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GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2012 - Thecandidates

Tobias Mueller — 2012-05-21T19:05:54

Dear Foundation Members,

I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of Directors.
    * David Nielsen
    * Bastien Nocera
    * Emmanuele Bassi
    * Andreas Nilsson
    * Joanmarie Diggs
    * Tobias Mueller
    * Max Huang
    * Shaun McCance
    * Seif Lotfy

Please see <http://vote.gnome.org/2012/candidates.html> for details.

You are invited to ask the candidates questions by sending them to foundation-list. But
please try to avoid duplicates and bear in mind, that the candidates
invest a lot of time answering questions, thus please be reasonable with
the amount and scope of the questions.
You might want to send your question to membership-committee< at >gnome.org
instead, so that we can collect, sift and sort the questions before we
send them out shortly after the ballots were sent. But again: if you
feel the need to ask your question directly, please do so.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them at
membership-committee< at >gnome.org or elections< at >gnome.org

Cheers,
  Tobias Mueller

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Seif Lotfy

Seif Lotfy — 2012-05-20T23:24:42

Name: Seif Lotfy
EMail: seif< at >lotfy.com
Affiliation: Collabora Ltd.

Since 2007, through ever-increasing code-contributions, I have been
actively involved in the GNOME developer community.

During the last six months, I have been working much more closely with the
design team, by participating in some of Allan Day's "Every Detail Matters"
tasks and programming several prototypes for the design team. At the
moment, I am working together with Allan and Emily, my Summer of Code
student, on the clocks application.

Currently, I spend nearly 50% of my working time on GNOME-related projects,
thanks to Collabora. I also spend a lot of my time working on deploying
Zeitgeist into some smaller projects like Gedit (the dashboard plugin),
which greatly benefited from design collaboration with Hylke Bons and
Garrett LeSage.

Sometimes misunderstandings and miscommunication happen in the community,
especially between different teams who may share similar goals but
different viewpoints. This blurred vision was evident in mailing-lists over
the past few weeks. (Thankfully Olav did a great job moderating the lists
to not let it get too out-of-hand.)
I believe vague development and design decisions are harmful for the
current developers involved in GNOME. If elected to the board, I will push
for focusing efforts in solving communication and community issues, and
plan to:

1) Improve communication between designers and developers, by pushing for a
more transparent design/technical decision process, with the goal of
developing trust in each others decisions. I firmly believe in having GNOME
teams in agreement on crucial issues of design and development.
2) Explore the idea of a community task-force to examine and resolve
personal issues, to ensure stellar communication and rapor within the
community.
3) Push for more accountability of paid GNOME developers via the growth of
their modules and sub-communities.
4) Increase and maintain our contributor base, by encouraging and expanding
intiatives such as Allan Day's "Every Detail Matters", in order to include
additional GNOME-related projects.
5) Push for an initiative to empower observers and users of GNOME to easily
contribute back to the project.
6) Push for raising awareness of the importance of the social capital of
GNOME within the different teams. We are trying to deliver a product, but
we are a community first, thus we need to invest time into not only growing
but maintaining our community.

As I have personally experienced similar miscommunication over the years, I
have worked hard to solve those issues with orther community participants
and different developer teams.
If elected to the board, I can offer my unique background to help bridge
the gap between community participants amongst diverse teams to help forge
a unified vision and strengthen GNOME as a whole.

Thanks,
Seif
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GNOME Foundation Board Candidacy: Shaun McCance

Shaun McCance — 2012-05-20T23:00:42

Name: Shaun McCance
Email: shaunm< at >gnome.org
Affiliation: Syllogist LLC (freelance)

I've been an active GNOME contributor for about nine years, mostly
involved with the documentation team. I'm currently serving on the
board of directors in my first term, and serving as treasurer. I'd
like the opportunity to serve GNOME for another term.

If elected, I want to work to make our treasurer duties simpler and
more understandable, whether as the treasurer again or as an advisor
to a new treasurer. The treasurer role is inevitably difficult for
somebody without a background in accounting. We need to make sure we
can smoothly transition year to year, because handling GNOME's money
is one of the most important things the Foundation does.

--
Shaun

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Max Huang

Max — 2012-05-20T08:13:10

Name:     Max Huang
Email:      sakanamax gmail com
Nick:        sakana
Blog:        http://sakananote2.blogspot.com/ ( Chinese )
                http://sakananote2english.blogspot.com/ (English)
Web:       https://live.gnome.org/ChunHungHuang
Affiliation:

I am a freelancer who teach linux in the training center, also a
Novell CNI instructor.  I have contributed to GNOME for the past 2
years for GNOME.Asia.  Teaching linux at school and have workshop with
open source and linux at school.

In 2010(summer), I meet Pockey and Emily. And I take the conference
host for GNOME.Asia 2010 with COSCUP ( http://coscup.org/2010/en/ ).
At Sep 2010 we create GNOME Taiwan Users Group, I must thanks Emily
and Pockey.  They guide and teach me a lot.  And we have a lot of
gnome workshop with gtk and have gnome 3 launch part with Beijin and
Hong Kong.
In 2011, we went to Bangalore, India  ( http://2011.gnome.asia ).  I
learn how to be a host for gnome booth.  I am one of Program Committee
member in  COSCUP.  I start to learn how to invite people to
conference.  ( ^__^ We invite Xan and Bastien).  I really thank GNOME
people and Emily.  They teach me a lot.
This year (2012), I start to learn how to connect people and organize
the summit.  I still new and need to learn.  But I really thank GNOME
give me such a chance to learn.

If elected, because I still new to GNOME, I will work hard to GNOME
event and Asia promotion.  And learn everything from other foundation
member and board member.  Thank you for considering me.


Best regards


Max

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Tobias Mueller

Tobias Mueller — 2012-05-20T15:03:31

Name: Tobias Mueller
EMail: tobiasmue< at >gnome.org
Affiliation: None
Summary:
I am a Free Software enthusiast and GNOME activist for about 5 years
now. I mainly worked in the Bugsquad and the Membership Committee.
Now, I want to do something new and help making GNOME a successful Free
Software project.
I have experience with working with people, i.e. by organising events
like a GNOME party, various booths at conferences or by hosting a
(mid-size) conference at our university.
I want to improve the Bylaws and the visibility of Teams within GNOME.


Dear Foundation,

I am sticking around GNOME for about 5 years now and while I enjoy being
in the community I do want to progress within GNOME and take new
responsibilities.

For the last years, I was active in the Bugsquad, Membership and
Elections Committee as well as helping GNOME to be represented at
various events like FOSDEM. I did enjoy my work and I still do. However,
I want to take up on something new and challenge myself with new duties.

I am that type of person that corrects others when they say "open
source" when they really mean Free Software. I very much like the idea
of Free Software and I do believe that not having the freedoms
guaranteed is bad. I also strongly believe that the freedoms GNOME
provides are a great asset that we can be very proud of.

While I don't have a concrete agenda, I do have issues that I want to
see resolved. Most urgently, I see that the Bylaws need improvement.
There are a lot of minor changes, i.e. typos and wrong references, to be
made as well as big ones, i.e. how the election process is supposed to
work. I sent comments to two boards starting over a year ago and I want
to help resolving issues around our fundamental rules.

Another field which I intend to work on are Teams within GNOME. I very
much like the decentralized approach we take and I think we can make
improvements on the visibility of the teams and their results, i.e. by
making it more rewarding for both, the writers and the consumers, of the
Quarterly Reports.

Admittedly, I don't believe that a position in the board is really
necessary to achieve these things. But it certainly is helpful.

The reason why I sent my proposal rather late is, that I was (and
actually still am) busy, besides my real life, preparing things for
LinuxTag where we will have a GNOME booth. This, and the fact that I'll
be attending GNOME.Asia, is the reason why I won't be available with all
my brain power to answer questions on this list.


Thanks,
  Tobi

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GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Joanmarie Diggs

Joanmarie Diggs — 2012-05-19T22:13:41

Name: Joanmarie Diggs
E-mail: jdiggs< at >igalia.com
Affiliation: Igalia, S.L.
More about me:
  * http://gnomejournal.org/article/102
  * http://www.linkedin.com/in/joanmariediggs

I have contributed to GNOME for the past five+ years as a developer and
maintainer of the Orca screen reader and as a member of the GNOME
Accessibility Team. For most of those years, my GNOME-related work had
to be done evenings, weekends, and holidays as a community contributor.
Joining Igalia in October 2011 has made it possible for GNOME
Accessibility to become part of my DayJob, which in turn has given me a
very precious commodity: spare time. I would like to spend some of that
time serving on the GNOME Foundation Board.

Should I be elected, I would be happy to work in most areas, and feel
that I could lend a hand wherever the more senior members of the Board
see fit. Beyond that and, of course, accessibility, I would like to see
GNOME working actively with colleges and universities to facilitate the
integration of Free Software development and philosophies into their
courses.

Thanks and take care.
--joanie

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson — 2012-05-19T11:58:20

Name: Andreas Nilsson
e-mail: andreas< at >andreasn.se
Affiliation: None (freelancer)

I've been involved in GNOME since 2005 doing a variety of things. Mainly 
graphics and websites. I served on the Board of Directors between 2010 
and 2011.
If I get elected, I want to primary focus on two things. Fundraising and 
getting new developers.
I want to make our fundraising campaigns really effective and make it as 
fun and rewarding to make donations to the GNOME project as possible. 
I'm happy that we have now been able to release the new, more effective 
Friends of GNOME site, but there is more we can do in this area.
For new developers, I'm happy with the outcome of the GSOC and WOP's 
we've been running, and we should continue to do these, but I also want 
to make sure the inroads for potential contributors who visit our 
website is as clear as possible.
I'm sure I will get very much tangled up in whatever pops up during the 
way for the board (as things tend to do), but I will keep these two 
items in mind as goals for the term.

- Andreas

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-05-19T09:15:21

Name: Emmanuele Bassi
email: ebassi< at >gmail.com
Affiliation: Intel Corporation

I have contributed to GNOME for the past 10 years as a developer and
maintainer; I served on the GUADEC papers committee multiple times, as
well as a Director of the Foundation's Board for the past year in the
role of Secretary.

I plan to continue serving as Secretary, with the hope of improving the
review and publication of the Board Meetings minutes; I also plan to
improve my efforts with Friends of GNOME. Finally, I intend to continue
pestering people into creating a viable roadmap as well as getting
involved in the effort of making GNOME a best of breed and powerful
offering for powering devices ranging from the Desktop/clamshell to
handhelds and tablets.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Bastien Nocera

Bastien Nocera — 2012-05-18T18:29:11

Name: Bastien Nocera
E-Mail: hadess< at >hadess.net
Affiliation: Red Hat UK Ltd

I've been a GNOME contributor for the past 13 years and served on the
GNOME Foundation Board of Directors for the past two years.

I intend to carry on being a point of contact for developer relations,
and a technical advisor within the Board itself. I'm also the one asking
naive questions about US employment law and accountancy rules.

GNOME Foundation Board Candidacy - David Nielsen

2012-05-10T17:51:22

Name: David Nielsen
Email: gnomeuser< at >gmail.com
Corporate Affiliation: None

I have been part of GNOME in various roles since the early 2.x days
and I think it is time to volunteer for an organizational role. I have
already arranged 2 hackfests under GNOME and found that I enjoy the
work and that I have a talent for the required fundraising as well as
drumming up excitement. I have plenty of sparetime as I am retired on
medical grounds and I would love to dedicate some of it towards
dragging GNOME kicking and screaming into the 21th century. I have
plenty of ideas for how to raise funds and for where GNOME can (and
should) go in the future.

Thank you for the consideration,
David Nielsen

Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2012

Brian Cameron — 2012-04-17T22:14:31

Dear Foundation Members,

The GNOME Foundation board of directors and the GNOME Foundation
Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming
elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2012.

The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following:

                           *GNOME Board Elections 2012*
                     2012-05-20:  List of candidates closed
                     2012-05-27:  Voting Begins
                     2012-06-10:  Voting Ends
                     2012-06-19:  Challenges End


ELECTIONS
=========

The seven members of our current Board of Directors have been ruling
GNOME for 12 months now.  We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have
to elect a the board of directors for the next year.


CANDIDACY
=========

If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME
Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to
foundation-announce gnome org and elections gnome org with your full
name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and your reasons for
wanting to serve as a director.

Candidacies must be announced prior to 2012-05-20, 23:59 UTC.

All discussion related to the elections should be held on
foundation-list.  Members are invited to ask questions to one or all
candidates on that list (see below).

A list of candidates will be announced on 2012-05-23.

At this point, you are invited to ask the candidates questions by
sending them to foundation-list.  These candidates might become your
representative, so do not hesitate to ask them questions.

Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have
already asked.  Also, bear in mind that the candidates invest a lot of
time answering questions, so please be reasonable with the amount and
scope of the questions.  You can also send your questions to
membership-committee gnome org instead, so that the committee can
collect, sift and sort the questions before sending them to
foundation-list for the candidates to respond.  Though, if you
prefer to ask your questions directly, please do so.


ELECTORATE
==========

Every GNOME foundation member whose membership is valid in the range of
the full voting period, including challenges (2012-05-27 - 2012-06-19)
is eligible to vote.

If you are not a member yet, please consider applying for membership 
ASAP.  Late applications will most likely not be processed in time.

The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee will inform
those people who might need to renew via email. We recommend that
members also double check this to avoid a missed opportunity to vote.
Please verify that the email address that is associated with your GNOME
Foundation membership is valid and that you are able to read emails sent
to this address.


VOTING
======

The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by
2012-05-27 via email.

The 7 candidates who receive the most votes as counted by a single
transferable vote system (Scottish STV) will be elected, except that no
more than two individuals affiliated with any one corporation may be
elected.

In the event of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections
Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible.


           May 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
       1   2   3   4   5   6
  (7)  8   9  10  11  12  13   Announcements and list of candidates opens
(7th)
  14  15  16  17  18  19 (20)  List of candidates closed (20th)
  21  22 (23) 24  25  26 (27)  List of candidates announced (23rd)
                               Instructions to vote are sent (27th)
  28  29  30  31

          June 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
                   1   2   3
   4   5   6   7   8   9 (10)  Votes must be returned (10th)
  11 (12) 13  14  15  16  17   Preliminary results are announced (12th)
  18 (19) 20  21  22  23  24   Challenges to the results closed (19th)
  25  26  27  28  29  30

---

More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
and the voting process can be found here:

   https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee
   http://vote.gnome.org

---

Happy Voting,

Brian

Minutes of the Board Meeting - 2012-04-03

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-04-17T16:23:55

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120403

= Minutes for Meeting of April 3 =

== Next Meeting ==

April 17, 2012

== Attending ==

* Bastien Nocera
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Brian Cameron (Late)
* Ryan Lortie (Late)

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Process
* Need to publish past minutes.
* '''ACTION''': Emmanuele - To finish publish the minutes since February 7, 2012.

