Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 7 Aug 2001

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

        Minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board Meeting (Aug 7, 2001)
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Presents:
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    Havoc Pennington (chair)
    Jim Gettys
    Raph Levien
    Owen Taylor (minutes)
    Federico
    Miguel
    Leslie Proctor  (to discuss PR issues)

Regrets:
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    Dan Mueth
    Daniel Veillard
    Bart

Missing:
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    Maciej Stachowiak
    John Heard
    

Decisions:
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 - approved last week's minutes and actions

Finshed Actions:
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  ACTION: Federico to post the new version of the email/CVS/shell
          account policy.
   => DONE (see below)

  ACTION: Havoc to push through employment agreement for executive
          director.
   => DONE

  ACTION: Havoc to email Leila about press release changes and status.
   => DONE

  ACTION: Havoc, Owen, and John to discuss a possible accessibility
          kit release with the accessibility team.
   => DONE

  ACTION: Martin to write up a list of API issues and status report
          for GNOME 2.0.
   => DROPPED

Actions:
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  ACTION: Dan to work with Membership Committee to re-open the
          membership list.
   => still pending

  ACTION: Havoc to sent the Advisory Board list to the Board,
          looking for completion of the member liason.
   => Waiting for update from the director.

  ACTION: John to try to get a copyright assignment form and procedure
          for the GNOME Foundation.
   => Still pending.  

  ACTION: Maciej to email the Board the current draft of the platform
          license policy for review.
   => Still pending.

  ACTION: Havoc to email Sander to see if he has a suggestion for
          a replacement release coordinator.
   => Havoc doesn't remember

New Actions:
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  ACTION: Havoc to send Leslie ATK press release draft

  ACTION: Havoc to send mail introducing Kjartan to Leslie
    so that we can get feature list for 1.4.1 press release.

  ACTION: Owen to check details of email/shell-account/cvs policy.
  
  ACTION: Federico to put email/shell/cvs policy into gnome-docu
    and mail to foundation-list.

  ACTION: Dan to find someone to help out with membership committee.

  ACTION: Havoc to contact Keith Packard to find out more information
    about interop hothouse at ALS/X Techinical Conference.

Discussion:
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  - The ATK press release for LinuxWorld. People were generally
    comfortable with it with the current modifications (less hype, 
    something to download, clear that the target is developers).

  - A press release for 1.4.1. Timing on this release is approximately 
    5-6 weeks, which works well for a press release. Need to get list 
    of enhancements to Leslie so she can draft something.

  - Email/CVS policy. Went over current provisions briefly, no 
    objections.

  - Membership committee. Dan indicated that things were moving
    slowly and we might need to add someone else to the committee
    to help out.

  - Apparently there is an opportunity to have a GNOME/KDE interoperability
    hothouse at the X Technical conference/ALS. Rooms and network
    connections are available, but someone would have to organize,
    make sure that the right people showed up, etc.