Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting January 3 2002
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Presents:
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Havoc Pennington (chairing)
James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard (minutes)
Jody Goldberg
George Lebl
Telsa Gwynne
Jim Gettys
Tim Ney
Nat Friedman
Jonathan Blandford
Federico Mena
Miguel de Icaza (0:20)
Decisions:
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- Happy New Year to everybody
- switching back to a telconf every two weeks, no telconf next week.
Actions done:
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ACTION: Tim to get the membership logos on the foundation page
=> We will publish the logos we have agreement to put on-line
at this time
ACTION: Tim to work on the Trademark registration for "GNOME" and the foot.
=> Done, the application had been filed. it may take some time
before we get the final decision.
ACTION: Tim to organize a call with Nat, Tim, Leslie and Jeff Waugh to
finalize the description of the 2.0 release
=> Done, got a consensus on the call. The result should be propagated
back to the board and the foundation at large soon.
ACTION: Nat to solve the arrangement for the teleconferences
=> Resolved by trying to find alternate way, trying to round robbin
between multiple hosts
Actions:
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ACTION: Tim, John and Havoc to get a draft statement on the relation
with the free software foundation and license policy.
=> Tim and Havoc have started, pending
ACTION: Jim to restart the font discussions with various parties
=> pending
ACTION: Nat and Jonathan talk to gnome-sysadmin about adding ssh
tunneling for GNOME CVS access
=> A description has been sent, waiting for a reply, other work
need to be done, pending.
New Actions:
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ACTION: Tim to get the membership logos on the foundation page
ACTION: Jonathan and Jim will look at Red Hat and Compaq to find
if they can host phone meetings
ACTION: Tim to grant provision to get a screenshot of our home page
to a printing company which requested it
ACTION: Havoc to update the main page www.gnome.org, we need a link to
the Gnome-2 effort and need some cleanup.
ACTION: Jonathan to draft a possible official answer to the Uk Gov Talk
request for comment on the use of open source software within
the UK government.
Discussion:
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- approve last meeting minutes:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-December/msg00005.html
- Conference call.
Trying to find more possibilities for hosting the teleconference.
Jonathan and Jim will check
- GNOME 2 release naming.
after call with the promotion group it seems there is consensus on using
"GNOME 2.0 Development Platform and Desktop"
- GNOME naming/definition in general and for the release
We had some comments on the content of the release modules.
The member of the Board also on the Release team will transmit those
comments for discussion at their meeting tomorrow.
- GUADEC3:
The web site is on the work it's not on-line yet needing some graphics,
they are back at work after the hollidays.
There will be an on-line submission for papers and presentations, possibly
within a week, and a possible deadline at the end of the month.
We expect to have the travel informations up on-line as fast as possible
so that people can make the needed travel arrangements.
- GNOME2:
There is progresses at the technical level. Trying now to get
weekly updates and there is contacts for all the modules.
There is a revised schedule on the Web site.
Daniel
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