Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/02/15
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Attendance:

Anne
Dave
Federico
Jonathan
Luis (+15 min)

No attendance:

Jeff
Vincent (regrets)


ACTIONS
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* Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and regions
  to act as local press contacts. (ongoing)

* JRB to finish job description for administrative needs. (ongoing)

* Anne to start process for GUADEC 2007 selection (ongoing)



NEW ACTIONS
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* Federico to organize next call at Novell.

* JRB to finish the job description for our admin person by the next
  board meeting (March 01)

* Luis to mail boston-social gnome org to look for volunteers to
  represent us at Boston Usenix and Boston LWE.

* Anne to send her draft program to foundation-list and put it up in
  the web page.

* Dave to be our liaison with marketing-list to set up the basic
  structure of the new www.gnome.org.

* Federico to ask Rodrigo what we got Killermundi to sign.

* Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the
  GNOME/W3C SVG anouncement.

* Dave to formally invite the Software Freedom Law Center to be a
  member of the Advisory Board.

* JRB to send out mugs and mouse pads to outstanding donors, and
  thank-you notes as well.

* Luis to find business card template and send it to board-list.


AGENDA
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Advisory Board:

	* welcome to new members.
	* Inform about the new board members: names and functions
	* advice in connection to the 2.14 release.
	* return on investment for advisory board members

Hire of staff:
	* Status of job decription
	* Hire or outsource?


Boston USENIX in June 2006 - GNOME representation

Exhibition materials incl. info about GUADEC for FOSDEM in Brux. and Linux Forum in CPH.

Anne's draft for a program.

Appoint a team for the website update?
	* VincentUntz: see the "Request to the board (proposal)"
	  thread on gnome-web-list (archives are offline right now)

Axis Inform�ca wanting to sell products with the GNOME logo

Gnome & The W3 SVG Working Group: PR to be prepared soon

Whither the technical project meeting idea?
	* Jeff Waugh would like to propose a strategy/delegation for
	  making this happen

Outstanding issues:

	* Tradeshows - in particular LinuxWorld, FOSE, Open Source
	  Business Conference, LinuxWorld Mexico, WebTech

	* Getting back in touch with our legal representation or
          switching to elsewhere

	* Write a mail explaining the paypal mess in the past
          two/three months (Done by Vincent)


Advisory Board
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* Sun: John Rice is their technical representative; we'll try to get
  Simon Phipps as a rep. as well.

* IBM: Greg Kelleher is a potential candidate.

* Novell: Robert Love will be the technical rep; also JP Rosevear as
  our decision-making rep.

* We'll invite the Software Freedom Law Center to the Avisory Board.


Hire of staff
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* Job description:  not done (JRB)

* Outsourcing:  need to find out candidates and fees.

* JRB to finish job description by next meeting.


Boston Usenix representation this year
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* We are content with sending a few people.  Luis to
  boston-social gnome org to look for volunteers (also volunteers for
  Boston LWE).

* Materials: Anne to look for materials; we have some in the wiki and


Anne's draft for a foundation program
=====================================

* We are fine with her draft; she'll send it to foundation-list and
  put it up in the Foundation web site.


Web site
========

* Dave to contact marketing-list to set up the basic structure of
  www.gnome.org.

* Once we get the new machines in the colo in a few weeks, we'll set
  up the tech infrastructure.


Axis Inform�ca
================

* We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the
  GNOME Logo.

* Need to find the contract that we got Killermundi to sign, so that
  we can use the same contract for Axis Inform�ca.

* Let's give the cut to GNOME Hispano; this is a good way to fund
  local groups.


W3C SVG Working Group
=====================

* Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the
  GNOME/W3C SVG anouncement.


Technical project meeting idea
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Postponed since Jeff was not in the call.


Outstanding issues
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* Getting back in touch with our legal/accounting representatives -
  JRB to contact them.


Next meeting
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March 01 2006
Same bat-time
Same bat-channel