Board Meeting :: 26th April 2007 Present: Anne, Behdad, Glynn, Jeff, Vincent Regrets: Zana, Dave, Quim
o GMAE Post-Mortem Jeff focused his post-moretem on the negative feedback. A few people raised some concerns about the secrecy and the apparent mystery of the GMAE announcement. Jeff tried to comfort them by telling them that it wasn't really secret, and that we were just keeping a secret for fun - when in reality, many people within the community knew. Thilo Pfennig resigned from the marketing group as a result, and Adrian Custer gave up his GNOME membership, more likely based on his perception of the current transparency of the GNOME Foundation, and the lack of a public budget. Jeff felt that the way we approached the announcement was surprising, though after the announcement, it wasn't a big deal for most people. Jeff mentioned that a lot of people started to read into what announcement it could be. Jeff feels that using gnome-private would be a bad response and a step back in how we have handled things over the last few years. We just need to alay people's concerns. Behdad asked what the next steps were - board response, or let it pass. Vincent commented that he thought people were expecting an answer on the whole transparency issue. ACTION: Jeff to send a short debrief to foundation-list about the GMAE announcement and general issue of transparency. o Bank/Mailing Address Details Rosanna has made a recommendation on a list of banks to move to, and some suggestions of how to move ahead with changing our mailing address. Rosanna asked if we could have a letter signed by the board allowing her to make these changes. o Advisory Board Agenda Quim sent out details during the week about the proposed dates for the Advisory Board meeting, asking members to fill in an agenda. Anne commented that we really need to make sure to continually ping them for interaction. o Legal action for gnome.it We have agreed to be involved in an effort to take back gnome.it, along with a number of other domains. This involvment is obviously dependant on costs involved. o GUADEC Have one opportunity from an official conference provider. Will wait to see what other groups would like to host. In previous years, we have preferred some community involvement instead. o Board Objectives Glynn sent around a mail linking people's candidacy statements. Jeff indicated that it was probably something that we should do at GUADEC, rather than try and achieve this over email or phone. o Business Development Role Our primary candidate for this role has fallen through, believing it to be a full time job rather than part time that they could only commit to at this point. The board needs to go back, re-evaluate the job description and advertise the position again. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list