Minutes for Tuesday, January 21th, 2013, 15:00 UTC

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC

Attending

• Rosanna Yuen
• Andreas Nilsson
• Karen Sandler
• Marina Zhurakhinskaya
• Emmanuele Bassi
• Sriram Ramkrishna
• Tobias Mueller
• Ekaterina Gerasimova
• Joanmarie Diggs

Board Meeting Agenda

• Pitivi campaign
  • Karen is following up with the Pitivi maintainers
  • The campaign scope is a bit unclear
    • Is it an official campaign?
    • Is is an endorsed campaign?
  • Different constraints between official and endorsed
    • Official campaigns are handled through the Foundation's infrastructure
    • Should we manage the campaign money?
    • The Foundation would be able to handle the money and hire the Pitivi maintainers as contractors
    • If we host the campaign on our infrastructure then we should also handle the money from the campaign
  • Improvements in Pitivi trickle down to GStreamer
    • Advisory board members are interested in the platform evolution and improvements

  • ACTION: Karen to follow up with the Pitivi maintainers for their campaign

• Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
  • Karen asked around generally for ideas
  • Not much feedback
  • We should do what we did for the accessibility campaign
    • Create a call for bids with broad points
    • Get proposals and bids for them
• Outstanding reimbursements
  • What is the status of the payments for the Mono Hackfest?
    • Receipts received from the organisers
    • Board needs to review them and authorise the reimbursement

    • ACTION: Andreas and Emmanuele to review the Mono hackfest receipts

  • Any other pending reimbursements?
    • Soon we will have the documentation hackfest receipts
  • We should have a centralised place for the pending reimbursements, including which ones have been authorised by the board
    • Minutes and mailing list archives are not easy to use/parse
    • Use a private wiki page, like we do for the travel committee
• General budget status
  • No budget yet
  • Bank account data is mostly up to date

  • PayPal account data is still not up to date

  • ACTION: Karen, Kat, and Rosanna to have a meeting to finish the budget and tax information

  • Rosanna has been working on collating the tax-related data
• Upcoming events
  • FOSDEM and Adboard meeting
    • Attendance: Sri, Tobi, Emmanuele, Kat
    • Discussion on GNOME technology and platform
      • Especially GTK
      • Points of discussion
        • How do we improve the feedback from non-GNOME users of GTK
        • Avoid disenfranchisement of non-GNOME users/platforms
        • Create a meeting place to get feedback and give a voice to non-GNOME/non-Linux users of the GNOME core platform
  • GNOME Asia
    • Confirmed to be co-locating with OpenSUSE
    • Tobi found a convenient flight for Beijing
    • Tobi has been helping out organising the event, and would represent the board
    • Kat submitted talks and wants to wait for approval for sponsorship
    • Travel sponsorship should go through the GNOME Asia team
  • GUADEC 2014

    • ACTION: Emmanuele to contact the local organisers for the status of the papers committee and CfP

  • West Coast Hackfest
    • Located in Portland
    • Buy in from kernel and plumbing developers
    • Apps sandboxing, GNOME Shell, and Wayland are the focus
    • Beginning of March
    • May get corporate funding from Intel
• Travel report from Karen about Linux Conf Australia
  • Interested in the Outreach program
  • Karen had a couple of interviews
  • Fedora desktop group is pivoting on UX for developers
    • We should improve GNOME visibility at Fedora events

Completed Actions

• Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding for privacy work
• Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts

Pending action items

• Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
• Andreas and Emmanuele to review the Mono hackfest receipts
• Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts
• Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard
• Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting
• Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings
• Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
• Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy for GNOME events
• Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki
• Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders a

nd passwords

• Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons

• Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
• Karen to "call for ideas" for privacy work related bids at GUADEC and by blog/email to foundation-announce
• Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
• Karen to follow up with the Pitivi maintainers for their campaign
• Karen, Kat, and Rosanna to have a meeting to finish the budget and tax information
• Sri to investigate better uses of adwords on the GNOME websites

• Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure

• Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned