Minutes for Meeting of January 21, 2009

Attendance

  • Lucas (joined at 21:30 UTC)
  • Vincent
  • Brian
  • J5
  • Jeff
  • Stormy
  • Zana

Regrets

  • Behdad (driving)
  • Luis (jury duty)

Minutes

  • Friends of GNOME
    • plenty of tshirts and mugs (ordered 144 each at the end of last year)
    • mouse pads being ordered
    • 70+ packages to send out!
  • Hackfests. ACTION: Vincent send GTK+ theming hackfest notice to adboard, ACTION: Behdad: GTK+ sponsorship calls.

  • Adboard meeting topic: system administrator, Canonical's proposal for bugzilla ACTION: Stormy to invite Collabora and CodeThink, ACTION: Vincent: To invite Olav and Owen

  • GUADEC Need coordinator: ACTION: Vincent volunteered if no one else, will talk to Alberto ACTION: Stormy to update legal document
  • Finances on website. ACTION: Vincent will update two sites.
  • Foresight, some kind of distro group? ACTION: Stormy to put together a proposal for a group for distributions
  • ANNUAL REPORT STUFF DUE!! ACTION: Vincent and Behdad
  • Finances. ACTION: J5 to give us a update. Looks like we had a surplus last year.
  • Membership Committee. ACTION: Lucas checking with Baris. ACTION: (Lucas) Diego to contact Bruno about a new call for volunteers and contact previous volunteers.
  • Amazon Affiliates. Brian, Vincent, Lucas, and Diego +1. ACTION: Stormy to open an Amazon Affiliates account for the GNOME Foundation.
  • Planet GNOME: Lucas and Vincent will take over and publish guidelines.
  • GNOME stuff on FSF store: Lucas is reworking design with Andreas to solve font issue.
  • Brian looking into insurance. ACTION: Vincent to provide Brian with list of events and locations for this year.

Old items

  • ACTION: Board members test new Friends of GNOME site.

=> done

  • ACTION: finish up your annual report writings!

=> Behdad & Vincent are late

  • ACTION: Stormy to mail requests and plan for 2009 budget and

sponsorship requests to all advisory board members. => done

  • ACTION: Rosanna to send out invoices.

=> done

  • ACTION: Vincent to put out community call for 2009 activities.

=> not done, too busy

  • ACTION: J5 to send out 2008 finances and 2009 budget plan.

=> not done, too busy (?)

New action items

  • ACTION:Vincent send GTK+ theming hackfest notice to adboard

  • ACTION: Behdad: GTK+ sponsorship calls.

  • ACTION: Stormy to invite Collabora and CodeThink to Adboard meeting

  • ACTION: Vincent: To invite Olav and Owen to adboard meeting
  • ACTION: Vincent volunteered for GUADEC organizer if no one else, will talk to Alberto
  • ACTION: Stormy to update legal document for GUADEC/Akademy co-locating
  • ACTION: Vincent will update two financial websites on www.gnome.org
  • ACTION: Stormy to put together a proposal for a group for distributions like Foresight, Debian, Fedora, openSuSE ...
  • ACTION: J5 to give us a financial update.
  • ACTION: Lucas checking with Baris, if he wants to be on membership committee again.
  • ACTION: Diego to contact Bruno about a new call for volunteers and contact previous volunteers.
  • ACTION: Stormy to open an Amazon Affiliates account for the GNOME Foundation.
  • ACTION: Vincent to provide Brian with list of events and locations for this year.

Discussed on board-list

  • Printing 3,000 sticker sheets for Friends of GNOME gifts for $1,390.95. Can also be used at events.
  • Ordering more mouse pads for Friends of GNOME.
  • Friends of GNOME numbers data will be shared publicly.

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