wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140320
= Minutes for Tuesday, March 20th, 2014, 15:30 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Andreas Nilsson * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Emmanuele Bassi === Regrets === === Missing === * Sriram Ramkrishna == Board Meeting Agenda == * gnome-software privacy resolution * Kat reached out to maintainers by IRC * they understand the issue and are happy to either resolve the bug or revert the sharing setting to "off" by default * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725912 * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726234 * the setting was reverted * Outstanding reimbursements * LibreGraphics/GIMP * We have been not keeping up to speed * We are also getting involved with more organizations * The responsivity should get better when more people can access the bank account * We are still cheaper than any other option, in terms of fees * But we need to get better * The workflow is still pretty cumbersome for Rosanna * It's all based on email * It's easy to get lost or overwhelmed * The wiki works better * We need to get a single page for tracking reimbursements for organizations that we're holding money for * Approvals should also go on the same page * We need to keep a record * As long as it falls without our remit, we don't really need to vote on it * Just minute it * Money is tracked in the GNUcash file * The process on that is not really great, but there are no great options out there * The board should have a person responsible * Either the treasurer or the secretary * '''ACTION''': Kat to contact the GIMP developers for allocating the money for the event at LGM * GUADEC 2015 (Italian) bid officially dropped out * Gotheburg is the only bid left * Upcoming hackfests * Developer Experience Hackfest * Location officially moved to Berlin * Munich was not going to be as cheap * New attendees: Zeeshan Ali and Alexandre Franke * Addendum to the budget: USD 1000 (total) * '''VOTE''': Add USD 1000 to the DX hackfest budget: +1 Marina, Andreas, Joanie, Tobi; Kat and Emmanuele abstain * Voted on the mailing list: advance the sponsorship reimbursement for Sindhu * Upcoming events * GUADEC 2014 * Kat reached out to Liberix to transfer leftover funds from GUADEC 2013 to the 2014 organizers * GNOME.Asia * Travel committee * Event organizers are not happy about the new amount of work * We are also not great at process * Receipt collection * Tracking of reimbursements and personal details == Discussed on the mailing list == * Sindhu asked to get her sponsorship in advance of the DX hackfest * '''VOTE''': +1 from Kat, Andreas, Marina, Joanie * Request for funding to restock the North American Event Box == Completed Actions == * Kat will check with the Italian team to verify that they do not plan to submit a 2015 GUADEC bid * Kat will reach out to gnome-software maintainers about privacy * Reached out by IRC: maintaners understand the issue and are happy to either resolve the bug or revert the sharing setting to "off" by default * Setting is "off" and removed from the UI until 3.14 * Kat will email Rosanna to make the reimbursement for FOSSAsia and check the reimburment possibility of the taxi == 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 to review the agreement for the fund collection in EU * Kat to contact the GIMP developers for allocating the money for the event at LGM * 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 * Marina will follow up with Rosanna on OPW finances update * Kat will email the Release Team on behalf of the board to express the board's concern regarding gnome-software * Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint -- 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