REMINDER: Call for Presentations for GUADEC 2015

2015-04-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
c.org. On behalf of the GUADEC papers committee, Emmanuele Bassi -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-22 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On 22 February 2015 at 13:08, Magdalen Berns wrote: > On the face of it this seems to be purely about > reducing paper work for the membership committee (i.e. fewer applications > means less work for them). On the face of it, this statement is fairly offensive for the membership committee.

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

2015-02-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Jeff; On 5 February 2015 at 06:26, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > If the majority of the people on the list here tell me "Seriously, drop > *everything* else, freeze everything until you get the ED", then I can > consider that course of action. We are your elected officials after all. the board sh

Re: Agenda for board meeting on January 9th

2015-01-12 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 12 January 2015 at 16:55, Magdalen Berns wrote: >> these roles already exist, and are generally assigned to the elected >> directors during the first board meeting. > > > Seems a bit unorthodox, but as long as they're willing and able to manage > the additional workload I can't see anythi

Re: Agenda for board meeting on January 9th

2015-01-12 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 8 January 2015 at 14:29, Magdalen Berns wrote: > I would like to ask the board > to consider discussing establishing democratically elected formal roles so > that those with specific interests can support the BoD carry out their work > more effectively and strengthen the infrastructure of

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Pascal; On 16 September 2014 17:50, Pascal Terjan wrote: > On 16 September 2014 17:44, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> hi Alexandre; >> >> On 16 September 2014 17:22, Alexandre Franke >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wr

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Alexandre; On 16 September 2014 17:22, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke >> wrote: >>> http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/ is a bit outdated, but it exists. >>

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio > wrote: >> I do believe GNOME Foundation should have a clear (and well documented) way >> for people raising their questions wrt how the GNOME Foundation's money is >> spent. >> I *do* under

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Michael; On 16 September 2014 15:54, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 13:18 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> that's not really a competitive salary for an experience developer, >> since we're talking about improving the developer experience of the >

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 16 September 2014 14:22, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:27:47PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> On 16 September 2014 12:01, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: >> > I know that with a good documentation (i.e. a book) and good development >> > too

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Sébastien; On 16 September 2014 12:01, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> I honestly don't think either you or Philip are aware of how outreach >> works in the context of free software. > > I know that with

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Michael; On 15 September 2014 00:45, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 16:41 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> we >> raised 40 thousand dollars on a part time system administrator, and >> that's a fraction of the cost of a full time developer. > >

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-14 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 14 September 2014 16:34, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: >> I have a question, please explain me how outreach is mutually exclusive >> with creating great software? The thing is that we can and we should do >> both things, create great sof

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-14 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Sébastien; On 14 September 2014 13:07, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:54:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> Is there some specific objection you have with GNOME handling interns of >> projects that are not specific to GNOME? > > That is another problem. > > What Philip Van Hoo

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Andre; On 7 August 2014 00:13, Andre Klapper wrote: > Currently there seems to be a mismatch between GNOME's mission statement > and OPW activities (doing program administration for other projects). if that were the case, then we ought to stop handling funds for all the other projects for whi

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 6 August 2014 19:49, Michael Hill wrote: >> "crippling weight" [citation needed]. > > "This hasn't only exposed us to substantial financial risks; it has > caused actual financial problems for the project. This year, GNOME > temporarily ceased funding of hackfests in order to recover fro

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Joanie; On 6 August 2014 18:25, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: >>> If GNOME continued to be one of the participating organizations, but the >>> administration -- and only the administration -- was moved to a >>> different organization, would this negatively impact GNOME? >> >> it would remove a sourc

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Joanie; On 6 August 2014 17:50, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > On 08/06/2014 12:05 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> Do you understand that the many -isms that negatively impact GNOME and >> open source in general do not disappear when you sweep them under the >> rug? These are not problems that can just

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 6 August 2014 17:30, Michael Hill wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> On 08/06/2014 11:57 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote: > >>> I think that the time has come to split OPW out from the GNOME >>> foundation. >> >> >> I can't resist saying this: >> >> I think GNOME has

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
I completely agree with Máirín. yes, the OPW is imposing on the administration of our finances some strain; the correct solution is not to just get rid of it, but figure out a way to get more resources for handling that side. it's a matter of fundraising, but it can be done. the point Ryan made a

