In person board meeting post NixCon
Agenda
- Roadmap
- Release post
- 3 month plan
- Release post
- NixCon
- Retrospectives
- Next year
- Following up on board questions on discourse
- OceanSprint sponsorship
- Supporting NixOS Foundation and Board
- Gap analysis
Meeting Notes
- US non-profit
- Would be able to exist in tandem/addition to the Dutch Entity (edited for grammar - previous pre edit wording is here → “Can run it simultaneously as the Dutch entity”)
- Review past conversations on the subject to review implications and next steps
- Verify other questions/concerns/need to knows
- Treasurer -
- Fill out list of scope and responsibilities so we can make sure nothing is dropped
- Hire an accountant - by end of November
- Check with local bookkeepers
- Check with KPMG
- Treasurer
- OceanSprint sponsorship
- Want EUR 2500 for food and venue
- Decision: We grant a EUR 2500 budget to OceanSprint November 2022. Domen abstained from this vote.
- Nix Knowledge Base and Templates -
- NixCon Handbook
- OceanSprint/Hackathon Templates
- Following up on board questions on discourse
- @zupo posted a summary on his blog (thanks!)
- Board will respond to questions (took some time as everyone is making their way back home)
- Top nix contributions and projects of the month - board recognized monthly
- Post asking the community for meaningful/helpful work that’s been done this month
- Then we post that out with a shout out to 2 of them as well
- NixCon
- Survey results - We will do a deeper review but some initial things that came up
- Wifi / Sound improvements desired
- Categorization of talks into tracks
- food
- Retrospectives
- Create NixCon handbook
- More cost-effective area (accommodations/food/etc.)
- Better ventilated venue
- Next year
- Potentially a more cost-effective European country
- Explore option of US, east coast event
- Make sure that we are set for next year in terms of starting planning (end of November)
- Verify that there is a team starting to plan/organize
- Survey results - We will do a deeper review but some initial things that came up
- Create issues for everything we talk about
- 1 year roadmap: individually review given the feedback we’ve heard, be ready on the next board meeting to bring the results & post.
- Draft post ready prior to the next meeting
- After that meeting, we’ll do the same for the 3 month plan.
- AWS buckets and payment
- Potentially create a sponsorship campaign for this as we receive about 45k of sponsorship from OpenCollective and AWS buckets on their own are $7.5k/month
- Each board member to reach out to their communities to check for sponsorship
- Support
- Conduct meeting to understand type of support, capacity and area of experience
- Look into conducting a gap analysis
- Areas we need more support (will do a thorough review)
- More support in execution of board related action items and initiatives
- Someone that is familiar with the Dutch accounting system
Again, enormous thank you to everyone that took part in NixCon (attendees, volunteers, sponsors, organizers, virtual viewers, and everything in between)