Regular Meeting of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, 24 July 2023, 13:45 UTC

Attending

• RobertMcQueen

• ErikAlbers

• ReginaNkenchor

• RosannaYuen

• PhilipChimento

• SonnyPiers

• MichaelDowney

• MartinAbenteLahaye

Regrets

• SammyFung

• JeremyAllison

Consent Agenda

• Approve the minutes of the June meeting
• Appoint the following slate of board officers:

  • President: Rob McQueen

  • Treasurer: Sammy Fung
  • Secretary: Michael Downey
  • Chair: Erik Albers
  • Vice-president: Regina Nkenchor
  • Assistant treasurer: Rosanna Yuen
  • Assistant secretary: Erik Albers
• Appoint the following slate of committees:
  • Executive committee. 3-5 members, including the following:

    • President: Rob McQueen

    • Rosanna Yuen
    • Michael Downey
  • Finance committee. 3-5 members, including the following:
    • Treasurer: Sammy Fung
    • Director of Operations / Assistant Treasurer: Rosanna Yuen

    • Rob McQueen

  • Governance committee. 4-6 directors:
    • Regina Nkenchor
    • Erik Albers
    • Sammy Fung
    • Jeremy Allison (tbd)
  • Circle committee:
    • Allan Day
    • J Arun Mani
    • Martín Abente Lahaye
    • Sophie Herold
    • Tobias Bernard
    • Christopher Davis
    • Heather Ellsworth
    • Sonny Piers
    • Brage Fuglseth
  • Code of Conduct committee:
    • Anisa Kuci
    • Federico Mena Quintero
    • Rosanna Yuen
    • Michael Downey

  • Membership & Elections committee:

    • Andrea Veri

    • Neil McGovern

    • Regina Nkenchor
  • Release committee:
    • Abderrahim Kitouni
    • Andre Klapper
    • Javier Jardon
    • Jeremy Bicha
    • Matthias Clasen
    • Michael Catanzaro
    • Tristan Van Berkom
    • Jordan Petridis
    • Sonny Piers
  • Travel committee:
    • Meg Ford
    • Rosanna Yuen
    • Umang Jain
    • Melissa Wu
    • Regina Nkenchor

Discussion Agenda

• Review the conflict of interest policy
• Review whistleblower and document retention policies
• Approve the draft 990 and authorise Rosanna to sign

Minutes

• Consent agenda passed. Need to check w/ Jeremy that he is willing to serve on the Governance Committee.
• Review on the COI policy - no feedback from directors. No COIs were declared during the past one year term.
• The whistleblower policy was not available to review, although forms part of the employee handbook.

  • Zana will attach it to the wiki and Sonny will set up a GitLab ticket for the directors to review.

• Board to review the 990 via GitLab and approve with a written motion.

• The board would like to thank our outgoing directors, officers and committee members for their service to the Foundation!