Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Philip Van Hoof
Hi there, Right now I think we should do the vote Behdad is calling for. I'm waiting until the discussion about it goes to sleep to make up my mind about it (and then either add or don't add my name to the wiki page). I think the implementation should be broader than only foundation members. I

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote: ps. The rest is off topic. It's a bit silly that yet another off topic thread is starting. Richard, the topic is Behdad's call for a vote. Not your ethical believe system. No matter how important you think that is.

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
On 12/15/09 1:25 PM, Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com wrote: Perhaps what we do need is for the board to have a stronger connection to mass media and be ready to articulate public responses properly framing discussions and correcting any incorrect reporting. Actually, this is something

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
Typically, you work with a public relations firm. Media training is mostly a bunch of pointers (Never say, 'No comment'; Never cite specific numbers, unless you are confident you can back them up) and a bunch of structured practice in question-and-answer situations, confrontational and non-. We

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Claudio Saavedra
El mié, 16-12-2009 a las 01:01 -0500, Richard Stallman escribió: Doesn't this undermines the values of the open source community? To cite the values of open source as an ethical standard is ironic, because the motive for open source was to avoid presenting an ethical standard. You are (once

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 12/15/09 1:25 PM, Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com wrote: Perhaps what we do need is for the board to have a stronger connection to mass media and be ready to articulate public responses properly framing discussions and correcting any incorrect reporting.

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1On 15.12.2009 15:50, Jason D. Clinton wrote: No, do not detract it. There's a reason there's a debian-devel-private and a kde-private. According to Jeff in

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I bet I could find such training. I'd like to do some of the media work. I'm a natural talker, but I need some rules to make sure that I say the right things as I can spew garbage from time to time. sri On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: On Wed, Dec

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heya, On 15.12.2009 15:50, Jason D. Clinton wrote: No, do not detract it. There's a reason there's a debian-devel-private and a kde-private. According to Jeff in 20091215033304.ge4...@node.waugh.id.au there is gnome-private as well:

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

2009-12-16 Thread Stormy Peters
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: 2009/12/14 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Had a great GNOME Advisory Board meeting about events and copyright assignments. The copyright assignment discussion in particular was very dynamic. Care to expand on that one?