Re: Agenda for board meeting April 8th

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2014-04-08 04:57, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> On 8 April 2014 09:07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> Perhaps a naive question, but I would have expected discussion of 
> hiring a
> new ED - is that being handled in a separate hiring committee?
>
> The board has discussed it for the last 6 (weekly) meetings, although
> it was decided that those minutes should be kept private due to the
> timing of Karen's announcement. While it is unprecedented, I think
> that most of those minutes should now be made public.

I realize that I didn't make it very clear when I let everyone know, but 
I purposefully waited until after the 3.12 release before announcing. 
It's such an awesome release we didn't want my news to distract at all 
(this decision was made in consultation with our core engagement team).

> I have also suggested that we consider delegating to a committee as
> the board is not generally in the business of hiring employees, as has
> been done before, but it has not been decided how we will proceed.

I think the board could form a committee and it would be a fine way to 
go. The board does have the ultimate responsibility for choosing a hire 
and while they should seek all of the expertise they need in making the 
decision, the people who are elected by the GNOME community are 
ultimately the ones to choose. :) It may make sense depending on the 
candidates who step forward to handle the decision differently.

karen

> Today's agenda will touch on accessing whether we should hire an
> executive director from a financial point of view and what the best
> timing would be.
>
> Luis
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> 
> wrote:
>
> Hello Foundation members!
> Next board meeting is April 8th at 16:00 UTC
>
> This is the agenda:
> * Travel sponsorship for 2 attendees to go to 15th FISL (867 USD)
> * Travel sponsorship for LGM for two attendees.
> * Outstanding reimbursements
> * Budget
> * We still lack a budget for this fiscal year.
> * OPW project has grown a lot. This is great! However, we are taking a
> greater financial risk handling the money between the organizations and 
> the
> attendees. It also makes it a bigger work burden and we need to discuss 
> how
> to handle this.
> * Upcoming events
> * GUADEC 2014
> * GNOME.Asia
> * License grant (trademark) to use the GNOME Foot for worldofgnome.org
> * We were asked to license the use of a modified GNOME Foot logo for
> worldofgnome.org, let's vote on it
>
> - Andreas
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