A Question for New Candidates

2013-05-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi everyone, Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing to spend time on the foundation. It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find my

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

2013-05-21 Thread Andrea Veri
2013/5/20 Frederic Peters > [ 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 > > I found it at https://etherpad.gnome.org but it doesn

New Foundation Members

2013-05-21 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. They are: * 1. Stefan Westerfeld (beast contributor, gst123 maintainer) 2. Daiki Ueno (cari

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-21 Thread Fabiana Simões
Thanks Max, Emmanuele and Andreas for the replies! Having the minutes of the Board meetings is certainly helpful. Problem is, IMO, that the granularity of the information there is way to high to inform the broader progress and accomplishments of the Board. On 21 May 2013 03:23, Dave Neary wrote:

Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Cameron
My question to the candidates: For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the board that you are most proud of? How many action items did you accept over your last term and what percentage were completed? If things did not get done or tended to get done very late, pleas

Re: New Foundation Members

2013-05-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome folks! Especially Sindhu who decides to stay on even after her internship. Awesome! As well folks writing apps, and other cool things. Thank you for joining! sri On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce

Re: LinuxTag 2013 - Not going to happen

2013-05-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm really sorry to hear that. Most unfortunate. :/ sri On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hey folks, > > unfortunately, we lack people to run the booth at LinuxTag. I thus > cancelled our booth and two presentations we had. > > Cheers, > Tobi > -- > marketing-list mail

Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy

2013-05-21 Thread Richard Stallman
The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who ha

Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy

2013-05-21 Thread Karen Sandler
On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: > The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so > we will not have much choice in our voting. > > On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have > already stepped into the race, I think it would be goo