Hi,
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 2:32 AM Tobias Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:00 -0500, meg ford via foundation-list wrote:
> > I do need to send emails to foundation list on
> > behalf of the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as
> &g
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:38 PM Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> I am a GNOME Foundation Member *Emeritus*, so please don't take my opinion
> as
> too important.
>
> Olav Vitters wrote, back in August when proposing Discourse:
> > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the
> > depe
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:28 AM Alexandre Franke wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:14 PM meg ford via foundation-list
> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi Meg,
>
> > I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to
> leave foundation li
Hi,
I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave
foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes.
Thanks,
Meg
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:22 AM Tobias Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > It's
> > even possible to m
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Florian Müllner wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, 16:43 , wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list
>> wrote:
>> > Suggested dates are November 19–21
>>
>> Any later than Aug 14-19 will lose US university students, for th
The GNOME Foundation can offer travel sponsorship to individuals who
want to attend GUADEC and need financial assistance.
We are happy to announce that the Travel Committee is ready to receive
applications for sponsorships to attend to GUADEC 2019.
Application deadline: July 05, 2019. Send in you
the Board
of Directors. You can find details of the new policy on the wiki:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel
Please read the new policy and follow it for all future requests.
Thanks,
Meg Ford
On Behalf of the Travel Committee
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Hi,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41 PM Tobias Mueller
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote:
> > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't
> > > received enough candidacies f
Welcome, Molly! This is great news :)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:42 PM Rafael Fontenelle
wrote:
> That's a name I came across a lot when translating the monthly issues
> of the Free Software Supporter and reading Planet GNU. Welcome on
> board, Molly de Blanc! Congratulations!
>
> Best regards,
>
Hi,
Thanks for the minutes!
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:16 AM Philip Chimento via foundation-list <
foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello from your new secretary! A few points of order to accompany these
> minutes:
>
> These minutes were recorded during the meeting and published on the wiki
>
*Name: Meg FordEmail: megf...@gnome.org Corporate
affiliation: MitelHi Foundation Members,I am running for a third term as a
member of the Foundation Board of Directors.I have been a Foundation Member
since 2011. I joined after participating in the second round of the
Outreachy (formerly Outreach P
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote:
>
> Did you mean to quote a specific part of Allan’s email? Because my
> email was about what happened during the time when discussions were
> still within the WG (and the conflict that emerged from it) and yours
> is about what happened
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Allan Day wrote:
> > because Ben's behaviour had become so unacceptable (despite multiple
> > warnings regarding basic behaviour) that it was difficult to get
> > anything done within the wid
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2018-04-21 at 13:35 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> > I do not think that this is just a technicality that can be taken
> > lightly. Should the Board continue to discuss the proposal as is, it
> > would legitimise the misc
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Jens Georg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > > * Tile server options for Maps (Allan)
> >
> > ...
> > > > * VOTE: approve $300 a month to pay Mapbox - passed unanimously
> > > > * ACTION: Meg to inform Mapbox and the Maps team, cc'ing
> > > > Rosanna
> > > > and Neil
Hi Germán,
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 10:00 +, Allan Day wrote:
> > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, March 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC =
> > [...]
> > * Moderation of public mailing lists (Carlos)
> > * There have been some complaints th
Hi Andre,
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> [removed a bunch of addresses from the CC]
>
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 09:49 +, Allan Day wrote:
> > Zlatina Gancheva wrote:
> > ...
> > > I want to report a problem.
> > > Your corporate identity -logoto of Gnome is used on thi
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are a number of GNOME or GNOME-related project fundraisings:
>
> For GIMP:
> https://www.gimp.org/donating/
> https://www.patreon.com/pippin
> http://film.zemarmot.net/en/
>
> PulseAudio: https:/
Hi,
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Alexandre Franke
wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Michael Catanzaro
> wrote:
> > Here's another question: what do the candidates think about switching to
> > using two-year terms?
>
I think this is an interesting idea, but I think we'd have to know
The GNOME Foundation can offer travel sponsorship to individuals who
want to attend LAS GNOME and need financial assistance.
We are happy to announce that the Travel Committee is ready to receive
applications for sponsorships to attend LAS GNOME 2016.
Application deadline: Please send in your app
Hi Max,
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Max wrote:
>
>
> I know there will be more people ask questions about all domain with GNOME,
> so I ask 1 question with Asia first.
> I have 3 questions to all candidates
>
Thanks for taking the time to send these questions!
>
>
> 1) How many hours per
Hi Daniel,
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> Recently has been a campaign to expose GNOME weakness, like:
>
> * GTK+ is C and ugly
> * Bugzilla is old and user unfriendly
> * Developers don't here suggestions from users
> * No apps for GNOME/GTK+
>
> This is a short list
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
> As regards comments on Outreachy internships (which seem to have clearly
> been cited a lot more in defence of this new practice, than GSoC); this is
> an internship specifically developed to address an identified problem of
> inclusivenes
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > As Meg seems to have pointed out already in her question, the same could
> be
> > said for any sponsored contributor. The bylaws are explicit in not
> > discriminating against sponsored/paid contributors compared with any
> other
> > kind o
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Tobias Mueller
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:02:48PM -0600, meg ford wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller
> wrote:
> > > Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are
> >
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller
wrote:
> Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are
> dealt
> with on a case-by-case basis.
>
In that case, I suggest that we don't make general statements telling
interns to not apply, but instead tell them that it's c
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Tobias Mueller
wrote:
> I don't read "all successful interns are not eligible for membership"
> there which is what you claimed.
>
This is not what we were discussing in the thread. We were discussing the
fact (as stated in the email Magdalen quoted) that interns
Hi Andrea,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> What you are suggesting would be accepting every single intern
> regardless of this person being really interested and passionate about
> joining the Foundation. That will probably lead to a wider membership
> base for sure but how
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
>
>> Perhaps some might be seeing Richard as the FSF too quickly and not
> giving due regard what he is actually saying about this in the reactions to
> what he's putting forward. How he's defined "dodgy links" really does not
> seem all that
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Mathieu Duponchelle <
mduponchel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Define "Many" ? I personally support FSF's ethics in principle, please
> don't speak for all of us.
I think it's somewhat split, but sort of having everyone in the foundation
state their stance on it, I don'
Hi Magdalen,
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
> This makes perfect sense to me. At the moment I am not totally convinced
> that the rest of the community are on board with what you have said though.
> It is not clear whether or not people understand the nuances of how you a
Hi Magdalen,
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
> I think you have agreed with me on the wiki and the blog but seem to not
> realise that, for some strange reason. To clarify, I agreed that
> individuals should be able to make their own choices for how they blog and
> pointed
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Christian Hergert
wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 03:44 PM, Magdalen Berns wrote:
> > To elaborate on the point about fundraisers a little further: Also
> > though I have to wonder whether future fundraisers could maybe be
> > handled in the same way as the groupon fund
I also support putting a banner on Planet GNOME.
Meg
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
> Oh dear.
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Alexandre Franke
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Fabiano Fidê
Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:39:06PM -0600, meg ford wrote:
> > These contracts are very standard in the US.
> Interesting, but that doesn't make them any more or less acceptable to
> non-US citizens.
>
It doesn't make them any more or less acceptable to
Hi,
These contracts are very standard in the US. Some examples form local
nonprofits in Chicago:
1. Habitat for Humanity
https://www.windycityhabitat.org/uploads/files/WCHFH_Release_Waiver.pdf
2. Pumping Station:One
https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/images/Liability-waiver.pdf
3. Friends of the C
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <
tris...@upstairslabs.com> wrote:
>
> I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely
> improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the
> singular purpose of the GNOME Desktop Environment, then per
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Sébastien Wilmet
wrote:
> It is not explained which organizations sponsor which projects. Do all
> organizations sponsor all OPW interns, regardless of the project (GNOME,
> Linux, Mozilla etc)?
>
When I was an OPW intern my project was sponsored by Mozilla.
On
Hi Ryan,
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014, at 11:18, meg ford wrote:
> > I don't think it's relevant. GSoC is also outside of the mission
> > statement,
> > though as I said before I think there are allusions to outrea
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote:
> It seems I'm far from being the only one to think OPW should be abstracted
> away from GNOME. The subject of this thread clearly is GNOME's mission
> statement, and I'm interested in further discussion / opinions on that
> subject.
>
I
I think it might be useful to read the entire mission statement [1], which
also says:
"The GNOME foundation must not stifle the interest of outsiders. An
ill-conceived foundation could discourage outsider participation directly,
by establishing rules which limit the ability of potential contributo
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> as explained during the AGM at GUADEC, yes: the board is exploring
> legal venues, but the board cannot be more specific because of that.
>
Thanks for the info, Emmanuele.
Meg
>
> ciao,
> Emmanuele.
>
> On
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc1MjI
>
> | Hopefully the GNOME Foundation and others will be able to extrude
> | their forces in clearing up this odd and unfortunate situation.
>
Has GNOME's legal counsel contacted Grou
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Hubert Figuière wrote:
> Hub
>
> [1] While youtube has its own set of privacy concern, youtube offer one
> of the very few reliable video solution that doesn't involve installing
> patent encumbered codecs and/or non-Free Flash.[2]
>
The Chicago GNU/Linux Use
Hi Karen,
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Karen Sandler wrote:
> I am extremely busy. I was just reading through all of the emails to board
> candidates this morning, as the time I've had in the last few days for
> GNOME I've spent volunteering on time sensitive things that I think must be
> do
Hi Zeeshan,
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> Since visa process is not in the hands of the board, I think any help
> that board offers is a big favour so IMO what is unfair here is for
> you to complain for not getting a favour while another person did. I'm
> a bi
I have also have a question: can the Board please explain why they were not
aware of this situation until now, and how they became aware of it? This
seems like a lot of money and I would like to know how it is that no one
noticed the shortfall until we got to this point. It seems like this
discussi
Hi Germán ,
I apologize for the bad paste. I was replying to Mathieu Duponchelle but
the paste was from an email in which you quoted his previous email.
