wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140311
= Minutes for Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 17:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Andreas Nilsson * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Sriram Ramkrishna * Ekaterina Gerasimova === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen == Board Meeting Agenda == * Privacy issues regarding GNOME Software statistics reporting * The GNOME Software statistics configuration moved to GNOME Control Center * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725912 * The change to send usage stats to distros by default was intentional * Bastien suggested this be explicitly asked/presented to users in GNOME Initial Setup * No further action seems to have taken place * Will it be done in time for 3.12? * GNOME Software has a policy about how the data will be used: * [[https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/tree/doc/privacy-policy.html]] * But the data collection is not done by GNOME; it is done by distros. * Karen was consulted in #board since she is not able to attend today's meeting * She would want to get Bastien's solution in for 3.12 * Failing that, we should put something in the release notes * Conclusions: * Users should opt-in * Distros should provide their policy privacy to the user * Ask the Release Team if we can block against this being added in GNOME Initial Setup * '''ACTION''': Kat will reach out to gnome-software maintainers * '''ACTION''': Kat will email the Release Team * '''ACTION''': Karen will look at these issues from a legal standpoint * SXSW (South by South-West) travel report from Sri * Sri and Karen attended * Karen had a talk on Friday. While most of the sessions at SXSW seem to be not very well attended, there was a good amount of press coming out of it, including an article in Le Monde, in addition to the SXSW blogpost leading up to it with a very broad readership. * Advertised the talk via social media * Interest in OPW; another related to the medical field * had a GNOME event but it could be organized better, we need to organize the event well in advance and use multiple ways of advertising it, including posters and eventbrite. * Got a couple of new potential volunteers, and some interest in the west coast hackfest * Promotion of OPW by EFF, Rackspace, and Wordpress. Karen has several new fundraising leads for OPW. * Most people Sri spoke with knew what GNOME was, Free Software, etc. * Sri gave an interview that has since appeared in a blog post * [[http://evolver.fm/2014/03/08/sxsw-pitivi-aims-to-bring-real-video-editing-to-linux/]] * Karen's articles are: * [[http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/03/08/et-si-les-implants-medicaux-etaient-sous-licence-libre_4379783_651865.html]] * [[http://southxmrm.tumblr.com/post/78924379894/today-i-had-a-chance-to-meet-with-the-incredible]] * Karen also did a couple of other interviews, including one on about the remote session with Snowden where usability of free software was directly discussed. * In general, they think it was a really good experience * Difference: We are not preaching to a choir at SXSW, but people are quite savvy * Somewhat expensive conference. We need to partner with others like FSF, KDE, and others. Free Software tent? Karen has talked with people at a few other companies and orgs about having a free and open pavilion * If done again: Plan the event further ahead of time and promote it in fliers distributed around the venue. Maybe a team of people, perhaps rent a house to save money * Outstanding reimbursements * Reimbursement of sponsorship for FOSSASIA 2014 * Kat reviewed the receipts. Only the taxi receipts appear to be missing. * '''ACTION''': Kat will email Rosanna to make the payment and check the reimburment possibility of the taxi. * Doc hackfest not yet submitted, but should be done by the end of today * Financial follow up on OPW * '''ACTION''': Marina will follow up with Rosanna * GUADEC 2015 bids and deadlines * Oliver Propst submitted a bid on behalf of the Gothenburg GUADEC 2015 organizing committee to both the Board list and the Foundation Announce list * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-March/msg00007.html * This is the only bid received thus far * Should we make another announcement, set a deadline, etc.? * '''ACTION''': Kat will check with the Italian team to verify that they do not plan to submit a bid * Upcoming hackfests * Developer Experience Hackfest * Allan has invited David King to join the hackfest ~$350 for travel + ~270 for accommodations * '''VOTE''': Andreas, Sri, Tobi, Joanie, Marina: +1; Kat abstains * Venue and date not secured * The original venue was not available for the date chosen * Options: Change the date and/or the venue * May have associated cost changes * There might be a French translation hackfest proposal coming soon * Upcoming events * GUADEC 2014 - no updates; updates expected after the release * Update on fund collection in Europe * '''ACTION''': Karen will review the agreement * Next meeting * Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Discussed on the mailing list == == Completed Actions == == Pending action items == * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts * Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard * Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting * Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings * Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list * Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy for GNOME events * Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders and passwords * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons * Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services * Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
