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 -- 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