= Minutes for Tuesday, November 17th, 2015, 20:00 UTC =
Next meeting date Tuesday, November 24th, 2015, 20:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Rosanna Yuen
* Cosimo Cecchi
* Alexandre Franke
* Allan Day
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Andrea Veri
* Shaun McCance
* Jeff F. T.
== Regrets ==
== Missing ==
== Board meeting ==
* West Coast Summit
* Kat had a look at Sri's proposal, the proposed budget is higher than we expected
* What is Sri actually requesting from the GNOME Foundation?
* Permission to use the GNOME logo / trademark to promote the event as official
* Sponsorship for the event
* Rosanna's time to handle the burden of dealing with administrative tasks for the event
* Rosanna acked she's fine with this happening
* The idea is the conference should break even
* There are some concerns on the sponsorship levels as they appear higher than the GUADEC ones
* Is the event going to get the proper audience to bring in sponsors willing to promote the event with
such values?
* In addition no benefits are associated with the sponsorship levels
* Alexandre to get back to Sri with the following concerns and help him addressing them and come back to
the Board with a response
* VOTE: Allow Sri to associate the GNOME Foundation with the LAS conference, to begin negotiating with
sponsors, and agree to the GNOME Foundation acting as the charitable organization handling the funds
* +1 unanimous
* Assign new vice president
* Self nominees
* Jeff F. T
* VOTE: +1 Kat, Andrea, Allan, Alexandre, Cosimo, Shaun. Jeff abstains
* Allan Day
* VOTE: +1 Cosimo, Alexandre, Jeff, Shaun. Andrea, Allan, Kat abstain.
* Jeff F. T. is the new GNOME Foundation Vice President
* Update on adboard meeting preparation
* Meeting is going to be held tomorrow 18th of November at 18 UTC
* Alexander Larsson is joining the call and will be presenting xdg-app
* Cosimo was waiting for an additional reply from the Accessibility team, still not sure someone will be
able to join the meeting on team's behalf
* ED search update
* Latest meeting was on friday
* Phone interviews are starting soon, the ED search committee is selecting a final shortlist
* SG's recommendation
* He's not a Foundation Member yet
* He participated to GSoC 2014 working on the Getting Things GNOME module
* We received several endorsements from his mentors
* We rarely recommended someone who wasn't a Foundation member before
* Eventual recommendation letter should be very factual about what his contributions have been
* ACTION: Rosanna will prepare a draft combining the recommendations
* Google Play account
* Instagram filters in GNOME
* Open items:
* GIMP reimbursements
* Desktop Summit taxes
* ED search
* GUADEC
* GNOME.Asia
* Budget
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
* SG's recommendation item edits
* After further verification the Board was made aware that SG is indeed a Foundation Member since 2014-10-07
* A recommendation letter taking into account of both mentors' endorsements and SG's contributions has been
drafted by the President and sent back to SG
== Completed actions ==
* Alexandre to get back to Sri asking whether he could prepare a budget report (similar to how GUADEC bids
are managed) for the GNOME Libre Application Summit conference and forward it to the Board
* Adboard meeting preparation
* Kat to get in touch with Alexander Larsson
* 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
* Alexandre to reach out to Allan to communicate the new action item (GNOME artwork licensing
standardization coordination) as it was firstly assigned to Sri
== Pending action items ==
* GNOME Logo licensing
* Shaun to look over the current usage of the logo and how other free software projects do it, and come up
with a proposal/report
* LAS GNOME Bid
* Alexandre to get back to Sri with the concerns outlined on the LAS GNOME Bid agenda item helping him
addressing them and coming back to the Board with a response
* On re-assigning Christian and previous Board members action items
* Allan and Sri to coordinate with the engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
* Cosimo to follow up with interested parties on how to spend the Privacy campaign funds
* Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement
the sponsorship brochure
* 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: 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
* Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for
defence against Groupon
* 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 (done, but yet to be discussed by the board)
* 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
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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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