REMINDER: GNOME Foundation Members Meeting

2007-07-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey all, Just a reminder that the GNOME Foundation Members meeting will be on at 5pm Monday 16th July (TODAY!). The board is going to present a year in review of what we've currently done, and what plans we have for the future. Soon after, we'll be opening it up for discussion on where we need

Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, As some of you have noticed, I'm not at GUADEC this year. The reason is a happy one - Anne is going to be giving birth sometime over the next couple of weeks (I'll keep ye posted). The combination of the arrival of a third child, and a change in role at work over the past few weeks,

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Ghee Teo
Congrats on becoming father third time! Thank you for all the hard work you put in as a Board member :) Does this also implies there is a going to be by-election (first one ever) :) ? -Ghee Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, As some of you have noticed, I'm not at GUADEC this year. The reason is a

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ghee Teo Does this also implies there is a going to be by-election (first one ever) :) ? No, according to the GNOME Foundation by-laws, the Board may appoint a new director in the case of a vacancy (which we did last year under the same circumstances). - Jeff -- GUADEC 2007 in

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote: No, according to the GNOME Foundation by-laws, the Board may appoint a new director in the case of a vacancy This is standard practice in the not-for-profit world (lest you be worried that this is somehow unusual or improper) AfC Birmingham

Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

2007-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 17:50 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: If a long standard is part of an attack, we can use that for our own purposes. In this case I suspect that the length of the standard is largely a consequence of the format being an XML serialization of the existing complex and