Re: Reducing the board size

2005-10-28 Thread Izabel Valverde
Hello all, I'd like to express my opinion. I've been following the messages and it seems clear why the solicitation to reduce the board it's been talking But I can't understand why this has to be chosen for the next election. I see that, as said before, if there was a clear definition of the

Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26

2005-10-28 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26 Attendance: === Owen Taylor (chairing) Tim Ney Jonathan Blandford Federico Mena-Quintero Murray Cumming Miguel de Icaza Christian Schaller Regrets: Daniel Veillard

Re: Some perspective on how unimportant the board currently is.

2005-10-28 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:31 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: On ศ., 2005-10-28 at 15:07 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Perhaps we should look at the idea of running training sessions where the trainers are not paid, but are given plane tickets and board in the city they are sent to. I'd rather

Re: New rules for the elections [was Re: Nomination process should not be public until after deadline]

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: On Fri, October 28, 2005 00:21, Olav Vitters wrote: I suggest to keep the official candidates and the amount of candidates secret until after the nomination deadline. Candidates can of course announce their candidacy publicly,

Re: Some perspective on how unimportant the board currently is.

2005-10-28 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:12 -0300, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: Also i want to remember GNOME Hackers training meetings in Chile as for us is very hard to get some core hacker from GNOME in our country we started a small meetings just to show how to be involved in GNOME, actually we've

Re: Some perspective on the relative importannce of the board.

2005-10-28 Thread Leslie Proctor
Both Jim and Nat make very good points. I've been saying this all along - We're expecting things from this board that no other non-profit group in my experience expects - and I have worked with dozens of non-profit organizations. Boards of non-profits: -give legitimacy to the organization

Re: Why I voted YES

2005-10-28 Thread Alan Horkan
reduce the peer pressure effect - in passing the referendum, the community recognised that peer pressure was capable of playing a role in who people voted for. I believe that this referendum is a compliment to that one - it will require people to be more thoughtful with their vote. Another

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26

2005-10-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:50 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26 Actions completed: == ACTION: Federico to take the task to find documentation authors and get it

Re: Some perspective on the relative importance of the board.

2005-10-28 Thread John Williams
Boards of non-profits: -give legitimacy to the organization -provide an overall direction for the organization -liaise with other organizations -HELP RAISE MONEY This is all good, and right on the mark, except for one thing. The GNOME Foundation (and GNOME itself) is only accidentally

Re: Some perspective on the relative importance of the board.

2005-10-28 Thread Nat Friedman
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 11:22 +1300, John Williams wrote: Boards of non-profits: -give legitimacy to the organization -provide an overall direction for the organization -liaise with other organizations -HELP RAISE MONEY This is all good, and right on the mark, except for one thing.

Re: New rules for the elections

2005-10-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 28 octobre 2005 à 19:16 +0200, Claudio Saavedra a écrit : Hi, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:23 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: [...] I'm not saying we should block the media. I'm saying that we should try to let each candidate be able to use the same way to express themselves,

Re: Some perspective on the relative importannce of the board.

2005-10-28 Thread Richard M. Stallman
If the board's role were limited to raising funds, who would be responsible for important policy decisions? ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26

2005-10-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:37 -0400, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: The doc project with Shaun McCance was announced at the end of the Summit, but everyone was probably too tired to blog it. Below is the draft outline of the project. tim SUBJECT MATTER DESCRIPTION:

Re: Some perspective on the relative importannce of the board.

2005-10-28 Thread Glynn Foster
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 01:12 -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote: If the board's role were limited to raising funds, who would be responsible for important policy decisions?] Depends what you mean by 'policy decisions' - but I'd certainly hope the GNOME Foundation membership had a large say in the