Minutes for Meeting of 2008-09-03

Next Meeting

2008-09-17

GUADEC 2009: ongoing discussion of budget/strategy; planning for next meeting. ACTION: Stormy and John to attend planning meeting.
GNOME.Asia: ACTION: Stormy to propose list of replacement speakers to Dave
insurance: (covered on list)
hackfests: no news.
Summit: prep is ongoing.
stormy goals: update on progress from John, Stormy. ACTION: Jon to elaborate and clarify; board to thumbs up/thumbs down.

next ad board meeting: ACTION: Stormy and Vincent will continue working on this.
ad board meeting after that: discussion on list
financial report: Board profusely thanks Zana for her work on this. Behdad points at http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2008Q1-Q2.pdf - some discussion of whether or not that would be appropriate for us. ACTION: Vincent to publish to the web; Stormy to draft announce.
demo/video stuff: can we/do we want to move forward there?

Meeting w/ KDE about GUADEC/Akademy 2009 being scheduled for early September in Berlin.
2007 Financial Report done and to be published soon.
All taxes through 2007 filed.
Oked GNOME logo for GNOME Developer's Guide. (GNOME Foundation to get some rights to guide, TBD.)
Oked GNOME logo for GUADEC/Akademy 2009.
Announcing new mobile stewardship team.
Approved various hackfests:
- epiphany/webkit
- art/theme
- desktop search
- introspection
Presented to HP internal teams about GNOME Foundation to see if there's other teams in HP that want to engage with the GNOME Foundation.
GUADEC 2007 accounts closed
Rebalanced the budget for 2008
Finance meeting with Advisory Board
mobile commitee announce
discuss IRC chat with ED. Do we want an on-IRC board meeting once a month?