Minutes for Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Next Meeting
- Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 16:00 UTC
Attending
- Rosanna Yuen
- Andreas Nilsson
- Karen Sandler
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Emmanuele Bassi
- Tobias Mueller
- Joanmarie Diggs
- Sriram Ramkrishna
- Ekaterina Gerasimova
Regrets
Missing
Board Meeting Agenda
Give higher PayPal privileges to the treasurer
- Avoid the bottleneck in case Rosanna is not available
ACTION: Kat to ask Rosanna to increase her privileges on the PayPal account
- For the bank account we need somebody based in the US
- Karen already has access to the bank account
Hand over of the PayPal account from old treasurer to new treasurer should be part of the process
- Sponsorship requests
https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Hackfests/WestCoastSummit2014
- USD 5187.52 in total
- accommodation: USD 670
- travel: USD 4417
- Sri is still working to get sponsorship from Intel
- possibly for a local event
- There are various potential attendees that are not foundation members
- They have asked for membership
ACTION: Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David
VOTE: Sponsorship for the attendees to the West Coast Summit that are members of the foundation: unanimous
- The board should give a poster/postcard as a thank you for Endless Mobile for hosting the hackfest at their offices
- USD 5187.52 in total
https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/DeveloperExperience2014
- USD 13068 total
- accommodation: USD 4356
- travel: USD 8712
note: Jon McCann asked to have his reimbursement earlier in order to book the travel
- Kat and Emmanuele are on the attendees list
VOTE: Sponsorship for the travel for the DX hackfest: +1 Andreas, Marina, Tobi, Sri, Joanie; Kat and Emmanuele abstain
ACTION: Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest
- USD 13068 total
- Next meeting
- Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 16:00 UTC
- GNOME.Asia
- Previous years we allocated USD 15,000
- Offset by sponsorship
VOTE: Allocate USD 15,000 for GNOME.Asia: unanimous
ACTION: Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated
- Report from the first QA team meeting
- Attendees from: SUSE, Fedora
- Centralisation of the QA work, as opposed to delegating it downstream
- QA team as an entry point for new contributors
- Decisions took during the meeting
- UI automation
- GSoC project
Discussed on the mailing list
- Ask Tiffany Yau to work on event planning
- former OPW intern
- enjoys event planning
- Sri wants to get her on board for GUADEC
Completed Actions
- Karen to send an email to the board for a confcall with engagement team for strategising the press
Pending action items
- Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
- Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest
- 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
- Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites
- Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David
Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure
- Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated