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Glynn Foster | 13 Aug 02:08
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 22/6/07

Hey,

Apologies for this being so late, just catching up on old minutes now.

Glynn

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GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 22nd June 2007

Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave (:10), Glynn, Jeff (:20), Vincent, Zana
Absent: Quim

1) ECMA

   Forms are on the way to the ECMA office. Behdad is sending a draft
   press release to the board list, once we get approval of our
   membership. Anne mentioned that we joined the ODF alliance, and is
   now getting update notifications on their progress. Anne is not sure
   where to send this. Anne suggests that it would be good to mention
   that we're a member of ODF in the press release.

   ACTION: Behdad to send a draft of the press release to board-list
           once ECMA membership is approved.

2) GUADEC Sponsorship for Java Summit

   Behdad mailed suggesting that it might be possible to have a Java
   bindings summit for GUADEC, and sponsor travel for 2 recent
   committers to the project. Everyone seemed to think it was a good
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Glynn Foster | 13 Aug 02:10
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 5/7/07

GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 5th July 2007

Present: Anne, Glynn, Jeff (:20), Zana
Absent: Quim
Regrets: Bedhad, Dave, Vincent

1) Business Development Role

   We have offered the candidate a position with the GNOME Foundation. Dave
   has mailed him with a formal job offer, and associated salary offer. Jeff
   has been trying to organize a time to talk through this with them.

   ACTION: Zana to forward on a copy of a previous contract that we may
           be able to use.

2) Foundation Board Agenda

   All agreed that we should only have a few agenda items, and discuss
   these through to fine detail with conclusions.

   Among the possible items are -
     - Time issues with the existing board members
     - Business development role and fundraisy
     - Budget
     - 6 month plan
     - Merger of GUADEC and aKademy
     - More involvement of membership

   Jeff thinks it's a good idea to ask the Foundation membership for any
   topics of conversation.
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Glynn Foster | 13 Aug 02:13
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting minutes :: 15/07/2007

Hey,

Here are the minutes from the Board meeting at GUADEC.

Glynn

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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting (GUADEC), 15th July 2007

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

 o GUADEC

   There was only one proposal to host next year's GUADEC, Istanbul. Everyone
   agreed that it was a good solid proposal, and it would be good to get Baris
   sitting down during this GUADEC with Anne, Behdad, Quim and the guys
   from this year, Thomas and Paul. We will announce the new location at
   the GNOME Foundation AGM, and try and get Baris to do a little presentation
   for the closing.

   ACTION: Anne, Behdad, Quim to meet up with Baris and start talking about
           some of the details of GUADEC next year.
   ACTION: Behdad to talk to Baris about doing a presentation during the closing
           ceremony.

 o Board Candidate

   Dave announced his resignation from the board the previous week. The board
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Jeff Waugh | 17 Aug 11:51
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GNOME Community Celebrates 10 Years of Software Freedom, Innovation and Industry Adoption

GNOME Community Celebrates 10 Years of Software Freedom, Innovation and
Industry Adoption

Boston MA, USA -- August 15, 2007 -- A one month, world-wide celebration of
GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September
with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20. During the
celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording
their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with "Open Source"
recipes contributed by GNOME community members from around the world.

History and Achievements
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Since 1997, the GNOME project has grown from a handful of developers to a
contributor base of coders, documentors, translators, interface designers,
accessibility specialists, artists and testers numbering in the thousands.

As the leading user experience platform for Open Source and Free Software
operating systems, GNOME has received massive commercial support and uptake
among distributors such as Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Ubuntu, and
software vendors targeting those platforms such as Eclipse, Google, Mozilla
and VMWare.

In early 2007, the project launched the GNOME Mobile initiative, reflecting
growing interest in the GNOME platform for mobile and embedded systems such
as the OLPC XO, Nokia N800, OpenMoko Neo1973, the ACCESS Linux Platform and
numerous single-purpose mobile and embedded devices.

With such an immense community of individual and corporate contributors,
GNOME has become the driving force of Open Source and Free Software user
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