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The board will meet four times a year, usually via a conference call to keep
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costs down, but when there's an opportunity (hopefully at least once a year) we
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will hold physical meetings. We organized our first meeting to take place at
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Scala Days in New York, as most of the sponsors were attending. (The sponsors
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who couldn't be there in person this time joined the meeting over Google
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Scala Days in New York, as most of the board members were attending. (Those who
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couldn't be there in person this time joined the meeting over Google
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Hangouts.)
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Before our first meeting, we were a little apprehensive - despite our
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I mentioned at the beginning that it's important for the Advisory Board to make
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good on its promise, but it's just as important that we are *seen* to be doing
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so. So the whole Advisory Board process is open, and we will publish the
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so. So the whole Advisory Board process is open, and we will publish the
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proposals and minutes from each meeting. You will be able to see these in the
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Advisory Board's [Github
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repository](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/) in the next few
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days.
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## The First Meeting
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As the process was new for all of the members and less time was available for
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preparing proposals, we made the concession to allow proposals to be presented
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*at* the meeting (without prior submission), but in future, we will require
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that proposals be submitted to the repository at least a week before the
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meeting to give all the members an opportunity to consider them before meeting.
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During the first meeting, we also elected Seth Tisue as the secretary, and his
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minutes will be published in the next few days. The meeting itself was a
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success. We deferred one proposal until the next meeting (which will take place
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in August), but adopted four others.
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minutes will be published in the next few days.
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As the process was new for all of the members and less time was available for
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members to prepare proposals, we made the concession to allow proposals to be
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presented *at* the meeting (without prior submission), but in future, proposals
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must be submitted to the repository at least a week before the meeting to give
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all the members an opportunity to consider them before meeting.
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The meeting itself was a success! We deferred one proposal until the next
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meeting (which will take place in August), but adopted four others:
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It was a lot of work to get this far, but, after our first successful meeting,
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I'm very much looking forward to the next one!
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- to clarify the governance of Scala, including the SIP/SLIP process,
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- to define a migration path from Scala 2.x to Dotty,
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- to create a new unpaid "publicity chair" role for the Scala Center, and
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- to ensure continuation of support of Scala.js.
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Over the coming weeks, we will be taking steps to ensure these recommendations
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come to fruition.
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It was a lot of work to get this far, but, after our first successful meeting,
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I'm very much looking forward to the next one!
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