Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-24 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/22 Richard Stallman : > How does each candidate propose to make use of GNOME and its > communication to build support in the user community for free software > and the freedom it provides? > > The free software movement practices pragmatic idealism.  Our ideal is > freedom for those who use

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/25 Allan Day : > Hi all, > > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that > you are interested in doing this important work. Thank you. > A question for you: > > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME proje

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/27 Gil Forcada : > Hi all, > > First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME! > > My question is about hardware and contacts: > > The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system > by itself, for them hardware and software come together and they die >

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/27 Diego Escalante Urrelo : > Hi Gil, > > Perhaps this link is relevant: > http://makeplaylive.com/ > > I would add this questions to your thread: > Do you think a similar venture for GNOME would make sense? > How do you think this, or a similar project, can happen without > leaving us bankr

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-30 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/29 Andrea Veri : > The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is proud to > announce a new Membership status: Emeritus. > >  Introduction > > The MembershipCommittee may receive Membership renewal applications > from Foundation members that provided a good amount of valuable and >

Report from the GNOME & Mono Festival of Love 2012

2012-07-05 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
The past week we had the pleasure of hosting a week long GNOME & Mono hackfest event at the lovely Microsoft NERD center in Boston. I have collected all the blog posts, photos and media mentions but to summarize we have made a lot of progress. * We are nearly ready to unveil a new Tomboy UX which