Hi there, Apologies for the delay in these - due to the fact that I've taken on new responsibilities in Sun, and didn't quite have the time to get these out.
Glynn == Board Meeting :: 12th April 2007 Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim Regrets: Zana, Vincent 1) Previous Action Items Board members discussed status on list. 2) gnomejournal.org domain ownership All agreed we should try and transfer over the gnomejournal.org domain ownership to GNOME, if possible. Owen owns an alias with various people subscribed for the domain handling. Owen owens a few of them, and there's a bunch of other owners for local registrars. ACTION: Vincent to contact the sys admin team to get it figured out. Dave pointed out that we should try and keep domains around if possible, even if we point them to other things. The board would like to thank Jorge for his involvement previously on managing this domain. 3) AgoraSource contact The board has been contacted by AgoraSource who have created a novel method of funding the development of free/open source software who would like to trial-run with GNOME. The board agreed that we didn't have enough information to decide whether it was worthwhile. ACTION: Quim to follow-up with AgoraSource requesting more information. 4) Legal contacts with WSGR Luis has decided not to be the main contact with WSGR, though happily be involved depending on his other commitments. Anne will now take over managing the relationship. ACTION: Anne to come up with the list of questions we need legal input on and organize a meeting with WSGR to go through them. 5) Biz Dev hire Jeff sent a status update. Our current candidate is reluctant to accept the position due to concerns about the time commitments involved in the job. Jeff didn't get a chance to discuss salary/contract terms with them, and instead talked through these concerns. The candidate is going to have a think about it and get back to Jeff as soon as possible. ACTION: Jeff to forward status as soon as possible. Jeff suspects that the candiate will not take the job, with the possibility of needing a few more months of searching to find someone to fill the position. Jeff has more time to work on this given that his LCA committments are gone, and is stating to put together a mail asking for recommendations. Dave asked if there was a possibility of using a recruitment company. Jeff thinks that we're not in the position given our current budget range, as the costs involved are high. Jeff also believes we can get a better candidate through personal referral. Quim suggested LinkedIn as a way to advertise. Dave suggested that Board Cafe would also be a possibility. Jeff worried that we needed an industry specific rather than classic executive director role so that they would know how the industry works, and leverage it for GNOME. Quim asked if we were being too critical, and questioned whether such a person existed. Jeff commented that there were a lot of interesting profiles that fit - doing something good for the world, reaching retirement age and wanting to slow down, a mother getting back into the work force. Quim thinks we have too high expectations that might scare people off, and that it would be good to rewrite the job description to get more potential candidates. Jeff agreed, and said that GUADEC would be an ideal time to sit down and re-think if the 3 months up to the conference were dry on candidates. Jeff plans to start picking up a list of names, and that the upcoming set of conferences would provide a good opportunity. Anne asked if we had a page where the job description is, and if we had a link, we should sent it around. Dave said that the page was written very early on and would be good to update it. Dave suggested that it would be good to take the interview questions and retrofit those to the job description, and the questions that didn't get emphasized too much should be removed. ACTION: Jeff to update the job description on the wiki. Anne suggested that the current interview panel should be kept on if possible. Jeff indicated that Jonathan was happy to put in the time for the latest candidate, but doesn't think he has the time to continue. Jeff thinks that we should try and invite Jonathan back, but the rest of the responsibility should be left with the board. Jeff suggested that we have 2 or 3 people interviewing, but the rest of the people listening in the background, and using the IRC backchannel to make sure certain questions are asked. We also have the possibility of recording the call. 6) Canonical press release Canonical pinged about their press release, with Dave making some small capitalization corrections. ACTION: Dave to send Canonical corrected press release draft for release. 7) DAM representatives Elijah has confirmed presence at the DAM meeting. Jeff will be there representing GNOME and embedded. ACTION: Jeff to ask whether any distribution folks will be attending. ACTION: Dave to ask Linux Foundation whether they will sponsor Elijah to attend. 8) Accessibility Grants Mozilla are keen to apply for accessibilty grants, but Dave has been too swamped to deal with this. All agreed that the accessibility summit was successful at Boston, and we should organize one for the future. ACTION: Glynn to discuss with Aaron, Willie and Pete about possible collaboration on an accessibility grant. 9) Board Objectives Quim thinks that we need to focus in on some objectives because we are currently only reacting to board business rather than being pro-active. Quim suggests having 3 or 4 objectives for each role and responsibility. Quim suggested that it might be good to have the input of our membership. Dave commented that the board needs to set direction, as part of our role, and we've been elected on the basis of the programs we wanted to implement. Jeff mentioned that we shouldn't ask open questions, and ask our membership what they think based on a list of objectives. ACTION: All to go through their platform statements in their board candidacy and see what they wanted to achieve, and sort by role and responsibility. 10) LWE contacts for GNOME Luis no longer wants to be the LWE contact. This will be discussed on list with a hope to getting someone from marketing-list involved. 11) AOB? Budget ====== Dave wants to release the budget. Jeff suggests making sure people know it's an aspirational budget, and there are big holes in it that we need to fund for. ACTION: Dave to post budget to foundation-list. Advisory Board Meeting ====================== The next Advisory Board meeting will be on the 10th May. ACTION: Quim to mail advisory-board about new date for meeting, confirm attendance, and suggest agenda items. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list