NixOS Foundation Board Meeting Minutes - Dec 7, 2022

Agenda

  • Event form for funding
  • Roadmap
  • Board transition
  • Accountant
  • NixOS/Nix Trademark
  • Charitable Status
  • Nix 20 Year Anniversary and PR
  • NixCon 2023
  • Admin

Notes

  • Event Form -
    • Put together definition and guidelines for the events
      • Capped budget
      • When submissions open
      • When submissions close
    • Push to website
    • Push to post
    • Action item - create initial brainstorm doc/notion page
  • Roadmap doc
    • Action item - team to look at doc
    • If all good - posting next week
  • Board transition
    • eHerkenning for Eelco almost done.
    • Want to finish this by the end of the year.
    • Circle around with the other foundations in our network
      • [Ron] Reach out and ask
    • Action item -
      • Create a definition of what it means to be on the board:
        • being a board member means that there are potential conflicts of interest (example: no longer possible to apply for NGI0 grants as long as NixOS Foundation is in the consortium).
        • 10% of full time scope
      • Take two weeks to follow up
  • Nix/NixOS Trademark
    • We need to register in the US/Europe/UK
    • Costs - ~$8k
      • Logo + Name in one trademark and 3 jurisdictions - $7K - $8K
    • Registering Nix and NixOS or just one?
      • Does having just a Nix trademark cover NixOS related instances
    • Action Item -
      • Add all questions the chat to send to lawyer
      • Share general policy around the name/brand/logo
  • Accountant
    • Armijn and Eelco visiting accountant about vennootschapsbelasting (corporate tax).
  • Nix, 20 Years : Potentially spin up team to focus on creating content around this (deadline: March)
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