Minutes for Meeting of March 29th, 2011
Next Meeting
- April 12th, 2011
Attending
- Andreas Nilsson
- Bastien Nocera
- Brian Cameron
- Emily Chen
- Germán Póo-Caamaño
- Og Maciel
- Paul Cutler
- Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
Missing
Recurring Items
- Review past action items.
- Did each person update their action items?
- Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
- Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking.
New Items
On February 16th, Joanmarie Diggs asked if the GNOME a11y PayPal account can be used to receive GNOME a11y funds.
The main issue is that The GNOME Foundation does not have the staff to handle the accounting. Currently all PayPal transactions are handled manually. If this could be automated, this would make it more possible to consider this sort of request.
Perhaps The GNOME Foundation needs to find volunteers or hire people to help with accounting or to automate PayPal & CRM automation.
ACTION: Paul - Will write a response to Joanie Diggs to discuss how to move forward regarding receiving GNOME a11y funds.
- There has also been discussion about whether GNOME projects should be allowed to join Conservancy.
- Andreas, Bastien, Paul: -1
- Emily, German, Og, Paul: 0
ACTION: Brian - Will follow up with the lawyers to discuss what would be involved to provide liability protection like what the Conservancy provides and to see if they have any perspective about whether the GNOME Foundation should allow GNOME projects to join Conservancy.
ACTION: Paul & Andreas - Will raise their concerns allowing GNOME projects joining the Conservancy.
- CiviCRM Improvements
- The board decided to approve $1,000 (USD) to improve the CiviCRM, as Rosanna requested.
ACTION: Og - Will notify Rosanna that $1,000 (USD) to improve CiviCRM has been approved.
- GNOME 3 release!
- Andreas feels that the GNOME 3 release is solid.
- GNOME.Asia (Brian, Andreas, or Emily - update)
- Lots of good work getting done on marketing, the release team, improving websites, fixing bugs.
- Everybody in Bangalore is excited about the Hackfest.
- The entrance admission has been eliminated, so the number of participants is naturally increasing.
- The event is profitable even though there is no longer an entrance fee.
- GNOME 3 Launch Party Update
- Some parties have had trouble receiving the goodies due to tax issues.
Alan & Emily are planning a GNOME 3 Launch Party photo competition.
- The board decided to return the $700 (USD) surplus to The GNOME Foundation bank account.
- Johannes Schmid informed the board that at the Toronto hackfest that they discussed about an organization that decided to use Qt instead of GTK+ mainly because they were able to get a support contract for Qt. Therefore we thought it might be a good idea to give interested companies a chance to present themselves as commercial support options on developer.gnome.org. Perhaps via some "Get support" link.
ACTION: Andreas - Will discuss with Ryan Lortie providing support contracts for GTK+.
- Improve news.gnome.org
ACTION: Andreas - Will look into planet.gnome.org header to see if we can add a link to see news.gnome.org. This will help more readers to hopefully notice IRC meeting.
- Continuing to work towards improving relationships with Canonical.
Completed Actions
- Bastien - To e-mail Murray about contacting UPS one more time regarding the lost Event Box.
- Bastien - Will help find a home for the European Event Box.
- Emily - Create a PO in Oracle and transfer the gold sponsorship from Oracle to GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 (Done, in process)
- Emily - Produce, Deliver and Tracking goodies for GNOME 3.0 Launch Parties.(Done)
- Emily - Prepare to launch the GNOME Store in Beijing
- Og - Will notify Rosanna that $1,000 (USD) to improve CiviCRM has been approved. This new action item was completed shortly after the meeting.
Status of action items
Andreas - Will follow up with Andrew Savory from LiMo to see if relevant information from their GTK+ study can be made more public. (will ping again).
Andreas - To ask Kat if she can reach out to the gnome-de@gnome.org mailing list about finding local German volunteers to help with the Desktop Summit 2011. (will ping again)
- Andreas - Will look into the possibility of a Desktop Summit design where the facade is more neutral.
- Andreas - Will blog a Desktop Summit status report.
- Bastien - Will try to find people who can consolidate the feedback about the Texas Instruments Zoom2 device to provide back to Texas Instruments.
- Bastien - Will take over the internal review process task from Diego Urrelo (hopefully he can automate it).
- Bastien - To find a way to automate the process of exporting results from internal review process and email it to the board.
