Minutes for Meeting of July 26th, 2011

Next Meeting

  • August 8-9, 2011 at The Desktop Summit

Attending

  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Brian Cameron
  • Emily Chen
  • Emmanuele Bassi
  • Germán Póo-Caamaño
  • Rosanna Yuen
  • Ryan Lortie
  • Shaun McCance

  • Stormy Peters

Regrets

  • Bastien Nocera
  • Karen Sandler

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

  • GUADEC 2012 Bids
  • Friends of GNOME
    • Debated what the next campaign could be about, things like a11y, servers, hackfests
  • Events
    • Desktop Summit
      • Enlightenment member sponsorship for Desktop Summit - approved
      • Rooms available on Monday and Tuesday for the board meetings.
      • If we want to sell tshirts and merchandise, we need to print them soon.
        • We have design.
        • Need to know how many. (Stormy to look up numbers from before.)
    • GObject-Introspection Hackfest
      • Karen is looking for additional sponsors.
    • Boston Summit
      • Still need local volunteer. Could it be someone remote if they went out early?
      • ACTION: Karen - Will talk to Walter about making arrangements for a Boston Summit location.

      • ACTION: Ryan - Will talk to some Boston locals to try and find volunteers.

  • Quarterly Report Plans - Update
  • Decide on Officers
    • Decide at Desktop Summit

Completed Actions

  • Andreas - Will help Emily publish the quarterly report.
  • Emily - Get the Q1 reports published.

Status of action items

  • 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+.
  • 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.
  • Andreas - To start work on next 2011 Annual Report ASAP (due start FY2012). Taken over from Paul.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bastien - Will touch base with the appropriate people in Red Hat to see if the RHN entitlements can be approved.
  • 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 - Get the 2011 Q2 report started.
  • Emmanuele - Will take over Friends of GNOME tasks.
  • 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).
  • Germán - Will finish the Financial section of the quarterly report.
  • Germán - Will talk to membership committee to see if we can do something to help remind people to renew memberships to avoid people losing the ability to vote.
  • Germán - To send link to previous year's GUADEC's budgets to guadec-list.
  • Germán - Will touch base with the GObject-Introspection Hackfest and make sure that people attending also attend the Desktop Summit if possible.
  • Karen - Will compose a press release by the end of the week.
  • Karen - Will take over discussions to take over ownership of some GNOME related domains.
  • Karen - Will follow up with LojaGeek.

  • Karen - Will contact people to try and push forward the organization of Boston Summit.
    • Emailed boston-social, talked to Walter Bender, emailed Jonathan Blandford.
  • Karen - Will follow up with Debian about their usage of the GNOME logo.
    • Emailed with Stefano Zacchiroli, left it that GNOME needs to decide whether it wants to permit this new combined logo use.
  • Karen - Will follow up with cedwards regarding CiviCRM contract.
    • After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
  • Karen - Will email Marina to let her know that the board has approved funds for the next year of the Women's Outreach fund, ccing Board.
    • emailed on 7/13
  • Karen - Will follow up with LojaGeek again.

  • Karen - Will follow up with Stefano to discuss use of combined Debian/GNOME mark and caution stopping further use until agreement is settled on.
    • emailed and talked on phone
  • Karen - Will update the contact information in the webpage to add information with respect to fraudulent checks.
    • contacts page edited.
  • 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 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.

  • Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
  • Stormy - Take care of GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.

  • All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.
  • All board members - Review the received bids for GUADEC 2012.
  • 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

  • Karen - Will talk to Walter about making arrangements for a Boston Summit location.
  • Ryan - Will talk to some Boston locals to try and find volunteers.
  • Shaun - Will contact event organizers to put together content for the Events section of the Q2 report.
    • GNOME.Asia, ATK, Open Help, IM, Contacts & Social Hackfest and release parties.

Discussed on the mailing list

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