Minutes of the Board Meeting of September, 01st, 2015

= Minutes for Wednesday, September 1st, 2015, 19:00 UTC =

Next meeting date Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, 19:00UTC

== Attending ==

 * Shaun !McCance 
 * Cosimo Cecchi
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Christian Hergert
 * Andrea Veri
 * Ekaterina Gerasimova

== Regrets ==

 * Allan Day
 * JF Fortin T.

== Missing ==

== Board meeting ==

 * GUADEC 2016
  * Agreed to extend deadline. Next steps?
  * Board members are reaching out to interested parties
   * Christian tried to reach the LF out already

 * Status of possible privacy funds hackfest
  * It might be possible to have the hackfest during the the West Coast Summit
  * Sri and Christian are currently involved in the organization

 * Google Play account.
  * No further comments, the Board will follow up on the private thread and come up with a decision

 * GNOME logo use by podiatrist
  * Is this really a trademark infringement?
  * The commercial category is different as they don't sell software
  * ACTION: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website

 * Logo usage request for tshirts.
  * ACTION: Jeff to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines written down for future cases

 * Trademark-infringing swag (mousepads)
  * http://amazon.co.uk/Abstract-Designer-Colourful-Anti-Slip-Compatible/dp/B0080CYAD8/
   * UK based company having more products than just the mousepad with the GNOME logo
  * A quick Google image search returns no other occurrences on the web at first glance
  * General consensus seems to be that we need to enforce the trademark in this case. Next steps?
  * We don't have a trademark registered on the merchandising area
   * Do we want to register a trademark on this specific trademark category?
  * Should we approach them and ask them to stop or come up with a contract where they will be supposed to get the Foundation part of the profit they make selling the mousepads?
   * ACTION: Cosimo to ask Karen first

 * Update on annual report.
  * General content and privacy section are the current blockers
  * It should start coming together more actively this week

 * Update on ED search.
  * ACTION: Christian to reach out to the committee and get some updates

 * Sponsor Free Desktop-style hackfests using the funds raised for the defence against Groupon
  * Budget can be determined after we get some interest
  * ACTION: Kat to draft a call for hackfests

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * One GUADEC intent to bid was received:
  * Karlsruhe, Germany 
   * https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2016/Bids/Karlsruhe
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-August/msg00001.html

 * Budget increase for Open Help Sponsorship
  * Existing allocated budget by the Travel Committee for Open Help 2015 was 6000 USD
  * Additional funds were requested with a grand total of 7,773 USD
  * The Travel Committee has voted to be in favor of sponsoring 6 attendees to the event, all of them are existing Foundation members and known GNOME contributors
  * VOTE: allocate a grand total of 7773 USD for the Open Help conference (additional 1773 USD than originally approved)
  * VOTE: +1 Cosimo, Christian, Jeff, Allan. Shaun and Kat abstain.
  * VOTE PASSED

 * Privacy funds
  * Michael Catanzaro put together a list of privacy-related items we could take into account when deciding what to do with the privacy funds
  * https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/Development/Security
  * Another list of ideas is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/PrivacyCampaign2013


== Completed actions ==

== Pending action items ==
 * Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for defence against Groupon
 * Christian to reach out to the ED Search committee and get some updates
 * Cosimo to ask Karen about the trademark-infringing mousepads and report his findings to the mailing list
 * Logo usage for t-shirts: Jeff to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines written down for future cases
 * Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website
 * Allan to make a proposal for a different way to use the wiki/etherpad for action items, instead of using kanboard
 * Jeff to get advisory board contact details from Karen. If this fails, we need to start developing our own contacts and record them on the wiki.
 *  Create a webpage for prior pants winners (Shaun and Allan)
 * Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC: Jeff to contact advisory board members by phone about joining the call on the 4th
 * Allan to follow up with Oliver Propst on Anual Report
 * Trademark-infringing swag (mousepads): Cosimo to follow up about possible future actions and send a proposal to the board
 * Cosimo to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a version of the CoC to be finally considered final over all the GNOME yearly events
 * Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review
 * Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
 * Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review
 * Andrea to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
 * Allan will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
 * Cosimo to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
 * Christian to investigate the GNOME gifts situation
 * Sri to coordinate with engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
 * Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin


-- 

Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av

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