The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions to GNOME!

They are:

1. Sergio Villar Senín (WebKitGtk+, libsoup and Epiphany)
2. Christy Eller (GNOME’s OPW internship, GNOME Marketing and gnome.org’s development)
3. Julita Inca Chiroque (GNOME Documentation, GNOME’s OPW internship)
4. Aurimas Černius (Gnote’s maintainer, Lithuanian translations for GNOME)
5. Martin Pitt (Debian / Ubuntu packaging for GNOME, PyGObject, Bug triaging and fixing)
6. Neil Roberts (Cogl’s maintainer, Clutter’s contributions, GNOME’s esperanto translator)
7. Jasper St. Pierre (Many contributions on mutter / gnome-shell, author of the extensions.gnome.org website)
8. Shaswat Nimesh (Speaker at Gnome Asia Summit 2011, GUADEC Committee member, Founder and coordinator of Chennai GNOME User Group and GNOME’s advocacy in India)
9. Michal Hruby (Zeitgeist and Synapse developer)
10. Vibha Yadav (Evolution and related modules, GNOME.Asia 2011 as a speaker)

Congratulations to our new members!

If you contribute to GNOME, you too can become a member of the Foundation. See the membership page for details.

This week… 1611 commits, in 183 projects, by 205 happy hackers (and 216 were translation commits).

• In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei started using PNGs as assets where possible, instead of SVG files.
• Many introspection improvements landed in gjs (support for interfaces, signals, glib properties…), Jasper St. Pierre blogged about GJS Improvements.
• Matthias Clasen added a systemd implementation of the session tracking part of gnome-session . (GNOME bug 666891)
• David King added an horizontal flip effect to gnome-video-effects . (GNOME bug 666930)
• Jasper St. Pierre added back a “popularity” field to extensions.gnome.org.
• Empathy was updated by Will Thompson to present confirmation dialogs when closing windows containing chat rooms . (GNOME bug 591756)
• In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow fixed rich text import from xslx files . (GNOME bug 669083)
• Faghmie Davids contributed many improvements to the Firebird provider of libgda.
• In gnome-shell Owen Taylor improved the default screencast pipeline, decreasing the quality setting for the vp8 codec from 10 to 8, and increasing the speed setting from 2 to 6 . (GNOME bug 669066)
• Stefano Palazzo contributed a Python 3 language file for gtksourceview . (GNOME bug 668136)
• Alexander Larsson updated gnome-contacts to use a dialog for avatar changing.
• Patricia Santana Cruz changed cheese to use PackageKit to install nautilus-sendto when needed; she wrote about this: PackageKit in Cheese . (GNOME bug 668072)
• Damien Sandras reimplemented call control functions into the new Ekiga call window.
• In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported uadrapassel from C++ to Vala.
• Claudio Saavedra updated eog to hide the titlebar when maximized . (GNOME bug 668652)
• In gedit Jesse van den Kieboom added an option to ensure that documents always end with a trailing newline.

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas like GTK, ATK, AT-SPI2, Qt, WebKitGtk+ and Gecko.

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The hackfest was very productive, some of the highlights included:

• It was agreed to remove key events emission from GTK+ as soon as an alternative implementation is provided. Several approaches for this implementation where discussed.
• Accessibility support for WebKitGtk+ has been further improved with a big refactoring of the code, as well as exposing WebKit2Gtk+ accessibility hierarchies to ATK/AT-SPI.
• Ideas for a more efficient and effective AT-SPI2 cache policy were discussed, with the goal of keeping DBus messages traffic to a minimum.
• There was an important discussion about global vs per-object events. The aim here is to make sure that only the relevant events are sent to accessibility clients. In the short term, the current goblal-events hook-based implementation will be maintained, but we will be exploring alternatives.
• It was concluded that in order to enable accessibility support by default, we shouldn’t use ATK-bridge as a module, but integrate it in the core platform. Several possible approaches were discussed, and we set the aim of having a concrete plan decided by the time GNOME 3.4 is released.
• These and other accessibility underpinnings were worked on, which will effectively improve the experience of GNOME users who need accessibility features.

There are many challenges in the near future of accessibility and GNOME is currently campaigning to raise funds to support its ongoing efforts. Help us to make 2012 the Year of Accessibility for GNOME!.

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

GNOME will be very present at FOSDEM 2012. The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a major two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. It happens every year in Brussels, Belgium.

GNOME will have a booth at FOSDEM this year, with T-Shirts for sale, stickers and more. GNOME developers will be available to answer questions and will be demonstrating the latest GNOME technologies. GNOME community members will also be attending FOSDEM including Karen Sandler, the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, as well as members of the GNOME Release Team.

