Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 Call for Ideas

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:34 -0800, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > > Ruben: > > > > At the GNOME Usability Hackfest, it was discussed that there is a > > real need to develop some free software to help the GNOME Usability > > team better collabor

Re: Foundation IRC Meeting on Saturday, March 27th

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 16:02 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mercredi 24 mars 2010, à 05:00 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > As discussed during the last IRC meeting of the Foundation, we're going > > to hold another IRC meeting next Saturday: > > > > When: Saturday, March 27t

Candidacy: Bastien Nocera

Good evening voters, Full name: Bastien Nocera E-mail: had...@hadess.net Corporate affiliation: Red Hat UK Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Hat Inc. With the administrivia done, let me introduce myself. I'm a 31 year-old French Anglophile, who has been involved in GNOME for more th

Re: Q: Motivation to run [WAS: Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2010 - The candidates]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:28 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Tobias Mueller wrote: > > > You are invited to ask questions by sending them to foundation-list. But > > please try to avoid duplicates and bear in mind, that the candidates > > invest a lot of time answering questions, thus please be rea

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:40 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> GNOME Shell is radically different here so it's not the "usual > >> case". I wondered not about the supposed one-up

Re: Question for the candidates : money !

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:11 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Lionel: > > > I've a question about GNOME business model and sustanability. As we have > > seen with the fundrising to hire a sysadmin, money is often a blocking > > point. The current business model seems to be donations. > > Actually, Th

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:36 +0200, Javier Jardón wrote: > Hello, > > in your application you say: > > > - (Re-)defining GNOME: > > The Foundation charter defines GNOME as a loose collection of > > independent project, though we need to stop considering it as such if > > GNOME is to take an import

Re: question for candidates

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Here is a question for the candidates. > > To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to > develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and > demand the freedom that free software offers them. We n

Re: A few questions for the candidates

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of > questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for > Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long time > and I'm not bein

Re: A few questions for the candidates

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > 10) Make or break question: what's your favorite french expression? Oh, and it's spelt "favourite" :) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/l

Re: question for candidates

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:15 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > People and corporations will not choose Free Software (or Open Source, > or any derivative flavour) because it's free. > > Stating that as a broad, universal claim goes against the facts. Did you read the full e-mail before taking t

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:15 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I would think it being fine to say, GNOME is: > - Linux kernel > - D-Bus > - NetworkManager/BlueZ/PolicyKit/udisks/upower > - X11 > all the way to GTK+/Clutter combination and apps > > It seems like stretching things

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 20:27 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote: > Is this related to (I think it was Mark Shuttleworths) idea of defining > a reference platform with synchronized versions of the core components > (which we could then target)? I can imagine this to be massively useful > for ISVs. I thi

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 03:44 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Also, if Linux is part of GNOME, that would imply it is part of GNU. > > I don't think we want to imply that conclusion. > > I guess that you misunderstood my original mail. > > That is possible. > >

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 09:21 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Speaking as Stormy and not as ED, I think this is a losing battle. I > agree we need to continue to educate people but I don't think > GNU/Linux is going to be the way it happens. Millions of people now > say Linux and GNU/Linux

Re: Ensuring GNOME 3 is a Success

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 19:22 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Foundation Community: > > You let us know overwhelmingly that ensuring that GNOME 3 is a success > is the #1 priority that the GNOME Foundation should be working on > according to the survey Stormy ran last January.[1] I have some ideas on

Re: Ensuring GNOME 3 is a Success

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 20:39 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > Op donderdag 24-06-2010 om 13:45 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Bastien > Nocera: > > > I have some ideas on a marketing/hacking front, with checklist for > > applications to be able to self-certify as "Ready f

GUADEC Feedback (we want it!)

