[Oslc-steeringcommittee] FYI: a member's agreement has been completed by an individual

Wed Oct 31 11:33:52 EDT 2012

Hi Rainer,
              I am responding to your thread as one of the contributing 
author's of the OSLC Members Agreement.
We were trying to provide enough "wiggle room" in our language to allow 
the Steering Committee to make appropriate accommodation in approving 
individual membership approval.
But Prior to an individual application coming to the Steering committee, 
the support team (i.e. us) will ask the submitter a few questions in order 
to provide the Steering Committee better context to an individual 
membership agreement submission. If the individual does not respond to our 
due diligence questions then such decision will not be forwarded to the 
Steering committee at all.  Because we have wiggle room in the T's and C's 
of the Bylaw's. The Steering Committee can nominate a single person as 
their delegate to approve individual memberships. Individual Memberships 
need to approved as long as they have provided information:
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Independent OSLC Members
Under certain limited conditions, a person may become an OSLC Member in an 
individual capacity, independent of any other Entity, by executing the 
OSLC Member Agreement as an Independent OSLC Member.
To join as an Independent OSLC Member, an individual must certify that the 
individual is:
1.      not currently employed by another Entity in a field of technology 
pertinent to OSLC; and
2.      not sponsored by, financed by and/or acting as an agent of another 
Entity to participate in OSLC; and
3.      not under any legal obligation to assign any intellectual property 
rights in any of the individual’s ideas, inventions, works of authorship 
or the like to another Entity.
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Regards,
Kartik
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Kartik Kanakasabesan
Manager, OSLC Community Development
IBM Rational
Email: kartik at us.ibm.com | Phone: 919-254-4363
Assistant: Melody Jones, melojo at us.ibm.com
OSLC: Enabling applications to integrate just like the internet
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From:   "Ersch, Rainer" <rainer.ersch at siemens.com>
To:     Sean Kennedy <seanpk at ca.ibm.com>, 
Cc:     "oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net" 
<oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net>
Date:   10/29/2012 12:27 PM
Subject:        Re: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] FYI: a member's agreement has 
been    completed by an individual
Sent by:        "Oslc-steeringcommittee" 
<oslc-steeringcommittee-bounces at open-services.net>

Hi Sean,
I think the Bylaws are not clear regarding approving membership agreements 
by the StC:
My interpretation of the statement: 
"In the case of an individual who completed an OSLC Member Agreement as an 
independent individual, such membership must be approved by the Steering 
Committee.”
was, that only membership of “independent individual” as defined in the 
section “Independent OSLC Members” have to be approved by the StC, but not 
regular members.
I’m not sure what the “Acceptance of new OSLC Member” clause in the 
“Steering Committee duties and responsibilities” sections means. It says 
“can accept” but not “has to accept”. I don’t think StC members should 
have to accept OSLC Members, as long the StC can denial membership “based 
on a reasonable belief ..”.
Could you please clarify this for us (with a legal person)? If the 
acceptance of membership is a necessary as a formal step, the StC should 
entitle you to do this on StCs behalf. 
In addition, IP rights only come into the play with WPA’s; membership 
(even for an “Independent OSLC Member”) alone should not have any IP right 
dependencies.
Bye and have a nice day
Rainer

From: Oslc-steeringcommittee [
mailto:oslc-steeringcommittee-bounces at open-services.net] On Behalf Of Sean 
Kennedy
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 3:32 PM
To: oslc-steeringcommittee at open-services.net
Subject: [Oslc-steeringcommittee] FYI: a member's agreement has been 
completed by an individual

Hello Steering Committee members:

A member's agreement has been completed by an individual [1]. As per the 
bylaws [2], before the agreement is accepted it needs to be reviewed by 
you.

Before we proceed with that review, I will contact the individual to make 
sure that:
a) he is completely free to sign the agreement, i.e. there are no IP 
rights claimed by his employer
b) it doesn't make sense for him and his employer to have the agreement 
signed in the "common" way

I will let you know how this proceeds. If you want more details, I can 
provide them on a separate email.

[1]: http://open-services.net/bylaws/#membership, see: "Independent OSLC 
Members"
[2]: http://open-services.net/bylaws/#steering-committee, see: "Duties and 
Responsibilities > ACCEPTANCE OF NEW OSLC MEMBER" 
Sean Kennedy 

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