Banshee 2.3.5 has been released! Banshee 2.3.5 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

Two major GNOME hackfests will be simultaneously taking place in Brno, Czech Republic, this week. A GTK+ Hackfest will focus on the GNOME toolkit, while a Doc Sprint will be an important opportunity for our documentation writers to prepare for the upcoming GNOME 3.4 release.

The GTK+ hackfest will begin on Friday, 2/17 and will combine presentations and working sessions. The event will be a chance to plan GTK+ development, and will include discussions of Clutter integration, accessibility support and how to meet user experience goals. Visit the GNOME wiki for more details and a list of attendees from the GNOME community.

The Doc Sprint will also begin on Friday, 2/17. It will be an intensive work session for the GNOME Documentation Project, with the goal of updating and creating current documentation for the release of GNOME 3.4. This group will be updating GNOME help and GNOME application tutorials, improving GObject overview, and more. See the GNOME wiki for details and a list of attendees.

Both hackfests are being hosted by Red Hat, as a part of its 2012 Developer Conference which is occurring February 17-21. The Developer Conference is open to all Linux and JBoss developers, admins and users. Entrance is free and registration is not required. There will be breakfasts, snacks and a party catered by Red Hat on Friday evening.

Wanted to give a quick heads up about the recent events – i’ve resumed hacking on hamster. Poked a few bugs here and there, freshened up the shell extension, which is now in a more usable state (note: latest hamster from sources is required to run it), and think i’ve finally gotten over the whole pain that is that officially we are now as integrated as a notification area. The applet was the very heart of hamster to me, and it will be missed.

But i wanted to share another exciting bit – the edit activity form has always felt uneasy for me as it is tedious for both editing and adding things. Also you can always do just one thing at a time.
So it’s time to ramp up the game.
Here’s an early prototype (meaning that everything *will* change). Right now it’s very plain and supports just viewing, but i think it brings over the idea. I’m envisioning in-place edits. Haven’t figured out the specifics just yet. Don’t get attached to the colors either – picked those at random for now.

Try it out for yourself in hamster experiments: https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster_experiments/blob/master/hamster_day.py

This week… 1943 commits, in 182 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 275 were translation commits).

We’ve added a new member to the GNOME sysadmin team: Andrea Veri.

Andrea has been handling the accounts queue for a very, very long time. Furthermore, he’s involved with the GNOME membership committee (they handle the applications for GNOME foundation membership + elections). And thus now a GNOME sysadmin.

Aside from GNOME, he also does stuff within the Fedora sysadmin/infrastructure team, does some Fedora packaging and is a Debian Developer.

Personally, looking forward to him still handling every single account request. This next to cleaning up our infrastructure and documenting it

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions to GNOME!

They are:

Congratulations to our new members!

If you contribute to GNOME, you too can become a member of the Foundation. See the membership page for details.

This week… 1611 commits, in 183 projects, by 205 happy hackers (and 216 were translation commits).

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas like GTK, ATK, AT-SPI2, Qt, WebKitGtk+ and Gecko.

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The hackfest was very productive, some of the highlights included:

There are many challenges in the near future of accessibility and GNOME is currently campaigning to raise funds to support its ongoing efforts. Help us to make 2012 the Year of Accessibility for GNOME!.

The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event:

GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium.

GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this year, with T-Shirts for sale, stickers and more. GNOME developers will be available to answer questions and will be demonstrating the latest GNOME technologies. GNOME community members will also be attending FOSDEM including Karen Sandler, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, as well as members of the GNOME Release Team.

There are going to be many talks about GNOME, covering topics ranging from new technologies, community organization and design. Most of these talks will be held in the Cross-Desktop Devroom (H 1308). Here are some of them:

 

As usual, there will be a GNOME Beer Party on Saturday night. Held at “La Bécasse†(rue de Tabora 11 (2 minutes from the Grand Place) from 20:00-00:30 in the city center (NOT “La Bécasse†by ULB/FOSDEM!)