There are going to be many talks about GNOME, covering topics ranging from new technologies, community organization and design. Most of these talks will be held in the Cross-Desktop Devroom (H 1308). Here are some of them:

Saturday Feb 4 11:20 H.1308 50 minutes	GStreamer 1.0 – the next generation of your favourite multimedia framework	Tim-Philipp Müller
Feb. 4 17:00 H. 1308 30 minutes	GNOME 3: Every Detail Matters	Allan Day
Feb 5 13:30 H. 1308 40 minutes	How to trick a developer into being a designer?	Seif Lotfy & Allan Day
Feb 5 13:30 H.1308 40 minutes	Make your applications smarter via Zeitgeist	Seif Lotfy
Feb 5 09:15 H.1308 40 minutes	GNOME 3.4 accessible: Status, news, future	Alejandro Piiñeiro Iglesias
Feb 5 15:00 H.1308 40 minutes	WebKitGTK+ status and roadmap to WebKit2	Mario Sanchez Prada
Feb 5 15:45 H.1308 30 minutes	Getting into GNOME: Impressions of a new maintainer	David King
Sunday Feb 5 16:20 H.1308 30 minutes	Web Applications in GNOME	Xan López
Sunday Feb 5 10:45 H.1308 30 minutes	Boxes, use other systems with ease	Marc-André Lureau & Zeeshan Ali

 

As usual, there will be a GNOME Beer Party on Saturday night. Held at “La Bécasse” (rue de Tabora 11 (2 minutes from the Grand Place) from 20:00-00:30 in the city center (NOT “La Bécasse” by ULB/FOSDEM!)

If you are a GNOME contributor, let us know if you will be attending FOSDEM at: https://live.gnome.org/Brussels2012/Attendees.

This week… 1871 commits, in 231 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 219 were translation commits).

• In librsvg Christian Persch improved the decoding of data: URIs.
• Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-screenshot to make non interactive mode headless, making it just save the image to the saved screenshots directory.
• Aurimas Černius added core synchronization support to gnote.
• Carlos Garcia Campos pushed some initial work porting devhelp to WebKit2; he later posted details about the port and the process (porting devhelp to WebKit2).
• Milan Crha added support for setting user’s folder permissions into evolution-mapi . (GNOME bug 667714)
• Oleksij Rempel switched Cheese from theora/ogg to vp8/webm.
• In gparted Rogier Goossens added the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide the appropriate tools to perform this action . (GNOME bug 667278)
• Will Thompson added support for functions which return GError into pygobject . (GNOME bug 666098)
• Alexander Larsson added a first run dialog to gnome-contacts.
• Matthias Clasen added a resource tool to glib, this lets the developer poke at resources in elf files and standalone resource bundles.
• James Le Cuirot contributed the possibility to align text vertically into glabels.
• In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added High quality zoom for SVG images.
• Adel Gadllah moved filesystem I/O to a thread when taking a screenshot in gnome-shell . (GNOME bug 652952)
• Florian Brosch contributed support for comments to the GIR parser in Vala.
• Pascal de Bruijn made gnome-color-manager use smaller/faster display calibration target sets.

Every year, Linux Journal magazine sponsors a contest wherein its readers vote for their favorite open source applications in a variety of categories. In 2011, GNOME won Best Desktop Environment and GNOME 3 came away with the coveted Product of the Year award. Considering the awards were decided by over 12,000 voters in 2010, this is a great honor for GNOME.

Linux Journal reports that “GNOME 3 represents a drastic change in the way we compute on the desktop“, and says the readers have proven “that change isn’t always a bad thing, and GNOME 3 wins!”.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120124

= Minutes for Meeting of January 24 =

== Next Meeting ==

 February 7, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Next Advisory Board Meeting
   * When shall we have the next meeting?
   * Proposed date: February 28th, 2012
   * Topics?
     * Accessibility (Friends of GNOME, Hackfest update)
     * Have a GNOME release for distribution LTS release (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team)
     * How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement of the next meeting on February 28, and request for agenda topics.

 * Events
   * FOSDEM
     * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
       * Unanimously approved.
       * '''ACTION''': Rosanna to pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.
   * Our response?
   * In case we joined OSI, we should notify the Free Software Foundation to avoid misunderstandings.
   * Condition for joining should be an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
   * Even if GNOME decides not to join, should there be a clear indication of who should join?
   * Should we ask KDE eV for their reasons to join the OSI?
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom and promote GNOME a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen - Is putting together a Foundation membership certificate for Milan Bouchet-Valat.
   * Stormy sent the certificates used for Alberto Ruiz to board-list.

 * Formal process on release requirements and portability matrix changes.
   * We used to have the process of the external dependencies.
   * Was superceded by the feature proposal period.
   * Need to raise the issue with the release-team, and eventually bring (and document) the external dependencies process back.
   * '''ACTION''': Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Karen mentioned the campaign on her LCA keynote.
   * The Foundation needs help getting the a11y FoG banner on the website.  

 * Bi-weekly foundation meetings.
   * Reguarly scheduled.
   * Not much momentum generated, lack of agenda topics.
   * '''ACTION''': Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.

== Recurring Items ==

 * Review past action items.
 * Did each person update their action items?
 * Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published to foundation-announce and foundation-list.
 * Make sure to use gobby server for better minute taking. 
 
== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.Asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
 * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest. -- Behdad won't be in Brno, so no Harfbuzz hackfest is scheduled.

== Status of action items ==

 * 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.
 * Brian - 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
 * Brian - 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Karen - To continue working with Justin about renewing the old trademarks.
 * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * 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 organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
 * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - Will take over organizing the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * Karen - To send an email to the board-list and adboard list for the announcement and request for agenda topics.
 * Karen - To talk to Simon about an amendment to OSI's charter to mention freedom.
 * Rosanna - To pay Baptiste Mille-Mathias for the stickers to bring at FOSDEM.
 * Ryan - To talk to the release-team about the external dependencies process.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * FOSDEM
   * Baptiste Mille-Mathias requested reimbursement for GNOME stickers at FOSDEM.
   * +1 from Stormy, Brian, Germán.

 * Women's Outreach Program
   * Laura Lazzati needs to drop out of the program for personal reasons.
   * The board agreed to pay Laura Lazzati $1,250 (USD) for work done so far.
   * This is half of the normal mid-point payment other GNOME Women's Outreach Program interns will get on February 1.

 * Joanie Diggs suggested that GNOME consider joining OSI to better represent a11y.

 * Milan Bouchet-Valat requested a GNOME Foundation membership certificate to pass a "benevolent activity" university requirement.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120110

= Minutes for Meeting of January 10 =

== Next Meeting ==

 January 24, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

 * Ryan Lortie

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Trademarks
   * New GNOME foot logo has been registered.
   * We need to renew the older trademarks, or let them elapse.
   * The new logo, by virtue of being similar to the old, can very likely protect the old logo (i.e. somebody using the old logo would very likely be covered by the new trademark). Copyright restrictions would also prevent the old logo's use.
   * Justin has withdrawn as the lawyer on record but he or SFLC should be able to help with renewals and other trademark work going forward.

 * Events
   * GNOME.Asia Summit
     * Planning meeting was today, just before the board meeting.
     * Bids received (Hong Kong and Indonesia) are here:
       * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/HkProposal
       * Indonesia budget is $43,574 (USD), including $15,250 travel budget and $10,000 lodging budget for 5 days for 25 people.
       * Hong Kong budget is $19,285.20 to $21,650.20 with a $12,000 travel budget.
       * The venue is free for both events.  Both events include some meal costs.  Both events are planning a hackfest to coincide with the event.
     * What amount is the Foundation going to be able to cover?
       * 2010: we spent $28,148 (USD), and received $12,000.
       * 2011: we spent $14,450 (USD), and received $12,766.
       * $15,000 for 2012 seems reasonable.
         * +1 from Emmanuele, Shaun, Germán, Brian.
       * '''ACTION''': Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
       * '''ACTION''': Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
   * Did Behdad Esfahbod have a HarfBuzz hackfest at Brno?  He indicated he would when he notified the board on December 13th.  If so, we should ask him to do a write-up and add it to our Hackfest Wiki.
     * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest.
   * GStreamer Hackfest
     * The board approved paying $3,714.90 (USD) to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs.  Was Christian notified?  Yes, by Karen after the vote in the email thread.

 * Accounts
   * Access to things like our Amazon affiliates store was raised as a discussion point on the list.
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-January/msg00010.html
   * Need some sort of process to decide who should get access?
     * Access should be restricted, as the account contain sensitive and financial data.
     * Password owners should be listed in the Board private wiki.
     * The Board should be notified of changes.
     * '''ACTION''': Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

 * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011.  Was this taken care of?
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-December/msg00221.html
   * In progress.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Status.
   * Next steps for a11y campaign.
   * The banner is still missing, due to sysadmin issues.
   * Visibility in the press, but not much on the GNOME website.
   * Need to get more visibility on Board members blogs.
   * The a11y hackfest report would give another push to the campaign.

 * Karen circulated a proposal about how to improve the process for earmarked fund raising 
   * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2011-October/msg00213.html
   * Karen talked to Christian about a GStreamer UK org and the Foundation role.
   * Christian agreed to review Karen's proposal
.
 * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed.
   * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy.
   * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months.  Any update?  Is this still relevant?
   * Ryan is going to write a script to cross-reference the current foundation members with the PGO membership, and Alberto will prepare an announcement.

 * Bastien visited the GUADEC 2012 venue in La Coruña.
   * Venue and accommodation.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.

== Status of action items ==

 * 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.
 * Brian - 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
 * Brian - 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * 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 organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders on the Foundation budget.
 * Karen - To communicate with the GNOME.asia bidders for sponsorship.
 * Emmanuele - To contact Behdad about the state of the Harfbuzz hackfest.
 * Stormy - To create a wiki page on the accounts holders.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * Membership Renewals
   * Verify to make sure you know when your membership needs renewal.
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-January/msg00007.html

 * Events
   * ATK and AT-SPI Hackfest 2012 Planning
     * 18 - 22 January ~ A Coruña, Galicia
     * https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfests/ATK2012
     * The board approved $6,150 (UDS) in travel expenses for this event.
   * GStreamer Hackfest 
     * The board approved paying $3,714.90 (USD) to cover GStreamer Hackfest travel costs.  Was Christian notified?
   * Desktop Summit Planning 
     * Discussion started on foundation-list.
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-December/msg00013.html
   * Behdad Esfahbod notified the board that he and Jonathan Kew (Mozilla) planned a HarfBuzz Mini Hackfest at Brno.
   * The board approved covering Diego Escalante Urrelo's visa reimbursement ($87 USD) for the WebKitGTK+ hackfest.
   
 * Legal
   * The GNOME Foundation New Foot Logo has now been trademarked.  Reg. No. 4063108) filed November 29, 2011.
   * GNOME word mark (Reg. No. 3142483) needs to be renewed.  Working with the lawyers to move forward on this.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Planning for upcoming a11y Friends of GNOME campaign.
   * Should we say anything about our working with FSF or other partners?

