Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Affiliation: Intel Corporation > > I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation. I > plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME > Foundation and to external. There is still many things to do in o

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina Zhurakhinskaya

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya > Emails: mari...@redhat.com and marina...@gmail.com > Affiliations: Community Engagement Lead at Red Hat, Advisor and Director at > the Ada Initiative > Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina > > Dear Found

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: > Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel > of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes > help other orgs (like the FSF) on legal and other free software related > matters.

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread oliverp
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 23:08 +0200, oliverp wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:19 -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > > My questions for the candidates is: > > > > > > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) > > would you investigate to increase and

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread oliverp
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:48 +0200, oliverp wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 22:02 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > I think we can do more with organization sponsorship and individual > donations than we are doing right now. We have a product that is naturally of > interest to a lot of consume

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 00:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: >> Finally, and only once the financial situation is more clear, the >> board >> needs to find a new executive director. I anticipate that these >> goals, >> which in some ways amount to getting t

Upcoming deadline - candidates please answer the question from the foundation

2014-05-20 Thread Andreas Nilsson
We're five days away from voting opening. While some candidates have been very active in answering questions from the foundation, other are falling behind. I will be unable to vote for you if I have no idea where you're standing. In addition to that, board-list is a high traffic list so keepin

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Dave On 2014-05-19 16:14, Dave Neary wrote: On 05/19/2014 04:31 AM, David King wrote: Right now (taking into account the poor financial situation that the Foundation is facing), I think that a candidate for the executive director position would be someone who has experience of raising funds

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] One possible idea would be to have joint events with KDE. One joint event could cost

Re: Upcoming deadline - candidates please answer the question from the foundation

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 10:56, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > We're five days away from voting opening. > While some candidates have been very active in answering questions from the > foundation, other are falling behind. I will be unable to vote for you if I > have no idea where you're standing. > > In addition

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Richard On 2014-05-20 06:25, 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. ]]] One possible idea would b

About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
Hi, its great to see the all the activities around the upcoming Board election, I hope we still are able to focus on day-today things. There is right now a campaign, Reset the Net [1] about remind people about government surveillance and the the importance of privacy on June 5 [2], one year after

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

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > Hi Emily, > > On 17 May 2014 19:42, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> Name: Emily Gonyer >> Email: emilyyr...@gmail.com >> Affiliation: None >> >> Dear Foundation, >> >> I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first >> t

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Michael On 2014-05-19 18:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: I have a follow-up question (for David and incumbents): why do you want (or not want) to hire a new executive director? What responsibilities do you think the executive director role sh

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
In my previous email responding to Kat, I touched on this very subject. First and foremost we need to determine two things: 1) How much money we are currently spending on what, and what is truly needed. 2) How much money is currently coming in, and from where - this should be broken down into categ

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Emily Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ask below questions to future board: > > 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your > plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? > I think it is of utmost

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
"On 20 May 2014 12:10, Emily Gonyer wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova > wrote: >> Hi Emily, >> >> On 17 May 2014 19:42, Emily Gonyer wrote: >>> Name: Emily Gonyer >>> Email: emilyyr...@gmail.com >>> Affiliation: None >>> >>> Dear Foundation, >>> >>> I'm interested i

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: > Name: Oliver Propst > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com > Affiliation: None > > Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME > Board of Directors. > > I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010,

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Emmanuele On 2014-05-20 12:07, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 20 May 2014 11:36, David King wrote: Thanks for pointing this out. As you can see from the income and expenses in the preliminary 2013 annual report, the Desktop Summit (co-located event with KDE) has traditionally been a much more p

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 19 May 2014 16:29, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:20 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> Many of the applicants for GSoC and OPW are already from Asia and >> especially from India. I think that the split is largely related to >> English being a commonly spoken language in Ind

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Andrea, On 19 May 2014 18:55, Andrea Veri wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote: >> My question to all of you: >> >> * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" >> -- GNOME.Asia summit ? >> Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?( I >> saw it last GU

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 19 May 2014 18:55, Andrea Veri wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > > Hey Max! > >> My question to all of you: >> >> * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" >> -- GNOME.Asia summit ? >> Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?(

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Jim On 2014-05-19 11:19, Jim Nelson wrote: Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this goal?) I think that corporate donat

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 01:55, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Max" >> To: "foundation-list" >> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM >> Subject: Question for candidates >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thanks for run the board. >> This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia s

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: >> Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel >> of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes >> help other or

Foundation budget (was: Re: Question for candidates)

