Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 25th, 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Also to note that moving valuables would demand paying and handling customs paperwork. A box with 1000 of valuables can be $200 only for import tax, no matter the purpose. This can be avoided with temporal internment methods but that requires *lots* of time, legal entities established and still

Re: A question to the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi Gil, Perhaps this link is relevant: http://makeplaylive.com/ I would add this questions to your thread: Do you think a similar venture for GNOME would make sense? How do you think this, or a similar project, can happen without leaving us bankrupt? Thanks! :-) Diego On Sun, May 27, 2012 at

Re: Boston Summit: We're going to Montréal!

2011-09-07 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Just wanted to highlight: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: As of 2009, a passport is required for those entering Canada by car. Don't forget your passport. :) ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Reminder: AGM at the Desktop Summit, Berlin, 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
2011/8/8 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: the AGM will be held on Tuesday, August 8, between 1600 and 1800 in the second building of the summit venue, Fritz-Reuter-Saal on Dorotheestrasse. Follow the sound of the ceremonial vuvuzela if you can't find the way. Diego

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-30 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:    On the practical terms, as others stated, we should make sure that    GNOME is great software and has cool features that make people /want/    to use it. It's fine to do that, as much as we can.  But if we only do that,

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes significance

2011-05-30 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey Dave, On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, I was away last week travelling, so I'm coming late to the election campaign. I have almost decided who I would like to vote for, but there are still a few things which are important to me when considering

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

2011-05-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote: Attempts to divide the community and delegitimize individuals and their viewpoints are common, and becoming increasingly so in the past few years. Bad feelings have driven many away from the level of involvement in the

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi Richard, On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: I'd like to ask the candidates this question: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. On the practical terms, as others stated,

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey Jeff On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Jeff Schroeder jschroe...@gnome.org wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-26 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done?

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hello Frederic :) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Frederic Peters fpet...@gnome.org wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with

Candidacy: Diego Escalante Urrelo

2011-05-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
With a more experienced point of view, a record of stuff done, and a new background in communication, I'd like to join the Board again to help. About me: - I'm Diego Escalante Urrelo, contributor since 2007, living in Lima, Perú (UTC-5). - My main involvement has been hacking on Epiphany

Re: GNOME Foundation Hires a System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El vie, 17-09-2010 a las 22:01 -0500, Paul Cutler escribió: The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of Christer Edwards to fill the position of system administrator. Christer joins the GNOME Foundation in a part-time role and will be responsible for working with GNOME's

Re: Question for the candidates : money !

2010-06-01 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
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

Candidacy: Diego Escalante Urrelo

2010-05-23 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Name:Diego Escalante Urrelo Email: die...@gnome.org Nick:diegoe Blog:http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/ Affiliation: Igalia S.L. Summary I'm Diego, 22, from good old Lima - Perú. I've been involved since 2006, I've contributed with code, bug triaging, accounts

Re: Changes in Membership Committee

2010-03-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey! El lun, 22-03-2010 a las 23:18 -0300, Bruno Boaventura escribió: Hello! It was a pleasure for me hold the chairman position of Membership Committee in the last two years. Recently we had a meeting to resolve some issues. One of these things were to elect another chairman to the

Re: New foundation member introduction - This time: Nils-Christoph Fiedler, Low German translator

2010-03-12 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey Nils, El vie, 12-03-2010 a las 15:02 +0100, Nils-Christoph Fiedler escribió: Hi there! Low German is spoken by about 10.000.000 people worldwide and for a few years now accepted as an official minority's language by the European Charta and the Federal Republic of Germany. My ambition in

Re: Non-Free JavaScript

2010-03-07 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi all, this sounds like an interesting topic to discuss over some drinks ;) but right now we are trying to aim the discussion at a GNOME overall roadmap/strategy. So please stay in topic, if you want to discuss something not directly related to the current topic with the whole community you can

Re: Non-Free JavaScript

2010-03-07 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El dom, 07-03-2010 a las 21:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo escribió: Hi all, this sounds like an interesting topic to discuss over some drinks ;) but right now we are trying to aim the discussion at a GNOME overall roadmap/strategy. Just to clarify: this doesn't mean we can't discuss

Re: Stormy's Update: Weeks of February 15th and 22nd

2010-03-01 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El lun, 01-03-2010 a las 21:54 +0100, Vincent Untz escribió: Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 11:02 -0800, Luis Villa a écrit : 2010/3/1 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: GNOME Foundation IRC meeting. How did this go? I guess I spoke way too much ;-) The discussion was mostly about how to

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El dom, 28-02-2010 a las 00:30 +, Alberto Ruiz escribió: I'm going to call for an end of thread, If people want to sort out what their personal points of view on what GNOME should be, I would suggest them to follow up that discussion in private and not in this list anymore. +1.

