Re: Minutes from the board meetings

2009-06-10 Thread BJörn Lindqvist
2009/6/8 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: The minutes from most of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors' meetings have now been posted at: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes Excellent, thank you. Does that mean the board has only held three meetings this year as only 3 MOMs

Re: Minutes from the board meetings

2009-06-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 10 juin 2009, à 11:50 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist a écrit : 2009/6/8 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: The minutes from most of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors' meetings have now been posted at: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes Excellent, thank you. Does

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-06-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, (just want to start by thanking the membership elections committee for the organization of the elections! Make sure to hug them when you meet them) Apologies for the length of some answers ;-) And more apologies for sending this late (it was stuck in my drafts folder for way too long) Le

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-06-10 Thread Paul Cutler
Based on the email thread going, I thought I'd do a quick introduction. I was recently added to Planet GNOME too, where I did a similar introduction. Anyway, I'm Paul, I've been using GNOME for about 10 years, and started contributing in 2007, becoming much more active this year. I've helped

Re: Found another bug in the budget 2009

2009-06-10 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
You might also want to check the Wages and Travel sheet. I think Payroll taxes and Concrete goals are costs. So they should be negative. Let's hope I'm wrong here because that would mean around 8600$ more cost That is $8600 more cost. It's what I estimated for US payroll taxes.  (There are

Re: Minutes from the board meetings

2009-06-10 Thread john palmieri
2009 Minutes are now up too. Thanks. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le mercredi 10 juin 2009, à 11:50 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist a écrit : 2009/6/8 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: The minutes from most of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors' meetings

Re: Found another bug in the budget 2009

2009-06-10 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 23:56, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: Hi Stormy, I was making the budget spreadsheet a bit less error prone by using named cells and found another bug. If you look at the Corporate

Re: Found another bug in the budget 2009

2009-06-10 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote: So if the Concrete Goals are your quarterly bonuses what is the Extra Budget Goals are broken down into concrete goals, things you can say yes, that happened and discretionary which is things the board will have to make

irc board meetings?

2009-06-10 Thread Luis Villa
Some months ago, when we were brining Stormy on board, she asked the board about how she could be more transparent and involved in the community, and IRC came up in that context. One thing I said at the time, which may be worth revisiting if there are general concerns about board transparency, is

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-06-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 06/09/2009 11:31 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: What do you think GNOME should do to support the broader cause of free/libre software, and the freedom of computer users? I think the look, our source code is Free Software argument has lost a lot of appeal in where GNOME has headed in the past