 * Michael Schumacher from GIMP requested reimbursement for developers meeting in August at CCCamp 2011.
 * Finishing up the Q3 Report.
 * Karen contacted Christian Schaller to let him know that The GNOME Foundation is wanting to support the upcoming GStreamer hackfest.
 * Working to help provide and improve content for the GNOME Foundation website update.
 * Discussion about how to improve the "free software" message on GNOME websites.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111213

= Minutes for Meeting of December 13 =

== Next Meeting ==

 January 10, 2012

== Attending ==

 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Karen Sandler
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Stormy Peters

=== Regrets ===

=== Missing ===

 * Bastien Nocera 

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Shall we have a meeting on the 27th?
   * In previous years the board has skipped meetings over holidays or slipped them a week when there is not much business to discuss.
   * Voted for skipping: unanimous.
   * Next meeting: January 10th, 2012.

 * Trademarks
   * Justin Colannino let us know that the GNOME brand is now trademarked.
   * How should we announce this?
     * '''ACTION''': Brian to draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
   * We need to renew the older trademarks.  What email address should we use?
     * Should we use board< at >gnome.org?
     * Use legal-private?
     * Use both board and legal-private.
   * Should we proceed working with Justin?
   * '''ACTION''': Brian to continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
   * Information on renewal should go on the wiki to act as a reminder.

 * Events
   * Desktop Summit
     * Any last comments about the Desktop Summit planning email to the foundation-list before it is sent out?
     * No further comment; Brian to send it to foundation-list

 * Christian Schaller asked if they can put their upcoming GStreamer hackfest information on the GNOME Hackfests website.
   * +1 from Shaun, Emmanuele, Stormy, Bastien, and Brian, Ryan, Germán
   * There was a request for more information about budgets, a tentative list of attendees as well as more detailed agenda.  Especially if they are seeking any assistance with funding.
   * We need to let Christian know.
   * Karen replied to Christian

 * Event Box
   * Haikel Guemar requested €292 for GNOME Event Box expenses.  Do we need more information?  Is this in process?
   * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Shaun, Emmanuele, Ryan, Germán
   * Rosanna to process the reimbursment

 * Emmanuele talked to Alberto Ruiz about a change in the PGO editorial policy, with regards to only including Foundation members in the PGO feed
   * Alberto concurred that this change would make his life easier in determining the addition and removal policy
   * This item has been in the "To be discussed if time" section for several months.  Any update?  Is this still relevant?
   * Alberto Ruiz wants to just notify Planet bloggers and readers, establish a grace period, and then remove non-compliant feeds
   * '''ACTION''': Ryan to help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
   * Policy for GSoC and GWOP interns
     * Membership application is suggested at the end of the internship.
     * Have a grace period post-internship for presence on the Planet.

 * GUADEC papers committee
   * Process for gathering members of the papers committee has started.
   * Suggestions are welcome.

 * Executive Director Review
   * Sent to board-list.
   * Feedback to Karen from the Directors is appreciated.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Accessibility campaign planning.
   * Update:
     * Well on track for the end of the week.
     * Third testimonial found.
     * Karen contacted IBM and they are re-considering their position.

 * Reasons that we could not have an app contest today/how to fix it?
   * Shift towards the application side after the shell for 3.x.
   * Encourage writing GNOME 3 apps.
   * There is no HIG 3.0 and developer documentation.
   * Need an app developer story first?
   * Documentation
     * HIG 3.0 is currently being drafted by Allan Day on the GNOME wiki.
     * Documentation Hackfest in February 2012.
     * Requirements first.
   * SDK is missing/too hard to jhbuild.
   * Let's wait until more pieces are in place.
   * Could it be worth contacting the Yorba developers to help out for the docmentation/SDK?
   * Should be added to a future agenda.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money.  Transferred to Karen.
 * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams.  Transferred to Karen.
 * Brian - Will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list.
 * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review.
 * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

== Status of action items ==

 * 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.
 * Brian - 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
 * Brian - 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.
 * Karen - To contact GIMP, GStreamer, and PiTiVi to outline the board's thoughts about earmarked fund raising.
 * Karen - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.  Transferred from Brian.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * 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 organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - To draft an announcement for foundation-list about the new trademark.
 * Brian - To continue working with Justin about the old trademarks.
 * Ryan - To help Alberto draft a public announcement regarding change in PGO editorial policy.
 * Stormy - To send an email to the GNOME.asia list for plans for next year.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * Events
   * Drafting an email to start a discussion on foundation-list about the future of the Desktop Summit.
   * GUADEC 2012
     * Planning meeting on December 12th.
     * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121
   * Discussion with Jiří Eischmann about the fact that additional hackfests can be accommodated $25-42 USD per day, but they need to know by December the 14th.
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg00028.html
   * Discussion with José Félix Ontañon about promoting the "Accessibility of the libre! workstation" event.
     * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/WorkstationA11y2011

 * Discussion about making progress on the Annual Report
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/date.html

 * Discussion about finding sponsors for the upcoming Friends of GNOME a11y campaign.

 * The board finished its report for the Q3 Quarterly Report.

Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20111129 

= Minutes for Meeting of November 29 =

== Next Meeting ==

 December 13, 2011

== Attending ==

 * Brian Cameron
 * Emmanuele Bassi
 * Karen Sandler
 * Ryan Lortie
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Shaun !McCance

=== Regrets ===

 * Bastien Nocera 
 * Germán Póo-Caamaño
 * Stormy Peters

=== Missing ===

== Board Meeting Agenda ==

 * Flattr
   * Is the board agreeable to work with Flattr even though they will not provide "charitable" status (ie: no fees)?
   * Karen is suggesting Flattr to update their FAQ.
   * Potential for other form of compensation over fees (e.g. vouchers).
   * Approved vote for working with Flattr: +1 from Brian, Bastien, Ryan, Emmanuele.

