Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015

Le mardi 10 novembre 2015 à 09:07 +, Debarshi Ray a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > Deferred: > >  * Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by the same name > > Where is this thread? This was referring to the one on the board's mailing list

Re: Agenda for board meeting on October 26th

Hm, the subject line in my previous message is wrong, I meant to say "October 27th", obviously. Still calibrating that DeLorean I found last Wednesday. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Agenda for board meeting on October 26th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its weekly meeting this Tuesday at 19h UTC. Like last week, I will be serving as interim vice-vice-chairperson. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Trademark renewals * Replacing Christian Hergert (and choosing a new

Re: gnomes collecting pants nominations

Le samedi 18 juillet 2015 à 22:03 -0500, Michael Catanzaro a écrit : Quick question: does this rule exclude current board members, incoming board members, or both? Both the new (incoming) and last (outgoing) board members are excluded from this, as far as I understand it, since those present

Agenda for board meeting on July 20th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Monday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC adboard meeting agenda * Trademark-infringing swag? (mousepads on Amazon) * GIMP expenses (tent, camera, LGM 2015 attendance) * Pants Award

gnomes collecting pants nominations

Hi folks, in preparation for GUADEC the board meeting this Monday, we'd like to collect nominations for the traditional Pants Award. The criteria for people you'd like to nominate are: * Must go above and beyond in his or her contributions to GNOME. This should be outside (or in addition to)

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

Le mardi 07 juillet 2015 à 09:46 +0200, Jens Georg a écrit : * https://kickstarter.com/projects/technoruninc/stratos/ Apart from the massive annoying marketing speech in the kickstarter, what's the exact purpose of this point? No particular purpose other than to bring it up for

Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Tuesday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Desktop Summit 2011 taxes * Travel committee budget applications status update * Vote on a travel subsidy for keynote at Open Source Hong Kong *

Agenda for board meeting on June 19th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC 2015 * Tradeoff for one potential sponsor * Last minute efforts to secure additional GUADEC

Agenda for board meeting on June 5th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 14h UTC. (We could not have a meeting last week due to time constraints, and can't have one at the regular time this week due to other scheduling constraints.) Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting:

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a complete desktop?)

Replying inline to your reply (stripping my own previous text): [...] I'm not asking you to be technical, but to be managers. (Not saying here that manager can/should/must be non-technical) [...] Being a director of the board for me, means having the power to allocate resources to make GNOME

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a complete desktop?)

Hi Erick, This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. Unless you clearly define what you mean by complete, fully integrated desktop environment… as everyone is going to have a different opinion on

Re: More questions for Board candidates

Le jeudi 21 mai 2015 à 17:25 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has been said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board have a diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to answer yes on these,

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Jeff Fortin Tam

above. Thank you for your consideration, Jean-François Jeff Fortin Tam ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Agenda for board meeting on May 15th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Cosigning a letter/statement against backdoors * GUADEC 2015: FFKP agreement * Brainstorming ideas for the next adboard meeting

Summary of work done throughout 2014-2015

Dear Foundation Members, In case you missed it with the flurry of activity on Planet GNOME lately, you might be interested in this report: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/05/07/presidents-report-the-state-of-the-gnome-foundation/ Among other things, it summarizes what your elected board of

Agenda for board meeting on April 30th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Thursday at 16 or 18h UTC. (We could not have a meeting last week due to time constraints and having had an advisory board meeting the day before.) Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC 2015

Agenda for board meeting on March 27th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Partnerships sitrep: adboard outreach, conferences * GNOME.Asia summit budget * Steps for getting into agreement with

Re: Agenda for board meeting on March 27th

Le vendredi 27 mars 2015 à 17:19 +0100, Alexandre Franke a écrit : Hi, On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jeff Fortin Tam nekoh...@gmail.com wrote: If you would like the board to discuss any particular issues at the next meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda here

Agenda for board meeting on March 13th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GIMP funds release request for travel to LGM * Sponsorship for GNOME Asia GUADEC * Various * Review action items

Agenda for board meeting on February 13

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. That's actually in 30 minutes, sorry for not being able to announce it earlier this time. This is a normal meeting after the special ED Search meeting we've had this Wednesday. It replaces the meeting

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

Emmanuele wrote: [...] arguably, this should have been set up right at the end of the previous board's term/beginning of this board's term, but I suspect that the GroupOn issue threw a massive spanner in everybody's timetable. Yep. Among other things :) By the way, I wanted to let you

