Motorola & Google join the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

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GNOME Job Posting Board

Many GNOME-friendly companies have job openings that they announce
on blogs, IRC, or random mailing list.

Many GNOME hackers look for jobs and they crawl blogs, mailing lists,
or ask on IRC.

Now there is a central place that community members can post GNOME-related
job openings, and job seekers can subscribe to. Nothing fancy, a good old
wiki page:

  http://live.gnome.org/Jobs

Regards,

behdad

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Aug. 20, 2008

= Minutes for Meeting of Aug. 20, 2008 =

== Next Meeting ==

Sept. 3

== Attendance ==

 * Vincent
 * Brian
 * J5
 * Behdad
 * Stormy
 * Zana

=== Regrets ===

 * Luis
 * Jeff
 * Lucas

== Minutes ==

 * significant private discussion

 * GNOME.Asia:
  * Fund travel?
  * ACTION: Brian to ask Emily for list of more people to sponsor.
Preferably closer, more local, people.
  * Behdad suggests Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay.

 * GUADEC+Akademy:
  * ACTION: Behdad to send a proposal to list about finances.
  * J5: We should be careful...  Keep our identity.  Not gov't run.
Make sure we get the conference that we want.  etc...
  * Everyone discuss on board list.

 * GTK+ Adboard meeting:
  * Vincent to contact GTK+ team again.

Minutes for Directors Meeting of Sept. 3, 2008

= Minutes for Directors Meeting of 2008-09-03 =

== Next Meeting ==

2008-09-17

== Attendance ==

 * Luis
 * Vincent
 * Brian
 * J5
 * Behdad
 * Stormy
 * Zana
 * James Vasile (guest)

=== Regrets ===

 * Lucas
 * Jeff

== Minutes ==

=== Recurring items ===

 * GUADEC 2009: ongoing discussion of budget/strategy; planning for
next meeting. ACTION: Stormy and John to attend planning meeting.
 * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: Stormy to propose list of replacement speakers to Dave
 * insurance: (covered on list) moving forward on insurance; some
details still need clarification.
 * hackfests: no news.
 * Summit: prep is ongoing.
 * Stormy annual goals: update on progress from John, Stormy. ACTION:
Jon to elaborate and clarify; board to thumbs up/thumbs down.

=== New items ===

 * next ad board meeting: ACTION: Stormy and Vincent will continue
working on this.
 * ad board meeting after that: discussion on list
 * financial report: Board profusely thanks Zana for her work on this.
Behdad points at http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2008Q1-Q2.pdf
- some discussion of whether or not that would be appropriate for us.
ACTION: Vincent to publish to the web; Stormy to draft announce.
 * demo/video stuff: what can we/do we want to move forward there?

= Discussed on board-list =

 * Meeting w/ KDE about GUADEC/Akademy 2009 being scheduled for early
September in Berlin.
 * 2007 Financial Report done and to be published soon.
 * All taxes through 2007 filed.
 * Oked GNOME logo for GNOME Developer's Guide. (GNOME Foundation to
get some rights to guide, TBD.)
 * Oked GNOME logo for GUADEC/Akademy 2009.
 * Announcing new mobile stewardship team.
 * Approved various hackfests:
  * epiphany/webkit
  * art/theme
  * desktop search
  * introspection
 * Stormy presented to HP internal teams about GNOME Foundation to see
if there's other teams in HP that want to engage with the GNOME
Foundation.
 * GUADEC 2007 accounts closed
 * Rebalanced the budget for 2008
 * Finance meeting with Advisory Board
 * mobile commitee announce
 * discuss IRC chat with ED. Do we want an on-IRC board meeting once a month?

GNOME Mobile Stewardship Team

Hi, everyone:

On behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board, I'd like to announce the
appointment of a new mobile stewardship team to coordinate and focus
GNOME's mobile efforts. The team members will be Paul Cooper, Dave
Neary, and Stormy Peters.

The team will have two primary tasks. First, the board wants to make
sure that there is a coherent vision and strategy around GNOME Mobile
so that we can all move forward. We want this team to help discover
and clarify that vision- holding and leading whatever conversations,
meetings, etc. are necessary so that we can understand where GNOME
Mobile is, where it should be going, and how the Foundation can be
most helpful in getting it there. It is important to stress that the
people already involved in GNOME Mobile will be the ones setting the
direction- in keeping with the Foundation's charter, this team will be
facilitators, not decision makers.

