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- Session starts at 12:03 Eastern Daylight Time
- Building an association has been a long time coming and being discussed in smaller circles
- At EIC 2016 Ian and Kantara announced the Pledge and started collecting sign-ups
- Broad representation from many countries - very encouraging that this is the right time
- Kantara Initiative stepped up to host the incubation and formation process
- The Kantara Special Committee was started to coordinate and start things off
- Colin Wallis gives an overview of Kantara's background efforts to date
- The Survey
- Very high response rate
- Walked through demographic questions of the survey
- The Discussion Group
- Andrew outlined how a Kantara Discussion Group functions
- Description of the elected leadership roles, nomination process and election process
- Call for nominations begins October 12 - watch the listserv email for instructions
- Project Leaders will be required to lead work areas, assigned by the DG Leadership team
- Please volunteer!
- The Road aheadroad ahead
- Goal: Public launch of the Professional Organization in February at RSA
- The schedule is aggressive, but achievable
- Discussion about the Survey results to see what inputs we have from this community to start us off
Questions and Answers
- Q: How many Vice-Chairs?
- A: One
- Q: What are the role expectations for VC and Chair
- A: Meeting support to the Chair; encouraging discussions; gathering threads; helping to oversee the Project Leaders and sub-groups
- Q: Can we see the survey results?
- A: Next call we will start the detailed response discussion - the intent is to work sequentially and methodically through the material
- Q: What kind of organization will this become? Self-funded? Commercial?
- A: To be worked out - strong input from the DG - the Board Special Committee will gather advice and input
- A: The business model that is chosen will impact the kinds of structures that are possible