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= Minutes for Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 18th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Tobias Mueller * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Pitivi campaign * Karen drafted out an agreement * Standard contractor agreement, with a few tweaks like adding an authorized representative to show independence from OpenCreed for profit motives * Pitivi developers have brought up some comments and questions * Karen is working with them to improve the wording of the agreement * Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money * The board is reaching out to members of the community to go over the ideas on the wiki * More ideas are welcome * Outstanding reimbursements * Status of Dia GNOME reimbursements? * Andreas is going over the receipts this week * Any other pending reimbursements? * Documentation hackfest (soon) * FOSDEM (soon) * Kat created a private wiki page with the list of pending reimbursements for Rosanna to subscribe to * https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/Private/Reimbursements (PRIVATE) * Mid-point batch of payments for OPW has been sent * General budget status * State of finance up to October is almost done * Status of 2013 Tax forms * Data gathering * We have asked for an extension * Common practice, nothing special * We have time until May * Upcoming events * GNOME Asia * The original plan was to co-locate with openSUSE conference * It is possible that GNOME.Asia is going to be stand-alone * GUADEC 2014 * Sponsorship brochure is done * The brochure is going to be sent once the website is up * The CfP is also blocking on the website * Website should be up soon * West Coast Hackfest * Venue is still undecided * Conference center in Portland * Discount rate for hotel * Other option (to maximize attendance) * San Francisco * Near Linux Foundation collaboration summit and Red Hat developers conf * Travel report from FOSDEM * Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the current state of Debian * The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation * They agreed to blog more on the issue * The Debian packagers asked for a technical position from the GNOME project for the use of systemd * Maybe have a joint statement with KDE as they moved to systemd as well * Involve other environments like XFCE * '''ACTION''': Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd * Karen talked to a Red Hat representative about funding * Ask the release team for a report on the state of the project * Keep the board updated * '''ACTION''': Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project == Discussed on the mailing list == * GCompris switch to QML for iOS and Android support * The maintainer graciously informed the board beforehand * Effects on GSoC * GTK does not support Android and iOS, and there's no current effort for that; Bruno's effort alone would not be sufficient * Qt/QML has commercial interest to support those platforms == Completed Actions == * Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts * Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding for privacy work * Karen to "call for ideas" for privacy work related bids at GUADEC and by blog/email to foundation-announce == 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 * Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites * Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure * Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned -- 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