[maemo-community] Board minutes for meeting on November 15th, 2012

[From: Tim Samoff]

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Minutes for first Hildon Foundation Board meeting. VoIP meeting held on
Google Hangout. Attending: - Tim Samoff / timsamoff - Iván Gálvez
Junquera / ivgalvez (via chat only) - Rob Bauer / SD69 (via chat only) -
Cosimo Kroll (zehjotkah)

Hildon Foundation, Meeting 2 - November 15, 2012
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+ Appoint maemo.org administrators (or, if someone steps in).
- Possibly ask Reggie to take over admin of maemo.org.
> How much would he charge?
> Other NDA-restricted info discussed pertaining to transfer and
administration of maemo.org infra from Nokia to the community (recorded
elsewhere).

+ Further maemo.org infra
- Other NDA-restricted info discussed pertaining to maemo.org
infra(recorded elsewhere).

+ Bank account and fundraising
- Cosimo will research banking options for the Board/community.
- Iván has received an email offering to put ads on maemo.org.
> It could be a possible solution for TMO if Reggie wants to keep it
independent of maemo.org.
- Cosimo: Opinion that the community should run on donations; so no ads.
> Others agree: no ads on maemo.org.
- Will investigate possibility of commercial "sponsors" (preferably OSS
companies).
- Other NDA-restricted info discussed pertaining to community funding
(recorded elsewhere).

+ Foundation website/servers/hosting
- We need administrators (volunteers).
- Still need to get domain from Niel Nielsen (nieldk).
> This has since been resolved.
- Some discussion about who should "own" or "hold" the domain name(s)
and hosting.
> Tim will take care of gaining domain and setting up hosting/website in
Foundation's name.
> Hildonfoundation.org site will point point to maemo.org.

+ Meeting concluded.

Link:
http://maemo.org/community/board/board_minutes_for_meeting_on_november_15th-2012/