Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-16 Thread Richard Hughes
On 14 December 2011 13:32, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Well, but let's not forget that the folks you explicitly list here are > probably more on the side against the colocation than for it. At least > of the one you named first I know that he is against the combined > conf. And I think Richard is

Re: Database's machine DOWN

2012-06-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 4 June 2012 08:02, Vincent Untz wrote: > Is the sql database for the elections impacted by this? If yes, is there > a risk that some votes got lost? Some bugs appear to have been lost, e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677387 Richard.

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-06 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 March 2013 13:04, Bastien Nocera wrote: > I didn't even know it existed... I second that -- and I'm not sure how it's supposed to be used, or by who... e.g. is it for use by anyone with a @gnome.org email address, or can it be used by the unwashed masses as well? Richard. __

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

2013-05-11 Thread Richard Hughes
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. However, my understanding of the common use of the word isn't any better (warning; possibly NSFW): https://www.g

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-04-06 Thread Richard Hughes
On 24 March 2014 16:18, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > I am less interested in where the toggle lives[0] than who is storing > the data, and what kind of data it is. Right; 100% agreed. My original idea was to store one thing with the distributor: * The hashed IP (i.e. you can go from IP->id, but not

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of March 11th, 2014

2014-04-06 Thread Richard Hughes
On 25 March 2014 22:41, Richard Stallman wrote: > We might _store_ just a hash code, but I am pretty sure the messages > contain the real IP address of the sender. Sure, just as much as your IP is sent to the NTP server or the google.com homepage. > The feature should be useful, but it should op

Re: Distribution Naming System (Was: Re: Is there GNU/Linux distribution which includes always latest gnome 3)

2014-04-06 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 April 2014 19:18, Richard Stallman wrote: > That's true. Most distros do not recognize that this system is > basically GNU; they give the credit for the GNU Project's work > to Mr Torvalds, rather than to us. By calling it Linux, I'm also not recognizing the work of the Apache foundation. I

Question for the Candidates: Donations to application developers?

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Hughes
Hi, perhaps a little late to the party here but I thought I'd ask anyway. One of the most frequent enhancements people suggest to gnome-software is the ability to donate to both upstream applications, and to independent developers. This is something I think we need to address if we want random deve

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 21 May 2014 10:14, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Suggesting that we don't have GNOME's best interests at heart is > just hurtful, and incorrect. Agreed. I've never once been told by anyone at Red Hat to do something that I didn't think was in the best interests of GNOME as a project. Richard __

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 21 May 2014 12:24, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Sure, those of us who are not currently paid can speak up on mailing lists, > but we're (mostly) roundly ignored. I think this is a classic case of "code speaks" -- i.e. if you're willing to spend the time writing the feature and maintaining the code f

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 10th, 2014

2014-10-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 21 October 2014 11:54, Andrea Veri wrote: > * Kat to draft a proposal for a privacy policy for review Finishing this soon would allow us to get hacking on a much improved gnome-software; but it's a lot of new code to write in time for 3.16... Richard _

Re: [OT] Re: You logo

2015-04-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 April 2015 at 15:57, Bastien Nocera wrote: > So I'm leaving this list. Me too. If I was to troll people about the same uninteresting thing again and again and again I would either get moderated or banned. If anyone wants to reply, please reply to my personal email address. Richard _

GNOME Software London Hackfest 2016

2016-03-22 Thread Richard Hughes
Hi all, I've been asked to write a hackfest page for a micro-turning-mini hackfest I've been planning for April. The minimal page is at https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/GnomeSoftware2016 and I think we're mostly self funded with the exception of one guy we'd quite like there (and would need sponso

Re: GNOME Software London Hackfest 2016

2016-03-22 Thread Richard Hughes
On 22 March 2016 at 17:47, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > The short notice for the event will make it more difficult to get good > value on travel/accommodation costs, which is why the travel committee > asks that hackfests are organised well in advance and requests are > sent it at least a month b

Re: Feedback request: spending Foundation money

2017-09-20 Thread Richard Hughes
On 18 September 2017 at 18:10, Neil McGovern wrote: > So, if you have any comments, or thoughts on how this can 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! When we were arranging the gnome-softwa

Re: Feedback request: spending Foundation money

2017-09-26 Thread Richard Hughes
On 25 September 2017 at 10:48, Allan Day wrote: > 1. Make it easier for non-Foundation members to get travel sponsorship. It > would be useful to know if there are particular groups that this might apply > to. Examples might include contributors who aren't members, potential > contributors or exp

Re: Promoting Patreon campaigns in December

2017-11-13 Thread Richard Hughes
On 12 November 2017 at 21:44, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > We are wondering if there are others out there, or are considering having so > that we can promote it? Not strictly GNOME, but all related, there's the LVFS firmware service: https://fwupd.org/donations Richard. ___

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/12/10 Richard Stallman : > The presence of articles discussing vmware, for instance, > conveys the message that GNOME sees nothing wrong with it. I think you've added 1 and 1 and made 7. Richard. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gno