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-25 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El jue, 25-02-2010 a las 22:29 +0200, Ivan Frade escribió: Hi, The big idea behind GNOME3 can be to offer a completely new User Experience. GNOME2 did well with the usual Menus/panel/folders approach, it brought stability, performance and we built the basic blocks of a Desktop. Now comes

Re: New member introduction

2010-02-12 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El vie, 12-02-2010 a las 07:55 -0500, Joanmarie Diggs escribió: I'm thrilled to be a Foundation member, and really appreciate the welcome messages I've received from those of you I already know. I look forward to getting to know the rest of you. And we appreciate your contributions to

Re: GNOME Q4 2009 Quarterly report

2010-02-03 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi! Just wanted to say three things: 1. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to GNOME in Q4, as hackers, testers, evangelists, friends of gnome! You make it possible, thanks! 2. Thanks to the teams for providing this really good feedback 3. I seem unable to open links in the PDF file.

Re: Foundation IRC meeting, January 30th

2010-01-30 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El sáb, 30-01-2010 a las 12:53 -0500, Og Maciel escribió: Co-located Hackfests It was brought up by zana and seconded by others that a co-located hackfest prior to a possible co-located bigger event such as GUADEC would make more sense, as we could get people from different communities

Foundation IRC meeting, January 30th

2010-01-21 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey everyone, looking forward for feedback and discussion of general issues, the Board would like to invite all GNOME Foundation members to a general purpose IRC meeting: When: Saturday, January 30th, 16:00 UTC Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation We understand that this time might

New hackfest proposal step-by-step guide

2010-01-16 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hello everyone! in the last year we have seen a really positive trend towards organizing Hackfests to speed up the coordination, development and improvement of various projects. You can see a list of all this Hackfests in: http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests If you have been wondering what

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2010-01-15 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El vie, 15-01-2010 a las 06:50 -0300, Bruno Boaventura escribió: Hello everybody! I was quite busy due to my daughter. And now, she is almost three months older, so... I'm back. Really. :-) Congrats Bruno, thanks for keep working on this despite your (highly likely) 3 hours of sleep per

Change of affiliation

2010-01-08 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi, starting on Monday my affiliation will change from none to Igalia. I'll be doing an internship for the following 2 or 3 months working on WebKitGTK+ and Epiphany :-). Have a nice day! Diego ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Expenses Report of Beijing GNOME Users Group from 2008 - 2009

2010-01-06 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El mar, 05-01-2010 a las 16:51 +0800, Emily Chen escribió: Hi all, This is the yearly expense report of Beijing GNOME Users Group in 2008 and 2009. Looks like you are doing great, congratulations to the Beijing GNOME User Group! 2010 will surely be equal or even better ;-)

IRC Foundation meeting?

2009-09-13 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey everyone, lately there has been an idea floating around about having an IRC meeting with the membership of the Foundation, something like the AGM but obviously smaller and text-only :-). Other groups have similar activities once in a while, the goal being sharing a more open space to discuss

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-08-24 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 19:22 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Carl James Collier - Halton Huo - Javier Jardón Cabezas - Milo Casagrande - Tim Horton - Will Thompson Welcome guys! Thanks

Re: I don't have my token

2009-06-20 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:12 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hello there, I don't have my token to vote for the foundation elections :( Ping the membership committee! http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/membership-committee ___ foundation-list

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-05-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey, On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 18:17 +0100, Susana Pereira wrote: Questions - 1. For outgoing board members: what have been the upsides/good things from your previous stint at the Board which you would like to see carried forward into this term ? I would like to keep seeing

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-04-09 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:39 +0200, Stéphane Raimbault wrote: 2009/4/9 Bruno Boaventura bruno...@gnome.org: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is pleased to present the new members: - Andrew Stormont - Jonny Lamb - Li Yuan - Martin Picek Welcome, guys!

The Travel Committee is ready!

2009-04-07 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Dear happy Foundation members: We are happy to announce that the Travel Committee is ready! This new team will be in charge of processing requests for travel and/or accommodation sponsorship for conferences and other activities related to our beloved project. The Travel Committee is composed

Re: Support GTK+

2009-03-16 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi! On 3/16/09, 呉永 w...@shcore.com.cn wrote: Hi, First,Thank you for replying me , I want to zoom in a window just like when we use IE browser,sometime we can't see the web page clearly, so we will use [Ctrl]+[mouse wheel] keys to zoom the page in, in that case we can see the web page

Re: GNOME Travel Committee Travel Policy: A proposal for consideration and feedback

2009-02-19 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 2/18/09, Bruno Boaventura brunoboavent...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Note that I'm not against a generalized co-pay policy, I'm just concerned about making it a rule set to stone that would have an impact on our ability to

Re: New Friends of GNOME program launched!

