Minutes for Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC

Next Meeting

• Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 16:00 UTC

Attending

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

Regrets

Missing

Board Meeting Agenda

• Give higher PayPal privileges to the treasurer

  • Avoid the bottleneck in case Rosanna is not available

  • ACTION: Kat to ask Rosanna to increase her privileges on the PayPal account

  • For the bank account we need somebody based in the US
  • Karen already has access to the bank account

  • Hand over of the PayPal account from old treasurer to new treasurer should be part of the process

• Sponsorship requests

  • https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Hackfests/WestCoastSummit2014

    • USD 5187.52 in total
      • accommodation: USD 670
      • travel: USD 4417
    • Sri is still working to get sponsorship from Intel
      • possibly for a local event
    • There are various potential attendees that are not foundation members
      • They have asked for membership

      • ACTION: Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David

      • VOTE: Sponsorship for the attendees to the West Coast Summit that are members of the foundation: unanimous

      • The board should give a poster/postcard as a thank you for Endless Mobile for hosting the hackfest at their offices

  • https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/DeveloperExperience2014

    • USD 13068 total
      • accommodation: USD 4356
      • travel: USD 8712

      • note: Jon McCann asked to have his reimbursement earlier in order to book the travel

      • Kat and Emmanuele are on the attendees list

    • VOTE: Sponsorship for the travel for the DX hackfest: +1 Andreas, Marina, Tobi, Sri, Joanie; Kat and Emmanuele abstain

    • ACTION: Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest

• Next meeting
  • Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 16:00 UTC
• GNOME.Asia
  • Previous years we allocated USD 15,000
  • Offset by sponsorship

  • VOTE: Allocate USD 15,000 for GNOME.Asia: unanimous

  • ACTION: Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated

• Report from the first QA team meeting
  • Attendees from: SUSE, Fedora
  • Centralisation of the QA work, as opposed to delegating it downstream
  • QA team as an entry point for new contributors
  • Decisions took during the meeting
    • UI automation
    • GSoC project

Discussed on the mailing list

• Ask Tiffany Yau to work on event planning
  • former OPW intern
  • enjoys event planning
  • Sri wants to get her on board for GUADEC

Completed Actions

• Karen to send an email to the board for a confcall with engagement team for strategising the press

Pending action items

• Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
• Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest
• 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
• Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
• Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David

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

• Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated