the CfP will be closed this Saturday, and we still have potential slots for talks. in order to submit a talk proposal, you have to subscribe on www.guadec.org and follow the link that will be sent to you via email. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/
Hey all. We should probably be thinking about where the "Boston" Summit will be this year. :) Do we want to have another Montreal Summit? (And if so, do we have someone to make those arrangements?) Thanks and take care. --joanie
Hi everyone! The call for presentations for GUADEC 2013 in Brno is finally open. You can register here: https://www.guadec.org/wp-login.php?action=register and submit your talk once you receive the registration email. I have attached the CfP body in the email, but the executive summary is: • talks are going to be submitted on the GUADEC website; • you can submit a talk until Saturday, April 27th; • you will receive a notification whether your talk has been accepted or not around May 4th; • lightning talks and BoF sessions will have their own CfP. See you all in Brno! ciao, Emmanuele. +++ GUADEC Call for Participation GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe since 2000. GNOME is a free software project which drives user interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops and personal media centers. GUADEC is the world's largest(Continue reading)
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GNOME.Asia 2013 is calling for papers. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference will be held in NIPA Business Center, Sangam-dong Seoul, Korea on May 24 -25, 2013. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.8, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible.
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In the spirit of the below email from last week, I'm extremely pleased to announce that the Foundation is hiring Andrea to work as our new sysadmin contractor. We've been without someone in this position since Christer stepped down last year, and Andrea has really been sensational as a volunteer and done a great deal of the work in the meantime. I'm confident that Andrea will continue to do a great job for GNOME! And we've got a lot of work to do. Thanks to the rest of the sysadmin team, the GNOME board and those of you who emailed me suggesting that we do this very thing. karen On Wed, January 16, 2013 3:58 am, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > Andrea Veri <av <at> gnome.org> a écrit: > >> I've finally managed to migrate all the services to a new machine. You >> should be able to apply/renew your membership and request changes to >> your >> accounts again. > > \o/. This was fast! > >> Thanks for your patience > > No. Thank *you* for the awesome work and extreme dedication.
* Annual report * GNOME logo approval for Worldofgnome forums. * Travel committee role * Status of a11y project proposals * Sysadmin funding * Openhatch outreach idea * OPW status report * Advisory board meeting agenda * Status of fiscal services for GIMP * Joining the W3C * Health insurance increase for employees -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20121120 = Minutes for Meeting of November 20th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, December 4th, 2012, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler === Regrets === * Tobias Mueller * Seif Lotfy === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * GUADEC 2013 & 2014 announcement * News leaked * Need to announce it either today or on Monday * Thursday is US Thanksgiving * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend the funds and needs feedback on that. * Document accessibility and caret navigation * Bastien started a reply on the board list * The scope is fine, but it should not be restricted to a couple of modules * Joanie proposes to recuse herself on the voting to avoid conflict of interests * Joanie should still provide guidance and help in evaluating the bidders * '''ACTION''': Board members should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list * '''ACTION''': Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and submit it to the board list * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards. * Some of the test cases in some working groups are available only to members * There are some standards that would benefit from our perspective and interest * GNOME developers have been invited to be experts on the WG proceedings but it's difficult to justify this to employers * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * There is the option of having an adboard member to send one of their employees to be in the W3C representing GNOME * '''ACTION''': Karen to look into the details of the W3C membership and invited experts rules * Reports - annual report * Progress of the web version of the Annual Report. * Andreas has the donors list * '''ACTION''': Andreas to publish the Annual Report at the end of the week. * Sysadmin position * We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on our last sysadmin. * '''ACTION''': Zana to look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * We should look into spending that money. * The funding could also cover the CiviCRM migration * Marketing director position * On foundation-list, there have been suggestions about us hiring a marketing director in order to coordinate our messaging. * Budget-wise, it's problematic * Having another employee will impact our reserves * We should explore the option of having an adboard member donate the time of an employee for a full-time/part-time position * There is also the question as to whether we should be having a marketing director at all * Marketing is really hard * We could also use the chance to entice former adboard members * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * webkitGTK+ hackfest * 4th annual WebKitGTK+ Hackfest. 17 participants for 4 days. * They have asked the Foundation for sponsorship of 4500 EUR. * We still don't have a 2012-2013 budget * We also had far fewer hackfests than last year * Vote: +1 Shaun, Emmanuele, Andreas, Bastien; Joanie abstains/recuses * '''ACTION''': Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers * travel committee * Gérman Poo e-mailed the board and said he thinks that the travel committee has become too process-heavy. * The travel committee was created to reduce the load on Zana * The process may need to be streamlined, especially for the reimbursement part * The discussion should continue on the mailing list * We should keep the travel committee in the loop with the discussion * GNOME supporter card * We should put together a GNOME supporter card for one of our donors. * '''ACTION''': Andreas to look at drafting a GNOME supporter card * Next adboard meeting * Adboard members are starting to respond to the survey * Health insurance increase for employees. * No progress since last time * The board needs to discuss and vote. == Completed Actions == * Seif to get more information on the event and create a proposal about a possible event in Egypt * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks. * Karen to check if an AB meeting would be possible at the Boston Summit * Karen and Joanie to get feedback on corporate sponsorship for the Boston Summit * Karen - Will reach out to Mozilla to find advice about negotiating partnerships. * Emmanuele to check the data mined by Tobi from ?PayPal and send it to Andreas * Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014 == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize the types of contacts and come up with the various areas * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors. * Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM * Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932. * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932 * Karen - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security, reliability) * Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project === New Action Items === * '''ACTION''': Board members should continue discussing the a11y team proposal on the mailing list * '''ACTION''': Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and submit it to the board list * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME Foundation to be a member of the W3C * '''ACTION''': Karen to look into the details of the W3C membership and invited experts rules * '''ACTION''': Andreas to publish the Annual Report at the end of the week. * '''ACTION''': Zana to look at the actual amount of money allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director * '''ACTION''': Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers * '''ACTION''': Andreas to look at drafting a GNOME supporter card == Discussed on the mailing list == * DNS move of clutter-projects.org * Possibility of GNOME joining the W3C * Possible shutdown of the travelling committee * A11y FoG project update * Funding of 3 hackers for Color Management hackfest in Brno -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce <at> gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
