= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, May 23rd 2017, 17:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, May 30th 2017, 17:00 UTC
Wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20170523 == Attending == * Alexandre Franke * Allan Day * Meg Ford * Jim Hall == Regrets == * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern * Nuritzi Sanchez * Cosimo Cecchi == Missing == * Shaun McCance == Agenda for 2017-05-23 == * Fractional scaling hackfest * Advisory board meeting venue in Manchester * Board of directors elections * Review ongoing items == Minutes == * Fractional scaling hackfest * no request for a budget * hackfest is happening in Taipei, June 5th to 9th * we’re happy about it! * it’s been publicised. * Advisory board meeting venue in Manchester * Allan asked the GUADEC team about the venue during their meeting yesterday * We should have it at a location that’s central * ACTION: Allan to ask the GUADEC team for more details * Board of directors elections * two? days away from the deadline * two candidates so far * ACTION: Jim to send a call on the mailing list == Ongoing == '''This section includes items which have seen an update in the last 30 days. Format is "YYYY-MM-DD, action|discussion|abstract" for this and subsequent minutes sections''' * GUADEC bid presentations * The Board would like to have the bidding teams present their bids at GUADEC to the Board, possibly during a lunch * 2017-05-16 * ACTION: Allan to reach out to the bidding teams and let them know to prepare a presentation for GUADEC * 2017-05-23: Allan has done this - complete * 2017 Elections * Deadline for announcing a candidacy is June 24th * 2017-05-16 * ACTION: Nuritzi to send out a reminder to candidates that they should be planning to arrive at GUADEC two days earlier * 2017-05-23: Nuritzi has sent the mail * Foundation support for Flathub * 2017-05-09 * The Board voted to try and use some of our pro-bono counsel time towards the Flathub legal framework, provided our lawyers agree * ACTION: Neil to connect to Luis * 2017-05-16 - Exact questions to ask Luis are being worked up * Hackfest process documentation * 2017-02-14 * ACTION: Nuritzi to take a stab at updating the documentation for the process to request a hackfest and responsibilities between Board and TC * 2017-05-02 * Nuritzi will work on this by end of May, check in then * Dropping dates in copyright claims on our websites * 2016-12-06 * ACTION: Alexandre to send an email to foundation-list with a proposal for discussion * 2016-12-20 * Next step seems to be to reach out to Creative Commons to get advice on what exactly can and should be done * 2017-01-24 * Alexandre reached out to Creative commons * 2017-02-28 * Alexandre will try alternative channels * 2017-05-02 * We got a reply, Alexandre to follow up * Privacy campaign funds * 2016-09-27 * Draft is out for the Board to review and give feedback * ACTION: Cosimo to try and form a committee to review internship proposals * 2016-10-26 * We are aiming for an internship round in spring 2017 === Ongoing but stalled === '''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30 days.''' * Owncloud shared calendar for the board * 2016-08-10 * Cosimo tested creating an event, but with mixed results * ACTION: Cosimo to take it on from here * 2016-09-06 - Allan has started a list of reoccuring events on the wiki - https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Minutes/UpcomingAgenda * 2017-03-07 * Neil is looking into a similar calendar so will take over * Paypal Giving Fund * Alexandre suggested in december 2015 to get us enrolled in the program * That would give us exposure. For example Humble bundle allows to direct the charity part of purchases towards any of their participants * Zana tried to get us in sometime before may 2016, we never heard back. * 2016-09-06 * ACTION: Zana to look into it * Sysadmin fundraising levels and perks * 2016-08-10, ACTION: Nuritzi to take on this project and figure out what it entails * 2017-05-09 * We can talk about this item at GUADEC * Web page for prior pants winners * 2016-08-10, ACTION: Shaun and Allan to add the web page * 2017-03-07 * Only missing the winner for one year, 2005 * We can crowdsource the details and refinement of the bios/photos/etc * Friends of GNOME * 2016-08-10 * ACTION: Allan to get in touch with Tobi and the sysadmin team to migrate the FoG infrastructure over to GNOME * 2017-03-07 * Allan will pass this on to Neil, and connect him to Tobi * 2017-04-18 - Neil has CRM working (ish) on the gnome website, we're looking at how to move the PayPal IPN to CiviCRM === Ongoing but no director assigned === '''This section includes items which haven't seen an update in the last 30 days and have no Director assigned''' == Nice to have == '''This section includes items which we would love to see happen at some point but lack the time to effectively become reality''' * Contract template for future use organizations for which we handle money * Kat to draft this * Privacy policy for GNOME services * Current draft is at https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Privacy * Sysadmin Team's NDA should also be covered when dealing with this item * Kat or Allan to write up the policy * Kat or Allan to write up recommended wording for distribution privacy policies, regarding the behaviour of GNOME software == Discussed on the mailing list == == Completed actions == _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