Second, the team will also work on communication. The Board want to
ensure that there are people empowered to speak on GNOME's behalf to
the mobile community. If you've got questions about the Foundation,
finances, events, things like that, you can talk to them. Similarly,
when the media asks the board for comments on mobile, we'll typically
be pointing at this group, who can take things on themselves or
delegate to the relevant experts. And of course the board will be
looking to the team for feedback and reporting on how GNOME Mobile is
progressing.

If you have questions, please feel free to talk to the team members,
or to the board. For the time being, we expect the team to communicate
primarily via the existing GNOME Mobile development list (cc'd).
Should the need arise, we'll create a separate email alias for them
and announce it in the appropriate places, but until then, please
contact them there.

Thanks and good luck to everyone-
Luis, on behalf of the board

Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting, July 23rd, 2008

Attendance

    * Luis
    * Lucas
    * Vincent
    * Brian
    * Behdad
    * Stormy
    * Zana

Regrets

    * J5
    * Jeff

Minutes

New items

    * Ad Board meetings: discussion of topics for upcoming advisory
board, including budget, GTK+ schedule, etc.
    * mobile: plans for mobile strategy discussed.
    * budget: updates from Zana; discussion of updating in response to
inquiries from members.
    * Stormy's goals: long discussion of priorities and management for
Stormy; ACTION: board members to continue work on formalizing plan for
Stormy.

Ongoing Items

    * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: organizers to reach out to translators;
Brian, Emily, and Stormy to discuss budget for travel.
    * getting insurance: ongoing between insurance company, Bryan, and
Stormy; should be resolved soon.
    * GUADEC finances: ongoing; mostly wrapping done but some concerns
about travel financing.

Next Meeting: Aug. 6, 2008

GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their
yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The
conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the
same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of
Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade.

While there were other excellent bids, the GNOME foundation and KDE e.V.
have settled on Gran Canaria because of its position as Port to Africa
and the excellent circumstances for holding such an event there.
Unfortunately, having three proposals, two have to be rejected. The
proposals from Tampere in Finland and Coruna in Spain were close
contenders. Both foundations would like to thank those organisers for
the work they have put into their proposals and encourage them to
consider their cities for conferences in future years.

Read the full press release:
http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html

--

-- 
Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

Hi, all-

It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire
Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in
talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal
combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been
involved with GNOME and with the open source business community for a
long time. For the fuller story on her bio, check out the press
release, linked blow.

Stormy's responsibilities will include (among other things)
strengthening and growing the GNOME Foundation's infrastructure,
working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board members, GNOME
membership, and other GNOME supporters to create an awesome free and
open source desktop that is easy to use and provide a strong
development platform, and accelerating the adoption of GNOME and
strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and
community contributors. No small task but we think she's up to it.

If you're in Istanbul this week, please say hi to Stormy and welcome
her on  board. If you're not in Istanbul, well, feel free to welcome
her on list or ask questions as well (though of course we're several
hours ahead of many of you, so we might not be as prompt as usual.)

Looking forward to this new era for the Foundation-
Luis and the Board

GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting, etc

Greetings,

A couple quick announcements.  First:

To better manage organizational aspects of the board, the following
roles will by observed by board members:

  - Chairman: Behdad Esfahbod
  - Vice-Chairman: Lucas Rocha
  - Secretary: Luis Villa
  - Treasurer: John Palmieri

Furthermore, to comply with our bylaws, the Chairman and Vice-Chairman
of the board will also serve as President and Vice-President of GNOME
Foundation respectively.

All board members will continue to serve in their areas of expertise as
before.

Next:

The GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting will be held during GUADEC
on July 11th at 16:30 in Istanbul, Turkey [1].  All foundation members
are invited to attend.  If there are any questions, comments, or
proposals you want to see considered before the meeting please send them
to board <at> gnome.org soon.

There is also a GNOME Foundation BoF scheduled for July 7th at 14:30.
Interested parties are welcome.

Regards,

Behdad Esfahbod

[1]
http://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/schedule/grid/2008-07-11

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GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open

GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open!

Please visit: https://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/register
in order to register for GUADEC 2008. 

Payments will be handled by PayPal this year as well. You can pay
directly using the guadec.org web page. 

Registration fees are same as last year[1] with minor rounding as
follows:

Student Registration €15.00 

Standard Registration €45.00 

Professional Registration €200.00 

We will have difference colored badges for different kind of
registration levels. And registration will be mandatory in order to
participate GUADEC 2008 organization events[2].

GNOME Foundation members will get benefit of 50% discount for Standard
and Professional registrations. 

Now it's time to spread the word! 

