Agenda for upcoming September 3rd Board meeting

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

Hello Foundation Members!
I was supposed to send this out already yesterday, just after the 
minutes was posted, but a migraine got in the way.

The next board meeting will be Tuesday September 3rd, 2013, 16:00 UTC

This is the agenda:

* Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost of Living 
Adjustment)
 * At the face to face board meeting we discussed having employee 
salaries increase when inflation increases, as other comparable 
nonprofits do.
 * http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CWUR0000SA0?output_view=pct_12mths
* Adopting a photography policy for GNOME events.
 * It was suggested on board-list that we adopt a photography policy 
for bigger GNOME events.
* Scheduling an IRC Foundation meeting
 * At the Board Q&A the board promised to do a Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Last meeting Joanie took a action item to talk to the release team 
first.
* Collecting funds in Europe update
* Sysadmin update
* possible trademark violation to assess.
 * Another software project is using the name GNOME
 * Karen is in contact with our law firm. Needs an update.
* Montreal Summit update
* Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc.

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Discussed on the mailing list:
* Cease calling the Github mirror "official".
 * +1 from Kat, Joanie, Tobias and Sriram
 * -1 from Emmanuele, Andreas
 * Missing a vote from Marina, since she was away on vacation.
 * Vote passed with 4 against 2 and 1 absent.
 * Emmanuele wanted to add to the minutes that he appreciate and 
applaud the outreach effort of Alberto and Andrea, especially in the 
face of apathy from a community that wants results without committing 
resources, and that is ready to criticize anybody who actually puts time 
and effort into making our code and projects accessible to more people, 
in the spirit of the license we use and the goals we profess to have.
 * Others on the board was thankful to the efforts of Alberto and 
Andrea, but felt the usage of the word Official was not a proper fit for 
the use.
* The board asked Andrea if it would be possible to set up a Gitorious 
mirror similar to the Github one. The answer is that it is possible if 
someone writes a hook, communicate with the Gitorious administrators to 
make sure there is enough space and other tasks that might come up in 
the process. After that is done, Andrea can enable the hook on 
git.gnome.org

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Minutes will be published after the meeting.

- Andreas