We are happy to announce that the schedule for this years GStreamer Conference in San Diego, USA is available. You can find out more about the conference and schedule on the GStreamer Conference page. This year in addition to a lot of interesting talks about GStreamer we have talks about ALSA, V4L, OpenGL and the Opus Video codec.

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Check out the release notes for GStreamer core, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav, or download tarballs for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav,

Improvements include:

• rtspsrc: fix regression that make rtspsrc hang when stopping
• alsasrc: don't output buffers without timestamps or with bogus timestamps
• add GST_CLOCK_TYPE_OTHER clock type
• discoverer, decodebin: fix state change re-sync race that might lead to deadlocks
• add GST_BIN_FLAG_NO_RESYNC flag that disables a resync when an element is added, removed or linked in the bin; this is interesting for complex bins that dynamically add elements to themselves and want to manage the state of those elements without interference from state resync threads (which may cause deadlocks)
• video: fix crashes with and frame sizes of A420 video format
• fix VP6-alpha video playback
• jpegenc: pass flow returns upstream
• audio/video parsers: fix negotiation with encoders in some transcoding cases
• qtdemux: fix pixel-aspect-ratio of some files with ProRes video
• cairo: port cairooverlay to 1.0
• psdemux: tentative port to 1.0; take into account both DTS and PTS
• shm: Actually get the permissions on get_property
• waylandsink: do not default to fullscreen mode
• build: fix build with new automake 1.13
• build: pass CC, LD, AS, AR and NM to the libav configure if set
• miscellaneous bug fixes

Just tagged hamster 1.02, which is pretty much the extent of realeasing hamster. You can grab a tarball from the tags page https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/tags.

Please note: This release is not backwards compatible with GNOME 2.x (or rather it will work but there is no applet anymore)

The applet is dead, long live shell extension (available on extensions.gnome.org).

Details

This release does not add any new features and just tries to cope with the loss of the applet. Also the organisational changes i made (moving away from gnome and into github) were done so to avoid extinction of the project (even if slightly dormant, hamster is not being abandoned).  There are a few bug fixes here and there and some improvements to the command line however.

This is also the first release targetting GNOME v3+. The applet has been removed and recommended hamster remote is the shell extension, available on extensions.gnome.org.

• Project Hamster has detached from Gnome and thus we are resetting the versioning. The program name also has changed from hamster-applet to a more generic hamster-time-tracker
• Improvements in the command line. hamster-cli has been renamed to simply “hamster” and without parameters launches the day view. Run ”hamster –help” to get help on available commands. The executable also supports tab-completion to suggest actions as well as to look up activities and categories
• desktop notifications are back
• the notification tray interaction has been slightly improved (click to toggle)
• ~20 bug fixes https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues?state=closed

A small step for humanity and a huge leap for hamster.  Happy using and fork us on github!

GNOME was founded with the goal of promoting software freedom. We remain committed to the empowerment of our users, and are always looking for ways to improve our software. We want people to be safe, in control, and enriched by the software they use. The GNOME community was inspired by the keynote delivered by Jacob Appelbaum on the topic of privacy at this years' GUADEC and was reminded of our mission. To this end, GNOME is working on a new campaign focused on privacy. Through this campaign, we aim to enhance GNOME 3 so that it offers one of the most secure computing environments available.

Proceeds from the privacy fundraising campaign will be used to fund development efforts such as:

• application containment
• enhanced disk encryption support
• Tor integration
• user control over diagnostic reporting features
• robust VPN routing
• application integration with system-wide privacy settings
• controls for how GNOME devices are identified on local networks
• anti-phishing features for Web, GNOME's web browser

Donate today to help make GNOME safer than ever!

The GStreamer team announces a new bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Check out the release notes for GStreamer core, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav, or download tarballs for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav,

Improvements include:

• basesrc: fix potential leaks when re-activating in a different mode
• bindings: make all pad probe types work with bindings
• bindings: fix gst_event_parse_stream_start() annotation, fixing crash
• bindings: fix annotation for gst_app_src_push_buffer(), fixing crash
• bindings: add several missing annotations for GstRtspMessage API
• documentation improvements
• playbin: fix occasional not-negotiated errors when switching visualisations
• ssaparse: ignore invalid UTF-8 in SSA/ASS subtitles init sections in matroska files
• streamsynchronizer: better timestamp and gap handling at EOS, fixing potential OOM in baseaudiosink
• deinterleave: properly set srcpad channel position
• osxvideosink: Fix resizing the Cocoa window on receiving new caps
• rtspsrc fixes
• shout2send: also accept audio/webm in addition to video/webm
• videobox: fix border filling for planar YUV formats
• webmmux: fix linking to shout2send
• v4l2: fix build on FreeBSD
• siddec: initialize debug category
• mpeg4videoparse: also parse divx 4/5
• mpeg4videoparse: export number of sprite warping points in caps (decoders might have no or only limited GMC support)
• mpegtsmux: propagate flow returns upstream; don't crash when reused
• rtmpsrc: disable seeking if the configured url specifies live=true
• build fixes for OS/X (shm) and Windows (d3dvideosink)
• libav G.726 decoder fixes
• miscellaneous bug fixes
• some memory leak fixes

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the conclusion of the WebKitGTK+Hackfest. The hackfest was held December 9-12 and was hosted once again at the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain. This hackfest has been very successful with more than twenty attendees from Igalia, Collabora, Adobe, Intel, Samsung and Red Hat.

WebKitGTK+ hackfest 2012 picture by Joone Hur

The hackfest was extremely productive, and highlights of the tasks that were worked on there include:

• Many improvements in Web, the GNOME web browser: a new incognito mode to minimize the risk of being tracked both on the internet and in your own computer, a slick new UI for the search, revamping the creation of Web applications by selecting better icons and names, adding undo close tabs, preventing empty download-only windows and preliminary work for the integration of the Document Viewer in the browser.
• Switching from Pango to Harfbuzz to render complex text.
• Porting the WebAudio backend to GStreamer 1.0.
• Better DOM bindings.
• Many bugs fixed for accelerated compositing with Clutter, both in ELF and GTK+ ports.
• Stabilization of  the libsoup API.
• Improvements in the memory use of the V8 Javascript engine.
• 2D-canvas accelerated support using Cairo OpenGL.
• Better HTML5 media controls.
• A new API to retrieve a screenshots from web pages.
• Progress in accessibility support.
• Documentation.

The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event:

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that Seoul has been selected as the venue for the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2013.

The Asia Summit organizing team was very impressed with the Korean local organizers' proposal. The GNOME community in Seoul is committed to GNOME's success and to promoting the use of GNOME and GNU/Linux in Korea and the rest of Asia. The local community has been very active, organizing monthly events called "The GNOME Tech Talks & Hackfest".

Seoul is a convenient and exciting place to hold the conference. With great public transportation and solid international flight connections, it will be easy for attendees to travel to the event. Seoul also has great tourist attractions, many universities with strong student communities, and is home to many of Korea's largest technology companies. Interest in Free and Open Source Software is growing more than ever in Korea. The organizing team believes that hosting the event in Seoul will expand GNOME's presence and increase participation in the area.

"We are excited about the high level of interest in GNOME in Asian countries. By having an annual GNOME event in Asia, we further our goal of spreading Free Software and provide venues for GNOME collaboration," said Karen Sandler, the Executive Director of GNOME.

"The conference will allow interested parties to discuss the then released GNOME 3.8, the future of GNOME, as well as other topics, especially concerning the needs of GNOME developers in Asia," said Simon YoungKi Hong, lead of the local organizing team. "With various stakeholders of different aspects in GNOME, the conference will be a great opportunity to celebrate and discuss features and enhancements to GNOME."

The conference will be held this summer. More information will be posted on the website gnome.asia as the event is planned.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the GNOME.Asia 2013 bidding process, especially the great work from Team GNOME Seoul and Team GNOME Beijing!

The Web Version of the GNOME 2010-11 Annual Report is available for download (2.4 MB, PDF).

The report, initially made available at the annual GNOME Foundation’s membership meeting, is a summary of GNOME community’s activities for the two years from 2010 to 2011. These years have been very exciting. A lot of love and energy was focused on releasing GNOME 3 which is the cornerstone of GNOME’s new vision of the free desktop that the project will be improving and polishing in the coming years.

The report includes several articles about the transition to GNOME 3, accounts of various community activities and events around the world, interviews with GNOME Foundation members, and general information about GNOME Foundation development.

The GNOME 2010-11 Report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license 3.0.

 * Annual report
 * GNOME logo approval for Worldofgnome forums.
 * Travel committee role
 * Status of a11y project proposals
 * Sysadmin funding
 * Openhatch outreach idea
 * OPW status report
 * Advisory board meeting agenda
 * Status of fiscal services for GIMP
 * Joining the W3C
 * Health insurance increase for employees

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= Minutes for Meeting of November 20th, 2012 =

== Next Meeting ==

 * Tuesday, December 4th, 2012, 15:00 UTC

== Attending ==

 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Joanmarie Diggs
 * Bastien Nocera
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Andreas Nilsson
 * Karen Sandler

=== Regrets ===

 * Tobias Mueller
 * Seif Lotfy

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * GUADEC 2013 & 2014 announcement
   * News leaked
   * Need to announce it either today or on Monday
     * Thursday is US Thanksgiving

 * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update
   * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend
the funds and needs feedback on that.
     * Document accessibility and caret navigation
   * Bastien started a reply on the board list
     * The scope is fine, but it should not be restricted to a couple of modules
   * Joanie proposes to recuse herself on the voting to avoid conflict
of interests
     * Joanie should still provide guidance and help in evaluating the bidders
   * '''ACTION''': Board members should continue discussing the a11y
team proposal on the mailing list
   * '''ACTION''': Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and
submit it to the board list

 * Joining the W3C
   * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME
joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards.
   * Some of the test cases in some working groups are available only to members
   * There are some standards that would benefit from our perspective
and interest
   * GNOME developers have been invited to be experts on the WG
proceedings but it's difficult to justify this to employers
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME
Foundation to be a member of the W3C
   * There is the option of having an adboard member to send one of
their employees to be in the W3C representing GNOME
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to look into the details of the W3C
membership and invited experts rules

 * Reports - annual report
   * Progress of the web version of the Annual Report.
   * Andreas has the donors list
   * '''ACTION''': Andreas to publish the Annual Report at the end of the week.

 * Sysadmin position
   * We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on
our last sysadmin.
     * '''ACTION''': Zana to look at the actual amount of money
allocated for the sysadmin that we can still use
   * We should look into spending that money.
   * The funding could also cover the CiviCRM migration

 * Marketing director position
   * On foundation-list, there have been suggestions about us hiring a
marketing director in order to coordinate our messaging.
   * Budget-wise, it's problematic
     * Having another employee will impact our reserves
   * We should explore the option of having an adboard member donate
the time of an employee for a full-time/part-time position
   * There is also the question as to whether we should be having a
marketing director at all
     * Marketing is really hard
     * We could also use the chance to entice former adboard members
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director

 * webkitGTK+ hackfest
   * 4th annual WebKitGTK+ Hackfest. 17 participants for 4 days.
   * They have asked the Foundation for sponsorship of 4500 EUR.
   * We still don't have a 2012-2013 budget
   * We also had far fewer hackfests than last year
   * Vote: +1 Shaun, Emmanuele, Andreas, Bastien; Joanie abstains/recuses
   * '''ACTION''': Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to
the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers

 * travel committee
   * Gérman Poo e-mailed the board and said he thinks that the travel
committee has become too process-heavy.
   * The travel committee was created to reduce the load on Zana
   * The process may need to be streamlined, especially for the
reimbursement part
   * The discussion should continue on the mailing list
   * We should keep the travel committee in the loop with the discussion

 * GNOME supporter card
   * We should put together a GNOME supporter card for one of our donors.
   * '''ACTION''': Andreas to look at drafting a GNOME supporter card

 * Next adboard meeting
   * Adboard members are starting to respond to the survey

 * Health insurance increase for employees.
   * No progress since last time
   * The board needs to discuss and vote.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Seif to get more information on the event and create a proposal
about a possible event in Egypt
 * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
 * Karen to check if an AB meeting would be possible at the Boston Summit
 * Karen and Joanie to get feedback on corporate sponsorship for the
Boston Summit
 * Karen - Will reach out to Mozilla to find advice about negotiating
partnerships.
 * Emmanuele to check the data mined by Tobi from ?PayPal and send it to Andreas
 * Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014

