Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

I do agree that we need a vision and a long term roadmap. When I ask about goals or vision, most people respond with something very specific and technical. I feel like we need to have a bigger vision that is universally shared. Where will GNOME be in 5 years? What will it do? What products/projec

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Andrew Savory < andrew.sav...@limofoundation.org> wrote: > > > Perhaps we should reach out to the mobile and embedded community and > ask them to contribute e.g. "how to get GTK running on a smartphone"? > Getting a few of those guys over to GUADEC might stimulate

Chance to comment on US government use of technology pages

As an Open Source for America member, GNOME has been invited to comment on the US government's use of technology. -- Forwarded message -- From: INTERNAL: OSA Board of Advisors Discussion List Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM Subject: [OSA-board-announce] OSFA Business: We need yo

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Juanjo Marin wrote: > > This thread is about how can we set a strategic roadmap. It is more > about innovation vs stability. We are doing pretty well on the stability > side with our six-months cycle schedule. We are even adding some > innovation, but we must find

Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd

I think the number of different projects and conversations I am having has maxed out my multiprocessing capabilities. This week I am going to spend more time logged out of email and working on one project at a time. Last week I: - Presented at IASA . Great conversat

Re: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > 2010/3/1 Stormy Peters : > > GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. > > How did this go? > It went well with lots of discussion about GNOME 3, GNOME 4 and roadmaps. We've had two of these meetings and they've been very

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010/3/2 Philip Van Hoof > > Stop dragging the GNOME Foundation list down these off topic roads and > stop this pissing contest. > > > > I think you, and many other people, are misinterpreting this as a pissing > contest. It's not. It's a quite serious debate. > > And I think it's insulting of y

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > I wonder why *nobody* so far is going into the things that I said in my > last reply, but why everybody so far is instead going into this. > Because you are being disruptive on the Foundation List. People are not interested in having this

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > >We probably could have had moblin be "GNOME Netbook". We probably could >have had Maemo be "GNOME Smartphone". Or Sugar be "GNOME Education". > > It is fine if they promote GNOME, but remember that Maemo contains > non-free softwa

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: >The combination of technologies going under the name "HTML 5" have >made/are making web technology based applications finally competitive >with those built using conventional toolkits such as Qt, GTK+, and the >Windows and M

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > Technically, there is: iFolder. It has struggled quite a bit, but it's > still completely open and just waiting for someone to Do The Right > Thing and get it fixed up a bit and offer a service. The biggest > problem that iFolder h

Stormy's Update: Week of March 1st

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/05/stormys-update-week-of-march-1st/ Followed up on several sponsors for GUADEC. It is looking good from a sponsorship perspective! (Don't forget to submit your talk proposal !) Michael Meeks join

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: > > Perhaps it would have been better if someone from the Board had responded > to > the initial message from Mr. Stallman with regard to Facebook, saying > > 1) Attempting to rework or redefine GNOME 3 plans at this point, now that > they're pr

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010/3/5 Lefty (石鏡 ) > > Because I shouldn't have to. More to the point, why didn't _you_? > > I didn't think it was necessary as I thought it was rather obvious. But if you thought it was necessary, as a member of the GNOME community, you should have said it rather than taking us down this rat h

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: >Maemo/Moblin/MeeGo use GNOME and we are proud of that. Of course, we > always >encourage organizations and projects to use more free software but we > should >not ostracise them because they don't use 100% free software. > > It

Stormy's Update: Weeks of March 8th and 15th

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/22/stormys-update-weeks-of-march-8th-and-15th/ Attended Open Mobility . Was on a panel about the desktop and the cloud. There was lots of audience participation and the conversation took a couple of strange turns with Googl

One step closer to a sys admin ...

Last April we announced that we wanted to hire a system administrator to help with some of the day-to-day work necessary to keep thousands of GNOME contributors going. I'm really excited to announce that we are really close! The GNOME community raised over $20,000 last year from individual contribu

Re: Changes in Membership Committee

Thanks, Bruno, for your good work in leading the team for the past couple of years. Thanks to the whole membership committee for your work. Your work is key to keeping the GNOME Foundation going and doesn't always get a lot of publicity. We appreciate your continued hard work. Good luck, Andrea!

Stormy's Update: Week of March 22nd

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/03/30/stormys-update-week-of-march-22nd/ * Friends of GNOME ruler launched. The campaign has been a great success so far - thanks, everyone! * Jeremy Allison joined the GNOME Advisory Board representing Google. * Worked with a potential sponsor.