 * Q3 Report
   * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3
   * Can someone on the board provide an update?
   * One was not provided from the board in the last report.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review

 * World of GNOME
   * Next steps now that they have announced a change in direction?
     * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html
   * We should remind them about the trademark policy.
   * Wait and avoid coming out too strong on the new direction of the website.
     * Vote: Unanimous.
   * '''ACTION''': Karen to send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

 * ED autonomy
   * The GNOME Board is more hands on than other boards.
   * The ED could take on more tasks without involving the board.
   * It's hard to predict where the involvement of the board is warranted.
   * Proposal: when warranted, send a draft of action to the board list, and wait for feedback.
 
 * Events
   * Desktop Summit.
     * Next Steps.
     * Ryan talked to KDE representatives.
     * KDE members likes the idea of a smaller, focused event.
     * Not at expense of the bigger event.
     * Potential to attach a "mini-collaboration summit" to an existing event.
     * Proposal from the IRC meeting: open the floor for a discussion on foundation-list.
     * '''ACTION''': Brian will send a draft for the foundation-list email about the Desktop Summit stances and proposals to board-list.
   * Hackfests
     * https://live.gnome.org/Hackfests
     * There are only two Hackfests planned (Docs and GTK+ at Brno).  There should be others like a11y, Marketing, etc.
     * a11y and marketing decided not to have a hackfest in Brno.
     * Proposals?
       * Usability hackfest.
       * Sysadmin hackfest.
 
 * !FreeWear provided a report that The GNOME Foundation has made 6 euros in October and 32.40 euros since February.  Should we continue to provide this information to the GNOME Foundation community by just reporting the updates in the minutes? Perhaps we should make other arrangements that are more sensible for the future, like ask them to instead give t-shirts to people in Brazil who might be able to use them at events.
   * Mention the !FreeWear report once a year.
   * During AGM.

 * Friends of GNOME
   * Accessibility campaign planning.
   * Karen contacted the web team for the website (progress bar).
     * The number suggested by A11y was 40,000 USD, which seems too high.
     * Target: 25/30k USD.
     * How do we consider monthly/yearly subscriptions?
     * Should we have a way for donations to be directed to specific funds?
     * Define a minimum/maximum amount of time for recurring subscriptions to be directed to the campaign.
   * Karen contacted some journalists for a press coverage.
     * LWN
   * IBM responded negatively for a donation.
   * Mention the campaign to the FSF.

 * Annual Report
   * We are approaching the end of the year and we should be nearing completion.
   * This task seems to need more effort driving it to success.
   * '''ACTION''': Brian will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.

== Completed Actions ==

 * Karen - will go through the stats sent to the board list and prep them for publishing them. (email sent to Shaun)
 * Karen - to follow up with Vincent about the Google Code In 
 * Karen - to contact Emily Chen about the state of GNOME.asia
 * Karen - to contact Simon Phipps about the OSI membership
 * Karen - to draft a summary and proposal for the Oracle advisory fee and send it to the board-list to get an official vote.
 * Karen - to draft a reply to the website owners, and send it to board-list. (new site proposal)

== Status of action items ==

 * 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.
 * Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
 * Brian - 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.  Taken over from Jorge.
 * Brian - Will touch base with the GIMP organizers to find out their plans for the GIMP money.
 * Brian - To coordinate a fund raising meeting with the GStreamer, a11y, GIMP, and Banshee teams.  Will draft an agenda.
 * Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.
 * Emmanuele - Will send an email to board-list to start the discussion on PGO policy and editorial control.
 * Germán - Will continue the discussion with Frédéric about the Gitorious instance on gnome.org. Touched based with Frédéric on Sep 30, we will elaborate more on his proposal once he has more time.
 * Germán - To inform the local GUADEC 2010 organization the decision to make final payment to cover remaining costs.  Touched based with Reinount and Vincent.  There was a misunderstanding with respect to Koen & Sanne working hours, we need to discuss it again.  Everything is fine.
 * Germán - To get in touch with Daniel to work on the Annual Report.
 * Karen - Will follow up with CiviCRM contract.
   * After some tracking down of the status of the communications, cedwards sent email to get discussions with Claudian moving again.
 * Karen - Will follow up with !LojaGeek. 
   * Emailed, so far no response.
 * Karen - To look into Google Checkout as an annual payment option for FoG.
 * Karen - Will work with Gil Forcada from guifi.net and gnome-marketing to define the best way for organizations like guifi.net to participate in the GNOME community. Not many replies from the community. Diego Urrelo will draft something more concrete for gnome-marketing to determine the best name and process for managing this. There was a discussion on the mailing list and a few good ideas, Diego will wrap them up and send them again for further comments.  Will follow-up with Board to read the Advisory Board fees for small businesses proposal, ask for feedback and set a date to vote by.
   * Have been in touch with Gil
 * Karen - To finish the Privacy Policy, get review from James Vasile, etc.
 * Karen - Will follow up with John and get more information about GNU Mobile.
 * Karen - To contact Pockey and negotiate the details and the salary.
 * Rosanna - Automate the process of entering !PayPal information into !GnuCash.
 * Rosanna - Will apply for the GNOME credit card.
 * Ryan - Figure out what's going on with the GTK hackfest
 * Ryan - To look into running a survey for foundation members about the Desktop Summit. 
 * Ryan - Will contact Canonical for a quote for the release notes.
 * Ryan - To communicate with the a11y team the decisions of the board on their contract work proposal.
 * Ryan - To send a new draft of the email to the A11Y team about their contract proposal to board-list.
 * Ryan - To contact Alberto about sending mail to affected bloggers due to changes in PGO editorial policy.
 * Shaun - will post the IRC meeting minutes.
 * Shaun - Will lead the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings.
 * 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 organize the next GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
 * Stormy - will send an email to GWOP interns to attend the Grace Hopper Conference.
 * Stormy - Take care of !GnuCash automation.  Taken over from Paul & Behdad.
 * Stormy - to ask LWN if they can automate it with gnome.org addresses
 * All board members - To review and comment Brian's April 14th proposal regarding better organizing earmarked fundraising.

=== New Action Items ===

 * Brian - Will lead the discussion for the Annual report on the marketing list.
 * Karen - To provide a Q3 Report update from the Board and from the ED for the board to review.
 * Karen - To send a reply to the World of GNOME organizers.

== Discussed on the mailing list ==

 * New Foundation Members
   * http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2011/11/18/new-foundation-members/

 * Discussion about whether to move ahead with using Flattr even though they do not provide charitable status to FOSS projects.
   * +1 from Brian, Bastien. 

 * The board decided to approve an additional candidate for the Womens Outreach Program.
   * +1 from Brian, Stormy, Germán, Shaun. 
   * Shaun emailed Marina to notify the program about the approval.
   * Marina provided a press release that she wrote with Karen.
   * http://www.gnome.org/news/2011/11/gnome-outreach-program-for-women-participants-continue-to-impress/

 * Events
   * GUADEC 2012 
     * Discussion with the organizers about putting together a sponsorship brochure.
     * Planning meetings on the 21st and 28th.
       * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1121
       * https://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/GUADEC-2011-1128
   * Accessibility of the libre! workstation
     * http://etsiit.ugr.es/pages/tablon/*/noticias-etsiit/2011/11/25/jornada-de-accesibilidad-en-el-puesto-informatico-libre
     * José Félix Ontañon notified the board about this FOSS accessibility event being held in Granada (Spain) on November 30, 2011.
       * Alejandro Leiva, Alejandro Pinheiro, and Javier Hernández from the GNOME a11y team will be participating on the panel.
       * The program is as follows:
         * 10:00 to 10:30 Opening.
         * 10:30 to 11:30 Panel 1: State of the art of the free accessibility
         * 11:30 to 12:00 Coffee break
         * 12:00 to 13:00 Panel 2: Successful deployments of free accessibility
         * 1:00pm to 2:00pm Panel 3: Room for improvements
         * 2:00pm to 3:00pm Lunch
         * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 1: A successful case study
         * 3:00pm to 6:00pm Worktable 2: free accessibility swot
         * 6:00pm to 6:30pm Closing.
   * Brno Hackfests
     * Jiří Eischmann is discussing with the board the possibility of acquiring additional space for hackfests, if needed.

 * Haikel Guemar requested 292€ to cover expenses relating to using the EU event box on the behalf of the GNOME booth at JDLL 2011 (http://jdll.org) which was held from 18th to 19th November.
 * Discussion with Andrea Veri about improving the GNOME Foundation website.
 * Bastien responded to Marcos Diaz's email regarding his questions about the Nathive image editor possibly becoming a GNOME project.
 * Discussion about World of GNOME in light of their recent change of direction.
   * http://worldofgnome.org/
   * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-November/msg00048.html
 * Discussion about preparing the Q3 report.
   * https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/QuarterlyReports/2011/Q3
 * Status of sysadmin team.

This week… 1964 commits, in 174 projects, by 203 happy hackers (and 247 were translation commits).

• Maciej Piechotka added a ArrayQueue data structure to libgee.
• Patches from Christophe Fergeau to port sound-juicer to musicbrainz4 have landed at last.
• In Banshee Andrés Aragoneses split RockBox support co into its own class.
• Krzesimir Nowak changed rygel to append extensions to served files.
• Bastien Nocera added support for pairing the iCade into gnome-bluetooth.
• Shaun McCance improved Yelp by making Mallard documents auto-reload on changes.
• In Tomboy Aaron Borden fixed template syncing . (GNOME bug 665679)
• In gnome-contacts Alexander Larsson added support for changing the primary address book.
• Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to add devices based on what is supported by the OS; the information about device support comes from libosinfo . (GNOME bug 666739)
• Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to gnome-packagekit, to make it use systemd instead of ConsoleKit for rebooting . (GNOME bug 666788)
• Joseph Scheuhammer contributed a dialog for zoom options into the universal access control center panel . (GNOME bug 643086)
• David Zeuthen merged his udisks2 port of gnome-disk-utility.
• In GLib Dan Winship added multicast-related functions to GSocket . (GNOME bug 626589)
• Alexia Death added axis labels to dynamics curves and curveview in Gimp.
• Patricia Santana Cruz added videos and picture sharing support, via nautilus-sendto, to Cheese . (GNOME bug 522210)

Banshee 2.3.4 has been released! Banshee 2.3.4 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

We had a short break for the holidays, but now it's time for
another Foundation IRC meeting. We'll hold an IRC meeting this
Wednesday, January 18th, at 16:00 UTC. Information and agenda
can be found on the wiki:

http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda

If there is anything you would like to discuss with other members or
ask the board, please add it to this page:

http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MembersAgenda

Foundation IRC meetings are held every other week as a way for the
GNOME community to keep in touch with members and directors. They
are held in the #foundation channel on irc.gnome.org. Foundation
IRC meetings are open to everybody.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thanks,
Shaun

This week… 1971 commits, in 211 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 253 were translation commits).

