Re: Welcome, Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation Executive Director!

[Julita Inca Chiroque]

What impressive professional life!
Welcome Neil!!!
Thanks for choosing GNOME :D
Bests,
Julita

El miércoles, 1 de febrero de 2017, Nuritzi Sanchez 
escribió:

> Dear Foundation Members,
>
> After a long period of being without an Executive Director, I'm pleased to
> announce on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board the appointment of Neil
> McGovern.
>
> Neil will officially begin to work for the GNOME Foundation on *February
> 15, 2017* and will operate from the United Kingdom. Please join us in
> welcoming him!
>
> For those of you who don't know him, Neil is an experienced leader in Free
> Software projects and is best known for his role as Debian Project Leader
> from 2014-15. He has been on the Boards of numerous organizations,
> including Software in the Public Interest, Inc. and the Open Rights Group.
>
> Neil has a strong technical background and has contributed to Debian as a
> developer for over twelve years. He comes most recently from Collabora, a
> respected open source consultancy, where we worked as an Engineering
> Manager and received a glowing recommendation from Collabora CEO, Philippe
> Kalaf.
>
> The Board believes that Neil is in a good position to foster greater
> collaboration between GNOME and other Free Software projects. He joins
> GNOME at an exciting time, with the emergence of new technologies such as
> Flatpak, Builder, and GTK+4. Neil's experience working with the Debian
> project will no doubt help us forge closer relations between our two
> projects, and his experience at Collabora, coupled with his technological
> expertise, means that he has the knowledge to promote our technologies
> further.
>
> While not yet directly involved as a contributor, Neil's interest in GNOME
> began in 2002 when he first tried the GNOME desktop as a user, and he has
> been following the GNOME project ever since. He attended first GUADEC in A
> Coruña in 2012, and is looking forward to attending this year's GUADEC in
> Manchester.
>
> It has been three years since the GNOME Foundation has had an Executive
> Director, Karen Sandler. Neil's job will be to support the GNOME project,
> particularly in terms of fundraising, outreach, and strategy. The Board
> thanks members of the Executive Director Search Committee, as well as past
> Board members, for their help finding Neil and other strong candidates for
> this hiring round.
>
> *Neil will be attending FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend (February 4 - 5)*.
> The Board encourages Foundation members to speak to Neil at the event and
> offer him a warm welcome.
>
> In just a few minutes, we will be announcing Neil's joining us to the
> wider community via a news item  on gnome.org,
> and on social media. Please help us spread the word.
>
> Get ready for an exciting year ahead!
>
> Best,
> Nuritzi
>
>
> --
> Nuritzi Sanchez
> GNOME Foundation 
> President, Board of Directors
>
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Re: Proposal: creation of IRC Operators Team

[Jonathan Kang]

Hi Carlos

I'm in UTC+0800 timezone, and I'd like to help if it's needed. My
registered nickname is jkang, and I'm usually available mainly in
#gnome-hackers #newcomers #guadec and #bugs.

Cheers.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:54 PM Carlos Soriano via foundation-list <
foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sri, that's actually my main worry about this initiative. Can you, and
> people on non European zone, give some names of people usually active on
> irc on those timezones in the main channels?
>
> That would be awesome to have the initiative complete.
>
> Best regards,
> Carlos Soriano
>
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Memberships needing renewal (2016-12)

[GNOME Foundation Membership Committee]

Hi,

as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a
renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail:

First name Last name, (Last renewed on)

Jana Svarova, 2014-12-02
Kalev Lember, 2014-12-02


The Renewal form can be found at [2].

Cheers,
   GNOME Membership and Elections Committee

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg0.html
[2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/

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The Goal of Gnome

[joshbaldwin42 .]

Hello!

I'm not sure the correct group to contact with this question, so feel free
to send me elsewhere.

I was reading all about the GNOME Foundation and tools.  But what struck me
is the lack of an overall vision for the GNOME Foundation.

What is your goal?  GNOME supports a wide range of applications and
libraries.  What makes a piece of software GNOME?  Why would you want a
specific piece of software under GNOME?  Do you have priority projects to
fit your vision similar to the FSF high priority projects page?  Where
would you like GNOME to be in 5-10 years and why?

Of course I am interested in these answers, but ideally it would be nice to
write up something nice and publish it on your website.  Such answers could
conjurer up inspiration in soon to be GNOME contributors since they would
know what direction they are marching.

Thanks!
-Josh
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