Minutes for Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, February 18th, 2013, 16:00 UTC

Attending

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

Regrets

Missing

Board Meeting Agenda

• Pitivi campaign
  • Karen drafted out an agreement

  • Standard contractor agreement, with a few tweaks like adding an authorized representative to show independence from OpenCreed for profit motives

  • Pitivi developers have brought up some comments and questions
  • Karen is working with them to improve the wording of the agreement
• Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
  • The board is reaching out to members of the community to go over the ideas on the wiki
  • More ideas are welcome
• Outstanding reimbursements
  • Status of Dia GNOME reimbursements?
    • Andreas is going over the receipts this week
  • Any other pending reimbursements?
    • Documentation hackfest (soon)
    • FOSDEM (soon)
  • Kat created a private wiki page with the list of pending reimbursements for Rosanna to subscribe to

    • https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/Private/Reimbursements (PRIVATE)

  • Mid-point batch of payments for OPW has been sent
• General budget status
  • State of finance up to October is almost done
• Status of 2013 Tax forms
  • Data gathering
  • We have asked for an extension
    • Common practice, nothing special
    • We have time until May
• Upcoming events
  • GNOME Asia
    • The original plan was to co-locate with openSUSE conference
    • It is possible that GNOME.Asia is going to be stand-alone
  • GUADEC 2014
    • Sponsorship brochure is done
    • The brochure is going to be sent once the website is up
    • The CfP is also blocking on the website
    • Website should be up soon
  • West Coast Hackfest
    • Venue is still undecided
    • Conference center in Portland
      • Discount rate for hotel
    • Other option (to maximize attendance)
      • San Francisco
      • Near Linux Foundation collaboration summit and Red Hat developers conf
  • Travel report from FOSDEM
    • Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the current state of Debian
    • The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation
    • They agreed to blog more on the issue
    • The Debian packagers asked for a technical position from the GNOME project for the use of systemd
    • Maybe have a joint statement with KDE as they moved to systemd as well
      • Involve other environments like XFCE

    • ACTION: Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd

    • Karen talked to a Red Hat representative about funding
• Ask the release team for a report on the state of the project
  • Keep the board updated

  • ACTION: Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project

Discussed on the mailing list

• GCompris switch to QML for iOS and Android support
  • The maintainer graciously informed the board beforehand
  • Effects on GSoC
  • GTK does not support Android and iOS, and there's no current effort for that; Bruno's effort alone would not be sufficient
  • Qt/QML has commercial interest to support those platforms

Completed Actions

• Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
• Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding for privacy work
• Karen to "call for ideas" for privacy work related bids at GUADEC and by blog/email to foundation-announce

Pending action items

• Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
• 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 and 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 and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
• Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd
• Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
• Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project

• 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