Re: A $60/year Friendship option for students

Everybody can give at any level, and if they choose, their name will be on the website. What varies is the gifts. It wouldn't be cost effective to send a tshirt to people in India donating $10/year. Especially since we currently ship from the US. But I don't think people are concerned about the g

Stormy’s Update: Weeks of March 29th and April 5th , 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/04/08/stormys-update-weeks-of-march-29th-and-april-5th-2010/ - Friends of GNOME ruler was a great success! We met our goal for hiring a sys admin. (My work was just to provide updated numbers frequently and to dent and

Stormy's Update: Week of April 12, 2010

Logistics: - Spent Monday traveling home from the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans. - Tuesday I caught up on a ton of mail. Like a lot of mail. Got back down to 10 mails in my inbox. - Wednesday-Friday I traveled to and attended the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. I

Re: Stormy's Update: Week of April 12, 2010

No video. :) Stormy On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi Stormy. > > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 11:44 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > > * Ran the Desktop track on Friday morning. Many, many thanks to > > Dave Neary and Zonker Brockmeier for he

Stormy's Update: Week of April 19, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/04/26/stormys-update-week-of-april-19-2010/ - Quarterly report. Put together the GNOME Q1 2010 quarterly report. Thanks to all the team members who wrote up the actual updates, Vinicius Depizzol who worked on the

Stormy's Update: Week of April 26, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/05/05/stormys-update-week-of-april-26-2010/ GNOME Asia meeting. The GNOME Asia team is planning GNOME Asia 2010. While the exact event hasn't been announced, I can tell you it will most likely be in Taiwan and they are already looking for

Re: GnuCash and CLI Ledger

As soon as we get a test install of CiviCRM set up, I was planning to try out your Paypal import feature. If we could then use a script and ledger to get it into gnucash, that'd be great. Stormy On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Karl Fogel wrote: > "Bradley M. Kuhn" writes: > >Meanwhile, I shoul

Inviting GNOME to participate at an accessibility event

It would be great to have GNOME a11y work well represented at this conference. Stormy -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:16 PM Subject: Event: Access for All in the desktop, web and mobile field: an end-user and developer perspective To: i...@guadec.org

Re: Inviting GNOME to participate at an accessibility event

>From the GNOME side, it will be up to the accessibility team and the board to decide how much of our accessibility budget to spend on this. Stormy On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Og Maciel wrote: > Hi there! > > As a GNOME user who has a physical disability as well as deep interest > in acces

Stormy's Update: Month of May 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/05/28/stormys-update-month-of-may-2010/ Attended the fantastic GNOME Marketing Hackfest. Got there and back - on the way home we took a six hour detour - making it a more tha

The GNOME Foundation is hiring a system administrator

The GNOME Foundation is hiring a system administrator. Thanks to all of you who have made this possible! http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/JobDescription = System Administrator Job Description = The GNOME Foundation is seeking candidates for a part-time system administrator position. The GNOME infr

Re: A few questions for the candidates

2010/6/2 Seif Lotfy : > I read it a week ago before deciding to run for candidacy (someone tipped me > to do so)  and while I am very surprised by the income and outcome, there > should be a security buffer of 20% at least... This is a point I think > should be discussed by the board and community.

Stormy's Update: Week of June 1, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/06/07/stormys-update-week-of-june-1-2010/ Had a million conversations (well maybe not that many), followed threads and kept up (mostly) with email. Too many different things going on for a short week. Organized a GNOME Roadmap discussion. Discussed copyrigh

Re: LWN.net

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: >         * LWN.net agreement - status >               o The GNOME Foundation received the legal agreement from the >                 lawyers and this has been shared this with LWN. Once this >                 is finalized, work with marketin

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > As long as the mistake continues to be common, we need to keep up the > efforts to educate people. I wish we could get this done once and for > all, so that we could move on. But, as you surely see, the mass media > continue to call t

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > Keep in mind GNU considers GNOME to be part of it ;) > > > I completely understand that. I am not pushing for GNOME/Linux either. Stormy ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.o

Stormy's Update: Week of June 7, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/06/14/stormys-update-week-of-june-7-2010/ Attended LinuxTag. Met with many people (some much more briefly than others). Claudia Rauch and Frank Karlitschek from KDE with Vincent Untz to talk about the Desktop Summit 2011. Ivanka Majic from the Canonical desig