* Budget and Annual Report
* Shaun provided an updated budget on March 12.
* Shaun said that the budget section of the Annual Report should be ready around the same time as the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia event brochures.

* Events
* The GNOME and Mono Festival of Love 2012.
* David Nielsen asked for help with the visa.
* David said Fluendo may be interested in sponsoring.
* Hackfests
* None currently planned. Need to identify the next hackfests.
* https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests

* Friends of GNOME
* This week: $12,760.
* The banner got updated after the last meeting, but has not been updated with the new $12,760 number.
* Two weeks ago: $10,631 - $9,369 to go!
* Four weeks ago:$9,019 - $10,810 to go
* Six weeks ago: $6,700 with $13,300 to go.
* Should we stop the campaign before the target?
* We are aiming for two campaigns per year.
* Next campaign should be decided and driven by the marketing team.
* '''ACTION''': Karen - To ask the marketing team about the end of the current Friends of GNOME campaign and to start planning the next one.

* Rodney Halaquist asked about DejaVu licensing, should we respond?
* '''ACTION''': Karen - To draft a response to Rodney's questions about DejaVu licensing.

* Planet GNOME Policy
* Anything further to do, any announcements?
* Alberto, the PGO editor, wanted to leave Nat and Dave on the feed list because of the general interest.
* Alberto retains editorial control, so he has the ultimate say on what the Board recommended.

== Completed Actions ==

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Bastien - To look into the toll-free US number for the conference call.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.
* Karen - Will reach out to Mozilla to find advice about negotiating partnerships.
* Karen - To write back to Xan/contact Duck Duck Go about the partnership offer.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. - DONE
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.
* Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Shaun - To coordinate with Germán to write a report for the Financials section of the Annual Report
* Shaun and Karen - To have a run-through over budget items.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Emmanuele - To finish publish the minutes since February 7, 2012.
* Karen - To ask the marketing team about the end of the current Friends of GNOME campaign and to start planning the next one.
* Karen - To draft a response to Rodney's questions about DejaVu licensing.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* Events
* GUADEC 2012 Planning - March 26th meeting.
* https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2012-0326
* Starting to plan for GNOME.Asia travel.
* Call For Sponsors documents done:
* GUADEC
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2012-March/msg00019.html
* GNOME.Asia
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/asia-summit-list/2012-March/msg00059.html

Minutes of the Board Meeting - 2012-03-20

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-04-17T16:23:27

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120320

= Minutes for Meeting of March 20 =

== Next Meeting ==

April 3, 2012

== Attending ==

* Brian Cameron
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Ryan Lortie
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

* Bastien Nocera

=== Missing ===

* Germán Póo-Caamaño

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Planet GNOME Policy
* Anything further to do, any announcements?
* Branch of Planet-Web needs to be merged to implement the changes.
* The change has already been announced, and the grace period has passed.
* '''ACTION''': Ryan - To ping Alberto to perform the merge of the Planet policy changes. (DONE)
* Alberto pointed out that there are a couple of blogs in the feed that would be removed with the new policy, but that would be nice to keep nevertheless.
* The board should try and reach out to these bloggers.

* By-laws
* Tobias Mueller again provided us with his comments about the by-laws.
* Karen hasn't responded yet, but she and Tobias had a little side-channel discussion.

* Budget
* Updated budget from Shaun on March 12.
* Next Steps
* Highlights
* Smaller income from the advisory board fees.
* Increased spending compared to 2010, due to the presence of an executive director.
* '''ACTION''': Shaun - To coordinate with Germán to write a report for the Financials section of the Annual Report.

* Annual Report
* Update.
* Should be ready around the same time as the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia event brochures.
* Waiting for design review and feedback.
* Some missing sections still, financial being the most important.

* Events
* Hackfests
* https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests
* None planned.
* How many hackfests are compatible with our budget?
* Past few years: around a dozen, each in the 2000-4000 USD range.
* We could also have a partially foundation-funded hackfest.
* We should involve the adboard members more.
* Gather a list of potential hackfests to propose for funding.
* Have a place on the wiki to brainstorm hackfest planning ideas, and publicize it.

* Friends of GNOME A11y Campaign
* This week: $10,631 - $9,369 to go!
* Two weeks ago: $9,019 - $10,810 to go
* Four weeks ago: $6,700 with $13,300 to go.

== Completed Actions ==

* Brian - To talk to WilliamFromTexas about the sponsorship levels.
* Ryan - To ping Alberto to perform the merge of the Planet policy changes. This new action item was done by the end of the meeting.

