Minutes of the Board Meeting of February, 2nd, 2016



= Minutes for Tuesday, February 2nd 2016, 20:00 UTC =

Next meeting date Tuesday, February 9th, 20:00 UTC

== Attending ==

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

== Regrets ==

 * Andrea Veri

== Missing ==

== Agenda ==

  * Endless joining the AB
  * GNOME.Asia budget
  * GUADEC contract
  * Google ad grant
  * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell
  * Trademark request:
    * GNOME logo for session launcher
    * session is on a remote server, they don't have anything to do with it, they just provide the launcher
  * Clarification post about OPW & Karen (originally discussed on the mailing list)

Ongoing:
  * ED search update
  * Google Play account
  * Status of logo copyright
  * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  * Unixstickers
  * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors?
  * CiviCRM discussion
  * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
  * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
  * Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list)

== Minutes ==

 * Endless joining the AB
  * ACTION: Shaun to write the quote on the GNOME side
  * ACTION: Kat or Alexandre to publish the news
  * Need to find out who the other representative is. First representative is Jonathan
  * ACTION: Rosanna to find out who other representative is and what next steps are for invoicing, etc, and 
report to the list
  * Also want to send an email to the adboard list to give a heads-up to the other AdBoard members
  * ACTION: Shaun to send the email to the list
  * ACTION: Kat to add people to the email

 * GNOME.Asia budget
  * Received budget but it's a list of expenses, not a full budget
  * Most expensive option is $23699.50, least expensive option is $13579.50
  * GNOME.Asia organizers haven't communicated us how much they expect to raise themselves
  * Then we'll need to coordinate with the organizers about how much money we'll advance for the conference. 
Probably can figure that out by next week.
  * ACTION: Kat volunteers to help them to write a proper budget, and then go from there

 * GUADEC contract
  * We have a draft for the contract. Local organization and Linux Tag e.V. have a few changes that they want 
us to make
  * No objections from the board to the proposed changes
  * Rosanna to investigate what the Foundation's liability insurance covers
  * ACTION: Kat will proceed adjusting the current draft to address the local oraganizer's requests

 * Google ad grant
  * Are we interested? We would get free credit for Google AdWords. We could advertise things (e.g. GUADEC) 
through Google AdWords for free
  * We would need to register with the program to get accepted, and then need to login once every 90 days at 
least
  * We can work with the Engagement team to get some further help with this
  * ACTION: Alexandre to follow up with the procedure to get registered

 * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell
  * General feeling that we would prefer for the extension to be hosted on git.gnome.org
  * If they are a third-party we would probably have to sign an agreement where they acknowledge that the 
trademark is our property
  * The agreement can protect us in case the logo is used in association with something else, or in case the 
project contains malicious code
  * ACTION: Cosimo to draft an agreement and then we can move the vote on the mailing list

 * Clarification post about OPW & Karen
  * This was done. Karen was notified

Ongoing:
 * ED search update
  * 2015-12-01 
   * No news received in recent weeks, mostly because of holidays
  * 2015-12-08
   * 3 candidates are going to have a couple of one hour interviews with ~2 members of the hiring committee 
per interview. Scheduling of these metings is just beginning.
  * 2015-12-15 to 2015-01-12
   * No updates.
  * 2016-01-19
   * Committee has completed interview with two final candidates 
   * They should have a final answer/proposal to the board within a few weeks
  * 2016-02-02
   * Expect more news this week - we'll start scheduling interviews soon
   
 * Google Play account
  * 2015-12-01
   * ACTION: Alexandre to follow up with the Release Team about this
  * 2015-12-08
   * Alexandre mailed the Release Team today, still waiting for an answer.
  * 2015-12-15 to 2016-01-19
   * No updates.
  * 2016-02-02
   * Release team did not come to an agreement/conclusion. Unclear what next steps should be

 * Status of logo copyright
  * 2015-12-01
   * ACTION: Shaun to send out email to d-d-l with proposal
   * No news on this, action item from Shaun is still pending.
  * 2015-12-08 to 2016-01-19
   * No updates.
  * 2016-02-02
   * Shaun will try to pick it up this week

 * CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
  * ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016

 * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks (last discussion from 2016-01-05)
  * Awaiting for Andrea's reply

 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
  * Item has been deferred.

 * Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list, discussed on the 2016-01-12)

 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  * 2016-01-19
   * We support the cause but don't have a history working with individuals.
   * Allan suggests sending email proposing ramp up, work more closely as time goes on
   * ACTION: Allan will send email 
  * 2016-02-02
   * Allan has an action item to follow up with this

 * Unixstickers
   * Allan has an action item to follow up with this
   * Kat put some information on the agreements page for similar cases

== Pending 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 
to the sponsorship brochure
 * 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)
 * 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: Allan to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines 
written down for future cases
 * Shaun and Allan to create a webpage for prior pants winners
 * 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 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 (current draft is at 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy)
  * Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
 * 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 (inventory management: some stuff we have heaps of, 
some we run out of stock quickly; consider an on-demand production service)




-- 

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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