Re: Fwd: Minutes : Mar 22 04

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey guys,

sorry you had to hear about that from the minutes - i was given the
action to send you a mail, but left for a weeks holidays. apologies, i
suck :/

Glynn

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:43, Gael CHAMOULAUD wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think you already have received the last Minutes from the Board.
> This one makes a clarification about the membership guidelines.
>
> Sorry for the people who have already read it...
>
> Best regards,
>
>       Gael
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> -----
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> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:53:33 -0400
> From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
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> Subject: Minutes : Mar 22 04
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> Attendance
>     Glynn Foster              - Chair
>     Luis Villa
>     Dave Camp
>     Jody Goldberg
>     Leslie Proctor
>     Owen Taylor
>     Tim Ney
>
> Regrets
>     Jeff Waugh
>     Nat Friedman
>     Malcolm Tredinnick
>
> Absent
>     Jonathan Blandford
>     Bill Haneman
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Existing Actions
> ================
>
>     - Tim to start sending status reports fri afternoon
>     Done
>
>     - Dave & Luis to rough out roadmap
>     Done
>
>     - Owen or Havoc to invite Mozilla foundation to attend meeting
>     Pending :  Owen aims to do this later this week
>     
>     - Tim to send out email re: GUADEC schedule
>     Done
>
>     - Jody to put together schedule proposal for board meetings
>     Partial.  Some responded,  Pending input from __NAT__
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> New Actions
> ===========
>
>     ACTION :  Send out invitations for advisory board meeting
>           Tentatively scheduled for July 1 (date fairly firm, no problems
>           reported so far)
>       : Tim
>
>     ACTION : Prepare a press release for GNOME 2 book
>       : Leslie to contact Bill at no starch press to coordinate
>
>     ACTION : Meeting with trust commerce folk
>       : Malcolm to join at Tim's request
>
>     ACTION : Make a link and pre-payment link to sell a copy of the gnome 2
>            book in conjunction with GUADEC registration
>       : Tim
>
>     ACTION : Write a blurb on the HP & Mandrake deal
>       : Glynn to look into writing something for JDS
>       : Leslie to write up something for HP
>       : Owen to do a write-up for RedHat
>
>     ACTION : Continue Roadmap work
>       : Dave
>
>     ACTION : Send around previous Minutes
>       : Luis
>
>     ACTION : Respond to Vincent's request for clarification of membership
>           guidelines
>       : Jody
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tim :
>     GNOME now has a media sponsorship agreement with OSDL provides online
>     coverage, and mention in their newsletter for GUADEC.
>     
>     GNOME 2 book is almost ready to ship, should be ready to start shipping
>     within one month.  Fee schedule leans toward selling copies directly or on
>     gnome.org.  Administrative over head of selling on the web likely to be
>     prohibitive,  but it might be useful to provide a link/tie-in from GUADEC
>     registration.
>
>     Licensing trademark for tee-shirts.  Several open requests are pending,
>     guidelines are almost ready.  Target is to have a 2nd draft of the
>     agreement within one week that keeps copyright on foot with gnome but
>     leaves vendor with copyright of resulting tee-shirt.  The lawyers aim to
>     have this license general enough to be reused for other merchandise.
>
>     Do we want to consider offering exclusive licenses within regions ?
>     : Decision to table this for the foreseeable future pending a request for
>       that type of agreement.
>
> Offer of Hardware
>     Murray forwarded an offer from Sun for some hardware to test build with
>     forte.  While the hardware would be nice there are no resources to
>     administrate it.  Glynn to look into the possibility of having Sun hosting
>     such a machine.
>
> GNOME Roadmap
>     Dave has filled in a few pieces of collaboration and scripting.  Aims
>     to get something to have something to review next week.
>
> Clarification of Membership
>     How inclusive does the foundation want to be.  Is it sufficient to just use
>     gnome libraries somehow ?  To date we've required some level of
>     contribution, from reporting a bug through to documenting or coding.
>       'Any activity, such as advocacy or submitting bug reports, must
>       substantially exceed the level of contribution expected of an ordinary
>       user or fan of the project to qualify an individual for membership in
>       the Foundation.'
>     The consensus is that these guidelines are sufficient.  Just working on an
>     application is _not_ sufficient.  There needs to be some engagement with
>     the community
>       - filing a few bug reports
>       - Community considers the application for inclusion somewhere in gnome
>         (eg fifth toe)
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