Today, the Foundation announced the locations of GUADEC 2013 and 2014: -- It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Brno, Czech Republic has been selected as the venue for GUADEC 2013. Each year, the GNOME User and Developer European Conference gathers GNOME community members from all across the world. We hope we'll see you at Brno University of Technology from August 1-8, 2013. During the bidding process, the GNOME Foundation received a second outstanding proposal. As a result, the Board of Directors is also pleased to announce that GUADEC 2014 will be held in Strasbourg, France. Selecting the venue earlier will give the Strasbourg local team more time to prepare the conference, which has been asked for by previous organizing teams. -- Have a good holiday to those who celebrate it! best, Karen
this is the public agenda for the board meeting of November 20th. * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend the funds and needs feedback on that. * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards. * Reports - annual report * Progress of the web version of the Annual Report. * Sysadmin position * We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on our last sysadmin. * Marketing director position * On foundation-list, there have been suggestions about us hiring a marketing director in order to coordinate our messaging. * webkitGTK+ hackfest * 4th annual WebKitGTK+ Hackfest. 17 participants for 4 days. * travel committee * GNOME supporter card * We should put together a GNOME supporter card for one of our donors. * Next adboard meeting * GUADEC 2013 and 2014 announcement/press release -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20121106 = Minutes for Meeting of November 6th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler === Regrets === * Tobias Mueller === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Future adboard meetings * We need to plan the next adboard meeting. Last meeting was at GUADEC. * When should we have the next meeting? * What topics should we cover? * Ideas for the next campaigns for Friends of GNOME * Newcomer event, Outreach efforts funding * cross-desktop collaboration * report on GNOME OS meeting at GUADEC, Boston Summit, and on the gnome-os-list * Discuss further ideas on the mailing list * When should we have the next adboard face-to-face meeting? * Next round of Women Outreach Program. * Karen sent a summary to the mailing list. * More projects decided to join. * Karen has been exploring sponsorship offers from adboard members and other foundations. * How many students should the Foundation fund? * One student = USD 5000. * Recommendation: 2 students. * We need a rough budget based on the numbers from previous years. * Vote for sponsor two students, with the option for others if the budget allows it: unanimous * The next round will be announced some time around next week. * Fiscal services for projects. * The Foundation now holds the Google Summer of Code money for PulseAudio. * Karen is still waiting for feedback from SourceForge for their incubator project. * Health insurance increase for employees. * Still discussing the issue on the mailing list. * Status of web version of Annual report * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to send an email to Tobi for the updated list of donors from PayPal. * GNOME GNIGHTS * Meg Ford asked the board for some financial support for their monthly GNOME community meetups in Chicago. * USD 40/event * Provision: blog/wiki reports and sponsor badge * Vote: unanimous * '''ACTION''': Karen to send an email to Meg about the funding of the GNOME GNights. * Friends of GNOME * We have some donors falling through the cracks. * The script automating the extraction of the list of donors should help catch some of the cases. * The board was asked for only having a certificate instead of a gift * Mozilla has a similar certificate. * Next meeting: November 20th, 2012 * Time: 15:00 UTC == Completed Actions == * Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014 * Joanie to work with the A11y team to write proposals for using the Mozilla and FoG money == Status of action items == * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails * Andreas and Emmanuele to discuss the best approach to publish the Agenda on foundation-list before the board meeting * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders. * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME. * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo. * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody received their benefits. * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012 * Emmanuele to check the data mined by Tobi from ?PayPal and send it to Andreas * Joanie will send an email to both GNOME and KDE board lists to get us all together on the discussion for a desktop collaboration summit. * Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize the types of contacts and come up with the various areas * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG. * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc. * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks. * Karen - Will reach out to Mozilla to find advice about negotiating partnerships. * Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors. * Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM * Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this. * This has been done. Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932. * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932 * Karen - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them. * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security, reliability) * Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals * Karen to check if an AB meeting would be possible at the Boston Summit * Karen to look at other potential sponsors for Boston Summit * Karen and Joanie to get feedback on corporate sponsorship for the Boston Summit * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash. * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card. * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments; waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice. * Seif to get more information on the event and create a proposal about a possible event in Egypt * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the areas of involvement for each board member * Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes. * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey. * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward. * Shaun - To coordinate with Germán to write a report for the Financials section of the Annual Report. * Shaun - To start a discussion with Andrea about the Emeritus status. * Shaun - To finish the Financial section of the Annual Report before the end of the week (week 20). * Shaun - To review the Desktop Summit draft before the end of the week (week 20). * Shaun to forward the relevant information for the DDG partnership to Zana and Karen * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the requirements for the contracted project === New Action Items === * Emmanuele to send an email to Tobi for the updated list of donors from PayPal. * Karen to send an email to Meg about the funding of the GNOME GNights. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce <at> gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
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