Foundation Board Minutes for Monday 17 December, 16:30 UTC

Attending

• FedericoMenaQuintero

• CarlosSoriano

• AllanDay

• NeilMcGovern

• PhilipChimento

• NuritziSanchez

• RobMcQueen

Regrets

• RosannaYuen

• KatGerasimova

Agenda

• Leo Utskot's mail about sponsoring a Rust hackfest in Mexico (Federico)
• Meeting time
• Designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation advisory board member
• Review board initiatives (Nuritzi)

Minutes

• Leo Utskot's mail about sponsoring a Rust hackfest in Mexico (Federico)
  • Neil will reply.
• Meeting time
  • This time works for Nuritzi as well. We'll adopt this as the meeting time until the next daylight savings time change.
• Designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation advisory board member
  • Sri has responded to the call for volunteers.
  • VOTE: designate Sri Ramkrishna as The Document Foundation's advisory board member:
    • +1 unanimous

  • ACTION: (Rob) Follow up with Sri and close https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/72

• Review board initiatives
  • Ongoing discussion from the board hackfest about how to define GNOME software. This group will have a call soon.

  • Employee handbook, https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/43 — can this be closed now that it is being done?

  • Policy for private minutes, https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/61 — Philip will try to work on this during the holiday break. (Not done yet.)

  • Hackfest approvals — need to define better what a GNOME event is. Pam's advice was to write a description of the events that may use the trademark (iin other words, describe a hackfest) and supply that as a guideline.
  • Committees — need to revisit this one in the new year.
    • What was the status of the sponsorship committee? - Wait for development coordinator to be hired, and see how the board needs to support that person with a committee.
  • Who is going to FOSDEM?

Actions

• Rob - Follow up with Sri Ramkrishna about The Document Foundation advisory board position. (Done.)