StAC 090115 Minutes

1700 UTC (9am Pacific, noon Eastern) -- Immediately following the Architecture Council monthly meeting.

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Agenda

• The 2009 program plan allocates a budget for the EMO to use towards the theme of “ensuring a great release train” based on advice and prioritization of the StAC (i.e., the three councils).
• Based on the StAC’s feedback and suggestions, we can fund efforts to help with Galileo, or if timing does not support priorities we can start looking to the 2010 release train. Purely hypothetical examples to show the things we could do include fund a usability study, work on cross project testing, etc.
• Purpose of this call is to lay the groundwork to start considering efforts and prioritizations and to schedule a follow up call for the week of January 26th.
• Discussion can base on the StAC 081028 Minutes SWOT analysis of the release train.

Attendees

• • Boris Bokowski (AC, IBM)
  • Dave Carver (AC, STAR Organization)
  • Paul Clenahan (RC, Actuate)
  • Rich Gronback (AC, PC, Borland)
  • Pat Huff (RC, IBM)
  • Mik Kersten (AC, TaskTop)
  • Donald Smith (RC, Eclipse Foundation)
  • David Williams (PC, AC, IBM)

Minutes

• Next call - January 28, 2009 Teleconference
• Agreement to meet at EclipseCon - Sunday, March 22, 2008 3-5pm
• Donald overviewed the Program Plan has up to $20k for the Foundation to use based on feedback and advice from the StAC on the theme of an "Improved Release Train".
• Don referred to the * SWOT analysis done at Eclipse World
• Question - Is this a "one time thing"?
  • Hopefully not. Hopefully if we show good use of the funds it will reoccurr, and assuming membership growth, hopefully a larger allocation.
• Don suggested a quick brainstorming to start the ball rolling, this is captured on the StAC Resource Planning Page