== Status of action items ==

 * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails
 * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders.
 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible
collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if
they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue
is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz
 * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody
received their benefits.
 * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012
 * Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize
the types  of contacts and come up with the various areas
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors.
 * Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM
 * Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James
Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is
updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Karen - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the
archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the
GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them.
 * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security,
reliability)
 * Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments;
waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice.
 * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the
areas of involvement for each board member
 * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the
requirements for the contracted project

=== New Action Items ===
 * '''ACTION''': Board members should continue discussing the a11y
team proposal on the mailing list
 * '''ACTION''': Bastien and Karen to draft a call for bids and submit
it to the board list
 * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore founding options for the GNOME
Foundation to be a member of the W3C
 * '''ACTION''': Karen to look into the details of the W3C membership
and invited experts rules
 * '''ACTION''': Andreas to publish the Annual Report at the end of the week.
 * '''ACTION''': Zana to look at the actual amount of money allocated
for the sysadmin that we can still use
 * '''ACTION''': Karen to explore funding options for a marketing director
 * '''ACTION''': Joanie to communicate the decision of the board to
the WebKitGTK+ hackfest organizers
 * '''ACTION''': Andreas to look at drafting a GNOME supporter card

== Discussed on the mailing list ==
 * DNS move of clutter-projects.org
 * Possibility of GNOME joining the W3C
 * Possible shutdown of the travelling committee
 * A11y FoG project update
 * Funding of 3 hackers for Color Management hackfest in Brno

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On Dec 20 i’ll be shipping a stable(r) version of project hamster. By shipping i mean the github repository will be tagged and there will be a targzipped package in the downloads section.

One big thing that is going to happen, is the renaming of the package. It used to be “hamster-applet” and now it will be “hamster-time-tracker“. This also allows me to abandon the GNOME versioning scheme and we start numbering hamster-time-tracker at 1.2.

Translators – the strings have stabilized and i don’t expect them to change in the next two weeks, so your love will be appreciated a lot by the folks using hamster. To submit a translation, simply fork the hamster project in github, perform changes in your forked repo and then create a pull request.

Packagers – i hope this finally marks hamster packages going away from git-timestamp packages. Future releases will be anounced here as well as in the g+ page

Hamster git users – follow these instructions to clean up previous hamster paths to avoid any confusion.

I’ll be updating release notes shortly, but this version is essentially all about putting hamster back on track after the numerous changes in gnome and the whole ubuntu departure.

Apart from that the command line interface has gotten quite a bit of love. The “hamster-cli” command has been dropped in favor of simply “hamster”. When run without params it will open the today’s view. Run “hamster –help” to find out the params and goodies. It also supports tab-completion.

Check out issues open and closed - for what has been fixed between here and us moving to github and what’s still on the list

Comments are welcome, so are rants, sobs and courses – hit me!

Ah yes, also mad props to all the flatterers for reminding me to keep going!

Today, the Foundation announced the locations of GUADEC 2013 and 2014:

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It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Brno,
Czech Republic has been selected as the venue for GUADEC 2013. Each year,
the GNOME User and Developer European Conference gathers GNOME community
members from all across the world. We hope we'll see you at Brno
University of Technology from August 1-8, 2013.

During the bidding process, the GNOME Foundation received a second
outstanding proposal. As a result, the Board of Directors is also pleased
to announce that GUADEC 2014 will be held in Strasbourg, France. Selecting
the venue earlier will give the Strasbourg local team more time to prepare
the conference, which has been asked for by previous organizing teams.
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Have a good holiday to those who celebrate it!
best,
Karen

Thanks to John Lato and Duncan Coutts for the latest bugfix release! The latest packages should be buildable on GHC 7.6, and the cairo package should behave a bit nicer in ghci on Windows. Thanks to all!

~d

It is with great pleasure that the GNOME Foundation announces that Brno, Czech Republic has been selected as the venue for GUADEC 2013. Each year, the GNOME User and Developer European Conference gathers GNOME community members from all across the world. We hope we'll see you at Brno University of Technology from August 1-8, 2013.

