Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 18, 2010
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 21:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 25 mars 2010, à 15:56 -0500, Brian Cameron a écrit : * Code of Conduct and the Speaker Guidelines o The board decided to vote to approve the proposed Code of Conduct and Speaker Guidelines at the next board meeting, and to require new Foundation members to sign them. Foundation members are encouraged to provide any feedback, ideas, or concerns before the next board meeting. Oops, missing link here: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct/SpeakerGuidelines Just like with the original CodeOfConduct I'd like to sign the SpeakerGuidelines as soon as it's out of draft status (in case I then still agree with the text, like I do now). Will this be made possible? Without a significant amount of signatures these guidelines don't really have much authority yet :-\ Matthew Garrett came with the first draft for those guidelines, and Murray Cumming improved the wording, so thanks to both of them! Also thanks to the advisory board for some initial feedback on the proposal. Thanks! (I also need to check, but for the Code of Conduct, I think we said we'll vote on making it a requirement for new Foundation members, and not on approving the Code of Conduct itself) So you'll vote on asking new foundation members to approve the code of conduct, but the board itself wont vote for approval of the document itself? Or? I didn't really get that :-) What about existing members? In my opinion if we make it a requirement to approve (and sign) the document for new members, we ought to also make it a requirement to do the same thing .. for existing members. Else we create a difference between existing and new members. We're all equal in my opinion: either it's all required, or no requirement, or the requirement is completely meaningless and just appeasement making. I atm think a full requirement for all is a good idea, by the way. Then at least we can with a straight face point to people and say: Look, you signed this. Everybody in GNOME is the same in this regard, so please also follow it. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Meeting Minutes Published - March 18, 2010
The meeting minutes for the March 18th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100318 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes -- text of the latest minutes follows -- Minutes for Meeting of March 18th, 2010 Next Meeting * April 1st, 2010 Attendance * Brian Cameron * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Jorge Castro * Paul Cutler * Rosanna Yuen * Srinivasa Ragavan * Stormy Peters * Vincent Untz * Diego Escalante Regrets Missing Recurring Items * Review past action items. * Did each person with action items send their status reports to the board list before the meeting? * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list. * Make sure to start up the gobby server for better note taking. * Update foundation.gnome.org website. New Items * The board approved to send Brian's propsoal for CEO Goals and bonus plan to the foundation-list. * GnuCash automation o ACTION: Stormy file a bug in bugzilla about addressing outstanding GnuCash automation issues. o ACTION: Paul will work to prioritize getting the GnuCash automation finished. * Friends of GNOME sysadmin announcement o ACTION: Paul explained that the Friends of GNOME sysadmin announcement still has not been done. Lucas seems ready. Paul will follow up. * Annual Report Update o Paul intends to have the 2010 Annual Report done in the next month. o The 2010 Annual Report should be ready in two weeks to know the details to prepare for printing. The board should decide how to handle printing at the next meeting. o ACTION: Paul will ping the a11y team for photos of users with GNOME using accessibility solutions. * Jonh Wendell made a request to the GNOME Foundation to fund Brazilian GNOME events for $4000-$5500. o According to the budget for the current fiscal year, the Brazilian organizers have used almost all the budget assigned to them. However, there is a surplus from the previous fiscal year that may be used exceptionally in well justified situations. When the board prepared the budget for the present year our intention was not to spend more money than we can get in a term. o ACTION: Brian will send an email to Jonh Wendell to provide a more detailed budget for events in Brazil and to encourage the local GNOME team to assist with raising more money. * The Idlelo Conference, a large (500 people) open source event in Accra, Ghana (May 17-21). o http://idlelo.net/ o Plan to send two people. One to run the booth and the other to provide training. o Can either send Ben Konrath or Stormy to run the booth. o Fernando Herrera will be doing the training. o ACTION: Vincent will organize a meeting with Ben Konrath to discuss plans for Idlelo. * Hackfests o ACTION: Jorge will send an email seeking hackfest sponsorships from the advisory board. * GSettings Hackfest o May need $1,000 for hotel. Ryan Lortie is looking into this. * PyGTK+ Hackfest o Going to be in Boston. Found a location at the OLPC offices in Kendell Square. * Who to send to Texas Linux Fest on April 10th. o Stormy pinged Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier to see if he can be the lead coordinator for the booth. Zonker quickly confirmed that he can do this. o ACTION: Jorge will work with Ubuntu volunteers to find people to run the Texas Linux Fest booth. * A warm welcome was extended to new board member Paul Cutler. * Board Performance Reviews o ACTION: Stormy will update the surveys for doing the board of directors performance reviews to reflect the change in board members. o ACTION: Diego will send an email letting board members know about the board performance review process, and kick off the process. * The GNOME Foundation recently received a SWOT analysis from Juan José Marin. o ACTION: Srini will respond to Juan José Marin about the SWOT analysis he provided, provide feedback, and work out the next steps. * Code of Conduct and the Speaker Guidelines o The board decided to vote to approve the proposed Code of Conduct and Speaker Guidelines at the next board meeting, and to require new Foundation members to sign them. Foundation members are encouraged to
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 18, 2010
Le jeudi 25 mars 2010, à 15:56 -0500, Brian Cameron a écrit : * Code of Conduct and the Speaker Guidelines o The board decided to vote to approve the proposed Code of Conduct and Speaker Guidelines at the next board meeting, and to require new Foundation members to sign them. Foundation members are encouraged to provide any feedback, ideas, or concerns before the next board meeting. Oops, missing link here: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct/SpeakerGuidelines Matthew Garrett came with the first draft for those guidelines, and Murray Cumming improved the wording, so thanks to both of them! Also thanks to the advisory board for some initial feedback on the proposal. (I also need to check, but for the Code of Conduct, I think we said we'll vote on making it a requirement for new Foundation members, and not on approving the Code of Conduct itself) Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
