wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20131210
= Minutes for Tuesday, December 10th, 2013, 16:00 UTC =
== Next Meeting ==
* Tuesday, January 7th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Rosanna Yuen
* Andreas Nilsson
* Karen Sandler
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Tobias Mueller
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Joanmarie Diggs
=== Regrets ===
=== Missing ===
* Sriram Ramkrishna
== Board Meeting Agenda ==
* Next meeting
* Skip December 24th
* Proposed date: January 7th
* Karen is travelling for Linux Conf Au
* Other days: December 31st, January 2nd
* Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
* Karen talked to Jacob Applebaum
* Jacob expressed interest in implementing Tor support in GNOME
* Karen is connecting Jacob with Matthias Clasen from the release-team
* We should also ask on foundation-list for ideas
* '''ACTION''': Karen to reach out to foundation-list for ideas
from the foundation members regarding the privacy campaign funds
* Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost of Living
Adjustment)
* Still in progress and blocking on budget
* Upcoming Hackfests
* Portland hackfest
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Hackfests/WestCoastSummit2014
* Documentation hackfest
* https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/WinterDocs2014
* ~$7500 requested by attendees
* Travel costs are still fluctuating
* '''VOTE''': Fund documentation hackfest for USD 6000: +1 Joanie,
Marina, Tobi, Emmanuele, Andreas; Kat abstains
* State of the gnucash file/budget
* Rosanna is reconstructing the file
* Bank and website issues have been blocking updates
* An updated version has been sent to Kat
* Missing two adboard fees, we are chasing them
* Outstanding reimbursements
* Check if we have any outstanding reimbursements and what the
status is of those.
* Kat checked with GIMP and all the reimbursements arrived
* New request from GIMP is being processed
* Reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned and Rosanna is going
to process it
* General OPW update
* 31 participants
* Marina has started a document on the wiki for logging the OPW
coordination process and progress
* GNOME
* 3 interns
* Documentation
* Chinese Translation
* Getting Things GNOME!
* We managed to get enough funds raised even with last minute issues
* GNOME Asia Summit update
* May 24-25th
* Beijing
* Venue is not free, but low cost
* May be co-located with OpenSUSE conference
* Sent the sponsorship brochure
* GUADEC 2014 update
* A little behind schedule
* Sponsorship brochure draft is progressing
* Missing sponsorship levels
* Learn from last year
* Should be out early January
* Should formalise the deadline for bids for GUADEC 2015
* Upcoming Advisory Board
* Agenda
* Wayland update
* New adboard members
* GNOME.Asia dates and venue
* OPW round
* FOSDEM face to face meeting
* Quick update on Behnam Esfahbod (volunteering) and Andrea Veri's
latest work for the foundation.
* Andrea took down the World of GNOME forums due to massive amount of spam
* Behnam started working, so he had to reduce volunteer time
* Andrea's contract is coming up
* We should check how much funds we still have from the sysadmin drive
* Q&A/panel/presentation of the Board at FOSDEM
* Organisers of the Cross-Desktop room expressed interest
* To be discussed on the list
* Deadline for submission is on Sunday
== Completed Actions ==
* Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about the World of GNOME Forums
* Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about handling the Pitivi funds
* Joanie to ask Karen to report on board-list about the Upcoming
Adboard meeting
* Joanie and Kat to draft a new travel assistance form to replace
the current one (Kat, Joanie and Zana to discuss and come up with a
solution)
* Rosanna to set up an account for Kat to access the Foundation's PayPal
* Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned
* Marina to ask Behnam to (regularly) report on his state and work
== Pending action items ==
* Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
* Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts
* Emmanuele to send hackers up for "adoption" the list of donors
that want a postcard
* Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting
* Emmanuele to send a proposal to foundation-list about possible IRC meetings
* Joanie to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME
conferences to discuss on foundation-list
* Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy
for GNOME events
* Joanie to go over Michael Schumacher ideas on the Gimp funding
processes and merge them with her ideas on the wiki
* Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts
holders and passwords
* Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for
security reasons
* Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services
* Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding
for privacy work
* Karen to "call for ideas" for privacy work related bids at GUADEC
and by blog/email to foundation-announce
* Karen and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe
* Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
* Karen to reach out to foundation-list for ideas from the
foundation members regarding the privacy campaign funds
* Sri to investigate better uses of adwords on the GNOME websites
* Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts
over to the GNOME infrastructure
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