Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 26 June 2001

“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.”

From:  Daniel Veillard 
To:    foundation-announce@gnome.org
CC:    foundation-list@gnome.org, gnome-hackers@gnome.org
Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 26 June 2001        
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Date:  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 18:36:16 -0400

                                                                                                                           




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