On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Stormy Peters <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > Did anything happen with the adboard at FOSDEM? It's very important to keep > up relationships with adboard members if we want to continue to depend on > them for financial contributions. And you should never pass up a chance to > meet with them in person! >
I agree completely. It's a lot harder without a executive director who primarily does this. That said, I did send a note out about having an adboard meeting possibly during the Conservency dinner. We generally have enough members do one at FOSDEM. This time we did not have a quorom unfortunately. sri > Stormy > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: >> >> = Minutes for Friday, January 23th, 2015, 17:00 UTC = >> >> Next meeting due on February 6th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC >> >> == Attending == >> * Ekaterina Gerasimova >> * Rosanna Yuen >> * Marina Zhurakhinskaya >> * Jeff Fortin >> * Andrea Veri >> * Karen Sandler >> * Tobias Mueller >> * Sriram Ramkrishna >> >> == Regrets == >> >> == Missing == >> >> == Board meeting == >> >> * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015 >> * Unfortunately was not organized yet, so possibility of piggybacking >> on the SFC dinner event with a "GNOME table"? ($40 in advance/euro 40 at the >> door per attendee) >> * People can go on an individual basis, but the general feeling among >> board members seems to be "we're probably not setting this up as an official >> event"; maybe just sending an informal invitation email to the adboard list >> to let them know they can join us there >> * ACTION: Sri to send an informal invitation mail to the adboard for >> the event >> >> * Next steps for the Outreach Program >> * Marina sent an e-mail to board-list with all the planned next steps >> for the OP >> * This is a follow-up to a discussion we started during the GUADEC 2014 >> board meeting about the growth & requirements for the Outreach Program >> * GNOME has been a good home to launch and grow the project so far, but >> the program has somewhat outgrown the capabilities of GNOME. Preparations >> are being made to create an environment where the OP can grow over time >> without creating too much burden to the GNOME Foundation (in terms of >> workload on the Board, Rosanna's time handling the payments and invoices) >> * OP is being renamed to "Outreachy" >> * OP would be joining the SFC; GNOME would still be providing its >> infrastructure, for the time of the transition >> * When this round will end (around March) funds (general OP and travel >> funds) will have to be transferred from the GNOME Foundation to the SFC >> * Obligations (reimbursements etc.) will be then moved to the SFC >> itself >> * Rosanna will still be required to help out OP with invoicing / >> reimbursement till the end of March >> * Travel allowances will still have to be approved by the Board for >> this (round that ends in March) and previous rounds >> * VOTE: The board agrees to move of OP to the SF Conservancy to further >> the growth of the program. GNOME will continue to be the infrastructure >> partner for the time being. Details on the transfering of funds and any >> other information and the exact timetable will be established in due course, >> upon consulation with counsel. >> * The GNOME Foundation would not be bound by the contract of the SFC. >> The primary reason for this vote is that SFC wants to make sure that "GNOME >> is okay with this move" >> * +1 from Jeff, Tobi, Sri, Kat, Andrea - Karen & Marina abstain >> * ACTION: Karen & Marina should provide a more detailed plan as things >> are being figured out (timeframe, next steps) >> >> * 500$ materials sponsorship request for GNOME Peru Fest 2015 >> * VOTE: approve the 500$ materials sponsorship: +1 unanimous >> >> * Next board meeting: our backlog is huge. We could have an extra meeting >> right after FOSDEM, intsead of waiting 2 weeks. >> * ACTION: Tobi/Sri to evaluate the situation while at FOSDEM and >> request an extra meeting if needed >> >> Deferred: >> * Responding to a phone press inquiry asking to reach Stormy Peters >> * Comment from Stormy: "There is a press mailing list to deal with press >> inquiries. And if they are looking for me, they should be able to find me >> but you are welcome to point them my way." >> * ACTION: maybe Rosanna can check with the caller to see what he wants >> and see if we need to get back to him by press contact, or if he really >> wanted to reach Stormy in particular? >> * Sysadmin sponsorship: should we have a guadec-style sponsors' brochure >> to help with that? >> * WHS >> * OEM Linux distribution including GNOME - any action required wrt Narcis >> Garcia's email? >> * Review action items in kanban board, for completeness and status >> * ED search >> >> * Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board >> members (or missing info): >> * Reviewing and harmonizing our logos & trademark guidelines wrt ®, ™, >> etc. >> * Discuss plans for reviewing salaries/hourly rates of >> employees/contractors >> * Trademark defense campaign has ended and been a success: start >> evaluating the use of funds to wrap up the matter and to make GNOME better >> * GNOME Privacy project: what to do with the gathered funds? (hackfest? >> internships? more ideas?) >> * NDA for sysadmins (for the privacy policy) >> >> == Discussed on the mailing list == >> * Midpoint payments to Outreach interns >> >> == Completed Actions == >> * Edward Swartz's "philantropist donation": Sri to email him to thank, >> say we're getting a gift together, ask about reasons motivating his great >> donation, maybe offer an interview? And verify his mailing address. >> >> == Pending action items == >> * GNOME's CoC: Board to follow up in the upcoming meetings and prepare a >> version of the CoC to be finally considered final over all the GNOME yearly >> events >> * 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 >> * Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review >> * Kat to draft a contract template for future use organizations for which >> we handle money >> * Karen to write the Privacy policy for GNOME services >> * Karen will look at gnome-software privacy issues from a legal >> standpoint >> * Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME >> conferences to discuss on foundation-list >> * Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe >> * Tobi to talk to Andrea to move the PayPal data extraction scripts over >> to the GNOME infrastructure >> * Sri to investigate better uses of adsense/adwords on the GNOME websites >> * Sri to communicate to Rosanna and work on the donation for the West >> Coast hackfest >> * Sri, Marina, Kat to work on establishing criteria for drafting for the >> hiring committee for the ED role >> * Sri to investigate the GNOME gifts situation >> >> >> -- >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andrea >> >> Debian Developer, >> Fedora / EPEL packager, >> GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator, >> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman >> >> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-announce mailing list >> foundation-annou...@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
