Re: Women in GNOME (Was: Code Of Conduct)

2006-06-05 Thread Quim Gil
El dj 01 de 06 del 2006 a les 10:51 -0500, en/na Shaun McCance va escriure: there tends to be a reasonably high percentage of women in technical jobs that aren't necessarily programming (though they may involve some programming), such as project management, tech writing, graphic design, and

The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: Takes place in CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, June 22nd 23rd

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: Takes place in CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, June 22nd 23rd! The venue has now been confirmed as Aula 1, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea (CCCB).www.cccb.org/ Important information especially to those of you who are going to this years GUADEC and have not yet

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Anne [ISO-8859-1] �stergaard wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:42:04 +0200 From: Anne [ISO-8859-1] �stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: foundation-list@gnome.org Subject: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons Hello all GNOME Foundation Members, About the

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread ted
Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Alan Horkan wrote: The way I always thought of the purpose of the referendum was that it

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. It doesn't seem to be entirely arbitrary. The 3 appointees were the next 3 highest vote-getters in the 2005

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Elijah Newren
On 6/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. It doesn't look at all arbitrary to me. Behdad and

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Mon, 2006-05-06 at 13:21 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. It doesn't seem to be entirely arbitrary. The

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 17:52 +0100, skrev Alan Horkan: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Anne [ISO-8859-1] stergaard wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:42:04 +0200 From: Anne [ISO-8859-1] stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: foundation-list@gnome.org Subject: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 12:08 -0500, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. OK these two persons were next on the list of

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread ted
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Anne ?stergaard wrote: man, 05 06 2006 kl. 12:08 -0500, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. OK these

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 20:07 +0300, skrev Baris Cicek: Anne you better also send this mail to foundation-announce because every foundation member might not be subscribed here, but they do to foundation-announce. I will do so. Also I wonder why Board need to enlarge its size, but instead asking

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread David Neary
Hi Andrew, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-06 at 13:21 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: New seats on the board may be made available as the project grows, subject to approval by the board or referendum of the membership. Between elections, board vacancies or new board slots shall

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Mon, 2006-05-06 at 21:54 +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi Andrew, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-06 at 13:21 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: New seats on the board may be made available as the project grows, subject to approval by the board or referendum of the membership.

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread David Neary
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for getting people involved, perhaps posting to this list? I realize it's hard to find tasks that someone might be able to pick up and do, but it is usually worthwhile in the end. Perhaps a TODO list on live.gnome.org of things that the board is planning on

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Elijah Newren
On 6/5/06, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: So, the board can decide how many people it wants to have elected and then it can add an arbitrary number of additional members after the election. Why do we have elections in the first place? The board must have

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, David Neary wrote: Hi, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: So, the board can decide how many people it wants to have elected and then it can add an arbitrary number of additional members after the election. Why do we have elections in the first place? The board must have at least 7 people. Aside

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread James Henstridge
On 06/06/06, Dominic Lachowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. It doesn't seem to be entirely arbitrary. The 3

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] But, they can't be members of the board without an election. Just want to point out that, yes, they can be - please read the Foundation by-laws. The board can change the size of the board at will, and nominate members at will. The referendum process was not done

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Anne Østergaard The Board would like to propose to you a temporary enlargement of the board with two persons: Behdad Esfahbod and Germán Poó-Caamaño. My personal opinion on this, as stated to the board: * We made our bed with the one-two-punch combination of change in board