Minutes for Tuesday, January 5th 2016, 20:00 UTC

Next meeting date Tuesday, 12 January, 20:00 UTC

Attending

  • Jeff F.T.
  • Cosimo Cecchi
  • Rosanna Yuen
  • Alexandre Franke
  • Ekaterina Gerasimova
  • Allan Day
  • Shaun McCance

Regrets

  • Andrea Veri

Missing

Agenda for Jan 5

  • Statement of support for the SFC's campaign
  • Drew Adams' question regarding SCALE
  • J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
  • Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors?
  • GNOME logo use as avatar

Ongoing:

  • ED search update
  • Google Play account
  • Status of logo copyright
  • CiviCRM discussion
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks

Minutes

  • Statement of support for the SFC's campaign
    • Discussed on the mailing list, all in support
    • Delegated to the Engagement team
  • Marc Dunivan and Drew Adams' questions regarding SCALE
    • Do we have a presence at SCALE and Ubucon lately? Not that we know of. We used to have volunteers attending SCALE and manning a booth there some years ago, but they moved into different states/countries now.
    • SCALE is 21st of January, too late for this year
    • Need to recover and revamp the north-american Event Box (engagement team to evaluate the gear that it needs now)
    • Need local people to step up (hi, foundation-list!) to make this initiative happen again
    • ACTION: Allan to get back to Drew and Adam saying we can't pull off a booth now, but we can send stickers/promo materials and we're interested for the future
  • J-P Mengual's partnership request (for accessibility work)
    • What would the partnership concretely entail?
    • We can definitely support them in promoting their crowdfunding campaign
    • They are a for-profit company, it looks like the role they want to have is to manage how the development work happens
    • We don't want to be collecting money for a for-profit company
    • Need clarification on what they mean exactly with URLs exchange
    • ACTION: Cosimo to get back to them
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
    • Same amount, or bigger (or lower) amount than the previous fundraiser?
      • We are in a different situation than 2010, would we be able to raise as much?
        • The previous figure of 40k sounds like a really hard sell nowadays.
        • The tricky part if aiming high (or higher) is it looks bad if we don't hit it
      • The idea is to raise money from new companies, such as hosting companies, but it's a large task and needs connections from inside those companies (hi, foundation list?)
    • We can always do with more help. An alternative approach could be to request sysadmin time from our sponsors?
      • General feeling it would be good, but probably needs training, or it would feel alien to the community
    • ACTION: Jeff to talk to Andrea and Patrick to get a good estimation of how many hours per week we would routinely need to keep things going, then we could try to aim for a specific number that covers e.g. a full year
  • GNOME logo use as avatar
    • Precedent of the "I am GNOME" logo, which was semi-officially recommended as a badge/avatar during 3.0 days
    • Probably we should have clearer guidelines about when to use or not the logo, and redirect people to the "I am GNOME" logo for that purpose
    • Further discussion deferred

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.
    • 2015-12-22
      • No updates.
    • 2015-01-05
      • 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.
    • 2015-12-22
      • No updates.
    • 2015-01-05
      • No updates.
  • 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.
    • 2015-12-22
      • No news still. Action item is still pending.
    • 2015-01-05
      • No news.
  • CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
    • ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016

Discussed on the mailing list

  • Paypal giving fund
    • Alexandre proposed to evaluate the "Giving Fund" program at Paypal
    • The program allows charities to get more exposure and to receive donations without transaction fees

Completed actions

  • DX hackfest in January 2016
    • ACTION: Kat to get back to Philip
  • Endless design hackfest
    • ACTION: Cosimo to communicate the to the travel committee about the extra budget and to process the requests quickly because of time constraints
    • ACTION: Allan to communicate to the other designers involved in the hackfest to get travel requests in ASAP
    • ACTION: Cosimo to communicate to Endless organizers for publicity on the hackfest

Pending action items

  • Marc Dunivan and Drew Adams' questions regarding SCALE
    • Allan to get back to Drew and Adam saying we can't pull off a booth now, but we can send stickers/promo materials and we're interested for the future
  • J-P Mengual's partnership request
    • Cosimo to get back to them
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
    • Jeff to talk to Andrea and Patrick to get a good estimation of how many hours per week we would routinely need to keep things going, then we could try to aim for a specific number that covers e.g. a full year
  • 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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