Call for GUADEC BoF and Lightning Talks opened until June 18h
The public Call for Participation for Lightning Talks, BoF and Hackfest has officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC [1]) conference. You can read the call for participations at http://www.guadec.org/lightning-bof-cfp and submit your proposal at the submission system [2]. GUADEC 2012 will be hosted in A Coruña, Spain, from July 26 - August 1st. BoF, Hackfests and other events will be scheduled between July 30th and August 1st. This call for Participation for GUADEC 2012 will follow these dates: * June 18 Deadline for submission of Lightning Talks and BoF proposals. * June 26 Notification of contributors. * July 26 - 29: GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña, Spain * July 30 - August 1: hackfests and meetings We would like to remember that registration for GUADEC [3] is already open and you could reserve your accomodation with the registration system until July 1st. Follow GUADEC developments: http://identi.ca/GUADEC http://twitter.com/GUADEC For general questions please contact the GUADEC team at guadec-l...@gnome.org [1] http://2012.guadec.org/ [2] https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0 [3] http://www.guadec.org/registration/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A question for the candidates
On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com writes: I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed. I'd like there be less 'we need someone to organise GUADEC' and more 'let's come up with ways to make GNOME an attractive place for hackers to work'. This would inevitably lead to more visibility and greater engagement by the wider community. Why do you need a board for that? These needs can be fulfilled without relying on hierarchy. [Anarchist] Andy ;) -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
A new Membership status: Emeritus
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 high quality contributions in the past but aren't able to provide any reference about recent contributions. The requirements to gain membership (or renew it) are the following: Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future. Some past contributors or long time Foundation members could not have their membership renewed as they could not provide the needed reference to recent contributions. For this reason, the MembershipCommittee created an Emeritus Rank for all the past members that are not active any more but still want to be associated with the GNOME Foundation. Accordingly, you can qualify for the Emeritus Member rank if: 1. you have been a Foundation Member in the past and made a substantial contribution over a long period of time. 2. you lost or are about to lose your Foundation membership by not renewing it in time. 3. you are still interested in being part of the GNOME community. 4. your contributions are not recent enough to apply for the full membership. Becoming an Emeritus Member If you met all the above criteria, please fill in your Membership Application at [1] and the MembershipCommittee will process your application as soon as possible. Becoming a Full Member again If an Emeritus Member has started contributing again, they will be able to apply for Full Membership again. The procedure is simple: they need to e-mail membership-commit...@gnome.org along with their references (git Commits, Bugzilla, RPM/DEB packaging, translations, marketing, etc.) and declare the fact that they are interested in becoming Full Members again. Benefits Emeritus members do not have all the benefits that are available to the Full Members, but they will able to keep: 1. their existing @gnome.org mail alias. 2. their existing blog hosted at http://blogs.gnome.org. 3. their existing http://people.gnome.org space. Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion, and Travel Subsidy will be handled by the Travel Committee. Emeritus members won't be able to: 1. vote on Board's Elections and Referenda. 2. propose themselves as a candidate for the Board of Directors elections. 3. request a new @gnome.org mail alias 4. request a new blog hosted at http://blogs.gnome.org. 5. request a new web space at http://people.gnome.org. For any question, please mail us at membership-commit...@gnome.org. cheers, Andrea, on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee [1] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future. This sounds very vague. When does past end and when does future start? Or in other words: If I for the next fifty years tell you 25 times (every two years that my status is renewed) that I plan to do stuff in the future again and my past contributions are 50 years ago, will I still be able to renew my membership? Any time periods in mind? andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus
O , 2012-05-29 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri rakstīja: Benefits Emeritus members do not have all the benefits that are available to the Full Members, but they will able to keep: 1. their existing @gnome.org mail alias. 2. their existing blog hosted at http://blogs.gnome.org. 3. their existing http://people.gnome.org space. Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion, and Travel Subsidy will be handled by the Travel Committee. Emeritus members won't be able to: 1. vote on Board's Elections and Referenda. 2. propose themselves as a candidate for the Board of Directors elections. 3. request a new @gnome.org mail alias 4. request a new blog hosted at http://blogs.gnome.org. 5. request a new web space at http://people.gnome.org. Interestingly, is an emeritus eligible to be listed in gnome planet? ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus
Interestingly, is an emeritus eligible to be listed in gnome planet? From the portion of the original announcement that you quoted: Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion :-) Happy hacking, Debarshi -- KR is like the Bible. The fervent read it from end to end, the religious keep a copy. -- Arjun Shankar pgphGhONTPSMh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future. [...] Or in other words: If I for the next fifty years tell you 25 times (every two years that my status is renewed) that I plan to do stuff in the future again and my past contributions are 50 years ago, will I still be able to renew my membership? This actually misses one of the above requirements: contributions must be recent, thus if you last contributed 50 years ago but you plan to start contributing again from tomorrow, you won't be able to renew your membership. Any time periods in mind? I think we never defined any time period but recent contributions can be considered the ones from the past month to past six months. (that also depends from case to case and from the amount of contributions the applicant did during his stay on the GNOME community) If applicant's contributions are not recent enough, the planning to actively contribute in the future requirement isn't taken into account at all, thus we wouldn't accept an applicant that did a non-trivial amount of contributions one or two years ago but applied today. cheers, Andrea signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)
Emmanuele: On 05/28/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: [just a bit of backstory, here, also to help out eventual other candidates in case I'm not elected] the meeting minutes are written down during the meeting itself by using a collaborative editor, so that everyone on the meeting can actually review in real time what's being written (this also helps in case I could not hear or understand what was being said, or when I am talking about some topic/action item, in which case I cannot really take notes). It was Vincent's idea to use a collaborative editor, and something we started really using in my first term as director. I think it does make minute taking a lot easier. Since Karen, Zana, and multiple directors tend to help with the note-taking, the notes end up better written. after the meeting is over, the minute is published on the Foundation's restricted wiki space, for further review, in case I missed a private section, or I was being overzealous with one, as well as for clearing up some of the action items. after some time pass, the wiki page for the minutes is copied over to the public section of the Foundation's wiki space, and the contents are sent using an email. none of this is automated: Brian was just exceptionally good at sending out minutes every two weeks. :-) I can confirm that our process is not very automated, and putting together good minutes is time consuming. I would say the work Emmanuele has done compares well with the work done by other GNOME Foundation secretaries. While they have not been as timely as they could be, the quality of the content has remained high. During my two terms as secretary, I did most of the work of preparing the agenda even though agenda preparation is really the role of the president. This year, since I have been acting as president, I have been preparing the agendas. The last week's minutes (whether made public or not) are used as a template to build the agenda for the next meeting, which is also on our internal wiki. While preparing the agenda, I will fill out the Discussed on the mailing list section and many of these topics feed into the new agenda. In this regards, the process has been working very well in the past year. I think the job of putting together the minutes works best when the President and Secretary work together like this. So this is an area of improvement. my main two issues as serving as secretary this year were being overzealous with people reviewing my note-taking (not a native english speaker, and the conference call phone line can be pretty messy at times), as well as reviewing the private sections. the first issue can be ascribed to me being in my first term; As I am putting together the agenda, I review and update the minutes when I notice ways to improve it. I think many board members do the same. Your English is quite good, and I rarely find myself correcting it. Meeting minutes seems crucial to run a public discussion between the board and its members as Germán has highlighted and it's not because no one asked that no one thought it was not important anymore. I agree with you, and if I'm serving as secretary on the next term, I'll make a point of addressing my obvious shortcoming of this term. It was ambitious of you to take on an officer position in your first term, and I think you should better recognize the good work you have been doing even in the face of constructive criticism. Brian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