During the bidding process, the GNOME Foundation received a second outstanding proposal. As a result, the Board of Directors is also pleased to announce that GUADEC 2014 will be held in Strasbourg, France. Selecting the venue earlier will give the Strasbourg local team more time to prepare the conference, which has been asked for by previous organizing teams.
For more information about GUADEC please visit the event website: www.guadec.org

Follow our updates via identi.ca / Twitter at: @guadec

Read the full press release

The GStreamer team announces a new bug-fix release for the new API and ABI-stable 1.x series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.

Check out the release notes for GStreamer core, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav, or download tarballs for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base, gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-plugins-bad, or gst-libav,

Improvements include:

• bufferpool: fix deadlock
• baseparse: forward stream-start event in push mode, fixing issues with streamsynchronizer
• basesink: reset START_TIME when needed, fixing position reporting after seeking beyond end
• typefind: detect isml ftyp as iso-fragmented video/quicktime
• typefinding improvements fixing playback of some wavpack files
• textoverlay rendering fixes
• gobject-introspection annotation fixes
• API: gst_video_decoder_get_qos_proportion()
• rtspsrc: numerous improvements
• build fix for gst-plugins-base installed in non-default prefix
• multifilesink: post messages in max-size mode as well
• vp8dec: improve robustness on decoding errors, e.g. for videocalling
• cdio: try to handle CD-TEXT in non-UTF8 encodings
• xingmux, siddec, dvdlpcmdec and dvdsubdec fixes
• mpegtsmux: fix DTS/PTS confusion
• tsdemux, tsparse: seeking fixes
• tsdemux, tsparse: fix timestamping with push-based input
• h264parse: fix PPS insertion
• mpg123audiodec: fix leaks from not chaining up in the finalize function
• avcodecmap: Y41B is YUV411P, not YUV410P
• numerous bug fixes
• some memory leak fixes

this is the public agenda for the board meeting of November 20th.

 * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update
  * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend
the funds and needs feedback on that.
 * Joining the W3C
  * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining
the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards.
 * Reports - annual report
  * Progress of the web version of the Annual Report.
 * Sysadmin position
  * We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on our
last sysadmin.
 * Marketing director position
  * On foundation-list, there have been suggestions about us hiring a
marketing director in order to coordinate our messaging.
 * webkitGTK+ hackfest
  * 4th annual WebKitGTK+ Hackfest. 17 participants for 4 days.
 * travel committee
 * GNOME supporter card
  * We should put together a GNOME supporter card for one of our donors.
 * Next adboard meeting
 * GUADEC 2013 and 2014 announcement/press release

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= Minutes for Meeting of November 6th, 2012 =

== Next Meeting ==

 * Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Joanmarie Diggs
 * Bastien Nocera
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Andreas Nilsson
 * Seif Lotfy
 * Karen Sandler

=== Regrets ===

 * Tobias Mueller

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Future adboard meetings
   * We need to plan the next adboard meeting. Last meeting was at GUADEC.
     * When should we have the next meeting?
     * What topics should we cover?
       * Ideas for the next campaigns for Friends of GNOME
       * Newcomer event, Outreach efforts funding
       * cross-desktop collaboration
       * report on GNOME OS meeting at GUADEC, Boston Summit, and on
the gnome-os-list
     * Discuss further ideas on the mailing list
   * When should we have the next adboard face-to-face meeting?

 * Next round of Women Outreach Program.
   * Karen sent a summary to the mailing list.
     * More projects decided to join.
     * Karen has been exploring sponsorship offers from adboard
members and other foundations.
   * How many students should the Foundation fund?
     * One student = USD 5000.
     * Recommendation: 2 students.
     * We need a rough budget based on the numbers from previous years.
     * Vote for sponsor two students, with the option for others if
the budget allows it: unanimous
   * The next round will be announced some time around next week.

 * Fiscal services for projects.
   * The Foundation now holds the Google Summer of Code money for PulseAudio.
   * Karen is still waiting for feedback from SourceForge for their
incubator project.

 * Health insurance increase for employees.
   * Still discussing the issue on the mailing list.

