Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 June 29

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

     Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 June 29
     =========================================

Attendance:
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   Owen Taylor (chairing)
   Miguel de Icaza
   Tim Ney
   Daniel Veillard
   Murray Cumming
   Dave Neary
   Jody Goldberg
   Federico Mena-Quintero
   Jonathan Blandford


Missing:
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   Christian Schaller
   Luis Villa (sent regrets)

Actions completed:
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  ACTION: Tim to secure space for the GNOME Summit and then send invitations
          to contacts in governments.
     - Done: auditorium and 3 classroom at MIT 8-10 October are booked
     - Done, agenda

  ACTION: Federico and Murray to create an outline for improving areas
          where our documentation is missing or obsolete
     - done in the wiki
       http://live.gnome.org/IdealDeveloperDocumentation

  ACTION: Tim and Jonathan to continue discussions on details of hosting
          GUADEC with Barcelona
     - Done, Jonathan and Tim did it, agenda

  ACTION: Murray to provide final quotes for the items in the EuroGnome
          tradeshow box
     - Done in the Wiki

Actions:
========

   ACTION: Dave to start looking for vendors to host the GNOME online shop
     - Ongoing

   ACTION: Dave to proceed to details stage of merchandizing agreement
     - Ongoing


   ACTION: Daniel to send request for proposal for specific topic to be
           worked on at the next Summit
     - ongoing

   ACTION: Murray to schedule an advisory board phone call meeting in
           approximately 2 months
     - ongoing

  ACTION: murray to announce the first version of the GNOME Foundation
          Member Logo
     - ongoing

  ACTION: Owen to publish the summarized number from GUADEC
     - ongoing

  ACTION: Federico to announce and ask for feedback on the certification
          checkpoints
     - public but not announced, except though IRC.
     - ongoing need to be sent to a public list.

  ACTION: Murray to take the task to find documentation authors and get it 
          done
     - Federico did the first step, ongoing.

  ACTION: Tim to generate a final version in PDF of the Trademark proposals
     - ongoing waiting from the lawyers

  ACTION: Owen to make the final announcement after 2 days of review of the
          final version
     - still blocking on previous item

  ACTION: Dave to send a merchandising proposal to Tim
     - done

  ACTION: Tim to send back the comments back to the merchandising proposal
          to the board list.
     - Done

  ACTION: Owen to modify foundation.gnome.org to reflect the foundation
          new 
     - not done

New actions:
============

  ACTION: Tim and Dave to draft a room requirement for GUADEC and get Christian
          informed

  ACTION: Murray to send to the board list the details and price of the items
          he want for the demo box for GNOME Germany.

  ACTION: Tim to follow up on developer's request for hardware support.

Agenda:
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 * GUADEC 2006 in Barcelona
   Discussion on the format to find the number of days we need and how
   many rooms.
   Asking for rooms from Saturday 27 to Wednesday 31 included
   
 * Summer of Code bounties from Google
   12 bounties were granted, join on #sog to watch the progresses

 * next meeting on the 13th July
   Dave give regrets

Daniel

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