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Meeting Minutes Published - June 28th, 2011


The meeting minutes for the June 28th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published.  Refer here:

   http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110628

Other past board meetings are archived here:

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

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

= Minutes for Meeting of June 28th, 2011 =

== Next Meeting ==

  July 12th, 2011

== Attending ==

 * Andreas Nilsson
 * Bastien Nocera
 * Brian Cameron
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen

=== Regrets ===

 * Og Maciel
 * Stormy Peters
 * Emily Chen

=== Missing ===

== Recurring Items ==

 * Review past action items.
 * Did each person update their action items?
 * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to
   foundation-announce and foundation-list.
 * Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking.

== New Items ==

 * New board and next meeting
   * Election results announced
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-June/msg00030.html 
   * The next board will include:
     * Bastien Nocera
     * Brian Cameron
     * Emmanuele Bassi
     * Stormy Peters
     * Germán Póo-Caamaño
     * Ryan Lortie
     * Shaun McCance

   * ACTION: Germán - To touch base with the membership committee about
     finalizing the vote, and to invite the new members to the next
     board meeting.

 * CA Legal Status
   * The GNOME Foundation is no longer a suspended organization in the
     state of California.  Thanks Karen!

 * GNOME Foundation IRC meeting on June 29th.
   * ACTION: Andreas - Will moderate the IRC meeting on the 29th.

 * GObject-Introspection Hackfest
   * ACTION: Germán - Will touch base with the GObject-Introspection
     Hackfest and make sure that people attending also attend the
     Desktop Summit if possible.

 * Olav Vitters pinged the board about RHN entitlements.
   * ACTION: Bastien - Will touch base with the appropriate people in
     Red Hat to see if the RHN entitlements can be approved.

 * There are some GNOME related domains that need to be transferred to
   The GNOME Foundation.
   * ACTION: Karen - Will take over discussions to take over ownership
     of some GNOME related domains.

 * LojaGeek.com needs attention with their merchandising agreement.
* ACTION: Brian - Will provide Karen with past discussions about LojaGeek. 
   * ACTION: Karen - Will follow up with LojaGeek.

 * Boston Summit Organization
   * ACTION: Karen - Will contact people to try and push forward the
     organization of Boston Summit.

 * Debian/GNOME logo license question
   * ACTION: Karen - Will follow up with Debian about their usage of
     the GNOME logo.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Emily - Will work with Pockey Lam to ensure that MOSC2011 (Malaysia,
   July 3-5, 2011) has the GNOME resources needed.
 * Emily - Will contact the guadec-list and gugmeisters mailing lists
   to encourage people to get involved with GUADEC 2012 planning.
 * Emily - To contact owners of the Quarterly Report sections and get
   the reports finished.

