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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009 to be held July 3-11, 2009

Behdad Esfahbod — 2008-11-25T21:12:36

The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to intensify momentum and increase collaboration between the projects. It gives a unique opportunity for key figures to collaborate and improve the free and open source desktop for all. Please visit the official web for further information: http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/ This announcement is also available at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-11-25-grancanaria.html

Motorola & Google join the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

Stormy Peters — 2008-11-03T14:00:14

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GNOME Job Posting Board

Behdad Esfahbod — 2008-10-15T19:31:03

Many GNOME-friendly companies have job openings that they announce on blogs, IRC, or random mailing list. Many GNOME hackers look for jobs and they crawl blogs, mailing lists, or ask on IRC. Now there is a central place that community members can post GNOME-related job openings, and job seekers can subscribe to. Nothing fancy, a good old wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/Jobs Regards, behdad

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Aug. 20, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-09-17T13:29:22

= Minutes for Meeting of Aug. 20, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Sept. 3 == Attendance == * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Stormy * Zana === Regrets === * Luis * Jeff * Lucas == Minutes == * significant private discussion * GNOME.Asia: * Fund travel? * ACTION: Brian to ask Emily for list of more people to sponsor. Preferably closer, more local, people. * Behdad suggests Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay. * GUADEC+Akademy: * ACTION: Behdad to send a proposal to list about finances. * J5: We should be careful... Keep our identity. Not gov't run. Make sure we get the conference that we want. etc... * Everyone discuss on board list. * GTK+ Adboard meeting: * Vincent to contact GTK+ team again.

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Sept. 3, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-09-17T13:21:51

= Minutes for Directors Meeting of 2008-09-03 = == Next Meeting == 2008-09-17 == Attendance == * Luis * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Stormy * Zana * James Vasile (guest) === Regrets === * Lucas * Jeff == Minutes == === Recurring items === * GUADEC 2009: ongoing discussion of budget/strategy; planning for next meeting. ACTION: Stormy and John to attend planning meeting. * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: Stormy to propose list of replacement speakers to Dave * insurance: (covered on list) moving forward on insurance; some details still need clarification. * hackfests: no news. * Summit: prep is ongoing. * Stormy annual goals: update on progress from John, Stormy. ACTION: Jon to elaborate and clarify; board to thumbs up/thumbs down. === New items === * next ad board meeting: ACTION: Stormy and Vincent will continue working on this. * ad board meeting after that: discussion on list * financial report: Board profusely thanks Zana for her work on this. Behdad points at http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2008Q1-Q2.pdf - some discussion of whether or not that would be appropriate for us. ACTION: Vincent to publish to the web; Stormy to draft announce. * demo/video stuff: what can we/do we want to move forward there? = Discussed on board-list = * Meeting w/ KDE about GUADEC/Akademy 2009 being scheduled for early September in Berlin. * 2007 Financial Report done and to be published soon. * All taxes through 2007 filed. * Oked GNOME logo for GNOME Developer's Guide. (GNOME Foundation to get some rights to guide, TBD.) * Oked GNOME logo for GUADEC/Akademy 2009. * Announcing new mobile stewardship team. * Approved various hackfests: * epiphany/webkit * art/theme * desktop search * introspection * Stormy presented to HP internal teams about GNOME Foundation to see if there's other teams in HP that want to engage with the GNOME Foundation. * GUADEC 2007 accounts closed * Rebalanced the budget for 2008 * Finance meeting with Advisory Board * mobile commitee announce * discuss IRC chat with ED. Do we want an on-IRC board meeting once a month?

