http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9228 <pre>Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. They are: * 1. Stefan Westerfeld (beast contributor, gst123 maintainer) 2. Daiki Ueno (caribou and gettext maintainer, IBus developer) 3. Sreerenj Balachandran (GStreamer contributor, commits to several GNOME modules) 4. Michael Hasselmann (GTK+ contributor, EDS and Rygel contributions) 5. Hau Heng Haggen So (GNOME.Asia organization, GNOME Hong Kong organizer) 6. Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer) 9. Andres G. Aragoneses (Banshee maintainer, GSoC mentor) 10. Antonius Riha (Tasque maintainer) * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement) For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at membership-committee&lt; at &gt;gnome.org. (or me directly) </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-21T14:04:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9226 <pre>Hi everyone, Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing to spend time on the foundation. It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find myself asking is: what do you think you will personally bring to the role if you are elected? In other words: why do you think that you will be a good board member? I don't expect an essay here, btw. :) Thanks again, Allan </pre> Allan Day 2013-05-21T10:12:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9215 <pre>Hello all, First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board. We have a number of candidates running for a second term, and knowing what were these candidates' contributions to the Foundation in the past year is quite important for me as a voter. However, as per Zeeshan's questions, I find it hard to follow the Board's progress and accomplishments. I would like to know what are your ideas on improving the visibility of the Board's actions, and communication to Foundation members. Thanks, Fabiana _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Fabiana Simões 2013-05-20T14:22:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9210 <pre>Hello,everybody!I have a problem,when i installed xfce and kde,i couldn't configure my applications under gnome environment(desktop background,dconf,advance setting etc ).Now only the default settings are available,i couldn't find any idea from the INTERNET and don't know where the problem is. My English is very pool,sorry about that. Who can help me? </pre> 智国法 2013-05-18T15:26:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9206 <pre>Hello, some time has passed since my latest update so here we come with a few items I've been working on on the past two weeks. New infrastructure-announce mailing list --- From the 8th of May a new mailing list has been started for all the announcements about downtimes, outages, maintenances related to the GNOME Infrastructure. As a side note the mail you are currently reading will be the last that will be kept CCed on desktop-devel-list and foundation-list. Please take a little minute to subscribe yourself to the new list at [1] to not loose any of the updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team. --- Jabber --- As you may have noticed our Jabber server currently doesn't allow you to add any JID not equal to JID&lt; at &gt;jabber.gnome.org, that means you can't chat with people having a JID registered on a different server than the one hosted on the GNOME Infrastructure. The problem is related to a specific firewall port not being open, we've taken action on it and the relevant port will be open really soon for the clients to successfully "talk" with other clients coming from the "outside world". --- live.gnome.org --- Our wiki had a really quick maintenance [2] that upgraded it to the latest available MoinMoin's release. (1.9.7) This release takes in a stronger password encryption (it's not based on SHA anymore, but on PASSLIB instead), I would suggest anyone to change their password as soon as possible. In addition to the above, I've cleaned up a bit inactive users, deleted and trashed pages: 1. inactive users (users that registered but never did a single edit since the time they registered their account) were around 23000 (loads of spammers), the current amount of registered and active users went to 6000. Editing pages became really too slow, MoinMoin currently checks each of the registered user's subscriptions list for eventually notifying the user about the change that occurred on the page being edited. That process was taking around 9-10 seconds, and that was actually expected with an amount of 29000 registered users. 2. deleted pages (pages that were marked as 'Deleted' on the wiki) got moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory and the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place. 3. trashed pages (pages that were marked as 'Trashed' on the wiki) got moved from the data/ directory of live.gnome.org to a backup directory and the cache was cleaned for the changes to take place. --- MeetBot --- Our Services bot was enhanced with MeetBot, more details are available at [3]. Make good use of it! --- KGB Bot --- I've been working during the past week on the KGB Bot [4] (it has been a pain to package dozen of perl libraries!), which is a little IRC bot capable of sendind out notifications when a commit occurs on a specific git repository. I'm currently waiting the RH IT to open the specific port on the firewall for the kgb-client to communicate correctly with the bot which is hosted on a machine outside the datacenter where git.gnome.org runs. I'll make sure to send out an additional mail when the service is ready to go accepting new requests. That should be all for now, have an awesome weekend! [1] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure-announce [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00033.html [3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-April/msg00037.html [4] http://kgb.alioth.debian.org </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-17T19:41:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9183 <pre>hi all; in compliance with the Foundation's charter, here's the notification that my affiliation has changed: I now work for Endless Mobile. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-05-10T18:41:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9146 <pre>We are looking into changing our irc server name from irc.gimpnet.org to irc.gnome.org and looking for feedback. Essentially, it's become problematic to have 'gimp' in the name of our server. To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our infrastructure. The proposal is to make irc.gnome.org be an DNS A record and we will continue to honor irc.gimpnet.org as a CNAME for one year in which case we will then remove it altogether. Other than the name of the server being changed and possibly any associated certs I do not forsee any other impact. Folks will have to change the name of the server they connect to, software like XChat will need to update their config files of default IRC servers to reflect the change. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Sriram Ramkrishna 2013-05-08T17:02:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9141 <pre>Hi, tomorrow I'll be performing an upgrade to our live.gnome.org's installation from 11:00 to 12:30 GMT+2. The service will be shutdown to prevent any data loss. The upgrade will take in the latest MoinMoin release, 1.9.7, which introduces several improvements and bug fixes specifically related to password hashes. More details at [1]. Have an awesome day, [1] http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/1.9.7/docs/CHANGES </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-06T09:49:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9140 <pre>Dear Foundation Members, The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2013. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2013* 2013-05-06: List of candidates opens. 2013-05-19: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements. 2013-05-22: Final list of candidates. 2013-05-26: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins. 2013-06-09: Voting closes. 2013-06-11: Preliminary results are announced. 2013-06-18: Last day to challenge preliminary results. 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 what will be 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&lt; at &gt;gnome.org and elections&lt; at &gt;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 2013-05-19, 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 2013-05-22. 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&lt; at &gt;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 as of 2013-05-22 is eligible to vote in the elections. Please note that Emeritus members won't have voting rights. More details about what Emeritus members can and can't do are available at https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers. 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 do inform members they need to renew by mailing them once a month both on their personal e-mail and on the foundation-list mailing list. We recommend that members to 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. You can verify your membership status by visiting http://foundation.gnome.org/membership and looking for your name, surname on the list of members. You can also verify your last renewal date by highlighting your name, surname with your mouse and waiting a little second for the date to appear correctly. VOTING ====== The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by 2013-05-26 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. --- 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 </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-06T09:29:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9136 <pre>Hello all, I think I have read the full thread about organizing the GNOME Summit, and Montreal winning over Portland. I am in Montreal, and I would like to offer my help. From my understanding, the Summit would happen during the Canadian Thanksgiving (Oct 12-14). There is an opportunity to have this summit coincide with the LibreOffice Hackathon (LibreOffice by The Document Foundation). I was wondering if this would fit well with the GNOME Summit? Your logistics need are for 35-50 people. The LibreOffice Hackathon could easily double the size of a combined events. The obvious benefits would be a greater media coverage. Mid-October would be just two weeks before the municipal elections, and the use of open source software has been an issue in Montreal (and Quebec, and Canada to a lesser extent) for a number of years. I think it would be great! Cheers from Montreal, Immanuel Giulea _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Immanuel Giulea 2013-05-03T15:49:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9134 <pre> Hi, as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail: First name, Last name (Last renewed on) * Bharath, Acharya (2011-05-19) * Tiffany, Antopolski (2011-05-05) * Marco, Barisione (2011-05-13) * Laurent, Bigonville (2011-05-05) * Antonio Fernandes, C. Neto (2011-05-19) * Andrew, Cowie (2011-05-11) * Máirín, Duffy (2011-05-25) * Carlos, Garnacho Parro (2011-05-26) * Sébastien, Granjoux (2011-05-19) * Luca, Invernizzi (2011-05-05) * Peter, Korn (2011-05-24) * Pockey, Lam (2011-05-19) * Jonny, Lamb (2011-05-19) * Lucian, Langa (2011-05-19) * James, Liggett (2011-05-19) * Miguel Angel, López Hernández (2011-05-24) * Bertrand, Lorentz (2011-05-20) * Dumitru, Mișu Moldovan (2011-05-19) * Frederic, Muller (2011-05-19) * Kristen, Nielsen (2011-05-19) * Rouquier, Philippe (2011-05-19) * Travis, Reitter (2011-05-06) * Martyn, Russell (2011-05-25) * Amaya Rodrigo, Sastre (2011-05-20) * Thomas Vander, Stichele (2011-05-19) * Brad, Taylor (2011-05-19) * Pascal, Terjan (2011-05-19) * Philip, Withnall (2011-05-19) * Li, Yuan (2011-05-24) * Marina, Zhurakhinskaya (2011-05-19) The Renewal form can be found at [2]. Cheers, GNOME Membership and Elections Committee [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg00000.html [2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> GNOME Membership and Elections Committee 2013-05-03T10:52:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9126 <pre>Hi all, I am Balasankar C from Kerala, India. Thanks for accepting me as a foundation member. I am currently contributing to Malayalam Language Team of GNOME Localisation and am really happy to be accepted as a member. I hope to continue contributing to the same and will try to help this project in all other ways possible by me. Once again thank you. PS: I couldn't get the &lt; at &gt;gnome.org mail alias to work. I sent two sample mails but didn't receive them. Sorry if this is not the place to ask help regarding that, please direct me to the correct platform to do it. Regards, Balasankar C _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Balasankar Chelamattath 2013-05-02T18:46:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9123 <pre>Hello, all Thank you, GNOME Foundation for accepting me as a member. I am absolutely thrilled! I am Sindhu. I come from a small coastal city called Mangalore in the south of India. I currently live and pursue school in Bangalore, India. I am finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science and I am to graduate in June. I previously worked worked at a government office before quitting to finish college and re-engage in my passion for FLOSS products and GNOME. I have been using GNOME for 8 years now, I have come wrangling all the way from random xserver crashes to admiring how pretty GNOME 3 is! When am not hunting for bugs to triage/file/fix, I love to read books (mostly fiction) and pack tasty meals for impromptu picnics :-) I hope to continue contributing in any and every way I can to this product that has radically changed the way I think about software and computing. Thank you. Sindhu _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Sindhu S 2013-05-02T18:29:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9087 <pre>Hello Foundation members, the new Jabber istance I promised I while back is ready to go. Some details about it: 1. Which software are we using? We're currently using Prosody [1]. 2. How JIDs will look like? JIDs will look this way: JID&lt; at &gt;jabber.gnome.org (this to prevent any confusion between the mail alias &lt; at &gt;gnome.org and the JID used for the jabberd service. 3. Who can register to the service? Registrations to Jabber are currently allowed and granted for Foundation members. (this is yet another benefit we give to contributors for their hard work and dedication) The full list of Foundation members can be found at [2]. 4. How can I register to the server? Upstream is currently working on a mail-based-verification to restrict registrations to the server to a specific range of emails, until that is done new users registrations will be handled manually by me. Please send an e-mail to &lt;av&lt; at &gt;gnome.org&gt; with your preferred JID. (ideally it should follow AccountNamePolicy's rules [3]) Creating accounts manually shouldn't be a problem since we don't have a big range of new Foundation members per year. I'll make sure to set up your account as soon as I receive all the information we request on my inbox. 5. Can I chat with someone who is registered on a server which is different than jabber.gnome.org? Indeed you can, that's the default Prosody's behaviour. 6. Are MUC (Multi-User-Chats) enabled? Yes, they are. 7. Can I change my password afterwards? Indeed you can, this is not a blocker anymore. The Jabber daemon isn't binded to LDAP, thus you can directly use the built-in function on your client to change your personal password after your account has been setup. 8. is this FAQ available on the wiki too? Yes, it is, at [4]. Please improve it if you find anything missing. [1] http://prosody.im/ [2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership [3] https://live.gnome.org/AccountNamePolicy [4] https://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/Jabber </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-04-29T11:21:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9086 <pre>Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. They are: * 1. Robert Roth (System Monitor) 2. Enrico Nicoletto (Brazilian Portuguese Translations Team coordinator) 3. Simon Young Ki Hong (GNOME.Asia 2013 and GNOME Tech talk (Seoul) organizer) 4. Dominique Leuenberger (Packaging GNOME for openSUSE) 5. sanad (GNOME Arabic translator) 6. Tim Lunn (GNOME/Ubuntu Integration contributions) 7. Sammy Fung (GNOME.Asia contributor) In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1] 1. Jim Garrison (gtik developer, Gnomoradio) 2. Stephane Delcroix (f-spot) 3. Alexander Kojevnikov (Banshee co-maintainer, '09, '10 and '12 GNOME GSoC mentor) * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement) For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at membership-committee&lt; at &gt;gnome org. (or me directly) [1] https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-04-29T11:11:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9085 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130416 = Minutes for Meeting of April 16th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Karen Sandler === Missing === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * GUADEC * Update on GUADEC 2013 * No updates from the papers committee * The sponsors brouchure is ready * E-mail regarding GUADEC 2015 from Worldwideconventions. * Seems to be spam * They don't seem to be targeting our kind of conference * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * No updates * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * We have received a report from Ryan * Needs to be published alongside with the KDE board * '''ACTION''': Andreas to email the KDE eV board to agree on publishing the Collaboration Summit results * Documentation hackfest sponsorship * Budget request: USD 9500 (worst case) * '''VOTE''': +1 Andreas, Joanie, Emmanuele, Bastien, Tobi - approved * Other upcoming events * GTK Hackfest https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GTK2013 * Budget request: USD 3000 for Tristan van Berkom's travel * The request is *very* last minute, even if it was sent to the travel committee two weeks ago and put on the GNOME wiki for the past month * '''VOTE''': +1 Andreas, Joanie, Shaun, Emmanuele, Bastien - approved * '''ACTION''': Joanie to send an email to Tristan to communicate the vote of the board on his travel sponsorship request * We really need to sort out the travel committee and process * Should be discussed on the mailing list * Annual Report * Shaun sent the finances section to Karen for review and is incorporating the feedback * Adboard meeting * Our last adboard meeting was in early February, it's time to start schedule the next one. * Ideas for topics. * Sysadmin and CiviCRM update * Code of conduct * We recently had some incidents on the mailing lists and in bugzilla where certain people where misbehaving. We have a code of conduct, but it is only a recommendation. * Should the CoC be rewritten? * Does it need the official enforcement of the foundation? * This should be discussed on foundation-list, not by the board * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to raise the issue of the CoC enforcement on board-list * Womens outreach update * Waiting for an official report from Karen * Status of a11y bids * Waiting for the recommendation from the review committee == Discussed on the mailing list == * RMS e-mailed the board about possible missing license notice in gnome-shell, Andreas pointed him to the git tree where the license file is. * Andrea Veri gave an update on his weekly items as a sysadmin. * Vincent Untz e-mailed and asked for meeting minutes from the last couple of meeting. Emmanuele promised to send them to the foundation list as soon as possible. * Tobias Mueller e-mailed the board and proposed a schedule for the upcoming board elections. == New Action Items == * '''ACTION''': Andreas to email the KDE eV board to agree on publishing the Collaboration Summit results * '''ACTION''': Joanie to send an email to Tristan to communicate the vote of the board on his travel sponsorship request * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to raise the issue of the CoC enforcement on board-list == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Andreas and Karen to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * Emmanuele to send Zana the list of FoG donors that want a gift from the Foundation * Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard * 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 - 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 * Karen - 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. * Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project * Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Holland-Stiftun for collecting funds in Europe for us. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:31:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9084 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130402 = Minutes for Meeting of April 2nd, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * GUADEC 2013 progress. * Florian Nadge left RH but he made sure to have continuity in the local organization * The website is live * CfP is ready to go live on the website and on the mailing lists * The marketing team should pick it up on social media * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to publish the CfP for GUADEC 2013 * When should we announce a call for bids for GUADEC 2015? * We should not detract from the current GUADEC * We could have informal talks with teams that want to submit a bid during GUADEC 2013 * '''ACTION''': Karen to raise the question on bids for GUADEC 2015 during the GUADEC committee meeting * Do we want to have some requirement? * Past years we asked for a committment from the local team to have a venue available prior to the bid * Given the distance from GUADEC 2015, we could just ask for the presence of an established local team * Should we have a discussion for an intent to bid or an actual bid? * To be discussed on the mailing list * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * Everything seems to be on track * Speakers selection tried to encourage the local community to submit talks * Also, to keep down costs * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * Needs to coordinate with the KDE eV for announcing it officially * Nobody asked for travel assistance * Current attendance is around 10 people * The announcement should happen once the summit starts * Advertising idea: Karen to interview attendees on why they are there and what they want to accomplish by the end of the event * GTK hackfest * [[Hackfests/GTK2013]] * travel assistance needed * budget covered for RH employees * ~2300 USD for flights + ~2200 USD for accommodation = 4500 USD * OLPC graciously donated office space for the hackfest in Cambridge * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to contact the travel committee for the travel assistance for the GTK hackfest * Possible hackfests. * Since the number of hackfests have been low of late, should we encourage teams to run more hackfests? * We still have plenty of room in the budget for hackfests * Depending on costs we could still have around six hackfests * Shaun is collecting names for a Docs hackfest in June * Karen is thinking to have a dedicated Marketing hackfest (instead of small meetings during other conferences) * Andreas proposed an Applications hackfest - maybe before