Re: Groupon @ Phoronix

2014-07-31 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
as explained during the AGM at GUADEC, yes: the board is exploring legal venues, but the board cannot be more specific because of that. ciao, Emmanuele. On 31 July 2014 16:38, meg ford wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=new

Minutes of the Board meeting of July 1st, 2014

2014-07-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140701 = Minutes for Tuesday, July 1st, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next meeting == * Friday, July 18th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Joanmarie Diggs (previous board) * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Emmanuele Bassi (previous board) * Rosanna

Minutes of the Board meeting of June 17, 2014

2014-06-30 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140617 = Minutes for Tuesday, June 17th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next meeting == * Tuesday, July 1st, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Joanmarie Diggs * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias

Minutes of the Board meeting of June 3, 2014

2014-06-30 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140603 = Minutes for Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next meeting == * Tuesday, June 17th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Joanmarie Diggs * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Final Results

2014-06-18 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
congratulations to the newly elected directors! you have a very intense task ahead of you, but I'm sure you'll be able to get lots of stuff done. to the people stepping down: thanks for your service, and your dedication; you made GNOME better. ciao, Emmanuele. On 18 June 2014 10:15, Fabiana Si

Minutes of the Board meeting of May 20th, 2014

2014-06-17 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Sriram Ramkrishna == Board Meeting Agenda == * Quick budget update * Where are we? * More invoices have been paid since the last meeting * We should be able to reimburse the West Coast hackfest * Oldest event that has been earmarked * We need to check

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 20 May 2014 11:36, David King wrote: >> One possible idea would be to have joint events with KDE. One joint >> event could cost less, in total, than two separate events. > > > Thanks for pointing this out. As you can see from the income and expenses in > the preliminary 2013 annual report

Minutes of the Board Meeting of April 22nd, 2014

2014-05-09 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Sriram Ramkrishna * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen == Board Meeting Agenda == * Accounting * Budget/accounts * USD 280k in invoices sent in April * adboard fees have been sent * USD 130k adboard invoiced * USD 20k adboard paid * cheques for the OPW: USD 50k * donations

Minutes of the Board meeting of April 8th, 2014

2014-04-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Gerasimova * Sriram Ramkrishna * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Budget * We have a budget * 2013 has been updated * 2014 has been finalised * OPW project has grown a lot. This is great! * However, we are taking a

Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Rosanna Yuen === Regrets === * Karen Sandler === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Outstanding reimbursements * Improve the cumbersome workflow * After a positive response from Rosanna about travel reimbursement wiki page, created one for

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Alberto; you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of GNOME program: https://www.gnome.org/friends/ which is also linked directly and prominently from the www.gnome.org landing page. ;-) ciao, Emmanuele. On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > So, the FAQ has a ca

Re: Distribution Naming System

2014-04-07 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 6 April 2014 20:35, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: >> systemd, CoreOS, LLVM, OpenStack, LibreOffice, GitLab... there are so many >> interesting problems and critical to software freedom being solved outside >> of the GNU umbrella the

Re: Is there GNU/Linux distribution which includes always latest gnome 3

2014-04-03 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
okay, can we please stop this pointless thread on foundation-list? the name of distributions and whether or not it conforms to the requests of the GNU project has nothing to do with the GNOME project or the GNOME Foundation. if you want to propose a name change, or want to raise the issue of the

Re: New challenge

2014-03-31 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Karen; I'd like to thank you for your great, indispensable work over the past few years. your enthusiasm and involvement in GNOME have been incredible and inspiring. I wish you all the luck in the world as the Conservancy ED: they are incredibly lucky to have you. having you on the board and

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 25 March 2014 12:43, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Indeed. We agreed

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 20th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
oh, I apologize: I clearly heard the wrong name on the phone. I'm fixing the minutes on the wiki. ciao, Emmanuele. On 24 March 2014 20:27, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> * Upcoming hackfests >> * Developer

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; I am less interested in where the toggle lives[0] than who is storing the data, and what kind of data it is. the first question regards *where* is the data going to be sent and/or stored: the GNOME Foundation cannot run a web service with user credentials for everyone on the Internet, for

Minutes of the Board meeting of March 20th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Emmanuele Bassi === Regrets === === Missing === * Sriram Ramkrishna == Board Meeting Agenda == * gnome-software privacy resolution * Kat reached out to maintainers by IRC * they understand the issue and are happy to either resolve the bug or revert the

Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Ekaterina Gerasimova === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen == Board Meeting Agenda == * Privacy issues regarding GNOME Software statistics reporting * The GNOME Software statistics configuration moved to GNOME Control Center * https://bugzilla.gnome.org

Re: internal engagement

2014-03-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Germán; On 4 March 2014 19:24, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > Just an example after reading the minutes recently sent: > > = Minutes for Tuesday, December 10th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = > [...] >* We should also ask on foundation-list for ideas >* '''ACTION''': ... to reach out to foundation-li

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 18th, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Germán; On 4 March 2014 20:05, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:15 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140218 >> >> = Minutes for Tuesday, February 18th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = >> >> == Next M

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of March 3rd, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Stormy; On 4 March 2014 15:14, Stormy Peters wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> == Board Meeting Agenda == >> * Give higher PayPal privileges to the treasurer >> * Avoid the bottleneck in case Rosanna is not available >>

Minutes for the Board meeting of March 3rd, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140303 = Minutes for Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Tobias

Minutes for the Board meeting of February 25th, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140225 = Minutes for Tuesday, February 25th, 2014, 17:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of February 18th, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140218 = Minutes for Tuesday, February 18th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 25th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of January 21st, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140121 = Minutes for Tuesday, January 21th, 2013, 15:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of February 4th, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140204 = Minutes for Tuesday, February 4th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 18th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of December 10th, 2013

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20131210 = Minutes for Tuesday, December 10th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, January 7th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of November 26th, 2013

2014-03-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Meeting == * Tuesday, December 10th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Andreas Nilsson * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Tobias Mueller * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Rosanna Yuen * Karen Sandler (travelling) === Missing === * Sriram Ramkrishna

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; On 25 November 2013 15:48, Emily Gonyer wrote: > As Dave pointed out, back a few yrs ago, people who were using only > portions of GNOME were happily included in the GNOME family. But now > GNOME insists on drawing utterly arbitrary and constantly shifting > lines in the sand as to what c

Minutes of the Board meeting of November 12th, 2013

2013-11-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Tobias Mueller * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Andreas Nilsson * Sriram Ramkrishna * Karen Sandler === Missing === * Rosanna Yuen == Board Meeting Agenda == * Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost

Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-10 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20131029 = Minutes for Tuesday, October 29th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, November 12th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Tobias Mueller

Minutes of the Board meeting of October 15th, 2013

2013-10-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20131015 = Minutes for Tuesday, October 15th, 2013, 16:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, October 29th, 2013, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi

Minutes for the Board meeting of October 1st, 2013

2013-10-14 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Tobias Mueller == Board Meeting Agenda == * Adopting a photography policy for GNOME events. * '''ACTION''': Joanie and Karen to meet and discuss about the photography policy for GNOME events * Schedu

Minutes of the Board meeting - September 17th, 2013

2013-09-26 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Zhurakhinskaya * Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Tobias Mueller === Regrets === * Rosanna Yuen == Board Meeting Agenda == * Adopting a photography policy for GNOME events. * No update * Karen volunteers to help Joanie * Social media accounts * Allan suggested that we should use a more

Minutes for the Board meeting of September 3, 2013

2013-09-11 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Emmanuele Bassi * Tobias Mueller === Regrets === * Andreas Nilsson * Sriram Ramkrishna == Board Meeting Agenda == * Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) * At the face to face board meeting we discussed having employee salaries increase when inflation

Minutes of the Board meeting of August 20, 2013

2013-08-30 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Ekaterina Gerasimova === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi * Sriram Ramkrishna * Tobias Mueller === Missing === * Marina Zhurakhinskaya No quorum was achieved due to summer holidays. == Board Meeting Agenda == * GUADEC 2015 bids * Italy announced a couple of hours too late. * Is the board ok

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 15 August 2013 11:38, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote: >> Speaking as someone who has a Gitorious account and not a GitHub one, >> what will you gain by opting out? It won't stop someone from cloning >> your code on GitHub. This way you atlea

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Christophe; On 15 August 2013 10:38, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > 2013/8/15 Alberto Ruiz : >> Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. >> Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we >> have a lot to gain. >> > > Promoting the non-free github

plans for FOSDEM 2014?

2013-08-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; I know that the FOSDEM organisers haven't sent out the email for booths and/rooms yet, but I just wanted to ask well in advance if we had volunteers for either. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/

Minutes of the Board meeting of July 31st, 2013

2013-08-14 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
(remote) * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Sriram Ramkrishna * Emmanuele Bassi * Bastien Nocera * Seif Lotfy (remote) == Board Meeting Agenda == * Board roles * what should be changed in the board structure and processes in order to improve them? * the board should be more

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting for April 30th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
audience > in a much faster way. 3 months after the meeting is really late and very > little can be commented or asked from anyone. > > Thanks. > > Fred > > On 23/07/13 17:00, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > ___ > foundation-list mai

Minutes of the Board meeting of July 9th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Ekaterina Gerasimova * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Sriram Ramkrishna * Emmanuele Bassi * Bastien Nocera === Missing === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * GUADEC 2013 * Update on GUADEC 2013 * We are currently slightly in the red for the event * But everything is getting into

Minutes for the Board meeting of June 25th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Ekaterina Gerasimova * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Sriram Ramkrishna * Seif Lotfy === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi * Bastien Nocera == Board Meeting Agenda == * Welcome new board! * Welcome Ekaterina, Marina and Sriram to the board! * Karen presented the obligations of being a director

Minutes of the Board meeting of June 11th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130611 = Minutes for Meeting of June 11th, 2013, 15:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, June 25th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Andreas Nilsson * Joanmarie Diggs * Tobias

Minutes of the Board meeting of May 28th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130528 = Minutes for Meeting of May 28th, 2013, 15:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, June 11th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy (late) * Joanmarie

Minutes for the Board meeting of May 14th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130514 = Minutes for Meeting of May 14th, 2013, 15:00 UTC = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy

Minutes of the Board meeting for April 30th, 2013

2013-07-23 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Lotfy * Joanmarie Diggs joining late to recuse herself from the discussions about the a11y bid === Regrets === === Missing === * Emmanuele Bassi == Board Meeting Agenda == * A11y bid - VOTE * The committee of volunteers (John Walicki, Mike Gorse, Juanjo Marin, David Bolter and Joseph

Re: GNOME etherpad instance [WAS: Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates]

2013-05-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Frederic; On 20 May 2013 18:09, Frederic Peters wrote: > [ not related to the current election ] > > Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > >> a month ago or so, we finally switched from gobby to an etherpad >> instance running on gnome.org; this has facilitated immensely my work

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Andreas; On 20 May 2013 17:53, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board. >> >> We have a number of candidates running for a second term, and knowing what >> were these candidates' contributions to the Foundation in the past year is >>

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Fabiana; On 20 May 2013 15:22, Fabiana Simões wrote: > We have a number of candidates running for a second term, and knowing what > were these candidates' contributions to the Foundation in the past year is > quite important for me as a voter. However, as per Zeeshan's questions, I > find it

Re: GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2013-05-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
[I'm removing a couple of addresses from the Cc:] hi Zeeshan; On 20 May 2013 14:04, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi Emmanuele, > > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> name: Emmanuele Bassi >> email: ebassi (at) gnome.com >> affiliat

Change in affiliation

2013-05-10 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; in compliance with the Foundation's charter, here's the notification that my affiliation has changed: I now work for Endless Mobile. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ ___ foundation-list ma

Minutes of the Board meeting of April 16, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130416 = Minutes for Meeting of April 16th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller

Minutes of the Board meeting of April 2, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130402 = Minutes for Meeting of April 2nd, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen

Minutes of the Board meeting of March 19, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130319 = Minutes for Meeting of March 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler

Minutes of the Board meeting of March 5, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130305 = Minutes for Meeting of March 5th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller

Minutes of the Board meeting of February 19, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
* Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Problems with Gobby, lost historical minutes (they are still available in the Wiki) * '''ACTION''': Andreas? Karen? to contact Andrea about reliability

Minutes of the Board meeting of January 22, 2013

2013-04-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130122 = Minutes for Meeting of January 22th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller

Minutes of the Board Meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-12-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20121120 = Minutes for Meeting of November 20th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, December 4th, 2012, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 28 November 2012 14:42, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> with the first one being the one shipped by default. > > Lets be intellectually honest - a command line client editor is *NOT* > user-friendly. I don't agree at all with this assessment: it depends entirely on the audience it is targeting. >

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Dave; On 28 November 2012 13:57, Dave Neary wrote: >>> And if GNOME continues to bury all the configuration in secret corners >>> without a UI, and even the basic stuff only by an add on (tweak tool) >>> you'll continue to fail to empower users to modify their computing >>> environment. >> >>

