Minutes for Meeting of May 24th, 2011

Next Meeting

  • June 7th, 2011

Attending

  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Bastien Nocera
  • Brian Cameron
  • Emily Chen
  • Germán Póo-Caamaño
  • Rosanna Yuen

Regrets

  • Og Maciel
  • Paul Cutler

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.
  • Provide an updated budget for review that helps with plans.

New Items

  • Thanks to Red Hat for providing conference call services!
  • ED Hiring next steps
    • ACTION: Brian - Will call the lawyer to find status on ED hiring and update the board.

  • Desktop Summit Planning
    • Andreas asked the organizers for information about the rooms that will be used for the board and adboard meetings.
      • ACTION: Andreas - To verify meeting times for the Desktop Summit. That August 9th is a good date for the board and AGM meetings and August 10th for the Advisory Board meeting. Will confirm on board list, then the advisory board list.

    • Desktop Summit Visa Situation
      • KDE will handle visa letters.
  • IM, Contacts & Social Hackfest Plans

    • Bastien is taking part in this event.
    • One person may need travel sponsorship.
    • ACTION: Bastien - To make sure that the "IM, Contacts & Social Hackfest" gets added to http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests.

  • Need To Build GUADEC Event Committee
  • Quarterly Report
  • COSCUP
    • Emily is having ongoing discussions with COSCUP organizers about sending GNOME speakers to COSCUP.
  • Bastien recommends nominating a leader to deal with situations of conflict within the GNOME community to help with technical issues, like when patches are not accepted.
    • ACTION: Bastien - To put together a proposal for how technical issues could be mediated within the community.

  • Bank Update
    • Currently in the middle of paperwork to handle the fraudulent check issues.

Completed Actions

  • 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. Filed as bug #650977
    • 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). No reply for 6 months.

  • Bastien - To sign and send the GTK+ / MeeGo contract back to Igalia.

  • Bastien - Will try to find people who can consolidate the feedback about the Texas Instruments Zoom2 device to provide back to Texas Instruments.
  • Germán - To have a draft Fiscal Year Budget in October for the board to review. (It was sent on December to https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2010-December/msg00057.html)

Status of action items

  • 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.
  • Andreas - Will discuss with Ryan Lortie providing support contracts for GTK+.
  • 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 - 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 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.
  • Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money.
  • Brian & Og - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams. Will draft an agenda.

  • Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.
  • Emily - Will take care of handling funds from GNOME 3.0 Goodies.
  • Emily - Update Tracking ID for 112 Launch Party Packages. Tracking from
  • Emily - Will contact the guadec-list and gugmeisters mailing lists to encourage people to get involved with GUADEC 2012 planning.
  • 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 - 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.
  • Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
  • Rosanna - Automate the process of entering PayPal information into GnuCash.

  • All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.
  • Unowned - To find a way to automate the process of exporting results from internal review process and email it to the board.

New Action Items

  • Andreas - To verify meeting times for the Desktop Summit. That August 9th is a good date for the board and AGM meetings and August 10th for the Advisory Board meeting. Will confirm on board list, then the advisory board list.
  • Bastien - To make sure that the "IM, Contacts & Social Hackfest" gets added to http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests.

  • Bastien - To put together a proposal for how technical issues could be mediated within the community.
  • Brian - Will call the lawyer to find status on ED hiring and update the board.
  • Emily - To contact owners of the Quarterly Report sections and get the unfinished reports published, and get the 2011 Q2 report started.
  • Emily - Send out a updated expense budget report after produced GNOME 3 goodies. Will need to adjust after spending money to deliver gifts for the GNOME 3 Party Best Photo winners.

Discussed on the mailing list

  • Events
  • Miscellaneous
    • Bastien wraps up the GTK+ / MeeGo contract.

    • Emily proposes adding a "Users Group" section to the Quarterly Report.
    • Vincent Untz continues to work with The GNOME Foundation to make GNOME 3.0 DVD's available for distribution.
    • Emily proposes translating the Friends of GNOME page to Chinese.
    • Bastien consolidated the feedback about the Texas Instruments Zoom2 device and provided that feedback back to Texas Instruments.
    • Og notified the board that he will not be able to attend the FISL event in Brasil, and asked that his request to have travel costs paid by the GNOME Foundation be removed from consideration.

FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110524 (last edited 2011-06-07 05:44:37 by BrianCameron)