Hi, Sorry for the late minutes. That's what happens when we lose Daniel ;)
Federico GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/01/18 ========================================== Roll call --------- New board: Luis JRB Anne Vincent Dave Federico (minutes) Jeff Old board: Owen JRB Daniel Jody (missing) Miguel (regrets) Tim (missing) Murray Christian - Agreed to stay with the same meeting schedule (bi-weekly, Wednesdays, 14:00 Mexico City time) - Nominations for secretary, treasurer, chairman: Treasurer - JRB Chairman - Federico, Dave - Federico to chair this year unless Dave wants to challenge during GUADEC through mud-wrestling. Notes ===== This call was about making the new Board members know what happened during the past year. We exchanged observations about what did/didn't work, and reviewed pending actions. Highlights of the year ====================== - GUADEC, GNOME Summit. Involvement on the Board for GUADEC is not central; it was mainly the volunteers and Tim. Summit: a small event; Board not very involved in organization (mainly Tim). The Foundation paid USD 5000 for the venue and food, so it was pretty cheap. There were about 100 participants. - [ACTION]: JRB volunteers to contact MIT for this year's Summit. - GNOME Store: Dave has been organizing it. In contact with several possible vendors, chose one which did a good job for GUADEC, had legal problems due to non-USA location. Contract didn't get signed, got us back to square one. Intends to get more vendor candidates in February. - Trademarks: Finished submitting everything to the USPTO, we are on a waiting period before they'll finalize everything. Responsible contact: the Foundation's lawyer. JRB is in contact with lawyer. Got the User Group Trademark Agreement finalized. Got a Member Logo for business cards finalized. - Efforts to promote GNOME as an ISV platform: Federico on it. Hired Shaun McCance to write an "Overview of the GNOME Platform" document; ongoing. JRB suggests asking for funding to be directed to specific ISV-friendly projects (documentation, infrastructure, hacking). Conference stuff ================ - Anne thinks we should stretch out to the parts of the world we haven't emphasized. Luis mentions talk of GUADLAC in Latin America. We got a proposal for a Southeast Asia conference, and gnome.conf.au. We have FOSDEM presence. GUADEC organization =================== - Quim is leading. - We should probably have Quim on every other board call or so, to keep up with GUADEC organization. - Dave: we have a location (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, very close to Barcelona), dates (week of 2006/06/24). 24-25 is Spanish days, 26-28 is GUADEC proper, 29-30 is hackfest. Confirmed keynote speakers: Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users), Jim Gettys (One Laptop Per Child). - Christian: says venue is pretty nice, next to the beach. - Need to start making reservations, etc. - Web side of things: need update from the sysadmin team. Need to re-setup the registration infrastructure. What worked, what didn't ======================== + Bi-weekly conference calls worked well. + Wiki worked well. - People sometimes assumed that someone would take care of something, but nobody replied and so nobody did. Example: the gnome.de situation. + This board got a lot more done than other years, due to internal process of waiting for opposition rather than waiting for confirmation of permission. + More presence in local events than before. - Dropped the ball on Google Summer of Code. Mistake: thinking of them as bounties rather than mentorship opportunities. + Owen was a good chairman; he kept good track of things. + Thanks to Daniel for being our secretary. + Thanks to the Foundation members who voted! Sidetracks: - We have public Board page in the wiki now; Murray wants to have the agenda there before every meeting so that people can monitor us. Outstanding: - Dave contacted Sriram Ramkrishna about presence on Innotech in Portland. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
