The meeting minutes for the January 21st board meeting is now public.
Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100121
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of January 21st, 2010
Next Meeting
Foundation IRC meeting, January 30th
* When: Saturday, January 30th, 16:00 UTC
* Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation
Attending
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo
* Rosanna Yuen
* Srinivasa Ragavan
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Lucas Rocha
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.
* System administrator hiring - waiting for funding.
* Update foundation.gnome.org website.
New items
* Dave Neary sent a proposal to the GNOME Foundation board that he
will organize and coordinate a 2 day professional training
session before GUADEC - in the same location as the conference,
ideally. This will include defining the syllabus, finding &
paying trainers from within the GNOME community and also giving
part of the training.
o The board agreed to move forward, but we still need to work
out details such as how the profits will be split, how much
of a discount attendees who sign up for the training will
receive towards GUADEC, etc.
* FOSS Nigeria 2010 (March 5-7 in Kano, Nigeria)
o http://fossnigeria.org/
o The board agreed to pay travel costs associated with
sending Luis de Bethencourt to the event. This will be
funded from the general travel budget.
o If others have an interest in also participating, please
let the GNOME Foundation know.
* The Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 requested assistance with their
Pledgie campaign.
o http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926
o The GNOME Foundation has done this in previous years. This
involves hosting their money in the GNOME Foundation bank
account, and not charging a fee.
o ACTION - Rosanna will provide a list of stipulations that
they need to agree to in order to ensure that there is not
too much work.
o Assuming that they are agreeable to these stipulations, the
board agrees to provide this service to LGM.
o ACTION - Vincent will send an email to the LGM organizers
to let them know that we will work with them.
* Budget for Accessibility Hackfest
o Received a request from the GNOME travel committee for
$12,000, and they say that they could possibly reduce this
to $8,000. The board agrees to provide the $10,000 provided
by Mozilla for a11y purposes to fund this event, and to let
the organizers know if they can further reduce costs to
$8,000 that would be best.
o ACTION - Diego will respond to the a11y hackfest organizers
and let them know.
* Update about Annual Report for 2009
o Paul Culter recently sent an update to the board.
o ACTION - Brian will suggest to Paul that there be more
discussion on GNOME marketing list to find volunteers.
o Paul proposes that the Annual Report will have the
following sections. Help is needed. Feedback about the
proposed list of articles would be helpful, and volunteers
are needed to help write some sections of the report. The
proposed list of articles includes:
+ Letter from the ED (Stormy - confirmed)
+ A Year in Review (Paul - edited version of the
quarterly reports by team)
+ GUADEC (Tentative - Need Author)
+ Boston Summit Review (Jason Clinton)
+ User Groups (Tentative)
+ History of the Pants (Paul)
+ GNOME Foundation in 2009 (May be duplication between
this and Stormy's introduction)
+ Sponsored community activities (Year of the hackfest)
+ Finances (TBD, email sent to Germán)
+ Did You Know? (A collection of little facts that can
be sprinkled through the report)
* Foundation and CEO Goals Document
o The goals document was sent to the foundation-list, so the
board is now awaiting feedback.
* Status about the need to acquire hardware for the GNOME servers
hosted at Red Hat.
o Stormy sent an email to
