= Minutes/Agenda for GNOME Foundation Directors Meeting of May 7th, 2008 = == Attendance ==
* Lucas * Brian * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Behdad * Luis * Jeff == Old Items == * '''insurance''': Brian wants to discuss gnome.asia inclusion and what to cut out. ACTION: Luis to do a final check on the form contents. ACTION: Zana to fill in the forms and J5 to sign them. STATUS: John never got the forms from Brian (mail client problems), done by friday * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff says it may happen this weekend. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: Vincent to work with on getting funds for this ($25k needed, according to the current plan). STATUS: Vincent asks if we want to do both exec director and sysadmin at the same time. Will check fo rfunfs. andfeasibility. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html|old draft job description]] (see also FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector); may need to refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and update. STATUS: J5 has a skeleton of job description, on the wiki. ACTION: everyone to check it out and flesh it out. STATUS: ongoing * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for pending actions. STATUS: Luis has tried, but something is screwy on the server. Probably will not investigate again until after exams. === New items === * Discussion of potential business developer/ED hire. == Ongoing Items == * '''finances:''' STATUS: update soon from zana * '''GUADEC:''' STATUS: on track. update on mailing list. * '''a11y program:''' ACTION: Lucas and Vincent to make more noise about it. STATUS: we've sent a word about the program to all students we couldn't mentor for GSoC. A11y team has weekly meetings to talk about this. Still possible to make more noise about it :-) STTAUS: we should make more noise. * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: ongoing; ACTION: Lucas to contact marketing-list. ACTION: Behdad to talk to Dave about jewelery agreement. ACTION: Lucas to work with Zana about mugs and subscriptions. STATUS: on track, going slowly. * '''Google Summer of Code 2008''': Many people helping. Fresh blood in. Sandy, Ryan, ... rocking! Things are nicely under control of this distributed team. Community bonding period starting. STTAUS: mentors in contact with students, going fine. lucas to add students to plant. * '''GNOME.Asia''': Agreed to give them $4k. ACTION: Brian to send their sponsorship request to adboard. ACTION: Brian to contact them re the $4k. * '''Linux Foundation''': STATUS: Behdad updated the board on meeting with Jim Zemlin of TLF; no formal change in our relationship with them of yet. ACTION: Board members to discuss this at LF Collaboration Summit. * '''GUADEC/Akademy''': Let Akademy do their call-for-bid with the wording they want, GNOME do it with words we want, and a shared press release. ACTION: Behdad to meet with Dave and Jim to work out LinuxFoundation commitment, if any. ACTION: Behdad to work with Dave getting the call and press release out. * '''GTK+ Hackfest''': ACTION: Behdad to finish report and send to board. * '''Sponsorship bundles''': ACTION: Vincent to work on a proposal for the adboard meeting at GUADEC. STATUS: won't be done in April for time reasons. STATUS: no change. * '''Adboard meeting at GUADEC''' vuntz: sponsorship, gpl v3 * '''Hackfests''' ACTION: vincent to contact local gorups for organizing hackfests ACTION: lucas to contact hackers about the topics * Accounts team ACTION: vincent to ask around who can extend/develop mango to automate accounts creation * Machines from Google STATUS: blockin on canonical on invoicing the taxes to GNOME Foundation. * Latin america ACTION: vincent to contact izabel, diego and claudio about the Latin America tour. * '''Lucas''': ACTION: Announce new affiliation. * '''Legal''': STATUS: Luis is working with Wilson Sonsini on a new trademark policy. Need to update charter to 1.0; no progress on that. * '''Cooperation with KDE''': STATUS: Vincent watching if there's interest for a cross-desktop hackfest. Luis has started discussion with the KDE eV board for cooperation on legal aspects. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
