= Foundation Board Minutes for Monday 13th May 2019, 15:30 UTC =
Wiki location: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20190513
== Attending ==
* AllanDay
* CarlosSoriano
* KatGerasimova
* NeilMcGovern
* NuritziSanchez
* RosannaYuen
* PhilipChimento
* FedericoMenaQuintero
== Regrets ==
* RobMcQueen
== Agenda ==
* New travel committee members
* Travel sponsorship policy updates
* Mail from Zeeshan Ali about Mozilla Location Service
* GNOME software definition proposal
== Minutes ==
* New travel committee members
* We now have three new volunteers for the travel committee. We propose
to appoint Guillaume Gomez, Umang Jain, and Meg Ford to the travel
committee. We have written a short Discourse topic about the new
volunteers, it's still missing info about Guillaume. Philip has notified
the current travel committee members of the new volunteers, and received
positive feedback from Adelia Rahim.
* Nuritzi: I had a chance to talk to Adelia and she is enthuiastic about
the chance to have discussions about the more nuanced points.
* Federico: Guillaume Gomez is one of the maintainers of gtk-rs, the
Rust bindings for GTK, and also is part of the Rust developer tools and
documentation teams. He’s a GNOME Foundation member and has attended all
the past Rust/GNOME hackfests. Guillaume is one of those super helpful
people generally, and I’d be happy for him to be a part of the travel
committee.
* Carlos: We discussed in the past that travel committee members would
have to sign a confidentiality agreement.
* Neil: Yes. It will be similar to the confdentiality agreement that
board members must sign.
* '''VOTE:''' Appoint Guillaume Gomez, Meg Ford, and Umang Jain to the
travel committee.
* +1 unanimous
* '''ACTION:''' Philip to notify new members and current committee that
they have been appointed, send their email addresses to Neil, and add them
to the mailing list and wiki.
* '''ACTION:''' Neil to send confidentiality agreement to new members
and add them to RT.
* Travel sponsorship policy updates
* Philip has completed a draft of the revised travel sponsorship policy.
The goals of this revision are to fix some problems with the old policy:
* It doesn't work well for people who cannot carry the cost of a trip
until reimbursement after the trip is over.
* The wording is very stern and seems to demand that people justify
themselves.
* Some policies are not written down (e.g. that we sponsor travel to
and from an airport.)
* Verifying costs takes a lot of effort from the travel committee.
* Carlos: You mentioned at one time that pre-imbursements would be part
of the policy, but I don't see it?
* Philip: It's listed under "What to do in unusual cases".
Pre-imbursements are agreed on a case-by-case basis.
* Allan: Are we meant to vote on this? Isn't it the responsibility of
the travel committee to spend their budget as they see fit?
* Philip: I disagree. As the board of directors, we want to use this
policy to achieve certain goals.
* General consensus is that we don't need to vote on it.
* Allan: I don't think we need to review the policy line by line right
now. We can agree with the general idea that this proposal is a good way
forward.
* Neil: At this point, the travel committee should be able to change
things to work better on their own initiative.
* Philip: Practially speaking, should I put this on the wiki now that
the board has given feedback?
* Nuritzi: Yes, but we should give the new travel committee members a
chance to discuss it first.
* Mail from Zeeshan Ali about Mozilla Location Service
* Zeeshan Ali has sent an email about Mozilla Location Service. Geoclue,
and with it functionality in GNOME, depends on Mozilla Location Service for
resolving the location of Wifi networks. Mozilla is not maintaining this
service any longer, but it is still running. Recently it has been blocking
users of the Geoclue API key, but even if that gets resolved there are
still problems depending on an unmaintained service. Zeeshan proposes
investigating whether we can maintain the service.
* We would like to discuss this in the community to see if any solutions
present themselves.
* '''ACTION''': Federico to open an issue about online services which we
can't maintain - https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/97
[ Note: In the meantime since the above discussion, the issue with the API
key has been resolved with Mozilla. ]
* GNOME software definition proposal
* Allan: Board members have had another week to look at it now.
* Philip: It's short and general. Short and general is good, but have
you considered any cases where some software meets all the requirements but
we wouldn't want them as a GNOME Affiliate?
* Allan: That was not really the goal of this.
* Carlos: It's meant more as a guideline for a committee to decide
what's a GNOME Affiliate.
* Allan: GNOME Affiliates is