GNOME Mobile Stewardship Team

Luis Villa — 2008-09-08T13:54:47

Hi, everyone: On behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board, I'd like to announce the appointment of a new mobile stewardship team to coordinate and focus GNOME's mobile efforts. The team members will be Paul Cooper, Dave Neary, and Stormy Peters. The team will have two primary tasks. First, the board wants to make sure that there is a coherent vision and strategy around GNOME Mobile so that we can all move forward. We want this team to help discover and clarify that vision- holding and leading whatever conversations, meetings, etc. are necessary so that we can understand where GNOME Mobile is, where it should be going, and how the Foundation can be most helpful in getting it there. It is important to stress that the people already involved in GNOME Mobile will be the ones setting the direction- in keeping with the Foundation's charter, this team will be facilitators, not decision makers. Second, the team will also work on communication. The Board want to ensure that there are people empowered to speak on GNOME's behalf to the mobile community. If you've got questions about the Foundation, finances, events, things like that, you can talk to them. Similarly, when the media asks the board for comments on mobile, we'll typically be pointing at this group, who can take things on themselves or delegate to the relevant experts. And of course the board will be looking to the team for feedback and reporting on how GNOME Mobile is progressing. If you have questions, please feel free to talk to the team members, or to the board. For the time being, we expect the team to communicate primarily via the existing GNOME Mobile development list (cc'd). Should the need arise, we'll create a separate email alias for them and announce it in the appropriate places, but until then, please contact them there. Thanks and good luck to everyone- Luis, on behalf of the board

Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, July 23rd, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-08-06T18:14:27

Attendance * Luis * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * Behdad * Stormy * Zana Regrets * J5 * Jeff Minutes New items * Ad Board meetings: discussion of topics for upcoming advisory board, including budget, GTK+ schedule, etc. * mobile: plans for mobile strategy discussed. * budget: updates from Zana; discussion of updating in response to inquiries from members. * Stormy's goals: long discussion of priorities and management for Stormy; ACTION: board members to continue work on formalizing plan for Stormy. Ongoing Items * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: organizers to reach out to translators; Brian, Emily, and Stormy to discuss budget for travel. * getting insurance: ongoing between insurance company, Bryan, and Stormy; should be resolved soon. * GUADEC finances: ongoing; mostly wrapping done but some concerns about travel financing. Next Meeting: Aug. 6, 2008

GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in2009

Vincent Untz — 2008-07-15T09:57:52

The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade. While there were other excellent bids, the GNOME foundation and KDE e.V. have settled on Gran Canaria because of its position as Port to Africa and the excellent circumstances for holding such an event there. Unfortunately, having three proposals, two have to be rejected. The proposals from Tampere in Finland and Coruna in Spain were close contenders. Both foundations would like to thank those organisers for the work they have put into their proposals and encourage them to consider their cities for conferences in future years. Read the full press release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html

hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

Luis Villa — 2008-07-07T13:54:59

Hi, all- It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been involved with GNOME and with the open source business community for a long time. For the fuller story on her bio, check out the press release, linked blow. Stormy's responsibilities will include (among other things) strengthening and growing the GNOME Foundation's infrastructure, working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board members, GNOME membership, and other GNOME supporters to create an awesome free and open source desktop that is easy to use and provide a strong development platform, and accelerating the adoption of GNOME and strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and community contributors. No small task but we think she's up to it. If you're in Istanbul this week, please say hi to Stormy and welcome her on board. If you're not in Istanbul, well, feel free to welcome her on list or ask questions as well (though of course we're several hours ahead of many of you, so we might not be as prompt as usual.) Looking forward to this new era for the Foundation- Luis and the Board

GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting, etc

Behdad Esfahbod — 2008-06-23T18:31:49

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GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open

Baris Cicek — 2008-06-10T10:21:33

GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open! Please visit: https://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/register in order to register for GUADEC 2008. Payments will be handled by PayPal this year as well. You can pay directly using the guadec.org web page. Registration fees are same as last year[1] with minor rounding as follows: Student Registration €15.00 Standard Registration €45.00 Professional Registration €200.00 We will have difference colored badges for different kind of registration levels. And registration will be mandatory in order to participate GUADEC 2008 organization events[2]. GNOME Foundation members will get benefit of 50% discount for Standard and Professional registrations. Now it's time to spread the word! [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2007-May/msg00053.html [2] http://guadec.expectnation.com/public/content/event _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce

Minutes for Directors Meeting of May 5th, 2007

Luis Villa — 2008-06-04T06:46:04

= Minutes/Agenda for GNOME Foundation Directors Meeting of May 7th, 2008 = == Attendance == * Lucas * Brian * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Behdad * Luis * Jeff == Old Items == * '''insurance''': Brian wants to discuss gnome.asia inclusion and what to cut out. ACTION: Luis to do a final check on the form contents. ACTION: Zana to fill in the forms and J5 to sign them. STATUS: John never got the forms from Brian (mail client problems), done by friday * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff says it may happen this weekend. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: Vincent to work with on getting funds for this ($25k needed, according to the current plan). STATUS: Vincent asks if we want to do both exec director and sysadmin at the same time. Will check fo rfunfs. andfeasibility. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html|old draft job description]] (see also FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector); may need to refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and update. STATUS: J5 has a skeleton of job description, on the wiki. ACTION: everyone to check it out and flesh it out. STATUS: ongoing * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for pending actions. STATUS: Luis has tried, but something is screwy on the server. Probably will not investigate again until after exams. === New items === * Discussion of potential business developer/ED hire. == Ongoing Items == * '''finances:''' STATUS: update soon from zana * '''GUADEC:''' STATUS: on track. update on mailing list. * '''a11y program:''' ACTION: Lucas and Vincent to make more noise about it. STATUS: we've sent a word about the program to all students we couldn't mentor for GSoC. A11y team has weekly meetings to talk about this. Still possible to make more noise about it :-) STTAUS: we should make more noise. * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: ongoing; ACTION: Lucas to contact marketing-list. ACTION: Behdad to talk to Dave about jewelery agreement. ACTION: Lucas to work with Zana about mugs and subscriptions. STATUS: on track, going slowly. * '''Google Summer of Code 2008''': Many people helping. Fresh blood in. Sandy, Ryan, ... rocking! Things are nicely under control of this distributed team. Community bonding period starting. STTAUS: mentors in contact with students, going fine. lucas to add students to plant. * '''GNOME.Asia''': Agreed to give them $4k. ACTION: Brian to send their sponsorship request to adboard. ACTION: Brian to contact them re the $4k. * '''Linux Foundation''': STATUS: Behdad updated the board on meeting with Jim Zemlin of TLF; no formal change in our relationship with them of yet. ACTION: Board members to discuss this at LF Collaboration Summit. * '''GUADEC/Akademy''': Let Akademy do their call-for-bid with the wording they want, GNOME do it with words we want, and a shared press release. ACTION: Behdad to meet with Dave and Jim to work out LinuxFoundation commitment, if any. ACTION: Behdad to work with Dave getting the call and press release out. * '''GTK+ Hackfest''': ACTION: Behdad to finish report and send to board. * '''Sponsorship bundles''': ACTION: Vincent to work on a proposal for the adboard meeting at GUADEC. STATUS: won't be done in April for time reasons. STATUS: no change. * '''Adboard meeting at GUADEC''' vuntz: sponsorship, gpl v3 * '''Hackfests''' ACTION: vincent to contact local gorups for organizing hackfests ACTION: lucas to contact hackers about the topics * Accounts team ACTION: vincent to ask around who can extend/develop mango to automate accounts creation * Machines from Google STATUS: blockin on canonical on invoicing the taxes to GNOME Foundation. * Latin america ACTION: vincent to contact izabel, diego and claudio about the Latin America tour. * '''Lucas''': ACTION: Announce new affiliation. * '''Legal''': STATUS: Luis is working with Wilson Sonsini on a new trademark policy. Need to update charter to 1.0; no progress on that. * '''Cooperation with KDE''': STATUS: Vincent watching if there's interest for a cross-desktop hackfest. Luis has started discussion with the KDE eV board for cooperation on legal aspects.

board meeting quasi-minutes, May 14th and 21st, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-06-04T06:37:49

The board had meetings on the 14th and 21st to discuss a confidential matter which the board hopes to disclose in the near future. No minutes were taken because of the confidential nature of the meetings, and because no final decisions (save one) were taken at either meeting. This email is offered to the list to document that meetings have been occurring. Attendance, 5/14/2008: Present: * Luis * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * John * Behdad * Jeff Attendance, 5/21/2008: Present: * Lucas * Brian * John * Behdad * Jeff Regrets: * Luis * Vincent

GUADEMY 2008: Final program and online participation

Domingo González — 2008-04-22T18:20:11

Hi, The final program of GUADEMY and more information is available in this link: http://www.guademy.org/programa.php?lang=en To enable participation of all people in GUADEMY 2008, we are going to broadcast the event through video streaming, and we have configured a Jabber room as a return channel for enable the online participation in the discussions. Friday, 25 April 2008 * GUADEMY 2008 Inaugural Ceremony * Introduction Forum: current state and objectives * QtWebKit by Mr. Holger FREYTHER (FU-Berlin) * Novell GNOME-KDE sharing project GNOME/KDE sharing and FreeDesktop.org by Mr. Rodrigo MOYA (GNOME Hispano); Mr. Will STEPHENSON (Novell, KDE) * freedesktop.org specifications: are they boring? by Mr. Vincent UNTZ (Novell, GNOME) * Developing on GNU by Mr. Aleix POL (KDE) Saturday, 26 April 2008 * The future of Free Software graphical toolkits by Mr. Carlos GARNACHO (Imendio AB); Mr. Holger FREYTHER (FU-Berlin); * Mr. Javier FERNANDEZ GARCíA-BOENTE (Igalia) * Metadata management in desktop by Mr. Ivan FRADE (Nokia) * KDE Akonadi PIM by Mr. Will STEPHENSON (Novell, KDE) * Past and present of the build systems. Building, testing and releasing software with the CMake buildchain by Mr. Pau GARCIA I QUILES (Arisnova) Sunday, 27 April 2008 * System Tools Backends and PackageKit by Mr. Carlos GARNACHO (Imendio AB); Mr. Richard HUGHES (Red Hat) * Final Forum: conclusions and achievements * Closing Ceremony Greetings, Organization of GUADEMY 2008

KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation to co-host flagship conferences

Behdad Esfahbod — 2008-04-22T18:10:07

The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009. This would be the first time that the conferences are to be co-hosted. The combined conference is expected to have around 800 attendees, being one of the biggest meetings of free software developers in the world. The content of the conferences will be organized independently, with a number of co-ordinated cross-over sessions with appeal to all attendees. Both organizations have noted, however, that proposals to host the conferences independently are invited as well. The decision about the events will be made in collaboration of the KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation based on the suitability of the available proposals. Read the full release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html

Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

Behdad Esfahbod — 2008-04-22T17:04:25

Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009 ============================== The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, during the Summer of 2009. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a week of coding, meeting, and discussing. For the first time we also invite proposals to hold GUADEC and Akademy, the KDE community conference, at the same time, in the same location. Proposals should detail plans for hosting up to 800 attendees, with separate facilities available for Akademy and GUADEC planned sessions. The conferences should be held independently, in the same location, with facilities available for joint sessions of interest to both communities. A co-hosted event would constitute one of the largest events on the planet dedicated to free software on the desktop. Proposals for GUADEC-only should be sent to board< at >gnome.org, proposals for a co-hosted event should be sent to kde-ev-board< at >kde.org as well. Deadline for proposals is June 15th. Key points which proposals should consider, and which will be taken into account when deciding among candidates, are: * Local community support for hosting the conference * The availability and cost of travel from major European cities * The availability of sufficient low-cost accommodation * The budget for infrastructure and facilities required to hold the conference * The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering on-site * Local industry and government support Check out the call-for-bids and the bids from previous GUADECs for more information. Or just contact board< at >gnome.org. The conference will require availability of facilities for one week, including a weekend, during Summer. Dates should avoid other key free software conferences. A few words of advice: organizing a conference of this size is hard work, but there are many people in the community with experience who will be there to help you. Bear in mind that people coming to these conferences do so primarily to meet up with old friends and have fun, and so the hallway track and social activities are very important. Behdad Esfahbod Director, GNOME Foundation

Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, Mar. 26th, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-04-20T22:25:18

