GUADEC meeting minutes for 1-26-01

[Dan Mueth <dan eazel com>]

             Minutes for the GUADEC Meeting For Jan 26, 2001
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Present:
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  Claus Sorensen
  Martin Wahlén
  Bart Decrem
  Dan Mueth
  Mathieu Lacage


Absent:
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  Kenneth Christiansen
  Havoc Pennington


Decisions:
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  * Will meet next Friday
  * Decided on 5 of the 6 keynote speakers


Work Done:
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Work in Progress/To Be Done:
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  ACTION: Mathieu to report on last year's budget
  ACTION: Claus, Martin, and Mathieu to list all people who may need
          support
  ACTION: Bart to start looking for sponsors among GNOME Foundation 
          companies
  ACTION: Claus and Martin to invite keynote speakers and get talk titles
  ACTION: Claus and Martin to merge existing proposals for tracks and
          talk schedules and send to guadec-list and board-list


Agenda Items Left For Next Meeting:
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Posters, etc.
Announcing keynotes


Agenda:
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Supporting Participants:
  * Mathieu will send email to everybody about last year's budget
  * Mathieu: Last year they paid for about 20 people
  * Mathieu: They reimbursed people afterwards for their plane tickets
  * Claus: 15 people have registered for support so far
  * Claus, Martin, and Mathieu will make a list of participants

Sponsorship:
  * Last year some companies just gave money while others wanted to
    get advertising in return
  * We won't publish exact contributions/terms for each company
  * Advertizing - Posters, flyers, programs, web page, booths
  * About 5000 euros left from last year which will be used this year

Keynotes:
  * RMS, Miguel, Andy (usability), Heard (open office/Sun/GNOME),
    Havoc (GNOME 2.0/interoperability)

Logistics:
  * Hotel information is on web pages