Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-07 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for restarting this discussion Dave. This is my first post to the foundation list. Hi all! :) > Proposed community mantra: Beautiful computing freedom > The thing about a vision is that it easily makes it easier for you to > choose the right path at the fork in the road. Vision is u

Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

2011-01-24 Thread Allan Day
Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit : > > So Hackfest registration is happening here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers for > > the conference is here http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/CallForPaper > > and confer

GNOME 3 User Days

2011-02-25 Thread Allan Day
Dear all, The first of what will hopefully become a series of GNOME 3 User Days was held last week [1]. The day gave our users a chance to ask questions and discuss the new release, and it was very successful: attendance was excellent and those who participated seemed to benefit from the experienc

Re: GNOME Hires 2 Marketing Contractors

2011-02-28 Thread Allan Day
looking > for help > with GNOME marketing activities and were looking to hire a > contractor > to fill the position. > > I'm pleased to announce that the GNOME Foundation has hired > Allan Day > and Sumana

Re: Dropping TM when using GNOME Brand?

2011-03-02 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 16:26 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mercredi 02 mars 2011, à 09:09 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : > > > > Vincent: > > > > >A few years ago, it was agreed that it's fine to use the GNOME logo with > > >just GNOME instead of GNOME™: the trademark is still valid even if we >

Re: Dropping TM when using GNOME Brand?

2011-03-02 Thread Allan Day
have the page updated and I'll ask > the legal folks to give it a final look over to make sure the wording > is good. > > Brian > > > On 03/ 2/11 09:43 AM, Allan Day wrote: > >> I understand that as "it's okay to remove the TM in the

Website content licensing

2011-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I'm trying to find out how we license the content on the various GNOME websites (including live.gnome.org), but have so far been unable to find any relevant information. Is there a particular licence that is used for this content, or is it just copyrighted to the GNOME Foundation? It woul

Re: Website content licensing

2011-03-14 Thread Allan Day
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:26 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:39 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote: > > I had a discussion with Bradley Kuhn at last year's Linux Foundation > > Collaboration Summit - it's not possible to dual license these two > > copylefts. The GNOME Documentation tea

About GNOME, Support GNOME

2011-03-21 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I've been working on the content for the new gnome.org site recently. There are a couple of pages that I would appreciate feedback on: About GNOME [1] and Support GNOME [2]. Both are early drafts. About About GNOME: it's a new version of an existing page [3]. I wanted it to be a statement

Re: Candidacy: Rodrigo Moya

2011-05-19 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:26 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:45 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > Also, based on recent discussions, I would like to help define the > > > message we give to 3rd parties about what

Re: Candidacy: Rodrigo Moya

2011-05-19 Thread Allan Day
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:06 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 12:50 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:26 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:45 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:23:

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Allan Day
Hi Ryan, Ryan Lortie wrote: > name: Ryan Lortie > nick: desrt > affiliation: Codethink Limited > > I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming > election for the board of directors. > > > (( me )) > > I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for the responses, Ryan. Ryan Lortie wrote: > [removing foundation-announce from the cc:] > > hi Allan, > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > > technical leadershi

Re: Paul Cutler stepping down from the Board of directors, replaced by Stormy Peters

2011-06-21 Thread Allan Day
On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 01:24 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Hi all Foundation members! > Due to being busy with other matters, Paul Cutler has decided to step > down from The GNOME Foundation board of directors. Andreas Nilsson will > replace him as Chairman and Bastien Nocera will take the role

Re: Foundation IRC meeting tomorrow 14:00 UTC

2011-07-22 Thread Allan Day
Alberto Ruiz wrote: > 2011/7/15 Gil Forcada > > Thanks to all who attended. If you weren't able to make it, > minutes > > and a full IRC log can be found here: > > > > http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20110713 > > >

Re: New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

2011-09-14 Thread Allan Day
Welcome to our new foundation members, and thanks to the membership committee for their work! I'm wondering - would it be possible to post these membership announcements on the Foundation blog? New members to the Foundation are really valuable and it would be great to do more publicity around it.

