Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010




The meeting minutes for the August 19th GNOME Foundation board meeting
is now published.  Refer here:

             http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100819

Other past board meetings are archived here:

             http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of August 19th, 2010

Next Meeting

    * September 2nd, 2010

Attending

    * Andreas Nilsson
    * Bastien Nocera
    * Og Maciel (late)
    * Paul Cutler
    * Rosanna Yuen
    * Stormy Peters

Regrets

    * Brian Cameron (GNOME.Asia)
    * Emily Chen (GNOME.Asia)
    * Germán Póo-Caamaño

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

    * Annual Report
          o Daniel Galleguillos needs some feedback. Andreas will look
            at it right after the meeting.
                + ACTION: Andreas will get feedback for the Annual
                  Report for Daniel Galleguillos.

    * 2010 Q2 GNOME Quarterly Report Update
          o All reports now in! Just need to put in format; Vinicius
            Depizzol will help. Hope to be done by Monday.

    * Fiscal Year Budgeting Process.
          o Been discussing process. First step is to reach out to
            local user groups. About to kick off process. Everyone
            needs to help - cannot be all German.

    * GNOME IRC Meeting
         o Define topics. Paul Cutler will start a brainstorming
           process for the topics.

    * Boston Summit
          o Fees for the venue. The organizers are working on getting
            free rooms. John (J5) Palmieri has pinged them every week
            or so and we have not heard back in a while.

    * Hackfests
          o GTK+ and WebKitGTK+
                + Both are a go.
                + Do they need funding? Have they done fundraising?
                + ACTION: Andreas will find out if the GTK+ and
                  WebKitGTK+ Hackfests need help fundraising.
          o Developer Docs. Looks good now with goals and lots of good
            attendees.
          o Dave Richards from the City of Largo would like to host a
            hackfest at the Boston Summit. He is particularly
            interested in something around thin clients.
                + ACTION: Bastien will reach out to Dave Richards from
                  the City of Largo to plan for a hackfest there.
          o Board mentors for hackfest organizers idea.
                + ACTION: Stormy will ask Diego Urrelo if he would like
                  to continue to work on the board mentors for hackfest
                  organizers idea.

    * Nokia Proposal
          o We met with Nokia to discuss Bastien's proposal: use
            $50,000 to contract out work to make GTK+ et al work on the
            platform. They were in agreement. Bastien is now writing up
            a call for bids. MeeGo might be interested in helping with
            events around underlying technologies.
                + ACTION: Bastien to write up a call for bids for Nokia
                  proposal, and discuss the technology with people from
                  Nokia.

    * GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal
          o Discussion with membership
          o Emails sent to foundation-list, but not much response.
            Should we run another survey?
                + We want to do another survey for sure (keep questions
                  simple)
                + ACTION: Og to help in getting the GNOME 3 as a
                  Foundation Goal survey topics together
                + ACTION: Stormy to share feedback on how to build the
                  questions for the GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal
                  survey.

    * Advisory Board fees for small businesses
          o ACTION: 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.

    * Initial Marketing Contract
          o Please vote. Any questions?

    * security@ being an alias for board-list
          o Followed up, just need to "do it" (security@ or release-
            team-private@ ?)

    * GNOME IRC Meeting
          o Schedule next (no Q&A at AGM)

    * Mentoring new board members program
          o Create a mail list like: board-mentor gnome org ? (Pending
            to Paul)
          o Collect mentor wish list from mentees.

    * Marketing arrangement for Ronaldo Padula (Loja Geek Depto
      Comercial) to sell GNOME branded merchandise in Brazil.
          o Email was sent to Ronaldo but he has not replied. Og will
            follow up.

    * GnuCash - status
          o Latest GnuCash file updated on July 19th by Rosanna. Still
            need automation help!!

    * Pre-purchasing tickets via a service like Orbitz.
          o Stormy thinks they are really not interested as they
            randomly return calls and never agree on a time to meet.
            Other ideas for companies that might do this for us? What
            services do your companies use? (HP used Carson Wagonlite
            or something like that).
          o Red Hat uses AMEX.
          o Will check what rPath uses. (Og)

    * GULEV Free & Open Source Software Conference 2010" (GFOSSCon) to
      be held in Cancún MX, from November 17 to 19, 2010.
          o ACTION: Og to help come up with a list of possible
            speakers.