 * Status of web version of Annual report
   * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to send an email to Tobi for the updated
list of donors from PayPal.

 * GNOME GNIGHTS
   * Meg Ford asked the board for some financial support for their
monthly GNOME community meetups in Chicago.
   * USD 40/event
   * Provision: blog/wiki reports and sponsor badge
   * Vote: unanimous
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to send an email to Meg about the funding of
the GNOME GNights.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * We have some donors falling through the cracks.
   * The script automating the extraction of the list of donors should
help catch some of the cases.
   * The board was asked for only having a certificate instead of a gift
     * Mozilla has a similar certificate.

 * Next meeting: November 20th, 2012
   * Time: 15:00 UTC

== Completed Actions ==

 * Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014
 * Joanie to work with the A11y team to write proposals for using the
Mozilla and FoG money

== Status of action items ==

 * All directors should discuss the first-response contact for emails
 * Andreas and Emmanuele to discuss the best approach to publish the
Agenda on foundation-list before the board meeting
 * Andreas - To create a wiki page on the web services accounts holders.
 * Bastien - To contact the BBC to discuss about possible
collaboration in working directly with GNOME.
 * Bastien - Reach out to the GNOME Advisory Board via email to see if
they can help out with providing contacts at Yahoo.
 * Bastien will research what the status of the Banshee Amazon revenue
is and report back to Bertrand Lorentz
 * Emmanuele - Will audit the current donors and check that everybody
received their benefits.
 * Emmanuele to start a wiki page on the community feedback of GUADEC 2012
 * Emmanuele to check the data mined by Tobi from ?PayPal and send it to Andreas
 * Joanie will send an email to both GNOME and KDE board lists to get
us all together on the discussion for a desktop collaboration summit.
 * Joanie, Seif to go through the board-list archives to categorize
the types  of contacts and come up with the various areas
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
 * Karen - Will reach out to Mozilla to find advice about negotiating
partnerships.
 * Karen - To continue following up with CiviCRM contractors.
 * Karen to contact foundation-list to get feedback for CiviCRM
 * Karen - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James
Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
   * This has been done.  Will close once the Foundation website is
updated, refer to bug #644932.
   * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644932
 * Karen - Check records of organizations with existing contracts to
use the GNOME trademark. Taken over from Vincent Untz. Look at the
archives in 2005 and try to determine which companies can use the
GNOME trademark. Know what kind of contracts we had with them.
 * Karen to investigate alternative solutions for CiviCRM (security,
reliability)
 * Karen to contact sysadmin team to evaluate existing contract proposals
 * Karen to check if an AB meeting would be possible at the Boston Summit
 * Karen to look at other potential sponsors for Boston Summit
 * Karen and Joanie to get feedback on corporate sponsorship for the
Boston Summit
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Rosanna - Received the PO from Google for the GSOC payments;
waiting for individual mentor travel receipts to submit invoice.
 * Seif to get more information on the event and create a proposal
about a possible event in Egypt
 * Seif to send an email on board-list to start the discussion on the
areas of involvement for each board member
 * Shaun - Will post the January 18th, 2012 IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a
list of attendees to get feedback for the summit.
 * Shaun - To help out extracting the GNOME respondents of Describe
FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111115 here.the Desktop Summit survey.
 * Shaun - To contact the previous editors of the Annual Report to
gather a better picture of how to move forward.
 * Shaun - To coordinate with Germán to write a report for the
Financials section of the Annual Report.
 * Shaun - To start a discussion with Andrea about the Emeritus status.
 * Shaun - To finish the Financial section of the Annual Report before
the end of the week (week 20).
 * Shaun - To review the Desktop Summit draft before the end of the
week (week 20).
 * Shaun to forward the relevant information for the DDG partnership
to Zana and Karen
 * Karen - to make LWN integration with CiviCRM one of the
requirements for the contracted project

=== New Action Items ===

 * Emmanuele to send an email to Tobi for the updated list of donors
from PayPal.
 * Karen to send an email to Meg about the funding of the GNOME GNights.

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This week… 1548 commits, in 157 projects, by 197 happy hackers (and 275 were translation commits).

• Jakub Steiner made sure the digits of cantarell Bold were monospaced . (GNOME bug 643871)
• In pinpoint Christoph Fischer repositioned speaker notes box to better use the available height.
• Cosimo Cecchi added simple extractor for DVI and XPS files to tracker . (GNOME bug 687162 and GNOME bug 687160)
• César García Tapia added the beginning of a search bar into gnome-music.
• In grilo-plugins Juan A. Suarez Romero changed the flickr plugin to deal with photos only, not videos.
• Emmanuel Pacaud added a zoom option to the lasem renderer.
• Richard Hughes changed gnome-settings-daemon power plugin to avoid suspending, dimming or blanking the screen when running as a virtual machine . (GNOME bug 684801)
• Alexander Larsson updated gnome-boxes to use the notification widget from libgd . (GNOME bug 679106)
• In empathy Giovanni Campagna implemented Google OAUTH2 authentication for GOA accounts . (GNOME bug 652546)
• Jens Georg added an API for Rygel plugins to tell their capabilities . (GNOME bug 676024)
• Jesse van den Kieboom merged the webkit2 branch of gitg.
• Jean Bréfort added new color maps for color and pseudo-3d axes in goffice.
• Aurimas Černius added a special notebook for pinned notes in gnote.
• Darcy Bras da Silva contributed repeat, no-repeat, shuffle, no-shuffle commands to rhythmbox-client.

Anjuta 3.6.0 (September 26, 2012) — James Liggett

This is a new stable version of Anjuta and all users should update to this
version as all 3.4.x versions become unsupported at this point.

Summary of the major changes between 3.4.x and 3.6:

* project-manager:
– Support for calling make check (Sébastien Granjoux)
– Support for subdirectories in project groups (Sébastien Granjoux)
– Crash fixes (Sébastien Granjoux)

* git
– Git Tasks dock is only shown the Git dock is active (Sébastien Granjoux/James Liggett)
– The Status view is the first view shown in the Git dock (James Liggett)
– Status view works with git 1.7.10 and newer (James Liggett)

* symbol-db
– Various crash and infinite loop fixes (Massimo Corà)

* sourceview
– Use common indentation settings (Sébastien Granjoux)

Bug fixes:
bgo 680401: Git plugin (Status) doesn’t work with git version 1.7.10.4
sourceview: Correctly implement popup-menu (bgo#672692)
project-wizard: Explicitely use 3.0 as interface version for ui files (bgo#675877)
symbol-db: Ingore files with unknown language (see bgo#678695)
libanjuta: Fix memory corruption in AnjutaPkgConfig (bgo#679827)
build: Only check for passwords when installing as root (bgo#680136)
document-manager: bgo#680554 – entry of find in files doesn’t get focused
document-manager: bgo#680559 – Find in Files does not scroll to top of results
document-manager: bgo#680555 – Escape key does not dismiss Find in Files panel
Fix bgo #680657 – Warnings when starting anjuta
Fix #679767 – crash trying to stop the debugger

This week… 1733 commits, in 182 projects, by 192 happy hackers (and 228 were translation commits).

• Shaun McCance implemented side-by-side link tiles in yelp-xsl.
• Emmanuele Bassi added typed initializers to json-glib.
• Bastien Nocera changed Totem to use scaletempo instead of soundpitch plugin.
• In gnome-shell-extensions Giovanni Campagna updated the alternative-status-menu extension.
• Matthias Clasen made zeitgeist optional again in folks.
• Jordi Mas added two new calculation games to gbrainy.
• In gnome-documents Cosimo Cecchi added a notification when indexing remote documents takes a long time . (GNOME bug 660507)
• In gnome-boxes Alexander Larsson moved the “force shutdown” from the app menu to the properties view.
• Dan Winship ported glib-networking and libsoup to use GTask.
• Stefano Facchini added support for styling the dragged header in GTK+ tree view . (GNOME bug 684980)
• In pygobject Martin Pitt removed static MainLoop, MainContext, and some GSource bindings as they are now properly introspectable . (GNOME bug 686443)
• Emmanuel Pacaud added support for viewport-fill, viewport-opacity, and enable-background properties to lasem.
• In glib Colin Walters made g_variant_new_from_bytes() public . (GNOME bug 677062)