Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 15:47 -0500, Ariel Rios a écrit : The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, it was agreed that such a box would be most welcome for events in North America

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 17:34 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño a écrit : On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:47 -0500, Ariel Rios wrote: The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, it was agreed that

Re: Notes from the Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
(Disclaimer: I'm certainly not a specialist about Asia) Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 06:35 +0200, Quim Gil a écrit : Some comments with a GUADEC perspective (I'm capable of having other perspectives but apparently these months I'm a one-topic guy) :) :-) On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:34 +0200,

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Murray Cumming
Could be this be able for Latin America too? [snip] The European box has shown that we have enough difficulty planning when we have to tell UPS about the pick up 2/3 days before the delivery time. People either think of it the day before the event, or just expect the box to magically arrive

Re: LSB summit in Boston

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 09:33 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Hi all, There will be a LSB summit in Boston on 1st and 2nd of June (same place as Usenix). The details are at: http://freestandards.org/en/LSB_Summit Is there anyone from GNOME going there, or wanting to go there? One topic

Re: Call for comments on where to have GUADEC in 2007

2006-05-18 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Glynn Foster wrote: Neither of the bids have any details about financials and budgets - I think the decisions can't possibly made until we know the details of what the costs involved of hosting in each of the bids. Aside from the cost of the venue, which we have

Re: Call for comments on where to have GUADEC in 2007

2006-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Glynn Foster wrote: Neither of the bids have any details about financials and budgets - I think the decisions can't possibly made until we know the details of what the costs involved of hosting in each of the bids. Aside from the cost of the venue, which we have never paid (at least not

Trademark agreement (ODT update)

2006-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, First off, I'd like to thank Dom and DW Price for their comments on the contract. In fact, DW did a *huge* job going over the contract, and I've put his commented version and the original on ODT format in the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Trademark at the top of the page. We now probably have

Mellon awards

2006-05-18 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, http://rit.mellon.org/awards The GNOME Foundation qualifies for these awards, surely. Who would like to write a first draft of a (max. 1000 words) nomination? In my experience, the shorter the better, if you can do it in 200 words, that would be great. Please reply here with efforts.

Re: Notes from the Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 09:06 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit : [snip] One thing that was highlighted by some of the Chinese people during the discussion about this is that there is, unfortunately, a cultural difference that makes it hard for lots of Asian people to contribute. So we really

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
Lucas Rocha escribió: Hi, I think the situation is different in Europe than in Latin-America. I do not think that is feasible to do it at least in South America (I would like to be wrong, anyway). I strongly agree. :-) In South America the distances are very different than in Europe and

Re: LSB summit in Boston

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Stallman
The Linux Standards Base is a plan to develop a specification for the GNU system. Not, in this case, for the GNU/Linux combination, just for GNU, because these specs don't concern the kernel, Linux. It is purely for GNU, but they call GNU Linux. If we want to develop specs for the GNU system,