Minutes for Foundation IRC Meeting of May 4th, 2011

• When: Wednesday, May 4th, 14:00 UTC
• Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation
• Next Meeting: Wednesday, May 18th, 14:00 UTC

• Agenda: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda

Meeting Log

• IRC20110504.log

Attendance

• Board Members: Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Og Maciel

Topics Discussed

• Switch to a monthly schedule
  • Majority preferred to keep current bi-weekly schedule.
  • Allows for handling/discussing urgent topics sooner.
• Budget to send GNOME 3 DVDs
  • Novell sponsored 10,000 GNOME 3 DVDs
  • DVDs were sent in 5 batches to USA (to sri), France (in Paris), Germany (in Nürnberg) India. and China (in Beijing)
  • Switzerland and Greece have asked for some DVDs
  • Sending a box of 100 DVDs in Europe costs around €20
  • The Board has approved to pay for the expenses of sending these DVDs locally and Vincent will tell those holding DVDs how to proceed
• Board elections
  • Last time the membership committee stated that this process should be kicked off this May.
  • Concern that people are not thinking or aware of this upcoming event and that consequently we may not get a lot of people to run
  • Tobias Mueller from the Membership Committee stated that an announcement for the upcoming election will be posted soon.