The meeting minutes for the September 30th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published. Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100930
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of September 30th, 2010
Next Meeting
* October 14th, 2010
Attending
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Og Maciel
* Stormy Peters (attending Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing 2010)
Missing
* Andreas Nilsson
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
* Happy Release Day!
o GNOME 2.32 was released on September 29th.
o http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/
* GNOME.Asia 2011 proposal
o Emily detailed plans that the GNOME.Asia community are
making to organize a GNOME 3 Launch hackfest in conjunction
with the GNOME 3.0 release in early April.
o Planning a 5 day hackfest + 1 day conference/Release Party.
o The GNOME.Asia organizers are having weekly IRC meetings
for planning.
o Would like to host developers to work on the mechanics of
the GNOME 3.0 release (developers, marketing team, release
team) to help make the GNOME 3.0 launch successful.
o Currently researching venues in host countries.
o Planning to do a survey to find out if people from key
teams are willing/able to attend.
o ACTION: Emily to send the GNOME 3.0 Launch Hackfest survey
to the board and work with Pockey to send to key
participants.
o ACTION: Emily to talk with other GNOME User's Groups to
coordinate the possibility of there being a multi-city
GNOME 3.0 Hackfest/Party.
* Collecting feedback about GUADEC.
o Feedback has been collected on a private Wiki page. Plan to
make it public after doing some cleanup.
o http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/GuadecFeedback
o Was apparently helpful for the Desktop Summit 2011 meeting.
o Would be a good topic for discussion on GUADEC mailing
lists and other event planning lists.
o ACTION: Paul to check GUADEC feedback page for spelling,
and possible anonymity leaks.
* Om Chandra
o Om is the teacher of Ministry of Education, Youth, and
Sport of Cambodia and an E-Learning Training Coordinator of
Open Learning Program of Open Institute NGO who was wanting
to work with us.
o Possibly interested in receiving GNOME related training.
o Emily continues to trade emails with Om to determine the
best ways to help.
* Fiscal Year End
o Fiscal Year Budgeting Process.
+ Emily: Working on July August expenses. Data has
been imported into GnuCash.
+ Emily will be on vacation from October 1-7, so she
will not be able to work on this next week.
* GNOME 3 as a Foundation goal -- discussion with membership
o ACTION: Paul to follow-up with Og on status of the GNOME 3
as a Foundation Goal action.
* Board Peer Reviews
o Bastien needs information about how the past peer review
was handled.
o ACTION: Brian to send Bastien a link to past board
discussion on how board peer review was managed.
o ACTION: Stormy to add Bastien to ?LimeSurvey for board peer
review.
o Stormy year end review
+ Brian will start the review process by early next
week.
* Reminder to board members - Employee Handbook feedback required
by tomorrow.
* GNOME/FSF Meeting
o On Monday, September 27th Brian and Stormy met with Peter
Brown from the FSF to discuss collaboration opportunities.
o A write-up of the meeting was sent to the board after the
meeting.
o ACTION: All board members please share your feedback on the
GNOME/FSF meeting.
* Feedback for Nokia Proposal by Bastien.
o ACTION: Bastien to update and flesh out what we expect from
bids.
* Using Bugzilla of CiviCRM to track Friends of GNOME Postcards
o https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630213
o Concern:
