Minutes for Tuesday, March 1st 2016, 20:00 UTC

Next meeting date Tuesday, March 8th, 20:00 UTC

Attending

  • Rosanna Yuen
  • Alexandre Franke

  • Shaun McCance

  • Cosimo Cecchi
  • Ekaterina Gerasimova

Regrets

  • Allan Day
  • Andrea Veri
  • Jeff F. T.

Missing

Agenda

  • New meeting time
  • Adobe charitable donations
  • Unixstickers
  • Bitcoin wallet
  • Google ad grant

Ongoing:

  • Google Play account
  • Status of logo copyright
  • Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
  • GNOME Arm Build servers
  • Tibit
  • (LOW PRIORITY) CiviCRM discussion
  • GUADEC Contract
  • Next Advisory Board meeting planning

Minutes

  • New meeting time

    • Reference: https://framadate.org/hgr3LbGPv7UEbHTB

    • Starting with the week of March 28th, we would like to choose a new meeting time, taking also into accounts dailyght savings kicking in
    • All the Board members should fill in the survey
  • Adobe charitable donations
    • 80-90% chance it's spam
    • Phishing attempt, will ignore
  • Unixstickers
    • Allan followed up and is now waiting to hear back to Unixstickers
  • Bitcoin wallet
  • Google ad grant

Ongoing:

  • ED search update
    • 2015-12-01
      • No news received in recent weeks, mostly because of holidays
    • 2015-12-08
      • 3 candidates are going to have a couple of one hour interviews with ~2 members of the hiring committee per interview. Scheduling of these metings is just beginning.
    • 2015-12-15 to 2015-01-12
      • No updates.
    • 2016-01-19
      • Committee has completed interview with two final candidates
      • They should have a final answer/proposal to the board within a few weeks
    • 2016-02-02
      • Expect more news this week - we'll start scheduling interviews soon
    • 2016-02-09
      • Sri from the ED committee wants to present to the Board at next week's meeting
      • A list of candidates that are deemed good and have been vetted by the committee will be presented at the meeting
    • 2016-02-16
      • The ED Search committee converged on a single candidate
    • 2016-02-23
  • Google Play account
    • 2015-12-01
      • ACTION: Alexandre to follow up with the Release Team about this
    • 2015-12-08
      • Alexandre mailed the Release Team today, still waiting for an answer.
    • 2015-12-15 to 2016-01-19
      • No updates.
    • 2016-02-02 to 2016-03-01
      • Release team did not come to an agreement/conclusion. Unclear what next steps should be
  • Status of logo copyright
    • 2015-12-01
      • ACTION: Shaun to send out email to d-d-l with proposal
      • No news on this, action item from Shaun is still pending.
    • 2015-12-08 to 2016-01-19
      • No updates.
    • 2016-02-02
      • Shaun will try to pick it up this week
  • CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
    • ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks (last discussion from 2016-01-05)
    • 2016-01-12
      • Awaiting for Andrea's reply
    • 2016-01-19
      • Andrea replied back to Jeff
      • Jeff to bring the item back during any of the upcoming meetings
    • 2016-02-23
      • Jeff un-assigned the action item from himself, no current assignee

  • Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors - https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/attracting-contributors-discussion

  • Unixstickers
    • 2016-02-02
      • Allan has an action item to follow up with this
      • Kat put some information on the agreements page for similar cases
    • 2016-02-09
      • Allan drafted email - need to send that out
    • 2016-02-16
      • Allan has been in touch with them. Got a good response and sent a draft agreement document. Will be having a call with them on Friday.
    • 2016-02-23 (excerpts taken from the mailing list)
      • Allan confirms the Unixstickers team read the draft trademark agreement and acknowledged it
      • 10% of the proceeds will be returned back as royalties
      • Only GNOME stickers are sold right now, the idea is to encourage them to also sell t-shirts and mugs
    • 2016-03-01
      • Allan followed up and is now waiting to hear back to Unixstickers
  • GUADEC contract
  • Google ad grant
    • 2016-02-02
      • Alexandre to follow up with the procedure to get registered
    • 2016-02-09 to 2016-02-23
      • No updates
    • 2016-03-01

      • Shaun will ask his contacts about TechSoup as joining the organization is required for us to be recognized as a non-profit from Google

  • Next adboard meeting
    • 2016-02-09
      • ACTION: Shaun to send out email to find a good time for the meeting
    • 2016-02-16 to 2016-03-01
      • ACTION: Shaun to schedule the next meeting
  • tibit (from the mailing list)
    • 2016-02-23
      • ACTION: On an unrelated note Tobi is the only person with access to the Bitcoin donations data, Alexandre to get in touch with him about this
      • ACTION: Alexandre to investigate a way to eventually include the Tibit donate button together with the existing ones (Alexandre to also double check why the Flattr icon at wgo is broken)
  • ARM Build Servers (from the mailing list)
    • 2016-02-23
      • ACTION: Cosimo to get back to Alberto, then touch base with the provider itself looking for a first reaction. The Board can then follow up in case of need.
    • 2016-03-01 (from the mailing list)
      • The GNOME Foundation received several ARM boards from Qualcomm
      • The Banani Pi manufacturers kindly offered some boards too but they momentarily appear to be out of stock with that specific board model though
      • The GNOME Foundation takes this chance to thank its hardware donors!
      • The item can be removed from the next meeting minutes ongoing section

Completed actions

Pending action items

  • Allan and Sri to coordinate with the engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
  • Cosimo to follow up with interested parties on how to spend the Privacy campaign funds
  • Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement to the sponsorship brochure
  • Shaun: GNOME logo use by podiatrist
    • Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website (obsolete)
  • Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for defence against Groupon
  • Logo usage for t-shirts: Allan to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines written down for future cases
  • Shaun and Allan to create a webpage for prior pants winners
  • Cosimo to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a version of the CoC to be finally considered final over all the GNOME yearly events
  • Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money

  • Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review

  • Andrea to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services (current draft is at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy)

    • Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
  • Allan will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
  • Cosimo to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
  • Christian to investigate the GNOME gifts situation (inventory management: some stuff we have heaps of, some we run out of stock quickly; consider an on-demand production service)

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