Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > First, while I'm extremely impressed by the huge variety of UI design > ideas that GNOME has experimented with, and many of them have been quite > successful, I think GNOME needs some mechanism to recognize when an idea > isn't working or doe

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Magdalen Berns
Hi Erick First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. > Thanks for your question! Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking > integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop > environment like Mac OS X, for instance. My question is: > >

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a "complete" desktop?)

2015-05-26 Thread Jeff Fortin Tam
Replying inline to your reply (stripping my own previous text): [...] > I'm not asking you to be technical, but to be managers. (Not saying > here that manager can/should/must be non-technical) [...] > Being a director of the board for me, means having the power to > allocate resources to make GNO

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Carlos Soriano Sanchez
Hi Erick, This is a little difficult to answer, since is a very wide question that resembles "how can we make GNOME better?" which is what all of we try to do, and I'm not sure most part of it is directly fixable by the board, but instead indirectly. Said that, as we know by the nature of GNOME b

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:52:55PM -0400, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote: > First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. > > Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking > integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop > environment like Mac

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Hey Erick! Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote: ... > First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. > > Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking > integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop > environment like Mac OS X, for instance. My que

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a "complete" desktop?)

2015-05-25 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
There's some comments inline. On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > Hi Erick, > > This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm > not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. I'm not asking you to be technical, but to be man

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a "complete" desktop?)

2015-05-25 Thread Jeff Fortin Tam
Hi Erick, This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. Unless you clearly define what you mean by "complete, fully integrated desktop environment"… as everyone is going to have a different opinion on wh

Question to the candidates.

2015-05-25 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Hi: First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop environment like Mac OS X, for instance. My question is: "What plans do you have to make GNOME a m

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-31 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 11:21 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME! > > My question is about hardware and contacts: > > The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system > by itself, for them hardware and softw

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-30 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 05/27/2012 11:21 AM, Gil Forcada wrote: My question is about hardware and contacts: The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system by itself, for them hardware and software come together and they die together, so a new version of Windows means a new laptop and so on,

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Gil; On 27 May 2012 10:21, Gil Forcada wrote: > My question is about hardware and contacts: keeping good relations with ISVs, OSVs, and even OEMs is a fundamental part of a complex software project like GNOME. we obviously need to propose GNOME as a viable alternative to iOS, Winphone, and An

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/27 Diego Escalante Urrelo : > Hi Gil, > > Perhaps this link is relevant: > http://makeplaylive.com/ > > I would add this questions to your thread: > Do you think a similar venture for GNOME would make sense? > How do you think this, or a similar project, can happen without > leaving us bankr

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hola! On 27.05.2012 11:21, Gil Forcada wrote: > So the crucial part here are ISV, contacting them, engaging with them > and finally making them ship our great software to the end user. > > Is that something that you both find important and also will try to > pursue if you are elected? Hm. I think

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 11:21 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME! > > My question is about hardware and contacts: > > The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system > by itself, for them hardware and softw

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/27 Gil Forcada : > Hi all, > > First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME! > > My question is about hardware and contacts: > > The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system > by itself, for them hardware and software come together and they die >

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi Gil, Perhaps this link is relevant: http://makeplaylive.com/ I would add this questions to your thread: Do you think a similar venture for GNOME would make sense? How do you think this, or a similar project, can happen without leaving us bankrupt? Thanks! :-) Diego On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4

A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Gil Forcada
Hi all, First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME! My question is about hardware and contacts: The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system by itself, for them hardware and software come together and they die together, so a new version of Windows m