If you are a GNOME contributor, let us know if you will be attending FOSDEM at: https://live.gnome.org/Brussels2012/Attendees.

This week… 1871 commits, in 231 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 219 were translation commits).

Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters in 2010, this is a great honor for GNOME.

Linux Journal reports that “GNOME 3 represents a drastic change in the way we compute on the desktop“, and says the readers have proven “that change isn’t always a bad thing, and GNOME 3 wins!â€.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120124

= Minutes for Meeting of January 24 =

== Next Meeting ==

 February 7, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Next Advisory Board Meeting
   * When shall we have the next meeting?
   * Proposed date: February 28th, 2012
   * Topics?
     * Accessibility (Friends of GNOME, Hackfest update)
     * Have a GNOME release for distribution LTS release (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team)
     * How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement of the next meeting on February 28, and request for agenda topics.

 * Events
   * FOSDEM
     * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
       * Unanimously approved.
       * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.
   * Our response?
   * In case we joined OSI, we should notify the Free Software Foundation to avoid misunderstandings.
   * Condition for joining should be an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
   * Even if GNOME decides not to join, should there be a clear indication of who should join?
   * Should we ask KDE eV for their reasons to join the OSI?
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom and promote GNOME a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - Is putting together a Foundation membership certificate for Milan Bouchet-Valat.
   * Stormy sent the certificates used for Alberto Ruiz to board-list.

 * Formal process on release requirements and portability matrix changes.
   * We used to have the process of the external dependencies.
   * Was superceded by the feature proposal period.
   * Need to raise the issue with the release-team, and eventually bring (and document) the external dependencies process back.
   * '''ACTION''': Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Karen mentioned the campaign on her LCA keynote.
   * The Foundation needs help getting the a11y FoG banner on the website.  

 * Bi-weekly foundation meetings.
   * Reguarly scheduled.
   * Not much momentum generated, lack of agenda topics.
   * '''ACTION''': Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.

== Recurring Items ==

 * Review past action items.
 * Did each person update their action items?
 * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
 * Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking. 
 
== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.Asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
 * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. -- Behdad won't be in Brno, so no Harfbuzz hackfest is scheduled.

== Status of action items ==

 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
 * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. 
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
 * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
 * Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
 * Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.
 * Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * FOSDEM
   * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
   * +1 from Stormy, Brian, Germán.

 * Women's Outreach Program
   * Laura Lazzati needs to drop out of the program for personal reasons.
   * The board agreed to pay Laura Lazzati $1,250 (USD) for work done so far.
   * This is half of the normal mid-point payment other GNOME Women's Outreach Program interns will get on February 1.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120110

= Minutes for Meeting of January 10 =

== Next Meeting ==

 January 24, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

 * Ryan Lortie

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Trademarks
   * New GNOME foot logo has been registered.
   * We need to renew the older trademarks, or let them elapse.
   * The new logo, by virtue of being similar to the old, can very likely protect the old logo (i.e. somebody using the old logo would very likely be covered by the new trademark). Copyright restrictions would also prevent the old logo's use.
   * Justin has withdrawn as the lawyer on record but he or SFLC should be able to help with renewals and other trademark work going forward.

 * Events
   * GNOME.Asia Summit
     * Planning meeting was today, just before the board meeting.
     * Bids received (Hong Kong and Indonesia) are here:
       * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/HkProposal
       * Indonesia budget is $43,574 (USD), including $15,250 travel budget and $10,000 lodging budget for 5 days for 25 people.
       * Hong Kong budget is $19,285.20 to $21,650.20 with a $12,000 travel budget.
       * The venue is free for both events.  Both events include some meal costs.  Both events are planning a hackfest to coincide with the event.
     * What amount is the Foundation going to be able to cover?
       * 2010: we spent $28,148 (USD), and received $12,000.
       * 2011: we spent $14,450 (USD), and received $12,766.
       * $15,000 for 2012 seems reasonable.
         * +1 from Emmanuele, Shaun, Germán, Brian.
       * '''ACTION''': Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
       * '''ACTION''': Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
   * Did Behdad Esfahbod have a HarfBuzz hackfest at Brno?  He indicated he would when he notified the board on December 13th.  If so, we should ask him to do a write-up and add it to our Hackfest Wiki.
     * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest.
   * GStreamer Hackfest
     * The board approved paying $3,714.90 (USD) to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs.  Was Christian notified?  Yes, by Karen after the vote in the email thread.

