Regular meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 11 August 2021 16:00 UTC
Attending
Directors:
Non-directors:
Regrets
Consent Agenda
- Approve minutes of regular meeting of July 14 and July 20
Appoint Regina Nkemchor Adejo to the membership & election committee
- Appoint Sophie Herold and Tobias Bernard to the Circle Committee
Discussion Agenda
- Q3 (April-June) finance report
- Executive Director's report
- Board-only discussion
- Next meeting will be held on September 15 at 16:00 UTC, and will set the annual budget
Minutes
- Consent agenda:
- Approved
- Q3 (April-June) finance report
- Thibault: Why are one time donations up and subscriptions down?
Rosanna: PayPal reporting changed, it's difficult to tell if donations are one time or subscriptions and they default to one time in the accounts without tedious manual work.
- Philip: why is consultancy spending less? Because we have finished work for now with consultants and it's a bit under budget.
- Philip: Where do we need volunteers to step in to take over from staff members who have left? More concerned with Molly's tasks.
- Rosanna: we need to look at this in the next few weeks.
- Neil: Researching potential grants, fundraising, writing and editing FoG newsletter/Foundation update. End of year fundraiser.
- Thibault: TWIG has launched, we could have a dedicated section for Foundation instead of FoG newsletter
- Executive Director's report
- Post-GUADEC period is quiet
- Post-GUADEC survey running - not expecting as high engagement because a year of video calls has put people off from online events.
- GNOME.Asia website is being updated and CfP is going out next week
- LAS March or April next year
- New websites: faces of GNOME (GSoC project) to highlight contributors to GNOME. apps.gnome.org, new developer.gnome.org
- DDOS attack
- Next meeting will be held on September 15 16:00 UTC, and will set the annual budget
- Board-only discussion
Reports
No reports this round because GUADEC and onboarding made scheduling difficult.