I'd like to toss in my two cents in support of a Stack Exchange-style
GNOME developer site. I think Stack Exchange is a proven winner for
developers helping each other with technical problems. Ask Ubuntu has
gone over very well, and it strikes me that an Ask GNOME would be
popular and useful.
I hate to be a buzzkill, but as someone who used to be very active on
Wikipedia (and a bit protective of it), I ask anyone associated with
the GNOME Foundation editing articles related to GNOME or the
Foundation to review Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi
f reading edits. I
hope/assume that's OK. :)
Emily Gonyer
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Jim Nelson wrote:
I hate to be a buzzkill, but as someone who used to be very active
on
Wikipedia (and a bit protective of it), I ask anyone associated
with the
GNOME Foundation editing articles rel
Hello everyone,
First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also
believe finding an executive director may be the most important task
for the incoming board.
From some earlier discussion it sounds like the other defining task
will be stabilizing GNOME's finances. Other
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Emmanuele Bassi
wrote:
if that were the case, then we ought to stop handling funds for all
the other projects for which we currently do handle funds:
• Gimp
• GStreamer
• PulseAudio (for GSoC)
• PiTiVi (fund raising)
... except that all four of those
For whatever it's worth, I had a lively discussion with Sebastien
Bacher about this on ubuntu-desktop (regarding the main flavor of
Ubuntu, not GNOME Ubuntu):
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-September/004539.html
One note: When I wrote this, I wasn't aware that Ubuntu was
I told myself I would not get involved in this subject, but I have to
say a couple of things.
First, there's a lot of talk (here and the earlier thread) that loosely
equivocates fundraising with crowdfunding. They're not the same. To
tell a project that it should simply accept donations rath
...it seems totally reasonable that people might loosely refer to
crowdfunding as fundraising in this sort of context. If you were
confused, then you only needed to ask for specifics. :D
I wasn't confused, and I wasn't speaking about the recent Groupon
fundraiser. There's been a few calls h
