GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 7th June 2007 Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim, Vincent Absent: Rosanna 1) ECMA We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone there from Abiword. ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to work on getting a press release for our membership. 2) GUADEC Sponsorship The GUADEC team have come up with an initial list of people to sponsor, but still have a number of people that would like to sponsor and have asked if they can spend an extra 5K GBP. Given the delay in hiring the biz dev position, all feel that we can spend a little out of that purse, providing there's a little spread over a few people rather than one or two. ACTION: Dave to contact GUADEC team to let them know about the extra sponsorship, and provide some rough guidelines if there needed to be some priorities made. 3) Biz Dev We have another candidate available for this position, and need to start organizing a first interview, in and around 21st June. Dave is going to ask Jonathan if he's keen to stay involved, given his interviewing experience. All agreed we should use the first interview as a filter, with a recommendation later for a 2nd interview. If the candidate gets through, it would be possible to get them to GUADEC for a final interview, and contract negotiations. ACTION: Dave to get in touch with Jonathan to see if he is still keen to be on the interview panel. ACTION: Dave to organize an interview with the candidate as soon as possible. 4) GNOME and KDE Conference There has been some discussion about a possible merge of GNOME and KDE conferences. This has been discussed at the advisory board level, along with the KDE e.v. members list. If there is considerable opposition from both sides, then it isn't worth exploring further. Jeff mentioned that it's likely to come up at DAM4. ACTION: Jeff to follow up about a possible GNOME and KDE conference merge at DAM4. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
On 6/10/07, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) ECMA We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone there from Abiword. ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to work on getting a press release for our membership. What would our purpose be there? Luis ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:18:54PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 6/10/07, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) ECMA We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone there from Abiword. ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to work on getting a press release for our membership. What would our purpose be there? As a non-profit we (GNOME) would not have voting privileges. The membership will serve as a mechanism to allow interested foundation members to join ECMA committees. I'm advocating this in relation to ECMA376/TC45 aka MS OfficeOpen XML. Committee members have the ability to request clarifications and suggest improvements in the text of the specification. For anyone implementing parts of this format this is a golden chance to get enough documentation to facilitate interoperability. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07
On 6/10/07, Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:18:54PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 6/10/07, Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) ECMA We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone there from Abiword. ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to work on getting a press release for our membership. What would our purpose be there? As a non-profit we (GNOME) would not have voting privileges. The membership will serve as a mechanism to allow interested foundation members to join ECMA committees. I'm advocating this in relation to ECMA376/TC45 aka MS OfficeOpen XML. Committee members have the ability to request clarifications and suggest improvements in the text of the specification. For anyone implementing parts of this format this is a golden chance to get enough documentation to facilitate interoperability. Seems reasonable. Of course, I'd be more comfortable with it if we put out a press release saying something to the effect of 'we see no way to avoid implementing OOXML without screwing our users, so we're joining ECMA to make sure it sucks as little as possible. All other things being equal, we'd much prefer to implement a spec that has a much better patent grant, was developed through a more public process, uses open standards like mathml, etc., but since MS has a dominant market position, we don't have much of a choice in the matter.' Luis ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
