Minutes from Board Meeting: 19 May 2004
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Present:
Glynn (chair)
Louis
Malcolm (minutes)
Dave
Tim
Bill
Owen
Jonathan
Jody
Regrets:
Leslie
Absent:
Jeff
Nat
Action items:
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ACTION: Dave to turn the roadmap into a document suitable for
putting on the web.
ACTION: Malcolm to email David Schleef regarding gstreamer.net
ownership and recommend he posts his requirements to
gnome-sysadming list.
ACTION: Tim to ensure that relevant GUADEC information gets
posted to his weblog feed.
Old business:
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(a) Call for GUADEC 2005 sites:
- Interest has been expressed from three sites so far.
So that we can begin making an initial evaluation
during GUADEC 2004, we will request the proposals are
due in by Friday June 15.
(b) Discussion of commercial agreements:
- Apropos of the recent agreement with Hackerthreads for
manufacturing GNOME shirts, there was a discussion
about how much of each agreement it was appropriate to
make public. The general feeling of the discussion
that as much transparency as possible was important,
although at times it was necessary to preserve some
commercial confientiality.
- For the particular agreement under discussion, a
summary of the income would be in the annual financial
report. Details of the agreement will be made
available to Foundation members upon request.
(c) Acting as fiscal agent for the GIMP.
- The board is agreeable to do this on a trial basis at
least through to GUADEC. We will invite a
representative from the GIMP to talk to the board
about ongoing arrangements and any concerns that
both parties may have.
(d) Credit card merchant
- Tim reports that we are currently waiting for our
merchant account to be processed.
(e) Roadmap
- Dave has incorporated the recent round of feedback
from the mailing list discussions.
- It was felt that the document was now in a state where
we should make it available and update it to ensure
relevance to the ongoing GNOME releases.
New business:
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(a) gstreamer.net administrative DNS contact
- The board received a request for somebody within GNOME
to be the administrative contact for gstreamer.net. It
was felt that it would not be inappropriate for a
gnome.org email address to be used for this purpose.
The details should be discussed on the gnome-sysadmin
list.
(b) Communicating about GUADEC
- With GUADEC only a few weeks away, Glynn wanted to
ensure that it was being promoted widely and
enthusiastically enough.
- Tim reported that more details were being finalised
all the time and that he would put the news up in his
blog feed(s) so that they get wide distribution (on
Planet GNOME, etc).
(c) GUADEC funding
- The precise amount of funding available is still not
known because of pending corporate sponsorships.
Tim is trying to finalise this.
(d) gnome.de ownership
- As a corollary to the discussion about gstreamer.net,
the gnome.de domain ownership was brought up again. It
was decided that there was nothing we could do about
this directly, except to raise it again once
GNOME-Deutschland is up and running.
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