Meeting Minutes Published - November 25, 2009
- From: Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>
- To: foundation-list gnome org, foundation-announce gnome org
- Subject: Meeting Minutes Published - November 25, 2009
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:41:59 -0600
The meeting minutes for the November 25th board meeting is now public.
Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes/20091125
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of November 25th, 2009
Next Meeting
December 10, 2009
Attendance
* Behdad Esfahbod
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Rosanna Yuen
* Srinivasa Ragavan
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
* Lucas Roca
Absent
* None
Minutes
Recurring Items
* Review past action items.
* Did each person with action items send their status reports to the
board list before the meeting?
* Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published
to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
* Make sure to start up the gobby server for better note taking.
* System administrator hiring - waiting for funding.
* Update foundation.gnome.org website.
Old items
* None
New items
* GUADEC 2010 bid from .nl - The board discussed the status of
making an announcement.
o Stormy: Draft press release ready. We are waiting on quotes
from Government officials.
o Vincent: Lucas has placeholder website ready to be
committed.
o Germán: Will monitor the organization and raise a flag if
needed.
* WebKitGTK+ hackfest: Now waiting for the travel committee to
determine how much money is needed for travel. They currently need
3554.28 Euros (though since Joanie is now not going this is
probably 2754.28 Euros).
* The board approved giving $350 to FOSS.in to promote GNOME. The
money will come out of Local Outreach or Other Events funding.
* Regarding the proposed doubling advisory board fees. The board
formally approved this for fees going forward.
* Zana plans to put together a summary of what needs to be done for
GnuCash scrubbing written up this week. She will also test
Behdad's script.
* Planning for the December advisory board meetings. Three topics
are planned: GNOME events, GUADEC 2011 co-locating with KDE,
copyright assignments.
* 401k should be done by December 1st,
* Stormy verified the transfer of GNOME.Asia from GoDaddy to Ghandi
is done.
Action Items
Completed Actions
* Germán - Take over John Palmieri's previous task to propose new
obligations that people who receive travel subsidies should be
asked to do in return.
* Stormy - Will check director's email to verify the transfer of
GNOME.Asia from GoDaddy.com to Ghandi.net.
* Stormy - Should the GNOME Foundation buy a blanket LWN membership.
Will bring it up with Jonathan Corbet next week.
* Stormy - Set up a new Doodle meeting survey to determine the best
time for future meetings.
New action items that were completed soon after the meeting:
* Germán - Send an update about the budget available for hackfests
so that the board can decide whether the WebKitGTK+ hackfest fits
in the budget.
* Stormy - Ask people from advisory board companies for quotes to
include in the press release.
* Stormy - Will start work on the press release.
* Stormy - Send an email to the advisory board to find out whether
the topics for the December meeting will be copyright assignments
or events+copyright assignments
Old Actions
* Behdad - Tasked with scrubbing the GnuCash file so it can be made
public. Behdad sent a scrubbed GnuCash file to Rosanna to check,
but still pending.
* Brian - Get information about what should be in an "Employee
Handbook". Still pending.
* Brian - Look into organizing a hackfest on "how to make it easier
for more people to do some usability magic". Discussions on
usability list just starting, and making progress with seeking
NLnet grant. Ongoing.
* Diego - Will work to organize an IRC Foundation meeting.
* Diego - Taken over from Stormy. Will work with Gil Forcada from
guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for
organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME
community.
* Germán - Put together a proposal for how to address board members
who become inactive. Still pending.
* Lucas - Work with Andreas for the donation ruler. Try to put $15k
in the ruler in "yellow" ($10k for Canonical, $5k for Google) to
indicate that these funds are matching. Waiting for Paul to get
the general marketing message behind the ruler before publishing
it. Paul was pinged on September 17th about it.
http://www.gnome.org/friends/drive/
* Lucas - Work to ensure that Foundation members sign the GNOME Code
of Conduct, and make it a requirement that new Foundation members
need to sign this. Lucas completed a draft currently under review.
* Lucas & Alberto - Set up a Euro bank account. Still in progress.
* Paul - Will provide an overview of hiring a sysadmin and the
benefits that has for the overall GNOME community.
* Rosanna - Research the GNOME Guidestar website and update if
necessary. Rosanna sent an update about the status of Guidestar,
but work is still needed. Need to find someone to keep the website
up-to-date.
* Rosanna - to send check to pay 401K setup fees.
* Srini - Ping John Palmieri for status about importing Paypal data
into GnuCash. John Palmieri was pinged, but no response yet.
* Srini - Send out the GUADEC call-for-hosts, and the next meeting
with be an IRC meeting to discuss Done. Srini has the meeting
logs, but not yet published in the wiki. Yet to format and upload
and announce the meeting logs. Leaving this as an open item until
the logs are available.
* Stormy - To propose a case study on how the improvements we made
with bugzilla made a difference as input for the marketing
materials for why the Foundation needs to hire a system
administrator. Working with Max and waiting on him.
* Stormy - Create a more public process for suggesting and deciding
upon topics for future advisory board meetings. Conversations in
progress.
* Vincent - Will look into who the GNOME Foundation should send to
the Mobile User Experience conference, perhaps Paul Cooper.
Vincent mailed Paul and is waiting for an answer.
* Vincent - Touch base with Matthew Garrett and with the GNOME
community to determine how the GNOME Code of Conduct needs to be
enhanced to reflect speakers.
* Vincent - Update the blog and planet to highlight that people are
expected to sign and follow the GNOME Code of Conduct.
* Vincent - Follow-up with Intel to determine what to do about
copyright assignment for clutter.
* Vincent - Publish the new Advisory Board duties on the web and to
send an email to the foundation-list to announce it.
* Vincent & Lucas - Determine how to announce the endorsement of
Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network Services. This is
blocking on a release team action that Lucas has ("push for a "web
services" set of libraries")
http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
* Everyone - Provide available meeting times in Doodle after Stormy
provides the survey. Be flexible!
New Action Items
* Diego - Start discussion about how to improve how money is
allocated for hackfests.
* Lucas - Will work to put together some web information
* Stormy - Send out announcements regarding doubling of adboard
fees.
* Stormy - To schedule a meeting with companies that do consulting
work with GNOME to start discussions on how we can help (how can
we work together).
* Vincent - Will start discussion with adboard about co-locating in
2011 after the announcement.
* Vincent - Follow up with video hackfest organizers and find out if
there is any sponsorship money due.
Discussed on board-list
* Planning for the 2010 GUADEC announcement.
* Discussion about the WebKitGTK+ budget.
* Planning for the December Advisory Board meeting, which will be
about recent and upcoming GNOME events.
* The board agreed to entrust the U.S. Event box to Larry Cafiero,
who was recommended by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.
* Discussion about how to improve the Code of Conduct and to add
Speaker Guidelines for conferences/events.
* Discussion about transferring money allocated to the GNOME.Asia
event.
* Discussion about request to prove funding to the FOSS.in event in
India to promote GNOME.
* Diego proposed a draft email regarding how to add new ways for
organizations to be involved and contribute to the GNOME
Foundation and sent the email to the gnome-marketing list.
* Considering purchasing a LWN membership that could be passed along
to Foundation members and/or people who donate to GNOME.
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