Meeting Minutes Published - December 23, 2010
Brian Cameron <[email protected]>
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The meeting minutes for the December 23rd GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published. Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20101223
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of December 23rd, 2010
Next Meeting
* January 6th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Bastien Nocera
* Og Maciel
Missing
Recurring Items
* Review past action items.
* Did each person with action items send their status reports to
the board list before the meeting?
* Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published
to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
* Make sure to start up the gobby server for better note taking.
* Update foundation.gnome.org website.
New Items
* Desktop Summit Update (Andreas)
o One of the hardest parts has been selecting the context
management system (CMS). Drupal has been selected. There
are still questions about where to host it, but that should
be resolved soon.
o The budget is being worked on.
o Beds in Hotel/Hostels have been prebooked for the
conference period.
o I signed paperwork and sent off to GNOME Foundation and KDE
E.v.
o The organizers are planning a face-to-face meeting at
Fosdem, probably on Saturday during lunch.
o Andreas spoke with Kat while in Berlin and checked how
things are going. Things are progressing well according to
her.
* Germán sent the 2011 budget to the foundation-list.
* GTK+/MeeGo project call for bids.
o A bid was chosen and will be announced soon. Those who
submitted bids have been contacted and told if their bid
was selected or not.
* Marketing contract
o Announcement that we have $5,000 to spend on a contractor
was sent to the marketing list.
o ACTION: Paul will follow up with the marketing-list to
provide more details about what sort of work we would like
to have done for the marketing contract.
* GNOME 3.0 launch events
o Emily provided a budget for providing goodies for GNOME 3.0
launch events.
o Plan to know exactly how many launch events will be held by
the end of February.
o Paul, Brian, Germán, and Emily give a +1.
* Travel committee wants to try out Egencia
o Egencia is a business travel site that is affiliated with
expedia.com).
o Cost is $375 per year plus $7 per transaction. They can
hold this offer only through end of 2010.
o This service is only useful for purchasing tickets for U.S.
based airlines.
o The travel committee believes this service will save time.
o Everyone gave a +1, so this is approved.
* The board reviewed open action items and closed several that are
no longer being actively worked on.
Completed Actions
* Andreas - To check with Johannes and Shaun about having a
Developer Documentation Hackfest. The hackfest is now being
organized.
* Bastien - Setup committee to look at GTK+/MeeGo integration bids.
* Bastien - To form a working group to review the GTK+/MeeGo bids
and choose a final list.
* Brian - To draft initial email about hiring marketing help. Paul
will assist with editing and send to marketing-list.
* Germán - Will help Paul put together the Financial Report for the
Annual Report.
* Germán - Will follow up with Shaun McCance about how the board
can help with his proposal for funding developer documentation.
The hackfest is now being organized.
* Paul - Will lead putting together the GNOME Annual Report.
* Paul - To work with Jonathan Blandford for the pants article in
the annual report.
* Paul - Will create the Executive Director hiring mailing list.
* Stormy - To schedule a meeting with companies that do consulting
work with GNOME to start discussions on how we can help (how can
we work together). Sent email. Got a couple of positive
responses. This is no longer being actively worked on.
Status of action items
* Andreas - Will finish the Friends of GNOME revamp and find
someone with proper javascript skills to help.
* Andreas - Will follow up with Andrew Savory from LiMo to see if
relevant information from their GTK+ study can be made more
public. (will ping again).
* Andreas - To take the GUADEC feedback and post it to a public
wiki page. (someone else did this I think?)
* Andreas - To ask Kat if she can reach out to the
[email protected] mailing list about finding local German
volunteers to help with the Desktop Summit 2011. (will ping again)
* Bastien - Will try to find people who can consolidate the
feedback about the Texas Instruments Zoom2 device to provide back
to Texas Instruments.
* Bastien - Will take over the internal review process task from
Diego Urrelo (hopefully he can automate it).
* Bastien - To find a way to automate the process of exporting
results from internal review process and email it to the board.
* Bastien - To discuss the use of badges (a-la Creative Commons,
last.fm page colors, or PSN badges).
* Bastien - To talk to Olav Vitters about using bugzilla to track
Friends of GNOME post card sending.
* Bastien - To get _a_ WebOS/Palm contact from Lennart Poettering.
* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible
collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Will reach out to Dave Richards from the City of Largo
to plan for a hackfest there.