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Bastien - To look into the toll-free US number for the conference call.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. - DONE
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.
* Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Shaun and Karen - To have a run-through over budget items.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Shaun - To coordinate with Germán to write a report for the Financials section of the Annual Report.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* The board decided to keep the meeting to 15:00 UTC to accommodate Stormy's schedule.

* Events
* GUADEC 2012 Planning.
* GUADEC Planning meeting on 12 March 2012 UTC 16:00.
* Helping WilliamFromTexas with making decisions about the sponsorship brochure.
* Talking with KDE board about the future of Desktop Summit.

* Financial
* Further review and suggestions for improvement of Shaun's budget.

* Tobias Mueller discussing opportunities to improve the by-laws with the board.

* Review of Q4 Report
* https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q4

Minutes of the Board Meeting - 2012-03-06

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-04-17T16:23:17

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120306

= Minutes for Meeting of March 6 =

== Next Meeting ==

March 20, 2012

== Attending ==

* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Germán Póo-Caamaño (late :17)
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Ryan Lortie
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Friends of GNOME
* This week: $9,019 - $10,981 to go!
* Two weeks ago: $6,700 with $13,300 to go.
* Got legal approval for new testimonial.

* Budget
* Review & Discuss.
* Process: move more information about event sponsorship into GNUCash, to improve the budget process.
* Adding new categories for events: GUADEC, GNOME.asia, and maybe the Boston Summit.
* Keeping the hackfest accounts split up in the GNUCash file.
* Should we relate the FoG donations to the campaign?
* It is currently done on demand, because there is a single PayPal account, and it needs manual intervention to split out every donation into categories.
* Recommendations for the next board.
* Points of intervention: GUADEC and advisory board membership fees.
* Improve the budget process.
* Split budgeting to per-month/per-quarter/per-year?
* Lost advisory board members.
* Next Steps.
* Lower the amount of money we expect from the advisory board.
* '''ACTION''': Shaun and Karen - To have a run-through over the budget items.
* Bastien: is it worth having an appointed treasurer?
* The treasurer is a difficult position to fill by election, requires basic knowledge of accounting, long ramp up time.

* Annual Report
* Should be ready around the same time as the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia event brochures.
* Financial report section is missing.
* Can be taken from the quarterly reports and from Shaun's spreadsheet.
* Board report too.
* Simple summary on the status and actions of the board.
* Report sections are on the wiki.

* Timeline for upcoming elections.
* Interaction with the bylaws.
* 30 days notice.
* Announcement and list of candidates opens on the 7th of May, so announcement should be done by April 6th.

* Events
* GUADEC 2012.
* William From Texas asked for approval on the GUADEC 2012 sponsorship levels.
* Did we tell William to move ahead?
* '''ACTION''': Brian - To talk to WilliamFromTexas about the sponsorship levels.
* Brno
* Did we get back to Tomas Bzatek that we approved the requested amount?
* Yes. Ryan got an email from him.
* Tomas was notified on IRC.
* Día GNOME 2011
* Is Fabio Durán Verdugo's request being processed:
* Zana said that she reimbursed Fabio.

== Completed Actions ==

* Brian - Will talk with Tobias about where the Foundation voting website went.
* Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
* Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's website to mention freedom.
* Karen - Will confirm what bylaws say about starting date
* Karen - To contact Jason to raise the point/lead the session on distribution feedback and sharing at the advisory board.

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
* Have been in touch with Gil
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. - DONE
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.
* Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Bastien - To look into the toll-free US number for the conference call.
* Brian - To talk to WilliamFromTexas about the sponsorship levels.
* Shaun and Karen - To have a run-through over budget items.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* GUADEC Planning
* https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2012-0227

* Planning for the upcoming elections with the marketing committee.

Minutes of the Board Meeting - 2012-02-21

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-04-17T16:23:06

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120221

= Minutes for Meeting of February 21 =

== Next Meeting ==

March 6, 2012

== Attending ==

* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Ryan Lortie
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Timeline for upcoming elections.
* https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-February/msg00070.html
* '''ACTION''': Brian - Will talk with Tobias about where the Foundation voting website went.
* '''ACTION''': Karen - Will confirm what bylaws say about starting date

* Next Advisory Board Meeting
* Planning for Tuesday, February 28th.
* The previous Advisory Board meeting was about 4 months ago, last October.
* Agenda Topics
* Frequency of advisory board meetings.
* Accessibility (Friends of GNOME).
* Joanie and Piñeiro will give the presentation
* Hackfest Update (GTK+, Docs, Accessibility, GStreamer, WebKitGTK+).
* Shaun is doing the documentation team presentation after the hackfest
* Emmanuele will do a presentation for the GTK+ hackfest
* Have a GNOME release that relates to distribution LTS releases (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team).
* (How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME) - this should not be a topic
* What can we expect from our release-team in terms of external dependencies
* Got good feedback from the release-team; we should get a more concrete proposal
* Infrastructure changes for allowing distributions to share patches for old releases
* distro-specific branches
* gitorious instance on gnome.org
* Need to contact the adboard members to get points added to the agenda?
* '''ACTION''': Karen - To contact Jason to raise the point/lead the session on distribution feedback and sharing at the advisory board.

