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Glynn Foster | 6 Mar 20:52
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Board Meeting Minutes :: 1st March 2007

Hi,

Here's the latest minutes from the board meeting. The next meeting will be on
15th March, and the Advisory Board will join us for this.

Glynn

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Board Meeting :: 1st March 2007

Present: Quim, Dave, Zana, Glynn, Vincent, Behdad, Jeff (:15)
Absent: Anne

1) Review of Last Meeting Actions

NEW:
    * All to continue to discuss on board-list about possible resolution of
      marketing interaction (DONE)
    * Glynn to include assigned roles in meeting minutes and put them in the
      board wiki (DONE)
    * All to list their contact phone details on the board wiki (DONE)
    * Dave to set up interview dates with Joanne as soon as possible (DONE -
      Interview planned for 6th March)
    * Dave to further discuss with advisory board about the role of business
      development officer (DONE - will be a part of the advisory board
      agenda)
    * Dave to mail Mike Milinkovitch and Donald Smith from the Eclipse
      Foundation to enquire about a grant (DONE)
    * Dave and Ben to coordinate who will man the booth at EclipseCON, and mail
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Rodrigo Moya | 19 Mar 13:16
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Re: GNOME annual report

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 15:32 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In secret, for several weeks around the end of the year, myself, Quim
> Gil, Davyd Madeley, Glynn Foster and a few other people worked on an
> annual report for the foundation, which would cover all the major
> projects that the GNOME project was involved in as well as the areas
> that the foundation was working on developing the project.
> 
> I'm pleased to finally release the results of that now to the
> membership. We wanted to wait until everyone who was getting a hard copy
> of the report received it before publishing it more widely. We printed a
> small number of copies, which we will be sending out to anyone who
> donates over $100 to the foundation this year (shameless plug:
> http://www.gnome.org/friends/) as well as representatives on the
> advisory board and other major supporters of the foundation.
> 
> So without further ado, welcome to the GNOME annual report 2006!
> 
it looks great, but I miss mentions to local movements, like the hackers
meetings at Chile and Holland (IIRC), the GUADEC-ES, the addition of
Mongolia to the GNOME map, etc.

Not sure if you want to go to that level of detail, but it would be
great to also mention these local efforts.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo <at> gnome-db.org>
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Jeff Waugh | 20 Mar 06:50
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GNOME Foundation Retains Software Freedom Law Center

GNOME Foundation Retains Software Freedom Law Center
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  Nonprofit law firm will provide legal advice to important open source
  desktop project

Boston MA, USA -- March 20, 2007 -- The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC),
provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open
Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME
Foundation. The GNOME Foundation supports the development of the open source
GNOME Desktop Environment, a user interface used by millions of people
around the world and distributed with all major versions of Linux and Unix.

"We are excited to have retained the services of the Software Freedom Law
Center," said Anne Østergaard, Vice Chair of the GNOME Foundation Board. "As
SFLC's client, we now have access to legal advice from trusted professionals
who devote their full attention to Free and Open Source Software."

As a client of SFLC, the GNOME Foundation can receive advice regarding a
variety of legal issues, including patent and trademark issues.

"GNOME is one of the most important projects for everyday users of free
software systems," said James Vasile, SFLC Counsel. "I am pleased to welcome
the GNOME Foundation as SFLC's client."

With proper legal advice, open source projects can lessen potential legal
risks to users, developers, and distributors of the software.

In the past, the Software Freedom Law Center has offered the GNOME
Foundation strategic advice through its seat on the GNOME Foundation's
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Anne Østergaard | 22 Mar 00:30
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Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.

Dear GNOME friends

For those of you who would like to host the next GUADEC in 2008 you are
hereby invited to write a formal invitation to the board of The
GNOME Foundation.

The invitation should be send to 
board <at> gnome.org and 
Anne Østergaard <aoe(at)gnome.org>
at the latest on May 15th 2007. 

As the conference is getting bigger and hopefully better and more
important every year there is no reason not to tell you that it takes a
lot of persons actively involved and committed in the actual planning
and a lot of time and spent carrying out the practical work.

It is also rewarding and very much fun and you learn a lot in the
process.

I usually say that when you can take care of a baby and handle a big
conference you are pretty much prepared for anything. These things are
real and can not be handed virtually.

Some practical advice:

There are a couple of things that you must take into account when
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Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay | 22 Mar 05:25
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008


Anne Østergaard wrote:
> Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
> 
> GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.

Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ?

:Sankarshan

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Dave Neary | 22 Mar 10:37
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Anne Østergaard wrote:
>>> Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
>>>
>>> GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.
> 
> Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ?

It's been widely agreed last year & this year to avoid GUADEC as an
acronym - this has come up several times, and both Villanova and
Birmingham have adopted the convention of calling GUADEC "The GNOME
Conference".

Does that mean that candidates outside the EU would be considered? Not
sure - we would need to discuss it.

But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
exclude anything outside North America and Europe.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Sergey Udaltsov | 22 Mar 10:51
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

> But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
> which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
> exclude anything outside North America and Europe.
I think excluding NA would be reasonable as well - there are so many
OSS conferences on the other side of the pond, please leave something
to good old Europe:)

Cheers,

Sergey
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Alan Cox | 22 Mar 13:11
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

> But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
> which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
> exclude anything outside North America and Europe.

That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North
America which is civilised to visitors (Canada) can be very pricy in
summer but very very cheap in winter [guess why]. This is a problem with
OLS.

Mexico has some claim to be the original "home of Gnome"...

Alan
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Baris Cicek | 22 Mar 16:33
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> > Anne Østergaard wrote:
> >>> Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
> >>>
> >>> GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference.
> > 
> > Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ?
> 
> It's been widely agreed last year & this year to avoid GUADEC as an
> acronym - this has come up several times, and both Villanova and
> Birmingham have adopted the convention of calling GUADEC "The GNOME
> Conference".
> 
> Does that mean that candidates outside the EU would be considered? Not
> sure - we would need to discuss it.
> 
> But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
> which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
> exclude anything outside North America and Europe.
One thing more is politics of Countries. That's important because you
need Visa to visit those countries. I know that it's not much problem
for most of the people living in EU, but for example someone from Middle
East can easily be alienated due to Visa problems of USA for example. 

> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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Alex Graveley | 22 Mar 20:16
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Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008


What about going a little off the beaten track, like Kathmandu say? 
Singapore, Shanghai, Cairo, Istanbul, Athens?

-Alex

Alan Cox wrote:
>> But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
>> which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
>> exclude anything outside North America and Europe.
> 
> That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North
> America which is civilised to visitors (Canada) can be very pricy in
> summer but very very cheap in winter [guess why]. This is a problem with
> OLS.
> 
> Mexico has some claim to be the original "home of Gnome"...
> 
> Alan
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