 * Accounts
   * Access to things like our Amazon affiliates store was raised as a discussion point on the list.
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-January/msg00010.html
   * Need some sort of process to decide who should get access?
     * Access should be restricted, as the account contain sensitive and financial data.
     * Password owners should be listed in the Board private wiki.
     * The Board should be notified of changes.
     * '''ACTION''': Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

 * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011.  Was this taken care of?
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-December/msg00221.html
   * In progress.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Status.
   * Next steps for a11y campaign.
   * The banner is still missing, due to sysadmin issues.
   * Visibility in the press, but not much on the GNOME website.
   * Need to get more visibility on Board members blogs.
   * The a11y hackfest report would give another push to the campaign.

 * Karen circulated a proposal about how to improve the process for earmarked fund raising 
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-October/msg00213.html
   * Karen talked to Christian about a GStreamer UK org and the Foundation role.
   * Christian agreed to review Karen's proposal
.
 * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed.
   * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy.
   * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months.  Any update?  Is this still relevant?
   * Ryan is going to write a script to cross-reference the current foundation members with the PGO membership, and Alberto will prepare an announcement.

 * Bastien visited the GUADEC 2012 venue in La Coruña.
   * Venue and accommodation.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.

== Status of action items ==

 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. 
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
 * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
 * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest.
 * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * Membership Renewals
   * Verify to make sure you know when your membership needs renewal.
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-January/msg00007.html

 * Events
   * ATK and AT-SPI Hackfest 2012 Planning
     * 18 - 22 January ~ A Coruña, Galicia
     * https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfests/ATK2012
     * The board approved $6,150 (UDS) in travel expenses for this event.
   * GStreamer Hackfest 
     * The board approved paying $3,714.90 (USD) to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs.  Was Christian notified?
   * Desktop Summit Planning 
     * Discussion started on foundation-list.
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-December/msg00013.html
   * Behdad Esfahbod notified the board that he and Jonathan Kew (Mozilla) planned a HarfBuzz Mini Hackfest at Brno.
   * The board approved covering Diego Escalante Urrelo's visa reimbursement ($87 USD) for the WebKitGTK+ hackfest.
   
 * Legal
   * The GNOME Foundation New Foot Logo has now been trademarked.  Reg. No. 4063108) filed November 29, 2011.
   * GNOME word mark (Reg. No. 3142483) needs to be renewed.  Working with the lawyers to move forward on this.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Planning for upcoming a11y Friends of GNOME campaign.
   * Should we say anything about our working with FSF or other partners?

 * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011.
 * Finishing up the Q3 Report.
 * Karen contacted Christian Schaller to let him know that The GNOME Foundation is wanting to support the upcoming GStreamer hackfest.
 * Working to help provide and improve content for the GNOME Foundation website update.
 * Discussion about how to improve the "free software" message on GNOME websites.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111213

= Minutes for Meeting of December 13 =

== Next Meeting ==

 January 10, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

 * Bastien Nocera 

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Shall we have a meeting on the 27th?
   * In previous years the board has skipped meetings over holidays or slipped them a week when there is not much business to discuss.
   * Voted for skipping: unanimous.
   * Next meeting: January 10th, 2012.

