Minutes for Tuesday, December 10th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
Next Meeting
- Tuesday, January 7th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
Attending
- Rosanna Yuen
- Andreas Nilsson
- Karen Sandler
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Emmanuele Bassi
- Tobias Mueller
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
- Joanmarie Diggs
Regrets
Missing
- Sriram Ramkrishna
Board Meeting Agenda
- Next meeting
- Skip December 24th
- Proposed date: January 7th
- Karen is travelling for Linux Conf Au
- Other days: December 31st, January 2nd
- Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
- Karen talked to Jacob Applebaum
- Jacob expressed interest in implementing Tor support in GNOME
- Karen is connecting Jacob with Matthias Clasen from the release-team
- We should also ask on foundation-list for ideas
ACTION: Karen to reach out to foundation-list for ideas from the foundation members regarding the privacy campaign funds
- Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment)
- Still in progress and blocking on budget
- Upcoming Hackfests
- Portland hackfest
- Documentation hackfest
- ~$7500 requested by attendees
- Travel costs are still fluctuating
VOTE: Fund documentation hackfest for USD 6000: +1 Joanie, Marina, Tobi, Emmanuele, Andreas; Kat abstains
- State of the gnucash file/budget
- Rosanna is reconstructing the file
- Bank and website issues have been blocking updates
- An updated version has been sent to Kat
- Missing two adboard fees, we are chasing them
- Rosanna is reconstructing the file
- Outstanding reimbursements
- Check if we have any outstanding reimbursements and what the status is of those.
- Kat checked with GIMP and all the reimbursements arrived
- New request from GIMP is being processed
- Reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned and Rosanna is going to process it
- General OPW update
- 31 participants
- Marina has started a document on the wiki for logging the OPW coordination process and progress
- GNOME
- 3 interns
- Documentation
- Chinese Translation
- Getting Things GNOME!
- 3 interns
- We managed to get enough funds raised even with last minute issues
- GNOME Asia Summit update
- May 24-25th
- Beijing
- Venue is not free, but low cost
- May be co-located with OpenSUSE conference
- Sent the sponsorship brochure
- GUADEC 2014 update
- A little behind schedule
- Sponsorship brochure draft is progressing
- Missing sponsorship levels
- Learn from last year
- Should be out early January
- Should formalise the deadline for bids for GUADEC 2015
- Upcoming Advisory Board
- Agenda
- Wayland update
- New adboard members
- GNOME.Asia dates and venue
- OPW round
- FOSDEM face to face meeting
- Agenda
- Quick update on Behnam Esfahbod (volunteering) and Andrea Veri's latest work for the foundation.
- Andrea took down the World of GNOME forums due to massive amount of spam
- Behnam started working, so he had to reduce volunteer time
- Andrea's contract is coming up
- We should check how much funds we still have from the sysadmin drive
Q&A/panel/presentation of the Board at FOSDEM
- Organisers of the Cross-Desktop room expressed interest
- To be discussed on the list
- Deadline for submission is on Sunday
Completed Actions
- Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about the World of GNOME Forums
- Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about handling the Pitivi funds
- Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about the Upcoming Adboard meeting
- Joanie and Kat to draft a new travel assistance form to replace the current one (Kat, Joanie and Zana to discuss and come up with a solution)
Rosanna to set up an account for Kat to access the Foundation's PayPal
- Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned
- Marina to ask Behnam to (regularly) report on his state and work
Pending action items
- Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
- Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts
- Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard
- Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting
- Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings
- Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences to discuss on foundation-list
- Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy for GNOME events
- Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki
- 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
- Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
- Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding for privacy work
- Karen to "call for ideas" for privacy work related bids at GUADEC and by blog/email to foundation-announce
- Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
- Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
- Karen to reach out to foundation-list for ideas from the foundation members regarding the privacy campaign funds
- Sri to investigate better uses of adwords on the GNOME websites
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure