Re: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting September 10 2002

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au> writes:
> A couple of questions about these (and, btw, it's really nice to see
> minutes that are comprehensive enough from both foundation and
> release-team meetings that we can use them to start discussions):
> 
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 	  Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting September 10 2002
> > 	  ====================================================
> [...]
> >   ACTION: Tim looking at structuring tutorials, need to send a call
> >   for speakers
> > 	=> Tim sent mail to various people, pending
> 
> Tutorials and speakers for what?
>

GUADEC - idea is to make money from paid tutorials in the days before
guadec, similar to USENIX I suppose.
 
> > Discussion:
> > ===========
> [...]
> >   - SPI advisor invitation:
> >     We got an invitation from the SPI to provide an advisor from the 
> >     Gnome foundation.
> >     It's something appropriate for the foundation to do and we are looking
> >     for the right person to fill that position.
> 
> What is the "SPI"? Space Planning Institute? Smart Persons Initiative?
> Super Party Issues?

See http://www.spi-inc.org/ (they are historically associated with
Debian)

Havoc