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Friday 5 January 2007

Technical Advisory Board Conference Call Minutes

Attendees:

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James Bottomly
Randy Dunlap
Tom Hanrahan
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Christoph Lameter
Craig Thomas
Chris Wright

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Action Items:

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<code> 1. Greg to write up a description of the documentation to write
    for the candidate interview process for the Technical Writer
    position.</code>

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Agenda:

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1. Status of the Doc Writer Fellowship
2. DCL F2F meeting in Palo Alto, January 24
3. New OSDL Process Model
4. TAB Chair's OSDL At-Large Board Seat

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Discussion:

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1. status report on the Technical Writer position

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More resumes have been received and the TAB is processing them as 
the come in.  In the mean time, it had been decided that as part of
the interview process, a sample of their writing should be created
and submitted.  In order to determine if the candidate is right for
the job, a real-world example of documenting actual kernel code needs
to be submitted.  The TAB has determined a portion of the kernel that
will be used to create the writing sample and candidates will be
notified on the process that needs to followed.

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2. DCL Face-to-Face - will be held January 23-25 in Palo Alto

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The topics to be discussed are:
<code> - Virtualization
 - Device Drivers
 - Microsoft Interoperability
 - RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability)</code>

Attendees from the TAB include James, Andrew, and Christoph.  Tom
will send the invitation information to Christoph.

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3. New OSDL Process Model

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Tom gave a presentation to the TAB about a proposed method of
improving effectiveness of current OSDL members and to provide
a better means for communication between the kernel community,
the end-users, and the current work groups.  The TAB was asked
to provide feedback to Tom on the proposed model.

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OSDL TAB Chair Position and At-Large Positon on OSDL's BOD

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A discussion of election of chairs for the technical board has been
resolved: James and Greg will remain as chair/vice chair until
October of this year.