Hello all, The GNOME Board of Directors, as mentioned briefly during this year's GUADEC closing ceremony, would like to invite you to give us your feedback about this year's (and possibly previous year's) GUADEC. We've already received some feedback for this year, and we'll be collating it into a

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - July 25, 2010

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 10:58 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > * GNOME Mobile work funded by Nokia. > > o If Nokia continued with Maemo 5, then we could just port > > GNOME apps and they would likely just work. > > o With Maemo 6 and Mob

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - July 25, 2010

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 15:42 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > This is what we've been told by the people we talked to. MeeGo 1.0 for > > handsets uses a new compositor, with a new set of hints. Those are not > > compatible with

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:48 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > * GNOME Trademarks > > o TM can claim without formal registration > > o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME > > foot / logo? > > o GNOME foot

GTK+/MeeGo Handset integration work, call for bids

The GNOME Foundation is looking for developers to enhance the developer experience of using GTK+ to port and create applications on MeeGo Handset devices. Knowledge of the MeeGo Handset development process, and GTK+ internals will be required to carry out the work. The tasks to be achieved are: -

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > Hi, folks. > > As some of you might already know, the average computer in Brazil is > shipped with SiS video card. Which doesn't have a proper X driver. So, > most people in Brazil will not be able to run gnome-shell. They will > simply not

GTK+/MeeGo Handset integration work, call for bids: Deadline

Following our call for bids less than a month ago, it turns out that most people work better under pressure [1]. So we have set a deadline date for the bids to come in. The date is Friday 19th November 2010. We'll likely start going through the bids the following week, so we're pretty flexible for

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 11:12 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bastien Nocera > wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > > > 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem > >

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - December 23, 2010

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 16:07 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > New Items > > * GTK+/MeeGo project call for bids. > > o A bid was chosen and will be announced soon. Those who > > submitted bids have been contacted and told if their bid > >

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011

On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:22 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > * Hardware > > o The System76 laptop will be made available to the new ED > > when hired. > > o A new laptop will be purchased to replace Rosanna's aging > > one.

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:39 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > On 12/04/11 03:00, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > > The meeting minutes for the March 29th GNOME Foundation board > > meeting is now published. Refer here: > > > > http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110329 > > > > Othe

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 17:42 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 15/04/11 14:45, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:39 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > > We wanted to discuss with someone involved in that space what our > > options were.It's an informal cha

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 09:29 +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote: > Le lundi 23 mai 2011 à 00:14 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > > Le dimanche 22 mai 2011, à 23:45 +0200, Lionel Dricot a écrit : > > > It would have been easy to criticize, to say loudly that the board > > > should improve the situation withou

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > That said, some questions: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but > I'd like to hear some specifics before I cast my vote. ;) > > * If you

Re: Candidacy: Andre Klapper

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 19:59 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 16:47 -0700, Andre Klapper wrote: > > > > All teams (whether defined ones or informal) in GNOME should rather be > > encouraged to publish meeting minutes (not full logs but summaries) on > > the wiki and announce them

Re: orphaned GNOME Foundnation web site

On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 22:06 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:41PM -0700, Andre Klapper wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 11:21 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > > > FYI, there is an old site at http://gnome-foundation.org/ which shows > > > information from about 2001. > > > > > >

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:24 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello all, > > GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent > discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], > and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards > to distributions (ba

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

. Could you explain what concrete plans you have? Are you thinking that the GNOME Foundation should take care of distributing bids from customers to its ecosystem? You seem to have a set plan, but we don't know any of the details for it, which makes it a bit hard to judge. > Le lu

Re: Fwd: Question for the canditates

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:49 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Forwarding to foundation-list two questions we received from > Ali-Reza Anghaie. Please don't add membership-committee@g.o > as CC, follow-ups should be kept on -list. Thanks. > > Andrea > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Al

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:38 -0700, Lefty wrote: > First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard > sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came > up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the > Board propose to do to address the ongoing

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi members, > > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the h

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time? I

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? I think co

Re: question for candidates

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME > 3.0 as the default desktop, It's the first one to come out, but it certainly won't be the last. I expect other distributions to follow suite shortly. > how would you facilit

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:11 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > ... snip ... > >> what about recording how board members vote > >> on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abstains and perhaps give a > >> s

Re: Question for candidates

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I'd like to ask the candidates this question: > > * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free > software, beyond being composed of free programs. We should write Free Software that doesn't suck, and that peopl

Re: On git.gnome.org and gitorious

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:15 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello, > > GNOME migrated to Git two years ago but there are a few long standing > issues that have not been addressed yet, it's certainly not too late > but with the design team moving to github, it's certainly time to do > something abo

