Minutes of ns-3 Steering Committee telecon

October 10, 2014

Attendees:  Nicola Baldo, Walid Dabbous, Tom Henderson, Felipe Perrone,
Manuel Ricardo, George Riley

1) WNS3 co-chair search

Peter Barnes has agreed to serve as co-chair of WNS3.  The meeting agreed
on additional candidates who could be approached for the co-chair position.

2) WNS3 week selection

The results of the poll that was sent to the steering committee and a list
of last year's attendees suggested that the weeks of May 11, May 18, and 
June 1 are the best candidates.

The telecon agreed to ask the co-chairs (once selected) about their preference.

3) WNS3 proceedings chair search

Felipe Perrone wrote up a job description for this position.  Since there
were no obvious candidates raised, we agreed to solicit volunteers for this
position at a future date.

Felipe received a suggestion to publish not only in ACM but also the 
Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WoS).  We agreed to pursue this in addition
to ACM.

4) WNS3 schedule

The meeting agreed to plan for the five-day schedule of events (training
for two days, single-day workshop, and then consortium/developer meetings
for two days).

5) Executive Director for 2015

Tom Henderson was asked to serve in this role for another year, and he
accepted.  The meeting agreed to look for other candidates in subsequent
years.

6) Infrastructure

Tom Henderson summarized recent problems with the web and code servers, and 
described an action plan for avoiding future problems.  The participants
supported the idea of trying to resolve this with university support rather
than paying for hosting.

7) Training

Tom Henderson is considering to hold a 2-3 day ns-3 training this winter 
(February timeframe) on the U.S. east coast, Wash. DC area.  He would need 
to use consortium funds to pay for expenses.  We would want to ensure 
that some attendance was likely before committing to expenses.

The meeting supported this idea, and Tom said he would begin to pursue
this.  

8) Expenses

The telecon approved the use of consortium budget for purchasing
VMware software, memory, and hard drives for UW server infrastructure.