May 20th PEAR Group meeting minutes

These are the minutes from the May 20th PEAR Group meeting, if you have any questions feel free to send us an email (pear-group at php.net). These minutes will be posted on the pear website at a latter date. -josh -------- PEAR Group May 20th Meeting 7PM UTC to 8:30 UTC Meeting took place over IRC Attending Arnaud Limbourg (arnaud) Christian Weiske (cweiske) David Coallier (davidc) Helgi Þormar (helgi) Joshua Eichorn (jeichorn) Lukas Smith (lsmith) Martin Jansen (mj) Not Attending PEAR President - Gregory Beaver (cellog) Agenda for the Meeting is: http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/agenda-may2-07 Review last weeks action items made some good progress, we will continue to work on open items Review decision making process Were going to work with http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/decision_making will be reviewed again before making this a formal document Vote on vice president continue to wait, no more takers davidc is willing to be vice vice president Schedule some future meetings June 3rd 7pm UTC Action Item: davidc - send out email to pear group and verify time jeichorn - update the pear clock with the new meeting Defining Collectives http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/collectives Collectives have supreme power over packages within the collective in terms of API decisions, QA, documentation, defining the way collaboration works in the collective, choosing a collective leader or leaders, self-promotion of packages within the collective and assigning mentors to new developers of packages within the collective. We need to define what packages belong in each collective, current categories won't work Action Items: mj, arnaud - work on a list to review at the next meeting Review RFC Proposal http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/rfc Seems to be on track, clarified some wording Hopefully we can vote at the next meeting Action Items: davidc: clean and create a final version of this document Getting more people involve Lots of different things to do Try to cover major conferences and PHP community groups Announce the mentor program Change percetion, seem less bureaucratic action items: jeichorn - will create slides for a getting started as a pear developer presentation arnaud - create an announcement describing the mentor program, how to become a mentor and how to become a mentoree Figuring out what people think of PEAR try to get some feedback from different groups action item: jeichorn - put together an official feedback process Website organization/updates the site needs a facelift we need to update its organization action items: davidc - organize a design contest The Agenda for the next meeting is at: http://wiki.bluga.net/pear/agenda-june3rd-07