#phpmyadmin: Monthly meeting 2016-11

Meeting summary

1. New contractor? (nijel, 12:17:16)
   1. ACTION: nijel Let Conservancy know about this (nijel, 12:26:28)
   2. AGREED: We will try to hire new contractor. (nijel, 12:26:39)
   
   
2. Sponsorship changes (nijel, 12:26:54)
   1. AGREED: Gold level sponsorship cost will be increased to $7500 (nijel, 12:36:15)
   
   
3. Sponsorship changes - policy on accepted sites (nijel, 12:36:29)
   1. Statement for our website (to be agreed with Tony): Since December 2016 we're not accepting sponsors in following areas:... (nijel, 12:47:08)
   2. AGREED: we will reject Adult content, gambling-related, and binary options sites (nijel, 12:51:21)
   
   
4. Release schedule (nijel, 12:51:34)
   1. Recently we've started doing releases way less frequent than before. To some extend this was requested by our users to avoid need to update too often. Is current timing of releases working well? Should we switch back to time based releases (though on less frequent schedule than before)? (nijel, 12:51:52)
   2. AGREED: Let's try 2 months release cycle (nijel, 12:59:25)
   
   
5. Trademark policy (nijel, 13:00:22)
   1. We should have trademark policy, see team list and https://github.com/phpmyadmin/private/issues/37 for drafts. (nijel, 13:00:56)
   2. Remove optionals: 2.2 betwen 3 and 4, 2.3, 2.7 (nijel, 13:13:26)
   3. Should cover: the sailboat logo, "phpMyAdmin" and "PMA" words as well as "Bringing MySQL to the web" text (nijel, 13:13:40)
   4. AGREED: Policy comments will be sent to Tony for further processing (nijel, 13:15:24)

Action items

1. nijel Let Conservancy know about this

Action items, by person

1. nijel
   1. nijel Let Conservancy know about this

People present (lines said)

1. nijel (58)
2. ibennetch (54)
3. madhuracj (25)
4. DevenB (10)
5. pmabot (3)