Attendees: Jeffrey Altman, Derrick Brashear, Todd DeSantis, Laura Stentz, Warren Yenson. Software Freedom Conservancy - One of our contributors has made us aware of a new organization called the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This is an organization which was founded in March 2006 by lawyers to promote open source software development. The SFC has filed to become a 501c3 organization, and they should attain this status in March 2007. The SFC currently has 6 small open source software projects. The SFC promotes the software commons license, and it requires that the SFC would own all new IP if a project joins the Conservancy. The primary advantages of joining the SFC are: insurance coverage to protect individuals/contributors involved in an open source project, availability of a bank account, and 501c3 status for accepting tax-free contributions. The SFC is an organization that we can follow and determine if they could add any value beyond what we can achieve independently or via our current relationships with CMU and USENIX. Development 1.4.1 - OpenAFS 1.4.1 was released earlier this month. There have been no major problems, but some minor fixes are still being incorporated. Derrick mentioned that it would be helpful to have an Intel-based Mac machine for developing new releases. Warren will see if there is a machine available for donation at Morgan Stanley. If not, we may be able to purchase a machine if funds are available after the OpenAFS Workshop. We'll also need to purchase hardware to host our servers and mail. Development 1.5.1 - A release is coming soon--possibly this evening--(except for MacOS). 1.5 does have byte range locking, but it does not have mandatory locking on the file servers. Jeff A. will restart the discussions on standardization bboard on the locking topic to gain input for future releases. OpenAFS Workshop - The OpenAFS Workshop will be held June 12-16 at UMich. The format of the Workshop is the same as last year: AFS Tutorial on Monday, Kerberos Tutorial on Tuesday, Presentations on Wed-Fri (noon). The call for papers closed on Friday, April 21. We have more submissions than times available. (This represents an increase in submissions over last year). The committee will decide on which talks to accept by this Friday (April 28). If there is a topic that the Elders want to present or if we'd like to hold a panel on Friday (June 16) to gather input on where the community wants OpenAFS to go, we should decide that by April 28---prior to the talks being accepted. Jeff A. will talk with a potential keynote speaker to determine interest/availability. If others would like to recommend keynote speakers, please do so ASAP. Next Meeting - Tuesday, May 30 - 1:00 Eastern Time