= Minutes for Meeting of Jan. 30th, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Feb. 13th, 2008
== Attendance == * Luis * Lucas * Brian * Behdad * J5 === Missing === * Vincent (regrets - in Paris for Solutions Linux) * Jeff (regrets - LCA) == Minutes == === Ongoing items === * '''finances:''' updates on hold through Zana's maternity leave. === Old items === * '''insurance''': STATUS: Brian is collecting contact information from foundations-list; will contact a variety of agents for quotes and information. * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: No change since last meeting. * '''board roles''': STATUS: Vincent proposed definitions for board roles (president, v-p, etc.) on board-list. DEADLINE: to finish discussion about job definitions by Monday, 2/11. ACTION: Luis to answer question with SFLC/WSGR. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: Vincent was working on it; job description is blocking on third party who had volunteered to help draft the description; nothing has changed since the last meeting here. Post-meeting: received sample job description, but still lacking time to move forward on this. * '''membership committee''': STATUS: Lucas checked on the committee; one new account needed- ACTION: Behdad will investigate the account situation. * '''expectnation''': GUADEC will use expectnation this year, and investigate free options for next year. * '''Mozilla''': STATUS: Jeff was to write, but no progress. ACTION: Vincent is now looking at writing Mozilla announcement. Post-meeting: has spoken with Dave Neary, who is helping out. === New items === * '''Business developer:''' what should we do? Should we hire a head hunter? Now? Wait? Old board members briefed new board members on last year's process; some discussion of cost of a head hunter. No firm decision at this time. * '''Legal:''' Luis gave a status update; he has received a bunch of (not time critical) stuff from WSGR; may have processed it enough to discuss by meeting time. Will also be meeting with SFLC to work on a privacy policy and take care of other miscellaneous issues. * '''Board Time Management:''' board wants to attach deadlines (for completion or progress updates) to all actions, so that when people get overwhelmed the board can check in and redistribute tasks on a timely basis. ACTION: Luis to give board access to Tracks so that we can experiment with web-based action tracking system. * '''merchandise:''' Hackerthreads t-shirts to be updated soon. Jewelry still not finalized; currently in Dave Neary's court. * '''goals''': some discussion about big picture goals for the next year. ACTION: Lucas: start mailing list discussion about goals for the next 6-12 months. == Updates of Ongoing Items == * '''GTK+ Hackfest:''' Sponsors have been invoiced, and local organizer and venue are in place. * '''GUADEC:''' Team expects to have site up by end of month. Keynotes are finalizing; CFP soon. Sponsorship and local organization ongoing. * '''a11y program:''' new sponsor on board; rules are close to being finalized. Plan to launch on V-day. Vincent pushing to get tasks lined up. * '''Summit:''' can't formally book location until May, but they are aware of our desire and our request has been made. Plan is to have it finalized and announced at GUADEC. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
