= Minutes for Friday, October 31th, 2014, 17:00 UTC = Next meeting due on November 14th, 2014 at 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Rosanna Yuen * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Jeff Fortin * Andrea Veri * Sriram Ramkrishna == Regrets == * Karen Sandler == Missing == * Tobias Mueller == Board meeting == * Adam Reviczky's GNOME volunteer work reference * Marina asked for some links as proof of Adam's contributions in the past (he stated that he started contributing way back in 2001) * Adam is a Foundation member since 14th January, 2010 * The Board acks to provide Adam with a response about his past contributions on the GNOME Foundation * ACTION: Kat to reply to Jan (from hireright.com) with the e-mail she drafted on the list * Groupon * NDA for sysadmins (for the privacy policy) * NDA was sent to the list, received some feedback and it's ready to move along to the infrastructure team for review * ACTION: Kat to run it by our infrastructure team first, then run it by our lawyer * Emma Stamm's proposal for a research project around nonprofit management * We need to check her timeframe; she should be aware that it might take months for some of the people she might want to interview to find the time. * Need to ask how her findings are going to be published (where/how and under what license - suggest CC license), need to see the info & consent forms * Participating in such study is only valuable if the findings are made public, but interviewees need to use their best judgement in discussing any challenges and not disclose private information * Many/most items she is asking for can be requested from the Engagement team or learned by reviewing the Foundation, Engagement, and other list archives; we could simply be facilitating her by pointing out to references * ACTION: Kat to reply to her * Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board members (or missing info): * GNOME Privacy project * Karen's GUADEC 2014 travel expenses reimbursement (awaits forwarding of relevant mail thread) == Discussed on the mailing list == * GNOME event box at FSCONS * Box has been sent to FSCONS thanks to Tobi * GUADEC 2015: Sponsor brochure draft review * Employment reference request from Adam Reviczky * Website privacy policy, a first draft has been published at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy. Further modifications and reviews will follow in the near future. == Completed Actions == * Kat to reply to Jan (from hireright.com) with the e-mail she drafted on the list about Adam Reviczky's employment reference request == Pending action items == * Kat to follow-up with Emma Stamm about her research proposal * Kat to forward the NDA for sysadmins to our infrastructure team first, then run it by our lawyer for final approval if no major objections will be raised * GNOME's CoC: Board to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a version of the CoC to be finally considered final over all the GNOME yearly events * Edward Swartz's "philantropist donation": Sri to email him to thank, say we're getting a gift together, ask about reasons motivating his great donation, maybe offer an interview? And verify his mailing address. * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders and passwords * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons * Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review * Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money * Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services * Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint * Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list * Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites * Sri to communicate to Rosanna and work on the donation for the West Coast hackfest * Sri, Marina, Kat to work on establishing criteria for drafting for the hiring committee for the ED role * Sri to investigate the GNOME gifts situation -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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