Minutes for Meeting of December 18th, 2012
Next Meeting
- As the next meeting would be on the first of January, we will push it back by one week
- Tuesday, January 8th, 2013, 15:00 UTC
Attending
- Rosanna Yuen
- Bastien Nocera
Shaun McCance
- Andreas Nilsson
- Karen Sandler
- Tobias Mueller
- Joanmarie Diggs
Regrets
- Emmanuele Bassi
Missing
- Seif Lotfy
Board Meeting Agenda
- Potential adboard meeting at FOSDEM
The dudle suggests that there will be enough people to attend, so that might be a good idea to make a meeting happen. https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/Conference_attendance/
ACTION: Karen to find a location for the meeting (FOSDEM organisers or Fred Peters)
- Meeting followed by dinner probably Friday evening for two hours
- Brno docs hackfest - needs vote
- We received a request for funding
- Missing votes can't be collected, but we do have a quorum in favour of the proposal
ACTION: Shaun to contact the organisers and inform them about the successful funding
- Status of a11y proposals
- Bastien put together a proposal as to how to do a bidding process
- We need to review it and send it off
- Karen will review and send comments to board-list and then send it to Mozilla
- Sysadmin
- CiviCRM
- Karen contacted a contractor that was recommend by the CiviCRM and EFF folks
- The contractor says it will be less than 2000 USD
- That fits our remaining funds well
- CiviCRM
- 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.
- Karen will get a proposal by Ashish soon
- Status of fiscal services for GIMP
- Toy Wilbur agreement state
- Karen will review the contract soon
- Transactions are not timely dealt with
- Toy Wilbur agreement state
- 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 is in contact with the W3C to have a conf call to talk about the rules for non profits to join W3C
- Sean will also participate
- Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards.
- Health insurance increase for employees.
- No progress since last time
- The board needs to discuss and vote.
Completed Actions
- Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors.
- Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals
- Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers
New Action Items
- Karen to find a location for the meeting (FOSDEM organisers or Fred Peters)
- Shaun to contact the organisers and inform them about the successful funding
- Andreas to make sure the remaining votes will be cast
- Karen to collect the relevant numbers and to send them to board-list
- Andreas to investigate how Christer's hiring was handled
- Karen to check with Chema whether it's possible to reimburse people in Europe
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
- Andreas to make sure the remaining votes will be cast
- Andreas to investigate how Christer's hiring was handled
- 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 to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014
- 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
- 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 contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM
- Karen to collect the relevant numbers and to send them to board-list
- Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
- This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
- 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 explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C
- Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director
- Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project
- Karen to find a location for the meeting (FOSDEM organisers or Fred Peters)
- Karen to contact Alex to move it forward without the exclusivety right.
- Karen to check with Chema whether it's possible to reimburse people in Europe
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
- Shaun to contact the organisers and inform them about the successful funding