 * Trademarks
   * Justin Colannino let us know that the GNOME brand is now trademarked.
   * How should we announce this?
     * '''ACTION''': Brian to draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
   * We need to renew the older trademarks.  What email address should we use?
     * Should we use board< at >gnome.org?
     * Use legal-private?
     * Use both board and legal-private.
   * Should we proceed working with Justin?
   * '''ACTION''': Brian to continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
   * Information on renewal should go on the wiki to act as a reminder.

 * Events
   * Desktop Summit
     * Any last comments about the Desktop Summit planning email to the foundation-list before it is sent out?
     * No further comment; Brian to send it to foundation-list

 * Christian Schaller asked if they can put their upcoming GStreamer hackfest information on the GNOME Hackfests website.
   * +1 from Shaun, Emmanuele, Stormy, Bastien, and Brian, Ryan, Germán
   * There was a request for more information about budgets, a tentative list of attendees as well as more detailed agenda.  Especially if they are seeking any assistance with funding.
   * We need to let Christian know.
   * Karen replied to Christian

 * Event Box
   * Haikel Guemar requested €292 for GNOME Event Box expenses.  Do we need more information?  Is this in process?
   * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Shaun, Emmanuele, Ryan, Germán
   * Rosanna to process the reimbursment

 * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed
   * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy
   * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months.  Any update?  Is this still relevant?
   * Alberto Ruiz wants to just notify Planet bloggers and readers, establish a grace period, and then remove non-compliant feeds
   * '''ACTION''': Ryan to help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
   * Policy for GSoC and GWOP interns
     * Membership application is suggested at the end of the internship.
     * Have a grace period post-internship for presence on the Planet.

 * GUADEC papers committee
   * Process for gathering members of the papers committee has started.
   * Suggestions are welcome.

 * Executive Director Review
   * Sent to board-list.
   * Feedback to Karen from the Directors is appreciated.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Accessibility campaign planning.
   * Update:
     * Well on track for the end of the week.
     * Third testimonial found.
     * Karen contacted IBM and they are re-considering their position.

 * Reasons that we could not have an app contest today/how to fix it?
   * Shift towards the application side after the shell for 3.x.
   * Encourage writing GNOME 3 apps.
   * There is no HIG 3.0 and developer documentation.
   * Need an app developer story first?
   * Documentation
     * HIG 3.0 is currently being drafted by Allan Day on the GNOME wiki.
     * Documentation Hackfest in February 2012.
     * Requirements first.
   * SDK is missing/too hard to jhbuild.
   * Let's wait until more pieces are in place.
   * Could it be worth contacting the Yorba developers to help out for the docmentation/SDK?
   * Should be added to a future agenda.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money.  Transferred to Karen.
 * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams.  Transferred to Karen.
 * Brian - Will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list.
 * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review.
 * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

== Status of action items ==

 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. 
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * Events
   * Drafting an email to start a discussion on foundation-list about the future of the Desktop Summit.
   * GUADEC 2012
     * Planning meeting on December 12th.
     * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121
   * Discussion with Jiří Eischmann about the fact that additional hackfests can be accommodated $25-42 USD per day, but they need to know by December the 14th.
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg00028.html
   * Discussion with José Félix Ontañon about promoting the "Accessibility of the libre! workstation" event.
     * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/WorkstationA11y2011

 * Discussion about making progress on the Annual Report
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/date.html

 * Discussion about finding sponsors for the upcoming Friends of GNOME a11y campaign.

 * The board finished its report for the Q3 Quarterly Report.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111129 

= Minutes for Meeting of November 29 =

== Next Meeting ==

 December 13, 2011

== Attending ==

 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Karen Sandler
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance

=== Regrets ===

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Stormy Peters

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Flattr
   * Is the board agreeable to work with Flattr even though they will not provide "charitable" status (ie: no fees)?
   * Karen is suggesting Flattr to update their FAQ.
   * Potential for other form of compensation over fees (e.g. vouchers).
   * Approved vote for working with Flattr: +1 from Brian, Bastien, Ryan, Emmanuele.

