Minutes for Directors Meeting of Feb. 13th, 2008

(My apologies for the lag in delivering these; it had completely
slipped my mind as the semester got more intense. Several more are on
the way this evening.)

= Minutes for Meeting of Feb. 13th, 2008 =

== Next Meeting ==

Feb. 27th

== Attendance ==

 * Luis
 * Lucas
 * Brian
 * Behdad
 * J5
 * Vincent

=== Regrets ===

 * Jeff


== Minutes ==

=== Old items ===

 * '''insurance''': ACTION: Brian to put remaining questions for
insurance forms in wiki so that rest of board can help fill them out.
[DONE; other board members have edited.]
 * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy
foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: On hold.
 * '''system administrator''': STATUS: on hold b/c of lack of time;
volunteers to refine the job description needed- contact Vincent Untz.
 * '''Mozilla''': OWNERS: Vincent, Dave Neary STATUS: Press release
ready to send out.
 * '''Business developer:''' We have a
[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html
old draft job description] [see also
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector]; may
need to refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and
update.
 * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: moving forward; jewelry manufacturer to
provide samples and list of products. Dave Neary is contact. J5 to
contact Dave Neary to understand past efforts to setting up a GNOME
store, to see if we can move forward with that. (past work at
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement )
 * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with
Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for
pending actions.
 * '''goals''': ACTION: Lucas: start mailing list discussion about
goals for the next 6-12 months. STATUS: Lucas has started the
discussion on board mailing list.
 * '''officers''': after discussion on list and IRC, board has
selected the following officers: President/Chairman: Behdad;
Vice-President/Vice-Chair: Lucas; Secretary: Luis; Treasurer John.
Luis has confirmed that we may need to update the charter, but that
this can be done. STATUS: charter and bylaws available in co-ment.net
for comments/editing/updating.

=== New items ===

 * '''Linux Foundation''': Behdad has been in contact with Lf about
events; will pass on more details to mailing list. Several board
members may also go to the Collaboration Summit, run by Linux
Foundation, so may have some more details after that.

== Ongoing ==

 * '''finances:''' updates on hold through Zana's maternity leave.
 * '''GTK+ Hackfest:''' ongoing; working on schedule. Everything on track.
 * '''GUADEC:''' slightly behind schedule, but website is ready and
will be launched shortly.
 * '''a11y program:''' announcement upcoming; lists of tasks exists
but needs to go to Bugzilla.
 * '''Summit:''' on hold until May as a result of MIT's booking policies.
 * '''Budget:''' ACTION: Vincent to send draft to advisory board for feedback.
 * '''Annual Report''': At printers; we are waiting for proof copies
before distributing further.

= Discussed on board-list =

 * '''Unicode Consortium''': Proposed and approved that GNOME will
join the Unicode Consortium as a Liason; this has now occurred and
will be more formally announced once we are present on their website.
 * '''gnome.asia''': GNOME now owns the gnome.asia domain as part of
planning for the first GNOME Asia summit.
 * '''Guidestar''': Board discussed becoming up-to-date with new
requirements for publishing on the Guidestar non-profit ratings site;
JRB to discuss some issues with accountant and Luis to discuss others
with lawyers.
 * '''Charter''': Luis pointed out that the Foundation Charter has
been in Draft since 2001; some discussion was made about doing the
(hopefully minor) work necessary to review, update, and 'finalize' it
as a 1.0 instead of 0.61, but no actions were taken.
 * '''Legal''': Luis updated the board on ongoing legal issues; will
require some budget for trademark work (approved). Brian took an
ACTION to discuss clean-room policies with some GNOME partners.