Meeting Minutes Published - January 24, 2012

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120124

= Minutes for Meeting of January 24 =

== Next Meeting ==

 February 7, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Next Advisory Board Meeting
   * When shall we have the next meeting?
   * Proposed date: February 28th, 2012
   * Topics?
     * Accessibility (Friends of GNOME, Hackfest update)
     * Have a GNOME release for distribution LTS release (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team)
     * How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement of the next meeting on February 28, and request for agenda topics.

 * Events
   * FOSDEM
     * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
       * Unanimously approved.
       * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.
   * Our response?
   * In case we joined OSI, we should notify the Free Software Foundation to avoid misunderstandings.
   * Condition for joining should be an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
   * Even if GNOME decides not to join, should there be a clear indication of who should join?
   * Should we ask KDE eV for their reasons to join the OSI?
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom and promote GNOME a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - Is putting together a Foundation membership certificate for Milan Bouchet-Valat.
   * Stormy sent the certificates used for Alberto Ruiz to board-list.

 * Formal process on release requirements and portability matrix changes.
   * We used to have the process of the external dependencies.
   * Was superceded by the feature proposal period.
   * Need to raise the issue with the release-team, and eventually bring (and document) the external dependencies process back.
   * '''ACTION''': Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Karen mentioned the campaign on her LCA keynote.
   * The Foundation needs help getting the a11y FoG banner on the website.  

 * Bi-weekly foundation meetings.
   * Reguarly scheduled.
   * Not much momentum generated, lack of agenda topics.
   * '''ACTION''': Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.

== Recurring Items ==

 * Review past action items.
 * Did each person update their action items?
 * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
 * Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking. 
 
== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.Asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
 * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. -- Behdad won't be in Brno, so no Harfbuzz hackfest is scheduled.

== Status of action items ==

 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
 * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. 
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
 * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
 * Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
 * Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.
 * Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * FOSDEM
   * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
   * +1 from Stormy, Brian, Germán.

 * Women's Outreach Program
   * Laura Lazzati needs to drop out of the program for personal reasons.
   * The board agreed to pay Laura Lazzati $1,250 (USD) for work done so far.
   * This is half of the normal mid-point payment other GNOME Women's Outreach Program interns will get on February 1.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.

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