“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        
Reply-to: veillard@redhat.com
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

ZDNET: “I’m not the first to notice that there’s a
certain relationship between Microsoft
and its customers-especially the
developers, who enjoy all the benefits of
being part of the world’s largest
computing community, one that is led by
one of the world’s richest and most powerful companies.
There are complainers in the group, but, overall, the
relationship is like a spiritual leader and his or her
disciples. The followers are loyal, hard-working and
justly rewarded.”

Dimitry writes: “The new version 3.1.17 of mnoGoSearch Open Source search engine software for intranet and web servers (formerly known as UDMSearch) is available from mnoGoSearch website at http://www.mnogosearch.org. This version includes several bugs fixes including some potential exploits fixes, ChangeLog is here.”

The Register: “Mac OS X 10.1, codenamed Puma, may not ship later this month at Macworld Expo
New York as many Apple watchers are expecting.

However, long-awaited DVD playback functionality is likely to be released during
the show, which is set to kick off in two weeks’ time.”

BBC: “According to the message, a
“new hybrid computer code”
named MusicPanel has
been surreptitiously buried
inside MP3 files of 500
popular tunes and
distributed over the past
eight months among
unsuspecting “song thieves” using the popular Napster
and Gnutella file-exchange services.

The hoax goes on to say “those who have downloaded
any of the 500 most popular songs … will find their illicit
music unusable and their computers frozen due to the
time release of this bomb.”

The Register: “So who’s calling whose bluff? An intriguing game of chicken is enveloping
Microsoft’s plans to port its C# language and run-time to BSD, with software libre
leaders vowing to give the Beast a taste of its own embrace n’ extend medicine.

How wise this high profile and risky counter attack will prove to be, we shall
examine in a moment. But first some background.”

ZDNET: “In my reviews of XML standards and
Microsoft’s .Net products, I’ve
consistently questioned whether
Microsoft will support the standards and,
if so, how fully. Well, just about two
months after the release of the key XML
Schema standard, it looks as if Microsoft is going for full
support of the standards, rather than its more common
embrace-and-extend strategy.”

Compunewsdaily: “DEAR DR. BOMBAY: Recently, our relatives’ house was destroyed by
fire. When their computer was recovered from the burned structure, they
were surprised that it still seemed intact, although a bit charred.
Because this computer went through such extreme heat, do you think it
is possible that files could be recovered? – Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love”

Daemonnews: “I am sometimes asked “Why do you use FreeBSD?” My usual ‘auto-response’ is “Because it is the best!” While I truly think it is the best, this reply does not really
answer the question. I hope this article will better explain my feelings.”

The Globe and Mail: “So now it’s official. Although seven justices of a U.S.
Appeals Court struck down the proposed breakup of
Microsoft, a remedy recommended by District Court
judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the landmark case
last year, they unanimously upheld the lower-court
judge’s findings of fact – in particular, the fact that
Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. But what exactly does
that mean? Welcome to the quagmire that is antitrust
legislation.”