Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting June 3 2003

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

	  Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting June 3 2003
	  ==============================================


Present:
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    Nat Friedman (chair)
    Daniel Veillard (minutes)
    Jody Goldberg
    Glynn Foster
    Luis Villa
    Jeff Waugh
    Tim Ney
    James Henstridge
    Bill Haneman
    Jim Gettys

    Jonathan Blandford (40:)

Missing
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    Miguel de Icaza

Actions Done:
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  ACTION: Prepare the logistics for the Advisory & Board meetings
      => Nat handling agenda
         - Done
      => Tim to arrange for space for board on 15th
         - Done, hosted by Sun Microstem
      => Tim to arrange for space for advisor on 19th
         - Done, part of the agenda

  ACTION: Re-contact the LinuxDesktop Consortium and act as liaison
      => Nat to contact them to see if any reps will attend guadec
      => Done but Jeremy White can't come

  ACTION: Discuss Friends of GNOME sign up at GUADEC registration with
  	GUADEC planning committee.
	eg 'I gave a friends of GNOME' button
	or Liberally waived registration fees
	=> Tim has done mugs and shirts, still looking for buttons and
	   mousepads.
	=> For donations > 10 EUR raffle a couple of books
        => done we have volunteers

  ACTION: Set up a moderated write only Friends of GNOME mailing list
	=> Tim to supply names to Jonathan
        => Done

Actions:
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  ACTION : Tim/Jonathan Create spreadsheet outline for funding
	- baseline needs
	- target goals above that
	- known income
	=> Will do a buget after guadec for rest of fiscal year

  ACTION: Prepare the logistics for the Advisory & Board meetings
      => Glynn to draft invitations for both
         - Not finished

  ACTION: Re-contact the LinuxDesktop Consortium and act as liaison
      => still pending

  ACTION: Jim to followup on new or extensions of the existing fonts
     => pending

  ACTION: Organise a thank you to for the bitstream folk
     => Jim to organise a dinner
     => pending waiting for a response


  ACTION: post new web-site.  Come Hell, High Water, or lack of
	bandwidth, or hardware problems, or ...
	=> New plan.  Post it to beta.g.o by Sat June 14 then spend the
	   pre guadec day start poking at it

  ACTION: Tim to prepate financial overview for board meeting
        => in progress

New Actions:
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  ACTION: Tim to send the newsletter when ready

Discussion:
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- Approval for minutes of last meeting
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-June/msg00000.html
  
- Update from Tim:
  Concentrating on last minute details, paying for space, getting bandwidth,
  and teleconferencing system.
  The board suggest to revisit the tutorial scheduling
  Tim working on the financial aspects of GUADEC

- Newsletter
  Glynn sent the last draft to the board list
  Tim will send it
  
- XFree86 issue.
  Wait and see, our current position is the one reflected in
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-March/msg00029.html

- GUADEC Board meeting on Sunday
  A large part of the meeting will be discussion about the state and
  evolution of a number of aspects of the foundation.


Daniel


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