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Owen Taylor | 1 Oct 2004 22:02
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Board Minutes 29 September 2004

Minutes from Board Meeting: 29 September 2004
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Present:
    Owen	: chair
    Jody
    Dave
    Bill
    Jonathan
    Tim
    Leslie
    Luis

Absent:
    Nat
    Jeff
    Glynn
    Malcolm

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New Actions :
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    ACTION : Luis to send Owen notes from Advisory Board meeting

    ACTION : Jody to get remaining notes and send proposed Minutes
             for August 11 to list. [Done, post meeting]

    ACTION : Owen to make sure that some Wiki got set up for
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Frank Rehberger | 5 Oct 2004 22:14

Re: Board Minutes 29 September 2004

Owen Taylor wrote:

>New Actions :
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>
>    ACTION : Luis to send Owen notes from Advisory Board meeting
>
>    ACTION : Jody to get remaining notes and send proposed Minutes
>             for August 11 to list. [Done, post meeting]
>
>    ACTION : Owen to make sure that some Wiki got set up for
>             the summit [Done, mostly thanks to Jeff]
>
>    ACTION : Luis to flesh out schedule on Wiki based on discussions
>             at GUADEC.
>
>    ACTION : Leslie to write up proposal for subcomittees
>
>  
>
Did you talk about request from CERT "Establishing a collaborative 
relationship"?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-September/msg00069.html

FYI: http://www.cert.org

Regards, Frank

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Daniel Veillard | 2 Oct 2004 00:05

Re: Board Minutes 29 September 2004

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:02:20PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Minutes from Board Meeting: 29 September 2004

  thanks for the Minutes !

>         Was noted that both changes under discussion (reducing board
>         size and moving elections closer to GUADEC) would require

  I'm very dubious about reducing board size. Maybe there is really
nothing left to be done at the board level, but it seems to me the problem
is more about getting things done and to have regular board meeting and
feedback from them. And I would think reducing the board size won't 
help with this, just the opposite.
  For example rather than knowing 3 weeks ahead of time that there was
a GNOME Summit organized, knowing that one was scheduled but without
precise date and location ahead of time would have been simpler.

Daniel

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Owen Taylor | 4 Oct 2004 22:01
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Re: Board Minutes 29 September 2004

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 00:05 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   thanks for the Minutes !
> 
> >         Was noted that both changes under discussion (reducing board
> >         size and moving elections closer to GUADEC) would require
> 
>   I'm very dubious about reducing board size. Maybe there is really
> nothing left to be done at the board level, but it seems to me the problem
> is more about getting things done and to have regular board meeting and
> feedback from them. And I would think reducing the board size won't 
> help with this, just the opposite.

Well, there are two basic thrusts to the idea reducing board size:

 - With 11 members, it can be easy to  think that someone else is going
   to do the work. Reducing the board size would hopefully decrease
   that. It's certainly not the only attack to take. Doing things like
   having a fixed chair responsible for writing up the agenda for the
   next meeting would probably also help :-)

 - Making the elections more exciting and meaningful.

> For example rather than knowing 3 weeks ahead of time that there was
> a GNOME Summit organized, knowing that one was scheduled but without
> precise date and location ahead of time would have been simpler.

We certainly didn't do a good job with this. But I don't see it being
tied to board size one way or the other. 7 or 9 people should be plenty
to do a little bit of advance promotion of an event. And there's no
reason that arranging the summit should even be something necessarily
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Leslie Proctor | 5 Oct 2004 03:22

Re: Board Minutes 29 September 2004


> > For example rather than knowing 3 weeks ahead of
> time that there was
> > a GNOME Summit organized, knowing that one was
> scheduled but without
> > precise date and location ahead of time would have
> been simpler.
> 

The reason for the late date of the announcement was
that we difficulty getting a space donated - despite
constant follow-ups, etc.
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