Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 19:07 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > == Discussed on the mailing list ==
> >
> >  * ilovewhatido.eu trademark license agreement
> >   * It will last for two years
> >   * 10% of net receipts (profits) will be donated to the foundation
> >   * We should be sent a royalty report every 6 month by email
> >   * VOTE: Approve a trademark license agreement for ilovewhatido.eu
> >    * VOTE: +1 Allan, Kat, Jeff, Cosimo
> >     * VOTE PASSED
> >    * Contract wording should be reviewed as it could be improved
> This is awesome!  So does this make the second trademark license
> agreement
> that we had?  Allan and I were working with someone else, is it it
> the same
> person or is this a different one?

Isn't 10% of profit extremely low...?

> What's the plan to keep this funded?
>
> We were supposed to have some funds for privacy campaign that if I
> remember
> has not been used yet.   How about we put some of that towards
> sysadmin?
> Can it be done?

We told donors the funds were earmarked for privacy, so I would object
to using them for another purpose. We shouldn't be using one-time funds
to pay for a permanent position, anyway.