Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 July 13

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

     Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 July 13
     =========================================

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

Missing:
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   Dave Neary (sent regrets)
   Luis Villa


Actions completed:
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  ACTION: murray to announce the first version of the GNOME Foundation
          Member Logo
     - Done

  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.
     - foundation and ddl
     Done

  ACTION: Tim to generate a final version in PDF of the Trademark proposals
     - Done

  ACTION: Owen to modify foundation.gnome.org to reflect the foundation
          new advisory board membership
     - done

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

  ACTION: Tim to follow up on developer's request for hardware support.
     - Done, but no reply


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
     - sent, no answer. ongoing

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

  ACTION: Murray to take the task to find documentation authors and get it 
          done
     - Federico did the first step, we are making a proposal to a candidate,
       should be resolved before next meeting.

  ACTION: Owen to make the final announcement of the Trademark proposals
     - should be out soon

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


Agenda:
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 * Event box:
   That will be a useful package for people doing tradeshows in Europe
   This is a grant from the GNOME Foundation to GNOME Deutschland eV,
   and the list of item expected to be purchased will be published, the value
   is 3500 Euros.
   http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fEventsOrganisation_2fGnomeEventBox

 * Discussion of the financial state:
   Making sure we have enough cash for paying documentation and for the
   event box.

 * next meeting on the 27th July

Daniel

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