Minutes for Tuesday, August 15th, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Attending
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
- Rosanna Yuen
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Jeff Fortin
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Tobias Mueller
- Karen Sandler
Regrets
- Andrea Veri
Board meeting
- Groupon
- Final wording checks for updated Travel Policy
- Discussed, approved with minor changes.
- ACTION: Marina to update travel policy
- Outstanding brand use requests
- need someone to take action/mail Carol Hanson re: "Permission request for Personal use of Gnome foot"
- ACTION: Jeff to reply to her
- Julio Cesar Caraça's mail sent to licensing@ on 7 Jul 2014 20:05:14 -0700, titled: "Sharing an idea..."
- need someone to take action/mail Carol Hanson re: "Permission request for Personal use of Gnome foot"
- Review "pending action" items from previous minutes, reassign old action items to new board members
Discussed on the mailing list
GNOME and GitCafe cooperation
- Setting up a mirror of git.gnome.org as a first step
- Brainstorm for more ideas to improve our cooperation
- GNOME PERU FEST 2014 reimbursement
- Outreach administrativia fast-tracking
GNOME Privacy project (hub's offer, and the findings of SafetyTeam at GUADEC (see https://wiki.gnome.org/SafetyTeam/MeetingDocumentation)
Completed Actions
- Jeff to send the agenda to the adboard
- Jeff to lead the efforts with parties that are interested in sponsorship to prepare a new text hopefully for the next meeting
- Marina will work with Jeff to shuffle around some paragraphs in the travel sponsorship policy to make it more clear
- Marina checked with engagement team about re-sharing GNOME-related job offers from adboard members
- Andreas to ask Karen and Pam how much we should disclose to the community about the ongoing discussion with Groupon
- Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors (obsolete)
- Andreas, Joanie to draft thank you letters to our donors (obsolete)
- Tobi will mention that we pay for LWN codes when sending the offer to donors
- Tobi will implement that "no gift" on the FoG page also means no LWN subscription
- Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts (obsolete)
Pending action items
- Andrea to improve board's docs about what a Board member should know before participating to board's decisions and discussions
- 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
- Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review
- Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
- Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
- Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
- Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
- Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure
- Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
- Sri to communicate to Rosanna and work on the donation for the West Coast hackfest
- Sri, Marina, Kat to work on establishing criteria for drafting for the hiring committee for the ED role
- Sri to investigate the GNOME gifts situation
- Zana to check the inventory of merch she has in storage (low priority)
- Zana to look into brand usecontracts that she has on paper and scan them