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= Minutes for Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Sriram Ramkrishna * Ekaterina Gerasimova === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Give higher PayPal privileges to the treasurer * Avoid the bottleneck in case Rosanna is not available * '''ACTION''': Kat to ask Rosanna to increase her privileges on the PayPal account * For the bank account we need somebody based in the US * Karen already has access to the bank account * Hand over of the PayPal account from old treasurer to new treasurer should be part of the process * Sponsorship requests * https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Hackfests/WestCoastSummit2014 * USD 5187.52 in total * accommodation: USD 670 * travel: USD 4417 * Sri is still working to get sponsorship from Intel * possibly for a local event * There are various potential attendees that are not foundation members * They have asked for membership * '''ACTION''': Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David * '''VOTE''': Sponsorship for the attendees to the West Coast Summit that are members of the foundation: unanimous * The board should give a poster/postcard as a thank you for Endless Mobile for hosting the hackfest at their offices * https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/DeveloperExperience2014 * USD 13068 total * accommodation: USD 4356 * travel: USD 8712 * note: Jon McCann asked to have his reimbursement earlier in order to book the travel * Kat and Emmanuele are on the attendees list * '''VOTE''': Sponsorship for the travel for the DX hackfest: +1 Andreas, Marina, Tobi, Sri, Joanie; Kat and Emmanuele abstain * '''ACTION''': Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest * Next meeting * Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 16:00 UTC * GNOME.Asia * Previous years we allocated USD 15,000 * Offset by sponsorship * '''VOTE''': Allocate USD 15,000 for GNOME.Asia: unanimous * '''ACTION''': Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated * Report from the first QA team meeting * Attendees from: SUSE, Fedora * Centralisation of the QA work, as opposed to delegating it downstream * QA team as an entry point for new contributors * Decisions took during the meeting * UI automation * GSoC project == Discussed on the mailing list == * Ask Tiffany Yau to work on event planning * former OPW intern * enjoys event planning * Sri wants to get her on board for GUADEC == Completed Actions == * Karen to send an email to the board for a confcall with engagement team for strategising the press == Pending action items == * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors * Andreas to notify Allan and Alberto of the approval of the budget for the DX hackfest * 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 and Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites * Sri to talk to the membership team to get a report on the applications of Kay and David * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over to the GNOME infrastructure * Tobi, Karen to notify the GNOME.Asia organisers of the budget allocated -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list