The Apache Software Foundation

                  Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

                          February 21, 2007


1. Call to order

    The meeting was scheduled for 10:00 (Pacific) and was begun when
    a sufficient attendance to constitute a quorum was recognized by
    the Chair at 10:08.  The meeting was held by teleconference,
    hosted by Jim Jagielski and Covalent:

            US Number       : 800-531-3250
            International   : 303-928-2693

    IRC #asfboard on irc.freenode.net was used for backup
    purposes.

2. Roll Call

    Directors Present:

        Ken Coar
        Justin Erenkrantz
        Jim Jagielski
        Sam Ruby
        Cliff Schmidt
        Greg Stein
        Sander Striker
        Henri Yandell

    Directors Absent:

        Dirk-Willem van Gulik

    Guests:

        Geir Magnusson Jr.
        Yoav Shapira
        Jason van Zyl

3. Minutes from previous meetings

    Minutes (in Subversion) are found under the URL:

        https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/foundation/board/

    A. The meeting of January 17, 2007

       See: board_minutes_2007_01_17.txt

       Minutes of the meeting of January 17, 2007 were approved by
       General Consent.

4. Executive Officer Reports

    A. Chairman [Greg]

       Greg noted that he's been speaking at a few conferences lately,
       talking about the ASF (and other things). He suggested that when
       people give talks about the ASF, that they contact the PRC so the
       word can get spread.

    B. President [Sander]

       Sander reported that our sysadmin's contract is up for
       renewal (end of March) and that he will negotiate a 6 month
       extension.
 
    C. Treasurer [Justin]

       We now have confirmed sponsors at each level.  Partial invoices
       have been issued to Covalent and HP.  A new invoice for the
       second installment for Google will be issued now that we have
       enough sponsors lined up.

       Continued difficulties with PayPal have persisted.  In one case,
       after consultation with other Directors, we have issued a
       check due to a disputed chargeback not being resolved in
       anyone's favor.

       Our contract with our secretarial assistant expires at the end of
       this month.  Our contract with our sysadmin will expire at the
       end of March.  Our fiscal year will close on April 30.

       Current balances (as of 2/19/2007):

        Paypal             $  2,210.51 (+$      0.00)
        Checking           $ 33,688.33 (-$  4,268.20)
        Savings            $202,396.24 (+$    487.70)
        Total              $238,295.08 (-$  3,780.50)

    D. Exec. V.P. and Secretary [Jim]

       No real updates to report since last month. Scanning of
       docs proceeding, with all incoming FAXes being immediately
       scanned and filed, and the backlog being done as available.
       We finally (!) received the full, original copy of our D&O
       Insurance policy with the Carolina Casualty Insurance Company.
       This is being scanned and will be filed as well.

       We are due for a members meeting around May/June of this
       year. Candidate dates will be proposed and floated by the
       membership.

       All received donation checks have been forwarded to the
       ASF lockbox. We've received none since last month.

       Paypal issues have been resolved by "working" with Paypal.
       Justin and myself are now considered official contacts
       for the ASF by Paypal.

       We have received no correspondence requiring board attention.

5. Additional Officer Reports

    A. VP of Legal Affairs [Cliff]

       The CLA FAQ proposed at last month's meeting was reviewed
       by our counsel.  Small changes were made and an additional
       Q&A was added to clarify the future patent claims issue.
       The FAQs have been posted to legal-discuss where there is
       some discussion to make a very minor clarification.  In short,
       I believe this issue is pretty much resolved.

       A pretty bad trademark violation was reported, which I forwarded
       to the PRC and assisted them in an initial draft (with a review
       through counsel).

    B. VP of JCP [Geir]

       There are no major issues to report outside of the continuing
       discussion we are having with Sun around the terms of the 
       JCK license for Java SE.  On that front, we seem to have
       come to an impasse.  I was hoping to have someting more 
       substantial to report.  Sun is aware of this meeting and
       my update to the board.  Next steps will be to get advice
       from the legal councellors starting with the SFLC.  
       Intent is to validate our interpretation of the terms of the 
       offered license, and hopefully see if they can suggest 
       steps forward, or intercession on our behalf.  Next week
       is the JCP EC Face-to-Face meeting, and we'll do a presentation
       there of the issue to the full SE/EE and ME EC members.

       In other JCP activities, we engaged with Sun on JSR-311, the
       "REST API" for Java, and was able to successfully relay 
       our community's position on how the JSR and resulting java
       package namespace should be titled.  Our position was that
       "REST" should be kept out of the package namespace in 
       order that it isn't percieved to be THE definitive API
       for REST programming in Java.  Sun kindly changed the 
       title and package name, and we thank Sun for their
       consideration.

       Otherwise, there are no other things of signficance. 

6. Board Committee Reports

    A. Apache Security Team [Mark Cox / Ken]

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