<div>Create an e-mail list for comments from members (only). Comments would be visible to anyone but to comments would only be for members. (Ean Schuessler)</div><div><br></div><div>Topic: <span style="text-decoration:underline">Call for Commen</span><span style="text-decoration:underline">t</span> regarding the Principles document upon which the OSFA's report card will be based. (Report Card team)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Location of draft document: <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/draft-principles">opensourceforamerica.org/draft-principles</a> (Terri Molini)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Comments: Input from all members as a mail list. (Collaboration) (ALL)</div><div><br></div><div>Editors: (Ean Schuessler) </div><div>. Gunnar Hellekson</div><div>. Chris Hankin</div><div>. Tom Rabon</div>
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<div>. John Scott</div><div><br></div><div>- Subteam: </div><div>. Melanie Chernoff</div><div>. Terri Molini</div><div>. Ean Schuessler</div><div>. Josh Berkus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>___________________________________</div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Draft email (still to be finalized): (Chris Hankin)</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
For some time now, the OSFA Steering Committee has been considering an OSFA deliverable for 2010: a grading or report card on the various US government agencies and their policies and practices as regards open source software and openness more generally. (By openness, we intend the same meaning as the Obama Administration: transparency, participation, and collaboration.)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">With the Administration's issuance last month of its <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/open/documents/open-government-directive" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank">Open Government Directive </a>, we quickly came to agreement that this is a project that should go forward, but with a new twist. We would first like to issue a set of "Principles for Open Government Plans," to help guide the different agencies as they each seek to publish their mandated Open Government Plan by the April 7<sup>th</sup> due date. Our expectation would be to issue this set of principles the first week of February, thus providing the agencies with sufficient time to take it into account.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Please help us write the OSFA “Principles for Open Government Plans.” Go to xxxxx, log in, and join the discussion. We have supplied a first draft, which we expect the OSFA community to significantly improve. We are opening this discussion today; and will close it on January 29<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Following publication of our principles, we will then begin work on a set of metrics/questions that we would intend to use to grade the agencies following the April 7<sup>th</sup> launch of their Open Government Plans.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Thank you in advance for your assistance,</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">OSFA Steering Committee</p> <br>end draft email ---------</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>___________________________________</div>
<div><br></div>Attendees: <div>Tom Rabon</div><div>Terri Molini</div><div>
Ean Schuessler</div><div>Josh Berkus</div><div>Elizabeth Ziph</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Terri Molini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmolini@aol.com" target="_blank">tmolini@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Happy New Year everyone. I hope your holiday season was all that you had hoped. We have a very strategic meeting today and would like to be sure that folks are dialing into the call. </div>
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<div>. We will be sending an Email to all members on Friday 8 Jan 2010 regarding input to the principles. </div>
<div>. Need need to discuss the work that has been accomplished and any that still needs to be completed between now and Friday to support the effort. </div>
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<div>Our call today is at 4:00pm ET / 3:00pm CT / 1:00pm PT</div>
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<div>Best regards, </div>
<div>terri and the infrastructure team</div>
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<div>Minutes from last meeting: </div>
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<div>Ean gave a tour/tutorial of the new platform. <a href="http://dev.opensourceforamerica.org/partymgr" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">dev.opensourceforamerica.org/partymgr</a></div>
<div> - Calendar</div>
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<div>Ean to create screen casts of the pages and functionality. </div>
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<div>Our last meeting of the 2009 calendar year will be next <b><font color="#FF0000">Tuesday 15 Dec</font></b>. We will then resume our calls on Tuesday 5 Jan 2010. </div>
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<div>That is it for the week.... </div>
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<div>Terri </div></span></font></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Terri Molini<br>(415) 480-4355<br><br>Support the use of open source software, it could save the U.S. federal government billions of dollars annually. <br>
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