Minutes for Foundation IRC Meeting of November 3rd, 2010
- When: Wednesday, November 3rd, 14:00 UTC
- Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation
Meeting Log
Attendance
- Board Members: Andreas Nilsson, Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Emily Chen, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Og Maciel, Paul Cutler
- Stormy Peters, Executive Director
- Rosanna Yuen, Administrative Assistant
Topics Discussed
Bastien provides an update on the "GTK+ / MeeGo Handset integration work" call for bids
- Dave Neary and Andreas provide an update on the 2011 Desktop Summit planning
- There is one confirmed keynote of 3 invitees.
- Program committee will be announced shortly - 6 people from GNOME and 6 people from KDE.
- Planning a local team meeting on November 8th in Berlin, Germany.
- Discussion about how to improve collaboration with GNOME distributions
- Suggestion to get distros to work more closely together to provide long-term support for the versions of GNOME that they support.
- Better linking of distro bugzillas and the ability to push bug information up and downstream would be useful.
- Discussion about the Canonical Unity announcement.
- Stormy highlighted that the talking points are:
- Ubuntu is still using GNOME technologies.
The GNOME community support people using GNOME technologies in different ways (MeeGo, Unity, etc.).
- The GNOME community still supports GNOME Shell and it will be part of GNOME 3.
- Stormy highlighted that the talking points are:
- Discussion about Stormy leaving her position as The GNOME Foundation Executive Director, which was announced on Tuesday, November 2nd.
- Planning to hire a new executive director.