The meeting minutes for the November 11th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published. Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/2010
Other past board meetings are archived here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes
-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of November 11th, 2010
Next Meeting
* December 9th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Stormy Peters
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Emily Chen
Missing
Recurring Items
* Review past action items.
* Did each person with action items send their status reports to
the board list before the meeting?
* Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published
to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
* Make sure to start up the gobby server for better note taking.
* Update foundation.gnome.org website.
New Items
* Joanmarie Diggs joined the meeting to give an update on GNOME
accessibility.
o Currently orca and the a11y project is underfunded.
o Many tasks are being done by unpaid and overworked
volunteers.
o There is not enough manpower to get the work done.
o The orca team came up with a 2-year roadmap of work that
needs to be done and there are not enough resources to get
all the work done.
o Fortunately there has been a lot of resources provided by
Spain in the past year, but these resources may not
continue to be available.
o A $40,000 budget for FY2012 would help the a11y project.
o The GNOME Foundation currently has a $20,000 a11y budget.
Half is allocated for travel and half is allocated for
contracting work. This includes roughly a $5,000 surplus
from previous year, $10,000 from Mozilla, and $5,000 from
F123-Mais Diferenças.
* Possible solutions:
o Perhaps a Friends of GNOME campaign could target a11y.
o Perhaps we could revisit funding a11y tasks via bounties
(e.g. The GOPA program). That project did not work so well
since the bounties were too small. Perhaps a $40,000 budget
would allow for larger bounties.
o We should do more PR, blogs, and publish more clear plans
about what work we want to do to raise awareness.
o Can plan to do a targeted FoG campaign. Plan to do a
campaign for servers in Spring, 2011. So, an a11y campaign
could follow.
o Can we work more closely with advisory board companies to
get more people allocated to a11y instead of, or in
addition to, raising funds.
o Perhaps we could determine a more consistent way to
allocate some money from the yearly advisory board fees to
programs that need money every year such as a11y.
* Next steps:
o The a11y team needs to provide a more clear a11y-wide
roadmap instead of just an orca roadmap. It would be easier
to get resources if we had a clear list of work that needs
attention. Joanie said that she hopes that a draft roadmap
might be ready in a few weeks.
* Review of the Executive Director job description
o The board felt that the description put together looks good.
o All feedback on the Executive Director job description
needs to be done by Sunday so we can make the announcement
on Monday.
o Hiring committee
+ Working to put together the committee.
+ The board considered whether it would be good to do
panel interviews.
# They tend to be valuable, but it can be
complicated to find a time that works for
everyone.
# Bastien suggests that perhaps we can find a
committee that is located in the same region to
make timing easier. If so, should we have
separate committee's in different regions?
* ACTION: Og will work to update the GNOME websites to update pages
that refer to Stormy as the Executive Director.
Completed Actions
* Brian - To write-up the feedback from Stormy's review and to
provide it to Stormy.
* Paul - Will work on 2010 Annual Report
o Paul - To fix the annual report: remove all TM in the GNOME
logos, s/GNOME Asia/GNOME.Asia/g, use right font for GNOME
logo.
o Paul - Will follow up with Germán about the financial data
for the Annual Report.
* Paul - To make sure Board members have access to the Foundation
blog.
* Paul - To follow up with
