On 26th April I posted a mail on behalf of the board to this list with the subject "Future of VP ConCom Role". This mail outlined the action the board intended to take in the May board meeting with respect to ConCom. The proposal was to use paid contractors (VP Marketing and Executive Assistant) to further develop the ApacheCon model Nick built for ACNA.The mail also invited feedback from all involved. No feedback was received from ConCom. VP Marketing (Sally) and VP ComDev (Luciano) both raised some issues which were discussed by the board in the last board meeting.
In that meeting the Board agreed that the role of VP ConCom had an overly broad scope which makes it unreasonable to expect volunteers to fulfil the role. Since there were no objections to this proposal the Board passed a resolution to terminate the role of VP ConCom along with the associated officers committer (ConCom). So where does that leave members of ConCom who still want to be involved with events? With respect to the next ApacheCon this is now being handled by Melissa (our EA). To date there has been no progress on engaging a producer for the next ApacheCon (the plan was to wait for the ACNA12 financials to be submitted). The OpenBastion have now been asked to provide a contract for this work. Melissa will engage with the community once our responsibilities to the producer are clear. Small events, as discussed in the April email, is the area that ConCom has yet to figure out how to support. It's not that small events have not happened, they have, but for the most part they have been organised by project communities not by ConCom. For this reason it is not expected that small events will be negatively impacted by this change (trademark policies will be enforced by the respective PMCs, with support from VP Brand Management where necessary). In the April email the board also suggested that ConCom members wishing to continue to support events, both large and small, should join ComDev. ConCom members are therefore invited to subscribe to the ComDev list (dev-subscr...@community.apache.org). Thanks, Ross