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Fernando Herrera wrote: > > I also don't think the ending is appropriate: "These guidelines do not > constitute censorship since you have many other forums and > opportunities to say whatever you wish.". That is a pretty evil > justification and probably Government

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Fernando Herrera wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: >> The company defined what was appropriate within their "forums". GNOME >> can decide what's appropriate to discuss in GNOME forums wh

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > > As a matter of fact, personally I am not jazzed by the entire ending: > >        Please keep in mind that the GNOME Foundation is not the right >        forum to debate whether someone should feel offended or not; you >        should simp

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

Lefty, 2010/6/26 Lefty (石鏡 ) : > Patryk seems to want to continue to pursue this discussion. I hadn't been > planning to, after Sriram's message, but since there's an obvious > interest... > This is not a Lefty vs Patryk debate nor a Lefty vs Richard debate. Please stick to discussing the issues

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Stone Mirror wrote: > Again, very well said, and I couldn't agree more. Thank you, Alan. > > It honestly baffles me that some people seem to have such difficulty grasping > what seems so transparently obvious to me. *Stop* making it personal. Stop thanking indivi

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 21:22 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > > "If someone in your talk is offended, please try to avoid a > > conversation about whether or not they should be offended. Remember > > our com

Survey Results from the GNOME Foundation Goals Survey

Back in January, we were discussing GNOME Foundation goals and my goals. I put together a survey for people to weigh in[1]. The results are published[2]. Overwhelmingly in the survey people care about GNOME 3.0 and releasing GNOME 3.0 in September as their first priority. After that, all the othe

Stormy's Update: June 14th-July 12th, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/07/12/stormys-update-june-14th-july-12th-2010/ My weekly update routine has been broken. I used to write my update every Monday morning. However, now when I sit down on Monday morning I usually have several hundred unread messages. So I am working on a new ro

Stormy's Update: Week of July 12, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/07/19/stormys-update-week-of-july-12-2010/ Organized GNOME Advisory Board meeting to discuss topics and plan for our in person meeting at GUADEC. We meet all day on Tuesday. We'll have some updates and we'll give each of the advisory board members a chance to

Stormy's Update: Week of July 19, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/07/26/stormys-update-week-of-july-19-2010/ OSCON! Gave "Pick up the Poop" keynotethat was a call to all those who care about free software to start thinking about our freedoms when it comes to web services. At OSCO

LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Partner

client computing. We are committed to bringing the quality and freedom of GNOME to users on mobile platforms,” said Stormy Peters, Executive Director of GNOME Foundation. “We are excited to work with commercial partners like the LiMo Foundation to ensure that GNOME Mobile technologies are available on

Stormy's Update: August 30, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/08/30/stormys-update-august-30-2010/ During the week of July, I was at GUADEC 2010! There I attended the GNOME Board of Directors annual meeting, ran the GNOME Board of Advisors annual meeting, put together the Getting Things Done lightening talks and met wit

openSUSE Conference Invitation

The GNOME community is invited to attend the openSUSE Conference next month. If you are attending and event and would like to represent GNOME, please remember we have a number of resources available from the event box[1] to past presentations[2] to printable material[3] to travel funds[4]. I'd li

GNOME Q2 Quarterly Report

The GNOME Q2 Quarterly Report is available[1] - and has been available for a while. :) The report was published later than we wanted but not nearly as late as this announcement! The second quarter of 2010 was a big one for the GNOME Foundation. We elected our new GNOME Board of Directors, raised e

Stormy's Update: October 4, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/10/05/stormys-update-october-4th-2010/ I interviewed the final candidates for the system administration position, we made an offer and ... welcomed Christer Edwards as our new system administrator! He

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - September 16, 2010

Hi Jonh, Thanks for the feedback. We are aware that not only is it more expensive to fly from some parts of the world but that it also means that it's a bigger burden for the individual. Especially when they are coming from a country with a lower cost of living too. So we worded it poorly in the m

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > > > 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem > > > > Ideas, suggestions? > > Given the statements at: > http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/index.php?page=Preface > and the statemen

Re: Next Foundation IRC list is on November 3rd!

Just a reminder that the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings is tomorrow. Please check out the agenda at the links below. We look forward to seeing you all. Stormy On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Hi GNOME folks, > > Thanks for participating in the GNOME Foundatio

Changing Roles

http://stormyscorner.com/2010/11/changing-roles.html I have really enjoyed working with GNOME over the past 2+ years. Working with the GNOME community on creating a free desktop accessible to everyone has been fun and exciting – as well as challenging – which is part of the fun. [image: :)] It is

Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: > > > 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem > > > > Ideas, suggestions? > > Given the statements at: > http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/index.php?page=Preface

Stormy's Update: November 7, 2010

http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/11/07/stormys-update-november-7-2010/ F123.org and Mozilla both gave us grants for GNOME accessibility! We are opening contracts for good work with the funding. Thanks to Joanie Diggs for p

Re: GNOME trademarks

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > and also this second live GNOME trademark: > http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4001:mi6n4v.2.40 > > The second one is interesting! > Word Mark: GNOME > Goods and Services: IC 029. US 046. G & S: Processed Hazelnuts for human > c

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > The meeting minutes for the November 11th GNOME Foundation board > meeting is now published. Refer here: > > > Attending > >* Stormy Peters > I was not there but I think

Re: [Fwd: GNOME Developer Survey]

I asked Sherae to stop sending reminders and immediately got an email agreeing saying there would be no more reminders. I will also check to make sure GNOME developers haven't been added to a spam list of any kind. Stormy On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > >* Review past action items. >* Did each person with action items send their status reports to > the board list before the meeting? > Has this been happening? Some of the action items have been there for a long time. Some have

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

Og, With all due respect, you should know whether you were there or not since it looks like there was a lot of discussion. Can you please take a look at the minutes and decide whether or not you participated? Thanks, Stormy On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Og Maciel wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16,

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

Og, On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Og Maciel wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Stormy Peters > wrote: > > Can you please take a look at the minutes and decide whether or not you > > participated? > > With all due respect too, I would not have said what

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Og Maciel wrote: > > Understood. I hope you'll accept my word that I am fully committed to > the work I do for the GNOME Foundation and that the fact I was > confused about being present at said meeting was by no means lack of > my interest or commitment. I have b

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > >* Review past action items. >* Did each person with action items send their status reports to > the board list before the meeting? > Has this been happening? Some of the action items have been there for a long time. Some have

SFC, GNOME Foundation (WAS Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011)

Thanks, Brian, for the additional detail. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > * Orca / Software Freedom Conservancy >> o Discussions underway. The SFC is working to determine if it >>is possible for GNOME projects to join the SFC. >>

Re: Website content licensing

2011/3/10 Javier Jardón > On 10 March 2011 22:22, Paul Cutler wrote: > > We had previously agreed to a CC-BY 3.0 license. I'll have to dig up > > the emails from somewhere. > > > > Paul > > > > I raised this issue some time ago, take a look here: [1] > > The problem is that the actual content o

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > >* On February 16th, Joanmarie Diggs asked if the GNOME a11y PayPal > account can be used to receive GNOME a11y funds. > o The main issue is that The GNOME Foundation does not have >the staff to handle the accoun

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 18/04/11 11:49, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > One of his ideas was to add a list of companies that gave GTK+ support >> (as in, custom development, not in "call this company when you hit a >> bug" sense). >> > > Yea, this idea has been floa

Candidacy: Stormy Peters

Name:Stormy Peters Email: sto...@gnome.org Nick: stormy Blog: http://stormyscorner.com Affiliation: Mozilla I am running for the GNOME Board of Directors because the people of GNOME are awesome! I believe strongly that the technology should be accessible to

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Frederic Peters wrote: > Hello all, > > GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent > discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], > and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards > to distributions (ba

Re: Question for the canditates

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > 1) As GNOME has matured the number of officially supported language > bindings has decreased. The quality and availability of various > language communities own bindings has varied wildly to say the least. > How would you work to improve th

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time? > I

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? > Unless y

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Gil Forcada wrote: > > As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and > look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe > part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy > on-line account for free).

