Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July 25th, 2014

2014-08-21 Thread Sindhu S
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Oh your visa was rejected? Really sorry to hear, having been there > myself. Did they give any reasons? Why are you being sarcastic? You are very well aware of the issue and incidents preceding it. This was your previous mail to the

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July 25th, 2014

2014-08-05 Thread Sindhu S
So what's the final consensus on the reimbursement of rejected visas? Does this mean retroactive reimbursements? On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > = Minutes for Tuesday, July 25th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = > > == Next meeting == > > * Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 at 09:00 UTC > > == A

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-07-01 Thread Sindhu S
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: The board is not bending the rules. The board sets the rules. They can > decide whether to decide on each visa reimbursement individually or to set > a policy or to ask the travel committee to set a policy. They can also as a > group decide on

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-07-01 Thread Sindhu S
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > Yes, the visa reimbursement for the West Coast Hackfest was issued, as the > majority of the board (but not all) voted in favour of this. The board should not have done this until a decision was taken about visa reimbursements. The boar

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-06-30 Thread Sindhu S
Why is reimbursement of visa from last meeting not in this agenda? Was visa reimbursed for Deigo for East Coast hackfest? Thanks. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hello Foundation members! > The next board meeting is on July 1st at 16:00 UTC. > > This is the agenda. >

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

2014-05-20 Thread Sindhu S
> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil > wrote: > > > I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is > fund > > raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for events/hackfests > > but unfortunately that did not go that well. > In Bangalore, we have four

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-26 Thread Sindhu S
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > The original plan was that Diego was going to pay for the visa processing > and the foundation was going to pay for the ticket. Unfortunately, he was > unable to get a visa and was out a significant amount of money and had > asked if th

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-26 Thread Sindhu S
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > > Aren't you presuming that it was only because of Diego's case that > board wants to rethink its policy and that your (and other people's) > case wasn't part of the push to make them rethink? > What I am assuming is that everybody in GNOME

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-25 Thread Sindhu S
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > > This was done because Diego e-mailed the board with a special request and > the majority of directors felt that it was reasonable to reimburse for visa > expenses, when we will not be reimbursing for a larger amount we earlier > appr

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-25 Thread Sindhu S
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140325 > > = Minutes for Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = > > * Diego could not get a visa for the West Coast Hackfest > * Should we reimburse his visa fees > * '''VOTE''':

Re: Welcome interns!

2014-04-21 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, Hope the summer is keeping you cheerful :) Thank you, Marina for again doing a wonderful job in organizing this! On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Thank you to all the mentors who helped the applicants along the way and > will guide the participants this

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-11 Thread Sindhu S
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova < kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote: > The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to > know more details about the problem, please read > https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact > the board at board

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 4th, 2014

2014-03-05 Thread Sindhu S
Hi! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > >* Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the > current state of Debian >* The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation >* They agreed to blog more on the issue >* The Debian packagers

GNOME's own pod (Diaspora instance)

2014-02-10 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, This occured to me that when I was reading about Diaspora. We should run our own Diaspora pod (instance) on GNOME servers. Here are a few reasons how this move will benefit our community: - We would be supporting the use of decentralized social network software which is free and

Re: GNOME.Asia 2014 to be held in Beijing

2013-12-13 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, Max Awesome to hear this! Looking forward to participate :) Keep up the good work! -Sindhu On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Max wrote: > Hosting GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 > > May 24-25, 2014 > > Beijing > > > It is with great pleasure that we announce that Beijing has been selected > as the

GSoC Doc Camp 2013 - we are going!

