Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I would like GNOME to positively influence other projects both
> > propriety and Free Software ones.
>
> A positive influence has to be a good thing -- but what does
> it mean to have a positive influence on a proprietary program?
>
> Convincing its developers to ma
On 19 May 2015 at 01:41, Max wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board.
> Max come from GNOME.Asia team and thanks GNOME and board support Asia.
>
> I have 2 questions to all candidates
>
> 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be
> Does this not limit the ability of the FSF to campaign against US laws
> which attack software freedom somewhat?
In practice, the requirement is no difficulty at all.
We could legally spend up to 10% of our budget on lobbying.
Even if we did lobbying, we would never do that much of it.
Howe
> There are a few subtle ways of getting the message out which we could
> explore: For example, getting GNOME listed onto some popular websites in
> the UK (e.g. BBC, NHS, RNIB etc) and elsewhere, by approaching them with up
> to date instruction manuals on how to use GNOME's accessibility
Hi Richard
> There are a few subtle ways of getting the message out which we could
> > explore: For example, getting GNOME listed onto some popular websites
> in
> > the UK (e.g. BBC, NHS, RNIB etc) and elsewhere, by approaching them
> with up
> > to date instruction manuals on how to use
Hi Richard,
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Magdalen Berns
wrote:
> Hi Richard
>
> > There are a few subtle ways of getting the message out which we could
>> > explore: For example, getting GNOME listed onto some popular websites
>> in
>> > the UK (e.g. BBC, NHS, RNIB etc) and elsewhere,
On 2015-05-29 13:54, Richard Stallman wrote:
Does this not limit the ability of the FSF to campaign against US laws
> which attack software freedom somewhat?
In practice, the requirement is no difficulty at all.
We could legally spend up to 10% of our budget on lobbying.
Even if we did lobbying,
Hi Karen,
Thanks for your input.
> > Also, we are not allowed to work for or against specific candidates
>> > > for office.
>>
>> > I think you are correct about this. Am I right in assuming that only
>> > applies to political parties in the USA, then?
>>
>> I don't know -- for that you should ch
On 2015-05-29 19:35, Magdalen Berns wrote:
Hi Karen,
Thanks for your input.
Also, we are not allowed to work for or against specific candidates
for office.
I think you are correct about this. Am I right in assuming that only
applies to political parties in the USA, then?
I don't know -- for t
Hi Karen,
I think we signed up to the EU "fix my documents" initiative and I
>> would really hope we could continue to support work like that without
>> it being an issue. My guess would be that putting our name to that
>> sort of campaign should be okay, since advocating a legislative
>> amendmen
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