2009-01-16 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/16/09, Máirín Duffy du...@redhat.com wrote: Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: I wonder if the t-shirts are only for men or women. The webpage doesn't say anything, but I tend to think they are for men. However, are we expecting the supporters comes from one gender only? fwiw I prefer

Re: New Friends of GNOME program launched!

2009-01-16 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/16/09, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: fwiw I prefer men's S shirts rather than shirts that are sized for women, because the sizing on the women's shirts is so unpredictable, In some I'm size M, L, and I actually have one from

Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 1/5/09, Johannes Schmid j...@jsschmid.de wrote: 6. Check all the documentation stuff on live.gnome.org that needs to be updated. That is really important because not everybody is familiar with git. There should also be a short introduction to git somewhere on the wiki. And some

Re: Changes to the GNOME board

2008-12-16 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Thank you all! I'll do my best :-) On 12/15/08, Bruno Boaventura brunoboavent...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!!! Congratulations Diego! Now we can go with our plans from Latin America Complot! Of course Bruno, but don't let the others know ;) ___

Re: Akademy+GUADEC *2009* Hosting Proposals

2008-07-03 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 7/3/08, Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03.07.08 20:54, Quim Gil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Lennart Poettering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there even any direct flights to Tampere, except from HEL? Ryanair in Tampere operates

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey On 4/22/08, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally. However, I suspect that because the

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

2007-12-01 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 12/1/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: I still don't think Foundation should get involved into saying place X is an approbed training center, I fear that would go beyond its scope. But the foundation could publish a syllabus and some sample

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

2007-12-01 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 12/1/07, Philip Van Hoof [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 10:18 +, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: On 12/1/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doing that quality control could eat some (human) resources. Also as John says this could easily lead to an unintentioned

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

2007-11-30 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey On 11/30/07, Bastian, Waldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o. What is your opinion on an examination that could carry the title: GNOME Mobile certified software developer exam If the examination is offered by a third party, then I would say they are violating the trademark

Re: Question for the candidates [Was: Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates]

2007-11-30 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey On 11/30/07, Elijah Newren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (...) What will you as a candidate do to make sure we avoid this mess in the future? I can only think of asking for question much sooner or proposing some topics under which to fill questions. But honestly, I don't know if anything

Re: Question to candidates: what about next ODF?

2007-11-28 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey, On 11/28/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, One question to candidates: Wil you promote the Foundation's participation on the reviewing of ODF? Why won't we?. It's on the interest of or community to promote free standards, free software and if

Re: two questions for candidates

2007-11-26 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey, On 11/26/07, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about OOXML? Mmmm, I would have included a line in all-caps saying GNOME Foundation doesn't like OOXML, we have someone in the committee because standard or not Ms is

Re: A question to candidates

2007-11-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hi, On 11/22/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I did send these to the membership committee, but voting's nearly open, and I think they're important, so I guess I'll just ask... The foundation's role is essentially to facilitate the enthusiasm of the GNOME project, as Andrew

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-11-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hello :) On 11/22/07, Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Questions to the candidates: Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME? No, I don't think so. Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board member? No, if I'm elected

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 11/19/07, Bruno Boaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each

Candidacy: Diego Escalante Urrelo

2007-11-15 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Name: Diego Escalante Urrelo Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Affl: None Misc. Nick: dieguito Blog: http://diegoe.blogspot.com (in Spanish) GNOME-Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe Summary --- I'm running for the Board because I want to help GNOME in areas where I haven't yet helped, but I feel

Re: clarification and apology [was Re: board]

2007-11-08 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 11/8/07, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 7:44 PM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apologies for the impression I may have created about the current board. No problem, Luis. I don't think the board members got bad feelings for your constructive and rather justified

Re: About the coming election

2007-11-06 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
Hey Anne :) On 11/6/07, Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the coming election of new board members. It is time for reflection on whether you would like to run for election, for the next GNOME Board of Directors, for the next period of eighteen months. In my view, it is

Re: Thank you everyone for a wonderful GUADEC 2007

2007-07-25 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 7/25/07, Claudio Saavedra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:36 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote: It is also a pleasure for me to inform you all that next years GUADEC 2008 will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Congratulations Barış and everyone behind this proposal! Yes!.

Sponsorship letter

2007-06-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
it may concern (is this english?) On behalf of The GNOME Foundation, I would like to confirm that Mr. Diego Escalante Urrelo is being sponsored to attend GUADEC 2007: The GNOME Conference 15th - 21st July, 2007, Birmingham, United Kingdom, the 8th annual GNOME Users and Developers European

Re: [guadec-list] Sponsorship letter

2007-06-29 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 6/29/07, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:56 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: Hello everyone, (sorry if someone gets duplicates of this) Fighting the consulates, I realized that it would be a good idea to have a letter from the foundation where