Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

On 04/18/2011 11:45 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 12:39 PM, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 12/04/11 03:00, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > > The meeting minutes for the March 29th GNOME Foundation board
> > > meeting is now published. Refer here:
> > >
> > > http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110329
> > >
> > > Other past board meetings are archived here:
> > >
> > > http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes
> > >
> > > -- text of the latest minutes follows --
> > >
> > > Minutes for Meeting of March 29th, 2011
> >
> > Thank you for the minutes Brian.
> >
> > > * Johannes Schmid informed the board that at the Toronto hackfest
> > > that they discussed about an organization that decided to use Qt
> > > instead of GTK+ mainly because they were able to get a support
> > > contract for Qt. Therefore we thought it might be a good idea to
> > > give interested companies a chance to present themselves as
> > > commercial support options on developer.gnome.org. Perhaps via
> > > some "Get support" link. Do we have any response?
> > > o ACTION: Andreas - Will discuss with Ryan Lortie providing
> > > support contracts for GTK+.
> >
> > Can I ask why the ACTION above says you will discuss with Ryan about
> > providing support contracts for GTK+? Why not a mailing list with
> > companies that have GTK+ or GLib core maintainers (perhaps GNOME in
> > general even)?
> Hi!
> I said on the phone that I would briefly check the idea with Ryan 
> since we shared a room in Bangalore (I was there when we had the board 
> meeting). That's about as serious as it was.
> Sorry if the action item sounded more serious than it was.
> This totally needs to be brought up more broadly. What list would be 
> best?
> - Andreas
Now I also remember why I said Ryan's name on the phone specifically. 
Wow, I'm not really back 100% from this flue (this is also why it took 
some time with my reply) so my mind is not always clear. :)
I recalled that Ryan told me in a hotel in Florida in October "you 
should totally do some fixes to the gtk.org website some time" (not in 
my board role, but in my do-website-stuff-role), to witch I replied 
"perhaps, do you have any specific ideas?".
One of his ideas was to add a list of companies that gave GTK+ support 
(as in, custom development, not in "call this company when you hit a 
bug" sense). I think this idea have been floating around in general and 
I think it would make sense to have to have such a list on either 
gtk.org or somewhere on gnome.org
Again, sorry for any confusion.
- Andreas