= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, December 13th 2016, 18:00 UTC =
Next meeting date December 20th 2016, 18:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Cosimo Cecchi
* Allan Day
* Meg Ford
* Alexandre Franke
* Shaun McCance
* Nuritzi Sanchez
* Rosanna Yuen
* Jim Hall
== Regrets ==
== Missing ==
== Agenda for 2016-12-13 ==
* Bitcoin update
* Conference brochure update
== Minutes ==
* Bitcoin update
* FSF does accept Bitcoin, they find a way to do it and find it useful
* EFF on the other hand stopped accepting it
* We do need to take action publicly one way or the other
* ACTION: Allan to send an update about the fact that we won't be closing the Bitpay account yet, and do more investigation
* Conference brochure update
* The GUADEC side of it seems to be moving well, but not the GNOME.Asia side, since we don't have a good schedule/location for it yet
* This would be ideally an ED task
* If we don't do the brochure, would we want to provide something else to the teams to seek sponsorship?
* Perhaps we can talk about GNOME.Asia in abstract in the meantime
* Shoot for a timeline of early January
== _Ongoing_ ==
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* Dropping dates in copyright claims on our websites
* 2016-12-06
* ACTION: Alexandre to send an email to foundation-list with a proposal for discussion
* The new gnome.blog domain email
* 2016-12-06
* ACTION: Nuritzi to get back to the sender and say that we are not interested in purchasing the domain at this time
* USPTO trademark email
* We got an email about renewal for our logo.
* We thought it was already sorted.
* 2016-11-29
* ACTION: Allan to ask Pamela what the next steps are
* 2016-12-06
* Board has approved an expense of $600 for Pam to renew the logo trademark
* ACTION: Allan to follow up with Pam
* Conference sponsorships
* 2016-11-29
* Nuritzi to check to see what Kat's time looks like
* ACTION: Nuritzi to get in touch with Kat about this
* ACTION: Meg to project manage the brochure
* 2016-12-13
* We are behind schedule with the GNOME.Asia side of this, because we don't have dates/location
* Shoot for a timeline of early January for a draft, talking more in abstract about GNOME.Asia if necessary
* Email from HELLOTUX, "GNOME hoodie and a new shirt"
* We have a license agreement with HELLOTUX, they want to expand the range of products and they need our approval to do so
* There's a question about Ubuntu GNOME merchandise to address separately, since we would need another agreement in place with Ubuntu GNOME that considers merchandise for them to do so
* It's also tricky becaue there are other parties interested to royalties, and the agreement would not only be wih GNOME
* 2016-11-29
* Allan has emailed HELLOTUX. We're waiting to hear back.
* GUADEC venue and accommodation contract, and bank account
* 2016-11-29
* ACTION: Rosanna to let us know if we are actually using the liability coverage in the US. Should we keep it, or is it obsolete?
* 2016-12-06
* UK Bank account
* According to Rosanna, we are not supposed to have foreign accounts as an organization
* However, it would be OK for them to open the account individually, without tying it to our organization
* More information is required from the organizers about this before we can authorize it
* ACTION: Nuritzi to follow up with the GUADEC team about the bank account
* Note that payments would be arranged through invoices from the local team, as opposed to acting directly on behalf of the GNOME Foundation
* Mention that we have not done this arrangement before, and that we would need to do research on this point
* Ask if it's possible to remove the reference to the GNOME Foundation
* Board voted to approve the accommodation contract
* ACTION: Nuritzi to sign the contract and send it back to Sam
* ED search update
* 2016-08-10, The search is still ongoing
* 2016-11-08
* The ED search committee identified qualified candidates and presented them to the Board.
* The Board is in advanced stages of the process.
* Google Play account
* 2016-09-27
* 2016-10-04
* Payment is authorized
* ACTION: Rosanna to make the payment and follow up with Ankit
* 2016-10-18
* Rosanna is waiting for Ankit to reply about the gmail account
* 2016-11-01
* Board is discussing who should have access to the credit card associated to the account
* 2016-11-29
* ACTION: Rosanna to look into getting a PayPal credit card
* Privacy campaign funds
* 2016-09-27
* Draft is out for the Board to review and give feedback
* ACTION: Cosimo to try and form a committee to review internship proposals
* 2016-10-26
* We are aiming for an internship round in spring 2017
* Bitcoins donations data
* 2016-12-13
* EFF and FSF do accept Bitcoin donation, so we should reconsider closing the account
* ACTION: Allan to send an update about the fact that we won't be closing the Bitpay account yet, and do more investigation
=== Ongoing but stalled ===
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* Owncloud shared calendar for the board
* 2016-08-10
* Cosimo tested creating an event, but with mixed results
* ACTION: Cosimo to take it on from here
* Money raised for defense against Groupon
* Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for defence against Groupon
* 2016-09-06
* We probably don't want to track exactly this money flow, but the initiatives that the Board has been pursuing (Flatpak, LAS GNOME) are good fits for the original intent this money was kept for
* We can consider making a PR or some other form of announcement about how we're currently making use of this money
* Paypal Giving Fund
* Alexandre suggested in december 2015 to get us enrolled in the program
* That would give us exposure. For example Humble bundle allows to direct the charity part of purchases towards any of their participants
* Zana tried to get us in sometime before may 2016, we never heard back.
* 2016-09-06
* ACTION: Zana to look into it.
* From the mailing list - "support my volunteer program" (Allan)
* 2016-08-30
* There's very little information in the message, unclear how they're related to GNOME
* ACTION: Shaun to reply asking for more information
* Google ad grant
* 2016-08-10
* ACTION: Shaun will pick this up again and try to register us into the program when he's back in the US
* The actual ad campaigns would probably need to be managed by the Engagement/Marketing team
* ACTION: Nuritzi to discuss with the Engagement Team and let the board know if they want to start using Google ad
* Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
* 2016-08-10, ACTION: Nuritzi to take on this project and figure out what it entails
* Web page for prior pants winners
* 2016-08-10, ACTION: Shaun and Allan to add the web page
* Status of logo copyright
* 2015-12-01, ACTION: Shaun to send out email to d-d-l with proposal
* 2015-12-08 to 2016-01-19, No updates.
* 2016-02-02, Shaun will try to pick it up this week
* 2016-08-10, ACTION: Shaun will send a proposal to licence the asset with dual LGPLv3/CC-BY-SA-4.0 (similar to adwaita-icon-theme)
* Friends of GNOME
* 2016-04-11, ACTION: Alexandre to request more information about the donation data from the European donations system (Wau Holland Stiftung Foundation)
* 2016-08-10
* ACTION: Allan to get in touch with Tobi and the sysadmin team to migrate the FoG infrastructure over to GNOME
=== Ongoing but no director assigned ===
'''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30 days and have no Director assigned'''
== Nice to have ==
'''This section includes items which we would love to see happen at some point but lack the time to effectively become reality'''
* Contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
* Kat to draft this
* Privacy policy for GNOME services
* Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
* Kat or Allan to write up the policy
* Kat or Allan to write up recommended wording for distribution privacy policies, regarding the behaviour of GNOME software
* Photography policy for GNOME conferences
* Proposal needs to be drafted and sent to foundation list for discussion
* Should probably be addressed at the same time as a standardised code of conduct
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
== Completed actions ==
