Hi Olav,
Hello Seif,
Reading your motivation I think I understand what you mean, but would
like to know for sure. As such, I'd appreciate if you could expand some
more on your motivation. Further, though I think I understand, I'm
purposely asking very open ended questions (to avoid
Bring up and fix issues with GNOME that are being ignored or shunned.
Can you list these?
I will just be frank here...
Translation shifting from upstream to downstream ?
Development infrastructure limiting upstream contribution.
Canonical's Unity development, what does it mean for GNOME ?
Hi my dear candidates,
I've a question about GNOME business model and sustanability. As we have
seen with the fundrising to hire a sysadmin, money is often a blocking
point. The current business model seems to be donations.
Do you think that donations are good ? Good enough ? Do you plan to work
Sorry, reply rather than reply all...
-- Forwarded Message
From: David Schlesinger le...@shugendo.org
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:39:59 -0700
To: Iain i...@gnome.org
Conversation: Candidacy: Seif Lotfy
Subject: Re: Candidacy: Seif Lotfy
On 6/1/10 7:38 AM, Iain i...@gnome.org wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 09:38 -0700, Lefty (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQFA2QBsoQg==?= )
wrote:
Xav apparently needs to examine the headers
first for evidence of lurking shill-hood or something of that sort.
Sometimes the apparences are wrong.
Evolution just shows me the mailer along with the From, To
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.24.0.100205
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:41:19 -0700
Subject: FW: Candidacy: Seif Lotfy
From: Lefty (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQFA2QBsoQg==?= ) le...@shugendo.org
I find it quite amusing that you're using a Microsoft client on an Apple
pc to defend your GNOME candidacy.
On 06/01/2010 01:08 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
On 6/1/10 10:01 AM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote:
Err .. nothing, except my extraordinary ability to mix their names ? :)
You're displaying quite a host of extraordinary abilities this morning.
Can we please stop this subthread now?
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:39 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
• Encourage more cooperation on design between RH and
Canonical.
What do you mean concretely (design of what)? Why RH and
Canonical
specifically?
I left out Intel, Nokia, Novell
Lionel:
I've a question about GNOME business model and sustanability. As we have
seen with the fundrising to hire a sysadmin, money is often a blocking
point. The current business model seems to be donations.
Actually, The GNOME Foundation acquires money from several sources:
- Advisory
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:07 -0700, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
On 6/1/10 9:49 AM, Claudio Saavedra csaave...@gnome.org wrote:
I wouldn't
be happy to see this kind of sarcasm being used by people
running the
Foundation, if they happen to disagree with other
members.
Happily for everyone, I'm
Hi,
El mar, 01-06-2010 a las 15:11 -0500, Brian Cameron escribió:
Do you plan to work on this business model ? Do you have any proposals ?
- The board is currently working to develop a program to allow
companies and organizations to donate money. This program would
be directed at
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote:
Hi!
I will just be frank here...
• Translation shifting from upstream to downstream ?
• Development infrastructure limiting upstream contribution.
• Canonical's Unity development, what does it mean for GNOME ?
•
The GNOME Foundation is hiring a system administrator. Thanks to all
of you who have made this possible!
http://live.gnome.org/Sysadmin/JobDescription
= System Administrator Job Description =
The GNOME Foundation is seeking candidates for a part-time system
administrator position. The GNOME
Hi!
AFAIK there are quite a few standing issues with GNOME arabic
support.
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Gnome
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%85
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420964
These are slightly out of date though.
Hmm, the bugs seem mostly fixed and I
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote:
Hi!
AFAIK there are quite a few standing issues with GNOME arabic
support.
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Gnome
http://wiki.arabeyes.org/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%85
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420964
Here is a question for the candidates.
To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to
develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and
demand the freedom that free software offers them. We need to advance
at the practical level and at the philosophical
Hi,
I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of
questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for
Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long time
and I'm not being patient here :-)
I apologize because some of those questions
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
Here is a question for the candidates.
To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to
develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and
demand the freedom that free software offers them. We need
Vincent:
1) I've read with interest the mails from the candidates announcing
they're running, and most (if not all -- I didn't double-check)
include some motivations with examples of what they'd be interested
in working on.
Why are those tasks/ideas things you cannot work on
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Hi,
I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of
questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting
for
Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long
time
and I'm not being
Richard:
To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to
develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and
demand the freedom that free software offers them. We need to advance
at the practical level and at the philosophical level.
GNOME is good free
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:19 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
Yet you think the solution to attracting new developers is to
wrap the
processes up in red tape and technical boards or design
boards? Surely
Free Software is supposed to be
The secret master plan
Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer
somewhere! It would be really useful
To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents
that everybody has seen:
http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf
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