 * Q3 Report
   * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3
   * Can someone on the board provide an update?
   * One was not provided from the board in the last report.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review

 * World of GNOME
   * Next steps now that they have announced a change in direction?
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html
   * We should remind them about the trademark policy.
   * Wait and avoid coming out too strong on the new direction of the website.
     * Vote: Unanimous.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

 * ED autonomy
   * The GNOME Board is more hands on than other boards.
   * The ED could take on more tasks without involving the board.
   * It's hard to predict where the involvement of the board is warranted.
   * Proposal: when warranted, send a draft of action to the board list, and wait for feedback.
 
 * Events
   * Desktop Summit.
     * Next Steps.
     * Ryan talked to KDE representatives.
     * KDE members likes the idea of a smaller, focused event.
     * Not at expense of the bigger event.
     * Potential to attach a "mini-collaboration summit" to an existing event.
     * Proposal from the IRC meeting: open the floor for a discussion on foundation-list.
     * '''ACTION''': Brian will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list.
   * Hackfests
     * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests
     * There are only two Hackfests planned (Docs and GTK+ at Brno).  There should be others like a11y, Marketing, etc.
     * a11y and marketing decided not to have a hackfest in Brno.
     * Proposals?
       * Usability hackfest.
       * Sysadmin hackfest.
 
 * !FreeWear provided a report that The GNOME Foundation has made 6 euros in October and 32.40 euros since February.  Should we continue to provide this information to the GNOME Foundation community by just reporting the updates in the minutes? Perhaps we should make other arrangements that are more sensible for the future, like ask them to instead give t-shirts to people in Brazil who might be able to use them at events.
   * Mention the !FreeWear report once a year.
   * During AGM.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Accessibility campaign planning.
   * Karen contacted the web team for the website (progress bar).
     * The number suggested by A11y was 40,000 USD, which seems too high.
     * Target: 25/30k USD.
     * How do we consider monthly/yearly subscriptions?
     * Should we have a way for donations to be directed to specific funds?
     * Define a minimum/maximum amount of time for recurring subscriptions to be directed to the campaign.
   * Karen contacted some journalists for a press coverage.
     * LWN
   * IBM responded negatively for a donation.
   * Mention the campaign to the FSF.

 * Annual Report
   * We are approaching the end of the year and we should be nearing completion.
   * This task seems to need more effort driving it to success.
   * '''ACTION''': Brian will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Karen - will go through the stats sent to the board list and prep them for publishing them. (email sent to Shaun)
 * Karen - to follow up with Vincent about the Google Code In 
 * Karen - to contact Emily Chen about the state of GNOME.asia
 * Karen - to contact Simon Phipps about the OSI membership
 * Karen - to draft a summary and proposal for the Oracle advisory fee and send it to the board-list to get an official vote.
 * Karen - to draft a reply to the website owners, and send it to board-list. (new site proposal)

== Status of action items ==

 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
 * Brian - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money.
 * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams.  Will draft an agenda.
 * Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.
 * Karen - To contact Pockey and negotiate the details and the salary.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - Figure out what's going on with the GTK hackfest
 * Ryan - To look into running a survey for foundation members about the Desktop Summit. 
 * Ryan - Will contact Canonical for a quote for the release notes.
 * Ryan - To communicate with the a11y team the decisions of the board on their contract work proposal.
 * Ryan - To send a new draft of the email to the A11Y team about their contract proposal to board-list.
 * Ryan - To contact Alberto about sending mail to affected bloggers due to changes in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. 
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review.
 * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * New Foundation Members
   * http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/11/18/new-foundation-members/

 * Discussion about whether to move ahead with using Flattr even though they do not provide charitable status to FOSS projects.
   * +1 from Brian, Bastien. 