- Bastien - To discuss the use of badges (a-la Creative Commons, last.fm page colors, or PSN badges).
- Bastien - To talk to Olav Vitters about using bugzilla to track Friends of GNOME post card sending.
- Bastien - To get _a_ WebOS/Palm contact from Lennart Poettering.
- Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
- Bastien - Will reach out to Dave Richards from the City of Largo to plan for a hackfest there.
- Bastien - To e-mail GIMP about changing their website, and procedure for donating.
- Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
- Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
- Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
- Brian - Will finalize marketing contract with Allan Day and Sumana Harihareswara.
- Emily - Follow by email about vote for the options for how to spend additional money after produced GNOME 3.0 Goodies.
- Emily - Update Tracking ID for 112 Launch Party Packages. Tracking from
- Germán - To discuss with GNOME Hispano about them handling GNOME Foundation money in Euros (€).
- Germán - To track if the new method of boletos generates more or less money from Brazil.
- Germán - To have a draft Fiscal Year Budget in October for the board to review.
- Germán - Will provide an updated budget for review that we'll plan to send to foundation-list for community review.
- Germán - Will assist with the GNOME 3 as a Foundation goal task and to help in getting the GNOME 3 as a Foundation Goal survey topics together. (Handing over to someone else.)
- Og - Update the blog and planet to highlight that people are expected to sign and follow the GNOME Code of Conduct.
- As per Paul's recommendation, I have emailed Vincent to ask him what his idea is for doing this.
- Still have not heard back from Vincent Untz.
Still on ToDo.
- Og - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
Still on ToDo.
Paul - Will send an email to the foundation-list and the gnucash list seeking someone to take over the GnuCash automation. Taken over from Behdad Esfahbod.
- Paul - To start work on next 2011 Annual Report ASAP (due start FY2012).
- Paul - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.
- Paul - Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
- Paul - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
- Paul - To review Justin's email about updating trademark agreements and email the marketing team for feedback.
- Paul - Will put together an email to Canonical regarding working towards improving relations.
- Paul - Set up a phone call with the right people at Canonical, the GNOME Foundation board and/or GNOME release team to discuss how to improve relations.
- Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
Rosanna - Automate the process of entering PayPal information into GnuCash.
New Action Items
- Andreas - Will discuss with Ryan Lortie providing support contracts for GTK+.
- Andreas - Will look into planet.gnome.org header to see if we can add a link to see news.gnome.org. This will help more readers to hopefully notice IRC meeting.
- Brian - Will follow up with the lawyers to discuss what would be involved to provide liability protection like what the Conservancy provides and to see if they have any perspective about whether the GNOME Foundation should allow GNOME projects to join Conservancy.
- Paul - Will write a response to Joanie Diggs to discuss how to move forward regarding receiving GNOME a11y funds.
Paul & Andreas - Will raise their concerns regarding allowing GNOME projects joining the Conservancy.
Discussed on the mailing list
- Meetings
- Planning for The GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting on March 23rd.
- Legal
- Preparing contracts for the two GNOME Marketing contractors.
- Events
- Planning for GNOME.Asia 3.0 Hackfest/Summit.
- Planning for GNOME 3.0 Launch Parties
- Discussions with Ben Konrath about planning more of a GNOME presence at African free software events.
- Event Box
Robert McQueen agreed to have Collabora host the event boxes in Cambridge. Dorée Carrier will be the contact handling shipping.
- Eitan Isaacson notified the board that he purchased missing cables and a new kb/mouse for the GNOME Event Box and asked for reimbursement of $89.13 (USD).
- Programs
- The GNOME Foundation notified the Women's Outreach Program leaders that an additional $1,500 (USD) was allocated to match what Google is providing to students in the GSoC program.
- Miscellaneous
- Discussion about preparing a GNOME 3.0 LiveCD/DVD.
- Having ongoing discussions with Canonical regarding improving relationships.
- The board agreed to reward borschty and juhaz with t-shirts for their excellent work in monitoring #gnome on freenode.
- Johannes Schmid informed the board that at the Toronto hackfest that they discussed about an organization that decided to use Qt instead of GTK+ mainly because they were able to get a support contract for Qt. Therefore we thought it might be a good idea to give interested companies a chance to present themselves as commercial support options on developer.gnome.org. Perhaps via some "Get support" link.