Special meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 24 August 2020, 16:00 UTC
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Consent agenda (5 minutes)
To be approved as a block, by consent (no vote required).
- Appoint Molly de Blanc to the Code of Conduct committee (#180)
- The board appoints Molly de Blanc to the Code of Conduct committee
Discussion agenda
- Communications infrastructure fragmentation (#143, #174)
- Agenda for next meeting (#179)
Minutes
- Consent agenda: appoint Molly de Blanc to the Code of Conduct committee (#180)
- Molly's appointment to the Code of Conduct
- Communications infrastructure fragmentation (#143, #174)
- Neil: prior discussions on moving to Discourse and a number of GNOME apps have moved over already, in some cases with more discussions on Discourse. chat.gnome.org usage increased post-GUADEC
- Felipe: many core projects are already using Discourse, the chat issue is more challenging
- Kat: We need to get community members on board with a switch
- Philip: Agree with Kat, but we need to take a two pronged approach - get the community on board and also eventually discontinue the old channels
- Philip: we also need to consider the moderation side - we should be able to stop harassment on our infra
Rob: the alternative to RocketChat would be to host our own Matrix server. An IRC gateway would not be a suitable option
- Allan: we need to take the concerns of the community seriously and take that into account when we make the decision
- Rob: how does the board feel that this sits in the Foundation priorities? A community that cannot communicate is not a good one
- Allan: would be comfortable with contracting someone to do community management work on this.
- Philip: the extent of fragmentation became clear during GUADEC when it became clear that I didn't know most of the engagement team - this is a high priority for me now.
- Neil will talk to Allan about concerns, start on moving mailing lists to Discourse (starting with non-technical ones)
- Agenda for next meeting (#179)
- Allan: next regular meeting is due to be a "policy" one. The rotating agenda is intended to be a guide for us. What should we discuss at the next meeting?
- Board members to review ticket and comment - new ideas welcome.
Notices
Next meeting will be 14 September 2020, 15:00 - 17:00 UTC.