Agenda for board meeting on October 6

[Shaun McCance]

The next board meeting is October 6.  Here's our public agenda. We
welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.

* Heads up about Annual Report printing+shipping
* Desktop Summit taxes
* Action items:
  * Trademark registration followup with Pam (Kat)
  * Ubuntu GNOME agreement followup with Pam (Allan)
  * GNOME logo use by podiatrist (Shaun)
  * Hellotux agreement (Allan)
  * Logo usage for tshirts (Jeff)
  * License agreement with ilovewhatido (Allan)
  * Freedesktop hackfests with Groupon money (Kat)
  * Privacy funds hackfest (Sri, Christian)
* Open items:
  * GUADEC 2016
  * ED search
  * Google Play account 

Thanks,
Shaun

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Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

[Oliver Propst]

Glad you accepted the role at RedHat, its good news for GNOME (and of
course the specific projects you will work on).

-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst
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mentor, apply, or spread the word for Outreachy

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya]

Hi all,

GNOME is participating in Outreachy in the upcoming December round! For this 
round, the program expanded to be open to people of color underrepresented in 
tech in the U.S., in addition to being open to women, trans men, and 
genderqueer people internationally. You can learn more about the motivation for 
this expansion in Software Freedom Conservancy's press release [1].

You can sign up to mentor! - Because GNOME only usually has a few participants 
in Outreachy, we are looking to offer projects that are most strategic for 
GNOME. These include, but are not limited to, projects in the area of privacy, 
developer experience, GTK+, core experience, core applications, and web 
infrastructure. Please add coding and non-coding ideas you are willing to 
mentor in Outreachy on its page this week [2].

You can apply to participate! - In the next four weeks, applicants are invited 
to work with mentors on making relevant contributions and putting together a 
project proposal [3].

You can help spread the word! - Please encourage people personally to apply, 
post on social networks, send the information to technology groups and to the 
university departments, and post the flyers on university campuses or hand them 
out at conferences. For university outreach, we are particularly interested in 
spreading the word to students in the Southern Hemisphere, who will have a 
school summer break during the internship dates. Sample e-mail, sample social 
network updates, and a flyer are available on the spread the word page [4].

Thanks,
Marina

[1] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/sep/18/outreachy-expands/
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch
[3] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy#Application_Process
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2015/DecemberMarch/SpreadTheWord
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Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

[Ekaterina Gerasimova]

On 5 October 2015 at 10:59, Tobias Mueller  wrote:
>> The board was notified a couple of weeks ago and is in the process of
>> replacing my seat.
> Does the Board intend to follow a different strategy than to follow the 
> membership's
> opinion expressed in the election results 
> ?
>
> It appears to me that the first runner-up (i.e. me) missed 0.7 votes in order 
> to
> get elected. With about 16 votes in total, that's about 60% more votes than 
> the
> next runner-up received (about 10 votes in total).  I consider that a strong 
> statement.

The board is considering a number of candidates and is in the process
of contacting them.

> Cheers,
>   Tobi
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Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

[Tobias Mueller]

Hi!

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 10:16:29PM -0400, Christian Hergert wrote:
> As of Oct 5th, I will be a RedHat employee.
Congratulations!  I hope you'll be able to continue your work on
making GNOME development a refreshing experience.

> The board was notified a couple of weeks ago and is in the process of 
> replacing my seat.
Does the Board intend to follow a different strategy than to follow the 
membership's
opinion expressed in the election results 
?

It appears to me that the first runner-up (i.e. me) missed 0.7 votes in order to
get elected. With about 16 votes in total, that's about 60% more votes than the
next runner-up received (about 10 votes in total).  I consider that a strong 
statement.

Cheers,
  Tobi
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