2014-05-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Apologies in advance for a question that will take us away from the main thread topic... On 05/20/2014 06:15 AM, David King wrote: > Initially, I think that much of the money raised by an executive > director would go towards financially supporting the executive director > role. If the Founda

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why? Because GNOME is, at least in theory, a free software 'project'. As such, it is supposedly run, and worked on largely

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: > > Name: Oliver Propst > > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com > > Affiliation: None > > > > Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME > > Board of Di

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:30, Emily Gonyer wrote: In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why? Because GNOME is, at least in theory, a free software 'project'. As such,

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 14:30, Emily Gonyer wrote: > In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel > that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is > probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why? Because GNOME is, at > least in theory, a free software 'project'. A

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" > To: "Oliver Propst" > Cc: "foundation-announce" , "Foundation-List" > , > electi...@gnome.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:17:26 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler > > Hi Karen, > >

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:48, Oliver Propst wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: > Name: Oliver Propst > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com > Affiliation: None > > Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy f

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: >> > Name: Oliver Propst >> > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com >> > Affiliation: None >> > >> > Dear foundation members I want t

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 15:00, Karen Sandler wrote: > On 2014-05-20 09:48, Oliver Propst wrote: >> On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: >> > Name: Oliver Propst >> > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com >> > Affiliation: No

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:49, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 20 May 2014 14:30, Emily Gonyer wrote: In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why? Because GNOME is, at le

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst wrote: >> > Name: Oliver Propst >> > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com >> > Affiliation: None >> > >> > Dear foundation members I want t

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 09:51, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > You are a very busy person with many responsibilities, if you get > elected to the Board do you feel confident that you can spend the > necessary time on Board work? While I think you do a lot for Free Software and your passion and

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:17, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of Th

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
I agree whole heartidly that this is a valuable and good use of GNOME time and resources. As a free software project ostensibly committed to freedom, privacy and security, it behooves us to participate. Emily Gonyer On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: > Hi, its great to see the

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina Zhurakhinskaya

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Oliver Propst" > To: "Foundation-List" > Cc: "foundation-announce" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:28:05 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina > Zhurakhinskaya > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskay

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 07:48, Emily Gonyer wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Emily Chen wrote: Hi, I would like to ask below questions to future board: 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOM

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "David King" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" , "Foundation-List" > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:13:20 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler > > Hi Marina > > On 2014-05-20 09:51, Ma

Re: Foundation budget (was: Re: Question for candidates)

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 14:21, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies in advance for a question that will take us away from the main > thread topic... > > On 05/20/2014 06:15 AM, David King wrote: >> Initially, I think that much of the money raised by an executive >> director would go towards financially su

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional consulting. The board and the Foundation benefit from a divers

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread meg ford
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

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional consulting. The board an

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:42, meg ford wrote: 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 sensiti

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Karen On 2014-05-20 12:27, Karen Sandler wrote: On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Indeed, and there is no reason that the immediate feedback cannot be gained from Karen as an adviser if she is invited to board meetings. I do not think that a board composed of some members who are able

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > > > It's not just the time commitment we are looking for in the board members, > but also experience. Karen has a tremendous amount of experience in free > software non-profit space. In the last two months, she has been very generou

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
>On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova >wrote: >> On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst wrote: >> Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit >> implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those >> efforts could provide valuable inputs to

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > On 20 May 2014 15:00, Karen Sandler wrote: >> Actually, I was able to get most of the way towards the discounted fee for >> the fist years of WC3 membership when I was Executive Director, but we just >> didn't have the bandwidth to pa

question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Andy Tai
Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+ also play critical roles in other free software projects, like MATE, XFCE, and the Cinnamon

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread anish patil
HI Emily! >Hi, >1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? >3. How to raise and increase the fund for GNOME Foundation ? I think questions 1 and 3 are relevant to each other, we need to iden

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 00:58, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:18 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> one of the options that I want the board to investigate >> is to tie in the executive director's wage and travel budget with >> adboard fees in such a way that the executive director

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 12:39 +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: > This would include: > Display a banner on GNOME.org, 5 June with link to > https://www.resetthenet.org/ > Promote our participation on the campaign website > Promote our our participation and our work in this area in our own > channels (gno

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-20 1:32 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro : > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:28 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > As the board minutes show from a few weeks ago, the board has been in > > touch with some advisory board members to find out if they could > > donate some person time towards the upgr

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 19:35, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya > wrote: >> >> >> It's not just the time commitment we are looking for in the board members, >> but also experience. Karen has a tremendous amount of experience in free >> software non-profit

