Hi Graham
Graham Taylor wrote:
Re membership of Gov Council, you will remember we said we'd tackle this step by step. I met with two Uk LGov guys today who will lead the LG trial for CO - both would love to be invited But space for only one - so I want to see how the trial and also what is currently going on in UK LG before I push one way. I'd hoped to see Karel de Vriendt from the EC this week but he wasn't available so now plan to see him next Thursday. On suppliers I'm deliberately holding back until they show individually how committed they are - conversations have started. Similarly Deloitte. I understand your concerns but I don't want to jump into appointments whic prove to be premature.
While I agree that caution is due with regards selecting members, we have had various enterprises engaging with CO since before the FSFE/OFE deal. I would suggest that Mike Robinson from DeLoitte, Simon Phipps from Sun and perhaps Nick Davis from IBM would be contenders for engagement. While the governance council is very strongly represented with community interest right now - with both Alan from the kernel and Adriaan from KDE - it is unbalanced without roughly equivalent commercial presence.
Shane