GUADEC? * '''ACTION''': Tobias to e-mail foundation list and encourage that individual teams to propose hackfests. * Annual Report * Design is still in the works * Articles are being written/edited * Financial status is in progress * Sysadmin and CiviCRM update * Sysadmin work is going well * Andrea has been very visible and open to his tasks and accomplishments * CiviCRM is still in flux * It's a big and complex system * We don't entirely know how to use it for tracking FoG * The Foundation's use case does not seem very much exotic * Karen is going to meet with Dan Lovo from CiviCRM to discuss the CiviCRM featureset that we can use * Mobile application for news related to GNOME * '''ACTION''': Karen to contact Geno Roupsky to explain the rules for using the GNOME tradema * Flattr donations update * We had some issues when setting up the account * We are ready to announce it * Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc. * Karen reached out to the Linux Foundation for their travel solutions, and we're waiting to hear back * Collecting funds in Europe * Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation. * There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically that we have been in contact with. * Still working on a list of requirements * Status of a11y bid proposals * The committee of volunteers to review the bid we received has been formed * They will send an summary/informed opinion to the board by the end of the week * Once we decide on the bid, we will discuss with the company that proposed it on a start date * The bid itself has a precise timeline and end date * LGM funds for GIMP * Michael Schumacher from the GIMP team wants to use the money we hold for them to pay for travel and lodging for the GIMP team for Libre Graphics Meeting. * Receipts have been attached to their mail. * '''ACTION''': Zana to transfer the money according to the request for travel assistance for attending LGM from Michael Schumacher == Discussed on the mailing list == * Julita asked for advice on trademark usage for GNOME Fest Peru. * Karen replied to Julita off-list. * Usage of the word Wi-Fi in the Power Settings panel. This is a possible trademark of the Wi-Fi alliance. * Karen is looking into it. * Andrea Veri set up Etherpad for note taking for the board and other teams. Currently in testing phase. * Andrea Veri sent his status report to the board. * Draft for gnome.org post about the loss of Malcolm Tredinnick * Evaluation of a11y bid. == Completed Actions == * Andreas to remind everyone on the board about the next meeting at least an hour in advance * Bastien to contact Karen and send a reminder for the a11y call for bids * Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the bid for the a11y contract. === New Action Items === * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to publish the CfP for GUADEC 2013 * '''ACTION''': Karen to raise the question on bids for GUADEC 2015 during the GUADEC committee meeting * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to contact the travel committee for the travel assistance for the GTK hackfest * '''ACTION''': Tobias to e-mail foundation list and encourage that individual teams to propose hackfests. * '''ACTION''': Zana to transfer the money according to the request for travel assistance for attending LGM from Michael Schumacher == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project * Andreas to update the employee handbook with the parental leave policy (PRIVATE) * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Andreas and Karen to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * Emmanuele to send Zana the list of FoG donors that want a gift from the Foundation * Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard * 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 - 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 * Karen - 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. * Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project * Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Holland-Stiftun for collecting funds in Europe for us. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:30:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9083 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130319 = Minutes for Meeting of March 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * No new updates * Waiting for the call for sponsors from the GUADEC team * We should start contacting the advisory board members * CfP still waiting on the website going live * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * New funding/sponsorships for the Asia summit * We should allocate the same budget for travel sponsorship that we allocated last year * Last year's budget: USD 15,000 * Our line for GNOME.Asia in the Foundation's budget is currently USD 10,000 * Travel budget, and incidental expenses * We may be able to get some of that funding back through sponsorship * We have some wiggle room in the budget * We are also under-budget in terms of hackfests * VOTE: +1 Joanie, Andreas, Bastien, Emmanuele, Shaun; Toby abstains * ACTION: Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia team about the budget extension for the travel * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * Needs to coordinate with the KDE eV for announcing it officially * The wiki used to track the summit is hosted on fd.o, but the fd.o wiki is also under heavy spam attack * OpenSUSE has moved the wiki on their infrastructure * Would be good to have interviews of the attendees to detail what they are working on * Annual Report * Content is written, and is getting reviewed and edited * Waiting for the financial section (budget) * a11y proposals * Current status * Joanie raised concerns on the mailing list regarding who receives the e-mails of the bids and possible conflict of interest, resulting in Karen changing the call for bids to her address instead of the