Meeting-Minutes-2017-11-21

Agenda
This is the agenda for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Members of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF). Meeting participants may want to refer to the XSF Bylaws.

Call for Quorum
The following 44 XSF members voted via proxy:
 * gnauck (at) jabber.org
 * tux (at) jabber.n39.eu
 * lbocquet (at) jabber.org
 * linkmauve (at) linkmauve.fr
 * soul (at) blastersklan.com
 * mathieui (at) mathieui.net
 * goffi (at) jabber.fr
 * zash (at) zash.se
 * dwd (at) dave.cridland.net
 * ashley.ward (at) surevine.com
 * siegle (at) jabber.org
 * florob (at) babelmonkeys.de
 * me (at) matthewwild.co.uk
 * bmalkow (at) malkowscy.net
 * fippo (at) goodadvice.pages.de
 * peter (at) jabber.org
 * tm (at) ayena.de
 * drixter (at) e-utp.net
 * intosi (at) ik.nu
 * linuxwolf (at) outer-planes.net
 * winfried (at) tilanus.com
 * jc (at) opkode.com
 * martin.hewitt (at) surevine.com
 * dbanes (at) jabber.org
 * codavide (at) chatme.im
 * zeank (at) jwchat.org
 * jabberjocke (at) jabber.se
 * daniel (at) gultsch.de
 * artur.hefczyc (at) tigase.org
 * wojtek (at) tigase.org
 * sam (at) samwhited.com
 * kevin (at) doomsong.co.uk
 * lance (at) lance.im
 * peter.waher (at) jabber.org
 * mremond (at) process-one.net
 * bear (at) bear.im
 * georg (at) yax.im
 * jonas (at) wielicki.name
 * nyco (at) movim.eu
 * ralphm (at) ik.nu
 * travis (at) burtrum.org
 * guus.der.kinderen (at) igniterealtime.org
 * flo (at) geekplace.eu
 * arc (at) concordance.io

The XSF has 66 elected members as of this date. Therefore quorum is achieved in accordance with section 3.8 of the XSF Bylaws.

Items Subject to a Vote
Board and Election, the page with list all applications for this voting period is here: Board_and_Council_Elections_2017

Opportunity for XSF members to Vote in the Meeting
The following members voted in the meeting


 * none

Board
The top 4 candidates will comprise the Board for 2017-2018. There is a tie for position #5 which will be resolvde after the meeting using random selection as defined n RFC 3797.

Council
The top five candidates will comprise the Council for 2017-2018.

Any other Business?

 * none

Formal Adjournment
There is a tie for the last board position for Arc Riley and Nicolas Vérité. Accroding to the XSF bylaws the tie has to be resolved with the procedures defined in RFC 3797: Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection. The tie will be resolved ASAP after the official member meeting.

Radnom elections for 5th board position
For the random electon for the 5th board position we agreed on the following algorithm proposed by Dave here: https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/members/2017-November/008696.html

The numbers drawn in the Euro election were: 19 - 24 - 28 - 30 - 50

Which results in the following string: 19.24.28.30.50./

and a sha256 hex representation of: f2507b627edc74d540e7cb747138ed7ee8e19d4458f9db5bfd3a92b5c97a9541

The 5th board position goes to:
 * Nicolas Vérité