= Minutes for Friday, February 13th, 2015, 17:00 UTC = Next meeting due on February 27th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC == Attending == * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Rosanna Yuen * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Jeff Fortin * Sriram Ramkrishna * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller == Regrets == * Andrea Veri == Missing == == Board meeting == * Update about the privacy money progress * https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/PrivacyProject2015 * A team has been assembled, comprising of Federico, Hubert and Spidler * A number of tasks have been identified for bounties and the details are being finalised * This will be a multi-round process, with the first round of bounties being close to a releasable state * ACTION: Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review * Entering an agreement with the WHS * Questions have been resolved and the agreement has been re-sent to the Board * Board to review agreement and vote on the mailing list * Calling for Sponsors for GNOME.Asia Summit * Call for papers will go out shortly * Time to contact potential sponsors * GUADEC and GNOME.Asia organisers have started coordinating joint sponsorships amounts * We should ask the organizing team of GNOME Asia & GUADEC (including Emily) to tackle the small and numerous sponsors * The board could contact the usual big sponsors (Google, RHT, etc.) after coordinating with the organizing teams on that * ACTION: Kat to coordinate between the local GUADEC/GNOME.Asia teams and the board to figure out who will contact which sponsor * Desktop Summit 2011 taxes * KDE e.v. reached out to us as they have had to pay more taxes relating to the Desktop Summit in 2011 * The paperwork is in German and it is not clear to the board what it actually says * ACTION: Kat or Karen to reach out to KDE to confirm what is going on * Responding to a phone inquiry asking to reach Stormy Peters * Seems to be about GNOME rather than the person * ACTION: Jeff to call back and find out what the phone inquiry which asked for Stormy is about * Sysadmin sponsorship * Proposal to create a sponsorship brochure/proposal to show to potential sponsors * Document should have numbers (perks and sponsorship levels etc.) * Include the great work that has been done and needs to be done continuously, plus improvements * A three-paragraph proposal may be a better idea as it is not an event * Can be just text * Example for Outreachy: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs/Proposal * ACTION: Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin * Promotional GNOME artwork does not explicitly state license * Most of the artwork may be under LGPL (this is unclear) * We get implicit permission to use the artwork when it is submitted * CC0 may be a better license as it's actually possible to compaly with it when printing stickers * ACTION: Sri to coordinate with engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork == Discussed on the mailing list == * GUADEC meeting at FOSDEM * The GUADEC 2015 organization team met a few Board representatives during FOSDEM * OEM distribution with Gnome * Narcis Garcia got in touch with the Board communicating a hardware wholesale company will start shipping with Ubuntu GNOME on old computers having no OS pre-installed * Former GNOME Foundation Member Clytie Siddall passed away * The Board organized a joint press release with the Debian Marketing Team in order to honor Clytie's memory and contributions * Mid-point payments to outreach interns * VOTE: send payments to interns for whom corresponding funds have arrived * +1 Marina, Tobi, Jeff, Karen, Kat * VOTE: send payments to interns whose corresponding funds have not arrived after those funds arrive * +1 Marina, Tobi, Jeff, Karen, Kat, Sri * ED search meetings * The Board to have a special meeting to proceed with the hiright process for a new executive director for the GNOME Foundation * Meeting happened on 2015-02-11 * GUADEC organization team update * The venue has been confirmed and the official dates will be announced the upcoming week * UN (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression) call for comment on cryptography and freedom of expression * The UN has made a call for comments on encryption and anonymity: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/CallForSubmission.aspx * The GNOME Foundation strongly cares about the privacy of its users and acknowledged a statement in support of encryption and anonymity online == Completed actions == == Pending action items == * 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 * Jeff to call back and find out what the phone inquiry which asked for Stormy is about * Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin * 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 * Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review * Kat to coordinate between the local GUADEC/GNOME.Asia teams and the board to figure out who will contact which sponsor * Kat or Karen to reach out to KDE to confirm what is going on * 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 * Sri to coordinate with engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork -- 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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