Re: Welcome, Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation Executive Director!

n behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board the > > appointment of Neil McGovern. > > > > > > [...] > > Congratulations and welcome, Neil! Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome, it was also great to meet a number of you

Quick introductions

Hi all, As previously announced, I've now started full time as the GNOME executive director. I thought I'd send a quick email to (officially) say hi! I'm trying to quickly get up to speed with everything, but please feel free to message me on IRC (as nmcgovern) if there's anything you want a chat

Send us your pants nominations

n fits the requirements? Just nominate! We'll sort it out. Please feel free to send your nominations as a reply to this email. Or, if you'd prefer to nominate someone anonymously, email board-list. Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director,

FY 2016 published

would be useful to get a physical copy (eg: if they're interested in sponsorship!) then drop me a mail, and I'll see how many copies we have left at the end of GUADEC. Cheers, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___

Feedback request: spending Foundation money

an be improved, please reply, or drop me a mail - we plan on discussing this in detail at the Foundation Hackfest[0] at the start of next month! Thanks, Neil [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Foundation2017 -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Found

Budgets and spending Foundation money

;s not a magic pill, and there's still some complications for a few countries, but it should make it easier for the majority of people. [0] https://www.alexandrefranke.com//blog/20171010-Foundation-hackfest- in-Berlin/ [1] https://nuritzis.com/2017/10/21/2017-gnome-foundation-hackfest/ [2] https:/

Re: Budgets and spending Foundation money

a 501(c)(3) to do, and have sensible limits in place. It saves us rolling our own as well. Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Budgets and spending Foundation money

uld find it rather odd if your travel as ED comes out of the TC > budget. > Ah, apologies, I understand what you're asking now: this is indeed seperate, it falls under employees, and is an 8k USD budget for the year. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive D

Re: Mapbox status

ector in place so in theory, we should have something more stable even if we do switch providers. I'm not entirely sure who runs that - any ideas? Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 27th March

nfo, it's not a simple thing to do this review - there's quite a lot of "stuff" in there. I've created https://gitlab.gnome.org/Communit y/Board/issues/43 so people who are interested in this topic can follow along at home! Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Anonymous donor pledges $1M over two years

n the coming weeks. Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Travel Sponsorship Delays and Next Steps

we have for collecting it (which is now in place!) * An easy way to ensure that requests, for the travel committee, can be deleted when there's no requirement to keep it anymore (we're now using RT rather than an email list) * a confidentiality agreement for those who process p

Re: Travel Sponsorship Delays and Next Steps

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 19:48 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 12:38 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > We're processing personal data of individuals who are located in > > the > > EU, so we need to comply. > > So you think you

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 19th June

When the project is completed, I'd appreciate a quick summary to > indicate whether the Board was satisfied with the contractor. > Sure, I'll follow up when it's done so it should appear in the minutes. Would you like something explicit on this list too? Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

GNOME Foundation opens recruitment for further expansion

stem. We're keen to hear from any person who is interested in applying for one of these posts. Details on how to apply and the application deadlines can be found on the Foundation’s Positions Available page at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/careers/ I hope everyone is having an awesome time

New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

all give him a warm welcome in this new role! Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

but as with any employment, I expect a certain amount of self-direction and a conversation about what any employee thinks would be best to concentrate on. This will start to form in the next few weeks. We're already looking at GTK team meetings, and a development plan. Neil -- Neil McG

New GNOME Foundation staffer - Program Coordinator

sure you'll all give her a warm welcome in this new role! Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

New GNOME Foundation staffer - DevOps Sysadmin

gently reminded that the contact points for the sysadmin team remain listed at https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/Contact :) I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome in this new role! Thanks, Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Direc

New GNOME Foundation staffer - Strategic Initiatives Manager

rd of Directors of the Open Source Initiative, and on the Debian Outreach and Anti-harassment teams. Regularly speaking at conferences around the world, she has represented multiple projects in community and corporate contexts. I'm sure you'll all give her a warm welcome in this new role

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

GitLab CE, which is what we're running. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME ASIA logo competition

fore we can reliably produce a Web Label table. Do you know if there's plans to add this functionality? Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

. > Indeed, it's something I'm aware of too, and it's part of the reason we're having a large (3 team) simultaneous hackfest next week in Portland: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/WestCoastHackfest I'm also exploring options of holding something in Mexico, possibly next

Re: "EvilGnome Backdoor"

le this is just another malware, it probably deserves attention as > it uses the GNOME name and can be harmful to GNOME users not used to > malware... > -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foun

Re: [guadec-list] Registration for GUADEC 2019 is now open!

y here, which was due to a number of technical issues with our conference software, and key volunteers being unavoidably busy at critical times. We hope to get this resolved in the next couple of days and to notify everyone and publish the schedule. N

Re: Nepotism, Conflict of interest: Debian GSoC/Outreachy/OSI board

Hi, On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 15:16 +, Mollamby via foundation-list wrote: > One of the conflicts of interest comes across to GNOME > I have full confidence in our staff, and consider your comments here decisive and harmful. Please do not post here again. Neil -- Neil McGovern Exe

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

e's no objections, I'm happy to help manage the transition, with an aim of retiring this list by the end of October. Comments please! Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME Foundation 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM)

ese proposed changes are > > attached to this email. Dear all, For information, the results of these votes were: gender_neutral.patch: Yes - 73, No - 2 board-terms.patch: Yes - 69, No - 5, Abstain - 1 These have therefore been adopted. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

tifications about those. Would that make sense? Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 01:51 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > I have heard that there is a gateway between Discourse and email. > Is it possible to use that here? > It's already in place. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GN

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

, I don't think it's sufficient to simply post to a mailing list. For this year's one, we sent an individual mail to each member. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundat

GUADEC 2020 moves to online conference

re is no way we could ensure that the event could continue in a way that would keep our community safe.” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. “It is with a heavy heart that, after consultation with the local organizing team, we won’t be visiting Mexico with GUADEC this

Re: FSF in the advisory board

nse before formally making any changes to the advisory board. In the mean time though, I've hidden the FSF logo from our website in case that is seen as an endorsement. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-lis

Re: Running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors.

am employed as Samba maintainer by Google's > Open > Source Programs Office. > I also second this nomination. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org h

Re: Board of Directors Candidacy - Sammy Fung

ocal open source communities, it enables that more students will > become the future contributors in the GNOME and open source > communities. > Just for the record, I second Sammy's candidacy. Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation _

Moving final mailman lists over to discourse

gnome.org/t/how-to-move-a-mailing-list-to-discourse/1642/7 -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse

Hi folks, On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 14:36 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As mentioned about three years ago, there's a desire to retire > > mailman > > and its dependencies on python2. Discussion is now happening on > > discourse.gnome.org. > > > > Over the

Re: Moving final mailman lists over to discourse

a couple missing from your list (like -cyr) and a couple that haven't seen postings since 2009 (like -latin), but yes. Let's continue over on https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/damned-lies/-/issues/325 :) Neil -- Neil McGovern Executive Director, The GNOME Foundation

Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:32:37PM -0400, Gregory Leblanc via foundation-list wrote: > Foundation members, > > I know that this has been coming for a while but as a former contributor > who generally just wants to keep tabs on the major changes and > announcements, this particular change will mea