* Brian - Get information about what should be in an "Employee
Handbook". Draft approved by board. Now under review by the GNOME
legal team.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James
Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at
the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use
the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with
them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Emily - To send the budget for the GNOME 3.0 launch activities to
the board for review and vote.
* Germán - To discuss with GNOME Hispano about them handling GNOME
Foundation money in Euros (€).
* Germán - To track if the new method of boletos generates more or
less money from Brazil.
* Germán - To have a draft Fiscal Year Budget in October for the
board to review.
* Germán - Will provide an updated budget for review that we'll
plan to send to foundation-list for community review.
* Germán - Will assist with the GNOME 3 as a Foundation goal task
and to help in getting the GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey
topics together. (Handing over to someone else.)
* Og - Update the blog and planet to highlight that people are
expected to sign and follow the GNOME Code of Conduct.
o As per Paul's recommendation, I have emailed Vincent to ask
him what his idea is for doing this.
o Still haven't heard back from vuntz
* Og - Will work to update the GNOME websites to update pages that
refer to Stormy as the Executive Director.
* Og - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for
FoG.
* Paul - Will send an email to the foundation-list and the gnucash
list seeking someone to take over the GnuCash automation. Taken
over from Behdad Esfahbod.
* Paul - To start work on next 2011 Annual Report ASAP (due start
FY2012).
* Paul - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-
marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net
to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the
community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for
gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for
managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a
few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for
further comments.
* Paul - Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees
for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to
vote by.
* Paul - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James
Vasile, etc.
* Paul - To review Justin's email about updating trademark
agreements and email the marketing team for feedback.
* Paul/Germán - Automate the process of entering PayPal information
into GnuCash. Taken over from Behdad Esfahbod.
* Rosanna - Research the GNOME Guidestar website and update if
necessary. Rosanna sent an update about the status of Guidestar,
but work is still needed. Need to find someone to keep the
website up-to-date.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. Status: Filled
out initial application, have appointment next Wednesday with the
bank to continue process.
* Rosanna - Will handle the purchase orders with Google for
GIMP/GStreamer GSoC mentor payments as she has been doing it
already for GNOME.
New Action Items
* Paul - Will follow up with the marketing-list to provide more
details about what sort of work we would like to have done for
the marketing contract.
Discussed on the mailing list
* Mobile
o Bastien is working to make a decision about which Mobile
bid will be approved.
* Marketing/Finance
o Discussion about hiring short-term marketing help.
o Trading emails with Ramón Villaverde about finalizing the
agreement for FreeWear to sell GNOME-branded merchandise.
o Rosanna found a new accountant, Burton Li. Buron's
specialty is nonprofits in California. He will charge $75
per hour, which will likely change to a flat-rate once
Burton has a better understanding of the amount of work
involved.
* Friends of GNOME
o Og provided an update on the new campaign. He said that
most tasks have been completed with a couple of exceptions:
+ Lucas Rocha should be contacted to take the campaign
ruler that Paul did and properly enable it.
+ Still no videos.
+ No text from Joey for the magazines.
+ Paul sent out notes to all current subscribers about
LWN.
+ Og wants to know what happens going forwards as
Stormy had given me the task of maintaining LWN and
new subscriptions (Og already send out emails for new
subscribers and cancellations, and Og maintains the
previous donors page).
* Events
o The GNOME.Asia organizers announced that the GNOME.Asia
Summit 2011 will be held in Bangladore, India.
+ http://gnome.asia/press/2011/Bangalore/
o Emily proposed a plan to provide goodies for GNOME 3 launch
events. The expected cost will be USD 7,926 to provide
goodies for 100 parties. Goodies will include t-shirts,
stickers, balloons, buttons, and postage costs.
* Accessibility
o Germán is putting together a contract between the GNOME
Foundation and Emergya to do work to improve orca
performance.
* Miscellaneous
o Discussion about ownership of the GNOME logo. Currently
discussing with Jakub Steiner and Tuomas (tigert) Kuosmanen.
o Discussion about having a meeting on December 23rd or to
skip the meeting due to the holidays. The board decided to
have the meeting on the 23rd.
o Discussion about updates to the "Employee Handbook"
recommended by Karen Sandler from the Software Freedom Law
Center.
o Paul highlighted that KDE & The Document Foundation join
OIN.
+
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/12/kde-and-the-document-foundation-join-open-invention-network.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss