Minutes of the Foundation Board meeting for Tuesday, October 30th 2018, 15:30 UTC

Next meeting date Tuesday, 6th November 2018, 16:30 UTC

Attending

• AllanDay

• CarlosSoriano

• KatGerasimova

• FedericoMenaQuintero

• NeilMcGovern

• RosannaYuen

• PhilipChimento

• RobMcQueen

Regrets

• NuritziSanchez

Agenda

• Red Hat acquisition (Philip)
• Other business

Minutes

• Red Hat acquisition
  • Announcement of the acquisition of Red Hat by IBM was made over the weekend.
  • Neil doesn't know anything other than what has been reported in the press; looks like this should not have much of an effect on GNOME at this stage. Red Hat may be run as a unit within IBM; what happens in the future is of course unknown.
  • Philip: do you expect trouble retaining Red Hat as an advisory board member?
    • Neil: no, no reason why that should happen.
  • We discussed possible scenarios and came to the conclusion that it's best for the Foundation to wait and see what happens. It's good to have a diversity of companies paying people to work on GNOME, but that was also true before the acquisition.
• Other business
  • Philip: Can we upload the 2018-2019 forecast that we approved during the hackfest, to the wiki? I'd like it to be in place before sending out last week's minutes.
    • Neil: People were planning to suggest some changes, are we not waiting for that?
    • Kat: My understanding was we were approving this forecast, and making changes later.
    • Rob: Agreed. We should also consistently refer to the budget as a forecast, since that's what we did during the hackfest.
  • Allan: Do people have changes they want to do to the budget?
    • Neil: Some people have spending ideas; to discuss whether that comes from reserves, or from another program.
    • Allan: We should discuss in the mailing list the changes that people want.
• ACTION (Neil): Upload the forecast to the wiki, as approved during the Cambridge hackfest.
• ACTION (Neil): Start a thread on board-list asking for everyone's spending ideas so we can flesh them out.

Actions

• Neil - Upload the forecast to the wiki, as approved during the Cambridge hackfest.
• Neil - Start a thread on board-list asking for everyone's spending ideas so we can flesh them out.