting/2012/mer-meeting.2012-05-18-11.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* LINK:
  http://mer.bfst.de/meetings/mer-meeting/2012/mer-meeting.2012-04-20-11.03.log.html
  if that matches with your perception of it :) (just a formalism)
  (Stskeeps, 11:06:24)
* LINK: http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Donation_Policy   (lbt,
  11:09:41)
* Project news  (lbt, 11:10:44)
  * Mer BoF accepted for Devaamo summit,
    http://www.mail-archive.com/mer-general@lists.merproject.org/msg00487.html
    (Stskeeps, 11:11:17)
  * New Mer release, first one hitting intended date for a while:
    http://www.mail-archive.com/mer-general@lists.merproject.org/msg00503.html
    (Stskeeps, 11:11:43)
  * Now includes basic modules of Qt5, though some remain, 5.0-alpha1
    (Stskeeps, 11:11:58)
  * Few of Mer project members went to Tizen developer conference, had
    good discussions with people we share components with and interests
    (Stskeeps, 11:12:25)
  * OSUOSL have said "We are definitely interested in hosting the Mer
    project"  (lbt, 11:16:06)
  * We have our first donations too - Thanks to Martin Brook / vgrade
    who will be sponsoring a physical host for us (which is much needed)
    (lbt, 11:16:36)

* Nomination for Esa-Pekka Miettinen (E-P) as Mer QA Technical Lead
  (lbt, 11:17:42)
  * AGREED: E-P is now Mer QA technical lead (lbt, sage, jbos,
    jukkaeklund voted yes)  (Stskeeps, 11:22:07)

* Discussion and selection of advisory board lengths  (lbt, 11:23:16)
  * agreed: Current term extended to 1. june, for purpose of nominating
    last contributions and compositing next advisory board based on
    input of technical leads, interest groups and maintainers, and a
    vote before that on term length, 3 or 6 months  (lbt, 11:35:52)

* Discussion how to proceed with selection of next advisory board :
  skipped  (lbt, 11:36:39)

* AOB  (lbt, 11:36:44)
  * LINK: http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Donation_Policy   (lbt,
    11:37:47)
  * Vote on : "The Mer Project is unable to accept donated IT services
    and would much prefer monetary donations to permit better risk
    management" deferred to next AB.  (lbt, 11:58:11)
  * A paypal account will be opened for donations (advice/information
    about handling community accounts sought)  (lbt, 11:59:00)

Meeting ended at 11:59:22 UTC.




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People Present (lines said)
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* lbt (84)
* Stskeeps (41)
* jbos (17)
* Sage (11)
* jukkaeklund (10)
* iekku (4)
* MerBot (3)




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