Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 12th, 2016



= Minutes for Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 20:00 UTC =

Next meeting date Tuesday, 19 January, 20:00 UTC

== Attending ==

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

== Regrets ==

 * Cosimo Cecchi

== Missing ==

== Agenda for Jan 12 ==

 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
 * IndiaHacks open source hackathon
 * GNOME Peru Camp
 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors

Ongoing:
 * ED search update
 * Google Play account
 * Status of logo copyright
 * CiviCRM discussion
 * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks

== Minutes ==

 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  * Request was sent through the mailing list
  * Cosimo replied to the request already, still waiting for a reply from their side

 * IndiaHacks open source hackathon
  * No need for a Board action about this.

 * GNOME Peru Camp
  * We have the budget for this event to happen. (around 500 USD)
  * Julita provided a breakdown of the various planned expenses on the list
  * The event is two weeks away already.
  * The cost seems to be appropriate for the amount of participants to the event (30 people)
  * VOTE: Approve the budget for 30 attendees to take part to the GNOME Peru Camp, conditional to reaching a 
minimum of 25 participants
   * +1 Jeff, Shaun, Alexandre, Andrea, Kat
   * VOTE PASSED

 * Endless is joining the advisory board
  * There is much rejoicing!
  * We ought to make a press release about this

 * Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list)
  * Annual report reimbursement looks OK
  * Wait for the Travel Committee to parse the various receipts and come up with a reply

 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
  * Deferred.

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
   * No updates.
  * 2015-12-22
   * No updates.
  * 2015-01-05
   * No updates.
  * 2015-01-12
   * No updates.

 * 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
   * No updates.
  * 2015-12-22
   * No updates.
  * 2015-01-05
   * No updates.
  * 2016-01-12
   * No updates.

 * 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
   * No news still. Action item is still pending.
  * 2015-12-15
   * No news still. Action item is still pending.
  * 2015-12-22
   * No news still. Action item is still pending.
  * 2015-01-05
   * No news.
  * 2016-01-12
   * No news.

 * 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

== Completed actions ==

== 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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