• Owen Taylor correct memory management for singletons in gjs.
• In gparted Mike Fleetwood contributed resize support to nilfs2 . (GNOME bug 642842)
• Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to use floppy image only for Windows express install, switching to emulating a USB drive for other images . (GNOME bug 666956)
• Christian Persch reimplemented .svgz support into rsvg-view.
• Federico Mena Quintero merged his docking-stations branch into gnome-settings-daemon, this lets docking stations work better in the light of plugging external monitors.
• Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to the user accounts panel of gnome-control-center . (GNOME bug 666573)
• Milan Crha improved the performance of the addressbook cache of evolution-data-server . (GNOME bug 644817)
• In gnome-system-monitor Krishnan Parthasarathi contributed a new Process Properties dialog . (GNOME bug 543347)
• Shaun McCance updated mal2html conversion to reflow grid and 2column links on small screens.
• In Banshee Olivier Dufour added xesam:userRating field in track metadata . (GNOME bug 665997)
• Jean Bréfort fixed formula interpretation in plot series in Gnumeric . (GNOME bug 662237)
• In Epiphany Xan Lopez made the visible name of the application always be ‘Web’ ;. (GNOME bug 666587)
• Rob Bradford added a basic implementation of GtkClipboard for Wayland into GTK+.

GNOME accessibility contributors will be gathering for a four day hackfest in A Coruña, Spain, next week. Together, they will be working to enhance GNOME’s assistive technologies, which allow people with disabilities such as visual, movement, hearing, cognitive and language impairments to use GNOME software.

The hackfest will be focusing on two key GNOME accessibility technologies – ATK and AT-SPI. These facilities allow GNOME applications to be used through accessibilty technologies, such as screen readers.

The hackfest is being hosted by Igalia who, alongside the GNOME Foundation, are sponsoring the hackfest. See the hackfest wiki page for more details.

GNOME is currently campaigning to raise funds to support its ongoing accessibility efforts. Help us to make 2012 the Year of Accessibility for GNOME!

This week… 2045 commits, in 177 projects, by 185 happy hackers (and 242 were translation commits).

• In librsvg Christian Persch reworked rsvg-view to make it more modern, dropping GTK+ 2, using Cairo surfaces, GIO, etc.
• Murray Cumming changed Glom to allow custom choices to be translated when used for text fields.
• Neil Roberts added support for mainloop integration to cogl.
• Claudio Saavedra updated eog to make it possible to scale the print preview using the scrollwheel . (GNOME bug 495716)
• Marc-André Lureau added GtkApplication and shell menu to gnome-boxes . (GNOME bug 667435)
• In Evolution Milan Crha added a Print button to the meeting notification dialog . (GNOME bug 353743)
• Marina Zhurakhinskaya updated the way notification sources are grouped in gnome-shell, to base it on a combination of pid and title . (GNOME bug 664138)
• In glib Ryan Lortie added new ‘add’ and ‘contains’ APIs to GHashTable, these are both convenience APIs that make it slightly nicer to use GHashTable as a set.
• Matthias Clasen had various GtkApplication changes, including a new Inhibit API and logout notifications.
• Robert Ancell ported a bunch of gnome-games to use GSettings: gnotski, gnibbles, and gnect.
• Germán Poo-Caamaño replaced the old local cooked sockets by the use of nmap for basic port scanning in gnome-nettool.

Overview of changes in Glib 1.242; Changed addresses in GPL license notices; Glib::GenPod: fix typo in default pspec values; Glib::GenPod: delete a duplicate key in %basic_types. View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/tag/?id=rel-1-24-2 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-1.242.tar.gz

Overview of changes in Cairo 1.082; Update the symbol export list for linking on win32 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665265). View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Cairo/tag/?id=rel-1-08-2 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Cairo-1.082.tar.gz

Overview of changes in Glib::Object::Introspection 0.005; Use the overloaded '==' operator directly when comparing flags; Make enums.t test more robust; implement check_gi_version; implement test skipping; updated FSF address in license blurbs (RT#72664). View the source in the Gtk2-Perl git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib-Object-Introspection/tag/?id=rel-0-00-5 , or download the source release at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Glib-Object-Introspection-0.005.tar.gz

Banshee 2.3.3 has been released! Banshee 2.3.3 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

Overview of changes in Gtk3 0.002 [2011-12-09]; Add more overrides for the tree objects; Fix a test failure (RT #72773). View the git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Gtk3/tag/?id=v0.002 or or download source at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Gtk3-0.002.tar.gz

Banshee 2.3.2 has been released! Banshee 2.3.2 is part of the 2.3 development series leading up to 2.4, scheduled for March 2012.. Read the release notes for more info. Get it now!

Good news, everyone!

The first Clutter developers snapshot towards the 1.10 stable release is now available at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.9/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.9/

SHA256 Checksum:

90d5bf72d34b3163c57010484a27d22955dacbb2cd7872391960de160a1d3a4d clutter-1.9.2.tar.xz

Clutter is a library for creating compelling, dynamic and portable graphical user interfaces. Clutter is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

Release Notes

• This version of Clutter is the first unstable release of the 1.9 cycle.
• This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter.
• There is no stability guarantee for the API that has been added during an unstable cycle.
• Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current release of Clutter.
• Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Bugzilla product, at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter.

