GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/02/15 ==========================================
Attendance: Anne Dave Federico Jonathan Luis (+15 min) No attendance: Jeff Vincent (regrets) ACTIONS ======= * Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and regions to act as local press contacts. (ongoing) * JRB to finish job description for administrative needs. (ongoing) * Anne to start process for GUADEC 2007 selection (ongoing) NEW ACTIONS =========== * Federico to organize next call at Novell. * JRB to finish the job description for our admin person by the next board meeting (March 01) * Luis to mail [email protected] to look for volunteers to represent us at Boston Usenix and Boston LWE. * Anne to send her draft program to foundation-list and put it up in the web page. * Dave to be our liaison with marketing-list to set up the basic structure of the new www.gnome.org. * Federico to ask Rodrigo what we got Killermundi to sign. * Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the GNOME/W3C SVG anouncement. * Dave to formally invite the Software Freedom Law Center to be a member of the Advisory Board. * JRB to send out mugs and mouse pads to outstanding donors, and thank-you notes as well. * Luis to find business card template and send it to board-list. AGENDA ====== Advisory Board: * welcome to new members. * Inform about the new board members: names and functions * advice in connection to the 2.14 release. * return on investment for advisory board members Hire of staff: * Status of job decription * Hire or outsource? Boston USENIX in June 2006 - GNOME representation Exhibition materials incl. info about GUADEC for FOSDEM in Brux. and Linux Forum in CPH. Anne's draft for a program. Appoint a team for the website update? * VincentUntz: see the "Request to the board (proposal)" thread on gnome-web-list (archives are offline right now) Axis Informática wanting to sell products with the GNOME logo Gnome & The W3 SVG Working Group: PR to be prepared soon Whither the technical project meeting idea? * Jeff Waugh would like to propose a strategy/delegation for making this happen Outstanding issues: * Tradeshows - in particular LinuxWorld, FOSE, Open Source Business Conference, LinuxWorld Mexico, WebTech * Getting back in touch with our legal representation or switching to elsewhere * Write a mail explaining the paypal mess in the past two/three months (Done by Vincent) Advisory Board ============== * Sun: John Rice is their technical representative; we'll try to get Simon Phipps as a rep. as well. * IBM: Greg Kelleher is a potential candidate. * Novell: Robert Love will be the technical rep; also JP Rosevear as our decision-making rep. * We'll invite the Software Freedom Law Center to the Avisory Board. Hire of staff ============= * Job description: not done (JRB) * Outsourcing: need to find out candidates and fees. * JRB to finish job description by next meeting. Boston Usenix representation this year ====================================== * We are content with sending a few people. Luis to [email protected] to look for volunteers (also volunteers for Boston LWE). * Materials: Anne to look for materials; we have some in the wiki and Anne's draft for a foundation program ===================================== * We are fine with her draft; she'll send it to foundation-list and put it up in the Foundation web site. Web site ======== * Dave to contact marketing-list to set up the basic structure of www.gnome.org. * Once we get the new machines in the colo in a few weeks, we'll set up the tech infrastructure. Axis Informática ================ * We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the GNOME Logo. * Need to find the contract that we got Killermundi to sign, so that we can use the same contract for Axis Informática. * Let's give the cut to GNOME Hispano; this is a good way to fund local groups. W3C SVG Working Group ===================== * Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the GNOME/W3C SVG anouncement. Technical project meeting idea ============================== Postponed since Jeff was not in the call. Outstanding issues ================== * Getting back in touch with our legal/accounting representatives - JRB to contact them. Next meeting ============ March 01 2006 Same bat-time Same bat-channel _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