(Apology as per last two minutes. This is the last one tonight; minutes of the Apr. 9th meeting will be finalized and sent out in the next few days.) = Minutes for Meeting of Mar. 26th, 2008 = == Note on meeting of 3/12 == Because of a variety of travel and other conflicts, no meeting was held on Mar. 12th. == Next Meeting == April 9th == Attendance == * Brian * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Behdad * Luis === Missing === * Jeff * Lucas === Asia.Summit === Three coordinators of the GNOME.Asia Summit attending this meeting * Emily Chen * Will LaShell * Alfred Peng == Minutes == * Since this meeting did not meet quorum, little was discussed aside from talking about the GNOME.Asia Summit. The "Old Items" section is pretty much a copy of the previous week's minutes with some updates to reflect what was discussed on the list. === GNOME.Asia Summit === * Sun Microsystems has become a sponsor, providing $10,000. They also have $2,000 from other sources. * The organizers are considering reducing the length of the summit from 3 days to 2 days to reduce costs. * The organizers have done some work to further reduce their minimum budget. Previously it was $24,515, with $16,056 being for 3-day rental at the Tsinghua Science Park venue. They have talked with 2 other venues. For a 2-day event, Tsing-Hua Science Park will charge $9,127, UNIS Center will charge $4,901, and Tsing-Hua University will charge $1,408. However Tsing-Hua University cannot guarantee the space will be available. The organizers plan to provide us with an updated budget by the end of the week. * They are expecting 300 people to attend. However, the largest room available at Tsing-Hua University would only hold 200 people, which might limit the number of people who could attend. It was mentioned that it's important, from a cultural point of view, that there's enough room for everyone willing to attend. * The target for attendance is students, so it's nice to be near a university. * The organizers would like the Foundation to help with funding, and will provide the board with numbers by the end of the week. * The organizers would like the Board to assist them in contacting potential sponsors. If the organizers sent us brochures, would the board be willing to forward them to sponsors we have worked with in the past? Or should we provide them with a list of contacts and let them contact the potential sponsors directly? * The organizers would like advice about how to time the release of the call for sponsors, call for participants, and other aspects of coordinating the event. It was suggested the Behdad or Baris would be good to talk with the GNOME.Asia Summit organizers to help them know how to do this. * They would like help to better advertise for the GNOME.Asia event on the GNOME website. Vincent will help with this once the GNOME.Asia website is up. = Discussed on board-list = * GTK+ Hackfest went well. Behdad said that they might need the $5,000-6,000 originally allocated for the event from foundation money. The $20,000 that was raised paid for the venue and travels, but not hospitality and other on-the-spot charges. * Lucas put together a proposal on how to boost Friends of GNOME. He has a new mug design, and a plan to allow people to pay money over time via PayPal. Some discussion about how to further promote Friends of GNOME by better advertising it on the websites, and talking with the marketing team about how to better market the program. * Discussion about providing PayPal service for Libre Graphics Meeting under the same conditions as we provide for GIMP (i.e. 5% cut that goes to the Foundation) * Lengthy discussion about Epiphany and Mozilla relations. The board and/or release team may need to provide some direction in terms of ensuring how the new Epiphany+WebKit will meet requirements to be included in future GNOME releases. The Epiphany team wants the board to do a press release, though there was some disagreement whether this was appropriate. The Epiphany team was asked to send an email to d-d-l or gtk-devel-list to explain their plans before a decision is made. * Discussion about providing GNOME certification for non-GNOME programs that are approved for use with GNOME for programs like firefox and thunderbird. * Zana provided administrative updates on finances. * Agreement to pay customs/import tax for the machines that Google will give to GNOME.

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Feb. 27th, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-04-20T22:19:35

(My apologies for the late delivery of these, as noted in the previous email.) = Minutes for Meeting of Feb. 27, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Mar. 12, 2008 == Attendance == * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Jeff * Zana === Regrets === * Luis == Minutes == === Old items === * '''insurance''': board members have edited answers in the wiki. STATUS: Brian: some remaining questions to answer before we can submit to agent. Some hard questions: what events do we want to cover? We need to list them in advance. DECISION: discuss more and decide at next meeting. * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff is experimenting with moin wiki farm configuration for some non-GNOME wikis, in order to implement it for GNOME wikis. Blocked by the results of those, so to not duplicate the work. Expects two weeks. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: on hold b/c of lack of time; volunteers to refine the job description needed- contact Vincent Untz. STATUS: Owen sent a draft. First review from Brad Kuhn was positive. Vincent didn't have time to take a look yet (FOSDEM). * '''Mozilla PR''': OWNERS: Vincent, Dave Neary STATUS: have a nearly good draft. Vincent needs to discuss with Chris Blizzard to finish it. Should be out one of these days. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html|old draft job description]] (see also FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector); may need to refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and update. STATUS: No progress. John to look into it before next meeting. * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: ongoing; ACTION: Ping Dave about jewelery agreement. ACTION: Lucas to work updated mug design / order for Friends of GNOME. We have less than 10 left. * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for pending actions. STATUS: no change; Luis has been swamped. * '''board roles''': STATUS: Decided on new roles. ACTION: Behdad to send a note to membership about new roles. For the term of current board, board members will hold the following roles: * President/Chairman: Behdad Esfahbod * Vice-President/Vice-chairman: Lucas Rocha * Treasurer: John Pamieri * Secretary: Luis Villa * '''Linux Foundation''': STATUS: Behdad updated the board on meeting with Jim Zemlin of TLF; no formal change in our relationship with them of yet. ACTION: Board members to discuss this at LF Collaboration Summit. === New items === * '''GUADEC/aKademy''': Positive response from KDE e.V. board so far. ACTION: Behdad to write joint call-for-bids. * Vincent also reported on discussion he and Lucas had with a Cornelius Schumacher of KDE e.V. board at FOSDEM. A range of possibilities for cooperation, mostly around organizational aspects of foundations, hackfests on freedesktop.org standards, that kind of stuff. ACTION: Vincent to contact Cornelius to follow up. * '''Google Summer of Code 2008''': We want to participate. Need a new admin as the old admins are busy with board and other stuff. Given his GHOP experience, board will buy lots of ice-cream for Andre Klapper if he takes this on. ACTION: Lucas to send a kickoff message and call for volunteers. * '''Brazil sponsorship requests''': ACTION: Vincent to contact Izabel to see if we can integrate Forum GNOME in the Latin America tour, which would mean a lower cost. == Ongoing Items == * '''finances:''' Zana updates: * She is catching up with various payments. * Will invoice advisory board members soon. * The accountant has filed an extension for our FY2007 taxes (they were due February 15) as she did not want to file them before finishing the FY2005 taxes. She hopes to be done with that soon. * '''Berlin GTK+ Hackfest:''' Behdad updates: * Working on schedule still. * Local organization ongoing (power cords, projectors, ...). * Tshirts lagging a bit. Working on it. * '''GUADEC:''' Behdad updates: * Everything ready to announce, except that the website looks awful on ie6 :(. Baris looking into it, but we will announce it tonight anyway. * '''a11y program:''' press release finalized and released. Lucas and Vincent will get the tasks published for March 1st, and will fill the FAQ. * '''Summit:''' On hold until May, no change. * '''Budget''': ACTION: Vincent to refine based on any adboard comments, and send to foundation members before next meeting. * '''Annual Report''': Zana has the proof copy. ACTION: Zana to check it for quality. We will go on with mass ordering after that. ACTION: Lucas to prepare an estimate of how many to print. = Discussed on board-list since last meeting = * '''FISL sponsorship''': sponsorship of travel to FISL was discussed and approved. * '''projector''': sponsorship of a projector for the European GNOME event box was discussed and approved. * '''a11y press release''': drafts were discussed, vigorously debated, reworked with cooperation of partners, and approved. * '''Zana''': Zana returned from her maternity leave; the board vigorously welcomes her back!

