wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140121
= Minutes for Tuesday, January 21th, 2013, 15:00 UTC =
== Next Meeting ==
* Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC
== Attending ==
* Rosanna Yuen
* Andreas Nilsson
* Karen Sandler
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya
* Emmanuele Bassi
* Sriram Ramkrishna
* Tobias Mueller
* Ekaterina Gerasimova
* Joanmarie Diggs
== Board Meeting Agenda ==
* Pitivi campaign
* Karen is following up with the Pitivi maintainers
* The campaign scope is a bit unclear
* Is it an official campaign?
* Is is an endorsed campaign?
* Different constraints between official and endorsed
* Official campaigns are handled through the Foundation's infrastructure
* Should we manage the campaign money?
* The Foundation would be able to handle the money and hire the
Pitivi maintainers as contractors
* If we host the campaign on our infrastructure then we should
also handle the money from the campaign
* Improvements in Pitivi trickle down to GStreamer
* Advisory board members are interested in the platform evolution
and improvements
* '''ACTION''': Karen to follow up with the Pitivi maintainers for
their campaign
* Status and plan for the security and privacy campaign's money
* Karen asked around generally for ideas
* Not much feedback
* We should do what we did for the accessibility campaign
* Create a call for bids with broad points
* Get proposals and bids for them
* Outstanding reimbursements
* What is the status of the payments for the Mono Hackfest?
* Receipts received from the organisers
* Board needs to review them and authorise the reimbursement
* '''ACTION''': Andreas and Emmanuele to review the Mono hackfest receipts
* Any other pending reimbursements?
* Soon we will have the documentation hackfest receipts
* We should have a centralised place for the pending
reimbursements, including which ones have been authorised by the board
* Minutes and mailing list archives are not easy to use/parse
* Use a private wiki page, like we do for the travel committee
* General budget status
* No budget yet
* Bank account data is mostly up to date
* PayPal account data is still not up to date
* '''ACTION''': Karen, Kat, and Rosanna to have a meeting to finish
the budget and tax information
* Rosanna has been working on collating the tax-related data
* Upcoming events
* FOSDEM and Adboard meeting
* Attendance: Sri, Tobi, Emmanuele, Kat
* Discussion on GNOME technology and platform
* Especially GTK
* Points of discussion
* How do we improve the feedback from non-GNOME users of GTK
* Avoid disenfranchisement of non-GNOME users/platforms
* Create a meeting place to get feedback and give a voice to
non-GNOME/non-Linux users of the GNOME core platform
* GNOME Asia
* Confirmed to be co-locating with OpenSUSE
* Tobi found a convenient flight for Beijing
* Tobi has been helping out organising the event, and would
represent the board
* Kat submitted talks and wants to wait for approval for sponsorship
* Travel sponsorship should go through the GNOME Asia team
* GUADEC 2014
* '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to contact the local organisers for the
status of the papers committee and CfP
* West Coast Hackfest
* Located in Portland
* Buy in from kernel and plumbing developers
* Apps sandboxing, GNOME Shell, and Wayland are the focus
* Beginning of March
* May get corporate funding from Intel
* Travel report from Karen about Linux Conf Australia
* Interested in the Outreach program
* Karen had a couple of interviews
* Fedora desktop group is pivoting on UX for developers
* We should improve GNOME visibility at Fedora events
== Completed Actions ==
* Karen to contact Tor, EFF, OTI for feedback and eventual funding
for privacy work
* Karen to circulate a new draft of the OPW mentor/student contracts
== Pending action items ==
* Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors
* Andreas and Emmanuele to review the Mono hackfest receipts
* 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 a
nd 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 "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 follow up with the Pitivi maintainers for their campaign
* Karen, Kat, and Rosanna to have a meeting to finish the budget and
tax information
* 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
* Rosanna to check if the reimbursement for Sindhu has been returned
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