Minutes for Meeting of December 4th, 2012

Next Meeting

  • Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, 15:00 UTC

Attending

  • Emmanuele Bassi
  • Rosanna Yuen
  • Bastien Nocera
  • Shaun McCance

  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Karen Sandler
  • Seif Lotfy

Regrets

  • Joanmarie Diggs
  • Tobias Mueller

Missing

Board Meeting Agenda

  • Reports - annual report
    • Annual report have been published! Thanks everyone involved for their hard work!
    • The board would like to thank Andreas for his efforts on the annual report
    • We need to start thinking about the next one
    • Friends of GNOME donors list and financial information are the items that take most time/resources
  • GNOME logo approval for Worldofgnome forums.
    • The logo should not problematic
    • But if the appearance of the forums is confusing as to whether they are official part of GNOME then it can raise issues
      • The current design is really close to developer.gnome.org and other gnome.org website
    • ACTION: Andreas to reach out to worldofgnome to update the forums design

  • Travel support for Fabio Duran for the IV Latin American Engineering and Computer Systems Conference.
    • Fabio is going to give two talks about GTK and GNOME, as well as a workshop on getting involved in GNOME development
    • Fabio is active in the local Chilean GNOME community
    • Amount: USD 620
    • Fabio is not on PGO; we request reports from the hackers we fund, so we'll have to publish his report on Karen's/Board's blog.
    • Vote: unanimous
  • Status of a11y proposals
    • Bastien wrote the bidding process on the wiki
    • ACTION: Bastien to send a draft for the call for bids for the a11y project proposals to board-list for discussion

  • Sysadmin
    • We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on our last sysadmin.
      • The remainder allocated is around USD 15,000
    • We should look into spending that money. Zana have the numbers on how much funds we have allocated for that left.
    • Needs coordination with the sysadmin team.
      • Karen also asked about recommendations for hiring him to work on CiviCRM as well
    • We need to negotiate a rate and how many hours we can allocate for this work
      • Part time contract for 3 or 4 months
  • Advisory board meeting agenda
    • The meeting is schedule for December 7th, 2012, at 16:00 UTC
    • We need to put together an agenda for the upcoming advisory board meeting.
      • Agenda
        • Report on the outreach program (Karen)
        • Report on the current status of the GNOME Testable initiative (Emmanuele)
        • Fallback/Classic/Retro mode of GNOME (Bastien, optionally Matthias Clasen)
        • Assigning resources to deprecated/removed components (LTS releases?)
    • ACTION: Karen to ask Matthias for availability to join the adboard meeting

  • Status of fiscal services for GIMP
    • Toy Wilber agreement state
      • Karen is blocking on the sourceforge agreement
    • Transactions are not timely dealt with
    • Reports on the resources are late
      • ACTION: Zana to send the GIMP resources report to the GIMP developers by the end of the current week

  • Joining the W3C
    • Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards.
    • Karen sent emails to the W3C for more information on joining
      • No response yet
  • Openhatch outreach idea
    • Karen has been in contact with Openhatch to investigate if we can do something together in regards to outreach.
    • Karen and Andreas have been in contact with Marina and Christian Hergbert to get their feedback on the idea.
  • OPW status (report)
    • Subversion added, definition of qualification being revised to include genderfluid/genderqueer applicants

Completed Actions

  • Andreas to publish the Annual Report at the end of the week.
  • Karen to look into the details of the W3C membership and invited experts rules
  • Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014

New Action Items

  • ACTION: Andreas to reach out to worldofgnome to update the forums design

  • ACTION: Bastien to send a draft for the call for bids for the a11y project proposals to board-list for discussion

  • ACTION: Karen to ask Matthias for availability to join the adboard meeting

  • ACTION: Zana to send the GIMP resources report to the GIMP developers by the end of the current week

  • ACTION: Andreas to reach out to worldofgnome to update the forums design

Status of action items

  • All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails
  • All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project
  • Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders.
  • Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
  • Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
  • Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
  • Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz
  • Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and submit it to the board list for the Accessibility FoG project
  • Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits.
  • Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012
  • Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize the types of contacts and come up with the various areas
  • Joanie to work with the A11y team to write proposals for using the Mozilla and FoG money
  • Joanie to discuss with Dario (drf) from KDE and Ryan Lortie to formalize an agenda and a time frame for a Collaboration Summit
  • Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers
  • Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
  • Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
  • Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors.
  • Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM
  • Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
  • Karen - 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.
  • Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security, reliability)
  • Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals
  • Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C
  • Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director
  • Rosanna - Automate the process of entering PayPal information into GnuCash.

  • Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
  • Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice.
  • Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use
  • Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member
  • Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project

Discussed on the mailing list

  • Friends of GNOME donor statistics.
    • Tobias have the FoG donor data. Was uncertain how much he could share with the wider community without invading on donors privacy. Andreas suggested using percentage instead of raw number, also because it's easier to read.
  • Karen notified the KDE board about GUADEC 2013 and 2014
  • Online accounts and trademarks
    • Debarshi Ray got legal advice on GOA and trademark usage from Karen and the SFLC

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