More late minutes. GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/03/15 ==========================================
Attendance: Anne Dave Federico Jonathan Quim (guest starring) Vincent No attendance: Jeff Luis (regrets) PREVIOUS ACTIONS ================ * Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and regions to act as local press contacts. (ongoing; he contacted various people and is following up) * JRB to finish job description for administrative needs. (ongoing, sort of done) * Federico to organize next call at Novell (NOT DONE; to be done for the next call) * Luis to mail boston-social@gnome.org to look for volunteers to represent us at Boston Usenix and Boston LWE (ongoing) * Anne to send her draft program to foundation-list and put it up in the web page (need to try again because of moderation issues) * Dave to be our liaison with marketing-list to set up the basic structure of the new www.gnome.org (ongoing as Dave was not in the call) * Luis to help marketing-list prepare a press release for the GNOME/W3C SVG anouncement (NOT DONE) * JRB to send out mugs and mouse pads to outstanding donors, and thank-you notes as well (ongoing, as JRB was not in the call) * Dave to request Quim for a copy of a contract with the Generalidat describing what they are paying for this GUADEC. * Quim to write a formal letter of invitation for the people who need to get visas. Quim to find someone in Spain to contact the ministry of foreign affairs. * Jeff to start writing an agenda for the Advisory Board meeting (DEADLINE: March 08). DONE * Federico to write his paper for the Advisory Board (DEADLINE: March 08) * Federico to mail advisory-board-list about what members would like to get out of the Foundation. (DEADLINE: March 08) * Jeff to ask the Advisory Board about funding GNOME through OSDL, or funding it directly. * Jeff to write a proposal for the technical project meeting. * Dave to resurrect German contract from last year so that we can use it for Axis Informática. DONE NEW ACTIONS =========== * Federico to remind people to submit abstracts, and announce the confirmation date. * Vincent to update www.gnome.org to mention the call for papers deadline. * Jonathan to ask Quim about invoicing, and to finish the budget ASAP. * Federico to mail Dave today (Mar. 15) with the agenda for the Advisory Board meeting. * Anne to take care of GNOME joining ODF-Alliance: http://www.odfalliance.org/about.html All present board members in agreement. AGENDA ====== * We have hired Rosanna Yuen for a period of one month. * We are still looking for an administrator! Zana is working for us as a stopgap measure. Tentative date for hiring a full-time administrator: end of April. Needs to be USA-based for administrative and legal reasons. * GUADEC report by Quim: Budget: No figures yet, but Quim feels safe given that we are not paying for the venue, and we already have good sponsortship. Infrastructure: Bungalow-based camping in Villanova; there is public transportation between camp site and conference site. The bungalows are actually nicer than the youth hostel; the price is about the same. At 5 people per bungalow (with air conditioning and microwave oven for kittens), it's around EUR 17 per night. Quim is putting all his effort right now into the web site. Suggested fees: student - EUR 30, normal - EUR 50, professional - EUR 150. Suggested that we have discounts for Advisory Board members, Foundation members, and Sponsors. Sponsorship: Reimburse people or pay for their tickets? By default people pay for their own travel, and then we give them cash or a check when they are in Villanova. Call for papers: Only about 10 submissions so far. Need to announce call-for-papers in the main www.gnome.org page. Need to make it clear that we don't require full papers right now; just abstracts are fine. Suggest Apr. 20 as the date in which we tell people whether we accept their submissions. ACTION: Federico to remind people to submit abstracts, and announce the confirmation date. ACTION: Vincent to update www.gnome.org to mention the call for papers deadline. Organization: Suggest that we have a speed-talks session at the end of GUADEC, so that people can show what they did during the conference. Keynotes: We'll pay for the expenses of keynote speakers. ACTION: Jonathan to ask Quim about invoicing, and to finish the budget ASAP. Misc.: Suggest that we hold the Foundation Board meeting one day before GUADEC, and the Advisory Board meeting one day after GUADEC. * Deadline to comment on Federico's paper about the Advisory Board: Sunday March 19. * Advisory Board meeting: Wednesday March 29. * ACTION: Federico to mail Dave today (Mar. 15) with the agenda for the Advisory Board meeting. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list