* Events
* GUADEC 2012
* William From Texas asked for approval on the GUADEC 2012 sponsorship levels.
* https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-February/msg00041.html
* Levels: 1k, 5k, 10k, 15k, 25k.
* Lower than last year's, but 2011 was a Desktop Summer year.
* Professional registrations associated with the sponsorship level.
* We are waiting for the accommodation/food prices.
* Something that has to be discussed along with the guadec planning team.
* Seem to be issues with the Indico server, causing problems for the Call for Papers.
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2012-February/msg00021.html
* Should be solvable by the guadec planning team.
* Keynote speakers are yet to be formally chosen and invited.
* GNOME.Asia will be held June 9-15 in Hong Kong.
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2012-February/msg00001.html
* In early planning stages.
* Will there be an associated hackfest?
* Yes, one is planned.
* Possibly related to localization.
* A hackfest is a good occasion to bring core hackers to the conference through the hackfest.
* Budget constraints for travel, mostly dependent on sponsorship.
* Allocated by the foundation: USD 15k; event budget: USD 18k.
* No sponsor officially approached yet.
* Few venue options.
* Some of them have cost associated.

* Brno Hackfest (Feb 17-21)
* Planet blog reports:
* http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2012/02/progress-on-generating-python-api-docs.html
* http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2012/02/19/gnome-documentation-hackfest/
* http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/02/18/hackfest-stop-1/
* http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/16/bridges-and-balloons/, http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/17/youth-and-beauty-brigade/, http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/18/an-interlude/, http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/19/from-my-own-true-love-lost-at-sea/
* Unsponsored attendees have sent travel reimbursement requests sent to the board list.
* Overall amount is EUR 215.
* Vote: +1 Brian, Shaun, Bastien, Emmanuele, Ryan, Germán - APPROVED.

* Friends of GNOME
* We seem to have raised $6,700 with $13,300 to go. Good progress since 2 weeks ago, but farther to go.

== Completed Actions ==

* Emmanuele - To ask Simon Schampijer to write a report on the gtk hackfest (DONE)
* Emmanuele - Will ask the GStreamer and WebKitGTK+ communities for reports on the hackfests to the adboard (DONE)

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
* Have been in touch with Gil
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
* Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
* Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.
* Karen - Will touch base with Ryan to move forward with putting together a proposal for announcing Desktop Summit decisions.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM. - DONE
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.
* Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Brian - Will talk with Tobias about where the Foundation voting website went.
* Karen - Will confirm what bylaws say about starting date
* Karen - To contact Jason to raise the point/lead the session on distribution feedback and sharing at the advisory board.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* Events
* GUADEC 2012 planning
* GUADEC organizing meeting on February 13th
* https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2012-0213
* GNOME.Asia will be held June 9-15 in Hong Kong
* https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2012-February/msg00001.html

* New Foundation Members
* Welcome!
* http://www.gnome.org/news/2012/02/the-gnome-foundation-welcomes-ten-new-members/

* GNOME Foundation website update
* http://www.gnome.org/foundation/

* Discussion about how to improve the voting process.
* Planning for upcoming elections with Tobias Mueller from the Membership Committee.

Minutes of the Board Meeting - 2012-02-07

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-04-17T16:22:56

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120207

= Minutes for Meeting of February 7 =

== Next Meeting ==

February 21, 2012

== Attending ==

* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emmanuele Bassi (late)
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

* Ryan Lortie

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Karen sent a membership certificate to Milan Bouchet-Valat on January 29th as requested via Membership Committee (Andrea Veri).

* Next Advisory Board Meeting
* Planning for Tuesday, February 28th.
* Were notifications sent out?
* Last Advisory Board meeting was on 10/25/2011.
* Agenda Topics:
* Accessibility (Friends of GNOME).
* Hackfest Update (GTK+, Docs, Accessibility, GStreamer, WebKitGTK+).
* Have a GNOME release that is supported similarly to distribution LTS releases (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team).
* How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME.

* Bylaws
* Karen sent an email about how to improve our voting process.
* Any news from Luis Villa?
* Luis has no record of proposed changes that were discussed when Luis was on the board.
* How should we best move forward?
* +1 votes from Stormy, Germán and myself to do voting by email.
* '''ACTION''': Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.

* Events
* FOSDEM
* There was a marketing meeting.
* An update is going to be sent to the marketing-list.