Re: New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

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 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 mor

Re: On git.gnome.org and gitorious

On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 12:25 +0200, Jens Georg wrote: > > > With a gitorious instance set up, we'd achieve both a place for > > > personal branches, stopping the "delete work-in-progress branch from > > > git.gnome.org, then create it again, pushing all commits because I > > > rebased" dance, and a

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 9, 2011

Hey Og, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:27 -0400, Og Maciel wrote: > On 10/18/2011 10:09 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > == Regrets == > > > > * Og Maciel > > I was no longer on the Board by this time, so this is maybe an oversight? You're on the board until the hand-over in-person meeting. These were

Re: Could a few influential GNOME develoers join gnu-prog-disc...@gnu.org?

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 08:20 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > The list gnu-prog-disc...@gnu.org is meant for GNU maintainers to > discuss issues. Some of them pertain to GNOME. It would be useful to > have some influential GNOME developers in the list. Could you invite > a few to contact Karl? C

Re: Could a few influential GNOME develoers join gnu-prog-disc...@gnu.org?

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 21:36 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > Can't these be brought up on proper GNOME lists then? Especially > seeing as there is no public archive for your GNU list. > > We use this list for private discussions about GNU in general. > Sometimes the issues relate to GNOME, but

Re: Could a few influential GNOME develoers join gnu-prog-disc...@gnu.org?

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 13:03 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > The way the comment was presented (and granted, we're missing > context here) was as if this behavior was a bug. > > I doubt anyone believed the behavior was unintentional. > So it's definitely not a bug in the strict sense of the te

Re: European bank account for donations

Hello Alexander, Em Fri, 2012-03-09 às 11:15 +0100, Alexander van Loon escreveu: > Hello, > Not only does my Dutch bank require an IBAN-number for foreign bank > transfers – which the fundraiser page does not provide – the cost for a > transfer to the USA is prohibitive. > > My bank charges € 5

Re: European bank account for donations

Em Mon, 2012-03-12 às 12:16 +0100, Dave Neary escreveu: > Hi, > > On 03/11/2012 04:30 PM, Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote: > > 2012/3/10 Germán Póo-Caamaño: > >>> > >>> Does this make sense? > >> > >> It might need necessary to figure out the way to do it properly (I think > >> that is what Baptiste

Re: European bank account for donations

Em Sat, 2012-03-10 às 13:21 +0200, Luc Pionchon escreveu: > What administrative hassle are you taking about concretely? http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/vos_demarches/association-utilite-publique/arup/downloadFile/attachedFile_5/pieces_demande_de_rup0206.pdf ___

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:58 +0200, Robert Nordan wrote: > Hi all, I have a few questions for the candidates in the upcoming > election to the board. They are obviously shaped by my interests, but I > believe that other Foundation members may be interested in the answers > as well. > > 1) "Open Sou

Re: A question for the candidates

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 08:21 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > 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 r

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

l until any challenge have been resolved. > > The results can be found at: > http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=17 > > A list of all votes can be found at: > http://vote.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=17 > > If the results are not challenged, the new Board

Re: GNOME Summit in Boston

On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 17:32 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Hi, > > TL;DR: Summit in Cambridge MA this year, Montreal the next? > Thoughts? None more than your original mail. I know we have a good volunteer base in Montréal to help organise a Summit, but it would be nice to be able to alternate.

Re: AGM Meeting: Proposal (on p.g.o)

Hello, Em Sat, 2012-07-28 às 12:05 +0200, Johannes Schmid escreveu: > Hi all! > > You all know that the Foundation (Board) set policies on > planet.gnome.org (only foundation members, only real persons, etc.) > which is in general fine while the editors still have the final word in > inclusion. >

Re: AGM Meeting: Proposal (on p.g.o)

On 29 Jul 2012, at 12:00, Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi Bastien! > >> I was of the opinion that Alberto (the p.g.o editor) should be working >> with the marketing team to make sure that blogs relevant to following >> the development of GNOME get added to p.g.o. That would mean yes to >> commit-dig

Re: AGM Meeting: Proposal (on p.g.o)

