Meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 23 March 2020, 14:30 UTC

Attending

• AllanDay

• NeilMcGovern

• TristanVanBerkom

• FedericoMenaQuintero

• RobertMcQueen

Regrets

• CarlosSoriano

• RosannaYuen

Missing

• PhilipChimento

• BrittYazel

Agenda

• Meeting schedule
• Foundation mission/vision
• Form working groups
• Committee requirements

Minutes

• Meeting schedule
  • Deferred until we have more directors present.
• Foundation mission/vision
  • Deferred until we have more directors present.
• Form working groups

  • Allan: We can turn these into two groups, a strategy one and a policy one. My proposal is that the strategy group works on the mission/vision question and the 18-month strategy for the Foundation, while the policy one works on things like the policy for conference approvals and whether to turn the release team into a committee (https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/159).

  • Tristan: This would define who does what in working sessions.
  • Allan: Do we want the groups to be non-overlapping?
  • Neil: Maybe we should just ask for volunteers rather than appointing them.
  • Allan: Let's go around the room.
    • Federico: (after some discussion) I would like to work on policy, project governance, initiatives.
    • Rob: Strategy.
    • Tristan: Policy, things around the release team becoming a committee. I will need to schedule with a convenient time with Federico in regard to time zones.

      • Neil: A lot of that does not need to be done in person; it can be in GitLab comments or other asynchronous discussions.

    • Allan: Split down the middle, probably most useful around the strategy side right now.
    • Allan: I will send out an introductory email to each group once I have talked to Philip, Britt, and Carlos.
• Committee requirements
  • Allan: Philip has drafted a proposal for minimum requirements for committees.
  • Tristan already suggested an amendment to the proposal in the draft document.

  • VOTE: Adopt the draft as expectations for committees.

    • +1 unanimous

  • ACTION - Allan to put the approved draft on the wiki, in the committees page.

  • ACTION - Allan to mail committees to inform them of the requirements page.

Actions

• Allan: Add the approved committee requirements text to the wiki, in https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Committees (done: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/diff/Foundation/Committees?action=diff&rev1=13&rev2=14)

• Allan: Contact committees to inform them of the committee requirements.