= Minutes for Friday, October 10th, 2014, 16:00 UTC =
Next meeting due on October 24th, 2014 at 16:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Rosanna Yuen
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Jeff Fortin
* Karen Sandler
* Andrea Veri
* Sriram Ramkrishna
== Missing ==
* Tobias Mueller
== Board meeting ==
Congratulations to the GNOME Community for releasing GNOME 3.14 and
the board thanks the community for all of their hard work.
* Groupon
* Thank you for a Philanthropist-level "Friends of GNOME" donation from Edward Swartz
* Get as many signatures from boardees and hackers in the GNOME meetup in San Francisco in two weeks
* Idea: do a few with board member signatures proactively at GUADEC
* ACTION: Sri to email him to thank, say we're getting a gift together, ask about reasons motivating his
great donation? And verify his mailing address.
* Vote on applying the GUADEC 2014 code of conduct to the GNOME Summit 2014
* Concerns voiced about the eligibility for coverage/rights under the policy
* Concerns about how enforceable it is and the pressure onto event organisers
* The board discussed the policy and contemplated whether any redrafting was needed. The board
had an animated discussion about whether a Code of Conduct was needed and if adopted whether
the policy as used at GUADEC is the right policy to adopt. The board discussed what constitutes
a social event under the policy and to what extent it is right to dictate people's actions in
that context. Different board members had different views on all of these points.
* Proposal to adopt the code of conduct as set forth at https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2014/Conduct
(adapted from GUADEC) for the upcoming GNOME Summit in Boston: (but not for future events yet, see below)
* VOTE: +1 Marina, Jeff, Karen, Sri; -1 Kat; abstain Andrea
* ACTION: Board 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
* Travel requests:
* BOSTON Summit: USD 600.00 for 1 person
* GUADEC-ES: EUR 150.00 for 1 person
* VOTE: allocating 6000$ for the travel committee as a budget for 6 months: +6 unanimous (Jeff, Kat, Karen,
Marina, Sri, Andrea)
* Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board members (or missing info):
* GNOME Privacy project
* Karen's GUADEC 2014 travel expenses reimbursement (awaits vote from travel committee, and forwarding of
relevant mail thread)
== Discussed on the mailing list ==
* Reimbursement letter for Watson Sato
* Statement of fact, no vote from the Board required
* Letter was signed and sent on its way to Watson
* Code of Conduct for GNOME Summit
* Marina proposed to make use of GUADEC's CoC for the upcoming GNOME Summit 2014 even (Boston Summit)
* The full text of the Conduct is available at: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2014/Conduct
* Objections were made as no explicit vote was ever made to approve the above Conduct to apply on all GNOME
yearly events
* Discussion and vote to happen on the meeting of 10th October, 2014
* OPW Travel allowance payments
* Unfreezing travel allowance reimbursements
* Discussion and voting still happening on the mailing list
== Pending action items ==
* GNOME's CoC: Board 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
* Edward Swartz's "philantropist donation": Sri to email him to thank, say we're getting a gift together,
ask about reasons motivating his great donation, maybe offer an interview? And verify his mailing address.
* Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders and passwords
* Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons
* Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review
* Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money
* Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
* Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal standpoint
* Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
* Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
* Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure
* Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
* Sri to communicate to Rosanna and work on the donation for the West Coast hackfest
* Sri, Marina, Kat to work on establishing criteria for drafting for the hiring committee for the ED role
* Sri to investigate the GNOME gifts situation
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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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