= Foundation Board Minutes for Monday 8 April 2019, 15:30 UTC =
== Attending ==
* RosannaYuen
* PhilipChimento
* NuritziSanchez
* AllanDay
* FedericoMenaQuintero
* RobMcQueen
== Regrets ==
* NeilMcGovern
* KatGerasimova
* CarlosSoriano
== Agenda ==
* Board initiatives check in
* Travel committee status
== Minutes ==
* Board initiatives check in
* This is a short check in for initatives that the board members have
been working on, in order to determine what we should work on during the
hacking session next week.
* Allan has been working on the GNOME software definition.
* Going back and forth with the release team for ideas.
* Next step is to brainstorm ideas for what to call the collection of
apps and libraries.
* Nuritzi has been working on the compensation committee report with Rob
and Carlos.
* Will take another week or two to come up with a recommendation,
which will be presented at a board-only meeting to get the board's input.
* Nuritzi has been working on GNOME Foundation goals with Philip.
* We took the goals that we came up with at the Foundation hackfest in
October, and have been reorganizing and prioritizing them.
* Still a lot of work to be done. It's quite late in the board term,
so we would like to get this set up for the next board can easily jump into
it.
* Since this is a 10-year plan, maybe the Board doesn't need to do
much more than to ensure that these are valid goals for GNOME.
* Federico: Do we give out the goals to the staff, and have them
figure out how to accomplish them?
* Philip: It's Neil's job to direct the staff with actionable tasks.
* Nuritzi: It's important to ensure good continuity for Neil, even
across board terms.
* Rob: The board needs to own the goals, but not change them all the
time.
* Nuritzi: This is something we need to cover in the board handover
meeting at GUADEC, and make sure we have enough time to discuss it
thoroughly.
* Federico: We should leave this well-documented in a place such as
GitLab.
* Nuritzi: We are going to work on operationalizing the 10 and 5-year
goals into 1-year goals.
* Nuritzi: Are we overstepping into Neil's work?
* Philip: Neil has said we haven't; he expects us to provide the
operational plan.
* Rob: Please keep me in the loop on that conversation. It's one of
my regrets from the Foundation hackfest that we didn't complete this at the
time. Neil should be a participant in this conversation and can help
provide the continuity.
* Federico: It's easy for the board to fall into a trap of discussing
things but without being sure how to put them into action. Neil and Rosanna
play an invaluable role in providing context.
* Nuritzi: We should recommend that next year's board tries to
prioritize this during the handoff.
* Philip is working on the travel sponsorship policy. There are still
some open questions, which he posed in a thread on Discourse. There was a
legal notice in the application form that from the Discourse discussion,
sounds like it needs to be preserved, which needs to be reincorporated into
the draft. People are welcome to read it and give feedback; the plan is to
vote on it during the next meeting. Not expecting much feedback from the
travel committee at this point; already sent a draft and got very little
response.
* Philip is writing guidelines on meeting minutes. Working on splitting
the draft into information for the foundation, and procedures for the board.
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/95
* Travel committee status
* There is a big backlog of unreplied requests.
* Rosanna talked to Adelia Rahim (travel committee member); Adelia said
she needed an updated spreadsheet of how much the travel committee has
spent, and how much budget is left.
* Philip mailed Adelia asking about what needed to happen with the
spreadsheet on Sunday.
* We may have to approve requests ourselves, especially for hackfests
that already happened.
* Allan: What would it look like if we started approving requests?
* Philip: This already happened last GUADEC, so there is a precedent
for it.
* Federico: Guillame Gomez has also expressed interest in helping the
travel committee.
* Allan: Would we need to allowing the travel committee some particular
amount of money to spend while the spreadsheet is being reconstructed?
* Nuritzi: Will we need to have a meeting next week to vote on this? If
so, let me know by Thursday to announce it.
* Rosanna: I have the information to reconstruct the spreadsheet, but I
need the time.
* '''ACTION:''' Nuritzi, Rob - Ask Neil to allocate time for Rosanna to
reconstruct the travel committee's spreadsheet.
* '''ACTION:''' Philip - Figure out from Adelia what the travel
committee needs, and figure out a plan for how to proceed.
* Nuritzi: should we ask committees to produce status reports for May?
* Will start a discussion on Discourse.
== Actions ==
* '''Nuritzi, Rob:''' Ask Neil to allocate time for Rosanna to reconstruct
the travel committee's spreadsheet.
* '''Philip:''' Figure out from Adelia Rahim what the travel committee
needs, and figure out a plan for how to proceed.
_______________________________________________
foundation-list mailing list
foundation-list@gnome.org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
