Minutes for Friday, February 13th, 2015, 17:00 UTC
Next meeting due on February 27th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC
Attending
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
- Rosanna Yuen
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Jeff Fortin
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Karen Sandler
- Tobias Mueller
Regrets
- Andrea Veri
Missing
Board meeting
- Update about the privacy money progress
- A team has been assembled, comprising of Federico, Hubert and Spidler
- A number of tasks have been identified for bounties and the details are being finalised
- This will be a multi-round process, with the first round of bounties being close to a releasable state
ACTION: Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review
- Entering an agreement with the WHS
- Questions have been resolved and the agreement has been re-sent to the Board
- Board to review agreement and vote on the mailing list
- Calling for Sponsors for GNOME.Asia Summit
- Call for papers will go out shortly
- Time to contact potential sponsors
- GUADEC and GNOME.Asia organisers have started coordinating joint sponsorships amounts
We should ask the organizing team of GNOME Asia & GUADEC (including Emily) to tackle the small and numerous sponsors
- The board could contact the usual big sponsors (Google, RHT, etc.) after coordinating with the organizing teams on that
- ACTION: Kat to coordinate between the local GUADEC/GNOME.Asia teams and the board to figure out who will contact which sponsor
- Desktop Summit 2011 taxes
- KDE e.v. reached out to us as they have had to pay more taxes relating to the Desktop Summit in 2011
- The paperwork is in German and it is not clear to the board what it actually says
- ACTION: Kat or Karen to reach out to KDE to confirm what is going on
- Responding to a phone inquiry asking to reach Stormy Peters
- Seems to be about GNOME rather than the person
- ACTION: Jeff to call back and find out what the phone inquiry which asked for Stormy is about
- Sysadmin sponsorship
- Proposal to create a sponsorship brochure/proposal to show to potential sponsors
- Document should have numbers (perks and sponsorship levels etc.)
- Include the great work that has been done and needs to be done continuously, plus improvements
- A three-paragraph proposal may be a better idea as it is not an event
- Can be just text
Example for Outreachy: https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs/Proposal
- ACTION: Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin
- Proposal to create a sponsorship brochure/proposal to show to potential sponsors
- Promotional GNOME artwork does not explicitly state license
- Most of the artwork may be under LGPL (this is unclear)
- We get implicit permission to use the artwork when it is submitted
- CC0 may be a better license as it's actually possible to compaly with it when printing stickers
- ACTION: Sri to coordinate with engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
Discussed on the mailing list
- GUADEC meeting at FOSDEM
- The GUADEC 2015 organization team met a few Board representatives during FOSDEM
- OEM distribution with Gnome
- Narcis Garcia got in touch with the Board communicating a hardware wholesale company will start shipping with Ubuntu GNOME on old computers having no OS pre-installed
- Former GNOME Foundation Member Clytie Siddall passed away
- The Board organized a joint press release with the Debian Marketing Team in order to honor Clytie's memory and contributions
- Mid-point payments to outreach interns
- VOTE: send payments to interns for whom corresponding funds have arrived
- +1 Marina, Tobi, Jeff, Karen, Kat
- VOTE: send payments to interns whose corresponding funds have not arrived after those funds arrive
- +1 Marina, Tobi, Jeff, Karen, Kat, Sri
- VOTE: send payments to interns for whom corresponding funds have arrived
- ED search meetings
- The Board to have a special meeting to proceed with the hiright process for a new executive director for the GNOME Foundation
- Meeting happened on 2015-02-11
- GUADEC organization team update
- The venue has been confirmed and the official dates will be announced the upcoming week
- UN (United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression) call for comment on cryptography and freedom of expression
The UN has made a call for comments on encryption and anonymity: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/CallForSubmission.aspx
- The GNOME Foundation strongly cares about the privacy of its users and acknowledged a statement in support of encryption and anonymity online
Completed actions
Pending action items
- Board to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a version of the CoC to be finally considered final over all the GNOME yearly events
- Jeff to call back and find out what the phone inquiry which asked for Stormy is about
- Jeff to find existing fundraising brochure/proposal documents and come up with one for fundraising for a sysadmin
- 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
Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review
- Kat to coordinate between the local GUADEC/GNOME.Asia teams and the board to figure out who will contact which sponsor
- Kat or Karen to reach out to KDE to confirm what is going on
- 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
- Sri to coordinate with engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork