Regular meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 12 January 2023, 15:00 UTC
Attending
Regrets
Consent Agenda
- Approve the minutes of the December board meeting
Approved. No committee meetings occurred due to vacations.
Discussion Agenda
- Executive Committee updates (10 min)
- Acknowledgement by all members that they have booked a slot in their schedules for an in-person board working session and advisory board meeting at FOSDEM (2nd and 3rd February in Brussels)
- Jeremy is going.
- Melissa is handling travel and hotel bookings for Martin and Regina.
- Sammy is going, waiting for confirmation. Rosanna requested for exact dates.
- Philip will only be attending virtually.
- Reminder to book a slot in your schedule in Riga (Latvia) for GUADEC (July 26th to 31st 2023) - contact Melissa for travel and block hotel booking
- Review of the slides for the advisory board meeting
- Thib: I'm not sure what should go in it.
- Rob: We could include summaries per committee.
- Jeremy: Let's start with the state of the project, then include particular events, including reports from teams.
- Rosanna: The structure is rigid, it hasn't changed. Should be easy to put together. Take the last presentation and retool it, with the last 6 months updates.
- Rob: Disagrees, we should try to make the content a little more compelling and share an update on what the Foundation is doing.
- Rosanna: It's limited what we do without an ED. The executive committee can work on it.
- Updates on ED situation
- Rob: ED search committee met and reviewed written responses. All but one candidate was rejected, and the committee asked if a board member could screen them - action still pending on Rob.
- Rob: Should we consider an interim ED, without the FLOSS non-desktop background.
- Jeremy: Wants to put this to vote.
- Rob: Not yet.
- Jeremy: Let's move this forward.
- Rosanna: Points out that the bylaws allows the President (Rob) to intervene(?)
- (On initiatives)
- Rob: We haven't had capacity to move some of those forward.
- Rosanna: Asks if help is needed for the Flathub initiative.
- Rob: Yes, something the interim could help with. Something we could discuss at FOSDEM.
- Jeremy: Insists we need the interim ED.
- Motion: Instruct the executive committee to consider an interim ED.
- Sammy: +1 but let's define the requirements first.
- Martin: +1
- Rob: +1
- Jeremy: +1
- Regina and Thibault left the meeting by this point.
- Motion passed.
- Rob: Widen the search net by contacting an recruiter agency.
- Martin: What do we need to execute this plan?
- Rob: Money for agencies' fees.
- Approval of Delhi region GNOME User Group
- We received a request to approve the creation of a new GNOME User Group.
- Rosanna: We need to look at the wiki archives for the user groups guidelines.
- Sammy: We should contact all listed user groups to check whether they are active. We need to update the list of GNOME User Groups as well.
- Rob: can Caroline or Kristi help with this?
- Sammy: I can volunteer to check the status of listed user groups.