Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Nov 16 ========================================
Administrativia: ================ Following the result of the referendum the board size will be 7 in the future. Attendance: =========== Owen Taylor (chairing) Jody Goldberg Miguel de Icaza Tim Ney (leaving after 30 mn) Daniel Veillard Murray Cumming Luis Villa Dave Neary Christian Schaller Regrets: ======== Jonathan Blandford Federico Mena-Quintero Actions completed: ================== ACTION: Murray to get getting privacy policy online - Done ACTION: Board members to add items to FoundationBoard_2fMoneyUses page - Done Actions: ======== ACTION: Dave to start looking for vendors to host the GNOME online shop - ongoing ACTION: Owen will send out mail to full board requesting interest in representing GNOME on LSB Desktop group - still open New Action: =========== ACTION: Owen to make up hiring plans and prepare the associated informations Agenda: ======= * Murray's idea of making FoundationBoard wiki page public - it was our workplace for the last year, most items were made public though the Minutes - we will try to get a public Board page * Tim's departure - Tim Ney has decided to leave the GNOME Foundation for other endeavors. Tim has helped greatly in getting the GNOME Foundation off the ground and incorporated as a non-profit. He has played an essential role in fundraising and in organizing the GNOME conference GUADEC over the last 4 years. Tim has consistently been a strong voice for free and open software in government around the globe. We thank him for the work he has put in on behalf of the GNOME project and wish him well in his new endeavor. In light of Tim's departure, the GNOME Board has taken the decision to separate the administrative functions of the Executive Director position from the communication and organizational roles that have been attached to it and to look to fill these roles separately. We feel this will allow us to take better advantage of GNOME's strong international network of volunteers. * Any necessary election stuff. - to avoid any possible confusion that might result from Tim departure announcement, the board has asked the elections committee to extend nominations for candidates for next year's board open for another 24 hours. * Moving forward on hiring someone in the part-time role: - we need someone based in the US to handle administrative functions for the GNOME foundation. - Owen will drive this process * next meeting Wed 30 November Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list