= Minutes for Friday, December 19th, 2014, 17:00 UTC =
Next meeting due on January 9th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Rosanna Yuen
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Jeff Fortin
* Andrea Veri
* Karen Sandler
* Tobias Mueller
== Regrets ==
* Sriram Ramkrishna
== Missing ==
== Board meeting ==
* GUADEC 2015 Sponsor Brochure Draft (if not resolved on the mailing list)
* VOTE: +1 Karen, Marina, Tobi in the meeting, Kat, Jeff, Andrea by mailing list)
* ACTION: Jeff to reply Fabiana back with the vote's result
* Status of adboard outreach
* Need to either have the quarterly adboard meeting now soonish, or plan one for FOSDEM
* What about having it at the upcoming FOSDEM?
* Sri, Tobi, Karen, Kat will be at FOSDEM this year
* Who from the Adboard might be there? Google and Red Hat, anyone else?
* ACTION: Kat to send an invitation email for it this week
* ACTION: Tobi (?) to figure out a time slot for it
* Prospection: nothing to report yet: too late for the budget thing, but should send at least a happy
holidays mail?
* (If time allows, and depending on the outcome of "Status of adboard outreach"): see if we need to assign a
5K of general funds to cover sysadmin work for year 2015 while adboard outreach is being sorted out?
* a 3000$ check was received from "The Howard Johnson Foundation"
* the GNOME Foundation is expected to use the funds only within the US
* Need to dig a little bit who these people are, and if they did donate to who they thought they were
donating to?
* Evaluate what we can use it on with the restrictions that come attached to the check
* Proposal to experiment with a Kanboard instance to keep track of our action items
* Access is allowed to all Board members using their GNOME Account login
* Ask Andrea or Jeff to grant the relevant ACL on the board
* Review pending action items
* Review old minutes pending items (where?)
* Discuss plans for reviewing salaries/hourly rates of employees/contractors
* Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board members (or missing info):
* GNOME Privacy project (what to do with the remaining funds): hackfest? internships?
* NDA for sysadmins (for the privacy policy)
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
* Grant and letter from The Howard Johnson Foundation
* Performance and salary reviews for employees and contractors
* Missing board-list archives for 2005-2006 and a few months of 2007
* Mailman had a misconfiguration way back in 2005 and archives for these years were lost
* Andrea is contacting Board members that were serving at that time to import them back into the GNOME
Infrastructure
* Initial payments to the Outreach Program interns
== Completed Actions ==
== Pending action items ==
* GUADEC 2015 Sponsor Brochure Draft: Jeff to mail Fabiana back with the result of Board's vote
* 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
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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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