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

Hi Alberto, thanks for bringing this up and keeping us in check. I guess I, for one, can take some blame for the way I've been setting meeting agendas lately. Part of the problem is that we keep having to react to a ton of *time-critical* or sensitive situations (I don't know if it's always like

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 09th, 2015

Le lundi 26 janvier 2015 à 17:25 -0800, Luis Villa a écrit : On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: * ED search ? Oh, this was not written down in the minutes, but the last two topics (reviewing tasks, ED search) were not touched upon during the

Agenda for board meeting on January 23rd

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of the proposed agenda/topics for this meeting: * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015 * Next steps for the Outreach Program * Responding to a phone press inquiry asking

Agenda for board meeting on January 9th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting so far: * Funding - quick status check on: Ecosystem (re)mapping Adboard outreach Sysadmin sponsorship * Sitrep on deal

Agenda for board meeting on November 14th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting: * Groupon followup * NDA for sysadmins (for the privacy policy) * Karen's GUADEC 2014 travel expenses reimbursement (Other topics may

Agenda for board meeting on October 10th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting: * Groupon * Thank you for a Philanthropist-level Friends of GNOME donation from Edward Swartz * Vote on applying the GUADEC 2014

Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

Hello Foundation members! Apologies for the late posting, I was swamped today and this slipped out of my mind. The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting: * Groupon * Bountysource account for the Foundation

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

Le samedi 13 septembre 2014 à 14:32 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet a écrit : Hello, I know that money and OPW are sensitive topics, but I would like to better understand, and some transparency shouldn't hurt. For each GSoC student, the mentoring organization receives 500$. How is this money

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

Additional thoughts on what I just said in my previous mail: [...] In theory I don't see a reason why GNOME couldn't store for many years the GNOME project gsoc mentor 500$ stipends it receives, except that in practice they are too little and thus end up being used completely (I think).

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August 15th, 2014

Le mardi 26 août 2014 à 20:08 -0700, Germán Poo-Caamaño a écrit : First at all, thanks for the minutes. A couple of questions: [...] * Outstanding brand use requests * need someone to take action/mail Carol Hanson re: Permission request for Personal use of Gnome foot * ACTION:

Agenda for board meeting on August 15th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda for this meeting: * Quick check on accounts receivable * Groupon * Final wording checks for updated Travel Policy * GNOME Privacy project * Varia *

Team Reports on July 26th, GNOME Annual General Meeting on July 28th

Hi everyone, We would like to invite all GNOME Foundation members to attend the Team Reports session at GUADEC on Saturday (July 26th, 16h45 to 17h45) and the Annual General Meeting on Monday (July 28th, 11h45 to 12h45). If you are not yet a GNOME Foundation member, now is a great time to become

Re: Supporting the free software movement

Le samedi 31 mai 2014 à 6:22 -0400, Richard Stallman a écrit : Would candidates please answer the question, How will you direct the GNOME Foundation to promote the general idea of free software: that software should be free/libre? I mean, beyond just making GNOME a good and useful

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

Le lundi 19 mai 2014 à 11:19 -0700, Jim Nelson a écrit : Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this goal?) I tend to think

Re: Question for candidates

With regards to priorities of the GNOME Foundation, Last I heard, the case of the OPW cash flow problems was being taken care of, unlike what news sites would have you believe. It seemed like a matter of time for sponsors follow-up activities to resolve the situation, and AFAICT we're 75% there.

Re: question for candidates

Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 11:56 -0700, Andy Tai a écrit : What are your views on the participation of the people of these projects, as stake holders in the direction of gtk+, in the GNOME Foundation? Should the GNOME Foundation encourage (reach out to) these people to get them involved in the

Board of Directors Election 2014 - Candidacy - Jean-François Fortin Tam

where I hope to make a difference. Thank you for your consideration, Jean-François Jeff Fortin Tam [0]: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2012/10/08/reducing-our-core-apps-software-inventory/ [1]: see also my GUADEC 2013 talk ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

As far as I see, there are 3 different people working on this (or at least 2 plus another one interested in). It might be a good idea if you could coordinate between yourselves if you have not done that yet. Yes, I'll email James and Tristan (are there others?) to try to coordinate something.

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I'm currently trying to organize this in Montréal, it would be lovely to have you folks here again. I'm researching venues and talking to various local folks right now to see where we could find some free venue. It will take me some time but I'll get

Re: GNOME now

I don't really have a clear answer for an all-encompassing vision and roadmap, but I may offer my blog post from this summer as a starting point: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2012/08/05/staring-into-the-axis-abyss-the-railgun-map/ It tries to frame things from an ecosystem standpoint and the