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= Minutes for Meeting of May 14th, 2013, 15:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Tobias Mueller * Karen Sandler === Regrets === * Joanmarie Diggs == Board Meeting Agenda == * A11y work * We accepted a bid, now we want to get some publicity out * Karen wrote a contract based on the previous ones and sent it to Igalia for signing * We should announce that the bid has been approved * We should have a better PR campaign when the work has been completed * Events * GUADEC 2013 * Update on GUADEC 2013 * Two keynotes finalized, remaining two are top priority * Final round of acceptance / rejection emails will be sent soon * Need to improve the web presence * When will we have the face to face Board and Advisory Board meeting * We shall ask the advisory board when they want to have it. * The board meeting is probably better to be had before the adboard meeting * What is the status of a contract for video services? * New contract has been updated after our recommendations * Letters of invitation for people needing Visa's. * Karen wanted to coordinate with Robert and Florian to make sure that the right person send the letter of invitation to those who need it. Has that been done? * Karen sent them a template, will update after the next GUADEC meeting * Upcoming "Boston Summit" * Karen wanted to reach out to people from Boston and Montreal to see if they are interested in organizing it. Is anyone interested? * Montreal seem to have organizers selected * dotNET + GNOME Hackfest 2013: * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/dotNET2013 * David Nielsen sent an e-mail to the board asking for help with a .NET GNOME 3 Hackfest in October. * They are talking with sponsors, but would appreciate help with that from the board too. * Karen wanted to talk to potential sponsors. Has any sponsor returned yet? * They've already secured some corporate sponsorship but not having much luck finding additional sponsors * Budget estimate is USD 5000 * The attendees are not all foundation members * The board would like to see an updated budget and proposal * '''ACTION''': Karen to send an email to David Nielsen for an update on the dotNET hackfest proposal (done) * Other upcoming events * Marketing hackfest * Karen proposed a Marketing hackfest: https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/Marketing2013 * Do we approve the 4500 USD? * Karen is still waiting for an answer from SFLC to use their space for the hackfest * There are various fallbacks in place * Updated budget to USD 5500 to cover eventual increased flight costs * '''VOTE''': Approve the marketing hackfest budget of USD 5500: +1 Bastien, Tobi, Shaun, Seif, Emmanuele; Andreas abstains * '''ACTION''': Karen to notify marketing team regarding the hackfest approval (done) * Maps hackfest * https://live.gnome.org/Maps/HackfestSpring2013 * Needs moving page to the right location * There is a venue * Only one person would require travel assistance * Evaluation of GNOME instance of Etherpad. * slow but better than Gobby which crashes * Andreas wanted to fix the wiki. * Adboard meeting * Our last adboard meeting was in early February, it's time to start schedule the next one. * Suggested date is May 17th * Have we agreed on this now? * We need to create and send out an agenda. Potential topics are * Testing/OSTree * Karen wanted to reach out to Colin and ask if he wants to present code testing in GNOME using OSTree. Has he responded yet? * Colin is prepared to participate. * GUADEC meeting schedule * Zareason * '''ACTION''': Karen to send the agenda for the adboard meeting * Potential future topics * User testing * Extensions * Annual Report * Andreas is currently working on picking up the designs * Close to completion * Accounting Software fundraiser for Free Software organizations. * Free Software Conservancy are raising money to create a accounting software for free software organizations and wants a endorsement from the GNOME Foundation. * Still in the preliminary stages * Rosanna, Shaun and Karen wanted to write up a report of the current pros and cons of GNUCash. * Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc. * Joanie put together her thoughts on the issue in a lenghty e-mail. * She also sent a shorter version of her proposal to the travel commitee and board-list * Organizers should be responsible, but we still need somebody to take point in talking with the organizers * Discussion continues on the mailing list * Collecting funds in Europe * Karen and Tobias are blocking to write a Memorandum Of Understanding * Sysadmin and CiviCRM update * Andrea has been sending updates for the sysadmin side * But it's a bit unclear for the CiviCRM side == New Action Items == * Karen to send an email to David Nielsen for an update on the dotNET hackfest proposal (done) * Karen to notify marketing team regarding the hackfest approval (done) * Karen to send the agenda for the adboard meeting -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list