On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
First, while I'm extremely impressed by the huge variety of UI design
ideas that GNOME has experimented with, and many of them have been quite
successful, I think GNOME needs some mechanism to recognize when an idea
People can do as they like on their own systems and resources, but when
participating in the GNOME community, they should do so with respect.
Refusing to exclude anyone is itself an exclusionary policy; it selects
for the kind of people who will put up with absolutely anything, and
excludes
Hey Erick!
Erick Pérez Castellanos eric...@gnome.org wrote:
...
First, thanks to all of you for running as directors.
Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking
integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop
environment like Mac OS X, for
Hi Marina!
Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote:
...
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and for all
the work you already do for the Foundation!
Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their
events [1] and some for their
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:52:55PM -0400, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote:
First, thanks to all of you for running as directors.
Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking
integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop
environment like Mac OS
- Original Message -
From: Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org
To: Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com
Cc: foundation-list foundation-list@gnome.org
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 1:06:49 PM
Subject: Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:41
Hi!
On Sa, 2015-05-23 at 11:41 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar
to the one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating
a similarly detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community?
It's a complicated
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:05:30PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
Nobody is asking anyone to sign anything. A CoC would simply be a
stated policy for expected behavior on community resources, such as
mailing lists,
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
Nobody is asking anyone to sign anything. A CoC would simply be a
stated policy for expected behavior on community resources, such as
mailing lists, IRC, Bugzilla, wikis, email, etc.
Except the board did ask the
Hi Erick,
This is a little difficult to answer, since is a very wide question that
resembles how can we make GNOME better? which is what all of we try
to do, and I'm not sure most part of it is directly fixable by the
board, but instead indirectly.
Said that, as we know by the nature of GNOME
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
Hi Erick
First, thanks to all of you for running as directors.
Thanks for your question!
Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking
integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop
environment like Mac OS X, for instance. My question is:
What
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
mari...@redhat.com wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their
events [1] and some for their communities [2]. Detailed codes of conduct with
specific enforcement guidelines signal to
Hi Marina,
I think we all agree we want a welcome community, and that means searching for
the commune divisor and not allowing anything outside that.
As far as I saw, all the previous answer from the candidates share the same
opinion.
I would actually like to have a code of conduct for every
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 05:15:29PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
I suggest
2015-05-23 17:41 GMT+02:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com:
What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar to the
one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating a similarly
detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community?
Having a final
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events
and in general. And thank you for raising this issue.
Some searching turned up
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org
wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events
and in general.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:34:14AM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote:
OK in light of these responses, I feel I should maybe better clarify that
whilst I agree this sort of stance may be a fair way to moderated
communications with non-members, I do not agree with expelling card
carrying members from
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
There's some comments inline.
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Jeff Fortin Tam nekoh...@gmail.com
wrote:
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.
I'm not asking you to be
Hi Marina,
Thanks for your question!
What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar to the
one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating a similarly
detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community?
I hold the view that the vast majority people will
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events
and in general. And thank you for raising this issue.
Some searching turned up https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct
, but that's definitely
Hi Olav,
I don't follow why I'd sign something can cause legal issues for me if I
could do without that.
I am not sure why you are concerned that a community code of conduct could
cause legal issues for you, are you able to elaborate on that?
I think in the question the GNOME community vs
Hi Richard,
I agree, it is probably appropriate for those of us who have answered to
hold off on debating about CoCs for the time being. Apologies for the
noise. I'm happy to back off so other candidates can answer Marina's
question. Do carry on... :D
Magdalen
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:15 PM
Hi Marina,
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com
wrote:
What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar to
the one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating a
similarly detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community?
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
I suggest that
we postpone discussion on codes of conduct until after the election.
Hi,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and for all
the work you already do for the Foundation!
Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their events
[1] and some for their communities [2]. Detailed codes of conduct with specific
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:41:06AM -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote:
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and
for all the work you already do for the Foundation!
Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for
their events [1] and some for
On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:03 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
Hi, perhaps a little late to the party here but I thought I'd ask
anyway. One of the most frequent enhancements people suggest to
gnome-software is the ability to donate to both upstream applications,
and to independent developers. This
Thanks to everyone for your answers. That was useful information.
Allan
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
Sorry for my late response. I've been at a conference all of this week and
I was not able to focus on the question.
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at
Hi Allan
On 21 May 2013 11:12, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
[…]
It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this
time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find myself
asking is: what do you think you will personally bring to the role if
you are
- Original Message -
From: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com
To: foundation-list foundation-list@gnome.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:12:45 AM
Subject: A Question for New Candidates
Hi everyone,
Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board
candidate. It's
Hi everyone,
Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board
candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing to spend time on
the foundation.
It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this
time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 11:21 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote:
Hi all,
First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME!
