= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, September 11th 2018, 15:30 UTC =
Next meeting date Tuesday, September 18 2018, 15:30 UTC
== Attending ==
* CarlosSoriano
* KatGerasimova
* RosannaYuen
* FedericoMenaQuintero
* RobMcQueen
* PhilipChimento
== Regrets ==
* AllanDay
* NuritziSanchez
* NeilMcGovern
== Agenda ==
* Akademy report (Carlos)
* Rust hackfest venue sponsorship. See board-list (Carlos)
* Review compensation committee charter (Rob, see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/78)
* Review to-do GitLab issues -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues?label_name%5B%5D=To-Do== Minutes ==
* Akademy report (Carlos)
* Carlos went to Akademy with Felipe Borges. There is a blog post about his experience (
https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/a-gnome-dev-enters-an-akademy-and/). There are a few things that could be useful to us.
* They have 3-year board terms, so only one-third of the board turns over every year.
* They have a code of conduct, both for conference and the project
* Kat: has the CoC fixed any issues in their community?
* Don't know. This would be something to ask them.
* Color-coded badge straps to implement photo policy. Not sure whether it is working well.
* They didn't have any employees. Now they have contractors for marketing, thanks to the Pineapple funding. It's working very well.
* Anyone in the community can reach out directly to the marketing contractors: "need feedback on X", "need to promote this".
* They split into the KDE Community and KDE Projects. There is no single KDE project anymore.
* The KDE Community is a loosely defined group of people with free software goals.
* An example of a KDE Project is Plasma (the desktop product).
* KDE is kind of like an umbrella for projects made by the KDE Community, rather than a specific product.
* They have a process to get software in: how a project can be called a KDE project.
* Carlos discussed with Tobias Bernard and others during GUADEC about having something like this for GNOME.
* KDE has a committee doing that.
* Changed their focus to usability / user experience, rather than doing everything for everyone.
* We do newcomers onboarding better; we have tooling/people for that.
* Kat: they have better GSoC retention rates than we do (info from 3-4 years ago)
* They integrate more with the students, whereas our students work more in isolation.
* Krita reduced number of students to increase quality
* They do diversity better.
* They have age diversity, both younger and older. The young people are not only from Google Summer of Code.
* More women, maybe the proportion is twice as much as in the GNOME community.
* Things to collaborate on:
* Wayland. There is an opportunity for a hackfest here. They feel that GNOME pushes hard on Wayland because we have more manpower; some feel like they try to catch up.
* Flatpak. Their VP is the KDE maintainer of Discover and Flatpak integration.
* Carlos discussed with Alex Larsson about this.
* The discussion turned briefly to GNOME-branded hardware.
* Kat: What are the criteria to define that hardware works with GNOME properly? Usability?
* Rob: We need to define requirements to let someone use the GNOME trademark.
* Taking small steps first is better. We should first define a process to get software into GNOME.
* Rob: There are different requirements for the GNOME logo on hardware, vs. "GNOME Foo" for a foo program.
* Federico: There's been some work done on making it easy for ISVs to integrate their software into GNOME - is there a list of requirements in terms of certification?
* '''ACTION''' - Philip or Federico - create a task in GitLab to investigate hardware certification and assign it to Neil
* Rust hackfest venue sponsorship. See board-list (Carlos)
* The hackfest is in Greece, and the organizers are asking just under EUR 500 for a coworking space for 4 days for 15 people. There's a hackfest page and an agenda. 7 participants so far, mostly from Europe. Federico plans to attend.
* Kat: It would be interesting to have the hackfest in Thessaloniki, because then Federico can take a look around at the GUADEC venue.
* Rosanna: Is this something that the engagement committee is supposed to approve?
* Federico: The engagement committee should be asked in any case for marketing materials such as stickers
* Carlos: There's a pending GitLab issue to figure out what to do with hackfests. Currently it's not clear who has to approve it.
* Rosanna: The board hasn't been asked for sponsorship for a hackfest in a long time; it's not in our minds.
* We'll vote on this hackfest, since it's time sensitive, and then consider how the process should be in the future.
* Rob: What budget is this coming out of?
* Rosanna: The engagement committee budget, so we should let them know that we're spending their money
* Rob: We should also honor any requests to increase their budget if they run out.
* '''VOTE''': Assign EUR 496 for the Rust hackfest venue.
* +1 unanimous
* '''ACTION''' - Kat to reply to Sebastian Dröge that the request has been approved.
* Review compensation committee charter (Rob)
*
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/78 * Background: This is about having a committee to consider yearly the compensation package of the ED, and evaluate the ED's performance, and make a recommendation to the board for the ED's compensation for the next year.
* One requirement is to prove to the tax authority that there is an independent process and the ED is not setting their own salary.
* A useful resource from Neil that the committee will be able to use:
https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/executive-compensation * The committee charter is ready for the board to review, we'll discuss it next week.
* Federico: Should we set a timeline?
* Rob: I've told Neil that we're targeting around the time of the hackfest.
* '''ACTION''' - Everyone to review the committee charter in the GitLab issue, deadline September 18.
* Review to-do GitLab issues -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues?label_name%5B%5D=To-Do * Issue 60 (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/60) - The rest of us aren't sure which minutes this refers to, so we'll ask Allan to do it when he gets back from vacation.
* Issue 76 (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/76) - Finish the Board handover. We are not sure what the problem is but Neil was going to talk to Andrea Veri about the advisory board list needing a moderator. However, anyone can ask Andrea about this, not just Neil.
* '''ACTION''' - Carlos to talk to Andrea Veri about unblocking the advisory board list.
* Issue 67 (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/67) - Pending action for most committee liaisons to contact their committees about this. Please do this by next week.
* Rob: Do we have a backlog of issues to get done during the hackfest?
* Kat: Let's add our topics to the wiki page and discuss it next week.
* Federico created the "hackfest" label for GitLab issues.
* Issue 72 (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/72) - Rob still to send out this email.
== Actions ==
* Philip or Federico - Create a task in GitLab to investigate hardware certification and assign it to Neil.
* Kat - Reply to Sebastian Dröge that the budget request for the Rust hackfest venue has been approved.
* Everyone - Review the compensation committee charter (
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/78) (deadline September 18)
