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

2005-10-29 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, 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

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

2005-10-29 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:07 -0400, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Leslie Proctor I agree, since Tim's been the one who has been collect the advisory board fees, finding new sponsors and board members, etc. The board has had little to do with raising money to date. In quite a few cases,

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

2005-10-29 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:49 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: 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

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

2005-10-29 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:09 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, 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