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 28 November 2012 11:02, Alan Cox wrote: >> What I took from that is that the freedom to modify your computing >> environment is only meaningful in the first degree to programmers. > > And if GNOME continues to bury all the configuration in secret corners > without a UI, and even the basic

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-21 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
missing note: [0] http://www.gnome.org/news/2012/11/brno-to-host-guadec-2013-and-strasbourg-to-host-guadec-2014/ ciao, Emmanuele. On 21 November 2012 14:46, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi; > > so, now that GUADEC 2013 and 2014 have been announced[0], I can reply > to Dave's q

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-21 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; so, now that GUADEC 2013 and 2014 have been announced[0], I can reply to Dave's questions if I can. :-) On 20 November 2012 14:11, Dave Neary wrote: >> == Completed Actions == >> >> * Bastien to notify the Strasbourg bid of the selection for GUADEC 2014 > > > I haven't seen an announcement

Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
this is the public agenda for the board meeting of November 20th. * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend the funds and needs feedback on that. * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME jo

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 20 November 2012 14:11, Dave Neary wrote: >> == Board Meeting Agenda == >> >> * Future adboard meetings >> * We need to plan the next adboard meeting. Last meeting was at >> GUADEC. >> * When should we have the next meeting? >> * What topics should we cover? >> *

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Dave; sorry, nothing to see here, move along. :-P ciao, Emmanuele. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20121106 = Minutes for Meeting of November 6th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif

Agenda for the Board meeting of November 6, 2012

2012-11-06 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; as discussed on foundation-list[0], I'm going to send the public agenda for the foundation meeting prior to the meeting itself. * GUADEC 2013. * Future adboard meetings. * Next round of Womens Outreach Program. * Fiscal services for other Free Software projects. * Health insurance in

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 15 October 2012 11:32, Andrea Veri wrote: > 2012/10/15 Emmanuele Bassi : > >> have we had any indication that being on irc.gnome.org is in any way, >> shape, or form preventing people from contributing to GNOME - and that >> moving to freenode would open the floodg

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 15 October 2012 11:23, Andrea Veri wrote: > 2012/10/15 Bastien Nocera : >> On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 15:45 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: >>> I see many people have expressed their consensus in this, thus I'll >>> defer the decision to the Board. Thanks to anyone sending a mail about >>> this conce

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 15 October 2012 10:23, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:14 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:11 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: >> > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:07 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> > > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:33 -0500, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 4 October 2012 17:34, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Name clashes are a minor point when you compare it to the isolation issue > that we have with the rest of the community. ALL of the open source > community that does IRC is on Freenode [citation needed][original research][whom?]. ciao, Emmanue

Re: Minutes of the Foundation IRC meeting - September 12, 2012

2012-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Frederic; On 24 September 2012 16:32, Frederic Peters wrote: >> * desktop-devel-list has been used for multiple communication issues >> * It is difficult to know who the maintainers are >> * We could use the DOAP files and publish the current maintainers >> * '''ACTION''': fred

Minutes of the Board Meeting - September 18, 2012

2012-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120918 = Minutes for Meeting of September 18th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Tobias Mueller * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas

Minutes of the Foundation IRC meeting - September 12, 2012

2012-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20120912 = Minutes for Foundation IRC Meeting of September 12th, 2012 = == Attendance == * For the board: * Emmanuele * Joanie * Tobi * Shaun * Andreas == Agenda == * Role and scope of the Release Team * Continuation of

Minutes of the Board Meeting - September 9, 2012

2012-09-24 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120907 = Minutes for Meeting of September 7th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, September 18st, 2012, 14:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Tobias Mueller * Bastien Nocera * Shaun

REMINDER: Deadline for GUADEC bids is tomorrow, September 21st, 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi all; I wanted to remind you that the deadline for the GUADEC 2013 bids is tomorrow, September 21st, 2012. if you are bidding for being the host city of GUADEC 2013, send a full proposal to bo...@gnome.org for evaluation. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs

REMINDER: Foundation IRC meeting

2012-09-12 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi everyone; this is a friendly reminder that we'll have an IRC meeting for Foundation members today, at 16:00 UTC[0] the agenda for the meeting is: * Role and scope of the Release Team * Continuation of the discussion from the AGM at GUADEC 2012. * http://www.0d.be/2012/08/03/guadec-2012

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