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Guus
Time for the weekly XSF Board meeting.
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Guus
paging ralphm / pep. / Seve / MattJ
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ralphm
I need 5 min
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MattJ
.
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MattJ
My internet just died, currently on mobile while I investigate
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Guus
You have 4:30 minutes 😉
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nyco
YOUR internet??? oh come on, it's everyone's! :)
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Guus
Just in France, Nyco. Even your hardware is on strike.
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nyco
actually, I'm at home, on the couch, while watching Ninjago with my son, while France is on strike (the demonstration ends at my place, I hope they don't burn my motorcycle)
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MattJ
OK, looks like an ISP outage
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Guus
Strike spilling over to you, Matt?
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ralphm
Ok, here I am
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Guus
just in time to prevent this meeting to derail, ralphm !
- ralphm bangs gavel
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ralphm
0. Welcome + Agenda
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ralphm
Hi all!
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Guus
o/
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MattJ
0/
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ralphm
My main points are: appointment of Chair, appointment of Treasurer
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Guus
I have nothing to add, other than that it's about time to get rid of some things that are on Trello
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ralphm
pep. has sent regrets
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Guus
Seve ?
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Guus
AWOL, I guess
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ralphm
Guus: Lets' see how far we get.
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ralphm
1. Minute taker
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nyco
I volunteer for the minutes: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/jCcQC3h3pi-XSF-Board-Meeting-2019-12-05
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ralphm
yay
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ralphm
(keep that up! Much appreciated)
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ralphm
2. Appointment of Treasurer
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ralphm
I've ask Peter, he's game for another term as Treasurer. I move we re-appoint Peter Saint-Andre as Treasurer of the XSF.
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ralphm
+1
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Guus
+1
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Guus
(did we just make MattJ's phone think it needs to call the USA?)
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MattJ
+1
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MattJ
Hopefully no expensive call charges
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ralphm
Motion carries. Yay.
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Guus
\o/ - Thanks for volunteering again, Peter!
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ralphm
3. Election of Chair
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Guus
much appreciated
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ralphm
So far, I have received (kinda) one candidate proposal. Yours truly.
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Guus
Pep mentioned by mail that he did _not_ want to stand.
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Guus
Nor do I.
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ralphm
yes
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ralphm
If there are any other candidates, let that be known right now.
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Guus
Kind of bummed that Seve is not here to confirm, but he hasn't voiced anything, and he knows we're talking about this now. I'm happy to proceed.
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ralphm
Right.
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Guus
(especially since he was here last week, when we agreed to postpone this to today)
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ralphm
In that case, I motion the Board re-appoints Ralph Meijer as Chair of the XSF.
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Guus
+1
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ralphm
+1
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Guus
We might have lost Matt to the gods of packetloss
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MattJ
+1 to Ralph
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MattJ
Yep, sorry
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ralphm
Good to see MattJ still with us.
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ralphm
Motion carries.
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Guus
no worries, stuff happens 🙂
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Guus
\o/
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Guus
congrats, and thanks for stepping up 🙂
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ralphm
Thanks!
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Guus
with 2.5 board members here, maybe call it a day?
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ralphm
4. AOB
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MattJ
None here
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ralphm
Nothing for me at this time.
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Guus
one
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Guus
scam hat on
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Guus
I've reached out to the regular hotel for a discount around the summit and fosdem
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Guus
I've received a quote (slightly more expensive in the weekend than last year, I think)
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Guus
Some people asked me why we go there, and suggested that some don't find Thon EU suitable, mainly because of price and location✎ -
Guus
thoughts?
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ralphm
Is there a minimum number of people for that quote?
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Guus
Some people asked me why we go there, and suggested that some don't find Thon EU ideal, mainly because of price and location ✏
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ralphm
I don't have the cycles to research other venues.
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Guus
No, there's no minimum number. There's a maximum (15) that's guaranteed (more rooms often can be arranged, but no guarantees for those)
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Guus
I'd like to avoid spending cycles on finding alternatives myself too, but I can take that up with SCAM.
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ralphm
I don't think Board needs to be involved, indeed, but thanks for the mention.
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Guus
I'm bringing it up here to see how people feel about Thon EU, and/or what amount of effort we should put into finding an alternative
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MattJ
I don't mind too much either way... cheaper would be good, especially if it's to be even more expensive this year
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MattJ
But I recognise finding a decent place is hard
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MattJ
Have we ever considered subsidies for XSF members?
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ralphm
I'd just send an e-mail to summit@ and get a feel of how many people would use the offer
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Guus
We're not _making_ anyone stay in the Hotel we pick, of course - but if we do facilitate members, it might be good to facilitate as many of them as possible.
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ralphm
We have subsidised GSoC participants in the past, I think
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Guus
> Have we ever considered subsidies for XSF members? We have not. We could
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Guus
we subsidised GSoC participants with a flat fee - not hotel specific
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dwd
We did, at least one year, pay for all XSF members to stay at a hotel.
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Guus
I don't dislike the idea of the XSF picking up a percentage of the hotel.
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MattJ
I agree
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dwd
About 2007 or so, I think.
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Guus
dwd ah, that's before my time then.
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Guus
waaaay before my time
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Guus
dwd do you recall why that wasn't done later?
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Guus
bad experience?
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Ge0rG
explosion in the number of members?
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dwd
It cost a lot. We'd had a large sponsorship from - I think - Google. But I wasn't on Board (or anything) at the time.
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Guus
We could control costs by not sponsoring 100%
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Guus
Maybe something for next week to discuss?
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Guus
I'll bring this up in SCAM too
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MattJ
Thanks
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ralphm
ok
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MattJ
I'd be totally fine (in fact probably prefer) if we didn't cover 100%, but figure out something reasonable
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ralphm
5. Date of Next
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MattJ
and this doesn't necessarily mean we stay at Thon either, that's a separate issue (but I imagine we probably will this year)
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ralphm
+1W
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Guus
+1W wfm
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MattJ
+1w wfm
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ralphm
6. Close
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ralphm
Thanks all!
- ralphm bangs gavel
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MattJ
Thanks
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Guus
MattJ the 'problem' with finding a replacement is that a) it takes time, and b) any hotel will make some group of people unhappy.
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dwd
MattJ, "Euro quarter" hotels tend to be cheapest at the end of weeks and the weekends, precisely because they're quite awkwardly placed for anything but the EUro Parliament etc.
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dwd
MattJ, This is also why Wednesday nights at those hotels tend to cost a lot. :-)
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MattJ
Guus, yep, agreed
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Guus
dwd not so much this year. Last year was 75 euro in the weekends, this year 90.
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nyco
please read and edit: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/jCcQC3h3pi-XSF-Board-Meeting-2019-12-05?lang=fr
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nyco
where is that summit@ mailing list?
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Guus
(its still more expensive during the week: 120 something, from the top of my head)
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dwd
Guus, Yeah, but the normal price is ~150-200.
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Guus
nyco summit@xmpp.org
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ralphm
https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo
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nyco
meanwhile... https://twitter.com/Xabber_XMPP/status/1202600102172471296
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ralphm
This is unsurprising.
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ralphm
I cannot assess what that screenshot means in practice, either.
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nyco
it's encrypt^Wrussian...
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Guus
wow, what a poor jab at another client's author
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nyco
minutes sent
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nyco
I am: Welcome to the "Summit" mailing list :)
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Seve
omg
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Seve
Looks like I was not joined to the room
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Ge0rG
If only we had a XEP for that ;)
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Seve
And I was there just waiting for something to happen.. so dumb
- Ge0rG hears a stampede of unshaved yaks. Get yourself out!