Minutes for Foundation IRC Meeting of June 29th, 2011

• When: Wednesday, June 29th, 14:00 UTC
• Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation
• Next Meeting: Wednesday, July 13th, 14:00 UTC

• Agenda: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda

Meeting Log

• GNOME-20110629.log

Attendance

• Board Members: Andreas Nilsson, Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Emmanuele Bassi, Shaun McCance, Karen Sandler, Rosanna Yuen

Topics Discussed

• Welcome Karen as the new GNOME Foundation ED

  • http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2011/jun/21/Karen-Sandler-Named-New-Executive-Director-GNOME/

• Welcome the new board members

  • https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-June/msg00030.html

  • Shaun McCance, Emmanuele Bassi, Stormy Peters, Bastien Nocera, Brian Cameron, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Ryan Lortie

  • Discussion about when the new board starts.
  • Discussion about the voting turnout.
    • 177 people submitted ballots out of 348 members.
    • There were 214 ballots submitted last year.
• Making GNOME Foundation Membership have more value
  • foundation.gnome.org should better communicate the value of The GNOME Foundation.
  • Members of the marketing team agreed to take this offline to the marketing list.
  • Add your ideas here:

    • https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/FoundationMembership

  • Improving GNOME's news facilities. This is a brief item to let people know that this is happening and to encourage them to contribute

    • http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-June/msg00044.html

• Desktop Summit Call for Volunteers

  • https://www.desktopsummit.org/news/call-for-volunteers

• GUADEC call-for-bids deadline is approaching on July 8th.

  • https://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2011-June/msg00026.html

• Boston Summit
  • Need volunteers to help organize the Boston Summit this year.
  • Karen agreed to ping boston-social.