Minutes for Meeting of February 19th, 2013

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, March 3th, 2013, 15:00 UTC

Attending

• Rosanna Yuen
• Bastien Nocera

• Shaun McCance

• Andreas Nilsson
• Seif Lotfy
• Karen Sandler
• Tobias Mueller
• Joanmarie Diggs

Regrets

• Emmanuele Bassi

Missing

Board Meeting Agenda

• Problems with Gobby, lost historical minutes (they are still available in the Wiki)

  • ACTION: Andreas? Karen? to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc.

• 2013 Budget
  • Needs vote to finalize (was +1 from Emmanuele, Joanie, Shaun, Tobi, Andreas)
    • +1 from Seif
    • Abstain from Bastien
  • Passed with votes from previous meeting
• Sysadmin status update
  • Andrea is very responsive, and working with the CivCRM contractor, Stuart Gaston
• CiviCRM status update
  • Should take up to 10 business days
  • Contractor offered training on the new tools, a number of Board members and employees interested
• Friends of GNOME status update
  • Google now matches donations from Google employees to the GNOME Foundation

  • ACTION: Check status with Emmanuele for FoG

• GUADEC status
  • Brochure not finalised yet, draft discussed today

  • Would be nice to take in advice from the AdBoard about giving away discount vouchers to share around the sponsoring company (rather than a limited number of entrance vouchers)

• GNOME Asia status
  • Need entity in Korea to handle sponsorship, Karen contacted the Linux Foundation about that
  • Call for Papers opening soon
• Joining W3C status update
  • No updates from W3C

  • ACTION: Karen to renew contact for W3C

• Thanking ICAB for hosting GNOME DX hackfest
  • ICAB kindly provided us with a location for the DX hackfest in Brussels. We should thank them somehow.
  • Framed poster was mentioned as an option, we have signed posters from GUADEC in Den Haag

  • ACTION: Andreas to send the destination address to Rosanna for shipment of a poster to ICAB

• Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status
  • A number of attendees. Setting on dates still. And there is a location.
  • OpenSUSE would sponsor accomodation, location,
• Flattr donations
  • It was suggested on marketing-list that we should try and implement flattr.com donations on gnome.org
  • Flattr say that "Software organisations cannot be charitable organisations". We might be able to get an account, but it would not be a non-profit account but still better than the standard one
• Collecting funds in Europe
  • Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation.
  • There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically
  • Discussions are ongoing, need to gauge interest from our side first. Cost would be a fixed percentage (capped at already specified administrative costs).
  • Organisation is currently strongly associated with Wikileaks (tax exemption removed and restored, accounts frozen, etc.)
  • In strong contact with the German tax office
  • Shall we further explore this possibility?

  • ACTION: Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Hollan-Stiftung for collecting funds in Europe

• Status of a11y proposals
  • Nothing has reached us yet
  • We have reached out to some people if they would like to be independent experts to evaluate the bids.

  • ACTION: Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the A11Y bid.

* Fabian asked for reimbursement reg. Dia GNOME

• ACTION: Rosanna to handle reimbursement to Fabian for Dia GNOME