Minutes for Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
Next Meeting
- Tuesday, February 18th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
Attending
- Rosanna Yuen
- Andreas Nilsson
- Karen Sandler
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Emmanuele Bassi
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Tobias Mueller
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
- Joanmarie Diggs
Regrets
Missing
Board Meeting Agenda
- Pitivi campaign
- Karen drafted out an agreement
Standard contractor agreement, with a few tweaks like adding an authorized representative to show independence from OpenCreed for profit motives
- Pitivi developers have brought up some comments and questions
- Karen is working with them to improve the wording of the agreement
- Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
- The board is reaching out to members of the community to go over the ideas on the wiki
- More ideas are welcome
- Outstanding reimbursements
- Status of Dia GNOME reimbursements?
- Andreas is going over the receipts this week
- Any other pending reimbursements?
- Documentation hackfest (soon)
- FOSDEM (soon)
- Kat created a private wiki page with the list of pending reimbursements for Rosanna to subscribe to
- Mid-point batch of payments for OPW has been sent
- Status of Dia GNOME reimbursements?
- General budget status
- State of finance up to October is almost done
- Status of 2013 Tax forms
- Data gathering
- We have asked for an extension
- Common practice, nothing special
- We have time until May
- Upcoming events
- GNOME Asia
- The original plan was to co-locate with openSUSE conference
- It is possible that GNOME.Asia is going to be stand-alone
- GUADEC 2014
- Sponsorship brochure is done
- The brochure is going to be sent once the website is up
- The CfP is also blocking on the website
- Website should be up soon
- West Coast Hackfest
- Venue is still undecided
- Conference center in Portland
- Discount rate for hotel
- Other option (to maximize attendance)
- San Francisco
- Near Linux Foundation collaboration summit and Red Hat developers conf
- Travel report from FOSDEM
- Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the current state of Debian
- The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation
- They agreed to blog more on the issue
- The Debian packagers asked for a technical position from the GNOME project for the use of systemd
- Maybe have a joint statement with KDE as they moved to systemd as well
- Involve other environments like XFCE
ACTION: Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd
- Karen talked to a Red Hat representative about funding
- GNOME Asia
- Ask the release team for a report on the state of the project
- Keep the board updated
ACTION: Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project
Discussed on the mailing list
- GCompris switch to QML for iOS and Android support
- The maintainer graciously informed the board beforehand
- Effects on GSoC
- GTK does not support Android and iOS, and there's no current effort for that; Bruno's effort alone would not be sufficient
- Qt/QML has commercial interest to support those platforms
Completed Actions
- Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
- 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
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 and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
- Karen and Emmanuele to draft a common/cross-desktop position on systemd
- Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
- Sri to reach out to the release team for a report on the state of the project
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure
- Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned