Re: Membership Committee meeting minutes
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Le samedi 13 mars 2010, à 15:51 +0100, Andrea Veri a écrit : hi, the GNOME Membership Committee had its first meeting exactly two days ago (on 11/03/2010) and here they come all the meeting's details: Thanks for sharing the minutes of this meeting! It's a good way to advertize your work :-) [...] * contact the Board of Directors and see if MC have autonomy to change the number of vouchers required for an application. (and also if we have the possibility to modify the foundation.gnome.org website) Yes, you can change the number of vouchers required for an application. And generally, unless you break stuff, you should probabably feel free to update the foundation website :-) * update the foundation.gnome.org website to make it more close to how gnome.org looks like. (we will need the Website / Art team to help us out a bit with this task) -- this needs to be forwarded to the Board to check if their fine with this. (Bruno prepared a mail already) The wgo look and feel will change soon, though. I'm not sure it's worth the effort to update foundation.gnome.org now to what will be old soon. * check with Tobias about elections scripts et all, this will be discussed separately on our mailing list in the near future. (the elections need to end before GUADEC in June / July) The next board should be known (and confirmed) for July 1st, since the current board has been elected for a period ending on June 30th. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- .''`. : :' : Andrea Veri a...@debian.org, `. `'a...@ubuntu.com, `- a...@gnome.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Call for hosts for Akademy/GUADEC 2011
The KDE and GNOME communities are looking for a host for the Desktop Summit 2011, the combined annual conference featuring KDE's Akademy and GNOME's GUADEC events. Following up on the successful Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the second edition of the combined event in 2011 will be the premier place to learn about, discuss, and work on free software on the desktop. The goal of the desktop summit will be to present and discuss the state of the art of free software for end users, do community building, enable cross-community collaboration, and enable partners from industry and other communities as well as individuals to get informed and involved. The desktop summit will consist of a joint conference, combining the Akademy and GUADEC programs, dedicated sub-events about special topics like free desktop standards or mobile platforms, free-form sessions, and extended opportunities for common discussions and getting work done. The preferred format for the event is to start with a three-day conference over the weekend followed by a week of informal sessions and coding marathon. Preferred time for the event is summer 2011. The location should be in Europe and be easily reachable from all over the world. A major international airport is a requirement. The event needs a strong local organization team, preferrably with involvement of local members of both communities. Both communities are prepared to help do global organization and find sponsors. Hosts should be prepared for 1000 enthusiatic participants. They will need to provide conference facilities, space for collaboration, and enough room for working. Internet should be broadly available and able to host all 1000 attendees. A range of accommodation from inexpensive to business class hotels should be easily available. Food should be easily available and should include vegeterian and vegan options. There should also be options for social activities outside of the actual event. For more details about the requirements look at the Akademy requirements [1] and the GUADEC requirements [2]. Please keep in mind that the combined event will be twice as big in size as the individual events, and the collaborative nature of the desktop summit might change the details. If you are interested in hosting the desktop summit, one of the prime free software events in 2011, please send an application to the boards of KDE e.V. (kde-ev-bo...@kde.ev) and the GNOME Foundation (board-l...@gnome.org). Please also feel free to contact us in case of any questions. Send in your proposals no later than May 15th. We are looking forward for a most excellent event. You can be part as host. Send your proposal now. Vincent [1] http://ev.kde.org/akademy/requirements.php [2] http://live.gnome.org/GuadecPlanningHowTo/CheckList -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Meeting Minutes Published - March 04, 2010
The meeting minutes for the March 4th board meeting is now public. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/201000304 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes -- text of the latest minutes follows -- Minutes for Meeting of March 4th, 2010 Next Meeting * March 18th, 2010 Attending * Behdad Esfahbod * Brian Cameron * Diego Escalante Urrelo * Jorge Castro * Rosanna Yuen * Stormy Peters * Vincent Untz Regrets * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Srinivasa Ragavan 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 * Behdad Esfahbod announced that he is stepping down from the board. o The board decided that Paul Cutler would be the best choice. o ACTION - Behdad will contact Paul to see if he is willing to be a replacement. o Paul Cutler agreed to join the board soon after the meeting. * Is the board agreeable to delegate foundation-list moderation to Olav. o The board agrees. * Decide the topics for the next Advisory Board meeting. o Usability - Máirín Duffy o GUADEC - Koen Martens o GNOME3 - Vincent Untz o Copyright policy o ACTION - Stormy will send out the advisory board meeting agenda to the advisory board list. * Should we give OSUOSL a $60 donation as suggested on the mailing list? o The board agreed. o http://osuosl.org/give6 o http://osuosl.org/faq o ACTION - Rosanna will pay $60 to OSUOSL. o ACTION - Diego will organize a press release for giving $60 to OSUOSL. * Nokia contracting status. o Nokia is giving the GNOME Foundation funding to help activities related to GTK+ community support in Maemo/MeeGo. That budget was approved in order to bring GNOME apps to Maemo (5 6) and can now be used for Maemo 5 MeeGo. * Status about the need to acquire hardware for GNOME servers hosted at Red Hat. o Perhaps we could include this in the sysadmin campaign. * Stormy's Goals o ACTION - Everyone - Finish making comments about Stormy's goals by March 17th. o ACTION - Brian will send out goals document to the foundation list on March 18th. * GNOME Philosophy o Franklin Street o Free Software vs Open Source o Code of Conduct/Speaker Guidelines o Copyright Assignment Policy o Licensing model o ACTION - Vincent will create a Philosophy page on the GNOME Wiki. * Finances o GnuCash - status + ACTION - Behdad will send an email to the foundation-list and the gnucash list seeking someone to take over the GnuCash automation. o Friends of GNOME - sysadmin announcement o Update about the 2009d Annual Report. + Paul Cutler is working on this. + Rosanna was supposed to provide an update on who received the 2008 report. She is still working on this. o ACTION - Vincent will touch base with Paul about the sysadmin announcement and the financial report. * Events o GUADEC + General Update # Signing companies up for sponsorship for GUADEC is going well. + Dave Neary's plans for training # Legal is putting together the final contracts. o Co-locating in 2011 - update + Have draft for call-for-bids and the press release. Need to finish the press release. o FOSS Nigeria in Kano, Nigeria (April 23-25) + Planning to send Luis de Bethencourt o Idlelo, a large (500 people) open source event in Accra, Ghana (May 17-21). + http://idlelo.net/ + Fernando Herrera will be doing the training. o Agustín Benito Bethencourt proposed GNOME event in Zaragoza. What do we need to do to facilitate? + Will be a marketing hackfest. + Need to choose the dates. o PyGTK+ Hackfest - update + ACTION - Stormy and Jorge will seek sponsors for the PyGTK+ and Marketing hackfests. Completed Actions *
