AGENDA -- OSSRI Directors' Meeting for August 19-20

NOTE: All listserv members invited, all may express opinions.
Only director votes will be recorded.

Time: 48 hours commencing at 00:01 AM GMT.
Location: OSSRI Listserv.

Attendance:



Agenda Items:

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Officer Reports.

A. Welcome of new members and listserv report. (Clerk.)
New Members:

Old Members:
Dennis A. Beckley
Scott Carr
Arthur Chan
Bruce Cyr
Alfred Dayton
Eric Johansson
Saravana Krishnamurthy
Mark Kyes
Turner Rentz III
Juan José García Rojo
Mark Ungewitter

Deleted from list:
Bruce Couper - no valid e-mail address.

Listserv Report:
As of this morning, there were 60 subscribers:

B. Incorporation Report (Clerk).

Two Changes to mission statement will be required.
1. ...to develop continuous-speech recognition software which supports
dictation and command-and-control, and runs on Open Source platforms such as Linux.
2. Make more general the anticipated licesing parameters. (Discussion?)
ALSO -- Report from Goodwin Procter on the status of our incorporation.

C. Financial Reports (Treasurer).

3. Old Business / Committee and Task Force Reports:

#1 -- Standing Finance Committee
(Inactive. We have $0.)

#2 -- Fund-Raising Committee
(Ditto.)

#3 -- Product Marketing Task Force
(Ditto.)

#4 -- Product Engineering

#5 -- Web Site Committee
Champion: (Do we even have one?)

#5 -- Technical Evaluation Task Force
Champion: Ivan Uemlianin. Members: Arthur Chan, Christophe Gerard.
Goal: to produce evaluation reports of currently available free/open-source ASR software.
First Draft DUE.

#6 -- Sourceforge Project (Committee)
Champion: Scott Carr, Lead Developer. Member: Ed Suominen, Developer


4. New Business

A. OSSRI should have a wiki to gather ASR requirements. (Ivan proposal.)
The wiki should be moinmoin.
DISCUSS: Where should it live and who should feed it?
Committee? Task Force?

B. Proposal - Establish Wine porting project as a Task Force, and appoint Eric Johansson to head it. Eric will submit a report on the status of the Task Force, and accept volunteers.

C. Discussion - Would it be appropriate to have a Chief Technology Officer for OSSRI? specifically, someone who would be focused keeping the technology focus on the right track to getting us live as quickly as possible. It might be appropriate for this to be a committee of two or three people but not more than this. (Eric Johansson and Jessica Hekman to lead discussion.)

D. 2005 OSSRI Annual Conference -- ? Schedule, dates, locations?
Susan to present suggestions.

Adjourn.