Re: New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

2011-10-18 Thread Allan Day
2011/10/14 Andrea Veri : > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Bastien Nocera wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 12:20 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: >> > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Allan Day wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > > I'm wondering - would it be possibl

Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the gnome.org feed. A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from

Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: >> >> For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate >> Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the >>

Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-05 Thread Allan Day
Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take this forward? Allan 2011/11/30 Andrea Veri : > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote: > >> >>I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are >> >>consciously >> >>not foundation members for some reason, while

Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-06 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters wrote: > Allan, > > I think you proposed it and got some feedback and general support. Sounds > like a plan to me. > > Thanks for making this happen! Cheers Stormy. Here's a rough plan for the transition: 1. Add gnome.org's feed to news.gnome.org [1] 2. Ensure that everyone who

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > On 12/14/2011 04:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: >> >> At the October 26th IRC meeting, Jon McCann spoke about his concerns >> about the Desktop Summit.[2] At the November 23rd meeting, Dave Neary >> (who was also very inv

Trademark Infringement?

2012-01-20 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, I just came across this: https://market.android.com/details?id=yh.app.iamhere Don't know anything about it, but it looks like they're using the GNOME logo. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ ___ foundati

A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that you are interested in doing this important work. A question for you: Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? If it is, w

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: ... >> Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced >> from the rest of the GNOME project. > > I don't quite understand the question. The Board is not where technical > decisions are made, it's not where applications or new dependencies are > made. Yet

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-28 Thread Allan Day
[jumping into the thread at random] Dave Neary wrote: ... >>So I would try to have the minutes sent >>around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet >>to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more (timely) >>public. > > I don't know if I count or not, but I

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-30 Thread Allan Day
Andy Wingo wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day writes: > >> I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive >> organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and >> initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed.  I

Re: Hello World

2012-08-03 Thread Allan Day
Manuel Quiñones wrote: > Hi, thanks for let me be a member of GNOME! ... Welcome Manuel! Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Suggestions for format of AGM next year

2012-08-03 Thread Allan Day
Hi, Vincent Untz wrote: ... > I thought a bit about the AGM we had a few days ago, and I'd like to > suggest we find a different format for next year. > > Here's a list of issues with the current format, from what I saw this > year: > > - it was a bit too long. A small break might have helped. >

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-05 Thread Allan Day
It would be great to be able to run something like Bip [1] for GNOME IRC. Allan [1] http://bip.milkypond.org/ -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gn

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-15 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > Community enthusiasts won't go out there using the 'royal we' without some > training. This stuff isn't easy, and it is important that our volunteers > understand how to engage in both the GNOME community and the community at > large. They will need training on GNO

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-15 Thread Allan Day
The overarching aspiration behind GNOME 3, in my opinion, is to create a free user experience that is fit for the contemporary world. That means addressing the changing needs of users, as well as changes in hardware. It also means doing better than what we did before: UX design has got a lot better

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-15 Thread Allan Day
Brian Cameron wrote: ... > For better or worse, I would say that most Solaris GNOME users probably > fall either in the advanced UNIX-hacker category, or the type of user > who uses a Solaris GNOME desktop in a very focused or controlled > environment such as a kiosk or call center environment. S

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-16 Thread Allan Day
Hey Benjamin, Benjamin Otte wrote: > Peteris Krisjanis gmail.com> writes: > >> I think we are in same business as Apple - we are trying to offer >> unified user experience. Difference between us and Apple though is that >> (in my opinion) most of us strongly believe that openness/freedom and >>

Re: Feature proposal process?

2013-03-22 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave, Dave Neary wrote: > According to the calendar, with the upcoming 3.8 release, we will soon be in > feature proposal again. > > I was recently asked how to propose a feature for GNOME, and my first > instinct was to point them to https://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning - the > "Proposing n

Re: Feature proposal process?

