Executive Committee Meeting Summary
for 20-21 May, 2008

version 0.5: August 5, 2008

Date

May 20-21, 2008

Location

Paris, France (hosted by France Telecom)

Agenda

Tuesday May 20

Wednesday May 21

Welcome
PMO Topics: Patrick Curran
Roll call
Agenda review
Approve minutes and summary from April 2008 meeting
EC stats
Personnel changes
JavaOne debriefing (events, press coverage)
JCP reform

Roll call
JCP reform continued
- Wrap up, next steps
Java ME ecosystem issues (Calinel Pasteneau)

Attendance (May 20)

PMO
Patrick Curran
ME EC	SE/EE EC
Qisda – not present Jean-Marie Dautelle – present Ericsson – Magnus Olsson, Jens Jenssen – present IBM – Mark Thomas – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Motorola – not present Nokia – Pentti Savolainen – present Orange France - Cuithlauac Alvarado – present Philips – Jon Piesing – present RIM – not present Samsung – not present Siemens – Marquart Franz – present Sony-Ericsson – not present Sun – Calinel Pasteanu – present Time Warner Cable– not present Vodafone – G�nter Klas – present Total attendance: 10	Apache – Geir Magnusson – present Eclipse – Mike Milinkovitch – present Fujitsu – Mike DeNicola – present Google – Bob Lee, Josh Bloch – present HP – Scott Jameson – present IBM – Mark Thomas, Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Red Hat – Sacha Labourey – present Doug Lea – present Nortel – Bryn Rahm – present Oracle – Don Deutsch – present SAP – Rui Nogueira – present SAS – not present Hani Suleiman – not present Sun – Danny Coward – present Total attendance: 13
Since 75% of each EC were not present, there was no quorum for this meeting on May 20.

Attendance (May 21)

PMO
Patrick Curran
ME EC	SE/EE EC
Qisda – not present Jean-Marie Dautelle – present Ericsson – Magnus Olsson – present IBM – Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Motorola – not present Nokia – Pentti Savolainen – present Orange France - Cuithlauac Alvarado – present Philips – Jon Piesing – present RIM – Mike Rybak – present Samsung – not present Siemens – Marquart Franz – present Sony-Ericsson – not present Sun – Calinel Pasteanu – present Time Warner Cable– not present Vodafone – G�nter Klas – present Total attendance: 11	Apache – not present BEA – Ed Cobb, Michael Rowley – present Eclipse – Mike Milinkovitch – present Fujitsu – Mike DeNicola – present Google – Bob Lee – present HP – Scott Jameson – present IBM – Mark Thomas, Steve Wolfe – present Intel – Wayne Carr – present Red Hat –Sacha Labourey – present Doug Lea – present Nortel Networks – Brynn Rahm – present Oracle – Don Deutsch – present SAP – Michael Bechauf – present SAP – Rui Nogueira – present SAS – not present Hani Suleiman – not present Sun – Danny Coward – present Total attendance: 12
Since 75% of each EC were not present, there was no quorum for this meeting on May 21.

Thanks

The PMO and the EC members sincerely thank France Telecom for hosting the meeting. The facilities and catering were excellent.

Minutes

Minutes, summary from previous meetings

The ECs approvedl the minutes and summary for the April EC meeting.

PMO Topics

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

ME EC

Mike Milikich (mike.milikich@motorola.com) replaced James Warden as Motorola's primary rep. Replacement alternate not yet named.
Jim Lee (alternate rep) has left Qisda (not yet officially confirmed).

SE/EE EC
- Makiko Shimamura (jikeitou-std-contact@ml.css.fujitsu.com) replaced Masahiko Narita as Fujitsu's primary rep.
- Bryn Rahm (rahm@nortel.com), formerly the alternate rep, replaced Harpreet Geekee as Nortel's primary rep. Adam Boyle (aboyl@nortel.com) is the new alternate.

The ECs discussed whether or not a special election should be held to fill the seat vacated by BEA. Since there was no quorum, it was agreed to hold an electronic vote on this matter immediately after the meeting.

Message from Qisda

Patrick presented a message received from Qisda, in which they stated their intention to withdraw from the spec-lead and co-spec-lead positions on the JSRs that they have led. Members discussed the implications and consequences of this matter, and decided to take legal advice before discussing at a future EC meeting.

JavaOne debriefing and press coverage report

Patrick presented a summary of JCP activities and press coverage at JavaOne.

JCP reform

The bulk of the meeting was spent in discussions on JCP reform. The following topics were discussed:

Licensing
Transparency
Governance
IPR
Compatibility and branding
Agility and collaboration

The ECs agreed to form working groups to develop the proposals to the next level of detail.

Java ME ecosystem issues

Calinel presented and led a discussion on ME ecosystem issues. See the presentation for details.

Executive Committee Meeting Summary for 20-21 May, 2008