Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011
Hi Vincent, Dave is looking for help in hosting a webinar type session (and you've reminded me to ping the AdBoard). Thanks. Paul On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the minutes! It's good to see we're using money for great > stuff. Just one question: > > Le mardi 01 mars 2011, à 14:11 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : >> * Dave Neary's Advisory board request >> o ACTION: Paul to send email to the Advisory Board to request >> for help. > > What is the request? :-) There is no context, so it's hard to know. > Maybe it's a private item, though? > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011
Hi, Thanks for the minutes! It's good to see we're using money for great stuff. Just one question: Le mardi 01 mars 2011, à 14:11 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : > * Dave Neary's Advisory board request > o ACTION: Paul to send email to the Advisory Board to request > for help. What is the request? :-) There is no context, so it's hard to know. Maybe it's a private item, though? Cheers, Vincent -- 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 - February 15th, 2011
The meeting minutes for the February 15th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110215 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes -- text of the latest minutes follows -- Next Meeting * March 1st, 2011 Attending * Bastien Nocera * Emily Chen * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Og Maciel * Paul Cutler * Rosanna Yuen * Brian Cameron * Og Maciel Regrets * Andreas Nilsson Missing 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. * Update foundation.gnome.org website. New Items * Marketing Contract o Several candidates have applied. o The Board has approved to spend $10,000 USD and hire two people to assist with GNOME marketing (+6). * FAD in Ghana o The board agreed that we would like to budget sending 2 people if possible (spending up to USD $5,000). o ACTION: Brian to follow up with Ben to find out if he is interesting in going, and to try to identify 2 people to go. * GNOME 3.0 Launch parties - Budget and update o There are now 130 registered parties. Originally planned for 100 parties. + 25 parties in India alone. o The board has agreed to spend USD $7,111 in support of the launch parties since more parties have registered than expected. The previous amount was USD $5,926. o Originally planned for 500 t-shirts. Now planning 600. o Planning to produce some things locally if there are a large number of parties in a region. * GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 update o Google is now a Platinum sponsor. Thank you to Google! * Servers o The board has approved the purchase of the hardware needed + Two new servers. One is similar to ComboBox to host VMs to migrate GNOME services too, including Tomboy Online and others. The second server (USD $2000+) will host mission critical services, including LDAP, git and account related services. + This replaces the "button" server which has crashed multiple times in the last year. * Dave Neary's Advisory board request o ACTION: Paul to send email to the Advisory Board to request for help. * Trademark issues - can we update GNOME Mobile with a link to the GNOME Mobile product? o ACTION: Brian will mail Paul the link to the GNOME mobile product that we should add to the Mobile website, and follow up with the lawyers. To trademark GNOME Mobile, the GNOME logo needs to be more clearly associated with the GNOME Mobile product. o ACTION: Paul will update the GNOME Mobile website with the link and logo improvements. * The board voted to support the Banshee maintainers proposal for Amazon / Banshee integration with Canonical. * Rosanna highlighted that the taxes are due today. They are not ready, but an extension has been filed. Completed Actions * Andreas - Will invite Dave Neary to give an update to the advisory board. * Andreas - Will find out if the Desktop Summit call for Sponsors will be ready to present at the advisory board meeting. * Brian - Will send out an email to marketing-list about a deadline for resume submission. * Brian - To follow up with Ben to find out if he is interesting in going, and to try to identify 2 people to go. This new action was done shortly after the meeting. * Brian - Will mail Paul the link to the GNOME mobile product that we should add to the Mobile website, and follow up with the lawyers. To trademark GNOME Mobile, the GNOME logo needs to be more clearly associated with the GNOME Mobile product. This new action was done shortly after the meeting. * Paul - Will follow up with the marketing-list to provide more details about what sort of work we would like to have done for the marketing contract. * Paul - Will send an email to announce the meeting agenda to the advisory board list by Friday. Status of action items * Andreas - Will follow up with Andrew Savory from LiMo to see if relevant information from their GTK+ study can be made more public. (will ping again). * Andreas - To ask Kat if she can reach out to the gnome...@gnome.org mailing list about findin
Announcing ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest
This will come as no surprise to many of you at this point, as we already talked about it during the weekly accessibility meetings, but I would like to officially announce that we are having an ATK Hackfest in May. For the new people, ATK is the accessibility toolkit. Right now the main and more extensive implementation is GAIL (GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library), although it is also used in Clutter (Cally), Java (via the Java Access Wrapper), and others. AT-SPI is the accessibility service provider interface. Accessibility tools "uses" AT-SPI in order to interact with the applications. ATK works as the common language that target applications uses to expose themselves to AT-SPI, so a deep change on ATK would require an update also in AT-SPI. In the same way, we would like to get a one-to-one relation between the interfaces on ATK and AT-SPI as much as possible. Applications and toolkits do not all implement ATK consistently. This has a negative impact on the assistive technologies ability to provide a consistent cross-application user experience. Even in applications and toolkits in which the ATK implementation is complete, the information obtained from a single event and/or object is not always sufficient for an AT client to proceed immediately; instead it is often necessary to perform further queries and make decisions based on heuristics rather than concrete data. This has a negative impact on both performance and reliability. Accessibility team has come to the conclusion that this is time to improve on ATK no matters if that means an API break. The primary goal is to take what we have learned from years of ATK/AT-SPI and make things better for all involved, and create the basis of what ATK 2.0 should be. Location: Igalia (A Coruña, Galicia, Spain) Dates: 9-15 May Who Should Attend? * Developers of applications and toolkits which implement ATK * Developers of ATK and AT-SPI * Developers of Assistive Technologies which rely upon AT-SPI * Developers of testing solutions which rely upon AT-SPI For more information, including the proposed task, pre-event "homework," venue, and associated costs, please see: * Live GNOME ATK Hackfest page : "http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/ATK2011"; * Metabug "Towards ATK 2.0 : "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638537"; * Feel free to open more bugs on comment on the current ones For the moment the event is sponsored by Igalia (Venue, part of the food) and the GNOME Foundation (travel+hotel costs as far as the current a11y budget allows it). If any other company want to fund this hackfest somehow, please contact me or Joanmarie Digss (and thanks in advance) Best regards === API (apinhe...@igalia.com) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
