GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 7th June 2007 Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim, Vincent Absent: Rosanna
1) ECMA We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone there from Abiword. ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to work on getting a press release for our membership. 2) GUADEC Sponsorship The GUADEC team have come up with an initial list of people to sponsor, but still have a number of people that would like to sponsor and have asked if they can spend an extra 5K GBP. Given the delay in hiring the biz dev position, all feel that we can spend a little out of that purse, providing there's a little spread over a few people rather than one or two. ACTION: Dave to contact GUADEC team to let them know about the extra sponsorship, and provide some rough guidelines if there needed to be some priorities made. 3) Biz Dev We have another candidate available for this position, and need to start organizing a first interview, in and around 21st June. Dave is going to ask Jonathan if he's keen to stay involved, given his interviewing experience. All agreed we should use the first interview as a filter, with a recommendation later for a 2nd interview. If the candidate gets through, it would be possible to get them to GUADEC for a final interview, and contract negotiations. ACTION: Dave to get in touch with Jonathan to see if he is still keen to be on the interview panel. ACTION: Dave to organize an interview with the candidate as soon as possible. 4) GNOME and KDE Conference There has been some discussion about a possible merge of GNOME and KDE conferences. This has been discussed at the advisory board level, along with the KDE e.v. members list. If there is considerable opposition from both sides, then it isn't worth exploring further. Jeff mentioned that it's likely to come up at DAM4. ACTION: Jeff to follow up about a possible GNOME and KDE conference merge at DAM4. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list