December 2018 advisory board minutes

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+# Minutes of the 11th meeting of the Scala Center, Q4 2018
+
+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/011-2018-q4.md).
+
+Spotify has joined the advisory board.
+
+After this meeting, Lars Hupel is stepping down as community
+representative.  A replacement has yet to be nominated.
+
+Scala Center activities for the past quarter focused on
+Coursier, Almond (formerly Jupyter-Scala), Bloop and BSP,
+Zinc, build pipelining, 2.13 collections, Dotty, Metals,
+Scalameta, Scalafix, Scala.js, SIP meetings, MOOCs,
+Scala Days 2019, and ScalaIO.
+
+Full details on these activities are in
+[Sébastien's report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MwzPQtYIaJ4_5z7-StJI-gKiY-oV_6Or7PEvnJBR92k/edit?usp=sharing).
+
+Other topics discussed at the meeting included TODO
+
+Two new proposals were made:
+
+* [SCP-019](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/proposals/019-scala-214-30-back-compat.md): Focusing on backwards compatibility for Scala 2.14 and Scala 3.0 (Twitter)
+    * voted on, not accepted
+* [SCP-020](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/proposals/020-sbt-transitive-dependencies-conflicts.md): SBT transitive dependency conflicts management improvements (Spotify)
+    * voted on and accepted
+
+SCP-20 was exceptionally accepted as a late submission
+from Spotify, as they were only confirmed as board members
+between the submission deadline and the meeting.
+
+## Date, Time and Location
+
+The meeting took place virtually, via Google Meet, on Wednesday,
+December 5, 2018 at 3:30pm (GMT).
+
+Minutes were taken by Seth Tisue (secretary).
+
+## Attendees
+
+Board members present:
+
+- James Belsey, Morgan Stanley
+- Eugene Burmako and Stu Hood, Twitter
+- Lars Hupel, community/Typelevel
+- Olga Makhasoeva, 47 Degrees
+- Adriaan Moors, Lightbend
+- Jonathan Perry, Goldman Sachs
+- Frederick Reiss, IBM
+- Julien Tournay, Spotify
+- Mark Waks (a.k.a. Justin du Coeur), community/Artima, on behalf of Bill Venners
+
+Apologies:
+
+- Thomas Gawlitza, SAP
+
+Officers:
+
+- Sébastien Doeraene (director), EPFL
+- Jon Pretty (chairperson), Propensive
+- Martin Odersky (technical advisor), EPFL
+- Seth Tisue (secretary), Lightbend
+
+## Proceedings
+
+As chairperson, Jon Pretty conducted the meeting.
+
+### Activities
+
+As the Center's Executive Director, Sébastien Doeraene summarized
+Scala Center activities since the last meeting.
+
+Most of Sébastien's remarks were based on his
+[detailed report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MwzPQtYIaJ4_5z7-StJI-gKiY-oV_6Or7PEvnJBR92k/edit?usp=sharing)
+on the Center's recent activities.
+
+The following notes are a supplement to Sébastien's report:
+
+TODO
+
+### Financial report
+
+TODO
+
+### Proposals
+
+#### SCP-019: Focusing on backwards compatibility for Scala 2.14 and Scala 3.0
+
+Proposed by Stu Hood on behalf of Twitter.
+
+See the [proposal text](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/proposals/019-scala-214-30-back-compat.md)
+for details.
+
+There was some discussion on the [pull request for the
+proposal](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/pull/44)
+between Martin and Stu which resulted in some
+[revisions to the proposal](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/pull/47)
+shortly before the meeting; these changes are included in
+the proposal text linked above.
+
+**Voting**: three in favor, three opposed, three abstentions,
+one member not present. The Executive Director cast the deciding
+vote in opposition. The proposal is not accepted.
+
+#### SCP-020: SBT transitive dependency conflicts management improvements
+
+Proposed by Julien Tournay on behalf of Spotify.
+
+See the [proposal text](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/master/proposals/020-sbt-transitive-dependencies-conflicts.md)
+for details.
+
+**Voting**: seven in favor, one opposed, one abstention,
+one member not present. The proposal is accepted.
+
+### Other business
+
+TODO
+
+## Conclusion
+
+TODO