= Foundation Board Minutes for Wednesday, July 4th 2018 UTC =
Next meeting date Tuesday, July 10th 2018, 18:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* AllanDay (remote)
* NuritziSanchez
* CarlosSoriano
* PhilipChimento
* FedericoMenaQuintero
* RosannaYuen
* DidierRoche
* RobertMcQueen (remote)
== Regrets ==
* KatGerasimova
* CosimoCecchi
* MegFord
* NeilMcGovern
== Missing ==
== Agenda ==
* Appoint board officers
* Appoint committee members and board liasons
* Executive Director line manager
== Minutes ==
* Appoint board officers
* VOTE: appoint the following as listed:
* President: Nuritzi Sanchez
* Vice-president: Allan Day
* Secretary: Philip Chimento
* Vice-secretary: Federico Mena Quintero
* Treasurer: Carlos Soriano
* Vice-treasurer: Rob McQueen
* +1 unanimous
* ED line manager
* Currently Allan. Has bi-weekly calls with Neil, sends a report to the board.
* Question - what is the role of the line manager? Purely pastoral, or board representative? Technically the ED is answerable to the board as a whole, but the board doesn't currently have board-only discussions.
* Rob - board meetings are typically when the ED is held to account by the board. The line manager is more of a pastoral role. Should cover professional development.
* Rob has management and HR expertise and could take on the role - he'll take over from Allan
* Rob to provide progress reports and assist setting up HR processes for the Foundation
* Appoint committee members and board liaisons
* We want to have a board member on each committee, to act as liason. Each liason doesn't have to be an active committee member - just has a formal membership so they can participate in a limited capacity.
* VOTE: appoint the following committee members as listed:
* Code of conduct: Federico Mena Quintero (*), Felipe Borges, Rosanna Yuen
* Sponsorship: Alberto Ruiz, Emily Chen, Sri Ramkrishna, Wen Qixian, Executive Director, Rob McQueen (*)
* Travel: David King, Germán Poo-Caamaño, Michael Hall, Adelia Rahim, Philip Chimento (*)
* Engagement: Nuritzi Sanchez (*), Sri Ramkrishna, Rosanna Yuen, Neil McGovern
* Membership: Tobias Mueller, Andrea Veri, Pascal Terjan, Kunal Jain, Marcin Kolny, Carlos Soriano (*)
* (*) indicates board liaison
* +1 unanimous
* In future, the board would like to create guidelines for committees, so that we can set expectations and ensure that members are active and responsive.
* ACTION: each liasion to communicate the vote back to their respective committee -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/68
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