= Minutes for Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, 19:00 UTC =
Next meeting date Tuesday, September 15th, 2015, 19:00UTC
== Attending ==
* Shaun McCance
* Rosanna Yuen
* Cosimo Cecchi
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Christian Hergert
== Regrets ==
* Allan Day
* Andrea Veri
* JF Fortin T.
== Missing ==
== Board meeting ==
* Funding request for release party.
* Release party in Indonesia, request by Siska Iskandar
* Siska's original request is $798. She's OK with the board funding less than requested.
* General sentiment that we should support her
* Funded $500 for GNOME Peru fest as prior art, but this does not have a proven track record
* Kat: should probably assign $300-400 as a starting point
* Shaun: might be worthwhile in the future to have marketing material boxes for this kind of events
* South America and Asia are less keen to have event boxes because the communities are smaller and more
tight. Also shipping costs are much higher - would be almost as much as the box itself
* Then we should have something on the Wiki for people to prepare one
* Tried to engage Marketing team about this but didn't get much response
* Engagement team should reach out to Julita, Siska, Emily, etc what they would find useful in a box
like that
* ACTION: Rosanna will ask the engagement team after we're done with the Annual Report.
* VOTE: allocate $350 to the release party. +1 Cosimo, Shaun, Christian, Kat
* VOTE PASSED
* Action items:
* GNOME logo use by podiatrist (Shaun)
* Logo usage for tshirts (Jeff)
* Trademark-infringing swag (Cosimo)
* Freedesktop hackfests with Groupon money (Kat)
* Privacy funds hackfest (Sri, Christian)
* Idea to get it rolled up with West Coast summit
* Been on weekly calls with Sri for West Coast summit organization. Want to expand the scope of the
conference to much larger and not exclusively tied to GNOME
* Not sure if West Coast summit will be the best forum to do this given the expanded scope
* Sri sent a proposal to the Board two weeks ago about the Summit, with a request for $2K funding
attached
* Not sure how much is going to be GNOME-centric after reading the proposal
* Organizers are still focusing on finding sponsors and finding the right format
* Sri's proposal does not have clear benefits for GNOME, so the request for Foundation money is a bit
more dubious
* We don't typically spinsor event organization for non-GNOME events (even though we sponsor people
to attend)
* Idea is also to expand companies investing in the GNOME platform
* Christian's preference would be to do this as part of LPC, but that's proving to be difficult
* Is it a conference targeted to developers or budget decision-makers then? That can change the scope
of GNOME's involvement
* General consensus that this conference is a great idea, but we don't have enough details to vote on
funding
* Rosanna: we could help with handling the money without charging an administrative fee
* Shaun: would like to see a budget in any case before we vote on any funding request
* ACTION: Shaun will write his thoughts and reply to Sri
* No other concrete alternatives - we'll let this rest for a bit more
* Open items:
* GUADEC 2016
* Another three weeks to send bids
* Karlshrue team met last week - things are ongoing
* Bern team haven't submitted an intention to bid yet
* Annual report
* Being proofread - waiting for Allan to come back for approval
since he's the editor
* Still on track to publish it before the end of FY
* We'll put it on people's agenda much sooner for next year
* ED search
* Still waiting on committee to come back with candidates
* Quick poke might get people moving
* ACTION: Christian to poke ED search committee
* Board is interested if more PR is needed, or if any involvement from board/community would help
* Would like regular updates about state of things bi-weekly/monthly
* Google Play account
* Javier from release-team followed up and volunteered to help
* Out of board's hands at that point
* Desktop summit taxes
* Received information from KDE eV
* ACTION: Rosanna to read the document once more and follow up
== 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
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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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