[Fwd: GNOME Developer Survey]

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Meeks
These people are irritating ... three spams from the same group. They shot themselves in the foot in the third paragraph with the twenty minutes IMHO. Can I suggest that the Board complains to these guys for hassling our contributors - and/or is this sanctioned - I assume it must

Re: Berlin Desktop Summit 2011 proposal

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 21:02 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: It might be generally useful to do something to help GNOME contributors meet up based on where they live. We do so much in cyberspace, in which a person's geographical location is irrelevant, that come the day when geographical

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

2010-06-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 11:21 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: It would be better if GNOME defined a precise set of rules (ie. don't mention religion). And you might know - I rather liked Lefty's random talk on his buddhist pilgrimage at the last GUADEC, but Aaron's bacon-fest horribly

Re: Stormy's Update: Week of December 7th

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Murray, On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 10:54 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: My concern is that code without a copyright holder cannot really be under any license. This is a very frequently made point; of course - IANAL. But if you follow this argument to it's logical conclusion this makes all

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-29 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:38 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Dave Neary wrote: A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work: In count 1, Vincent has 60 votes, they're shoved into a stack. The top 33 votes from the stack get redistributed in count 2. So the phrase vote

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: You just announced the results based on first-past-the-post, when the elections were to be run using preferential voting, with single transferable vote and fractional surplus transfer. Ah ! the famous 'Meek' method (no relation);

Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:43 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: NNB. don't believe everything you read ;-) particularly in this area. Specially from people who work for a company that is strategically aligned with Microsoft. 1stly that's the purest nonsense :-) Novell competes

Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Richard, I was interested by your mail: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 16:48 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: The 2006 Microsoft patent policy does not eliminate the patent obstacles to implementing OOXML. See