RadioDNS

At our first General Assembly,we started the process of turning RadioDNS from an adhoc grouping of supporters into a formally established body – the first steps of turning RadioDNS into permanent service, accountable to and run by its members.

The Second General Assembly is approaching (16th February 2010 in Geneva), and the primary agenda items for that meeting will be the discussion of the proposed Statutes and Trust Model for RadioDNS, followed by a vote from the meeting on whether to adopt those and officially form RadioDNS.

We had hoped to publish the draft Statutes and Trust Model this week for you to review ahead of the meeting. Some areas have generated a lot of discussion within the Statutes Drafting Team, and the deadline slipped.

I expect to publish the draft Statutes and Trust Model on Monday 8th February, giving you a week to go through them.

These documents are absolutely core to the way RadioDNS will be run, and please find an hour or so during next week to read them, even if it’s so you understand what is being proposed.

Registration is now open for the RadioDNS Second General Assembly, on the 16th February at the EBU in Geneva.

You can get more details, register, and find accommodation information on the Second General Assembly page.

Please register as soon as you can, as it makes it easier to plan the arrangements.

RadioDNS, alongside WorldDMB, DRM and the IMDA (Internet Media Device Alliance), will be participating in the EBU’s Digital Radio Summit on 17th February 2010 in Geneva.

Supporters of RadioDNS are invited to join this day long event, which will look at how the adoption of Digital Radio, in all its forms, can be accelerated across Europe. It looks like an interesting day of presentations and discussions on what could and should be happening with the digitalisation and convergence of radio in Europe.

If you’d like to know more, or to register for this free event, please see the Digital Radio Summit website.

As participant numbers are limited, we will be giving priority to RadioDNS Supporters who subscribed to our Announcement or Developers’ lists prior to 1st January 2010.

The Digital Radio Summit follows our Second General Assembly on the 16th February, so you can combine both events. We will probably be organising some informal evening event on the 16th.

We originally scheduled our Second General Meeting for the 9th February 2010, at a venue to be confirmed. This is the meeting at which our statutes will be ratified.

There is an opportunity to coincide our meeting with meetings from WorldDMB and IMDA, being held at the EBU in Geneva on the 16th-18th February 2010.

As many of the RadioDNS supporters are also involved in WorldDMB and IMDA, it seems to make sense to move the Second General Meeting into this week. That would reduce some peoples’ travel costs, and also allow for some informal networking and information sharing across the days.

So the RadioDNS Second General Meeting is now scheduled for Tuesday 16th February 2010 at the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva.

Apologies to anyone who has already made travel plans for the 9th February.

We are pleased to announce the release of v1.0.0 of the technical specification for the RadioVIS application built upon the RadioDNS methodology.

Eagle-eyed readers will spot this document is dated September 2009 as we had hoped to tie this release together with v1.0.0 of the RadioDNS specification. Unfortunately the RadioDNS specification got caught up in the formalisation process and, as a result, so too did RadioVIS.

With a device already on the market utilising RadioDNS and the RadioVIS application, we are looking forward to many more exciting implementations in 2010.

Radio professionals in the United States, Canada or Europe are welcome to a free ‘webinar’ on what to watch for in the radio industry in 2010. RadioDNS will be one of the topics covered; speaking will be James Cridland, a member of the RadioDNS statutes drafting team.

You can register at this website.

In a meeting this afternoon, hosted by the EBU, the following were elected as members of the Statutes Drafting Team.

Jon Billings (BBC, UK)
James Cridland (Not At All Bad Ltd, UK)
Nick Jurascheck (PURE Digital, UK)
Spencer Leing (ABC, Australia)
Jeff Littlejohn (Clear Channel Inc, USA)
Peter MacAvock (EBU, Switzerland)
Ben Matthews (Absolute Radio, UK)
Richard Morris (Commercial Radio Australia, Australia)
Nick Piggott (Global Radio, UK)

This team will convene shortly to start work on the task, and will publish periodic updates. The intention is to deliver a complete draft by 1st February 2010, so that it can be thoroughly viewed by all interested parties ahead of our next General Meeting.

The next General Meeting has been set for February 9th at 14h00 CET, at a location to be agreed. At this meeting, it is intended the draft statutes will be ratified, and lead to an election of a Steering Board.

The initial RadioDNS team are grateful to the EBU’s help in counting the votes and organising the day, and for their invaluable assistance and advice.

We are pleased to publish the agenda of the First RadioDNS General Meeting in Geneva on Tuesday 10th November. You can find it here.

If you are joining us by telephone, and have not yet received the details, or joining in person but do not have details on how to reach the EBU, please e-mail us on feedback@radiodns.org

Nominations closed for the Statutes Drafting Team last week, but it was necessary to clarify a couple of nominations that had been transferred from the original request for nominations for the Steering Team.

The nominees are listed below, and these will be the candidates for an election as part of Tuesday’s meeting, during which we will discuss and agree what the Statutes Drafting Team will deliver back to the General Meeting and by when.