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2007-May/msg00053.html

[2] http://guadec.expectnation.com/public/content/event

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Minutes for Directors Meeting of May 5th, 2007

= Minutes/Agenda for GNOME Foundation Directors Meeting of May 7th, 2008 =

== Attendance ==

 * Lucas
 * Brian
 * J5
 * Vincent

=== Regrets ===

 * Behdad
 * Luis
 * Jeff

== Old Items ==

 * '''insurance''': Brian wants to discuss gnome.asia inclusion and
what to cut out.
   ACTION: Luis to do a final check on the form contents.
   ACTION: Zana to fill in the forms and J5 to sign them.
   STATUS: John never got the forms from Brian (mail client problems),
done by friday

 * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy
foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff says it
may happen this weekend.

 * '''system administrator''': STATUS: Vincent to work with on getting
funds for this ($25k needed, according to the current plan).

 STATUS: Vincent asks if we want to do both exec director and sysadmin
at the same time. Will check fo rfunfs. andfeasibility.

 * '''Business developer:''' We have a
[[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html|old
draft job description]] (see also
FoundationBoardPrivate/ExecutiveDirector); may need to
refine/redraft/update. ACTION: J5 to look at old announces and update.
STATUS: J5 has a skeleton of job description, on the wiki. ACTION:
everyone to check it out and flesh it out.

 STATUS: ongoing

 * '''Board Time Management:''' Board seems generally pleased with
Tracks; ACTION: Luis to investigate sending out reminder emails for
pending actions. STATUS: Luis has tried, but something is screwy on
the server. Probably will not investigate again until after exams.

=== New items ===

 * Discussion of potential business developer/ED hire.

== Ongoing Items ==

 * '''finances:'''
 STATUS: update soon from zana

 * '''GUADEC:'''
 STATUS: on track. update on mailing list.

 * '''a11y program:'''
     ACTION: Lucas and Vincent to make more noise about it. STATUS:
we've sent a word about the program to all students we couldn't mentor
for GSoC. A11y team has weekly meetings to talk about this. Still
possible to make more noise about it 
  STTAUS: we should make more noise.

 * '''merchandise:''' STATUS: ongoing;
    ACTION: Lucas to contact marketing-list.
    ACTION: Behdad to talk to Dave about jewelery agreement.
    ACTION: Lucas to work with Zana about mugs and subscriptions.
 STATUS: on track, going slowly.

 * '''Google Summer of Code 2008''': Many people helping.  Fresh blood
in.  Sandy, Ryan, ... rocking! Things are nicely under control of this
distributed team. Community bonding period starting.
 STTAUS: mentors in contact with students, going fine. lucas to add
students to plant.

 * '''GNOME.Asia''': Agreed to give them $4k.
    ACTION: Brian to send their sponsorship request to adboard.
    ACTION: Brian to contact them re the $4k.

 * '''Linux Foundation''': STATUS: Behdad updated the board on meeting
with Jim Zemlin of TLF; no formal change in our relationship with them
of yet.  ACTION: Board members to discuss this at LF Collaboration
Summit.

 * '''GUADEC/Akademy''': Let Akademy do their call-for-bid with the
wording they want, GNOME do it with words we want, and a shared press
release.
    ACTION: Behdad to meet with Dave and Jim to work out
LinuxFoundation commitment, if any.
    ACTION: Behdad to work with Dave getting the call and press release out.

 * '''GTK+ Hackfest''': ACTION: Behdad to finish report and send to board.

 * '''Sponsorship bundles''':
    ACTION: Vincent to work on a proposal for the adboard meeting at
GUADEC. STATUS: won't be done in April for time reasons.
 STATUS: no change.

 * '''Adboard meeting at GUADEC'''
   vuntz: sponsorship, gpl v3

 * '''Hackfests'''
   ACTION: vincent to contact local gorups for organizing hackfests
   ACTION: lucas to contact hackers about the topics

 * Accounts team
   ACTION: vincent to ask around who can extend/develop mango to
automate accounts creation

 * Machines from Google
   STATUS: blockin on canonical on invoicing the taxes to GNOME Foundation.

 * Latin america
   ACTION: vincent to contact izabel, diego and claudio about the
Latin America tour.

 * '''Lucas''': ACTION: Announce new affiliation.
 * '''Legal''': STATUS: Luis is working with Wilson Sonsini on a new
trademark policy. Need to update charter to 1.0; no progress on that.

 * '''Cooperation with KDE''': STATUS: Vincent watching if there's
interest for a cross-desktop hackfest. Luis has started discussion
with the KDE eV board for cooperation on legal aspects.