So what's the final consensus on the reimbursement of rejected visas? Does this mean retroactive reimbursements?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > = Minutes for Tuesday, July 25th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = > > == Next meeting == > > * Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 at 09:00 UTC > > == Attending == > * Ekaterina Gerasimova > * Rosanna Yuen > * Marina Zhurakhinskaya > * Jeff Fortin > * Sriram Ramkrishna > * Tobias Mueller > * Emmanuele Bassi (outgoing board) > * Andreas Nilsson (outgoing board) > * Andrea Veri (afternoon) > > === Regrets === > * Karen Sandler > * Joanmarie Diggs (outgoing board) > > === Missing === > > == Board Meeting Agenda == > > * Documenting our board decisions/measures wrt finances > * Documented on the wiki: if a budget is 4 weeks late, expenses should > be frozen; non-essential spending is currently frozen, although some > exceptions have been made > > * Financial plans and ideas for the remainder of 2014 and til Q2 2015 > * Missing invoice payments > > * Pants award > > * Groupon > > * Visa reimbursement policy > * The board voted to reimburse for a rejected visa which triggered a > discussion > * Suggestion to modify policy text > * Board can make exceptions for items which are normally not sponsored ( > https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel for a list of those items) > * '''ACTION''': Marina will shuffle around some paragraphs to make it > look nicer now. > * '''ACTION''': Jeff will lead the efforts with interesting parties to > prepare a new text hopefully for the next meeting > > * Friends of GNOME - perks > * Do we want to buy 25 new LWN tokens? > * +1: Kat, Tobi, Jeff, Marina, Andrea (Sri missing) > * Rosanna will buy tokens > * '''ACTION''': Tobi will mention that we pay for lwn codes when > sending the offer to donors > * '''ACTION''': Tobi will implement that "no gift" on the FoG page also > means no LWN subscription > > * Receiving Donations in the EU via the WHS > * Tobi sent around a new draft to the board > * Tobi also sent it to the WHS and waits for feedback > > * Preparing for the GUADEC AGM (reports session & open floor): Andreas > Nilsson to chair the sessions > > * GUADEC 2015 > * We probably need to be more flexible with the date as the venue is > being renovated > * Discuss the availability of a venue and any other issues with the > Gothenburg organization team > > To be discussed on Wednesday morning at GUADEC: > * Outstanding brand use requests (ex: Julio Cesar Caraça's mail sent to > licensing@ on 7 Jul 2014 20:05:14 -0700, titled: "Sharing an idea...") > * Taking pictures for the Foundation's Web site > * OPW - next round and beyond (on July 30, when Karen is there) > > == Discussed on the mailing list == > * happybirthdaygnome.org renewal > > == Completed Actions == > * Rosanna to contact Emily about the state of the GNOME.Asia payment > * Marina to contact the GNOME.Asia local team on their current budget > (obsolete) > * Kat to contact Karen and Pam about the trademark use request from Carol > Hanson > * All Directors to reply Andreas's/Kat's email on board list about visa > fees reimbursements (partially complete; obsolete) > * Tobi to draft a new WHS agreement after the feedback from the board > * Emmanuele to draft a date and time for the post-release meeting > (obsolete from 3.12) > * Jeff to send the agenda to the advisory board list for the upcoming > meeting on the 30th at GUADEC > * Kat to book a restaurant for advisory board meeting > > == Pending action items == > * Andrea to improve board's docs about what a Board member should know > before participating to board's decisions and discussions > * Andreas to put together a GNOME supporter card for our donors > * Andreas, Joanie to draft thank you letters to our donors > * Andreas to investigate the GNOME gifts situation > * Andreas to ask Karen and Pam how much we should disclose to the > community about the ongoing discussion with Groupon > * Emmanuele to send Zana and Tobi an update on FoG donors gifts > * Jeff to lead the efforts with parties that are interested in > sponsorship to prepare a new text hopefully for the next meeting > * Jeff to send the agenda to the adboard > * 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 > * 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 > * Marina will shuffle around some paragraphs to make it look nicer now > * Marina check with engagement team about re-sharing GNOME-related job > offers from adboard members > * 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 > * Tobi will mention that we pay for lwn codes when sending the offer to > donors > * Tobi will implement that "no gift" on the FoG page also means no LWN > subscription > * 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 > * Zana to check the inventory of merch she has in storage (low priority) > > -- > > 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 > > -- -Sindhu
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