= Minutes for Wednesday, September 1st, 2015, 19:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, 19:00UTC == Attending == * Shaun !McCance * Cosimo Cecchi * Rosanna Yuen * Christian Hergert * Andrea Veri * Ekaterina Gerasimova == Regrets == * Allan Day * JF Fortin T. == Missing == == Board meeting == * GUADEC 2016 * Agreed to extend deadline. Next steps? * Board members are reaching out to interested parties * Christian tried to reach the LF out already * Status of possible privacy funds hackfest * It might be possible to have the hackfest during the the West Coast Summit * Sri and Christian are currently involved in the organization * Google Play account. * No further comments, the Board will follow up on the private thread and come up with a decision * GNOME logo use by podiatrist * Is this really a trademark infringement? * The commercial category is different as they don't sell software * ACTION: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website * Logo usage request for tshirts. * ACTION: Jeff to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines written down for future cases * Trademark-infringing swag (mousepads) * http://amazon.co.uk/Abstract-Designer-Colourful-Anti-Slip-Compatible/dp/B0080CYAD8/ * UK based company having more products than just the mousepad with the GNOME logo * A quick Google image search returns no other occurrences on the web at first glance * General consensus seems to be that we need to enforce the trademark in this case. Next steps? * We don't have a trademark registered on the merchandising area * Do we want to register a trademark on this specific trademark category? * Should we approach them and ask them to stop or come up with a contract where they will be supposed to get the Foundation part of the profit they make selling the mousepads? * ACTION: Cosimo to ask Karen first * Update on annual report. * General content and privacy section are the current blockers * It should start coming together more actively this week * Update on ED search. * ACTION: Christian to reach out to the committee and get some updates * Sponsor Free Desktop-style hackfests using the funds raised for the defence against Groupon * Budget can be determined after we get some interest * ACTION: Kat to draft a call for hackfests == Discussed on the mailing list == * One GUADEC intent to bid was received: * Karlsruhe, Germany * https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2016/Bids/Karlsruhe * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-August/msg00001.html * Budget increase for Open Help Sponsorship * Existing allocated budget by the Travel Committee for Open Help 2015 was 6000 USD * Additional funds were requested with a grand total of 7,773 USD * The Travel Committee has voted to be in favor of sponsoring 6 attendees to the event, all of them are existing Foundation members and known GNOME contributors * VOTE: allocate a grand total of 7773 USD for the Open Help conference (additional 1773 USD than originally approved) * VOTE: +1 Cosimo, Christian, Jeff, Allan. Shaun and Kat abstain. * VOTE PASSED * Privacy funds * Michael Catanzaro put together a list of privacy-related items we could take into account when deciding what to do with the privacy funds * https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/Development/Security * Another list of ideas is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/PrivacyCampaign2013 == Completed actions == == Pending action items == * 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 * Cosimo to ask Karen about the trademark-infringing mousepads and report his findings to the mailing list * 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 * Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website * Allan to make a proposal for a different way to use the wiki/etherpad for action items, instead of using kanboard * Jeff to get advisory board contact details from Karen. If this fails, we need to start developing our own contacts and record them on the wiki. * Create a webpage for prior pants winners (Shaun and Allan) * Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC: Jeff to contact advisory board members by phone about joining the call on the 4th * Allan to follow up with Oliver Propst on Anual Report * Trademark-infringing swag (mousepads): Cosimo to follow up about possible future actions and send a proposal to the board * 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 * Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin -- 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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