Em Sun, 2012-07-29 às 15:41 +0100, Alberto Ruiz escreveu: > Maybe we can just forward peoeple to GNOME Memes through the official > GNOME twitter account and/or G+... I think this needs a bit more > discussion and thought. > > However, it seems to me that there is a broad consensus that one way >

Re: AGM Meeting: Proposal (on p.g.o)

Em Mon, 2012-07-30 às 11:55 +0200, Alexandre Franke escreveu: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Johannes Schmid wrote: > > I don't use RSS. I am browsing this pages from work where I am not > > allowed to install software and I don't wanna use Google Reader (because > > I don't have any google a

Re: Minutes for the Board Meeting of July 13, 2012

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 21:19 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 08/24/2012 06:19 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > > Andreas, given that you're the president and the person that assembles > > the agenda: would it be reasonable for you to send it to > > foundation-announce after editing the private it

Re: Discussing changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws

Em Fri, 2012-08-31 às 20:51 +0200, Tobias Mueller escreveu: > Dear Foundation, > > we worked on the bylaws and this is the current status. Please find the > current bylaws here: > . > I converted that PDF to reStructuredText and you can

Re: Discussing changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws

Em Mon, 2012-09-10 às 16:20 +0100, Bastien Nocera escreveu: > Em Fri, 2012-08-31 às 20:51 +0200, Tobias Mueller escreveu: > > Dear Foundation, > > > > we worked on the bylaws and this is the current status. Please find the > > current bylaws here: > > <htt

Re: Discussing changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws

Hey Tobias, Em Thu, 2012-09-13 às 20:00 +0200, Tobias Mueller escreveu: > Heya, > > On 10.09.2012 17:20, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Can you put it in bugzilla? > Yes. > > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=224252&action=edit> The bug is: https://

Re: Changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws from 2002

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:56 +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote: > Well you cannot assume that foundation members watch all bugzilla, > right ? So if you send the fact that you are changing the bylaws > and that now replying constitute consent, at least give an indication > of what the changes are reall

Re: Changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws from 2002

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 10:45 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/01/2012 03:07 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Dear Foundation, > > > > I propose to change the current bylaws to the document attached. > > > > If you object these changes, please raise your voice until 2012-10-31. > > If 5% of the

Re: Memberships needing renewal (2012-10)

Hey, On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 10:52 +, GNOME Membership and Elections Committee wrote: > Hi, > > as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a > renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail: > > First name, Last name (Last renewed on) > * Adam, Weinberger

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:33 -0500, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 18:24 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > > Yeah, the suffix #gnome-$(channel_name) should help with that and many > > other large projects are living on Freenode since several years and > > they are able to administer the r

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 17:55 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > join #gstreamer, or #freedesktop or #pulseaudio or #nm and check for > yourself, indeed ALL was an exageration, but it's not hard to figure > out that a huge majority of us have a freenode network tab on our IRC > client That's where all the

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 15:45 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > I see many people have expressed their consensus in this, thus I'll > defer the decision to the Board. Thanks to anyone sending a mail about > this concern. 3 people agreeing with you isn't consensus.

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:11 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:07 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 11:33 -0500, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > > > Might be more interesting to do a survey. > > > > This is the day surveys replace

Re: Google Code-In 2012?

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 05:34 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 05:24 -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: > >> Would it be possible to include hacking WebKitGTK+ i18n so it produces > >> a valid POT file for Damned Lies? > >> > >> h

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

Hey Sri, On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 16:07 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > I'm looking for some charismatic, happy GNOME folks who can help > engage with our community. > > We've had a bad run of late with a lot of folks getting the wrong idea > of what we're trying to do. Which is? > I'm lookin

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 11:50 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > On 11/14/2012 11:38 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 16:07 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > >> I'm looking for some talented folks who can help us engage with the > >> press, on blogs,

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > On 11/14/2012 01:52 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Telling X you'll teach them how to communicate with Y and then creating > > a problem with X because of the way you communicated with Y. > > I'm not sur

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

Em Wed, 2012-11-14 às 11:08 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna escreveu: > The wrong idea of course is that people think we're just removing > features for no apparent reason even though for instance fallback mode > was never guarantee. We need to correct those misconceptions. > > Having a good relationshi

