Minutes for Tuesday, December 15th, 2015, 20:00 UTC

Next meeting date Tuesday, December 22th, 2015, 20:00 UTC

Attending

  • Alexandre Franke
  • Rosanna Yuen
  • Jeff Fortin Tam
  • Ekaterina Gerasimova
  • Allan Day

Regrets

  • Andrea Veri
  • Cosimo Cecchi
  • Shaun McCance

Missing

Agenda for Dec 15

  • Status of GUADEC and GNOME.Asia sponsorship brochure
  • Status of logo copyright

Ongoing:

  • Desktop summit taxes
  • ED search update
  • GIMP reimbursements
  • Google Play account
  • Instagram filters in GNOME

Minutes

  • Status of GUADEC and GNOME.Asia sponsorship brochure
    • 2015-12-08
      • (DONE) ACTION: Jeff to send out the brochures ASAP
    • 2015-12-15
      • Jeff sent out emails to various potential sponsors to get things rolling, but waiting on further news or coordination with conference organizing teams for next steps
      • Local organizing teams ought to prepare their own conference-specific brochures, hopefully at the beginning of the new year
      • ACTION: Jeff to review in the new year and chase up individual organizations.
  • Desktop summit taxes
    • 2015-10-27
      • (DONE) ACTION: Kat and Rosanna to schedule a call with Marta to sort things out with the Desktop Summit taxes
    • 2015-12-08
      • No news yet. Call with the KDE team is expected soon.
    • 2015-12-15
      • Kat and Zana had a call with KDE and came up with a (new!) number: EUR 3411.47
      • ACTION: Zana to ideally send that out now
  • Pam's reimbursement for trademark renewals
    • 2015-12-15
      • Trademarks were successfully renewed.
      • ACTION: Zana to review
  • GIMP reimbursements
    • 2015-12-01
      • It's been sent, we're waiting to hear if there are any issues.
    • 2015-12-08
      • Still waiting to hear from bank if there are issues; no news is good news.
    • 2015-12-15
      • No news. Should be done if we don't hear bad things back from the bank.
  • CiviCRM
    • 2015-12-15
      • Would be nice to use it to manage our contacts, keeping track of donors and sponsors, sending out emails more easily, etc.
      • Some years ago we considered CiviCRM to manage the Friends of GNOME program. Why didn't it work back then?
      • After spending a lot of time with a consultant, it was said that it couldn't do what we wanted: we needed subscription payments, and it couldn't handle unlimited subscription payments. Apparently, at the time, everybody thought it was surprising that we'd need such a feature.
        • A bit surprising, given that the FSF uses CiviCRM and has paid "membership cards" (thus subscriptions).
      • CiviCRM probably changed a lot since we last looked at it.
      • ACTION: Jeff to investigate the suitability in 2016

Ongoing:

  • ED search update
    • 2015-12-01
      • No news received in recent weeks, mostly because of holidays
    • 2015-12-08
      • 3 candidates are going to have a couple of one hour interviews with ~2 members of the hiring committee per interview. Scheduling of these metings is just beginning.
    • 2015-12-15
      • No updates.
  • Google Play account
    • 2015-12-01
      • ACTION: Alexandre to follow up with the Release Team about this
    • 2015-12-08
      • Alexandre mailed the Release Team today, still waiting for an answer.
    • 2015-12-15
      • No updates.
  • Instagram filters in GNOME
    • 2015-12-08
      • Current implementation using original Instagram names
      • ACTION: Cosimo to follow up with Debarshi about whether he can change the names to be different
    • 2015-12-15
      • Updates about this item are available on the "Discussed on the mailing list" area
  • Status of logo copyright
    • 2015-12-01
      • ACTION: Shaun to send out email to d-d-l with proposal
      • No news on this, action item from Shaun is still pending.
    • 2015-12-08
      • No news still. Action item is still pending.
    • 2015-12-15
      • No news still. Action item is still pending.

Discussed on the mailing list

  • Instagram filters in GNOME
    • Cosimo reached out to Debarshi suggesting the use of different names (word plays) than the original and official ones
    • There's still uncertainty on what the final solution will be, the Board is fine with whatever other preferred solution as long as the original names are not being used

Completed actions

  • Kat and Rosanna to schedule a call with Marta to sort things out with the Desktop Summit taxes
  • Jeff to send out the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia sponsorship brochures ASAP
  • Cosimo to follow up with Debarshi about whether he can change the names to be different

Pending action items

  • Allan and Sri to coordinate with the engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
  • Cosimo to follow up with interested parties on how to spend the Privacy campaign funds
  • Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement to the sponsorship brochure
  • Shaun: GNOME logo use by podiatrist
    • Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and update the licensing page on the website (obsolete)
  • Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for defence against Groupon
  • Logo usage for t-shirts: Allan to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines written down for future cases
  • Shaun and Allan to create a webpage for prior pants winners
  • Cosimo 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
  • 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

  • Andrea to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services (current draft is at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy)

    • Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
  • Allan will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
  • Cosimo to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
  • Christian to investigate the GNOME gifts situation (inventory management: some stuff we have heaps of, some we run out of stock quickly; consider an on-demand production service)

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