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+# Minutes of the 17th meeting of the Scala Center, Q2 2020
+
+Minutes are [archived](https://scala.epfl.ch/records.html) on the
+Scala Center website.
+
+## Summary
+
+The following agenda was distributed to attendees:
+[agenda](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/agendas/017-2020-q2.md).
+
+This was Stu Hood's last meeting as chairperson.  The
+board elected Adriaan Moors (Lightbend) as his successor.  (The
+chairperson position is currently expected to rotate annually.)
+
+Other board changes: SAP has left the board. 47 Degrees is now
+represented by Maureen Elsberry, director of marketing.
+
+Scala Center activities for the past quarter focused on MOOCs, BSP in
+sbt, JSR-45 support for Scala 2, multiple projects Scala 3 error
+message, improving ABI compatibility between Scala 3 and Scala 2, sbt
+plugins for dependency management (sbt-eviction-rule and
+sbt-compatibility), Scalafix, TASTy Reader, Metals, Scala Native,
+Scala.js, scalajs-bundler, Scaladex, the Scala.js webpack plugin,
+conferences, and blog posts.  Scala Days 2020 is canceled. An
+individual donor has contributed funds to support work on Scala
+Native.
+
+Staffing: the Scala Center's 10-member team has remained mostly
+stable.  Ergys Dona is leaving his position as engineer at the Scala
+Center to become a PhD student in Martin's lab instead.  His position
+will become open shortly, and a new position in the Education
+department will be added.  Alexandre Archambault and Eugene Yokota are
+being retained as short-term contractors.
+
+More details on these activities are in
+[Darja's report](./2020-06-30-darja-june-30-2020.pdf) and
+[Seb's report](./2020-06-30-seb-june-30-2020.pdf).
+Darja's report focuses on project management, communication,
+and team expansion (hiring and diversifying).
+
+One proposal was discussed:
+
+* [SCP-024](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/proposals/024-diversity.md): Diversity Initiatives (Maureen Elsberry and Oli Makhasoeva, 47 Degrees)
+
+The proposal was voted on and accepted.
+
+## Date, Time and Location
+
+The meeting took place virtually on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at
+3:00pm (UTC).
+
+Minutes were taken by Seth Tisue (secretary).  No recording of the
+meeting was made, so these minutes are less detailed than usual.
+
+## Attendees
+
+Officers:
+
+* Stu Hood (chairperson), Twitter
+  * also board member, representing Twitter
+* Darja Jovanovic (executive director), EPFL
+* Sébastien Doeraene (technical director), EPFL
+* Martin Odersky (technical advisor), EPFL
+* Seth Tisue (secretary), Lightbend
+
+Board members:
+
+* Chris Kipp, Lunatech
+* James Belsey, Morgan Stanley
+* Maureen Elsberry, 47 Degrees
+* Adriaan Moors, Lightbend
+* Rob Norris, community/Typelevel
+* Krzysztof Romanowski, VirtusLab
+* Julien Tournay, Spotify
+* Bill Venners, community/Artima
+
+Guests:
+
+* Jorge Galindo Cruces, 47 Degrees
+* Ólafur Páll Geirsson, Twitter
+
+Apologies:
+
+* Graham Griffiths, Goldman Sachs
+
+## Proceedings
+
+Stu introduced the meeting, took roll call, and had Maureen (the new
+47 Degrees representative) introduce herself.
+
+## Activities report
+
+Seb and Darja summarized Scala Center activities since the last
+meeting.
+
+Most of their remarks were based on their reports:
+
+* [Darja's report](./2020-06-30-darja-june-30-2020.pdf)
+* [Seb's report](./2020-06-30-seb-june-30-2020.pdf)
+
+The following notes are a supplement to the reports.
+
+Seb said they hope the new "Effective Programming in Scala" MOOC will
+be ready around the end of the year.  It will target Scala 3.
+
+He said that although substantial progress has been made on BSP
+support in sbt, "there is still a lot of work to be done to gain
+parity with Metals-via-Bloop", but "we can make this work."
+
+## Financial report
+
+This was presented by Seb.
+
+The Center's financial status is "the same" and "more or less stable"
+except that SAP has left the board.  It is unclear what ongoing impact
+the pandemic may yet have on the Center's ability to attract and
+retain board members.
+
+## Community feedback
+
+Neither Bill nor Rob had new community feedback to raise.  Rob said he
+was "super happy" with the Center's progress this quarter.
+
+## Proposals
+
+### SCP-024: Diversity initiatives
+
+This was initially proposed and discussed a quarter ago by Oli
+Makhasoeva of 47 Degrees, then postponed for edits based on feedback
+from the board.  The final version was submitted by Maureen Elsberry,
+the new 47 Degrees representative.  She said that one goal of the
+proposal is to "provide education to underrepresented groups who
+wouldn't typically have access to the resources that are out there
+currently".
+
+**Voting**: The proposal is accepted, with all members present
+voting in favor.
+
+## Elections
+
+For chairperson, the nominees were Adriaan Moors (Lightbend), Chris
+Kipp (Lunatech), James Belsey (Morgan Stanley), Stu Hood (Twitter).
+Stu withdrew his nomination because his one-year term is up.
+James Belsey said he was unable to accept.
+
+For technical advisor, the nominees were Martin Odersky (EPFL)
+and Ólafur Páll Geirsson (Twitter).
+
+For secretary, the only nominee was Seth Tisue (Lightbend).
+
+The outcome of voting was as follows:
+
+* chairperson: Adriaan Moors
+* technical advisor: Martin Odersky
+* secretary: Seth Tisue
+
+## Other business
+
+### Status of VirtusLab
+
+As discussed at several previous meetings, the Center is interested in
+having VirtusLab become a full board member, with voting rights,
+by contributing engineering effort rather than funds.
+
+As Darja explained, formally this could be considered to require
+amending the Center's "documents and contracts", which could be
+time-consuming, especially the process of re-authorizing the
+changed contract with members' legal departments.
+
+After some discussion, there were no objections to granting VirtusLab
+this status.  If other companies become interested, the question of
+revising the contract should be re-raised.
+
+Krzysztof: "We are honored."
+
+### Diversity on the advisory board
+
+The question was raised: in the spirit of the newly accepted
+proposal on improving diversity in the Scala community, could
+we also increase the diversity in the advisory board itself?
+
+But it's unclear how this might be accomplished.  Stu suggested that
+the Center could "informally request" that companies with board seats
+take this into account when naming their representatives, choosing
+when possible to send someone who is involved in the company's own
+diversity initiatives.  There was also some discussion about maybe
+adding a dedicated seat on the board for this, but this idea wasn't
+taken up.
+
+Bill noted that the community representative seats haven't rotated
+in a while, and this issue could be taken in account the next time
+that happens.  (There was some inconclusive discussion about when
+that might happen.)
+
+Martin: "A company could have multiple delegates and rotate who comes
+to the meeting."  Darja seconded the idea.  James: "I could step down
+and have one of the talented diverse engineers at Morgan Stanley
+represent us."  Someone mentioned that too _much_ rotation could
+damage continuity on the board.
+
+Chris asked about ScalaBridge, which hasn't come up in a while.  Seth
+wondered if ScalaBridge currently has leadership, and also if wondered
+if they've been impacted by the pandemic making in-person events
+impossible.  Darja said there has been activity recently in both
+London and New York.  There was some inconclusive discussion about
+whether the Center ought to become more directly involved.
+
+James asked whether the Center could make recommendations about
+the use of language such as "blacklist" and "master/slave" in
+open-source projects.  Darja said a proposal in this area would
+be welcome.
+
+### Scala 3 work
+
+Darja said that Scala Center is becoming increasingly involved with
+work on Scala 3, and she wanted to know if the board objected to this
+work going forward. Should the Center solicit new proposals in this
+area?
+
+Seth observed that SCP-002 could be considered broad enough to cover
+the work being done.
+
+Stu said that "avoiding the formality" of further, more specific
+proposals seemed unnecessary.  There were no objections or concerns
+raised by other board members.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Stu will follow up with Adriaan about handing over the responsibility
+for organizing the next meeting, to be held virtually, probably
+in late September or October.