Subject: Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting January 29 2002 From: Daniel Veillard To: foundation-announce@gnome.org Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting January 29 2002 ================================================== Presents: ========= Nat Friedman (chairing) James Henstridge Jody Goldberg Daniel Veillard (minutes) Telsa Gwynne Jim Gettys Miguel de Icaza Tim Ney George Lebl Jonathan Blandford Federico Mena Regrets: ======== Havoc Pennington Decisions: ========== - Confirmation of GUADEC3 April 4-6 2002 Sevilla, book your tickets now ! Actions done: ============= ACTION: Tim to get the membership logos on the foundation page => Done ACTION: Jonathan to draft a possible official answer to the Uk Gov Talk request for comment on the use of open source software within the UK government. => it seems the existing list is good enough and we don't really need to get a formal suggestion, Skipped/Done ACTION: Tim, Daniel and Miguel will make sure taht we have the basic informations left to be able to officially announce Guadec3 next week and secure logistic for the Advisory Meeting => Done, we are ready it seems. Actions: ======== ACTION: Tim, John and Havoc to get a draft statement on the relation with the free software foundation and license policy. => Tim and Havoc have started, pending ACTION: Jim to restart the font discussions with various parties => meeting scheduled this week with some of the font, in progress ACTION: Nat and Jonathan talk to gnome-sysadmin about adding ssh tunneling for GNOME CVS access => A description has been sent, waiting for a reply, other work need to be done, pending. ACTION: Havoc to update the main page www.gnome.org, we need a link to the Gnome-2 effort and need some cleanup. => Done New Actions: ============ ACTION: Miguel to anmounce Guadec3 to the Gnome community. ACTION: Jody collect a list of communities we should contact to get them at GUADEC3 ACTION: Nat to talk to Havoc to get a discussion about rules w.r.t. backward compatibility rules in the 2.x time. Discussion: =========== - approve last meeting minutes: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-January/msg00001.html - change the call to be half an hour earlier - GUADEC3: Nearly 50 paper proposal Specific papers suggestions: StarOffice and Gnome Invitation KDE People travelling: We have some funding but not as much as last year As usual the earliest one learn about the travel need the cheapest are the tickets. - GNOME2 Thing seems to move along relatively smoothly We are still in Alpha quality, but all core packages are now packages and redistributable. The large application may take multiple months to port: - galeon - gnumeric - abiword - evolution It seems Glade port needs attention to make sure it get's ready in time for apps to be ported. - the chair noted that specific items should be discussed off-line in the committees to avoid taking board meetings time. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list