GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Sep/13
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Attendance:
Anne
Dave (chairing)
Federico (minutes, 10 mins. late)
Jonathan
Quim
Rosanna
Vincent (minutes for the first 10 mins.)
No attendance:
Jeff (sleeping)
OLD ACTIONS
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* Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting. NOT DONE
* Jeff to write a press release for the GTK+ / Foundation
announcement. NOT DONE
* Quim to finish the financials from GUADEC. ALMOST DONE
* Quim to finish his GUADEC-HOWTO: IN PROGRESS, draft is done.
* Dave to contact Miguel Ángel López and Izabel Cerqueira about the
Latin American conferences: DONE. Not clear on what they expect
from us. We are in contact with them; they need to tell us what
they need from the Foundation.
* Anne to contact our pro-bono law firm instead of SFLC about the
trademark licensing agreement. IN PROGRESS
* Quim to talk with Killermundi about the GNOME Store. IN PROGRESS
- Problem: not clear if it's the Foundation's initiative to
say, "you'll print this t-shirt, etc.", or if it's
Killermundi's.
- Problem: sending merchandise out of Spain. Within the EU
it's already expensive.
- We need a more franchised system so that local vendors can
print merchandise in different countries.
- Next step: discuss on marketing-list.
* JRB to mail the draft criteria for an interview for the executive
director to board-list. POSTPONED
* Dave to ask O'Reilly about comissioning a GNOME book for ISVs under
a free documentation license. IN PROGRESS, Dave is in touch with
Andy Oram.
* Jeff to draft a press release about Canonical joining the Advisory
Board. NOT DONE
MINUTES
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* GUADEC financials
* Sponsorship:
- We need to fund a speaker for the GNOME Day in Chile, we can
pay USD 1500 for travel (November 9).
* Trademark application:
We are going to apply for these:
* New GNOME foot + wordmark modified BS Vera font
* Certification mark
* Community mark
To be discussed with gnome-legal.
* Embedded initiative:
Nothing to discuss for the moment. Conversation is ongoing in
the mailing list.
* Other business:
Someone who is not a GNOME developer nor a Foundation member
is asking for an account in blogs.gnome.org.
ACTIONS
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* Quim to answer Fernando that we can cover up to 1.500USD for travel
expenses of a developer invited to The GNOME Day in Chile. DONE
* Anne to start the creation of the GNOME-legal group: Luis Villa,
Dom Lachowicz. Need a private mailing list.
* JRB to set up the infrastructure for the interviews. Deadline:
Monday Sept. 18.
Old actions:
* Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting.
* Jeff to write a press release for the GTK+ / Foundation
announcement.
* Quim to finish the financials from GUADEC.
* Quim to finish his GUADEC-HOWTO.
* Anne to contact our pro-bono law firm instead of SFLC about the
trademark licensing agreement.
* Quim to talk with Killermundi about the GNOME Store.
* Dave to ask O'Reilly about comissioning a GNOME book for ISVs under
a free documentation license.
* Jeff to draft a press release about Canonical joining the Advisory
Board.
DECISIONS
=========
We'll register the trademark like this: certification mark, community
mark, a normal registered trademark for the foot.
Next meeting: Wed. 2006/Sep/27, 19:00 UTC. Same bat-channel.
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