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 16:56 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > The wrong idea of course is that people think we're just removing features > > for no apparent reason even though for instance fallback mode was never > > guarantee. We nee

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 08:40 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > > > If you've got a fast CPU and reasonable but unusupported graphics > > hardware then it's usable but not great. > > > > No idea what Gnome 3 is like on a Raspberry Pi which would be the

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 23:54 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 08:40 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > >> > >> > If you've go

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

Em Sun, 2012-11-18 às 23:39 -0600, meg ford escreveu: > Hi, > > > I hope it's slightly better handled than Emily last 2 posts, > which > managed to say that the removal of fallback was badly > communicated (!) > without details of what was d

Questions about the new GNOME Forums

Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on gnome.org, and more importantly, why are they hosted on a fansite (worldofgnome.org) instead of gnome.org? Cheers __

Re: GNOME now

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:22 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:06 -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > >> Is the GNU system for programmers only ? I doubt that is what you > >> mean. > > > > I'm sure it isn't. > > I know

Re: GNOME now

On 28 Nov 2012, at 16:11, Alan Cox wrote: > If you look at say a modern digital TV - which is a product that > notoriously has to deal with everyone from the totally tech clueless to > the video nuts who want to hand adjust everything then it is all in the > settings. > > Most of it you don't no

Re: GNOME now

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 20:37 +, Alan Cox wrote: > I would not count Gnome3 as usable on such device anyway - it is too > resource hungry even on a typical x86 tablet. Do you have any evidence of that? My tablet doesn't have a fast graphics card (integrated Intel on Atom CPU), but certainly not

Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics

Hey, On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 18:37 -0500, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Wed, January 9, 2013 5:28 pm, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Heya, > > > > On 09.01.2013 23:15, Andrew Cowie wrote: > >> Would it be possible to set the moderation bit for Richard Stallman's > >> posts to GNOME lists? > > sure it would b

Re: Are membership renewals generally discussed publicly on the list? (was Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics)

On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 12:36 -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Is it standard procedure for credentials of Foundation members to be > discussed on-list like this -- particularly for existing members in good > standing? My question was a rhetorical one. ___

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

Hey Andrea, On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 13:45 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > Howdy guys, > > > as you may know we're currently hosting an openfire istance (jabber > server) on one of our machines, I'm currently migrating a good bunch > of services and reviewing all the services we host in case they need

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 14:04 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey Andrea, > > On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 13:45 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > Howdy guys, > > > > > > as you may know we're currently hosting an openfire istance (jabber > > server) on one of

Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

Hey, On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > Hi all, > > I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had > no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts > on it, or how to go about doing so. > > What's more, over the last week, I tried to help t

Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

Em Tue, 2013-03-12 às 09:38 -0400, Shaun McCance escreveu: > On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:26 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Hey, > > > > On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I think it's clear from th

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to a11y > it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our infrastructure. I've never heard the word "gimp" used as a slur against handicapped people (which I guess is what

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 10 May 2013 15:55, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I've never heard the word "gimp" used as a slur against handicapped > > people > > If it helps, I've never heard the word used this way either. Howe

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 10:57 -0500, meg ford wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera > wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On 10 May 2013 15:55, Bastien Nocera > wrote: >

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 18:08 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 10:57 -0500, meg ford wrote: > > Hi Bastien, > > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera > > wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote

Re: A bitcoin wallet for Gnome?

Em Mon, 2013-07-22 às 19:08 -0400, Richard Stallman escreveu: > [ 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. > > Could you

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

On 15 Aug 2013, at 22:20, 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. > >Is it advisable to use n

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 13:55 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Tiffany Antopolski > wrote: > > I could possibly give it a shot over the next couple of day. > > > > Tiffany Antopolski > > That would be great! There is actually a number of GNOME related > pages in w

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

> On 18 Nov 2013, at 01:15, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Hi, >> * Ubuntu GNOME trademark usage >> * The team is using the GNOME logo for their Ubuntu spin >> * We recommended they should not use the GNOME logo in the current form >> * '''ACTION''': Karen to contact the Ubuntu GNOME spin team for

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

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:48 -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: > >> And, once again, I have to ask, how much different does it have/need > >> to be? > > I don't think any

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