A note on the timing: These minutes and the following ones of March 30 were approved in the board meeting of April 27, 2020. I apologize for the delay between then and now, which was due to my own faulty TODO-list bookkeeping.
FYI, the minutes of the board meetings of April 13, 27, and May 18, are pending approval in the following board meeting.
= Meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 23 March 2020, 14:30 UTC =
== Attending ==
* AllanDay
* NeilMcGovern
* TristanVanBerkom
* FedericoMenaQuintero
* RobertMcQueen
== Regrets ==
* CarlosSoriano
* RosannaYuen
== Missing ==
* PhilipChimento
* BrittYazel
== Agenda ==
* Meeting schedule
* Foundation mission/vision
* Form working groups
* Committee requirements
== Minutes ==
* Meeting schedule
* Deferred until we have more directors present.
* Foundation mission/vision
* Deferred until we have more directors present.
* Form working groups
* Allan: We can turn these into two groups, a strategy one and a policy one. My proposal is that the strategy group works on the mission/vision question and the 18-month strategy for the Foundation, while the policy one works on things like the policy for conference approvals and whether to turn the release team into a committee (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/159).
* Tristan: This would define who does what in working sessions.
* Allan: Do we want the groups to be non-overlapping?
* Neil: Maybe we should just ask for volunteers rather than appointing them.
* Allan: Let's go around the room.
* Federico: (after some discussion) I would like to work on policy, project governance, initiatives.
* Rob: Strategy.
* Tristan: Policy, things around the release team becoming a committee. I will need to schedule with a convenient time with Federico in regard to time zones.
* Neil: A lot of that does not need to be done in person; it can be in !GitLab comments or other asynchronous discussions.
* Allan: Split down the middle, probably most useful around the strategy side right now.
* Allan: I will send out an introductory email to each group once I have talked to Philip, Britt, and Carlos.
* Committee requirements
* Allan: Philip has drafted a proposal for minimum requirements for committees.
* Tristan already suggested an amendment to the proposal in the draft document.
* '''VOTE:''' Adopt the draft as expectations for committees.
* +1 unanimous
* '''ACTION''' - Allan to put the approved draft on the wiki, in the committees page.
* '''ACTION''' - Allan to mail committees to inform them of the requirements page.
== Actions ==
* '''Allan:''' Add the approved committee requirements text to the wiki, in
https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Committees (done:
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/diff/Foundation/Committees?action="">)
* '''Allan:''' Contact committees to inform them of the committee requirements.
