Minutes for Friday, September 12th, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Next meeting Friday, September 26th 2014, 16:00 UTC.
Attending
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
- Rosanna Yuen
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Jeff Fortin
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Karen Sandler
- Tobias Mueller
Regrets
- Andrea Veri
Missing
Board meeting
- Bountysource account for the Foundation? (see "Bounties for GNOME/GTK" thread)
- Waiting for contact information from Sri to get in touch with Elementary folks
- Funding for GNOME interns in OPW
- Request for $6000 from GNOME general funds for a GNOME OPW intern
- Would be good to have a decision today (2014-09-12)
- Treasurer recommends against voting before an updated financial report
- Proposal to use Privacy campaign for a GNOME privacy OPW intern
- Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board members or missing info:
GNOME Privacy project (hub's offer, and the findings of SafetyTeam at GUADEC)
- Outreach administrativia fast-tracking
- Karen's GUADEC 2014 travel expenses reimbursement (awaits vote from travel committee, and forwarding of relevant mail thread)
- Outstanding brand use requests: Julio Cesar Caraça's idea for selling apparel in Brazil (mail subject: "Sharing an idea...")
Discussed on the mailing list
- Groupon: Pam made a mistake in filing a change of name form instead of a change of address form
- Pam confirmed with the USPTO that this will have no impact on GNOME and is taking all relevant steps to correct
- VOTE: reimburse Pam USD 40.00 for expenses: +1 unanimous
- Groupon and related administrative preparations
- Using appear.in (WebRTC) for some board meetings
Completed Actions
- Jeff to reply to the "Permission request for Personal use of Gnome foot" mail thread
- Zana to look into brand usecontracts that she has on paper and scan them
- Zana to check the inventory of merch she has in storage (low priority)
Pending action items
- 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
- Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review
- Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
- Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
- Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
- Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
- Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure
- Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
- Sri to communicate to Rosanna and work on the donation for the West Coast hackfest
- Sri, Marina, Kat to work on establishing criteria for drafting for the hiring committee for the ED role
- Sri to investigate the GNOME gifts situation