2013-03-24 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: > It also says "Note that task owners are mandatory as this is not meant as a > random wishlist" - which I had taken as a warning not to submit proposals > unapproved (by who, I don't know). > > I would like to suggest that anyone adding a feature request here also mail > d-d-l t

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: A Question for New Candidates

2013-05-29 Thread Allan Day
May 21, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Allan Day wrote: >> >> 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 fantas

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-18 Thread Allan Day
Super Bisquit wrote: > Since when did you become a "Dr" without having an actual doctorate- > honorary ones don't mean shit? Derogatory personal comments have no place on this list. Please refrain from making posts like this again. Our moderators have been notified about this, and will act if you

Archiving wiki pages [was: Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013]

2013-11-21 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: >> That page is pretty new. The intention was to consolidate the >> pre-existing guidelines, but there's a chance that some of the issues >> you mention are simply bugs that need to be ironed out. > > This raises a very important point. > > Mairin worked on logo & brand guideline

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-21 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: >> Mairin worked on logo & brand guidelines back in 2006. That was the work >> (I believe that you based this page off. And all of the links to her >> work are now broken and point at this page. The archive is gone. The >> history is gone. > > I found the last revision of the gu

Re: Archiving wiki pages [was: Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013]

2013-11-21 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: >>> Mairin worked on logo & brand guidelines back in 2006. That was the work >>> (I believe that you based this page off. >> >> Those old guidelines were seriously out of date and were desperately >> in need of a refresh. We have also been wanting to move the guidelines >> off th

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-21 Thread Allan Day
Máirín Duffy wrote: > I see the brand book I put together with Jeff Waugh way back when (where > that vertical version of the logo came from, and the existing logotype) > has been unceremoniously deleted or somehow obscured from being able to > be viewed on the wiki now. Any time I hit a search te

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-22 Thread Allan Day
Vincent Untz wrote: ... >> Yeah, so the thing that I think we really miss is some examples of >> what is cool to do. Like examples of t-shirts and stickers, and >> original designs based on the logo. My understanding is that this >> would require some work from the board... > > What about all the

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Allan Day
Dave Neary wrote: >> My stance is that I am happy for them (or anyone) to include GNOME in their >> product. They have permission (IIRC) to name it "something GNOME". So it's a >> different product, i.e. not "GNOME". I am happy if they use our logo. I'd be >> more happy if they also silghtly modif

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Allan Day
Emily, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Alright. So how about this. We chop the toes off of the foot, so its > not quite the same. Will that work for you? Of course not. That'd be > 'bad design'. This nit picking is what makes people hate GNOME. What > makes people (good people!) throw up their arms and say

Re: FOSDEM 2014 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks

2013-12-10 Thread Allan Day
Hey everyone, A reminder that the deadline for FOSDEM talks is December 14th - that's the end of this week! http://www.elpauer.org/2013/10/fosdem-desktops-devroom-2014-call-for-talks/ Allan On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > Hey everyone, just a reminder that this Ca

Developer Experience Hackfest

2014-02-11 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Alberto and I are putting a developer experience hackfest together. The last one was about a year ago and was a big success, and we want to keep up the momentum. Topics that we're planning to cover include GTK+, developer tooling and documentation. The current tentative plan is to have th

Re: Developer Experience Hackfest

2014-02-11 Thread Allan Day
Philip Withnall wrote: > Link: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/DeveloperExperience2014 Ha, thanks! Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Developer Experience Hackfest

2014-02-12 Thread Allan Day
Hey Anish! anish patil wrote: > Can we have hackfest at Pune(India) but i am not sure about budget because > most of hackers would travel from EU region but it would be cheap in terms > of lodging and it would be really nice in terms of GNOME's activities in > India. You want us to change the lo

Re: internal engagement

2014-03-04 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > Well I can certainly start discussions. But I worry that apathy has > set in on this list and I'm interested to know if that is the case. Apathetic about what about what exactly, though? As I understand it, the Foundation exists to take care of the housekeeping and

Re: New Foundation Members

2014-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Welcome all! There are some great names on that list. Allan On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee just processed another round > of renewals / new membership requests today and we're glad to announce > that eight new

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 25th, 2014

2014-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... >> Apart from all that has been mentioned, speaking for Brazil, delivery >> services aren't always reliable. International packages take quite a >> while to be delivered, and might end up stuck in Customs or lost. More >> expensive shipping methods might compensate

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Allan Day
Luc Pionchon wrote: ... > I think that this is not enough: The user is not always the one who > does the initial setup. Also the initial setup may have happened long > ago, who will remember what he selected during initial setup? I think we want this to be off by default, and have initial setup t

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-24 Thread Allan Day
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: ... > I am less interested in where the toggle lives[0] than who is storing > the data, and what kind of data it is. ... Indeed. We agreed that we need a clear privacy policy before we do anything - this will explain exactly what data is being sent, who it is being sent to,

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Richard Stallman wrote: ... > What is the data in question, and why propose to collect it? ... The main data we want is which apps people have installed. The primary purpose is to enable recommendations for applications - we'd like to predict which apps you might want to install, based on what ot

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... > I would like to point out that the GNOME Foundation does not collect > any data and does not plan to do so in the future. The data in > question is potentially collected by individual distributions at their > own discretion. Right, we will not be the ones holding

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-03-25 Thread Allan Day
Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... >> Right, we will not be the ones holding the data, and distros will need >> to sign up to the privacy policy [...] > > This has not been decided yet and one of the options that is being > considered is that the Foundation will not be agreeing to anything > with the

Re: New challenge

2014-03-31 Thread Allan Day
Hey Karen, I'd like to join the chorus and thank you for all your hard work over the past three years. We've been incredibly lucky to have you, and you've had a hugely positive impact on the project. It's been a pleasure. And this isn't goodbye, because I expect to see you in GNOME in the future,

Re: Mass Reboot: Monday 31th of March, 21:30 - 23:00 PM CET

2014-04-01 Thread Allan Day
Thanks Andrea! Allan On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Andrea Veri wrote: > >> we'll be performing a mass reboot of all our machines this upcoming >> monday to apply all the kernel and security updates. All the >> services will be affected for a few minut

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Allan Day
David King wrote: ... >>> Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating >>> expenses as reserves. >> >> >> I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm >> recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundation has adequate >> reserves for GNOME's ordinary

Re: Changes on the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

2014-04-13 Thread Allan Day
James and Aruna - it's awesome that you want to help with this. :) Allan On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Aruna Sankaranarayanan wrote: > Hi, > > I am a member of the Docs team, and interned with the Foundation in OPW > July - September'13. > > I would like to apply to become a part of the Membe

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Matthew Garrett wrote: ... > GNOME exists because people contribute to it. OPW has demonstrated a > strong track record of creating long-term contributors. The mere > existence of OPW has caused people who might otherwise not be > enthusiastic about contributing to GNOME to contribute to GNOME, ev

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:12AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to >> know more details about the problem, please read >> https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact >> the board

Re: Changes on the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

2014-04-15 Thread Allan Day
James wrote: ... >> James and Aruna - it's awesome that you want to help with this. :) ... > Haha-- The way you say it... Should we be afraid? ;) ... Why would you be afraid? There's nothing to be afraid of... [Cue evil laughter.] :) A. ___ foundation-

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Final Results

2014-06-18 Thread Allan Day
Fabiana Simões wrote: ... > The preliminary results for this year's elections were not challenged. > This means, in the next term, our Board of Directors will be composed > of the following Foundation members: ... Congratulations to the new board! Also, huge thanks to everyone who worked on the b

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-06 Thread Allan Day
Ryan Lortie wrote: ... > I got the sense during the 'open floor' of the AGM that there were a lot > of people still wanting to ask questions before we were hurried away to > lunch. In future years I think it might be nice to schedule the AGM > either in a larger slot or in a slot that is more fre

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Allan Day
Three points! First, it's been suggested that OPW falls outside the Foundation charter, and therefore falls outside of GNOME's general mission. The fact that the charter doesn't reflect GNOME's current mission is entirely unsurprising - it is an ancient, largely historical document (last updated 1

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: >> Second, OPW has been beneficial for GNOME. It has raised our profile >> and further established our role as leaders in the Free Software >> world. Our sponsors are enthusiastic about OPW (conversely, moving OPW >> out of GNOME would give them one less reason to support us)

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Luis Villa wrote: ... >> Luis >> worried that making the TODO list the Bountie list was >> dangerous, because people might end up doing only the things >> people pay for. Have we already started down this slop already >> with company involvement? ... > With

Re: preparing for the use of the Privacy campaign funds

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Jeff Fortin wrote: ... > Therefore, to anyone reading this, in light of the formation of the > Safety Team and the safety/privacy BoF session that occurred at GUADEC, > it would help tremendously if you (as individuals and as a team) would > start coming up with a specific action plan and make a p

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-18 Thread Allan Day
Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> The Elementary project claim to have had a lot of success with >> Bountysource [1]. > > Earlier in this thread, they suggested that their bounties are mostly > going out to regular Elementary developers who would have worked on > something else for Elementary anyway, in

Re: AUS

2014-09-22 Thread Allan Day
Ali/amjjawad wrote: ... > I have moved to Australia very recently and I would like to meet people and > new friends who are involved with GNOME and other FOSS communities. > > If there is/are anyone from this community who lives/live in Australia, > kindly feel free to contact me :) GNOME has had

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-09-29 Thread Allan Day
Jeff Fortin wrote: ... > The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. > Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting: ... > * Bountysource account for the Foundation ... While Bountysource is interesting, I also think that we need to be rather careful about

Re: OUTAGE: bugzilla.gnome.org, 09th February (09:00 CET) - 10th February (22:00 CET)

2015-02-10 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> The upgrade has been finalized and the machine is back to production. >> A special thank you goes to Andre Klapper and Krzesimir Nowak for >> their hard work to make this happen. ... > > I just want to thank everyone on the sysadmin team for this. Same here! Huge thank

Re: OUTAGE: bugzilla.gnome.org, 09th February (09:00 CET) - 10th February (22:00 CET)

2015-02-10 Thread Allan Day
For anyone who might be interested: git-bz stopped working for me with the upgrade. However, I was pointed to the following branch, which does work: http://cgit.collabora.com/git/user/pwith/git-bz.git/tree/git-bz?h=bugzilla-4.4 Allan ___ foundation-list

Re: Agenda for board meeting on February 27th

2015-03-10 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... >>* Fundraising assistance for a new font for GNOME? The board was >> asked if it would be willing/able to assist in raising funding >> for Telder, by doing some (or all) of the following: asking >> adboard members for funds; committing

Re: Agenda for board meeting on February 27th

2015-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Andreas Nilsson wrote: ... > Would the funds be for buying a license for it? > For releasing it under a free font license? It would be to liberate the font, so that further development happens in the open, using an free/open toolchain. The funds would also be directed to ensure that the font meet

Re: Agenda for board meeting on February 27th

2015-03-11 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: ... > The question I would have is, guessing that we already have a list of > issues somewhere, do we have a comparison with other free software > fonts that already exist, and an explanation of why they're > inappropriate[1]? ... Sure, that's been done as a part of this pro

Re: Summary of work done throughout 2014-2015

2015-05-11 Thread Allan Day
This is excellent - thanks Jeff! Allan On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > Dear Foundation Members, > > In case you missed it with the flurry of activity on Planet GNOME lately, > you might be interested in this report: > http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/05/07/presidents-repo

Reminder: Board of Directors candidacy period ends on 18th May

2015-05-13 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, In case you missed it, the candidacy period for the Board of Directors elections ends on Monday 18th May. This is the final date on which you can announce your intention to run for the board. Full details can be found in Andrea's original announcement: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/fou

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2015-05-19 Thread Allan Day
Max wrote: ... > I have 2 questions to all candidates Thanks for the questions, Max! > 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to > working on the board on a regular basis? I have the good fortune to work on GNOME as my full time job, and I'm able to devote some o

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 on community to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no > data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME > than community. I do not question the passion and dedication to those > who are paid on GNOME, I know that they would do it as a

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Hi Marina! Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: ... > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and for all > the work you already do for the Foundation! > > Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their > events [1] and some for their communities [2].