* Budget
* Germán recommended not approving spending more funds until we have a clearer picture of finances.
* Issues:
* Lost a number of advisory board members (HP, etc.).
* Employee costs have risen.
* Having difficulty getting paid for invoices.
* Large number of hackfests were held in the past few years (~12 in 2009, 2010 and 2011). In previous years there were far fewer hackfests. The GNOME Foundation has been primarily funding many of these hackfests, so this is a factor.
* Need to seek new revenue sources.
* Find new advisory board members.
* Do more deals with companies for advertisement.
* Increase the fee for projects for which we hold funds and fund-raising (GStreamer, Gimp).
* When we will be able to resume funding?
* A clearer picture is needed.
* Anything that was not approved will have to be put on hold.

* Friends of GNOME
* Status.
* The FoG banner is now live and being displayed on www.gnome.org
* Next steps for a11y FoG campaign.
* Need to re-launch the campaign now that the banner is up.
* Waiting on permission for a new testimonial.
* What constitutes a donation for the campaign?
* All new one-off donations.
* First month for new recurring subscriptions.
* How do we measure success of the campaign?
* Increase in the overall donations and subscriptions to Friends of GNOME.
* What can we clearly show as a result for accessibility that was made possible by the campaign?
* Target items on the GNOME roadmap.
* Accessibility hackfest.
* We need better metrics for future campaigns, to show good use of the money that was donated.

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
* Have been in touch with Gil
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
* Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.
* Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Karen - Will put together a proposal on how we should update the bylaws to improve voting.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* Events
* GUADEC Committee Planning meeting on January 30.
* https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2012-0130
* Día GNOME 2011.
* Fabio Duran Verdugo thanked The GNOME Foundation for helping to make this event a success.
* Karen Sandler attended LCA.
* http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/2012/01/24/back-from-lca/

* Emily Chin did a call for the 2011 Q4 report.
* https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q4

* Canonical Group Limited will be making a payment to the Gnome foundation in the amount of $2319.36 for our quarterly donation (October 2011 - December 2011). This figure is a result of a percentage of income that we are receiving from the UbuntuOne music store.

* Discussion about updating the budget.

Official announcement and invitation to GNOME.Asia Summit 2012

Chandni Verma — 2012-04-05T03:42:20

Dear all,

GNOME.Asia 2012 is calling for papers. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s
GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME
across Asia.
The conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10.  The
conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new
desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing
world.  It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new
features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to
help make GNOME as successful as possible.

Learn more:
http://sakananote2english.blogspot.in/2012/04/gnomeasia-2012-is-now-calling-for.html
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit

=======================================

*Sign your name here ^__^
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/Participants


If you want to help out in planning and organization for the event, join
asia-summit-list< at >gnome.org and say hi!
To learn about detailed planning, join gnome-asia-list< at >gnome.org

Cheers,

Chandni Verma
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Official announcement and invitation to GNOME.Asia Summit 2012

Max — 2012-04-04T20:00:57

Dear all,

GNOME.Asia 2012 is calling for papers. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s
GNOME user and
developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia.
The conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10.  The
conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new
desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing
world.  It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new
features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to
help make GNOME as successful as possible.

Learn more:
http://sakananote2english.blogspot.in/2012/04/gnomeasia-2012-is-now-calling-for.html
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit


Max

GUADEC 2012 Call for Presentations

Vincent Untz — 2012-02-28T09:58:23

Hi,

The Call for Presentations for GUADEC 2012 is now open:
  http://2012.guadec.org/cfp

I've attached the full CfP below, but the two main things you should
know are:

 - you can submit your proposal at
   https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0
 - deadline for submitting is Saturday, April 14th

Cheers,

Vincent

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GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe
since 2000. GNOME is the Free Software project that drives the user
interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones
to laptops, or personal media centers. This get-together event is the
world's largest gathering of those involved with the free desktop or
mobile user interfaces. GUADEC 2012 is expected to draw hundreds of
attendees who will discuss and direct the future of the GNOME project.
Developers, artists, translators, users, and representatives from
government, education, and businesses, and anyone else who shares an
interest are welcome.

For the 2012 edition, GUADEC comes to A Coruña in Spain, a city that has
already seen several successful GNOME-related hackfests in the past
three years. The conference will be held from July 26th to 29th at the
Faculty of Computer Science of the University of A Coruña, with
additional extra days afterwards for hackfests and meetings.

The release of the first GNOME 3 version last year has significantly
refreshed the development of the project. Following this event, several
hot topics are of particular interest for GUADEC 2012:

 - Design of the core user experience
 - Writing applications for GNOME 3
 - Integration of web life into the desktop
 - Adapting GNOME to new types of devices
 - Improvements to and unification of desktop plumbing
 - Outreach to new contributors
 - Organization and governance of the project
 - GNOME’s 15th birthday

Submissions that do not fit into these categories are also welcome,
provided that they are of relevance, or inspiring to the GNOME
community.

The Call for Participation for GUADEC 2012 has the following timeline:

 - Saturday, April 14th: Deadline for submission of abstracts
 - Saturday, April 28th: Notification of speakers
 - July 26th to 29th: The conference takes place in A Coruña, Spain

Please submit your proposal before April 14th through the online
submission system [1]. Presentations will be reviewed by the program
committee between April 15th and April 28th.

