= Minutes for Tuesday, January 5th 2016, 20:00 UTC =
Next meeting date Tuesday, 12 January, 20:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Jeff F.T.
* Cosimo Cecchi
* Rosanna Yuen
* Alexandre Franke
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Allan Day
* Shaun McCance
== Regrets ==
* Andrea Veri
== Missing ==
== Agenda for Jan 5 ==
* Statement of support for the SFC's campaign
* Drew Adams' question regarding SCALE
* J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
* Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
* Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors?
* GNOME logo use as avatar
Ongoing:
* ED search update
* Google Play account
* Status of logo copyright
* CiviCRM discussion
* Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
== Minutes ==
* Statement of support for the SFC's campaign
* Discussed on the mailing list, all in support
* Delegated to the Engagement team
* Marc Dunivan and Drew Adams' questions regarding SCALE
* Do we have a presence at SCALE and Ubucon lately? Not that we know of. We used to have volunteers
attending SCALE and manning a booth there some years ago, but they moved into different states/countries now.
* SCALE is 21st of January, too late for this year
* Need to recover and revamp the north-american Event Box (engagement team to evaluate the gear that it
needs now)
* Need local people to step up (hi, foundation-list!) to make this initiative happen again
* ACTION: Allan to get back to Drew and Adam saying we can't pull off a booth now, but we can send
stickers/promo materials and we're interested for the future
* J-P Mengual's partnership request (for accessibility work)
* What would the partnership concretely entail?
* We can definitely support them in promoting their crowdfunding campaign
* They are a for-profit company, it looks like the role they want to have is to manage how the development
work happens
* We don't want to be collecting money for a for-profit company
* Need clarification on what they mean exactly with URLs exchange
* ACTION: Cosimo to get back to them
* Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
* Same amount, or bigger (or lower) amount than the previous fundraiser?
* We are in a different situation than 2010, would we be able to raise as much?
* The previous figure of 40k sounds like a really hard sell nowadays.
* The tricky part if aiming high (or higher) is it looks bad if we don't hit it
* The idea is to raise money from new companies, such as hosting companies, but it's a large task and
needs connections from inside those companies (hi, foundation list?)
* We can always do with more help. An alternative approach could be to request sysadmin time from our
sponsors?
* General feeling it would be good, but probably needs training, or it would feel alien to the community
* ACTION: Jeff to talk to Andrea and Patrick to get a good estimation of how many hours per week we would
routinely need to keep things going, then we could try to aim for a specific number that covers e.g. a full
year
* GNOME logo use as avatar
* Precedent of the "I am GNOME" logo, which was semi-officially recommended as a badge/avatar during 3.0
days
* Probably we should have clearer guidelines about when to use or not the logo, and redirect people to the
"I am GNOME" logo for that purpose
* Further discussion 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
* ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
* Paypal giving fund
* Alexandre proposed to evaluate the "Giving Fund" program at Paypal
* The program allows charities to get more exposure and to receive donations without transaction fees
== Completed actions ==
* DX hackfest in January 2016
* ACTION: Kat to get back to Philip
* Endless design hackfest
* ACTION: Cosimo to communicate the to the travel committee about the extra budget and to process the
requests quickly because of time constraints
* ACTION: Allan to communicate to the other designers involved in the hackfest to get travel requests in
ASAP
* ACTION: Cosimo to communicate to Endless organizers for publicity on the hackfest
== Pending action items ==
* Marc Dunivan and Drew Adams' questions regarding SCALE
* Allan to get back to Drew and Adam saying we can't pull off a booth now, but we can send stickers/promo
materials and we're interested for the future
* J-P Mengual's partnership request
* Cosimo to get back to them
* Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
* Jeff to talk to Andrea and Patrick to get a good estimation of how many hours per week we would
routinely need to keep things going, then we could try to aim for a specific number that covers e.g. a full
year
* 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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