Minutes of the board meeting of December 17, 2018

[philip chimento gmail com]

Wiki location: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20181217

= Foundation Board Minutes for Monday 17 December, 16:30 UTC =

== Attending ==

 * FedericoMenaQuintero
 * CarlosSoriano
 * AllanDay
 * NeilMcGovern
 * PhilipChimento
 * NuritziSanchez
 * RobMcQueen

== Regrets ==

 * RosannaYuen
 * KatGerasimova

== Agenda ==

 * Leo Utskot's mail about sponsoring a Rust hackfest in Mexico (Federico)
 * Meeting time
 * Designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation advisory board member
 * Review board initiatives (Nuritzi)

== Minutes ==

 * Leo Utskot's mail about sponsoring a Rust hackfest in Mexico (Federico)
   * Neil will reply.
 
 * Meeting time
   * This time works for Nuritzi as well. We'll adopt this as the meeting time until the next daylight savings time change.

 * Designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation advisory board member
   * Sri has responded to the call for volunteers.
   * VOTE: designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation's advisory board member:
     * +1 unanimous
   * ACTION: (Rob) Follow up with Sri and close https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/72

 * Review board initiatives
   * Ongoing discussion from the board hackfest about how to define GNOME software. This group will have a call soon.
   * Employee handbook, https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/43 — can this be closed now that it is being done?
   * Policy for private minutes, https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/61 — Philip will try to work on this during the holiday break. (Not done yet.)
   * Hackfest approvals — need to define better what a GNOME event is. Pam's advice was to write a description of the events that may use the trademark (iin other words, describe a hackfest) and supply that as a guideline.
   * Committees — need to revisit this one in the new year.
     * What was the status of the sponsorship committee? - Wait for development coordinator to be hired, and see how the board needs to support that person with a committee.
   * Who is going to FOSDEM?

== Actions ==

 * Rob - Follow up with Sri Ramkrishna about The Document Foundation advisory board position. (Done.)