Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015



= Minutes for Tuesday, November 3th, 2015, 20:00 UTC =

Next meeting date Tuesday, November 10th, 2015, 20:00 UTC

== Attending ==

 * Jeff F. T.
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Cosimo Cecchi
 * Allan Day
 * Ekaterina Gerasimova
 * Andrea Veri
 * Shaun McCance
 * Alexandre Franke

== Regrets ==

== Missing ==

== Board meeting ==

 * Adboard
  * next meeting
  * Previous meeting took place at the beginning of August, it's 3 months already
  * Possible agenda:
      * Q/A about the recently published annual report
      * Follow-ups to action items that some of the adboard members were curious about during GUADEC's 
meeting 
       * Scott Reeves' question about Groupon's money
       * Wayland
        * ACTION: Kat to get in touch with people to invite someone to talk to the adboard about Wayland and 
GNOME
       * Debian about accessibility
        * ACTION: Cosimo to get in touch with the accessibility team about team's state of art
       * ED hiring update
        * What we expect to happen on this side
        * Status of the hiring process
  * Inviting Adboard members should first happen by mailing adboard list directly, then individual members
  * Possible meeting time should be sooner than usual Board meetings, probably too late for europeans
  * Possible date could be any day during the week starting on the 16th
  * Shaun will coordinate the adboard meeting until it happens
  * ACTION: Shaun to send an e-mail to adboard list with a proposed date, time and agenda

 * Trademark renewals
  * VOTE: do not renew the old GNOME foot trademark: +1 unanimous
  * The renewal would cost around $1200
  * ACTION: Allan to reply back to Pam

 * Trademark/legal requests backlog
  * Ubuntu GNOME trademark licence agreement
   * the board needs to review and agree the draft sent by Pam two weeks ago
  * "GNOME logo for a t-shirt" by A. Cojocaru

 * Sysadmin sponsorship brochure & pitch
  * Review feedback on the draft
  * Coming up with perks
  * No updates on this item this week, Jeff is getting in touch with the Engagement Team as they're willing 
to help out

Deferred:
 * Google Play account
 * Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by the same name
 * Conference sponsorship brochure

 * Open items:
  * GIMP reimbursements
  * ED search
  * GUADEC
  * GNOME.Asia
  * Budget

== Completed actions ==

 * Allan to get back to Pam and check if there is an option to proceed with an unregistered trademark for the 
old GNOME foot that still protects the GNOME brand
 * Allan: License agreement with ilovewhatido (completed last meeting)

== Pending action items ==
 * Advisory Board related:
  * Kat to get in touch with people to invite someone to talk to the adboard about Wayland and GNOME
  * Cosimo to get in touch with GNOME's accessibility team about team's state of art
  * Shaun to send an e-mail to adboard list with a proposed date, time and agenda for the next advisory board 
meeting
 * Allan will send an email to the mailing list to vote on numbers for the conference sponsorships for 2016
 * Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement 
the sponsorship brochure
 * Allan to get back to Pam and check if there is an option to proceed with an unregistered trademark for the 
old GNOME foot that still protects the GNOME brand
 * Kat and Rosanna to schedule a call with Marta to sort things out with the Desktop Summit taxes
 * Allan to take the sponsorship brochure forward, through the Engagement Team
 * Allan to make the board should finalise the sponsorship levels and joint sponsorship discount, and email 
the organising teams for comment
 * Allan: Ubuntu GNOME agreement followup with Pam
 * Shaun: GNOME logo use by podiatrist
  * Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and 
update the licensing page on the website (obsolete)
 * Allan: Hellotux agreement
 * Sri, Christian: Privacy funds hackfest
 * Allan will follow up with Pam with the result of further discussion about the Ubuntu GNOME logo (include 
GNOME Shell + Control Center in the agreement with an option for the Board to review)
 * Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for 
defence against Groupon
 * Christian to reach out to the ED Search committee and get some updates
 * Logo usage for t-shirts: Jeff to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines 
written down for future cases
 * Allan to make a proposal for a different way to use the wiki/etherpad for action items, instead of using 
kanboard
 * Create a webpage for prior pants winners (Shaun and Allan)
 * Cosimo 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
 * 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
 * Andrea to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
 * Allan will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
 * Cosimo to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
 * Christian 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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