Cheers,
Meg
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote:
> > On
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> > I'll play devil's advocate here:
> >
> > Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities
> > more directly beneficial to its future than OPW?
>
I think a better approach might be: how can we motivate sponsors
Hi Karen,
Thanks for all of your great work and strong leadership as director! I wish
you the best of luck in your new position! I'm very glad to hear that you
will still be around and am excited that we may be seeing you in a
different leadership role in the future.
Meg Ford
On Mon, M
Hi Yosef,
Welcome, and thanks for translating gnome-sound-recorder for me!
Meg Ford
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Yosef Or Boczko
> wrote:
>
> > I am Yosef Or Boczko, 16 y.o resides in Kokhav Ya'akov, Israel.
&
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Have there been any thoughts about a third option: actually having the
> Foundation hire the people?
>
> There are probably several downsides (in terms of costs; in terms of
> legal paperwork, as I understand that this is about French people
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 05:03 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>
>> I had no idea there was even an engagement list. Was it announced on
>> this list?
>>
>> Why was a redirect put in place? It comes off as very aggressive.
>>
>> Why not have a placeholder pa
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> And what of the OPW intern's work?
Liansu Yu is the intern who you are thinking of, I believe. It looks like
Liansu Yu's work can be accessed the links on the is page[1] or via Archive
->Presentations and Archive ->Vi
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 08:25 -0500, meg ford wrote:
> > We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something
> > else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something?
> >
> >
> >
We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else
ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something?
[1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:18 AM, James wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> >
> > The Stack exchan
Hi Bastien,
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 10 May 2013 15:55, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > I've never heard the word "gimp" used as a slur against handicapped
> > > people
> >
> > If it helps, I've never h
Hi Philip,
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 08:55 -0500, meg ford wrote:
>
> Hi Meg,
>
>
>
>
> > In general when people use the term "PC" in the US, they are talking
> > about being adopting extra careful/
Hi Philip,
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 17:06 -0500, meg ford wrote:
>
> Hey Meg,
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Philip Van Hoof
> > wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkr
in GNOME. When will this stop? Is there an end? Any?
>
Yeah idk how "PC" it is to not use the term gimp. The US, where I live, has
pretty strong free speech laws, but people don't use this term because it's
too offensive. So I think this is kind of an I18n issue.
M
GIMP continues to be an important
> piece of any free desktop and continues to be called The GIMP).
>
As a native English speaker I can verify that the term it is indeed a
problem. The GIMP, however, is widely used by people I know who don't even
know what Free Software is. Changing
many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given
> >> our dedication to a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have this
> >> name in our infrastructure.
>
> 100% agreed; "gimp" is a slur and it's embarrassing to mention it when
> helping new people get into GNOME.
If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into
applying for a future year. We are in the middle of the US, and have a
major international airport, so it might be a nice option.
Meg
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Jared L Jennings wrote:
> +1
> Jared Jennings
> jared
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Jared L Jennings wrote:
> I don't know if i can go, but I think this is a very valid point.
> While, Portland, the city sounds great and I think would be awesome.
> Chicago or Dallas, would likely be cheaper flight costs.
>
True, but there are only three establi
+1 for Portland.
Meg Ford
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If
> people want to take my suggestion seriously I will make a bid.
>
> There are a lot of places that provide "hacker a
he chance to
> change it.
>
Sure, i was suggesting of course that you do this if you judge yourself to
be changing the topic. Indeed, this applies to all of us on the list. I was
aware that you have different habits when it comes to email so I thought I
would comment based on how my clien
ed on whether one is
interested in the subject.
I think it would make a big difference if you did this. Then people who are
interested in hearing your thoughts can read and respond to them and the
main topic can also continue.
Meg Ford
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for Many Users.(or however you
want to put it). How can you then blame people for focusing *only* on the
fact that we are, well, *dropping fallback mode?*
*
*
Meg Ford
>
>
> That's pretty much what was happening. People read the headline and then
> think "GNOME is getting r
y.
That's my two cents.
Meg Ford
> and used a blog post by a troll
> to make false assertions about GTK+ 3.x's API stability.
>
> You might want to vouch for your community managers before you let them
> loose...
>
> ___
x27;s demoralizing to see
members of the board arguing about GNOME's vision and purpose. If we are
going to present a positive image of ourselves to the public, I think we
need to at least have the board members agreeing on the basic message. I
hope this doesn't offend anyone; I'm just sayi
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le vendredi 03 août 2012, à 14:05 -0700, Luis Villa a écrit :
> > Didn't we have a map of member locations at some point? Or was that just
> > p.g.o blogs?
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide
>
> Not sure if the map is still being automa
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
wrote:
> I'm also considering going to Grace Hopper, especially if the panel
> proposal I'm a part of gets accepted. The speaker notifications for Grace
> Hopper will happen May 17th. I know there might be just a few of us for
> whom it will
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