Dear foundation-list,
I would like to introduce myself, my name is James Shubin, and I'm a
sysadmin/developer from Montreal, Canada, and a new GNOME foundation
member. (Thanks membership committee!)
I've been a GNOME/Linux user since the early days, although I wasn't
very proficie
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 15:43 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Hi James!
>
> Welcome! Glad you applied! That's really great that you're deploy
> GNOME to users,
Thank you!
> it would be great to hear feedback from your users on what they think
> of GNOME and what g
nvaluable. I actually like
screen and terminal apps and we use them, because the people who we want
to talk to are also on there of course. If all the devs and project
groups hung out on XMPP, we'd be there.
James
> to
> chat so we don't miss conversations.
>
> I think XM
7;m based in Montreal if I can help out in some way.
It's a beautiful city despite some political issues.
Let me know,
James
>
> Thanks and take care.
> --joanie
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eal?
I previously mentioned that I'm based in Montreal, and happy to help
organize this if people are interested.
HTH,
James
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
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>
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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James wrote:
>>
>>
>> I previously mentioned that I'm based in Montreal, and happy to help
>> organize this if people are interested.
>> HTH,
>
gain.
>
> As far as I see, there are 3 different people working on this (or at
> least 2 plus another one interested in). It might be a good idea if you
> could coordinate between yourselves if you have not done that yet.
We've been talking by email. If any other Montrealers are ar
FYI: This isn't official, but the email I received had a voting link of:
http://vote.gnome.org/vote.php?id=21
I noticed that using HTTPS also works, and I imagine would be
preferable to everyone:
https://vote.gnome.org/vote.php?id=21
Cheers,
James
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Andrea
Hi voting specialists,
Being the good hacker that I try to be, I am interested in learning more
about the GNOME elections voting process and the voting scripts.
Could someone point me to the code?
Thanks,
James
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Thank you!
James
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> You can find everything at [1].
>
> cheers,
>
> [1]
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/foundation-web/tree/foundation.gnome.org/vote
>
>
> 2013/5/29 James
>>
>> Hi voting specialists,
&g
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> the GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce
> the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.
Congratulations to all the preliminary candidate
or
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnome
>
> Relying on a third party hosted, non free software tool when there is
> a viable free software alternative doesn't seem very in line with the
> GNOME philosophy.
+1, askbot seems nice. Good idea!
James
s
n addition, if
git.gnome.org really dies, can at least have a trusted second copy ?
Cheers!
James
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stead of writing something from scratch that isn't compatible?
The goal is the make adding an additional mirror such as gitorious
pleasant for you and Andrea of course.
James
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erstanding and learning
about the issues, and I think it's important for the world. Hopefully
Free Software remains one of GNOME's highest priorities.
> In these cases, we're not using that software -- the
> companies are using it. If it's proprietary, the companies are th
s... Personally I think Dr. Stallman qualifies
at least as much or more than a real Doctor. Also, quit trolling and go
away. This is the foundation list.
Thanks :)
James
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>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Richard Stallman
> wrote:
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> >
y whether
> it's time to let go.
> http://subfictional.com/2014/01/16/making-time-for-new-projects/
>
> Best wishes and happy hacking.
>
> Sumana Harihareswara
Bye Sumana! Sorry to see you go, and thanks for being friendly!
James
> http://harihareswara.net
>
nt members I'd suggest you to apply
> for the open positions only in the case you have at least 1-2 hours
> per week to contribute to the team. (and you are an existing member of
> the GNOME Foundation)
I'm feeling brave, so I'd like to apply to join the membership team.
Ho
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 16:02 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> James and Aruna - it's awesome that you want to help with this. :)
>
> Allan
Thanks Allan!
Haha-- The way you say it... Should we be afraid? ;)
James
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> semester I'm attending a course at the University here in Gothenburg,
> Sweden where I live.
>
> I look forward to continue contribute to the Engagement Team efforts
> and collaborate with the rest of the GNOME community.
Awesome Oliver, and thanks for saying hello
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Fabiana Simões wrote:
> Oops - election_id should've been 22:
>
> http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=22
>
> Thanks for the heads-up!
> Fabiana
Still 404.
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
wrote:
> I don't know what to say but remind you of "Assume people mean well"
> part of our code of conduct:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Foundation/CodeOfConduct
Great point! :)
It's often hard or impossible to interpret tone in em
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 00:23 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Hello Foundation Members!
>
Hi Foundation Members, and thank you to Andrea for the nice
introduction!
> I'm really happy to announce James Shubin (purpleidea) kindly offered his
> help to keep the business of the
On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 15:30 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Welcome aboard! Glad to have you, James! Thank you for all your
> valuable contributions thus far and looking forward to all your future
> ones as well!
Thank you! I'll try to do my best in being responsive to membersh
hat you replied to, I
thought it was very fair and reasonable, although some aspects of his
replies were expected (eg: the header, and his reply to the use of the
term "open source").
I'd personally recommend you avoid getting angry at your MUA, read
this (rudely titled, but well writt
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Lefty wrote:
> Oh, you’d personally recommend the opinion of the guy who hounded Kathy
> Sierra off the web entirely.
I don't know the author of the post personally at all, nor anything
about his background.
>
> That’s an apropos choice.
>
> Richard could certain
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Lefty wrote:
> https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html?nojs=1 and get back to
> hacking :)
>
>
> Oh, you’d personally recommend the opinion of the guy who hounded Kathy
> Sierra off the web entirely.
Causing me to waste more internets time I've just looked up:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM, James wrote:
>
>
> Causing me to waste more internets time I've just looked up:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
>
> And so I apologize if I have chosen someone with a tainted past to
> refer you all to. I don't
#x27;s not possible for some
reason, then I suspect someone should look into fixing the Bitcoin
processor we're using.
