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Vincent Untz | 14 Jun 15:10
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Igalia joins the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

Hi,

The GNOME Foundation is warmly welcoming Igalia as the latest member of
our Advisory Board.

Igalia has become increasingly involved in GNOME for quite some time
now. They have actively participated in the community, working in
various areas, like the Build Brigade, which is an important effort for
many people within the community.

The full announcement is on our press releases page at
http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/igaliajoins.html

Vincent

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Thomas Wood | 16 Jun 00:58
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Guadec 2007 Registration


Reminder: Registration for GUADEC 2007 is open!

Register at: <http://www.guadec.org/registration>

Registration will be available right up until the event, but please
register before the 24th June to ensure you receive all the conference
bag goodies!

What is GUADEC?
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Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest get
together of GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals,
governments and businesses in the world. In its 8th consecutive year;
GUADEC 2007 is being held at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, in
Birmingham, England, from Sunday 15th July, until Saturday 21st of July
2007.

Guadec 2007
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Keynote speakers this year include well known Free/Open Source
advocates from both within and outside the GNOME project. Stormy
Peters, Paula le Dieu, Ari Jaaksi, Doc Searls will all be giving
keynote talks, as well as community members such as Robert Love, Alex
Gravely, Havoc Pennington and Bryan Clark, and Jono Bacon.

The schedule consists of nearly 80 sessions split into three tracks
looking at future projects, showcasing current developments and
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Glynn Foster | 21 Jun 09:50
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GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes 26/04/07

Board Meeting :: 26th April 2007

Present: Anne, Behdad, Glynn, Jeff, Vincent
Regrets: Zana, Dave, Quim

 o GMAE Post-Mortem

   Jeff focused his post-moretem on the negative feedback. A few people raised
   some concerns about the secrecy and the apparent mystery of the GMAE
   announcement. Jeff tried to comfort them by telling them that it wasn't
   really secret, and that we were just keeping a secret for fun - when in
   reality, many people within the community knew.

   Thilo Pfennig resigned from the marketing group as a result, and Adrian
   Custer gave up his GNOME membership, more likely based on his perception
   of the current transparency of the GNOME Foundation, and the lack of a
   public budget.

   Jeff felt that the way we approached the announcement was surprising,
   though after the announcement, it wasn't a big deal for most people. Jeff
   mentioned that a lot of people started to read into what announcement it
   could be. Jeff feels that using gnome-private would be a bad response
   and a step back in how we have handled things over the last few years.
   We just need to alay people's concerns.

   Behdad asked what the next steps were - board response, or let it pass.
   Vincent commented that he thought people were expecting an answer on
   the whole transparency issue.

   ACTION: Jeff to send a short debrief to foundation-list about the GMAE
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Glynn Foster | 21 Jun 09:50
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 10th May 2007

Board Meeting :: 10th May 2007

Note: The meeting started at 19:20 UTC and ran to 20:20 UTC due to a
problem getting access to Sun's audio conferencing facility. Many thanks
to Quim Gil for organising a conf call at the last minute on Nokia's
conference call facility.

Present: Quim, Anne, Dave (acting secretary), Behdad, Vincent, Rosanna,
         Jeff (:35)
Regrets: Glynn

 o Opening the new bank account:

   Rosanna needs a letter on foundation letterhead, signed by an officer of
   the foundation, authorising her to open a foundation bank account. She
   has made a recommendation that we open an account with the Citizen's Bank.

   The initial signatories of the account will be Rosanna and Dave. The
   degree to which everyone should have access to online banking facilities
   (which includes the ability to make bank transfers) will be decided later.

   ACTION: Zana to write the letter that the bank needs and mail it to Dave
           to be printed, signed & returned.

 o GUADEC meetings:

   Board meeting & foundation AGM on Monday (Dave & Jeff)

   Hold the foundation AGM at the end of the day, and have an informal
   evening event/hang-out party for foundation members afterwards to allow
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Glynn Foster | 21 Jun 09:50
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 7th June 2007

Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim, Vincent
Absent: Rosanna

1) ECMA

   We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit
   member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative
   for GNOME, and suggested it would also be good to get someone
   there from Abiword.

   ACTION: Behdad to contact Jody about the ECMA membership application
           and find a good candidate from Abiword to attend. Behdad to
           work on getting a press release for our membership.

2) GUADEC Sponsorship

   The GUADEC team have come up with an initial list of people to
   sponsor, but still have a number of people that would like to
   sponsor and have asked if they can spend an extra 5K GBP. Given
   the delay in hiring the biz dev position, all feel that we can
   spend a little out of that purse, providing there's a little
   spread over a few people rather than one or two.

   ACTION: Dave to contact GUADEC team to let them know about
           the extra sponsorship, and provide some rough guidelines
           if there needed to be some priorities made.

3) Biz Dev
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