“GNOME logo:
We have long needed — and lacked — a vector graphics image for
printing. Tuomas and Jakub have been working on a version of this.
It’s turned out much more stylised than our current one. Should it
be used for GNOME 2? Post to g-h about it. ”
We have long needed — and lacked — a vector graphics image for
printing. Tuomas and Jakub have been working on a version of this.
It’s turned out much more stylised than our current one. Should it
be used for GNOME 2? Post to g-h about it. ”
Minutes of GNOME Foundation Board meeting, 21 May 2002
Present Not here
Jon Blandford George Lebl
Nat Friedman
Jim Gettys
Jody Goldberg
Telsa Gwynne (minutes)
James Henstridge
Miguel de Icaza
Tim Ney
Federico Mena
Havoc Pennington
Daniel Veillard (missed first 10 minutes)
Completed actions:
DONE: Tim to draft a description of what the money raised would be
used for.
=> See discussions.
Actions:
ACTION: Jim to restart the font discussions with various parties
=> This is still continuing. Jim is cautiously optimistic.
ACTION: Nat and Jonathan talk to gnome-sysadmin about adding ssh
tunneling for GNOME CVS access
=> This has been postponed until after GNOME 2.0
=> See discussions.
ACTION: Havoc, Jody, Nat volunteer for working on producing a first
draft of ABI rules for GNOME-2 releases, get involvment from
someone at Sun, and make sure the draft get some review.
=> Still pending
ACTION: Tim and Jim looking at structuring tutorials
=> Have begun discussing this via email.
ACTION: Jrb and Nat will work on the Gnome-2.2 Hack Fest announce
=> Nat will send Jon details; Jon will put up webpage todau.
ACTION: Nat to write up his notes from the 2.x discussion and send
then out.
=> Mostly done, will send it out imminently.
NEW: Telsa to come up with description for foundation-list; Daniel
to add it.
Discussions:
* the ssh tunnelling action item:
Whilst this is going on, it is probably a good idea to think about
clarifying copyright and licences and so on as Mozilla do: the
idea is to ensure that people don't check in stuff that's not theirs
to check in: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/form.html
* Fund-raising:
Tim has circulated a draft background paper on GF funding; Steve Fox
has done a draft "friends of gnome" webpage.
We have submitted a "501(c)3 application" to the US IRS: this would
give us tax-exempt status in the US. Once it is granted, it is
retroactive, too.
* GNOME 2.x branching plans:
Nat outlined his proposals at the last meeting but has not sent his
write-up out yet.
* Boston event:
There are now five rooms reserved at MIT from 17th to 20th of
July 2002 for the event. Housing is not yet settled. This is the
2.2 planning session and aimed very much at people contributing
to GNOME rather than being a end user event. Jon is going to put
up a page about it, using information Nat is going to send him.
* GNOME logo:
We have long needed -- and lacked -- a vector graphics image for
printing. Tuomas and Jakub have been working on a version of this.
It's turned out much more stylised than our current one. Should it
be used for GNOME 2? Post to g-h about it.
* List description for foundation-list:
Such a description is needed. Telsa to write; Daniel to do the
mailman admin stuff to put it there.
* Mechanism for board-funded conference calls for dispute resolution:
Nice idea, but there's no budget for it atm. The Foundation doesn't
fund the board or release team meetings either. If it happened, we
might need to ask for minutes of the calls, but it can't happen yet.
* Weekly status reports for module maintainers:
In the run-up to GNOME 2, the GNOME 2 release team have been
encouraging this as part of the weekly snapshot releases. The
results have been useful. Should this be a requirement? Discussion
about feasibility, tiresome-ness of doing it, time intervals: no
decision made though.
Telsa