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Feb. 13th, 2008

Luis Villa — 2008-04-20T22:18:26

(My apologies for the lag in delivering these; it had completely slipped my mind as the semester got more intense. Several more are on the way this evening.) = Minutes for Meeting of Feb. 13th, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Feb. 27th == Attendance == * Luis * Lucas * Brian * Behdad * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Jeff == Minutes == === Old items === * '''insurance''': ACTION: Brian to put remaining questions for insurance forms in wiki so that rest of board can help fill them out. [DONE; other board members have edited.] * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: On hold. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: on hold b/c of lack of time; volunteers to refine the job description needed- contact Vincent Untz. * '''Mozilla''': OWNERS: Vincent, Dave Neary STATUS: Press release ready to send out. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html old draft job description] [see also http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector]; may need to refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and update. * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: moving forward; jewelry manufacturer to provide samples and list of products. Dave Neary is contact. J5 to contact Dave Neary to understand past efforts to setting up a GNOME store, to see if we can move forward with that. (past work at http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MerchandisingAgreement ) * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for pending actions. * '''goals''': ACTION: Lucas: start mailing list discussion about goals for the next 6-12 months. STATUS: Lucas has started the discussion on board mailing list. * '''officers''': after discussion on list and IRC, board has selected the following officers: President/Chairman: Behdad; Vice-President/Vice-Chair: Lucas; Secretary: Luis; Treasurer John. Luis has confirmed that we may need to update the charter, but that this can be done. STATUS: charter and bylaws available in co-ment.net for comments/editing/updating. === New items === * '''Linux Foundation''': Behdad has been in contact with Lf about events; will pass on more details to mailing list. Several board members may also go to the Collaboration Summit, run by Linux Foundation, so may have some more details after that. == Ongoing == * '''finances:''' updates on hold through Zana's maternity leave. * '''GTK+ Hackfest:''' ongoing; working on schedule. Everything on track. * '''GUADEC:''' slightly behind schedule, but website is ready and will be launched shortly. * '''a11y program:''' announcement upcoming; lists of tasks exists but needs to go to Bugzilla. * '''Summit:''' on hold until May as a result of MIT's booking policies. * '''Budget:''' ACTION: Vincent to send draft to advisory board for feedback. * '''Annual Report''': At printers; we are waiting for proof copies before distributing further. = Discussed on board-list = * '''Unicode Consortium''': Proposed and approved that GNOME will join the Unicode Consortium as a Liason; this has now occurred and will be more formally announced once we are present on their website. * '''gnome.asia''': GNOME now owns the gnome.asia domain as part of planning for the first GNOME Asia summit. * '''Guidestar''': Board discussed becoming up-to-date with new requirements for publishing on the Guidestar non-profit ratings site; JRB to discuss some issues with accountant and Luis to discuss others with lawyers. * '''Charter''': Luis pointed out that the Foundation Charter has been in Draft since 2001; some discussion was made about doing the (hopefully minor) work necessary to review, update, and 'finalize' it as a 1.0 instead of 0.61, but no actions were taken. * '''Legal''': Luis updated the board on ongoing legal issues; will require some budget for trademark work (approved). Brian took an ACTION to discuss clean-room policies with some GNOME partners.

GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2007 released!

Lucas Rocha — 2008-03-10T17:25:30

Hi all, Last year, Dave Neary and others started this new tradition by producing the first GNOME Foundation annual report which has got very positive response from community. So, we decided to follow the new tradition by preparing the GNOME Foundation annual report 2007! I've been slowly working on it for a few months with invaluable contributions from several people. The report is now available in GNOME Foundation's website: http://foundation.gnome.org/about/gnome_annual_report_2007.pdf (1860 KB, PDF) We'll soon send nice hard copies of the report to the Advisory Board members and existing GNOME event boxes. Our plan is to also print a bunch of extra copies to be used for promoting GNOME on events around the world. Feel free to request some copies for your local GNOME event. This year, we chose Lulu.com as the printing service in order to allow us to easily print more copies on demand and to make it possible to anyone to order personal hard copies by just paying for the printing. You can buy a hard copy of this report directly from Lulu.com here: http://www.lulu.com/content/2038054 Many thanks to: - the writers: Federico Mena-Quintero, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Vincent Untz and Behdad Esfahbod; - the photographers: Frederic Crozat, Michael Dominic, Vincent Untz, Kushal Das, Juan Carlos Inostroza and Garrett LeSage; - the designer: Andreas Nilsson; - the text reviewers: Paul Cutler and Stephanie Watson; - the adviser: Dave Neary. I hope you enjoy it! --lucasr

GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces

Vincent Untz — 2008-03-04T21:13:38

GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces =================================================== The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software systems. The partnership has three aspects: * The Mozilla Foundation will join the GNOME Foundation advisory board, helping set the long-term direction of the project. * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox. * The Mozilla Foundation announces a grant of $10,000 to the GNOME Foundation, to be spent on the improvement of the accessibility of the GNOME desktop environment via the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" program. "GNOME and GTK+ have been our environment of choice for years. As we move from desktops into the mobile market, we will continue to work with GNOME to ensure that Mozilla and Firefox users on GNOME platforms will have the best experience possible", according to Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard. "Mozilla and GNOME people have been collaborating for nearly a decade. Together we've been able to make contributions to the foundation of each other's platform - from GTK+ to Cairo to browser desktop integration", says GNOME Foundation Director Vincent Untz. "But the real story is about two organizations sharing many common values including our shared commitment to innovation and bringing freedom to our user base." Both projects actively support open standards and formats. Mozilla contributes to the W3C HTML5 working group and WHATWG working group, in order to ensure an open web platform for all future Internet users. GNOME is a member of the ODF Alliance and works with other desktop projects under the freedesktop.org umbrella to offer the best user experience to desktop users. These involvements aim to create space for innovation and to give freedom to the user. Read the full announcement at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-03-mofojoins.html