My question is about hardware and contacts:
The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system
by itself, for them hardware and software
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com writes:
I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive
organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and
initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed.
On 05/27/2012 11:21 AM, Gil Forcada wrote:
My question is about hardware and contacts: The average user is not
going to ever install its own operating system by itself, for them
hardware and software come together and they die together, so a new
version of Windows means a new laptop and so on,
On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com writes:
I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive
organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and
initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed. I'd
like there be less 'we need
Emmanuele:
On 05/28/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
[just a bit of backstory, here, also to help out eventual other
candidates in case I'm not elected] the meeting minutes are written
down during the meeting itself by using a collaborative editor, so
that everyone on the meeting can
hi Allan; thanks for the question.
On 25 May 2012 08:21, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view?
If it is, what do you think can be done about it?
I think
[jumping into the thread at random]
Dave Neary dne...@free.fr wrote:
...
So I would try to have the minutes sent
around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet
to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more (timely)
public.
I don't know if I count or not,
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that
you are interested in doing this important work.
A question for you:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
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
2012/5/27 Gil Forcada gforc...@gnome.org:
Hi all,
First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME!
My question is about hardware and contacts:
The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system
by itself, for them hardware and software come together and
I'm going to reply here, because I really don't know how to answer
the original email.
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote:
...
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project.
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 11:21 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote:
Hi all,
First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME!
My question is about hardware and contacts:
The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system
by itself, for them hardware and software
Bonjour :)
On 25.05.2012 09:21, Allan Day wrote:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view?
If it is, what do you think can be done about it?
I wouldn't say I see a divorce. I'd say it feels a bit
On 05/28/2012 05:59 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
Unless we
had an interesting agenda item (e.g. future of the Desktop Summit),
people didn't attend. I assume it's because they didn't have anything
pressing to say.
I have made an effort to attend those meetings and my problems at the
times were
On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
ne doesn't know what is happening and thus
being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes sent
around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet
to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more
I meant not getting board meeting MINUTES below. Sorry.
On 05/28/2012 11:44 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
On 05/28/2012 05:59 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
Unless we
had an interesting agenda item (e.g. future of the Desktop Summit),
people didn't attend. I assume it's because they didn't have
hi;
On 28 May 2012 05:03, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote:
On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
ne doesn't know what is happening and thus
being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes sent
around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 06:06 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
On 28 May 2012 05:03, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote:
On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
ne doesn't know what is happening and thus
being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes
sent
around
On 05/25/2012 09:21 AM, Allan Day wrote:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view?
If it is, what do you think can be done about it?
Having been off the board for a year, I can definitely say it
Hi all,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that
you are interested in doing this important work.
A question for you:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view?
If it is,
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 08:21 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that
you are interested in doing this important work.
A question for you:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of
2012/5/25 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that
you are interested in doing this important work.
Thank you.
A question for you:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the
Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote:
...
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project.
I don't quite understand the question. The Board is not where technical
decisions are made, it's not where applications or new dependencies are
On 2012-05-25 12:54, gnomeu...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/5/25 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com:
Hi all,
Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic
that
you are interested in doing this important work.
Thank you.
A question for you:
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote:
...
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project.
I don't quite understand the question. The Board is not where technical
decisions are
Hi,
On 05/25/2012 09:24 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
Why do you think the Board of Directors is divorced from
the project?
I personally don't hear or see very much of what the board gets up to,
and I don't feel like Foundation membership
Hi Lionel,
Brian has already given a good answer about fundraising. I would like to
offer some ideas from my point of view.
1. We could sell GNOME merchandise on GNOME stores/websites in different
countries around the world. For example we can host a GNOME store in China
using Taobao[1], the
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:11 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
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
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
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
Here's a question that I would like the candidates to answer.
What do you think GNOME should do to support the
broader cause of free/libre software,
and the freedom of computer users?
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On 06/09/2009 10:34 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Here's a question that I would like the candidates to answer.
What do you think GNOME should do to support the
broader cause of free/libre software,
and the freedom of computer users?
I see one thing GNOME should *continue* to do: improve the
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 18:42 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
Hi,
As warned about earlier in this election (by someone with better
foresight than I have), when there isn't an organized call for
questions people will fire off zillions of them at random. This puts
an unreasonable burden on not
quote who=Elijah Newren
What will you as a candidate do to make sure we avoid this mess in the
future?
Work with the Membership Committee to document their practices and make sure
they perform them more consistently in future years.
During the current term, I have already made that you won't
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
quote who=Jeff Waugh
Work with the Membership Committee to document their practices and make
sure they perform them more consistently in future years.
Miss one word and it changes the entire tone... and help make sure. They
have done a great job this year, though as a result of numerous
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