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Lefty wrote: > First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes > seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came up, I'd be > interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do > to address the ongoing

Re: question for candidates

2011/5/25 Andy Tai > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as > the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME technologies to > work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on other GNU/Linux > distributions like Debian, and such distributions

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:11 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bastien Nocera > wrote: > > ... snip ... > > >> what about recording how board members vote > > >> on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abs

Re: Question for candidates

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free > software, beyond being composed of free programs. > I think we should make awesome free software. I think there's a group of people that believe very strongly in

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > 1. If elected, will you seek a named position > (chairman/treasurer/secretary) on the board? If so, why? > It will depend on who's elected and what they are interested in. I hope Brian remains secretary. :) I would do the job of chairman or

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Since a number of candidates aren't aware of this situation, perhaps I > should give a few details. > > LGM has an annual budget which is pretty tiny - in the region of $20,000 to > $30,000 per year, including a big chunk going to sponsored tr

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent

Or like this: You can vote for as few or as many candidates as you choose. Your vote will be counted for your first choice candidate as long as that candidate is still in the race. When your first choice candidate is eliminated, your vote will transfer to the next prefe

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > > > I believe it is clear, from past board actions (e.g. the snowy > > hackfest) that such services are something we want to encourage, with > > our money and brand, but it seems we only have few developers engaging > > with the web, do you

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

Hi Fred, Is your question, do we have enough money in the bank? If so, the answer is yes. :) We always keep a reserve, a nonprofit best practice. We also try to spend what we bring in each year towards supporting our mission and goals. So as Germán says, the "overspend" is money that was already

Re: New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Allan Day wrote: > 2011/10/14 Andrea Veri : > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 12:20 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > >> > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Allan Day wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > > I'm wondering - would it be pos

Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

Allan, I think you proposed it and got some feedback and general support. Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks for making this happen! Stormy On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Allan: > > > On 12/ 5/11 04:17 AM, Allan Day wrote: > >> Ping. Does someone who is on the board wan

Re: FOG contact

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:56:00PM +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: > > Maybe having a FOG alias going to several people would still make > > sense and make FOG donors feel like there is 'support contact' to > > get in touch with without the need

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > > Totally off-topic from GNOME discussions (sorry!), but potentially > relevant question: Has anyone come up with a comprehensive list of > one-to-one functions of non-free services and free? > > /me starts the list > > Google Docs Surve

Re: European bank account for donations

The US banks with euro accounts all had high wire transfer fees. I believe the problem is more the fees than the type of currency. (There are also exchange rates, but I don't think that's the main issue.) Stormy On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > If all you want is a E

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

I try to avoid these conversations because I think there are lots of over generalizations, stereotypes and emotions. I just want to say that I generally use the term "open source" *and* I believe in many of the values attributed to "free software". I don't believe that using different terminology m

Getting a response from the board (WAS: Re: Question to Shaun McCance)

To everyone on the Foundation, If you ever have trouble getting a hold of a board member or our executive director, please email the entire board at board-list -at- gnome.org. Also, feel free to ping other directors. We are a team and we try to work together, help each other out and notice when ot

Re: GNOME now

I think it's a great idea to include an "About GNOME" in the product. However, it's more important for us as a project to know what we are doing and why. If we do the right thing for the audience we are targeting, they will know what and why. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Liam R E Quin wrot

Re: GNOME now

I enjoyed reading everyone's responses. And while I agree with Jason that a mailing list is not the best way to reach a proposal and consensus, I do think it's really important for us to have this discussion as a project and for everyone to be able to follow along. I just have a few thoughts I'd

Re: GNOME now

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > * The desktop market is not growing. We can continue to define ourselves > as a desktop but that's not a growing market. I'm not talking about Linux > versus Windows, I'm talking about desktop vs mobile. The ave

Re: Reaching out to Amazon for credit?

Hi Richard, On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > The problem with Ubuntu is not a tangent. It is a disaster for free > software. It threatens to lower free software to the level of the malware > that we condemn. > Ubuntu has brought GNOME and Linux to millions of peopl

Re: Reaching out to Amazon for credit?

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Richard, I find your emails very rude. > > I don't see grounds for that -- they are not objectively rude. > No, but they are rude in context. The fact that you do not work within the context of that particular conversation makes the

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new people or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston. Stormy On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, meg ford wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

Hi Richard, They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects regardless of what we call GNOME. If people from open source software projects want to join us at a GNOME event to learn more about GNOME, we should

Re: Status of reports

Oliver, Did you find them useful? Did you need them for something? It's really hard to pull together quarterly and annual reports and requires someone(s) to spend a lot of time asking people for updates. Without any regular feedback on whether they are useful or even if they are being read, I thi

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of March 3rd, 2014

Emmanuele, thanks for sending out minutes. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140303 > > = Minutes for Monday, March 3rd, 2014, 16:00 UTC = > > == Next Meeting == > * Tuesday, March 11th, 2014, 16:00 UTC > > == Attend

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