Call for GUADEC BoF and Lightning Talks opened until June 18h

2012-05-29 Thread Xabier Rodriguez Calvar
The public Call for Participation for Lightning Talks, BoF and Hackfest has officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC [1]) conference. You can read the call for participations at http://www.guadec.org/lightning-bof-cfp and submit your proposal at the

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-29 Thread Andy Wingo
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

A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Andrea Veri
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is proud to announce a new Membership status: Emeritus. Introduction The MembershipCommittee may receive Membership renewal applications from Foundation members that provided a good amount of valuable and high quality contributions in the

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future. This sounds very vague. When does past end and when does

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Rūdolfs Mazurs
O , 2012-05-29 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri rakstīja: Benefits Emeritus members do not have all the benefits that are available to the Full Members, but they will able to keep: 1. their existing @gnome.org mail alias. 2. their existing blog hosted at http://blogs.gnome.org. 3. their

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Debarshi Ray
Interestingly, is an emeritus eligible to be listed in gnome planet? From the portion of the original announcement that you quoted: Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion :-) Happy hacking, Debarshi -- KR is like the Bible. The fervent read it from end

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Andrea Veri
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Andre Klapper wrote: On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 22:26 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Members of the Foundation are required to have made a valuable, recent and non-trivial contribution to the project, and should be planning to actively contribute in the future. [...] Or

Re: Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-29 Thread Brian Cameron
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