Board meeting agenda, Wednesday 5th

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

As always, comments on the agenda, or things about which you think we 
need to decide something, that aren't on here, please feel free to send 
comments.

Next Meeting details

Wednesday, 5 April 2006,
11:00 UTC (06:00 CST, 07:00 EST, 13:00 CEST, 21:00 AEST)

Agenda
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ACTIONS
    * Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and
regions to act as local press contacts.
      o ongoing; he contacted various people and is following up
    * Luis to mail boston-social gnome org to look for volunteers to
represent us at Boston Usenix and Boston LWE
      o DONE
    * Dave to be our liaison with marketing-list to set up the basic
structure of the new www.gnome.org
      o ongoing
    * Dave to request a contract from Quim for GUADEC
      o No contract yet, but it will arrive - reminder sent - ongoing
    * Federico to mail advisory-board-list about what members would like
to get out of the Foundation.
      o NOT DONE
    * Jeff to ask the Advisory Board about funding GNOME through OSDL,
or funding it directly.
    * Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting.
    * Dave to resurrect German contract from last year so that we can
use it for Axis Informática.
      o Contract sent to board, need to make it general.

Agenda
   1. Advisory board
      * Preparing the meeting
   2. GUADEC meetings
      * Deciding dates & times for advisory board and board meetings
   3. Administrator
      * Process for hiring full-time admin person - no candidates yet,
preparing the proper hiring process (inc. budget)
   4. Any other business
      * Axis Informática wanting to sell products with the GNOME logo
(see Rodrigo's mail)

Completed actions:
 * JRB to finish job description for administrative needs.
   * DONE - job announcement made on foundation-list and advisory-board,
until Easter for community applications, open to the public afterwards.
 * Anne to send her draft program to foundation-list and put it up in
the web page
   * DONE
 * JRB to send out mugs and mouse pads to outstanding donors, and
thank-you notes as well
   * DONE by Zana
 * Quim to write a formal letter of invitation for the people who need
to get visas. Quim to find someone in Spain to contact the ministry of
foreign affairs.
 * Jeff/Federico to start writing an agenda for the Advisory Board meeting
   * DONE - ad board meeting planned for April 12th, 19h UTC
 * Federico to write his paper for the Advisory Board
   * DONE, but not yet sent?
 * Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the GNOME/W3C
SVG anouncement
   * WONTFIX

Cheers,
Dave.

--
David Neary
bolsh gimp org


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