Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting March 25 2003
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
- To: foundation-announce gnome org
- Cc: foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting March 25 2003
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:52:54 -0500
Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting March 25 2003
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Present:
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Nat Friedman (chair)
Miguel de Icaza
Jonathan Blandford
Jim Gettys (:30)
Tim Ney (:55)
James Henstridge
Daniel Veillard (minutes)
Jody Goldberg
Glynn Foster
Bill Haneman
Regrets:
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Luis Villa
Jeff Waugh
Actions Done:
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ACTION: Jim and Miguel are looking for 2 GUADEC keynote speakers
=> ongoing, agenda
ACTION: Miguel to talk to organisers of NordU* similarly.
=> no done, dropped
Actions:
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ACTION: Jim to continue the font discussions with various parties.
=> Beta release of the fonts is done, ongoing.
Jim will also contact additional font providers.
ACTION : Tim/Jonathan Create spreadsheet outline for funding
- baseline needs
- target goals above that
- known income
=> Jonathan is working with Tim, ongoing.
ACTION: Glynn to publish a Newsletter
=> Glynn made some progress, but not yet in a publishable state,
looking for content, depends of the frequency of the Newsletter.
Ongoing, Glynn would welcome help
ACTION: Bill to double check Sun's Advisory Board member.
=> ongoing
ACTION: Tim to prepare the logistics for the Advisory Board meeting
=> ongoing
ACTION: DV to recontact the LinuxDesktop Consortium and act as liaison
=> pending
ACTION: Jeff to upload his web site current state to CVS and install
it on beta.gnome.org March 12
=> still pending
ACTION: Jody to send the ABI path in CVS to the devel list to start the
discussion
=> partly done
New Actions:
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Discussion:
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- Foundation statement on XFree situation
We discussed for 15mn on the history and evolution of the XFree86
situation while Jim Gettys was still on the call.
- Approval for minutes of last meeting
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-March/msg00000.html
- Tim status report
GUADEC
User/Customer Day on June 18th will offer a Linux work expo.
The board approved an agreement with LogOn Technology Transfer
of Germany to organize the expo at Trinity College.
Tutorials - GUADEC has added a day-long tutorial on GIMP and half day
tutorials on Beginning GTK+ Programming & GNOME System Administration of
Network Installation are now accepting registrations at
http://www.guadec.org/tutorials.php
Thanks to Jody for helping pull this together.
Marketing - Banner ads are underway.on Slashdot, Freshmeat,
Sourceforge, and Geocrawler (We still need another banner graphic)
Housing - There is a limited amount housing available at Trinity. It
can be booked via PayPal at <http://www.guadec.org/accommodation.html>
on a first-come, first served basis.
GNOME BOOK
Tim is working with No Starch Press and Galileo Press on translation and
publication of GNOME 2.0 Entwicklerhandbuch by Matthias Warkus. We need
someone to translate the German to English. Michael Meeks will adapt &
update text. GNOME Foundation will receive a share of sales.
- Foundation financial status report from Tim
- Fundraising: we cut some of GUADEC costs, Glynn is working on trying to
get some sponsorship.
- Friends of GNOME: this works but need to keep being promoted for it
to be efficient.
[ Tim signs off for the end of the phone call ]
- Discussion of management of Tim
Daniel
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