board-list. Karen planned to ask all bidders if they agree to publish their bid. * Joanie abstained from the process * We received one bid * Two options * 1. we review the bid we received * 2. we extend the bid proposal period * ACTION: Karen will contact the committee that she has formed for this purpose, ccing the board to evaluate whether the bid we received should be accepted or if we should extend the call for bids. Joannie will abstain from the process and communication on this but will receive all emails to board-list&lt; at &gt;. * Sysadmin and CiviCRM update * Still waiting on the donation page * Mobile application for news related to GNOME * Geno Roupsky have created a application to read GNOME News. * Wants permission to use the name "GNOME News" and to use the logo * Needs discussion and vote. * ACTION: Karen to contact Geno Roupsky to explain the rules for using the GNOME trademarks * Flattr donations update * It was suggested on marketing-list that we should try and implement flattr.com donations on gnome.org * Karen has been in touch with the CEO of Flattr * Flattr amended their rules to allow not-for-profit software companies to be charitable * Flattr they are processing our application * Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc. * Continue discussion from two weeks ago * Main concerns: process far too cumbersome, reimbursement and privacy issues * One option was to use an external (corporate) travel management service for travel * It has already been explored in 2011, but the fees were an issue * May be worth asking the Linux Foundation for their process * ACTION: Zana to send the findings of the previous exploration for a travel management service to the board * ACTION: Joanie will look over the form and see how to revise it to eliminate the banking details issues * ACTION: Andreas to contact Diego to check switching the travel reimbursement to a web form to increase privacy * ACTION: Karen to contact Linux Foundation to ask about their system * Collecting funds in Europe * Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation. * There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically that we have been in contact with. * ACTION: Karen to put together a memorandum of understanding with our requirements for funds collection for Europe to send back to Wau-Holland-Stiftung == Discussed on the mailing list == * Sysadmin status update from Andrea Veri. * OPW sponsorship program sponsorship levels and names of these. Board voted in favor of Karens proposal. (needs url to public list) == Completed Actions == * Andreas to contact Julita to notify of the funds allocated for the GNOME community event in Lima * Andreas to contact Julita to obtain a revised budget for the GNOME community event in Lima === New Action Items === * Andreas to remind everyone on the board about the next meeting at least an hour in advance * Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the bid for the a11y contract. * Emmanuele to send Zana the list of FoG donors that want a gift from the Foundation * Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Andreas and Karen to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Bastien to contact Karen and send a reminder for the a11y call for bids * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * 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 - 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 * Karen - 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. * Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project * Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Holland-Stiftun for collecting funds in Europe for us. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:29:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9082 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130305 = Minutes for Meeting of March 5th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Seif Lotfy === Regrets === * Karen Sandler === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * Conference website is still pending * CfP is blocking on that * Emmanuele is going to send the CfP for review to guadec-papers * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * CfP is running, not many submissions but still some time to go * The CfP announcement hit gnome.org, but it may not have hit PGO * GNOME Fest sponsorship * Julita Inca asked for sponsorship of 250 USD in order to host a GNOME event in Lima, Peru. * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-February/msg00022.html * 90 students, presentations * We don't have a specific place in the budget for this kind of events * It is not the first event of this kind that has been hosted by the GNOME community in Lima * Went over budget last year * The foundation did not cover the excess expense * Should clarify the budgeted amount with Julita, to avoid going over budget again * VOTE: 250 USD as requested: unanimous * VOTE: additional 250 USD in case of over budget: unanimous * ACTION: Andreas to contact Julita to notify of the funds allocated for the GNOME community event in Lima * ACTION: Andreas to contact Julita to obtain a revised budget for the GNOME community event in Lima * Sysadmin and CiviCRM update * Relocation of GNOME Headquarters * Our current address is Groton, MA 01450, ie, Rosanna's home address. * As she is moving to California, we need to make sure to move banks etc. to there. * The Foundation is an entity based in California already. * Changes required * websites, letterheads * potentially, bank account * Move date is (tentatively) after mid-June * Friends of GNOME status update * ACTION: Emmanuele to send Zana the list of FoG donors that want a gift from the Foundation * ACTION: Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard * Travel Committee, Delegation, Budgets, etc. * There is still a lot of work from the boards side to approve travels. * Joanie suggested giving the travel committee a