Minutes for Meeting of January 21, 2009

Attendance

• Lucas (joined at 21:30 UTC)
• Vincent
• Brian
• J5
• Jeff
• Stormy
• Zana

Regrets

• Behdad (driving)
• Luis (jury duty)

Minutes

• Friends of GNOME
  • plenty of tshirts and mugs (ordered 144 each at the end of last year)
  • mouse pads being ordered
  • 70+ packages to send out!
• Hackfests. ACTION: Vincent send GTK+ theming hackfest notice to adboard, ACTION: Behdad: GTK+ sponsorship calls.

• Adboard meeting topic: system administrator, Canonical's proposal for bugzilla ACTION: Stormy to invite Collabora and CodeThink, ACTION: Vincent: To invite Olav and Owen

• GUADEC Need coordinator: ACTION: Vincent volunteered if no one else, will talk to Alberto ACTION: Stormy to update legal document
• Finances on website. ACTION: Vincent will update two sites.
• Foresight, some kind of distro group? ACTION: Stormy to put together a proposal for a group for distributions
• ANNUAL REPORT STUFF DUE!! ACTION: Vincent and Behdad
• Finances. ACTION: J5 to give us a update. Looks like we had a surplus last year.
• Membership Committee. ACTION: Lucas checking with Baris. ACTION: (Lucas) Diego to contact Bruno about a new call for volunteers and contact previous volunteers.
• Amazon Affiliates. Brian, Vincent, Lucas, and Diego +1. ACTION: Stormy to open an Amazon Affiliates account for the GNOME Foundation.
• Planet GNOME: Lucas and Vincent will take over and publish guidelines.
• GNOME stuff on FSF store: Lucas is reworking design with Andreas to solve font issue.
• Brian looking into insurance. ACTION: Vincent to provide Brian with list of events and locations for this year.

Old items

• ACTION: Board members test new Friends of GNOME site.

=> done

• ACTION: finish up your annual report writings!

=> Behdad & Vincent are late

• ACTION: Stormy to mail requests and plan for 2009 budget and

sponsorship requests to all advisory board members. => done

• ACTION: Rosanna to send out invoices.

=> done

• ACTION: Vincent to put out community call for 2009 activities.

=> not done, too busy

• ACTION: J5 to send out 2008 finances and 2009 budget plan.

=> not done, too busy (?)

New action items

• ACTION:Vincent send GTK+ theming hackfest notice to adboard

• ACTION: Behdad: GTK+ sponsorship calls.

• ACTION: Stormy to invite Collabora and CodeThink to Adboard meeting

• ACTION: Vincent: To invite Olav and Owen to adboard meeting
• ACTION: Vincent volunteered for GUADEC organizer if no one else, will talk to Alberto
• ACTION: Stormy to update legal document for GUADEC/Akademy co-locating
• ACTION: Vincent will update two financial websites on www.gnome.org
• ACTION: Stormy to put together a proposal for a group for distributions like Foresight, Debian, Fedora, openSuSE ...
• ACTION: J5 to give us a financial update.
• ACTION: Lucas checking with Baris, if he wants to be on membership committee again.
• ACTION: Diego to contact Bruno about a new call for volunteers and contact previous volunteers.
• ACTION: Stormy to open an Amazon Affiliates account for the GNOME Foundation.
• ACTION: Vincent to provide Brian with list of events and locations for this year.

Discussed on board-list

• Printing 3,000 sticker sheets for Friends of GNOME gifts for $1,390.95. Can also be used at events.
• Ordering more mouse pads for Friends of GNOME.
• Friends of GNOME numbers data will be shared publicly.