Steering Committee

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Introduction

The Steering Committee manages the affairs of OpenAjax Alliance on behalf of its Member organizations in accordance with the Members Agreement that all Member organizations have signed.

Meetings

Next meeting

  • Date/Time: Tuesday, Aug 4, 11amPT, 2pmET
  • Dial-in Number(s):
    • Toll Free: 1-866-423-8350
    • Toll: 1-719-387-8273
    • Participant Pin access code: 283044
  • Agenda
    • Status report on current activities
    • Possible additional future activities
      • Hub enhancements
        • So far, just planning open source enhancements, no spec changes
        • Plan to add VBScript messaging for IE6/IE7 to remove clicking noise
      • Metadata enhancements
      • OpenAjax Registry as self-service web app at OpenAjax.org
        • Ajax toolkits define their usage of JavaScript globals, custom HTML markup, CSS classes
        • Mashup registry: pubsub topics and payloads, shared properties
        • IDE registry: widget categories
        • Downplaying OpenAjax Conformance
      • "Enterprise OpenSocial"?
      • Update to browser wishlist?
      • Mobile Ajax initiatives?
      • Ajax state of the world white paper?
      • Anything else that SC wants OAA to pursue?
    • Other topics to discuss
      • Upcoming Steering Committee elections (~Oct 1. End of terms for MS, Nexaweb, TIBCO)
      • All-member meeting and/or webinar

The Members Who Serve on the Steering Committee

Terms lasting until Oct 1, 2010

  • APTANA/Kevin Hakman
  • DOJO/Kris Zyp
  • ECLIPSE/Mike Milinkovich
  • IBM/David Boloker (chair)

Terms lasting until Oct 1, 2011

  • GOOGLE/Chris Schalk
  • MICROSOFT/Bertrand Le Roy
  • TIBCO/Howard Weingram

We have elected members (usually, member organizations), not individual participants

Note that the Steering Committee consists of 7 companies. The names listed above are the individuals who have been identified to represent each of the 7 companies, but companies can designate alternative individuals to serve on the Steering Committee either on a temporary basis or ongoing basis.

2009 election

We held an election for three Steering Committee slots (the ones previously held by held by Microsoft, Nexaweb and TIBCO) in the period between Sept. 17 - Oct 1, 2009. The 2009 election is documented on the following wiki pages:

2008 election

We held an election for four Steering Committee slots (the ones previously held by Dojo Foundation, IBM, Eclipse Foundation and Zend) in the period between Sept. 17 - Oct 1, 2008. The 2008 election is documented on the following wiki pages:

2007 special election to replace Zimbra

Zimbra withdrew from the Steering Committee at the end of September 2007. As a result, there has been a special election at the end of 2007 to choose a replacement:

2007 election

Three slots on the Steering Committee were elected by the Member organizations during an election that happened from Oct 1 - Oct 5. The 2007 election is documented on the following three wiki pages:

2006 election

The Steering Committee was elected by the Member organizations during an election that happened from Sept. 30 to Oct 3 2006. The 2006 election is documented on the following three wiki pages:


Steering Committee email archives and meeting minutes

The email list for the Steering Committtee is steeringcommittee@openajax.org. Only members of the Steering Committee can post without moderation; posts from other people are welcome, but note that they are moderated. Archives can be found at: http://openajax.org/pipermail/steeringcommittee/.

(Note: Prior to Nov. 10, 2006, Steering Committee emails were archived at Yahoo groups at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/openajax_steering_committee/).

Here is where you can find minutes from previous Steering Committee meetings, along with links to key some resolutions that occurred via email.

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