From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> To: foundation-announce@gnome.org Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 26 June 2001 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 18:36:16 -0400 Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org, gnome-hackers@gnome.org Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 26 June 2001 =============================================== Presents: ========= Havoc Pennington (chairing) Daniel Veillard (minutes) Miguel de Icaza Bart Decrem Dan Mueth Raph Levien Owen Taylor Jim Gettys Regrets: ======== Federico Maciej Stachowiak John Heard (regrets) Decisions: ========== - Communication is really important for some of the key part of the project and can only help the project overall. There is an inherent responsibility of a project maintainer to ensure that the people concerned by their work are informed of the direction. Done stuff: =========== ACTION: Havoc to check with Martin and Sander on the Gnome-2.0 roadmap => let's say it's done :-) ACTION: Havoc take the action to send a mail on Gnotice about fostering the GNOME-2.0 work => let's say it's done :-) ACTION: Federico to draft policies for @gnome.org email aliases, CVS access, and FTP access. => done, sent, about to discuss it New Action: =========== ACTION: Havoc to invite Sander and Martin ACTION: Dan to mail Christian about asking the managers of the various projects for updates and links to important threads in the mail archives. Actions: ======== ACTION: Dan to work with Membership Committee to re-open the membership list. => still pending ACTION: Havoc send the AB list to the board looking for completion of the member liasons. => still pending ACTION: John try to get a Copyright assigment form and procedure for the GNOME Foundation => still pending waiting on the FSF ACTION: Maciej to email the Board the current draft of the platform license policy for review. => still pending Discussion: =========== - Sander sent us a status update on GNOME 2 Seems Gnome-2.0 work has started seriously now, progresses are made. Post mortem analysis of last weeks flamefest, we must improve our communication ! - putting together a proposal to hire an program manager - discuss proposed RFP procedure (no decisions planned) We need more communication and know where projects are heading. Getting weekly status reports from the main projects sounds a good way to improve this. This could inlcude links to important threads in the mailing lists. We would need the equivalent of weekly seminars where a project is presented, how can this be done ? Features articles on developpers.gnome.org ? The communication is really crucial for those project affecting the core and potentially everybody. The member of the board present unanimously agreed that a mechanism along the line of the proposed RFP procedure is a good idea. Discussion will be fostered in the foundation list. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ Sep 17-18 2001 Brussels Red Hat TechWorld http://www.redhat-techworld.com _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce