Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Neary
bus, Telepathy and Pulseaudio are now cornerstone parts of both the free desktop and the mobile platform. I would agree that the GNOME GUI platform is not exciting application developers right now, and that's something we need to fix. And it's not an easy problem. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 22/02/10 19:27, Dave Neary wrote: >> Have we lost the mobile battle? It certainly appears that GTK+ has lost >> the mobile battle, > > I don't think that's so true. Just because Nokia decided to buy > Trolltech because it could b

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-23 Thread Dave Neary
nd as you point out, user freedom. Freedom is not useful unless people have the means to benefit from it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
oftware developers have. I'm just saying, that while user freedom is vital, it is insufficient as a vision for the GNOME project. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
op widgets, and have the IDE take care of deciding what container widgets I need, and integrate basic concepts like alignment & HIG compliance the way the Mac form builder works. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Neary
rol) of these great GNOME-related projects to the Linux Foundation, or to Intel & Nokia, or to the distributions. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: pvanhoof issue

2010-02-28 Thread Dave Neary
or people who have either time or bandwidth constraints seems to be unsubscribing. Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Neary
ects like Sugar, MeeGo, Maemo and moblin recognise their goals in that vision, then the GNOME project becomes a natural place to concentrate efforts again. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: > vision for GNOME 2.x did. >it doesn't offer a destination - it doesn't help anyone make > decisions about what's important - in the way that the "simple, usable, > beautiful" But perhaps it's the beginning of a vision that we ca

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-04 Thread Dave Neary
I'm not talking about guys who eat kernel device drivers for breakfast, I'm talking about developers who get other developers excited about the stuff they're working on. The alpha dog in the pack. The gang leader. The Fonz. Cheers, Dave.

unsubscribing

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Neary
I'm unsubscribing from foundation-list. Bye. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Voting with nonfree software???

2010-06-14 Thread Dave Neary
re: http://git.gnome.org/browse/foundation-web/tree/foundation.gnome.org/vote I was working under the assumption that the old software was GPL, and obviously my derivative is too. But I see now that there is no LICENSE file in the foundation-web module. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Near

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - July 25, 2010

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Neary
andsets. > o ACTION: Stormy to send Bastien contact details for Nokia > Advisory Board. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 5, 2010

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Neary
're not rushing at the mast minute. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - July 25, 2010

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Neary
positor and/or adding support for > this new compositor in GTK+ itself. > > The second would be to start porting some of the Maemo 5 GTK+ and Hildon > features to GTK+. Yes, this certainly seems reasonable. But the bug in mcompositor seems sufficiently serious that it will have a high pr

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010

2010-09-03 Thread Dave Neary
tract has no automatic renewal clause, and ran for an X year term (X=2 is set in a prefix). I have the last revision we came up with (Stormy should have it too, and it's in board-list archives). Let me know if you want me to send it on. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne..

Re: GNOME Foundation Hires a System Administrator

2010-09-18 Thread Dave Neary
grateful for the time they > spent during this process. > > Welcome aboard Christer! > > Paul Cutler > > > > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > fo

Dates & format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-06 Thread Dave Neary
o far when planning the next year's conference, within the constraints which we have. I'm looking forward to a great conference! Cheers, Dave. [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/10/06/kde-and-gnome-desktop-summit-2011-from-6-to-12-august/ [2] http://www.desktopsummit.org --

Re: Events and merchadising

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Neary
top of happy people", a blue GNOME one, and a couple of the nature ones (te sky & grass posters you see here), if you'd like. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Dates & format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: > Three things are worth singing out to GUADEC attendees as significant > differences from previous events. > > First, the conference will be held later than usual, on 6-12 August. > Second is the conference format. > Third, following a lot of f

Re: Dates & format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
tigate the effect you mention, and will do as much as possible to ensure that everything is ready for Saturday morning. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Dates & format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
7;t think it makes sense to start the conference at 12 on Saturday. 10, maybe. But we only have 3 days of talks - sacrificing a half day seems a lot. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list fou

Re: [guadec-list] Dates & format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
ready, we have a large & motivated local team, and we can get into the venue on Friday night, and from 7am on Saturday morning, so we might be OK, if we are well prepared. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 6, 2010

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Neary
tware Freedom Law Center sent the > board an email with the form to register the GNOME trademark to > review before submission. Have you talked to Luis about the trademark registration process he went through some years ago? He spent a lot of time regularising the situation in 20

Re: Announcing the GNOME T-Shirt Design Contest!

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > I can make that as a design separate from the contest. :) With LEDs! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.

GNOME trademarks

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Neary
living near Salem in Oregon has seen GNOME hazelnuts flying around local farmer's markets or health food stores, and would care to post a photo? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailin

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
blem. Of course there isn't - trademarks are limited to fields of use. We have quite a broad field of use, but selling hazelnuts is not part of it :) I just thought GNOME hazelnuts sounded cool :) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org __

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
ups? Do we have people who can get entry points & put in project proposals for the likes of HI, AFM, APAJH & other non-profits (those 3 are French). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME's logo been incorrectly used

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
__ >> gnome-list mailing list >> gnome-l...@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > _______ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/li

Re: GNOME's logo been incorrectly used

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
rtwork as a > part of a contest. No - as far as I know, the foot is copyright jimmac. jimmac can confirm. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Dave Neary
ol. We do cool a11y stuff." and if they have heard of us, and are maybe using us a little, we can then pitch the roadmap for grants. For sure, it's a long shot approach, and we'll probably only ever get 10% response to initial queries, and less than 10% of those interested in funding &qu

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Neary
ers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Media training at the LF Collaboration Summit

2010-12-21 Thread Dave Neary
e, I'd really like to get an idea of how many people from this list are interested, to gauge interest & request the right sized room. Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundati

Re: Budget and plans (2011)

2010-12-23 Thread Dave Neary
it would be good to know in the budget summary which expenditures are unconditional, and which are conditional on fundraising (either through FoG or through targeted fundraising for an event or a program). Thanks for all your work! This budget is better than those that have come before it. Cheers,

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - December 23, 2010

2011-01-11 Thread Dave Neary
st non-profit free software foundations to join OIN, back in 2007-08: http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/licensees.php There was a press release draft at one stage, but I don't exactly recall what happened to it. For the record, the GNOME Foundation was the first community run organisation to

Re: sponsoring a GNOME developer training session at Fedora Action Day Ghana

2011-01-27 Thread Dave Neary
gt; since we're not there yet, we're left with this situation. I agree that's a great goal. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: [Fwd: GNOME Developer Survey]

2011-02-01 Thread Dave Neary
so it's sanctioned. Grin & bear it has been my approach. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Neary
focussed on mobile to make the $20K a year worth paying. Obviously, I disagree with him. In any case, the quote I gave to the press release for LiMo 4 still holds true - we love to see people using our code, and I'd be happy to see LiMo members working more closely with the GNOME foundatio

Re: SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)

2011-02-18 Thread Dave Neary
gt; points out, we already do that for some projects. ...including some projects which are not GNOME projects, like GIMP & the Libre Graphics Meeting. I concur with the very wise Stormy & Vincent. The foundation should be providing services like this to our projects. Cheers, Dave. -- D

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

2011-02-18 Thread Dave Neary
Motorola's public strategy. But what I found doesn't look like a laptop. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Dave Neary
frastructure - and I thought that one of the members of the advisory board might be able to help. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011

2011-03-05 Thread Dave Neary
such as Gnash. I am not aware of any webinar platform which requires neither Javascript or Flash. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mail

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Dave Neary
Summit -- I mean this in a legal sense, no problems trusting >KDE... but you could theoretically have legal issues. Usually you >cannot just share privacy related information with another >organisation) A privacy policy sounds like a good idea.

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Neary
identify.kde.org instead? > > That's seems to be a much more logical choice, no? The people who advocated for this decision when it came up felt that the domain name would not make a big difference, and that the important thing was to use a well established architecture. Cheers, Dave. --

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011

2011-03-15 Thread Dave Neary
to acquire a laptop for > Rosanna. Have you considered asking one of our advisory board partners to donate a laptop for the Executive Director? I believe that Tim Ney's laptop was donated in the past. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Fou

Re: Website content licensing

2011-03-15 Thread Dave Neary
oject, I do not think that in practice we will have any issues. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Stock trademark licensing agreements?

2011-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
thing similar? Did it help the community feel more control over the project brand? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Stock trademark licensing agreements?

2011-03-16 Thread Dave Neary
nditions. By giving a license, we deal with the "Trademark law requires you to police your mark" constraint, while also allowing people to do stuff we're OK with without putting too many barriers in their way. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave N

Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

2011-05-30 Thread Dave Neary
Board members are ambassadors for the foundation. I think it's important that board members be social, and be nice. Are you nice? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

2011-05-30 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: >> 2. Board meetings are minuted, and these minutes are published >> regularly. However, the board also increasingly makes decisions on >> board-list with the Apache +1/0/-1 convention.

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

2011-05-30 Thread Dave Neary
continued difficulties, Louis (lead organiser for the past 5 years of LGM) proposed that the Quebecois LUG of which he's president could take over the management of the funds. And finalising the transfer of funds from the GNOME Foundation took several months of over & back with the board

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

2011-05-31 Thread Dave Neary
Hi German, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Jeff Schroeder already did this question, my answer is here: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-May/msg00147.html Not *quite* the same thing - you talk about open mee

Re: GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: November 23, 2011

2011-11-22 Thread Dave Neary
iling list foundation-annou...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: November 23, 2011

2011-11-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hmmm... I guess this is a case of "reply-to considered harmful", since the email wasn't intended to go to foundatioon-list. Never mind... On 11/22/2011 11:49 AM, Dave Neary wrote: I just saw your email today, for example (due to weekend & a busy day yesterday), and one of

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

2011-11-30 Thread Dave Neary
ng to significant news stories about GNOME written on other sources going into this news feed, by the way (as I think I've said before). Presumably "what to do about the Journal?" and "what to do about news.gnome.org?" are

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

2011-11-30 Thread Dave Neary
ant to be a foundation member". Presumably "what to do about the Journal?" and "what to do about news.gnome.org?" are separate discussions? Yes, again, check the marketing list archive. OK - thanks. I don't know if I mentioned here that I wasn't following

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

2011-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
ing" announcement, that might provide consistency in the archives. If it's not straightforward, it's not vital. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list fo

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
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 involved in making the past Desktop Summit happen), highlighted that there are

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

2012-01-19 Thread Dave Neary
ess that person is RMS. Was there an edit made to the code of conduct while I wasn't watching? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.or

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - January 24, 2012

2012-01-24 Thread Dave Neary
, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: IDLELO 5: March 19 - 23 2012

2012-02-21 Thread Dave Neary
n participating next year? karen ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: n

Re: European bank account for donations

2012-03-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, GNOME has at least 3 sister organisations, with bank accounts, in the EU: GNOME Hispanic, GNOME-fr and GNOME Deutschland eV. Why not create some kind of official relationship with one or more of them? Dave. "Andy Wingo" wrote: >On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:39, Bastien Nocera writes: > >> The

Re: European bank account for donations

2012-03-12 Thread Dave Neary
onforming to US export regulations is a huge problem, though - IMHO this is a completely separate issue to the money issue we're talking about here. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ fou

Re: European bank account for donations

2012-03-12 Thread Dave Neary
stien Nocera" wrote: >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? >> >&g

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2012-03-14 Thread Dave Neary
ight have a decision on this, Brian? Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Conference about Gnome in my french school

2012-04-04 Thread Dave Neary
re from). But I am sure we can work something out. Rendez-vous prise on gnome-fr-list Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://ma

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
ifferent brand for the same thing to avoid an unfortunate ambiguity doesn't change the fact that Open Source developers also care about giving users rights they would not otherwise have. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com

Re: Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses (was Re: Questions for the board election candidates)

2012-05-25 Thread Dave Neary
teachers teaching other teachers. All for it! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Dave Neary
r you. And I mean that as a compliment - I much prefer knowing where you stand on issues that are important to me before the election, rather than being disappointed by you afterwards. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmai

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Dave Neary
e, we still haven't seen an announcement of what's happening for next year's conference. I think that the transparency of operation is definitely something the next board can work on. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@g

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, "Tobias Mueller" 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 have asked publicly several times th

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-11 Thread Dave Neary
t of 5.5/29 (the three transfers would have a value of 5/29*5.5/29, in other words not very much). Long story short, it doesn't matter because any votes which would have transferred from Emmanuele to you would have been transferred on with the same value when your surplus was distributed.

Re: US Members

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Neary
couple of occasions for contacting people in rough proximity to conferences where GNOME presence was requested/offered. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list found

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

2012-08-24 Thread Dave Neary
ist a couple of days before they happen. Would that be possible? Thanks, Dave. On 08/24/2012 05:01 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120713 = Minutes for Meeting of July 13, 2012 = -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber

Re: Changes to the GNOME Foundation Bylaws from 2002

2012-10-02 Thread Dave Neary
Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Google Code-In 2012?

2012-10-24 Thread Dave Neary
ather ridiculous) if GNOME did not take part. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Og Maciel left the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Neary
oking references to confirm that they vouch for new members, ensuring expiring accounts are reminded of the need to review, that kind of thing? Have you thought of inviting someone nice & friendly to join directly? Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Neary
and outside the GNOME community to do better at communicating our goals, vision, and work. I would hope that this doesn't end up being "sit on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and send happy messages to anyone complaining about GNOME". Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Neary
ose... Really? Your solution to "we have a PR problem" is "criticise the only people trying to address that problem by publicly saying they suck at it"? Sheesh. Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Dave Neary
ust waiting for an opportunity to bring up your discontent? Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-16 Thread Dave Neary
ey're running fallback mode without 3D acceleration. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Neary
ving the organisers what needs to be done? * Shaun - To contact Dave Neary and Ekaterina Gerasimova to get a list of attendees to get feedback for the summit. Can I get a reminder what this was about? Is this the Berlin Desktop Summit? is this still a live action, or can it be dropped? Than

foundation.gnome.org

2012-11-23 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Foundation.gnome.org is currently showing the GUADEC welcome page - could it redirect to www.gnome.org/foundation instead, please? Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@free.fr / Jabber: nea...@gmail.com Ph: +33 950 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-23 Thread Dave Neary
ackExchange channel (or whatever they call them) might be a nice half-way house, but there's always going to be conflict between the "low investment, high noise, sip from the firehose" environment of forums and "high investment, lower noise, batch process" environment of m

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Dave Neary
one and tablet devices. Unless we can rapidly make this change I fear we will be left behind and seen as "old" technology. I also agree. I do not think that the desktop is any less important to us, for all that. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Dave Neary
is just as much of a fudge as an option in the UI - if there's no UI for it, why is it an option? Just use the default & remove the code paths handling the option. To put it another way: You don't have to weld to hood shut to sell someone a functional car. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave N

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Neary
y javascript we use is not free software. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME Quarterly Reports

2012-12-16 Thread Dave Neary
(e.g. merging with news or journal activities). No answers, so I guess there is no interest. I don't think that's a fair assumption. Perhaps it means our current way of doing them is not successful, and we need to try something else. Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@g

Feature proposal process?

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Neary
, and help me help this person propose a new feature? Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@free.fr / Jabber: nea...@gmail.com Ph: +33 950 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome

Re: Feature proposal process?

2013-03-22 Thread Dave Neary
don't think "Mail Allan" should be part of the process :-) Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@free.fr / Jabber: nea...@gmail.com Ph: +33 950 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-05-01 Thread Dave Neary
Rt awesome :-) On 1 May 2013 20:53, "Behdad Esfahbod" wrote: > On 13-04-30 08:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except > > maybe a little more weirder. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBt4HlcDUDw > > ? > > -- > behdad >

Re: Memberships needing renewal (2013-05)

2013-05-03 Thread Dave Neary
rs, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy

2013-05-20 Thread Dave Neary
What happened? Dave. On May 20, 2013 5:55 PM, "seiflo...@googlemail.com" wrote: > I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the board of directors. I think I will > not bring to the table as much as what the other candidates can bring. I > wish them all the best. > > Cheers > Seif > > _

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On May 20, 2013 10:33 PM, "Andreas Nilsson" wrote: > I wasn't suggesting IRC meetings per se, but we need some kind of mechanism to report to the broader foundation what we are up to on a regular basis, similar to how we communicate with the Advisory board. If only there were a way to commun

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of September 3, 2013

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Neary
ists, and our moderation queue has dropped to 0. http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ This would allow you (with a corpus of ham & spam to train it) to keep the list unmoderated. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea

Re: [worldof]gnome forums

2013-10-18 Thread Dave Neary
I can tell you from experience that this forum software can be very easy for boys to post to. It looks like Vanilla. I have been on a very well manned forum that got a bad spam infection, two of us spent days cleaning it up after we blocked the attack vector. Forums really need a lot of care, and

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

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Neary
ently for such community uses. This is, by the way, the alternative that Luis was looking into IIRC (this, and the concept of the Community Mark proposed many years ago by Chris Messina for logos that enter the zeitgeist). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber

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

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 11/21/2013 11:58 AM, 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 gon

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

2013-11-21 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 11/21/2013 12:12 PM, Allan Day wrote: > 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 nee

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

2013-11-22 Thread Dave Neary
a "differentiation" process is only going to reinforce for them that they are not seen as part of GNOME. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@

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