 * The board decided to approve an additional candidate for the Womens Outreach Program.
   * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Germán, Shaun. 
   * Shaun emailed Marina to notify the program about the approval.
   * Marina provided a press release that she wrote with Karen.
   * http://www.gnome.org/news/2011/11/gnome-outreach-program-for-women-participants-continue-to-impress/

 * Events
   * GUADEC 2012 
     * Discussion with the organizers about putting together a sponsorship brochure.
     * Planning meetings on the 21st and 28th.
       * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121
       * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1128
   * Accessibility of the libre! workstation
     * http://etsiit.ugr.es/pages/tablon/*/noticias-etsiit/2011/11/25/jornada-de-accesibilidad-en-el-puesto-informatico-libre
     * José Félix Ontañon notified the board about this FOSS accessibility event being held in Granada (Spain) on November 30, 2011.
       * Alejandro Leiva, Alejandro Pinheiro, and Javier Hernández from the GNOME a11y team will be participating on the panel.
       * The program is as follows:
         * 10:00 to 10:30 Opening.
         * 10:30 to 11:30 Panel 1: State of the art of the free accessibility
         * 11:30 to 12:00 Coffee break
         * 12:00 to 13:00 Panel 2: Successful deployments of free accessibility
         * 1:00pm to 2:00pm Panel 3: Room for improvements
         * 2:00pm to 3:00pm Lunch
         * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 1: A successful case study
         * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 2: free accessibility swot
         * 6:00pm to 6:30pm Closing.
   * Brno Hackfests
     * Jiří Eischmann is discussing with the board the possibility of acquiring additional space for hackfests, if needed.

 * Haikel Guemar requested 292€ to cover expenses relating to using the EU event box on the behalf of the GNOME booth at JDLL 2011 (http://jdll.org) which was held from 18th to 19th November.
 * Discussion with Andrea Veri about improving the GNOME Foundation website.
 * Bastien responded to Marcos Diaz's email regarding his questions about the Nathive image editor possibly becoming a GNOME project.
 * Discussion about World of GNOME in light of their recent change of direction.
   * http://worldofgnome.org/
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html
 * Discussion about preparing the Q3 report.
   * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3
 * Status of sysadmin team.

This week… 1964 commits, in 174 projects, by 203 happy hackers (and 247 were translation commits).

Banshee 2.3.4 has been released! Banshee 2.3.4 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

We had a short break for the holidays, but now it's time for
another Foundation IRC meeting. We'll hold an IRC meeting this
Wednesday, January 18th, at 16:00 UTC. Information and agenda
can be found on the wiki:

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

If there is anything you would like to discuss with other members or
ask the board, please add it to this page:

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

Foundation IRC meetings are held every other week as a way for the
GNOME community to keep in touch with members and directors. They
are held in the #foundation channel on irc.gnome.org. Foundation
IRC meetings are open to everybody.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thanks,
Shaun

This week… 1971 commits, in 211 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 253 were translation commits).

Overview of changes in Glib 1.242; Changed addresses in GPL license notices; Glib::GenPod: fix typo in default pspec values; Glib::GenPod: delete a duplicate key in %basic_types. View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/tag/?id=rel-1-24-2 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-1.242.tar.gz

Overview of changes in Cairo 1.082; Update the symbol export list for linking on win32 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665265). View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Cairo/tag/?id=rel-1-08-2 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Cairo-1.082.tar.gz

Overview of changes in Glib::Object::Introspection 0.005; Use the overloaded '==' operator directly when comparing flags; Make enums.t test more robust; implement check_gi_version; implement test skipping; updated FSF address in license blurbs (RT#72664). View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib-Object-Introspection/tag/?id=rel-0-00-5 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-Object-Introspection-0.005.tar.gz

Banshee 2.3.3 has been released! Banshee 2.3.3 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

Overview of changes in Gtk3 0.002 [2011-12-09]; Add more overrides for the tree objects; Fix a test failure (RT #72773). View the git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Gtk3/tag/?id=v0.002 or or download source at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Gtk3-0.002.tar.gz

Banshee 2.3.2 has been released! Banshee 2.3.2 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!