Minutes for Board Meeting 2002-09-24

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	  Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting September 24 2002
	  ====================================================


Present:
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    Nat Friedman (chair)
    Jim Gettys
    Jody Goldberg (minutes)
    James Henstridge
    Daniel Veillard (:15)
    Havoc Pennington
    Tim Ney
    Miguel de Icaza
    Federico Mena (:20)

Regrets:
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    Telsa Gwynne
    Jonathan Blandford

Actions Done:
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    ACTION: Havoc to get the specs for a CVS box
        => Done

Actions:
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  ACTION: Jim to restart the font discussions with various parties
	=> Jim reported progresses with a well-known font maker,
	   Jim have the fonts and tries to close the deal. It will
	   still need a bit of work on the fonts themselves.

  ACTION: Nat and Jonathan talk to gnome-sysadmin about adding ssh
          tunneling for GNOME CVS access
        => Jonathan will try to get this scheduled with Owen, pending

  ACTION: Jody volunteer for working on producing a first
       draft of ABI rules for GNOME-2 releases, get involvment from
       someone at Sun, and make sure the draft get some review.
	=> Worked on it but not finished yet

  ACTION: Tim looking at structuring tutorials, need to send a call for speakers
	=> Tim worked on this with Guadec 3, pending

  ACTION: Jonathan to work with Louie to put the organisation chart on the
          web site.
        => In the absence of Jonathan, we don't know

    ACTION: Tim to then do fund raising for the CVS box
        => Send out the requests waiting for replies.

    ACTION: Telsa to draft a guideline for the usage of the Gnome Logo
        => Done, in the agenda item


New Actions:
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Discussion:
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  - approve last meeting minutes:
     http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2002-September/msg00001.html

  - Membership Committee
      : Clarify Guidelines
	  * Jim proposed simple guideline
	      'If you have ever contributed to GNOME and wish to be a member
	       you can be a member'
	      = Unanimous agreement by those present
	      = The key element is 'desire to be member', interpretation of
		'contribution' should be lax, including QA, usability, and
		 advocacy.

	  * Annual renewal
	      = Verify contact info
	      = Ensure that member still wants to be member

	  * Should simplify life of membership committee.

      : Membership of Membership committee
	  * Contact Mike re: potential un-resignation
	  * Apologize to Mike specificly and membership in general for lack
	    of clarity.
	  => Miguel volunteers to join membership comittee to help clarify.

      : Elections
	  * Get the membership clarified according to new guidelines before
	    starting elections.  Revisit at next meeting.

  - Foot Logo
      : Mechanism for people to request permission to use foot
	  - To maintain viability of the trademark the foundation
	    needs explicit written permission requests.

      : Discuss Guidelines for who can use trademarks
	  - Telsa's proposal
	      * Unanimous agreement
	      * Nat splits 'not-profit' to have a 'personal use'
	        subcategory that is very lenient.
	      * Telsa also suggests a 'Do not use this for nasty
	        stuff, but we can take a good joke.'
	      * Treat this as first draft and assume that Tim will need
		clarification when reality intrudes.
	      * Tim and James researched things to see how other groups
		handle this and the lawyers liked Apple's approach for the
		quicktime logo.  Apple posts request form on web to simplify
		things.
	      * Telsa also suggests that once we have links to
	        legalese to request the foot, we should add links to
	        eps/svg versions and additional sizes for
	        convenience.