Introduce myself

Hi, I'm a new Foundation member! My name is Sébastien Wilmet. I live in Belgium, and I currently study computer science at the university (in Louvain-la-Neuve). I'm the maintainer of LaTeXila [1], an integrated LaTeX environment written in Vala. I also contribute to other modul

Re: Introduce myself

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:14:43AM +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Le mardi 31 juillet 2012 à 19:55 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Foundation member! > > > > My name is Sébastien Wilmet. I live in Belgium, and I curren

Re: Introduce myself

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:14:43AM +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Le mardi 31 juillet 2012 à 19:55 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Foundation member! > > > > My name is Sébastien Wilmet. I live in Belgium, and I curren

Re: Introduce myself

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:14:43AM +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Le mardi 31 juillet 2012 à 19:55 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Foundation member! > > > > My name is Sébastien Wilmet. I live in Belgium, and I curren

IRC Bouncer

Hi, A service that could be interesting for foundation members is an IRC bouncer for GIMPNet, to be connected all the time. Maybe a good replacement of the Jabber service, as IRC seems more popular. If a sysadmin doesn't have enough work… ;) http://xkcd.com/554/ Cheers, Sébastien

Re: Distribution Naming System

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > systemd, CoreOS, LLVM, OpenStack, LibreOffice, GitLab... there are so many > interesting problems and critical to software freedom being solved outside > of the GNU umbrella these days. GNOME is still a GNU project, but GNOME doesn't

Re: Distribution Naming System

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:11:29AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > I think that yes: the GNOME website should link back to the GNU > website in the "about" section. care to file a bug? Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727740 > > We can also upgrade our software licences to the GPL

Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > RMS wrote at 12:58 (EDT) on Monday: > >>> For many libraries, using LGPLv2.1 may be best, to allow use in > >>> GPLv2-covered programs. > > I have to disagree with RMS on this point. As I proposed on > desktop-devel a long time ag

Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:02:31PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > To move things forward, the best is probably to create a GNOME goal: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals > > Can you help me do this, Sebastian? I wanted to create a new Gnome goal candidate, but in this page:

OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

Hello, I know that money and OPW are sensitive topics, but I would like to better understand, and some transparency shouldn't hurt. For each GSoC student, the mentoring organization receives 500$. How is this money used? - Is the money used for travel sponsorship to GUADEC? What about students

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:22:50AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > The list of sponsors is very public, where have you looked that you have > not seen it? Here: https://gnome.org/opw/#sponsors It is not explained which organizations sponsor which projects. Do all organizations sponsor all OPW interns, re

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:11:12PM -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: > Moreover, if there is a need for a veteran developer to work on a > particular module/project, there is also the possibility of doing a > public fundraiser to get the exact amount of funds required (or more). > The accessibility, privac

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:54:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Is there some specific objection you have with GNOME handling interns of > projects that are not specific to GNOME? That is another problem. What Philip Van Hoof said is that GNOME should focus less on outreach, and more on software. If o

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:07:45PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > For the GNOME Foundation, or other similar organizations, it is > different in my opinion. It seems that the GNOME Foundation spends money > on outreach. It *is* possible for the GNOME Foundation to decide to > spend l

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > I have a question, please explain me how outreach is mutually exclusive > with creating great software? The thing is that we can and we should do > both things, create great software and make an effort to do contribution > outreach. Be

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:07:18PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > But we should stop guessing or making assumption now and wait for > someone from the travel committee or with the relevant knowledge about > that budget to confirm what is done with this money. We are still waiting for a response

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 04:41:13PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > I honestly don't think either you or Philip are aware of how outreach > works in the context of free software. I know that with a good documentation (i.e. a book) and good development tools, developers will be more attracted by the

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54:44PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > Also, people really interested in find a way to save GNOME Foundation's > money (as Sébastien seems to be), could approach the Board with concrete > suggestions based on real data, not only on based on "guessing". It's not only "b

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:27:47PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 16 September 2014 12:01, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > I know that with a good documentation (i.e. a book) and good development > > tools, developers will be more attracted by the Gnome platform. > > tha

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 05:07:56PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > It would be harder to travel when they have to attend school. Attending classes? What? :-) I'm sure the students can find an arrangment to go to a software conference during the semester. __

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:12:53PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/ is a bit outdated, but it exists. > > minor correction: it's not really outdated. the foundation publishes > the reports for the previous fiscal year, as it's required by law. > > answeri

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:16:26PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > it's also very much C-centered, whereas we want more people to use C > only for core library components. A good practice for writing an application is to write the backend as an internal library, so it can easily be used later by o

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:27:43PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > I have proposed to the board that a financial report should be > published every month as that will enable the membership to be better > informed. I am already presenting a financial report to the board on a > monthly basis, so

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

Thank you very much for your answer, Kat. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:12:15PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > interns attending events in 2014 were sponsored within allocated > travel budgets out of general funds or by sponsors for that event. For the budget allocated for travel, would it be

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > The approach to budgeting is similar in that the Foundation and Google > both have a budget, but our budgets are quite different. Any spending > in any area means that that money cannot be spent in another area. What if the Fo

Re: GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME

Hi, On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 09:54:29PM +1000, Ali/amjjawad wrote: > Is there anything whatsoever we could do? GNOME foundation and Ubuntu > Release Team could work more closely, maybe? is there something I/we are > not aware of? sorry to assume that - just trying to think the same way our > users

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Carlos Soriano

Hello Carlos, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Carlos Soriano Sánchez wrote: > - New developers (aka newcomers): How many people do you think are > searching for nice projects to be involved with, live new experiences and > learn at the same time? > We need to reach those people (I was on

Re: This week in Gnome?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Thanks for reminding me of the old days :-) > > Various people did that in the past: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-July/msg00021.html > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-April/msg

GPLv2/LGPLv2.1: link to gnu.org instead of FSF address?

Hello, Do you know if for the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 we can replace the FSF address by an URL to gnu.org? Like this: > You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License > along with this library; if not, see . at the top of each source file. At [

Re: GPLv2/LGPLv2.1: link to gnu.org instead of FSF address?

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 08:30:57AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > You don't have to use the exact suggested text to apply the GPL or LGPL. > Some people leave out that last sentence completely. You could also > change it to use a URL. Ok, good to know. Thanks, Sébastien _

Re: GPLv2/LGPLv2.1: link to gnu.org instead of FSF address?

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:57:25PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Also, from a more practical matter, do you know if a script exists to > replace license headers in a smart way (for C code at least)? Because > the text can be wrapped at different places, there can be spaces > diff

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:36:03PM +0200, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > Is it really useful to go through with the election process when the > > outcome is already known beforehand? > > The outcome is not known yet: it is possible for there to be anywhere > up to 7 candidates who get in because

Highlight individual project fundraisings

Hi, There are a number of GNOME or GNOME-related project fundraisings: For GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/donating/ https://www.patreon.com/pippin http://film.zemarmot.net/en/ PulseAudio: https://www.patreon.com/tanuk GTK+, Corebird, ...: https://www.patreon.com/baedert And n

Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:07:43PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > Regarding competition of fundraising for the *development* of > individual projects - I don't think competition with foundation > fundraising is an issue; as there is no conflict of interest. > > When people sponsor the foundati

Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:07:43PM +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > I can see your concern with user-visible vs. non-visible projects, e.g. > libraries vs. user visible apps, but I feel this is also a non issue > because in fact; we have always had an easier time to find funding for > the develop

Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 04:26:23AM +, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 2:53 AM Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > But… when someone donates to one of the above fundraisings, the GNOME > > Foundation doesn't receive any money. So there would be in some w