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Hey Andreas, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Dear candidates. Thank you all for running! > > As part of the GNOME Trademark Fundraiser [1], the Foundation raised $102 > 608 USD. > > Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was withdrawn, > it was never taken to court and the money was

Re: More questions for Board candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Karen Sandler wrote: > I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has been > said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board have a > diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to answer yes on > these, but I think it's good to know if at leas

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-26 Thread Allan Day
Hey Fabiana, Fabiana Simões wrote: ... > I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and > accountability on the Board. > > How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What > should be communicated and when? Do you think we have been transparent > enough

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Allan Day
Richard Stallman wrote: > I'd like to ask the candidates, how do you think GNOME should > contribute more to the advance of free software and users' freedom in > general (in addition to being useful free software). Obviously we want GNOME to be successful and for there to be greater adoption, and

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Allan Day
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

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July, 07th, 2015

2015-07-22 Thread Allan Day
Alexandre Franke wrote: ... >> == Pending action items == >> * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders >> and passwords >> * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for >> security reasons > > Does that mean that the action item has actuall

Re: GNOME Summit 2015

2015-08-05 Thread Allan Day
Colin Walters wrote: > Thanks very much to Walter Bender, we have a confirmed reservation at MIT for > the 2015 GNOME Summit! ... That's excellent. Thanks for organising this, Colin! Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org htt

User Data Manifesto

2015-08-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of August. A number of other prominent FOSS projects are lined up to also endorse it. Any t

Re: User Data Manifesto

2015-08-23 Thread Allan Day
Michael Catanzaro wrote: ... > Their server is redirecting to HTTPS but not sending any chain of > trust, which is broken, so I haven't read it yet: ... Thanks for the tip, Michael! I've passed it on. Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-l

Re: User Data Manifesto

2015-08-24 Thread Allan Day
Allan Day wrote: > Michael Catanzaro wrote: > ... >> Their server is redirecting to HTTPS but not sending any chain of >> trust, which is broken, so I haven't read it yet: > ... > > Thanks for the tip, Michael! I've passe

Re: User Data Manifesto

2015-08-27 Thread Allan Day
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: ... >> Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to >> endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due >> to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of >> August. A number of other prominent FOSS projects a

Re: User Data Manifesto

2015-09-11 Thread Allan Day
Philip Withnall wrote: ... > Now that we’ve endorsed it (yay!), what are we going to do about it? > Should we do a review of GNOME apps to make sure they all comply where > necessary? A GNOME Goal, maybe? That's a good question. The manifesto primarily refers to cloud providers, so I'm not reall

Re: GUADEC 2016 Karlsruhe Bid

2015-10-02 Thread Allan Day
Thanks Benjamin! This is really exciting! Allan On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Berg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > so we have finally finished our bid to host GUADEC in Karlsruhe, > Germany next year. You can find the details in the document at > https://benjamin.sipsolutions.net/GUAD

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

2015-11-03 Thread Allan Day
Hi Michael! Michael Catanzaro wrote: ... >> This is awesome! So does this make the second trademark license >> agreement >> that we had? Allan and I were working with someone else, is it it >> the same >> person or is this a different one? > > Isn't 10% of profit extremely low...? I negotiated

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

2015-11-03 Thread Allan Day
Hey Sri, I'll just respond to the trademark and merchandise questions here, since that's what I'm most familiar with. Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... >> * ilovewhatido.eu trademark license agreement >> * It will last for two years >> * 10% of net receipts (profits) will be donated to the found

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