== Status of action items ==

 * Andreas - To ask Kat if she can reach out to the gnome-de gnome org
   mailing list about finding local German volunteers to help with the
   Desktop Summit 2011. (will ping again)
 * Andreas - Will look into the possibility of a Desktop Summit design
   where the facade is more neutral.
 * Andreas - Will blog a Desktop Summit status report.
 * Andreas - Will discuss with Ryan Lortie providing support contracts
   for GTK+.
 * Andreas - To verify meeting times for the Desktop Summit.  That
   August 9th is a good date for the board and AGM meetings and August
   10th for the Advisory Board meeting.  Will confirm on board list,
   then the advisory board list.
 * Andreas - To start work on next 2011 Annual Report ASAP (due start
   FY2012).  Taken over from Paul.
 * Andreas - Will help Emily publish the quarterly report.
 * 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 reach out to Dave Richards from the City of Largo to
   plan for a hackfest there.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if
   they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Bastien - To make sure that the "IM, Contacts & Social Hackfest"
   gets added to http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests.
 * Bastien - To put together a proposal for how technical issues could
   be mediated within the community.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James
   Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
   use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. 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.
   Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - Will follow up with the lawyers to discuss what would be
   involved to provide liability protection like what the Conservancy
   provides and to see if they have any perspective about whether the
   GNOME Foundation should allow GNOME projects to join Conservancy.
 * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their
   plans for the GIMP money.
 * Brian & Og - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the
   GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams.  Will draft an agenda.
 * Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to
   sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.
 * Emily & Andreas - Will publish the Q1 quarterly report on the web on
   Friday.
 * 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 assist with the GNOME 3 as a Foundation goal task and
   to help in getting the GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey topics
   together. (Handing over to someone else).
 * Germán - Will finish the Financial section of the quarterly report.
 * Germán - Will talk to membership committee to see if we can do
   something to help remind people to renew memberships to avoid people
   losing the ability to vote.
 * Germán - To send link to previous year's GUADEC's budgets to
   guadec-list.
 * Karen - Will compose a press release by the end of the week.
 * Og - Update the blog and planet to highlight that people are
   expected to sign and follow the GNOME Code of Conduct.
   * As per Paul's recommendation, I have emailed Vincent to ask him
   what his idea is for doing this.
   * Still have not heard back from Vincent Untz.
   * Still on !ToDo.
 * Og - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for
   FoG.
   * Still on !ToDo.
 * 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 Urrelo 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 - 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.
 * Paul - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile,
   etc.
 * Paul - To review Justin's email about updating trademark agreements
   and email the marketing team for feedback.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering PayPal information into
   GnuCash.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul &
   Behdad.
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th
   proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.
 * Unowned - To find a way to automate the process of exporting results
   from internal review process and email it to the board.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Andreas - To touch base with the membership committee about
   finalizing the vote, and to invite the new members to the next board
   meeting.
 * Andreas - Will moderate the IRC meeting on the 29th.
 * Bastien - Will touch base with the appropriate people in Red Hat to
   see if the RHN entitlements can be approved.
 * Brian - Will provide Karen with past discussions about !LojaGeek.
 * Emily - Get the Q1 reports published, and get the 2011 Q2 report
   started.
 * Germán - Will touch base with the GObject-Introspection Hackfest and
   make sure that people attending also attend the Desktop Summit if
   possible.
 * Karen - Will take over discussions to take over ownership of some
   GNOME related domains.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
 * Karen - Will contact people to try and push forward the organization
   of Boston Summit.
   * Emailed boston-social, talked to Walter Bender, emailed
     Jonathan Blandford.
 * Karen - Will follow up with Debian about their usage of the GNOME
   logo.
   * Emailed with Stefano Zacchiroli, left it that GNOME needs to
     decide whether it wants to permit this new combined logo use.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * Discussion about announcing Karen Sandler as the new GNOME
   Foundation ED, such as handling the press release, an LWN interview,
   etc.
   * Welcome Karen!

 * Meetings
   * Planning for the Advisory Board meeting on June 21st.
   * Planning for the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings on June 15th and
     29th.
   * Discussion about when to have the new board members start joining
     meetings.

 * Events
   * Discussion about planning a GObject-Introspection Hackfest from
     August 10th to August 15th in Berlin.  A travel budget is under
     consideration and discussion.
   * Discussion planning for the Desktop Summit and working on the
     budget.
   * Discussion about the GUADEC 2012 Call for Bids.  A bid from Brno,
     Czech Republic was received.
   * Discussion about having GNOME participate in MOSC2011 conference
     in Malaysia.
   * The GNOME Foundation is helping to sponsor and send speakers to
     COSCUP 2011 in Taiwan.
   * Discussion about finalizing the GNOME.Asia finances.

 * Miscellaneous
   * Finalizing the Q1 Quarterly Report.
   * Michael Natterer from GIMP requested 1596.00 € for the GIMP
     meeting at this year's Chaos Communication Camp.  This was
     approved by the board via email.
     * http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/
   * Rosanna provided an update that the bank has returned the money
     from all fraudulent checks and they are implementing changes to
     avoid problems like this in the future.
   * A Foundation member complained about an inappropriate post to
     Planet, which the board addressed.
   * A person representing Debian asked the GNOME Foundation about how
     Debian is using the GNOME logo.  The board is considering this now.
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