Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of November, 1st, 2016

[Alberto Ruiz]

Thanks a lot for clarifying Nuritzi. I'll try to get in touch with Kat.

2016-11-09 1:24 GMT+00:00 Nuritzi Sanchez :

> Hi Alberto,
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Alberto Ruiz  wrote:
>
>>
>>  * ED search update
>>>   * 2016-08-10, The search is still ongoing
>>>
>>
>> What is the board doing specifically? At which stage of the search are we
>> at? Are we exploring possibilities with existing candidates? Do we need
>> candidates? Who is doing this? Is there any way we can help? Should we do
>> another public call for candidates?
>>
>
> The ED search committee identified qualified candidates and presented them
> to the Board. The Board is in advanced stages of the process. As of now, we
> do not need new candidates and are hopeful to soon have a less vague update
> for Foundation members.
>
>
>>
>>>  * Conference sponsorships
>>>   * 2016-08-10
>>>* ACTION: Kat to make sure that a sponsorship brochure with all
>>> conference, levels, combinations and perks is available for the Board to
>>> review
>>>
>>
>> FWIW I've been getting in touch with potential sponsors for the last
>> month, it would be great if we could coordinate these efforts.
>>
>>
> Agreed. You and Kat should touch base - it'd be great to collaborate on
> this project!
>
> - N
>
>


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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of November, 1st, 2016

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hi Alberto,

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Alberto Ruiz  wrote:

>
>  * ED search update
>>   * 2016-08-10, The search is still ongoing
>>
>
> What is the board doing specifically? At which stage of the search are we
> at? Are we exploring possibilities with existing candidates? Do we need
> candidates? Who is doing this? Is there any way we can help? Should we do
> another public call for candidates?
>

The ED search committee identified qualified candidates and presented them
to the Board. The Board is in advanced stages of the process. As of now, we
do not need new candidates and are hopeful to soon have a less vague update
for Foundation members.


>
>>  * Conference sponsorships
>>   * 2016-08-10
>>* ACTION: Kat to make sure that a sponsorship brochure with all
>> conference, levels, combinations and perks is available for the Board to
>> review
>>
>
> FWIW I've been getting in touch with potential sponsors for the last
> month, it would be great if we could coordinate these efforts.
>
>
Agreed. You and Kat should touch base - it'd be great to collaborate on
this project!

- N
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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of November, 1st, 2016

[Alberto Ruiz]

2016-11-08 22:19 GMT+00:00 Cosimo Cecchi :
>
>  * ED search update
>   * 2016-08-10, The search is still ongoing
>


While I appreciate this is a sensitive issue wrt the privacy of candidates,
I don't think it hurts to be more specific as to what that sentence
actually means.

What is the board doing specifically? At which stage of the search are we
at? Are we exploring possibilities with existing candidates? Do we need
candidates? Who is doing this? Is there any way we can help? Should we do
another public call for candidates?

Thanks!


>  * Conference sponsorships
>   * 2016-08-10
>* ACTION: Kat to make sure that a sponsorship brochure with all
> conference, levels, combinations and perks is available for the Board to
> review
>

FWIW I've been getting in touch with potential sponsors for the last month,
it would be great if we could coordinate these efforts.

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Minutes of the Board meeting of November, 1st, 2016

[Cosimo Cecchi]

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, November 1st 2016, 17:00 UTC =

Next meeting date November 8th 2016, 17:00 UTC

Wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20161101

== Attending ==

 * Cosimo Cecchi
 * Nuritzi Sanchez
 * Allan Day
 * Meg Ford
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Alexandre Franke
 * Shaun McCance

== Regrets ==

 * Jim Hall

== Missing ==


== Agenda for 2016-11-01 ==

 * Julita's email about latest event LINUX at UNI & $480 request
 * Transitioning away from StartSSL
 * Signing the GUADEC venue contract

== Minutes ==

 * Julita's email about latest event LINUX at UNI & $480 request
  * There have been conversations about this on the mailing list
  * ACTION: Alexandre will follow up since there are still open questions,
then we can follow up and vote by email if needed

 * The rest of the time was spent discussing private items

== Ongoing ==

'''This section includes items which have seen an update in the last 30
days. Format is "-MM-DD, action|discussion|abstract" for this and
subsequent minutes sections'''

 * Julita's email about latest event LINUX at UNI & $480 request
  * 2016-11-01
   * ACTION: Alexandre will follow up since there are still open questions,
then we can follow up and vote by email if needed

 * Flatpak store
  * 2016-08-30
* There's an idea of a central store where people can upload Flatpak
apps, and users would get it from the store, rather than getting it from
the distribution
* The Board voted to get behind this project officially, and give Allan
permission to reach out to other organizations on our behalf
  * 2016-09-06 - Allan has had some initial conversations with the Flatpak
team. Next step is to check in with the sysadmin team (still not done).
  * 2016-09-13 - Allan has checked in with the sysadmins and they think
there's capacity to get started. Next step is to reach out to partners.

 * ED search update
  * 2016-08-10, The search is still ongoing

 * Google Play account
  * 2016-09-27
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771981 was done, we need to
pay a $25 one-time fee for the developer account
  * 2016-10-04
   * Payment is authorized
   * ACTION: Rosanna to make the payment and follow up with Ankit
  * 2016-10-18
   * Rosanna is waiting for Ankit to reply about the gmail account
  * 2016-11-01
   * Board is discussing who should have access to the credit card
associated to the account

 * Privacy campaign funds
  * 2016-09-27
   * Draft is out for the Board to review and give feedback
   * ACTION: Cosimo to try and form a committee to review internship
proposals
  * 2016-10-26
   * We are aiming for an internship round in spring 2017

 * Bitcoins donations data
  * 2016-08-10
   * Board voted to shut down the account, since we can't report those as
donations. Bitcoin does not allow to trace the sender, which is required to
report the donations to the IRS
   * ACTION: Rosanna to shut down the account
   * ACTION: Allan to remove the option from our website

=== Ongoing but stalled ===

'''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30
days.'''

 * Owncloud shared calendar for the board
  * 2016-08-10
   * Cosimo tested creating an event, but with mixed results
   * ACTION: Cosimo to take it on from here
  * 2016-09-06 - Allan has started a list of reoccuring events on the wiki
- https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Minutes/UpcomingAgenda

 * Conference sponsorships
  * 2016-08-10
   * ACTION: Kat to make sure that a sponsorship brochure with all
conference, levels, combinations and perks is available for the Board to
review
  * 2016-09-06
   * ACTION: Nuritzi to get in touch with Kat about this

 * Money raised for defense against Groupon
  * Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be
sponsored with money raised for defence against Groupon
  * 2016-09-06
   * We probably don't want to track exactly this money flow, but the
initiatives that the Board has been pursuing (Flatpak, LAS GNOME) are good
fits for the original intent this money was kept for
   * We can consider making a PR or some other form of announcement about
how we're currently making use of this money

 * Paypal Giving Fund
  * Alexandre suggested in december 2015 to get us enrolled in the program
   * That would give us exposure. For example Humble bundle allows to
direct the charity part of purchases towards any of their participants
  * Zana tried to get us in sometime before may 2016, we never heard back.
  * 2016-09-06
   * ACTION: Zana to look into it.

 * From the mailing list - "support my volunteer program" (Allan)
  * 2016-08-30
   * There's very little information in the message, unclear how they're
related to GNOME
   * ACTION: Shaun to reply asking for more information

 * Google ad grant
  * 2016-08-10
   * ACTION: Shaun will pick this up again and try to register us into the
program when he's back in the US
   * The actual ad campaigns would probably need to be managed by the
Engagement/Marketing