Minutes for Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 20:00 UTC

Next meeting date Tuesday, 19 January, 20:00 UTC

Attending

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

  • Andrea Veri

Regrets

  • Cosimo Cecchi

Missing

Agenda for Jan 12

  • J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  • IndiaHacks open source hackathon

  • GNOME Peru Camp
  • Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors

Ongoing:

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

Minutes

  • J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
    • Request was sent through the mailing list
    • Cosimo replied to the request already, still waiting for a reply from their side
  • IndiaHacks open source hackathon

    • No need for a Board action about this.
  • GNOME Peru Camp
    • We have the budget for this event to happen. (around 500 USD)
    • Julita provided a breakdown of the various planned expenses on the list
    • The event is two weeks away already.
    • The cost seems to be appropriate for the amount of participants to the event (30 people)
    • VOTE: Approve the budget for 30 attendees to take part to the GNOME Peru Camp, conditional to reaching a minimum of 25 participants
      • +1 Jeff, Shaun, Alexandre, Andrea, Kat
      • VOTE PASSED
  • Endless is joining the advisory board
    • There is much rejoicing!
    • We ought to make a press release about this
  • Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list)
    • Annual report reimbursement looks OK
    • Wait for the Travel Committee to parse the various receipts and come up with a reply
  • Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
    • 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.
    • 2015-01-12
      • 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.
    • 2016-01-12
      • 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.
    • 2016-01-12
      • No news.
  • CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
    • ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016
  • Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks (last discussion from 2016-01-05)
    • Awaiting for Andrea's reply

Completed actions

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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