More late minutes. GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/03/22 ==========================================
Attendance: Anne Federico (+10 mins, minutes) Jonathan Luis Rosanna (new admin) No attendance: Dave (regrets) Vincent (regrets) PREVIOUS ACTIONS ================ Jeff: ongoing JRB to finish job description: Sort of done. Need to announce that we are hiring. Federico to organize next call: ongoing. Luis to mail boston-social to look for representation at boston usenix: done. Luis to help marketing-list to prepare a press release about the W3C SVG announcement: ongoing. JRB to send mouse pads and mugs to outstanding donors: delegated to Zana; ongoing. Dave to request Quim for a copy of a contract with the Generalidat describing what they are paying for this GUADEC. Quim to write a formal letter of invitation for the people who need visas: DONE. Federico to write agenda for Advisory Board meeting: ongoing. Federico to write a paper for the Advisory Board: DONE. Federico to mail advisory-board-list about what members would like to get from the Foundation: not done. Jeff to ask Advisory Board about funding of GNOME versus funding OSDL: ongoing. Jeff to ask about technical project lead: ongoing. Dave to resurrect German contract from last year so that we can use it for Axis Informática: DONE. Federico to remind people to send submissions for GUADEC papers: not done. Vincent to update gnome.org to mention call-for-papers deadline: DONE. JRB to ask Quim about invoicing and finish the GUADEC budget: not done. High priority. Federico to mail Dave with the agenda for the AB meeting: not done. Zana's status report ==================== Zana sent a status report to board-list with what she has done. GUADEC ====== Need to look for more keynote speakers. High priority ============= Announce Mar. 29 meeting of the Advisory Board. Jeff's embedded working group ============================= Pleased about the positive response. We want to announce this during GUADEC, and hold a press conference. The meeting of the embedded participants will happen during GUADEC. Need a mailing list to get people talking before the announcement, so that we can have something technical and concrete to show by then. Expanding the board =================== We have a problem of lack of resources --- board members don't have time to do their tasks. Decided to wait until GUADEC to request volunteers for helping out. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
