Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: * Review past action items. * Did each person with action items send their status reports to the board list before the meeting? Has this been happening? Some of the action items have been there for a long time. Some have been on there since last July. I'd suggest it's time to go through them. There's probably a number of possible reasons for no action: (1) Owner does not have time. (2) Owner does not think it is important. (3) The item is no longer relevant. But I think it would help everyone to have them reflect the actual situation. Perhaps we could ask that each board member update each of their action items each board meeting with the date, so it is easy to tell at a glance whether or not it's been updated. (And perhaps would remind each owner what they are still signed up for.) * Orca / Software Freedom Conservancy o Discussions underway. The SFC is working to determine if it is possible for GNOME projects to join the SFC. o ACTION: Bastien will email Joanie about options about whether it makes sense for orca to consider being a FreeDesktop project. What would be the advantage for GNOME projects to join the SFC? I thought the GNOME Foundation provided all the services that SFC does. (I'm not opposed to the idea, just would like to understand why the projects want to.) Great work with all the hackfests, GNOME Asia and release parties!!! Stormy ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011
Hi, On 16 Feb 2011, at 22:09, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: LiMo uses GNOME technology. They continue to support the foundation's activities on a case-by-case basis, but their executive director did not consider that the advisory board position was giving the foundation value for money. We have been informing their advisory board representatives of the great stuff we have been doing around hackfests, training programmes, GNOME 3 plans, support for GTK+ on mobile, etc. but Mr. Gillis was not convinced that the foundation was sufficiently focussed on mobile to make the $20K a year worth paying. Obviously, I disagree with him. That's a good summary. I worked hard to help prepare the business case to justify continuing involvement, but I was not involved in the final decision making process. I'm personally sorry that our involvement with GNOME was so brief and that we did not have a chance to really fully engage with GNOME. On the plus side, we did manage to secure $10k from LiMo to GNOME for the 6 months we were advisory board members, so it's not all bad! I hope those funds can help GNOME go from strength to strength. By chance is the desktop environment for the Motorola Atrix laptop accessory based on LiMo? The desktop seems to have a strong resemblance to a GNOME desktop. It may be GNOME, but it's not LiMo that I'm aware of. Thanks Andrew. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
