Executive Committee Meeting Summary
for 24 June, 2008

version 0.5: October 13, 2008

Date

June 24 , 2008

Location

Teleconference

Agenda

Roll call
Agenda review
Approve minutes and summary from May 2008 meeting
EC stats (for offline review only)
Personnel changes
Results of electronic vote on postponing EC election to fill BEA's seat
Status of Apache negotiations (Geir Magnusson, Onno Kluyt) followed by discussion of next steps
JCP reform proposals (Patrick)

Attendance

PMO
Patrick Curran
ME EC	SE/EE EC
Qisda – not present Jean-Marie Dautelle – not present Ericsson – Magnus Olsson – present IBM – David Girle, Dan Bandera – present Intel – Tony Baker – present Motorola – Mike Milikich – present Nokia – not present Orange France – not present Philips – Jon Piesing – present RIM – James Warden – present Samsung – not present Siemens – Christoph Kuhmuench – present Sony-Ericsson – not present Sun – Calinel Pasteanu – present Time Warner Cable – George Sarosi – present Vodafone – G�nter Klas, Kay Glahn – present Total attendance: 10	Apache – Geir Magnusson – present Eclipse – Mike Milinkovitch, Wayne Beaton – present Fujitsu – Mike DeNicola – present Google – Josh Bloch – present HP – Scott Jameson – present IBM – Mark Thomas, Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Red Hat – Mark Little – present Doug Lea – present Nortel – Bryn Rahm – present Oracle – Don Deutsch, Anish Karmarkar – present SAP –Vicki Shipkowitz – present SAS – Rich Main – present Hani Suleiman – present Sun – Danny Coward – present Total attendance: 15
Also present: Onno Kluyt for Sun.
Since 75% of each EC were not present, there was no quorum for this meeting

NOTE

Nokia and Sony-Ericsson tried to join the call but were unable to do so due to an unexpected change in the international dial-in number. The PMO apologizes for the inconvenience.

Minutes

Minutes, summary from previous meetings

Due to the late publication of the minutes and summary for the May EC meeting, approval was postponed until the next meeting.

PMO Topics

EC statistics were presented for offline review. The following personnel changes were reported:

ME EC

Christopher David replaced Jeff Griffin as the primary rep for Sony Ericsson. Christian Nord is the new alternate.
James Warden replaced Mike Rybak as the primary rep for RIM. Mike is now the alternate rep.

SE/EE EC
- Jim Lee is no longer the alternate contact for Qisda. No new alternate has yet been named.

Results of electronic vote on postponing election to fill BEA's seat on the SE/EE EC

During the May EC meeting it was decided to hold an electronic vote on the question: We wait until the usual JCP EC elections in October in order to fill the vacant seat on the SE/EE EC committee, rather than calling a special election before then. The results were as follows:

ME EC		SE/EE EC
Qisda	Disqualified	Apache	Yes
Jean-Marie Dautelle		BEA	Yes
Ericsson	Abstain	Eclipse	Yes
IBM		Fujitsu	Yes
Intel	Yes	Google	Yes
Motorola	Abstain	HP	Yes
Nokia	Abstain	IBM	Yes
Orange	Abstain	Intel	Yes
Philips	Yes	Red Hat	Yes
RIM	Abstain	Doug Lea	Yes
Samsung	Disqualified	Nortel	Yes
Siemens	Yes	Oracle	Yes
Sony-Ericsson	Disqualified	SAP	Yes
Sun		SAS	Yes
Time Warner	Abstain	Hani Suleiman	Yes
Vodafone	Abstain	Sun	Yes

Technically the vote failed, since there were insufficient yes votes on the ME EC. After some discussion it became apparent that ME members abstained because they believed this was a matter that should be left to the SE/EE EC to decide, and not because they had any concerns. Taking the sense of the meeting, the ECs decided to postpone the election for BEA's seat rather than hold a special election.

Status of Apache negotiations

Geir Magnusson and Onno Kluyt reported that Sun and Apache have failed to reach agreement on the terms under which the JCK would be licensed to Apache for use in the Harmony project. They also reported that no further discussions are planned. Onno stated that Sun has no immediate plans to submit the JSR for Java SE 7. Rather, Sun plans to continue SE 7 development work through the OpenJDK project and through component JSRs that are already in progress. He expressed the hope that when the JSR is submitted at some point in the future the EC will approve it.

EC members expressed their disappointment at this outcome, and discussed the possible implications without reaching any firm conclusions.