Squeak Oversight Board minutes – 8/16/11

Attending: Chris Muller, Bert Freudenberg, Colin Putney, Randal Schwartz, Levente Uzonyi, Jecel Assumpacao Jr., Chris Cunnington, Craig Latta

• Craig Latta discussed an early release of Spoon; there was a Spoon debugging bull session

• Spoon project category on Mantis requested, and created

• trademark policy –  what if somebody creates a product with the name Squeak that we disagree with? issues around that were explored

• It’s the job of the board to manage the name “Squeak.” That implies managing the domain name squeak.org (among others), the services provided there, the mailing list, official releases of the Squeak product etc. We do that based on the moral authority that comes out of the election process, since we don’t have a legal ownership of the name. We’re also making explicit our historical position of not objecting to derivative names, such as Squeak Germany, SiliconSqueak, Stable Squeak, SqueakSource and the like.

• the future of SqueakSource was discussed

Squeak Oversight Board minutes – 8/2/11

Attending: Chris Muller, Bert Freudenberg, Colin Putney, Randal Schwartz, Levente Uzonyi, Jecel Assumpacao Jr., Chris Cunnington

– Jecel is now the contact person for SFC and will look into paying Bert what he is owed for his ESUG 2010 trip and Squeak Germany for hosting costs

– the nature of relationships for the management of the box and web site was tentatively explored

– a light review of yearly Squeak costs was explored

– discussion about the possibility of removing unused vm sources from immediate visibility on the squeakvm.org svn repository, so as not to confuse newcomers. It was agreed that if a branch uses autotools, then it’s old, and should be removed from immediate sight

– agenda item for next time: Spoon first impressions