List of changes since Clutter 1.8.0

Multi-backend build, and run-time backend selection

Clutter can be built with support for multiple backends in the same shared library; the backend singleton is determined at run-time, either with the default backend for the platform, or using the value of the CLUTTER_BACKEND environment variable.

GDK windowing system backend

A new backend has been added, which uses the GDK API for creating the drawing surface, as well as receiving the windowing system and input events.

Show a hint when ClutterText is in password mode

If the password-hint-time ClutterSettings property is set to a non zero value, the last character entered inside a ClutterText actor when in password mode will be shown in plain for the duration of the timeout, before being replaced by the glyph chosen as the password character.

Improve Windows build support

Clutter now provides project files to build the library using Visual Studio 9 and Visual Studio 10. Also, the scripts to build Clutter using MinGW have been improved.

Remove the requirement for using clutter_threads_init()

Threads are initialized by default (depending on the platform), so there is no need to call clutter_threads_init().

Deprecate the default ClutterStage

The semantics of the default Stage were not obvious, and had the tendency to confuse the user.

Move the deprecated headers into their own directory

This should help developers identify the deprecated API.

Change deprecation policy

Deprecated functions are now marked using compiler annotations, instead of being forcibly disabled through pre-processor directives from the headers. Deprecations will cause compiler warnings, and thus are enabled by default. If you're building your project with compiler flags that consider every warning a fatal error, you can use the symbol CLUTTER_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to disable the deprecation warnings.

Translation updates

Portuguese, Assamese, Punjabi, Tamil, Oriya, Telugu, French, German, Danish, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), Catalan, Esperanto, Lithuanian, Galician, Norwegian bokmål, Slovenian, Hebrew, Bulgarian.

List of bug fixes since Clutter 1.8.0

[bugzilla.gnome.org]

• 652588 - add support for password hint in ClutterText
• 659625 - mingw32: Update the build script to compile 1.8.0
• 659601 - offscreen effects on children of containers also with an offscreen effect get a wrong viewport
• 659928 - Two strings are not marked as translatable
• 659893 - clutter-main: Reword translator comment for default:LTR
• 656663 - Remove internal usage of ClutterGeometry in StageWindow
• 660354 - Add paint-deform-tiles option to CLUTTER_DEBUG
• 660471 - ClutterActor: Add clutter_actor_has_effects
• 660512 - ClutterShaderEffect recompiles the shader for every instance
• 660623 - clutter-actor-meta: Fix _clutter_meta_group_has_metas_no_internal
• 660985 - memory leak in clutter_box_layout.c
• 661015 - Add clutter_unicode_to_keyval function
• 660786 - Deprecate clutter_[sg]et_font_flags()
• 661887 - auto-resize of ClutterCairoTexture does not work correctly
• 657434 - Add a GDK backend to Clutter
• 663332 - orca reads my password in gnome-shell policykit dialogs
• 663594 - Minor whitespace parsing bug in clutter_color_from_string
• 663733 - clutter-stage-x11: Make sure to set geometry x and y
• 651718 - Make tests work on platforms supporting only a single stage
• 663999 - The removal of per-backend CLUTTER_VBLANK envvar had unwanted cruft in the Win32 backend
• 663720 - DeformEffect: Avoid redrawing actors on vertices invalidation
• 663636 - Use newer Cogl API in ClutterDeformEffect

Special thanks to

Chun-wei Fan, for building, testing, and keeping up to date the Visual Studio project files.

Many thanks to

Neil Roberts, Rico Tzschichholz, Robert Bragg, Adel Gadllah, Lionel Landwerlin, Alexandre Franke, Colin Walters, Daniel Mustieles, Giovanni Campagna, Piotr Drąg, krishnababu k, A S Alam, Alexander Shopov, Algimantas Margevičius, Ask H. Larsen, Bruno Brouard, Carles Ferrando, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Craig R. Hughes, Damien Lespiau, Duarte Loreto, Florian Müllner, Fran Dieguez, Fran Diéguez, Håkon Løvdal, I Felix, Jasper St. Pierre, Jorge González, Joseph Scheuhammer, Kjartan Maraas, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Manoj Kumar Giri, Marc-André Lureau, Mario Blättermann, Matej Urbančič, Matthias Clasen, Nilamdyuti Goswami, Sunjin Yang, Tomeu Vizoso, Yaron Shahrabani, Zan Dobersek, Мирослав Николић.

Have fun with Clutter!

Overview of changes in Pango 1.223: Fix a test failure in t/PangoCairo.t. View the git repo at http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Pango/ or download source at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/Pango-1.223.tar.gz

There is a new stable release of anjuta in the 3.2 branch fixing some important bugs. All users (and distributions) are recommended to upgrade to this version!

Bugs fixed:
648934  Vala completion doesn’t work in some cases.
659563  Bookmarks reset to position 1 after file changed on FS
660841  build failure with [-Werror=format-security]
662526  Can’t replace with empty replace text
663016  Fix search behavior in regex and selections
663385  Replace all hangs when replace text contains search_text
658788  Change default dist to .xz
661511  Python/Django Project Wizard: Missing Components/Programs: django-admin

Thanks to: Abderrahim Kitouni, Arnel A. Borja, Sébastien Granjoux