Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > If I recall correctly, it's not a rule for the board to pick someone > based on election results. That's true and false. It's true in the sense that the bylaws do not govern change of affiliation after the election results ha

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Benjamin Berg
Hi, On Do, 2015-11-05 at 16:30 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > If I recall correctly, it's not a rule for the board to pick someone > > based on election results. > That's true and false. > > It's true in the sense that the byla

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 15-11-05 10:08 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > Actually, the way I read section 8.2.4 combined with 8.4.1 right now it > seems perfectly sane to argue that Christian could have finished his > term in office despite the change of affiliation. Would the board and Christian consider doing this, and als

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Do, 2015-11-05 at 10:18 -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 15-11-05 10:08 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > > Actually, the way I read section 8.2.4 combined with 8.4.1 right now it > > seems perfectly sane to argue that Christian could have finished his > > term in office despite the change of affilia

Re: Welcome to Alexandre Franke, new board member

2015-11-05 Thread Luis Menina
Hi all, Le 05/11/2015 19:20, Allan Day a écrit : We are very happy to announce that Alexandre Franke will be joining us with immediate effect. Alexandre has a strong track record of getting things done, not least for GUADEC and the localization team. His enthusiasm and commitment to GNOME is wel

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Cosimo Cecchi
Hi Tobi, While I understand that you might have hoped for another resolution from the Board, now that our decision is public, I trust you understand that it was taken solely with the best interest of the electorate and the wider GNOME community in mind. Like others have mentioned already in this

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 19:08 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote: > Hi, > > On Do, 2015-11-05 at 16:30 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > If I recall correctly, it's not a rule for the board to pick someone > > > based on election results

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-05 Thread Richard Stallman
To download anything from the Google app store requires a nonfree program, Google Play. This program is known to have a back door (see http://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html) that is universal or pretty close. I suspect that uploading to the app store also requires nonfree softwar

Re: Affiliation change and stepping down

2015-11-05 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Do, 2015-11-05 at 17:09 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 19:08 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Do, 2015-11-05 at 16:30 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > > If I recall correctly, it's not a

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-05 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:41:43PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > To download anything from the Google app store requires a nonfree > program, Google Play. This program is known to have a back door (see > http://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html) that is > universal or pretty close

Re: Welcome to Alexandre Franke, new board member

2015-11-05 Thread Aruna S
I remember Alexandre's immediate response for French localisation, for a lot of my docs. Congratulations! On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Luis Menina wrote: > Hi all, > > Le 05/11/2015 19:20, Allan Day a écrit : > >> We are very happy to announce that Alexandre Franke will be joining us >> with

Re: Welcome to Alexandre Franke, new board member

2015-11-05 Thread Emily Chen
Congratulation to Alexandre, I am impressed by his passion and I believe he will be a productive board. -Emily 2015-11-06 2:20 GMT+08:00 Allan Day : > Dear all, > > As many of you will be aware, Christian Hergert recently stepped down > from the GNOME Foundation Board. As a result, we've had a p