Minutes of the Board Meeting of February, 09th, 2016,



= Minutes for Tuesday, February 9nd 2016, 20:00 UTC =

Next meeting date Tuesday, February 16th, 20:00 UTC

== Attending ==

 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Alexandre Franke
 * Ekaterina Gerasimova
 * Shaun McCance
 * Cosimo Cecchi
 * Allan Day
 * Jeff F. T.

== Regrets ==

 * Andrea Veri

== Missing ==

== Agenda ==

 * Endless joining the AB
 * GNOME.Asia budget
 * GUADEC contract
 * Status of Google ad grant
 * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell
 * Advisory board meeting
 * ED search update scheduling

Ongoing:
 * ED search update
 * Google Play account
 * Status of logo copyright
 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
 * Unixstickers
 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors?
 * CiviCRM discussion
 * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks
 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
 * Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list)
 * GNOME.Asia budget
 * Endless joining the AB
 * GUADEC contract
 * Google ad grant
 * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell

== Minutes ==

 * Endless joining the AB
  * Also want to send an email to the adboard list to give a heads-up to the other AdBoard members
  * ACTION: Shaun to send the email to the list
  * ACTION: Kat to add people to the email

 * GNOME.Asia budget
  * No updates

 * GUADEC contract
  * No updates

 * Google ad grant
  * No updates

 * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell
  * No updates

 * Advisory board meeting
  * ACTION: Shaun to send out email to find a good time for the meeting

 * ED search update
  * Sri from the ED committee wants to present to the Board at next week's meeting
  * We agree to that
  * A list of candidates that are deemed good and have been vetted by the committee will be presented at the 
meeting

 * Julita's event in March
  * ACTION: Shaun to contact her about the event being approved

 * Unixstickers
   * Allan drafted email - need to send that out

 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors?
   * Allan and Jeff have a list of ideas, we could rank them by feasibility/effectiveness and take action on 
the first few
   * https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/attracting-contributors-discussion


Ongoing:
 * ED search update
  * 2015-12-01 
   * No news received in recent weeks, mostly because of holidays
  * 2015-12-08
   * 3 candidates are going to have a couple of one hour interviews with ~2 members of the hiring committee 
per interview. Scheduling of these metings is just beginning.
  * 2015-12-15 to 2015-01-12
   * No updates.
  * 2016-01-19
   * Committee has completed interview with two final candidates 
   * They should have a final answer/proposal to the board within a few weeks
  * 2016-02-02
   * Expect more news this week - we'll start scheduling interviews soon
  * 2016-02-09
   * Sri from the ED committee wants to present to the Board at next week's meeting
   * A list of candidates that are deemed good and have been vetted by the committee will be presented at the 
meeting
   
 * Google Play account
  * 2015-12-01
   * ACTION: Alexandre to follow up with the Release Team about this
  * 2015-12-08
   * Alexandre mailed the Release Team today, still waiting for an answer.
  * 2015-12-15 to 2016-01-19
   * No updates.
  * 2016-02-02
   * Release team did not come to an agreement/conclusion. Unclear what next steps should be

 * Status of logo copyright
  * 2015-12-01
   * ACTION: Shaun to send out email to d-d-l with proposal
   * No news on this, action item from Shaun is still pending.
  * 2015-12-08 to 2016-01-19
   * No updates.
  * 2016-02-02
   * Shaun will try to pick it up this week

 * CiviCRM discussion (from 2015-12-15's minutes)
  * ACTION: Jeff to pick the item up again in 2016

 * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks (last discussion from 2016-01-05)
  * 2016-01-12
   * Awaiting for Andrea's reply
  * 2016-01-19
   * Andrea replied back to Jeff
   * Jeff to bring the item back during any of the upcoming meetings  

 * Meta-discussion on attracting new contributors
 * 2016-01-05
  * Item has been deferred.
 * 2016-02-09
   * Allan and Jeff have a list of ideas, we could rank them by feasibility/effectiveness and take action on 
the first few
   * https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/attracting-contributors-discussion

 * Jeff reimbursement request (from the mailing list, discussed on the 2016-01-12)

 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
  * 2016-01-19
   * We support the cause but don't have a history working with individuals.
   * Allan suggests sending email proposing ramp up, work more closely as time goes on
   * ACTION: Allan will send email 
  * 2016-02-02
   * Allan has an action item to follow up with this
  * 2016-02-09
   * Allan followed up - this item can be removed from the ongoing items section

 * Unixstickers
  * 2016-02-02
   * Allan has an action item to follow up with this
   * Kat put some information on the agreements page for similar cases
  * 2016-02-09
   * Allan drafted email - need to send that out

 * GNOME.Asia budget
  * 2016-02-02
   * Kat volunteers to help them to write a proper budget, and then go from there
  * 2016-02-09
   * No updates.

 * GUADEC contract
  * 2016-02-02
   * Kat will proceed adjusting the current draft to address the local oraganizer's requests
  * 2016-02-09
   * No updates

 * Google ad grant
  * 2016-02-02
   * Alexandre to follow up with the procedure to get registered
  * 2016-02-09
   * No updates

 * Trademark request: chrome extension - bug 727936 - integration with GNOME Shell
  * 2016-02-02
   * Cosimo to draft an agreement and then we can move the vote on the mailing list
  * 2016-02-09
   * No updates

== Completed actions ==

 * J-P Mengual's partnership request for accessibility work
   * Allan followed up - this is completed

 * Endless joining the AB
  * ACTION: Shaun to write the quote on the GNOME side
  * ACTION: Kat or Alexandre to publish the news
  * Need to find out who the other representative is. First representative is Jonathan
  * ACTION: Rosanna to find out who other representative is and what next steps are for invoicing, etc, and 
report to the list

== Pending action items (section that is slowly going to be removed from the meeting minutes) ==
 * Allan and Sri to coordinate with the engagement team to better standardize the licensing of GNOME artwork
 * Cosimo to follow up with interested parties on how to spend the Privacy campaign funds
 * Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement 
to the sponsorship brochure
 * Shaun: GNOME logo use by podiatrist
  * Podiatrist possible trademark infringement: Shaun to check the trademark details for the GNOME logo and 
update the licensing page on the website (obsolete)
 * Kat to draft a call for Free Desktop-style hackfests which would be sponsored with money raised for 
defence against Groupon
 * Logo usage for t-shirts: Allan to carry on with the process and follow up and have some general guidelines 
written down for future cases
 * Shaun and Allan to create a webpage for prior pants winners
 * Cosimo to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a version of the CoC to be finally considered 
final over all the GNOME yearly events
 * Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
 * Kat to propose privacy bounty T&C/rules for review
 * Andrea to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services (current draft is at 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy)
  * Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item
 * Allan will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
 * Cosimo to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
 * Christian to investigate the GNOME gifts situation (inventory management: some stuff we have heaps of, 
some we run out of stock quickly; consider an on-demand production service)



-- 

Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av

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