fixed budget. * The process used by the current committee is very complex * If we are going to allocate a fixed budget for the travel committee we need to identify the portion of the event budget to allocate for travel * This also applies to hackfests and events * Proposal: allocate the yearly budget in two blocks of six months * Quarterly and monthly are too granular * The travel committee is pretty much: Germán, Diego, Joanie, and Zana * Continue the discussion on the mailing list * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * Event is scheduled by mid/end of April * Needs to coordinate with the KDE eV for announcing it officially * Flattr donations update * It was suggested on marketing-list that we should try and implement flattr.com donations on gnome.org * Collecting funds in Europe * Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation. * There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically that we have been in contact with. * Status of a11y proposals * No updates * Karen should post a reminder that the end of the call for bids is at the end of next week * ACTION: Bastien to contact Karen and send a reminder for the a11y call for bids * GNOME 3 beginners book * Various GNOME developers have been asked for a review of the book * Potential for partnership and donations to the Foundation through royalties * Should we publish the book on our developer-related websites * gtk.org mentions the older Foundations of GTK Development book * developer.gnome.org does not have a section for published books * www.gnome.org or planet.gnome.org * Daylight saving time in the US and EU * Everybody should know what 15:00 UTC in their local time translates to * ACTION: Andreas to remind everyone on the board about the next meeting at least an hour in advance == Discussed on the mailing list == * Sysadmin status update from Andrea Veri. * Día GNOME 2012 fund request. * Fabio Duran Verdugo have had issues with receiving the payment for Dia GNOME 2012. * According to our bank the money was wired on 12/19/12. * Regarding GNOME 3 book. * Jitesh Gawali from Packt Publishing contacted the board regarding their new GNOME Developer Book. == Completed Actions == * Andreas to send the destination address to Rosanna for shipment * Karen to renew contact with W3C (contacted again, still awaiting response) * Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM (undertaking CiviCRM rehaul) * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security, reliability) (undertaking CiviCRM rehaul) === New Action Items === * ACTION: Andreas to contact Julita to notify of the funds allocated for the GNOME community event in Lima * ACTION: Andreas to contact Julita to obtain a revised budget for the GNOME community event in Lima * ACTION: Emmanuele to send Zana the list of FoG donors that want a gift from the Foundation * ACTION: Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors that want a postcard * ACTION: Bastien to contact Karen and send a reminder for the a11y call for bids * ACTION: Andreas to remind everyone on the board about the next meeting at least an hour in advance == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Andreas and Karen to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the bid for the a11y contract. * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * 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 - 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 * Karen - 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. * Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project * Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Holland-Stiftun for collecting funds in Europe for us. * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:29:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9081 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130219 = Minutes for Meeting of February 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 3th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Problems with Gobby, lost historical minutes (they are still available in the Wiki) * '''ACTION''': Andreas? Karen? to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * 2013 Budget * Needs vote to finalize (was +1 from Emmanuele, Joanie, Shaun, Tobi, Andreas) * +1 from Seif * Abstain from Bastien * Passed with votes from previous meeting * Sysadmin status update * Andrea is very responsive, and working with the CivCRM contractor, Stuart Gaston * CiviCRM status update * Should take up to 10 business days * Contractor offered training on the new tools, a number of Board members and employees interested * Friends of GNOME status update * Google now matches donations from Google employees to the GNOME Foundation * '''ACTION''': Check status with Emmanuele for FoG * GUADEC status * Brochure not finalised yet, draft discussed today * Would be nice to take in advice from the AdBoard about giving away discount vouchers to share around the sponsoring company (rather than a limited number of entrance vouchers) * GNOME Asia status * Need entity in Korea to handle sponsorship, Karen contacted the Linux Foundation about that * Call for Papers opening soon * Joining W3C status update * No updates from W3C * '''ACTION''': Karen to renew contact for W3C * Thanking ICAB for hosting GNOME DX hackfest * ICAB kindly provided us with a location for the DX hackfest in Brussels. We should thank them somehow. * Framed poster was mentioned as an option, we have signed posters from GUADEC in Den Haag * '''ACTION''': Andreas to send the destination address to Rosanna for shipment of a poster to ICAB * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * A number of attendees. Setting on dates still. And there is a location. * OpenSUSE would sponsor accomodation, location, * Flattr donations * It was suggested on marketing-list that we should try and implement flattr.com donations on gnome.org * Flattr say that "Software organisations