Regular meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 10th August 2020, 15:00 UTC

Attending

• AllanDay

• KatGerasimova

• FelipeBorges

• FedericoMenaQuintero

• RosannaYuen

• NeilMcGovern

• PhilipChimento

• RobMcQueen

• ReginaAdejo

Regrets

Missing

Consent agenda (5 minutes)

To be approved as a block, by consent (no vote required).

• Approve minutes of 13th July

  • https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Minutes/DraftMinutes

  • The date of the next meeting was corrected - https://wiki.gnome.org/action/info/FoundationBoardPrivate/Minutes/DraftMinutes?action=diff&rev2=57&rev1=56

• Code of Conduct amendments (#171). The board approves the following changes to the Code of Conduct: https://gitlab.gnome.org/federico/gnome-code-of-conduct/-/merge_requests/2 .

Discussion agenda

• FY2020 Q3 review (30 minutes) - Neil
  • FY2020 budget review (10 minutes)
  • FY2020 Q3 report and balance sheet (20 minutes)
• Fundraising report (30 minutes) - Neil
• Communications infrastructure - #143, #174 (10 minutes)
• Board-only discussion (35 minutes)

Minutes

• Consent agenda: Approve minutes of 13th July
  • The date of the next meeting was corrected
  • Minutes are approved.
• Consent agenda: Code of Conduct amendments (#171)
  • Proposed changes are approved.
• FY2020 Q3 review (30 minutes) - Neil
  • Neil presents income and expenses for Q1-3 (actual to end of June) and projected for end of Q4 (to the end of September 2020)
  • Neil: budget was set before the pandemic, the environment has changed since then.
  • Neil presented a budget variance report, which was discussed by the board.
• Fundraising report (30 minutes) - Neil
  • Grants

    • See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engagement/Fundraising/-/wikis/Upcoming-Grants

    • Trying to fit grants to what we are doing at the moment
    • Many grants are intended to be attached to more targeted projects.
• Board-only discussion (35 minutes)

Notices

Next meeting will be 14 September 2020, 15:00 - 17:00 UTC.