Cheers,
James
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> * Idea to have highly technical and popular "GNOME ambassadors"? Already
> have a couple of qualified volunteers
I like this idea, however in my day to day hacking and speaking, I
already unofficially advocate for GNOME.
Examples: when s
realize the distinction. I agree with Dr. Stallman.
I really enjoy reading this list sometimes!
Thanks!
James
@purpleidea
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Hubert Figuière wrote:
> On 06/11/15 04:40 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>
>> That's true. The program's developers, or others, can put it in the
>> Google store if they wish.
>>
>> My point is that the GNOME Foundation should not do so.
>
> So your point is that i
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Christian Hergert wrote:
> I did contact her yesterday and the answer was jitsi. It seems
> reasonable, but I haven't had a chance to test it out yet.
>
> https://jitsi.org/
FWIW, I just tried this, and it seems to work similarly to ghangouts,
except that you don'
).
Thanks to whoever was involved.
Cheers,
James
@purpleidea
[1] Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2f_jkPRq4 and the other ones
before it.
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the https://sfconservancy.org/ might be up
to the task.
HTH and thanks for your efforts in funding Free Software while they lasted.
Cheers,
James
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> = Foundation Board Minutes for Monday, August 2nd 2016, 17:00 UTC =
> == Agenda for 2016-08-02 ==
>
> * GNOME Summit 2016 in Montreal
Is this something that is upcoming or already happened?
T
eal.
Oh cool. Well if it ends up being in Montreal, and I'm around, then
I'm happy to try and help out and I might possibly even have a good
venue available.
Cheers,
James
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
> Can you please stop leaking half a conversation from a private mailing list
> to a public one? Thank you.
I have to interject here. What it sounds like is that one foundation
list member (doesn't matter who it is) is getting harassed (possibly
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:34 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
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>> I do agree that seeing only part of the conversation isn't
>> particularly helpful,
>
>
> Sorry for not making this clear, that was the point I was trying to make
> here. Nothing else.
Indeed, now an apology from me, if it wasn't clear that
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> My practical question is, which of those lists _do his messages
> actually get through to_?
>
> I should send my reactions to the lists that his messages
> actually reach, and not to those his messages do not reach.
I would respectfully r
her Evolution contributors. May they
continue their great work, and may other join them in the quest to a
better alternative to gmail.
Thanks,
James
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t (my employer) has a very large, and mostly unused office in
Montreal which we could probably use if folks want to have an event in
Montreal. There is really fast wifi, a full kitchen (no stove) and
lots of tables/chairs, etc...
Montreal is a good
this is the software that was
exploited to break into freedesktop.org. The particular bug had been
found before the break-in but it was only being publicised to people who
had joined their "twiki administrators" list (no new release was made).
So if you do want to run Twiki, make su
tion,
but I would assume that anyone who wanted to represent GNOME would also
want to join and represent the foundation, so those designs could be
dropped or altered.
Regards,
-James
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CEOS 2005: May 12-13http://ceos.dal-acm.ca
Halifax, NS, Canada
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s (which
would be required in order for a member to verify their vote), you could
find out how someone voted by doing the following:
1. hash their (firstname, surname, email) triple
2. decrypt all the voting tokens using the election committee public key
3. see which voting token matches the
Dave Neary wrote:
> PS. James, do you have any time to take this on? (in case anyone
> failed to notice, I'm not planning on doing it, and want someone to
> volunteer).
I don't know whether I'll have time to do it, but I put some of my
thoughts up here:
http://live.g
iliation allows others to independently verify that the
election results.
James.
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ging someone
to vote because their vote will count for more, but I don't see
encouraging people to vote as a problem (especially given the turnouts
in previous elections).
I think everyone agrees that mid-election tallies do have the potential
to adversely affect the outcome though, so should not be
>
They'd also have had to miss the mails to this list mentioning that the
ballots had been sent out, and various reminders to vote also sent to
the list.
Perhaps some extra emails to foundation-announce might have helped, but
I don't think "SA ate my ball
tistics to the site in question, altering the page rank.
James.
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I am sure that Behdad and German would make good
additions to the board.
James.
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t solving any real
> problems, why bother?
Is it really that much more difficult to order a list of ten
candidates as opposed to selecting 7 out of the 10?
Even if you aren't sure of a total ordering, you can probably pick a
few candidates that you definitely want elected (put them
On 25/02/2008, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip plenty of good discussion]
>
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 10:33 +0900, James Henstridge wrote:
> > On 17/02/2008, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Any preferential voting s
it.
I would instead say that it is a problem with the voting system: that
people end up casting a ballot that doesn't accurately reflect who
they want on the board.
James.
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rything: translations,
code, documentation, artwork, etc.
James.
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PLv2
only work to GPLv3).
We aren't requesting copyright assignment, so translators should be
credited as copyright holder for their work.
James.
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Hello, all. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm happy to be part of the
team.
-J
At Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:41:50 +0100,
Dave Neary wrote:
>
> And a special congrats to the guys I know on the list - Adam Reviczky,
> Ben Konrath, David Schlesinger, James Vasile, Jeff Schroeder and
>
best ways to improve free software, so I'm happy that the foundation
is leading by example!
One question: is Emmanuele given any particular tasks or direction for
GTK+, eg: does the GNOME foundation have any specific priorities
they'd like to address, or is it more self-
t distribution(s) do you use on your personal and work laptops
and desktops?
2) What's the biggest technical difficulty you've had with modern GNOME?
3) How will you help GNOME succeed on modern mobile devices where the
hardware is often very locked down or difficult to get running on?
Thank
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 7:41 AM Jens Georg wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry if this was explained before - what does
>
> "Elimination due to affiliation" mean?
Max of 2 candidates per organization.
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