wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20131015
= Minutes for Tuesday, October 15th, 2013, 16:00 UTC =
== Next Meeting ==
* Tuesday, October 29th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Rosanna Yuen
* Andreas Nilsson
* Karen Sandler
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Sriram Ramkrishna
* Tobias Mueller
=== Regrets ===
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Joanmarie Diggs
=== Missing ===
== Board Meeting Agenda ==
* GUADEC travel reimbursements are three weeks overdue now.
* Zana is working on the list
* Contract details for OPW
* There are some feedback from mentors with regards to the contracts
that got introduced last round.
* Karen, Marina and Kat had a meeting going over the feedback and
see what could be improved.
* No progress
* Karen sent possible changes to the non-board person that expressed
doubts or concerns, but still hasn't gotten a reply
* Not time sensitive, but it needs to be done before the next round
of OPW starts
* '''ACTION''': Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW
mentor/student contracts
* Montreal Summit travel report
* Around 40 attendees
* 6 students attended from the Western New England university along
with a professor
* They want to revive the Mousetrap project (mouse assistive
technology) as part of their year's university project, they had great
support and made a lot of progress
* Sessions could have been better organised to allow for newcomers
* Karen met the president of Savoir-Faire Linux, SFL interviewed
Karen and then Karen interviewed them
* Good feedback
* The sponsors helped with the venue, parties, and refreshments:
Canonical, Red Hat, SFL
* Work was accomplished on notifications, a11y, developer experience, etc.
* GNOME Asia Summit update
* Still in the planning stage
* We received a bid, but we also got two proposals for co-locating
the summit with other conferences and communities
* Local community should evaluate the options
* Behnam Esfahbod volunteering with the Foundation
* Behnam is waiting for a new job to start in 2014 and has free
volunteer time until the end of the year
* 24 hours per week
* Tasks
* investigate OPW application tracking using a local instance of
the Google Summer of Code software
* Infrastructure issues
* Need to check if Behnam is a Foundation member, and have his blog
syndacated on the Planet
== Completed Actions ==
* Karen to ask on foundation-list if somebody wants to work with
Gitorious.org to create a GNOME mirror there
* Karen to check with Rosanna if a 30 day turnaround fits in to her
travel reimbursement workflow
* Karen and Joanie to manage the bulk hotel booking for the Montreal Summit
* Karen, Kat, Marina, Andreas to discuss the OPW contract issues
during the board's work session
== 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
* Joanie and Kat to draft a new travel assistance form to replace the
current one (Kat, Joanie and Zana to discuss and come up with a
solution)
* Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME
conferences to discuss on foundation-list
* Joanie will ping the Release Team again for the Foundation IRC
meeting after the 3.10 release is completed
* Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy
for GNOME events
* Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts
holders and passwords
* Kat to contact Cesar Fabian Orcoon Chipana to add a way to file a
reimbursement complaint to the future travel commitee form
* Kat to notify Anton Belka the decision on his GUADEC reimbursement
* Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
* 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
* Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
* Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
* Sri to investigate better uses of adwords on the GNOME websites
* Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts
over to the GNOME infrastructure
* Rosanna to set up an account for Kat to access the Foundation's PayPal
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W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name
B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/
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