    * GNOME Trademarks
          o TM can claim without formal registration
          o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
            foot / logo?
          o GNOME foot (old) has a registered trademark
          o French website
                + ACTION: Bastien to send the French website a
                  follow-up email about GNOME Trademarks

Completed Actions

    * Andreas - Follow up with Vincent about the copyright assignments
      policy.
    * Brian - Will track progress of GNOME.Asia event organization.
    * Emily - Will work with Rosanna on on transferring the money to
      GNOME.Asia.
    * Paul - Will reschedule the GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. -
      Scheduled for July 10th @ 14:00 UTC
    * Paul - Will talk to the sysadmin team about setting up a gobby
      server for the GNOME Foundation board to use for minute taking.
    * Stormy - Set up a Euro bank account. This is on hold for now.
      Talked to SFLC about setting up a European nonprofit as an
      option. Not something we need to do now. Bastien is going to look
      at other options too.
    * Stormy - To follow up with the Advisory Board about acquiring a
      second machine. Email sent, but no response yet. If we want one,
      we should buy one at this point.
    * Stormy - To send Bastien contact details for Nokia Advisory Board.
    * Stormy - Will ask Diego Urrelo if he would like to continue to
      work on the board mentors for hackfest organizers idea. This new
      action was done after the meeting.
    * Stormy - To share feedback on how to build the questions for the
      GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey. This new action item was
      done after the meeting.
    * Vincent - To contact Murray Cumming for a person to look over the
      Berlin Desktop Summit organization.
    * Vincent - To mail KDE eV board to tell about our vote for Desktop
      Summit.
    * Vincent - To update the foundation page about advisory board fees
      for non-profits.
    * Vincent - To talk to previous board members to see if they want
      to participate in mentoring new board members.

Obsoleted Actions

    * Germán - To write a list of demands and details for the Berlin
      Desktop Summit bid (discussion about the dates, etc.). This
      activity was proposed only if there was time available, but there
      was not.
    * Germán - Will talk with the GUADEC organizers to find out what
      happened as a result of the discussion about the terms and
      conditions.
    * Stormy - Will write a proposal how to spend the money from Nokia
      to improve GNOME mobility based on discussion. Bastien is doing
      some research on this. (Bastien is doing this.)

Status of action items

    * Andreas - Will finish the Friends of GNOME revamp and find
      someone with proper javascript skills to help.
    * Andreas - Follow up with Vincent about creating a Philosophy page
      on the GNOME Wiki.
    * Andreas - Will follow up with Andrew Savory from LiMo to see if
      relevant information from their GTK+ study can be made more
      public.
    * 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 help Stormy identify some opportunities how to
      best use the money provided by Nokia.
    * Bastien - To discuss technical Nokia plans with regards to MeeGo
      for Handsets.
    * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility
      of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as
      Stormy already did research.
    * Bastien - To find contacts at HP who are working on GNOME with
      Palm OS.
    * Bastien - Will take over the internal review process task from
      Diego (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 investigate whether security gnome org should be
      sent to release team instead of the board.
    * Bastien - Will ask for feedback about GUADEC on gnome-foundation
      list.
    * Bastien - Will create private Wiki page to sort ideas about how
      to better organize events like GUADEC.
    * Bastien - Will touch base with Gil Forcada and Luis Villa and add
      their feedback about GUADEC.
    * 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.
    * Diego - Will send an updated "Día GNOME" article for the Annual
      Report.
    * Emily - To write a proposal for new board members mentoring
      program.
    * Germán - Will share the financial data that was provided to the
      advisory board to foundation-list.
    * Germán - Will follow up with Shaun McCance about how the board
      can help with his proposal for funding developer documentation.
      ONGOING: There will be a BOF on Developer Documentation at GUADEC
      + further conversation with Shaun might help to clarify what
      would be needed.
    * Germán - Will help Paul put together the Financial Report for the
      Annual Report.
    * Germán - Will update the Travel policy to cover the extra costs
      (such as visa, vaccinations, etc.) when the board requests that a
      representative attends an event on behalf of GNOME Foundation.
    * Germán - Will write a template that people who fill out bids can
      complete that can be made public.
    * 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 - Will follow up with Murray about Ekaterina (Kat)
      Gerasimova helping with planning and possible "ack" as a sponsor.
    * Jorge - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
      use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent. 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.
    * Jorge - Will reach out to Linaro to see if GNOME can more
      effectively work with them.
    * Og - Will create a new wiki page to explain the process for
handling emails sent to security gnome org * Og - Will take over from Diego the task to work Jonh to determine
      how Ronaldo Padula (Loja Geek Depto Comercial) should send
      profits to the GNOME Foundation and then work with Ronaldo to
      finalize arrangements. The Brasilian Free Software Association is
      likely to help us out here, on the plus side we will also be able
      to take "boleto" donations.
    * 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 - Will lead putting together the GNOME Annual Report.
    * Paul - Will follow up with Germán about the financial data for
      the Annual Report.
    * Paul - Will organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting and
      create an agenda.
    * Paul - Will look into finding contacts for additional GNOME.Asia
      sponsors.
    * Paul - Will work on 2010 Annual Report.
    * Paul - To fix the annual report: remove all TM in the GNOME
      logos, s/GNOME Asia/GNOME.Asia/g, use right font for GNOME logo.
    * Paul - To start work on next 2011 Annual Report ASAP (due start
      FY2012)
    * Paul - To work with Jonathan Blandford for the pants article in
      the annual report.
    * Paul - To mail the URL of the annual report to board for feedback.
    * Paul - To talk to Jonh Wendall to see how we can localize Friends
      of GNOME web site.
    * 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 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 - Update the blog and planet to highlight that people are
      expected to sign and follow the GNOME Code of Conduct.
    * Paul - Will send an email to the board to put together an agenda
      for a GNOME IRC meeting.
    * Paul - To make sure Board members have access to the Foundation
      blog.
    * Paul - Will create a board-mentor mailing list.
    * 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 - To find out how many donations The GNOME Foundation has
      had from Brazil in the past year by month.
    * Ryan - To ask on gtk-devel-list for a quick estimate of costs
      (trip/dates) for the GTK+ hackfest.
    * 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.
    * Stormy - To follow up with Orbitz to find out if the GNOME
      Foundation can pre-purchase travel tickets. Tried to contact them
      several times. Exchanged emails to set up a time - they didn't
      respond to availability.
    * Stormy - To work with John (J5) Palmieri to renegotiate the costs
      for the Boston Summit.
    * Stormy - To add advisory board member roles to wiki.
    * Stormy - To add the information she got about opening nonprofits
      in other countries to the wiki.
    * Stormy - To follow up with Friends of GNOME post card senders to
      make sure they have sent them.
    * Stormy - Will follow up the GULEV Free & Open Source Software
      Conference 2010 organizers and provide them with a list of
      potential GNOME speakers in Mexico. Waiting on Og for the list.

