Minutes for Meeting of March 5th

Next Meeting

March 19, 2009

Attendance

• Lucas
• Vincent
• Brian
• J5
• Behdad
• Diego
• Stormy
• Zana

Regrets

• Luis (I guess, since Lucas sent the minutes)

Minutes

• Annual report:
  • Still some content pending. Stormy offered help if needed.
  • ACTION: Lucas to work on it during next week
• Membership Committee
  • Situation: lack of man power
  • Board election are now very close, need make sure we have people to make it happen
  • ACTION: Diego to ping Bruno to make a call for volunteers
  • ACTION: Vincent to blog about elections and invite people to run for the elections
• Board election: preferential vote this year?
  • ACTION: Luis to start discussion on board list to get a final decision on this topic
• New GNOME products on Hackerthreads
  • ACTION: Vincent to send e-mail confirming the new products with Hackerthreads
• Travel committee bootstrapping
  • Suggested team: Zana, Emily Chen, Ross Burton, Chema, and German
  • Stormy suggests to create a mailing list for the travel committee and then announce it
  • ACTION: Diego to handle the creation of mailing list and then announce it
• GUADEC
  • Some last minute organization issues have popped up
  • ACTION: Vincent to talk to Alberto and Claudia about what they think would be a good solution
• Budget
  • Stormy says we need to cut at least 35k from 2009 budget
  • Need to get 2008 actuals to do better planning on where to cut expenses for 2009
  • ACTION: Zana to send gnucash to mailing list
  • ACTION: Stormy to have a look at the gnucash file and update 2009 budget based on more concrete number from last year