2013-09-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hi list, I am pleased to tell you that we [1] are attending The Google Summer of Doc Camp 2013 organized by Google Inc in association with Aspiration and Flossmanuals.net. The book sprint takes place at the Google offices in Googleplex, Mountain View, California. We plan to write a book about Mall

Keysigning party at GUADEC 2013

2013-08-06 Thread Sindhu S
Hello, We are having a Keysigning party tomorrow at A112 all day. Please let everybody know to sign up on https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2013/KeysigningParty. Thank you! -Sindhu S ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https

Re: Supporting GTK

2013-06-05 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, Wile! This is not the forum to ask for help about GTK. Perhaps you could look here: http://www.gtk.org/mailing-lists.php On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:46 AM, WILE MARQUEZ wrote: > Hello everybody > I need to contribute with source code > I am a developer > > ___

Re: Charter not found

2013-05-27 Thread Sindhu S
ntion, I think. Thank you. -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Sindhu S wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > The link originated from here: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > The link is given in the introductory text. > > Thank you for the correct

Re: Charter not found

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hello Andreas, The link originated from here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list The link is given in the introductory text. Thank you for the correct link! -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 2013-05-23 15:27, Sindhu S wr

Re: Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Thank you for this information, Andrea! We'll greatly benefit from the bot and the etherpad is a lovely addition! I have sent you a request via email regarding this. Thank you for setting this up :) -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > 2013/5/17 Andrea Veri > > KGB

Charter not found

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, all I was wondering lately what topics are OK to post on this mailing list because lately I have been seeing many people post unrelated topics on mailing lists including this [1][2] such as gtk-list[3], desktop-devel-app[4]. There are 2 posts this month on this mailing list that do not pertai

Re: New Foundation Members

2013-05-22 Thread Sindhu S
) >> 5. Hau Heng Haggen So (GNOME.Asia organization, GNOME Hong Kong organizer) >> 6. Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) >> 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) >> 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer)

Re: Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team

2013-05-18 Thread Sindhu S
Thank Andrea for the information about KGB bot and live.gnome.org wiki! I myself asked in #sysadmin channel about the mysterious Renato Barruco recently :) Am interested in information related to the wiki and bots, please keep us updated with latest happenings about them. You are doing a good job!

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-03 Thread Sindhu S
Thank you, Nirbheek and Max! :) On 03-May-2013, at 9:01 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Welcome to GNOME, Sindhu! ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
> On May 2, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Sindhu S wrote: > > > I currently live and pursue school in Bangalore, India. I am finishing a > Master's degree in Computer Science and I am to graduate in June. > > > ___ foundation-list mail

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
n the mailing list and > it's great to see. :-) > sri > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Sindhu S wrote: > >> Hello, all >> >> Thank you, GNOME Foundation for accepting me as a member. I am absolutely >> thrilled! >> >> I am Sindhu. I c

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
Thank you, Michael! :) On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Michael Hill wrote: > Congratulations and welcome, Sindhu! > > Mike > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
Hello, all Thank you, GNOME Foundation for accepting me as a member. I am absolutely thrilled! I am Sindhu. I come from a small coastal city called Mangalore in the south of India. I currently live and pursue school in Bangalore, India. I am finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science and I a

Re: More Hackfests wanted

2013-04-04 Thread Sindhu S
I have just edited the wiki page to add myself :) I am a new contributor and recent OPW intern. I have contributed to GNOME user help. I am interested in the hackfest :) It would be awesome cause it would mark a personal milestone for me! Thank you, Anish and everyone who came up with this! On T

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
: > > > On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Sindhu S wrote: > > > My two cents is that going by the rule of free works and their derivatives > must also be free, the author should consider releasing the book (TXT or PDF > format) under a copyleft license and to be fair to the effort the

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, So far as I can understand: 1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. 2. Manuals are and must be free. So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collation

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, So far as I can understand: 1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. 2. Manuals are and must be free. So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collatio

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
Hi! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding experience but my current internship has given me the confidence to contribute even more :) This book should be a good head start at things! Thank you. On 07-Mar-2013, at 1:49 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Wed, Ma

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-07 Thread Sindhu S
Hi all! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding experience but my current internship has given me the confidence to contribute to GNOME even more :) This book should be a good head start at things! Thank you. On Wed, March 6, 2013 2:47 pm, tong hui wrote: > >