cannot be charitable organisations". We might be able to get an account, but it would not be a non-profit account but still better than the standard one * Collecting funds in Europe * Gathering donations and sending gifts from US to Europe is currently a costly operation. * There is a organization called Wau-Holland-Stiftung that might be able to help collect funds for Europe specifically * Discussions are ongoing, need to gauge interest from our side first. Cost would be a fixed percentage (capped at already specified administrative costs). * Organisation is currently strongly associated with Wikileaks (tax exemption removed and restored, accounts frozen, etc.) * In strong contact with the German tax office * Shall we further explore this possibility? * '''ACTION''': Karen to carry on the discussion to explore the offer from Wau-Hollan-Stiftung for collecting funds in Europe * Status of a11y proposals * Nothing has reached us yet * We have reached out to some people if they would like to be independent experts to evaluate the bids. * '''ACTION''': Bastien will reach out to a couple of companies and make sure that they are aware of the A11Y bid. * Fabian asked for reimbursement reg. Dia GNOME * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to handle reimbursement to Fabian for Dia GNOME -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:28:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/9080 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130122 = Minutes for Meeting of January 22th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Bastien Nocera === Missing === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM * Good attendance: Red Hat, FSF, Debian, Google, SUSE (maybe), Canonical (maybe) * Karen is planning the adboard dinner after the meeting * Agenda * User testing (with the design team attendance) * Travel/event sponsorship for adboard employees and volunteers for hackfests * Sponsorship package for hackfests and GUADEC * 2013 Budget * Shaun have published a rough budget for 2013. * Needs discussion * Planning ahead for changes in the revenue of the foundation * Budget for the worst case scenario of losing an advisory member fee * We should check some of the pending adboard fees that were never paid, and eventually write them off with the help of the accountant * Individual donations are higher than other years * Campaigns help a lot * Can we reduce the banking fees? * Next steps * The board needs to vote to approve * Vote on the budget approval: +1 from Emmanuele, Joanie, Shaun, Tobi, Andreas; missing votes: Bastien, Seif * '''ACTION''': Andreas to send a mail to board-list to get the last two votes on the 2013 budget * Status of a11y proposals * Karen is still waiting for an answer from Mozilla * Sysadmin * Sysadmin hiring update * Andrea Veri has been selected for the part-time sysadmin position * Karen and Andrea are working on the contract * Karen asked Andrea to contact the sysadmin team (and the board) with the list of actions he wants to work on beforehand * CiviCRM * Karen will look into hiring a contractor once we have Andrea ready for this work on our end * Openhatch outreach idea * Karen has not yet heard back * '''ACTION''': Karen to follow up with Openhatch to check if they are waiting for the board's feedback * Status of fiscal services for GIMP * Toy Wilber agreement state * Waiting to hear back from GIMP team * Joining the W3C update * Karen has been following up with the W3C to present the Foundation * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * Nobody has yet committed to an event, sponsored by SUSE at their Nuremberg offices * Decisions about GUADEC 2012 Profits update * The Foundation has received the money from the local committee * The Board authorized a donation to the GPUL and GHANDALF for EUR 500 each == Discussed on the mailing list == * Travel sponsorship unresolved(?): Emily and Joaquim for FOSDEM; Tobi and Fabio for speaking at events * Vote for reimbursement for Tobi: +1 Andreas, Shaun, Joanie, Emmanuele * Emily was approved * Vote for travel sponsorship for Joaquim for FOSDEM: -1 Andreas, Emmanuele; Joanie abstains; +1 Tobi * To be continued on the mailing list == 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. === New Action Items === * '''ACTION''': Andreas to send a mail to board-list to get the last two votes on the 2013 budget * '''ACTION''': Karen to follow up with Openhatch to check if they are waiting for the board's feedback == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * All directors should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list for the Accessibility FoG project * Andreas to update the employee handbook with the parental leave policy (PRIVATE) * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and submit it to the board list for the Accessibility FoG project * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * Joanie will send an email to both GNOME and KDE board lists to get us all together on the discussion for a desktop collaboration summit. * Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize the types of contacts and come up with the various areas * Joanie to work with the A11y team to write proposals for using the Mozilla and FoG money * Joanie to discuss with Dario (drf) from KDE and Ryan Lortie to formalize an agenda and a time frame for a Collaboration Summit * Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers * 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 foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM * Karen - 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 * Karen - 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. * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security, reliability) * Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Rosanna - Look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:27:38 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general