Clearing out the drawer of old minutes... GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Oct/25 ===========================================
Attendance: Quim Federico Zana Vincent Jonathan Anne Dave No attendance: Jeff Waugh (regrets) MINUTES ======= * Intel server: Powered like a server machine. Big upright form factor. Cannot put it in the Red Hat colo because it takes up too much space even with the rackmount adapter. Tried to send it back to Intel when it arrived, to exchange it for a different form factor, but this failed. We need to ask OSL to see if they can host it in their colo. It's not a very good desktop machine; it's really loud. What to use it for? We were using it for backups, but we have a better solution now. We don't really know what to use it for right now. GNOME Hispano was promised a server (or access to one) at GUADEC. Sun has not been able to provide one. DECISION: ship the machine to Portland until we figure out what to do with it. [update 2006/dec - the machine is in Portland now; thanks to Red Hat!] Shipping costs: to be figured out. Maybe Red Hat can pay for shipping. ACTION: JRB to figure out how to send the machine. ACTION: Dave to contact Portland to see who should receive the machine. * Killermundi is now public and in marketing-list. * Code of conduct: * Need to be able to just point people to the CoC eventually. * Do we think that the Board should come out to the membership and say that the CoC is a good idea? * We need someone to write a sample mail to board-list on how we would present the CoC to the Foundation's membership. * ACTION: Anne to write the sample mail on the Code of Conduct. * To announce in foundation-list: Izabel Cerqueira Valverde (Brazil) and Clytie Siddall (Australia) has joined the membership committee. * Latinoware: 1500 dollars for marketing material is too much. DECISION: We'll give them USD 750, and Dave will fly down there. The Foundation will pay for his travel. ACTION: Dave to mail OSU OSL about Sun machine ACTION: Dave to ask about racking a 5U Intel machine at OSU OSL ACTION: Dave to put JRB in contact with Corey Shields for delivery of T2000 ACTION: Dave to get drunk on caipirinhas ACTION: Budget 2007 - Dave to do a first draft * We need to let the incoming Board know how much money we expect to get next year, and what the expected expenses are. We have such and such funding requests outstanding, etc. ACTION: Jonathan to prepare financial information for the next Board. * Quim: we should announce to foundation-list that we are starting to prepare the budget for next year. Also, we should query the membership: what should we spend our money on? Which events, etc.? * Elections: * Vincent asked the elections committe, but no news yet. * Outstanding question: how many people on next year's Board? DECISION: Seven people for the next Board, just as it is currently. * Process for replacement of members of the Board? * It's too late this year to propose that people run for specific roles in the Board (chairman, secretary, treasurer, etc.). * It would be interesting to know how many new Foundation members we got this year. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list