wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130219
= Minutes for Meeting of February 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 3th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Problems with Gobby, lost historical minutes (they are still available in the Wiki) * '''ACTION''': Andreas? Karen? to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * 2013 Budget * Needs vote to finalize (was +1 from Emmanuele, Joanie, Shaun, Tobi, Andreas) * +1 from Seif * Abstain from Bastien * Passed with votes from previous meeting * Sysadmin status update * Andrea is very responsive, and working with the CivCRM contractor, Stuart Gaston * CiviCRM status update * Should take up to 10 business days * Contractor offered training on the new tools, a number of Board members and employees interested * Friends of GNOME status update * Google now matches donations from Google employees to the GNOME Foundation * '''ACTION''': Check status with Emmanuele for FoG * GUADEC status * Brochure not finalised yet, draft discussed today * Would be nice to take in advice from the AdBoard about giving away discount vouchers to share around the sponsoring company (rather than a limited number of entrance vouchers) * GNOME Asia status * Need entity in Korea to handle sponsorship, Karen contacted the Linux Foundation about that * Call for Papers opening soon * Joining W3C status update * No updates from W3C * '''ACTION''': Karen to renew contact for W3C * Thanking ICAB for hosting GNOME DX hackfest * ICAB kindly provided us with a location for the DX hackfest in Brussels. We should thank them somehow. * Framed poster was mentioned as an option, we have signed posters from GUADEC in Den Haag * '''ACTION''': Andreas to send the destination address to Rosanna for shipment of a poster to ICAB * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * A number of attendees. Setting on dates still. And there is a location. * OpenSUSE would sponsor accomodation, location, * Flattr donations * It was suggested on marketing-list that we should try and implement flattr.com donations on gnome.org * Flattr say that "Software organisations cannot be charitable organisations". We might be able to get an account, but it would not be a non-profit account but still better than the standard one * Collecting funds in Europe * Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation. * There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically * Discussions are ongoing, need to gauge interest from our side first. Cost would be a fixed percentage (capped at already specified administrative costs). * Organisation is currently strongly associated with Wikileaks (tax exemption removed and restored, accounts frozen, etc.) * In strong contact with the German tax office * Shall we further explore this possibility? * '''ACTION''': Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Hollan-Stiftung for collecting funds in Europe * Status of a11y proposals * Nothing has reached us yet * We have reached out to some people if they would like to be independent experts to evaluate the bids. * '''ACTION''': Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the A11Y bid. * Fabian asked for reimbursement reg. Dia GNOME * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to handle reimbursement to Fabian for Dia GNOME -- 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