New Action Items

    * Andreas - Will get feedback for the Annual Report for Daniel.
    * Andreas - Will find out if the GTK+ and WebKitGTK+ Hackfests need
      help fundraising.
    * Bastien - Will reach out to Dave Richards from the City of Largo
      to plan for a hackfest there.
    * Bastien - To send the French website a follow-up email about
      GNOME Trademarks.
    * Bastien - To write up a call for bids for Nokia proposal, and
      discuss the technology with people from Nokia.
    * Emily - Will provide the necessary information and help for them
      to build a users group in Taipei.
    * Emily- For Women's program, Emily will introduce the local leader
      to Marina Zhurakhinskaya.
    * Og - To help in getting the GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey
      topics together.
    * Og - To help come up with a list of possible speakers.
    * 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.
    * Stormy - Will ask Diego Urrelo if he would like to continue to
      work on the board mentors for hackfest organizers idea.
    * Stormy - To share feedback on how to build the questions for the
      GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey.

Discussed on the mailing list

    * Planning meetings with the Berlin organizers and KDE board to
      plan for the Desktop Summit 2011.
    * Planning for the GTK+ hackfest in Coruña (October 18-22).
    * Discussion about sending Stormy to an upcoming GNOME event in
      Latin America since she has not yet traveled there.
    * Discussion about having a hackfest in Bolzano, Italy. Needing to
      identify a good topic.
    * Discussion about how to best direct security gnome org  To the
      board or to the release team?
    * Discussion about improving the GNOME Foundation By Laws.
    * Discussion about the GNOME Foundation board member mentoring
      program that Emily is organizing.
    * Pushing forward with System Administrator interview & hiring
      process.
    * So far the "Free Agent" t-shirt has made €932.40, but cost
      €1051.13 to print. Brian plans to sell more at the Boston Summit
      to recoup remaining cost.
    * Brian has been working with Stormy so she can receive NIAC
      training classes.
    * Discussion about possibly subcontracting some GNOME marketing
      work.
    * The GNOME Foundation received a request for a GIMP LMG
      Reimbursement from Michael Schumacher.
    * Polk State College (PSC) and University of South Florida
      Polytechnic (USFP) are collaborating in a joint project and are
      interested in having their students study GNOME related projects.
    * Bastien set up the GUADEC Feedback page:
          o http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/GuadecFeedback


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