A separate call for lightning talks will be issued in April. If you are
interested in organizing a workshop session, a BoF or a project room
during the second part of GUADEC (July 30th - August 1st), please wait
for a later separate call for participation.

The program committee is looking forward to your submissions for
participating to GUADEC 2012 and contributing to turn the event into a
large success. In case of questions regarding the Call for
Participation, feel free to talk to the program committee [2]. For
general questions on the conference, please consult the GUADEC web site
[3] or contact the GUADEC organizing team [4].

The program committee consists of the following members: Andre Klapper,
Allan Day (Red Hat), Ryan Lortie (Codethink), Michael Meeks (SUSE),
Lennart Poettering (Red Hat), Christian Schaller (Collabora) and Vincent
Untz (SUSE).


[1] https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0
[2] guadec-papers< at >gnome.org
[3] http://2012.guadec.org/
[4] guadec-list< at >gnome.org

The GNOME Foundation has a new home

Andrea Veri — 2012-02-16T23:15:35

As a follow-up of [1]:

It's an honour for me to announce that the Foundation's website has 
been completely migrated to gnome.org. We've been working on this for 
a few months now, but the result is simply awesome.

That said, I would like to thank Vinicius DePizzol (vdepizzol) for all 
his work and contributions to make this happen. His devotion and 
willingness to contribute to the GNOME Foundation are amazing and 
working with him during all these months has been a pleasure for me, 
he's a superb contributor and most of all a great guy. 

The new Foundation's website can be reached at the following link:

http://www.gnome.org/foundation

while the new voting area is now available at:

http://vote.gnome.org

Please report any broken link or error to <membership-committee< at >gnome.org>
or by opening a bugzilla ticket against the website product. [2]

cheers,

Andrea

P.S redirects are working properly, so http://foundation.gnome.org 
will now take to the brand new website.

P.P.S the quarterly reports have been migrated already, we just miss a 
little template to put them under, due to be ready really soon.

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-February/msg00013.html
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=website
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Meeting Minutes Published - January 24, 2012

Emmanuele Bassi — 2012-01-24T18:06:31

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120124

= Minutes for Meeting of January 24 =

== Next Meeting ==

February 7, 2012

== Attending ==

* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Ryan Lortie
* Shaun !McCance
* Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

* Next Advisory Board Meeting
* When shall we have the next meeting?
* Proposed date: February 28th, 2012
* Topics?
* Accessibility (Friends of GNOME, Hackfest update)
* Have a GNOME release for distribution LTS release (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team)
* How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME.
* '''ACTION''': Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement of the next meeting on February 28, and request for agenda topics.

* Events
* FOSDEM
* Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
* Unanimously approved.
* '''ACTION''': Rosanna to pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.

* Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.
* Our response?
* In case we joined OSI, we should notify the Free Software Foundation to avoid misunderstandings.
* Condition for joining should be an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
* Even if GNOME decides not to join, should there be a clear indication of who should join?
* Should we ask KDE eV for their reasons to join the OSI?
* '''ACTION''': Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom and promote GNOME a11y.

* Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.
* '''ACTION''': Karen - Is putting together a Foundation membership certificate for Milan Bouchet-Valat.
* Stormy sent the certificates used for Alberto Ruiz to board-list.

* Formal process on release requirements and portability matrix changes.
* We used to have the process of the external dependencies.
* Was superceded by the feature proposal period.
* Need to raise the issue with the release-team, and eventually bring (and document) the external dependencies process back.
* '''ACTION''': Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

* Friends of GNOME
* Karen mentioned the campaign on her LCA keynote.
* The Foundation needs help getting the a11y FoG banner on the website.

* Bi-weekly foundation meetings.
* Reguarly scheduled.
* Not much momentum generated, lack of agenda topics.
* '''ACTION''': Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.

== Recurring Items ==

* Review past action items.
* Did each person update their action items?
* Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
* Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking.

== Completed Actions ==

* Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
* Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.Asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
* Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. -- Behdad won't be in Brno, so no Harfbuzz hackfest is scheduled.

== Status of action items ==

* Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
* Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
* This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
* Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. Taken over from Jorge.
* Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
* Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs. Touched based with Reinount and Vincent. There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again. Everything is fine.
* Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
* Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
* After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
* Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek.
* Emailed, so far no response.
* Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
* Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments. Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
* Have been in touch with Gil
* Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
* Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
* Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC. Transferred from Brian.
* Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
* Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
* Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
* Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
* Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
* Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
* Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
* Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
* Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
* Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
* Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
* Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation. Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
* Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
* Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
* Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

* Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
* Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
* Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
* Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.
* Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

* FOSDEM
* Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
* +1 from Stormy, Brian, Germán.

* Women's Outreach Program
* Laura Lazzati needs to drop out of the program for personal reasons.
* The board agreed to pay Laura Lazzati $1,250 (USD) for work done so far.
* This is half of the normal mid-point payment other GNOME Women's Outreach Program interns will get on February 1.

* Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.

* Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.