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: > > GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ > development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+ > also play critical roles in oth

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-18 18:58 GMT+02:00 Dave Neary : > Hi everyone, > Hey Dave! > For me, the defining thing the next board will do is hire a successor to > Karen Sandler as executive director of the foundation. > > So my question to all of you is: what are the main characteristics you > will be looking for

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-20 14:37 GMT+02:00 Ekaterina Gerasimova : > Hi Andrea, > > On 19 May 2014 18:55, Andrea Veri wrote: > > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote: > >> My question to all of you: > >> > >> * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" > >> -- GNOME.Asia summit ? > >> Central event man

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-20 20:56 GMT+02:00 Andy Tai : > Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: > > GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ > development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+ > also play critical roles in other free soft

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
And the missing URL: [1] https://launchpad.net/bugzilla.gnome.org 2014-05-20 22:04 GMT+02:00 Andrea Veri : > 2014-05-20 1:32 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro : > > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:28 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> > As the board minutes show from a few weeks ago, the board has been i

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-20 21:47 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro : Currently gnome.org does not even use HTTPS by default, let alone HSTS > or PFS. If we are planning to endorse this campaign, I think we should > also implement their recommendations. > Assuming gnome.org stands for www.gnome.org I'm asking you wheth

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Dave Neary
Thanks Andrea, On 05/20/2014 05:23 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > What I would aim for is someone with great communication / marketing > skills for attracting new advisory board members but most of all a > strong passion and dedication for the free software movement, with these > feelings being stronge

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
Yes, the pebbles distribution you made is what makes more sense to me at this time! thanks Dave for your question! 2014-05-21 0:36 GMT+02:00 Dave Neary : > Thanks Andrea, > > On 05/20/2014 05:23 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > What I would aim for is someone with great communication / marketing >

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 00:33 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Assuming gnome.org stands for www.gnome.org I'm asking you whether it > makes sense to "abuse" the use of SSL even when not really needed? From your response, I can see that you're concerned primarily with protecting users' personal informati

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Ekaterina Gerasimova" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "foundation-list" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:12:35 AM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > On 20 May 2014 01:55, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > > - Original Message - > >> From:

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Jeff Fortin
Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 11:56 -0700, Andy Tai a écrit : > What are your views on the participation of the people of these > projects, as stake holders in the direction of gtk+, in the GNOME > Foundation? Should the GNOME Foundation encourage (reach out to) > these people to get them involved in t

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Andy Tai" > To: "GNOME Foundation" > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:56:16 PM > Subject: question for candidates > > Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: > > GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ > deve

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: emilychen...@gmail.com, foundation-list@gnome.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:25:22 AM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Pardon my late reply. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: > > GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ > development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+ > also p

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for run the board. > This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). > GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit. > > My question to all of you: > > * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME i

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Full disclosure - I wrok for Intel as the Tizen SCM architect. Since I brought up Tizen, I wanted to make it known that there is a relationship. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thanks for run the board

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Emily Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ask below questions to future board: > > 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your > plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? I've read some of the respo

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

2014-05-20 Thread sankarshan
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. Anish, you raise an interesting point. Do y

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: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Chen
2014-05-21 3:08 GMT+00:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya : > > - Original Message - > > From: "Richard Stallman" > > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > > Cc: emilychen...@gmail.com, foundation-list@gnome.org > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 6:25:22 AM > > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > > > [[

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > I would like to point out that there has been outreach to the projects > which were forked from GNOME, but with poor results. I encourage you > to address the issues that you see regardless of whether you join the > board or not. Yes

Re: Upcoming deadline - candidates please answer the question from the foundation

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yes, sorry, it's been a little busy with personal projects at home, so I haven't had as much time to answer. I've been working on answering them as I go. :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > We're five days away from voting opening. > While some candidates have been very

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

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Sindhu S wrote: >> 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 unfortun

Re: Board of Directors Election 2014 - Candidacy - Jean-François Fortin Tam

2014-05-20 Thread Jeff Fortin
Le lundi 19 mai 2014 à 16:34 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova a écrit : > As can be seen from the board meeting agenda for 2014-05-06 and will > be visible from the agenda for 2014-05-20, there is an item called > "PiTiVi funds statement". GNOME handles money for PiTiVi and this item > is related to a

Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] A question for candidates: How will you direct the GNOME Foundation to promote the g

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] for downstream, there's the SUSE conference or the Fedora Flock; To cooperat

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ 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. ]]] Why? Because GNOME is, at least in theory, a free software 'project'. As such