Attendees: Eelco, Ron, Théophane, Jonas
Agenda
- NGI / SoN
- Hiring admin person and/or community manager
- Funding forms
- Prioritization
Notes
- Graham announced during the week that he would step back from his observership role because of time constraints due to work.
- NGI meeting recap
- NGI would like some packaging to be done in addition to the Summer of Nix
- We can hire Cleve (a former SoN fellow) right away for that
- Budget would come out of NixOS/SoN budget
- Should we just hire Cleve or make an open call?
- Cleve would do the job and is available
- Opening that to the community would also be very valuable
- An open call would take several weeks, and this has already been delayed for some time
- How long would that engagement be for?
- Still need to be defined. In the past the contract specified a threshold after which the contract would have to be reconsidered
- Who would be managing that effort?
- Currently, one of us
- Or a potential community manager for SoN
- Decision: Hire Cleve for a limited amount of time and run an open call in parallel for the continuation of the work
- Project manager for SoN
- Matthias and Valentin propose hiring somebody (specifically Valentin) to do NGI/SoN management
- Valentin willing to take that role
- Would need to sort out how to do things wrt Tweag (Valentin’s employer)
- We can’t hire Tweag directly because the foundation isn’t allowed to deal with companies directly
- We should make an open call about that any way, as quickly as possible
- Sync with Mathias and Valentin about writing a job description and a call (@Eelco Dolstra)
- NGI would like some packaging to be done in addition to the Summer of Nix
- Admin role
- DNS migration
- @Jonas Chevalier need some help from @Eelco Dolstra to get access to the MX records/improvmx account as some email redirects need to be updated.
Prioritization
(also reflected in the board’s github project)
| Complexity | Priority | Members | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable Status | High | High | If we want to increase our efforts in raising money this is important, otherwise less | |
| Board Lifecycle | Mid | High | We should have an answer to this question | |
| Community Team/ “core” team concept / Tech Direction - Helping create a process/structure/team | Mid | Mid | ||
| Fundings and Grant - Expanding/continuous work | Low | Low | ||
| Definition and comms of foundation responsibilities | Low | High | @Théophane Hufschmitt | |
| Community membership, decision making, voting | High | High | ||
| Admin hiring | Low | High | @Jonas Chevalier @Ron | |
| Trademark | Low (Policy - High) | Mid | Moving forward with the trademark application and hold on policy | |
| Supporting teams | Mid | Mid | ||
| Board comms | Low | High | ||
| Supporting community members to contribute/take part | ||||
| Collaborations with other organizations, foundations, events and communities | Mid | Mid | ||
| Base setup: making sure that the member registrations are done, that we have the setup to fill the taxes and work with the state. | Low | High | ||
| Donation/Fundraising program | High | Low |