Eugene reports that Mozilla enthused about OHS project, one of their main engineers spent last few weeks reading Doug's papers on his own time. Collaboration potential is very good . A Gnutella presentation can be scheduled for one of our meetings. Eugene raises the issue of the dichotomy between the online and offline - there is a larger community that is interested. We need to be inclusive as much as possible.
Minutes are important to keep everyone in sync.
Misconception that this is a Stanford project and that no commitment to Open Source. We don't have a good tool for people in remote locations to participate. They should be able to participate in creating the agenda. Gil points out that people like him in remote locations perceive these meetings to be closed. Gil points out there's also the problem of time differences, but that it should be possible for people not local to contribute to the agenda and participate in some meaningful way.