GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Sep/13 ===========================================
Attendance: Anne Dave (chairing) Federico (minutes, 10 mins. late) Jonathan Quim Rosanna Vincent (minutes for the first 10 mins.) No attendance: Jeff (sleeping) OLD ACTIONS =========== * Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting. NOT DONE * Jeff to write a press release for the GTK+ / Foundation announcement. NOT DONE * Quim to finish the financials from GUADEC. ALMOST DONE * Quim to finish his GUADEC-HOWTO: IN PROGRESS, draft is done. * Dave to contact Miguel Ángel López and Izabel Cerqueira about the Latin American conferences: DONE. Not clear on what they expect from us. We are in contact with them; they need to tell us what they need from the Foundation. * Anne to contact our pro-bono law firm instead of SFLC about the trademark licensing agreement. IN PROGRESS * Quim to talk with Killermundi about the GNOME Store. IN PROGRESS - Problem: not clear if it's the Foundation's initiative to say, "you'll print this t-shirt, etc.", or if it's Killermundi's. - Problem: sending merchandise out of Spain. Within the EU it's already expensive. - We need a more franchised system so that local vendors can print merchandise in different countries. - Next step: discuss on marketing-list. * JRB to mail the draft criteria for an interview for the executive director to board-list. POSTPONED * Dave to ask O'Reilly about comissioning a GNOME book for ISVs under a free documentation license. IN PROGRESS, Dave is in touch with Andy Oram. * Jeff to draft a press release about Canonical joining the Advisory Board. NOT DONE MINUTES ======= * GUADEC financials * Sponsorship: - We need to fund a speaker for the GNOME Day in Chile, we can pay USD 1500 for travel (November 9). * Trademark application: We are going to apply for these: * New GNOME foot + wordmark modified BS Vera font * Certification mark * Community mark To be discussed with gnome-legal. * Embedded initiative: Nothing to discuss for the moment. Conversation is ongoing in the mailing list. * Other business: Someone who is not a GNOME developer nor a Foundation member is asking for an account in blogs.gnome.org. ACTIONS ======= * Quim to answer Fernando that we can cover up to 1.500USD for travel expenses of a developer invited to The GNOME Day in Chile. DONE * Anne to start the creation of the GNOME-legal group: Luis Villa, Dom Lachowicz. Need a private mailing list. * JRB to set up the infrastructure for the interviews. Deadline: Monday Sept. 18. Old actions: * Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting. * Jeff to write a press release for the GTK+ / Foundation announcement. * Quim to finish the financials from GUADEC. * Quim to finish his GUADEC-HOWTO. * Anne to contact our pro-bono law firm instead of SFLC about the trademark licensing agreement. * Quim to talk with Killermundi about the GNOME Store. * Dave to ask O'Reilly about comissioning a GNOME book for ISVs under a free documentation license. * Jeff to draft a press release about Canonical joining the Advisory Board. DECISIONS ========= We'll register the trademark like this: certification mark, community mark, a normal registered trademark for the foot. Next meeting: Wed. 2006/Sep/27, 19:00 UTC. Same bat-channel. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce