Minutes for Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 17:00 UTC
Next Meeting
- Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Attending
- Andreas Nilsson
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Tobias Mueller
- Joanmarie Diggs
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
Regrets
- Emmanuele Bassi
- Karen Sandler
- Rosanna Yuen
Board Meeting Agenda
- Privacy issues regarding GNOME Software statistics reporting
- The GNOME Software statistics configuration moved to GNOME Control Center
- The change to send usage stats to distros by default was intentional
- Bastien suggested this be explicitly asked/presented to users in GNOME Initial Setup
- No further action seems to have taken place
- Will it be done in time for 3.12?
- GNOME Software has a policy about how the data will be used:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/doc/privacy-policy.html
- But the data collection is not done by GNOME; it is done by distros.
- Karen was consulted in #board since she is not able to attend today's meeting
- She would want to get Bastien's solution in for 3.12
- Failing that, we should put something in the release notes
- Conclusions:
- Users should opt-in
- Distros should provide their policy privacy to the user
- Ask the Release Team if we can block against this being added in GNOME Initial Setup
ACTION: Kat will reach out to gnome-software maintainers
ACTION: Kat will email the Release Team
ACTION: Karen will look at these issues from a legal standpoint
- SXSW (South by South-West) travel report from Sri
- Sri and Karen attended
- Karen had a talk on Friday. While most of the sessions at SXSW seem to be not very well attended, there was a good amount of press coming out of it, including an article in Le Monde, in addition to the SXSW blogpost leading up to it with a very broad readership.
- Advertised the talk via social media
- Interest in OPW; another related to the medical field
- had a GNOME event but it could be organized better, we need to organize the event well in advance and use multiple ways of advertising it, including posters and eventbrite.
- Got a couple of new potential volunteers, and some interest in the west coast hackfest
- Promotion of OPW by EFF, Rackspace, and Wordpress. Karen has several new fundraising leads for OPW.
- Most people Sri spoke with knew what GNOME was, Free Software, etc.
- Sri gave an interview that has since appeared in a blog post
- Karen's articles are:
- Karen also did a couple of other interviews, including one on about the remote session with Snowden where usability of free software was directly discussed.
- In general, they think it was a really good experience
- Difference: We are not preaching to a choir at SXSW, but people are quite savvy
- Somewhat expensive conference. We need to partner with others like FSF, KDE, and others. Free Software tent? Karen has talked with people at a few other companies and orgs about having a free and open pavilion
- If done again: Plan the event further ahead of time and promote it in fliers distributed around the venue. Maybe a team of people, perhaps rent a house to save money
- Outstanding reimbursements
- Reimbursement of sponsorship for FOSSASIA 2014
- Kat reviewed the receipts. Only the taxi receipts appear to be missing.
ACTION: Kat will email Rosanna to make the payment and check the reimburment possibility of the taxi.
- Doc hackfest not yet submitted, but should be done by the end of today
- Reimbursement of sponsorship for FOSSASIA 2014
- Financial follow up on OPW
ACTION: Marina will follow up with Rosanna
- GUADEC 2015 bids and deadlines
- Oliver Propst submitted a bid on behalf of the Gothenburg GUADEC 2015 organizing committee to both the Board list and the Foundation Announce list
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-March/msg00007.html
- This is the only bid received thus far
- Should we make another announcement, set a deadline, etc.?
ACTION: Kat will check with the Italian team to verify that they do not plan to submit a bid
- Upcoming hackfests
- Developer Experience Hackfest
- Allan has invited David King to join the hackfest ~$350 for travel + ~270 for accommodations
VOTE: Andreas, Sri, Tobi, Joanie, Marina: +1; Kat abstains
- Venue and date not secured
- The original venue was not available for the date chosen
- Options: Change the date and/or the venue
- May have associated cost changes
- There might be a French translation hackfest proposal coming soon
- Developer Experience Hackfest
- Upcoming events
- GUADEC 2014 - no updates; updates expected after the release
- Update on fund collection in Europe
ACTION: Karen will review the agreement
- Next meeting
- Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Discussed on the mailing list
Completed Actions
Pending action items
- Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
- Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts
- Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard
- Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting
- Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings
- Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
- Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy for GNOME events
- Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki
- Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders and passwords
- Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons
- Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
- Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
- Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure