GNOME Journal Issue 21 released!

The GNOME Journal team is pleased to announce the publication of our
latest issue!  Issue 21 features 5 new articles.  Three of the below
articles are based on talks or experiences at the recent GUADEC 2010
held in The Hague.

You can read these new articles at http://www.gnomejournal.org :

* Writing simple,real-time games for GNOME by Chris Lord
* Should I get involved? by William Carlson
* Behind the Scenes with Joanmarie Diggs
* Grilo: Integrating Multimedia Content in Your Application by Iago
Toral
* Interview with Bradley Kuhn of the GNOME Advisory Board by Stormy
Peters

Thank you to all of our authors and editors for making this issue
happen.

GNOME Journal is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license so please feel
free to translate and podcast!

Read it now:  http://www.gnome.journal.org

Paul Cutler
Your friendly GNOME Journal Editor in Chief

Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

The meeting minutes for the August 19th GNOME Foundation board meeting
is now published.  Refer here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100819

Other past board meetings are archived here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of August 19th, 2010

Next Meeting

     * September 2nd, 2010

Attending

     * Andreas Nilsson
     * Bastien Nocera
     * Og Maciel (late)
     * Paul Cutler
     * Rosanna Yuen
     * Stormy Peters

Regrets

     * Brian Cameron (GNOME.Asia)

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

Hi,

Brian Cameron wrote:
>     * GNOME Trademarks
>           o TM can claim without formal registration
>           o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
>             foot / logo?
>           o GNOME foot (old) has a registered trademark
>           o French website
>                 + ACTION: Bastien to send the French website a
>                   follow-up email about GNOME Trademarks

Luis worked on "cleaning up" GNOME's trademark story around 2006-07 - it
would be worthwhile asking him the current situation, since he is the
one who took charge of the issue back then. As far as I know, we
registered the GNOME foot + wordmark in the US through Wilson Sonsini.

>     * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility
>       of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as
>       Stormy already did research.

Just a data point: Louis Desjardins mentioned to me recently that he has
opened a CAD/USD/EUR account in Canada. I *guess* that international
bank transfer charges will still be expensive.

>     * Jorge - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
>       use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent. 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.

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

On 09/03/10 04:48, Dave Neary wrote:
> While I was on the board, I worked with James Vasile on a trademark
> license contract, which should be part of the material the board has,
> for that jeweller, and James tried to make something modular that could
> be reused. That contract has no automatic renewal clause, and ran for an
> X year term (X=2 is set in a prefix). I have the last revision we came
> up with (Stormy should have it too, and it's in board-list archives).
> Let me know if you want me to send it on.

When I was last on board I had started gathering such documents here:

  http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Documents

But can't find them anymore.  Either someone removed that page or I'm not
allowed to see it (which I assumed as a previous board member I would be).

behdad

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Brian Cameron wrote:
> >     * GNOME Trademarks
> >           o TM can claim without formal registration
> >           o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
> >             foot / logo?
> >           o GNOME foot (old) has a registered trademark
> >           o French website
> >                 + ACTION: Bastien to send the French website a
> >                   follow-up email about GNOME Trademarks
> 
> Luis worked on "cleaning up" GNOME's trademark story around 2006-07 - it
> would be worthwhile asking him the current situation, since he is the
> one who took charge of the issue back then. As far as I know, we
> registered the GNOME foot + wordmark in the US through Wilson Sonsini.
> 
> >     * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility
> >       of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as
> >       Stormy already did research.
> 
> Just a data point: Louis Desjardins mentioned to me recently that he has
> opened a CAD/USD/EUR account in Canada. I *guess* that international
> bank transfer charges will still be expensive.

Except that the US banks seem to like providing below standard services.
I completely failed to find a bank that would offer the type of services
we're looking for, at a reasonable cost to us.

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

2010/9/3 Dave Neary <dneary <at> gnome.org>:

>>     * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility
>>       of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as
>>       Stormy already did research.
>
> Just a data point: Louis Desjardins mentioned to me recently that he has
> opened a CAD/USD/EUR account in Canada. I *guess* that international
> bank transfer charges will still be expensive.

One thing to keep in mind :

EU regulation forced EU banks to apply the exact same rate in intra-EU
bank transfer rate as the one used in the country where the account is
located (and in general, at least in France, it means it is free, when
done using Internet) : so it would probably a good idea to have a
account in EU (GNOME-FR has an account, I don't know if it could be
used for that).
--

-- 
Frederic Crozat

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 09/03/10 04:48, Dave Neary wrote:
> > While I was on the board, I worked with James Vasile on a trademark
> > license contract, which should be part of the material the board has,
> > for that jeweller, and James tried to make something modular that could
> > be reused. That contract has no automatic renewal clause, and ran for an
> > X year term (X=2 is set in a prefix). I have the last revision we came
> > up with (Stormy should have it too, and it's in board-list archives).
> > Let me know if you want me to send it on.
> 
> When I was last on board I had started gathering such documents here:
> 
>   http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Documents
> 
> But can't find them anymore.  Either someone removed that page or I'm not
> allowed to see it (which I assumed as a previous board member I would be).

There was a reorganization of the wiki page on March 2010, several
things were made public.  

Did you take a look at http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Resources ?

Regards,

--

-- 
Germán Póo-Caamaño
http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/

_______________________________________________

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

Dave:

On 09/ 3/10 03:48 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Brian Cameron wrote:
>>      * GNOME Trademarks
>>            o TM can claim without formal registration
>>            o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
>>              foot / logo?
>>            o GNOME foot (old) has a registered trademark
>>            o French website
>>                  + ACTION: Bastien to send the French website a
>>                    follow-up email about GNOME Trademarks
>
> Luis worked on "cleaning up" GNOME's trademark story around 2006-07 - it
> would be worthwhile asking him the current situation, since he is the
> one who took charge of the issue back then. As far as I know, we
> registered the GNOME foot + wordmark in the US through Wilson Sonsini.

I have been working with James Vasile and Luis on this.  We have, for
example, been working to update the forms to address some of the
issues that have been raised over the years.  We also wrote a FAQ.
Eventually I'd like to see these migrate to the fdo website, but we
are still discussing some points with James.

   http://live.gnome.org/Trademark

>>      * Jorge - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

Behdad:

On 09/ 3/10 10:07 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 09/03/10 04:48, Dave Neary wrote:
> When I was last on board I had started gathering such documents here:
>
>    http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Documents
>
> But can't find them anymore.  Either someone removed that page or I'm not
> allowed to see it (which I assumed as a previous board member I would be).

We have archived all the forms on a different page.  Though I wasn't
aware of Hackermundi before, so I will need to track down that one.  If
anyone has any pointers, or even can highlight about when discussions
went on with them, then that would help me dig through the email
archives.

Brian

Meeting Minutes Published - September 2, 2010

The meeting minutes for the September 2nd GNOME Foundation board meeting
is now published.  Refer here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100902

Other past board meetings are archived here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of September 2nd, 2010

Next Meeting

     * September 16th, 2010

Attending

     * Andreas Nilsson
     * Bastien Nocera
     * Emily Chen
     * Og Maciel
     * Paul Cutler
     * Stormy Peters

Regrets

     * Rosanna Yuen