From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> To: foundation-announce@gnome.org Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 21 August 2001 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:19:30 -0400 Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 21 August 2001 ================================================= Presents: ========= Havoc Pennington (chairing) Daniel Veillard (minutes) Miguel de Icaza Owen Taylor Federico Tim Ney (director) Maciej Stachowiak Regrets: ======== Jim Gettys (regrets) Bart Decrem (regrets) Missing: ======== John Heard Dan Mueth Raph Levien Decisions: ========== - we need a second release coordinator for Gnome-2.0, Havoc will ask for volunteers - the announcement of Tim Ney joining as foundation director should be available already - opening a bank account for the Foundation, giving signature authorization and other administrativia - gnome.org Account Policies is published, feedback should go on the foundation lists we will make a check point in a few weeks. Action Done: ============ ACTION: Havoc to send Leslie ATK press release draft => DONE ACTION: Federico to put email/shell/cvs policy into gnome-docu and mail to foundation-list. => Done ACTION: Havoc to contact Keith Packard to find out more information about interop hothouse at ALS/X Technical Conference. => Done, the event is completely unplanned :-\ Actions: ======== ACTION: Havoc to sent the Advisory Board list to the Board, looking for completion of the member liason. => Waiting for update from the director. ACTION: John to try to get a copyright assignment form and procedure for the GNOME Foundation. => Still pending. ACTION: Maciej to email the Board the current draft of the platform license policy for review. => Still pending. ACTION: Havoc to email Sander to see if he has a suggestion for a replacement release coordinator. => Put on the agenda ACTION: Havoc to send mail introducing Kjartan to Leslie and the mystery guest so that we can get feature list for 1.4.1 press release. => Pending ACTION: Owen to check details of email/shell-account/cvs policy. => Pending New Actions: ============ ACTION: Mjs to build the "release coordinator duties" ACTION: Havoc to send mail seeking a release coordinator ACTION: Tim to send a mail to Rob Gingell to get the lawyers paid Discussion: =========== - approved minutes from last meeting - release coordinator Get a list of "release coordinator duties" We need someone with a thick skin ... - email/CVS/etc. policy Federico sent this to the foundation list http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/gnome-org-policies/index.html - status update from Tim, including the following topics at least: - bank resolution (to open account) - appended also Seems Silicon Valley Bank is nice since represented both in the Silicon Valley and Boston Signers will be: Dan, Miguel and Tim => Approved, using money from the account needs Board approval Account opening will come from Ximian We still need a Tax ID number Two first planned expenses are Tim's salary and LWE. => Tim goes to organize the booth and the Board will pay the travel - revising advisory board list, talking to people on board Tim will organize with Havoc to get contacts - can we figure out what is up with the lawyer; Asked the Law firm to send the invoice. It was not paid so far and we can't make process untill this is fixed. - getting accessibility press release sent out at the appropriate time => we have a final copy appoved, but we need to have it sent and published on the Web site at the right time Tim will organize this - interoperability and ALS; getting something going here Havoc will try to get ideas and topic to hack on there. It's in the beginning of November Aukland (CA) http://linuxshowcase.org/ People planning to go there should probably start looking for travel arrangements. 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/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce