Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

This might be harmless if there was a way to disable pull requests, but if we mirror repos on GitHub we have a responsibility to monitor for and accept pull requests, otherwise potential contributors who are unfamiliar with our development flow will be discouraged when their pull requests sit

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote: There's no intention to support pull requests or to depend in any way in this service, this is just a nice-to-have to serve the GitHub's community and user base. My concern is that with no way to disable pull requests, potential

Re: Question for candidates

On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: Finally, and only once the financial situation is more clear, the board needs to find a new executive director. I anticipate that these goals, which in some ways amount to getting the Foundation back on track will be challenging to meet

Re: Question for candidates

On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:18 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: one of the options that I want the board to investigate is to tie in the executive director's wage and travel budget with adboard fees in such a way that the executive director will only be compensated up to a maximum of what the

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 12:39 +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: This would include: Display a banner on GNOME.org, 5 June with link to https://www.resetthenet.org/ Promote our participation on the campaign website Promote our our participation and our work in this area in our own channels

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 00:33 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Assuming gnome.org stands for www.gnome.org I'm asking you whether it makes sense to abuse the use of SSL even when not really needed? From your response, I can see that you're concerned primarily with protecting users' personal information.

Question for candidates: OEMs

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: - Our somewhat nonexistent OEM story Dell is currently shipping Ubuntu computers running Unity. Wouldn't it be desirable to see a major OEM shipping GNOME as well? If so, what steps do you believe GNOME, and the board in particular, should

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda for the following meeting at any time. Could you please discuss how the new board

Re: GUADEC registration

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 16:41 -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. ]]] This repression

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August 29th, 2014

Their terms of service [1] are also highly questionable. They reserve the right to take all the money in our account, or cancel our bounties without refunding our money, at any time and without any explanation, without cause or notice (section 6.5). Without cause seems like a pretty good

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 15:22 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: - Writing a book, another actionable item. My school told me to buy a Qt textbook when I was a freshman, even though the class didn't involve Qt and we have zero Qt-related classes. Simply having the book increased Qt's exposure. What if

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less important things? Nope! But maybe with a better selection process we could instead end up with

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 11:56 +0100, Allan Day wrote: The Elementary project claim to have had a lot of success with Bountysource [1]. Earlier in this thread, they suggested that their bounties are mostly going out to regular Elementary developers who would have worked on something else for

Re: GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 11:30 -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: For whatever it's worth, I had a lively discussion with Sebastien Bacher about this on ubuntu-desktop (regarding the main flavor of Ubuntu, not GNOME Ubuntu): https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-September/004539.html

Re: GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME

On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 20:24 +1000, Tim wrote: Some of the panels in 3.6 were actual separate applications from memory. No, none of the panels in 3.6 were separate applications upstream; that functionality was removed a long time ago (in 3.2?). You have some downstream patches to add external

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 17:34 +0100, Allan Day wrote: While Bountysource is interesting, I also think that we need to be rather careful about adopting it. On top of your concerns, their 10% commission is quite high, and their terms of service are absurd [1], so I would advocate removing funds

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 17:00 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Thus, rather than finding the answers elsewhere and (possibly) raising _objections_ next week, I decided to raise _questions_ this week. Can people interested in using Bountysource please find out the pertinent facts about it? Hi,

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 18:48 +, Magdalen Berns wrote: The challenges the OPW organisers face is in figuring out how to encourage projects and mentors to sign up and yet also protect GNOME from a potential lawsuit in the event that things go horribly wrong as a result of something that may

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

Hi, On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: Hmm I am not so sure: The chip in your own card will be programmed with non-free software technically the transaction can't work unless the ATM is reading that. For the ATM to read your chip you are required you

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: p.s. Consider what Outreachy rhymes with, before finalising this as a name. I'm not sure what it rhymes with but that caught my eye as well. The current name might be more effective. Good luck.

Privacy campaign funds

Hi, A while back we ran a $20K privacy campaign. A while later there was a discussion about what to do with the funds. Did we ever decide what to do with these? Michael ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Christian Hergert christ...@hergert.me wrote: The problem is that it takes *months* to prepare a proper crowdfunding campaign. So if you didn't suggest crowdsupply to me back at the hackfest, it was simply *too late* to be reasonably actionable (despite that I

Question to board candidates: privacy funds

In 2013 we raised $20,000 to improve security and privacy in GNOME. I am aware that the current board has finally formed a committee to determine how to use the funds, but I would have expected this process to have been completed by now, since it has been nearly two years since the conclusion of

Re: User Data Manifesto

On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 11:31 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Hi all, Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of August. A number of other

Re: User Data Manifesto

On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 11:31 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Any thoughts? It looks quite good for the most part. I would change: Users should not rely on centralised services. to: Users should not rely on centralised services that do not provide control, knowledge, and freedom. Otherwise it's really

Re: gnomes collecting pants nominations

On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 12:33 -0400, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: * Is not a board member (since the board decides who the winner is). Quick question: does this rule exclude current board members, incoming board members, or both? Thanks, Michael ___

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

Hi, I suggest you consider whether boycotting proprietary app stores is the really best way to advance free software, considering that 99% of users on such platforms will not install our free software unless it is available via the app stores. Michael

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 19:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: I'm much less concerned about whether they want GNOME's *support* (as it seems rather unlikely either that they'd seek such support or that we'd offer it), and more concerned about whether they're actually acting in good faith or

Re: Hello to Foundation List

On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 15:45 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Welcome Siska, it was a pleasure to meet you at GUADEC, we need > people as > cheerful and energetic as you are so I am really glad you're a > foundation > member now. Quite true. Welcome! :) Michael

Re: Free software streaming

On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 15:46 +0100, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote: > Hey, you did not react to Nicolas Dufresne's suggestion of using > webrtc ? > Services like appear.in do not require installing extra software, as > most > of the heavy lifting is already done by modern browsers ( I'm sure > someone >

Re: Supporting GTK+

On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 11:58 +0300, Виталий wrote: > Hi, > > I tested the example (example-0.c > ) on > Windows 10 Enterprise (10240), but I get a runtime error 'Unspecified > fatal > error encountered, aborting.'. I'm using VS2015

Re: Really professional GNOME videos

On Sun, 2016-03-27 at 07:53 +, Florian Müllner wrote: > Distributions appear in the video in the order of when 3.20 is > expected to > be included in the distribution. It's hard to believe that's what's intended. If so, it's very wrong. The order depicted in the video is: Arch -> Debian ->

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of July, 05th, 2016

On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 11:51 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > = Foundation Board Minutes for Monday, July 5th 2016, 17:00 UTC = > > Next meeting date Tuesday, July 12th, 17:00 UTC Hi, I don't see any minutes for any board meetings more recent than July 5th; is the new board planning to post meeting

Broken links on trademark guidelines page

Hi, A bunch of links to our trademark guidelines are broken on this page: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Resources/Trademark/FAQ All four links to foundation.gnome.org are broken. Also, the link to https://wiki.gnome.org/BrandGuidelines should be updated. It's immutable to me. I guess

Re: Broken links on trademark guidelines page

On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 11:48 +, Allan Day wrote: > I didn't realise that page existed! How did you end up there? Hi, I searched the wiki for "trademark." Michael ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August, 2nd, 2016

On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 16:58 -0400, James wrote: > Is this something that is upcoming or already happened? > > Thanks, > James It's upcoming in October. I don't think any details have been published yet for this year, but historically it begins the Saturday before Columbus Day and ends on that

Re: Code of Conduct Adoption Process

On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 20:33 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > Ironically, I was serving as his conduit into the list(s). > I will certainly stop. > > Which of these lists is he banned from?  Both? I don't know, but maybe he's just not subscribed. If so, his posts won't appear until approved by a

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 4:23 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: Foundation Members are welcome to ask questions to the candidates on foundation-list. Please try to avoid duplicates, and bear in mind candidates invest a lot of time in answering questions. Here's a question... if we have

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Allan Day wrote: My immediate thought is that it could put some people off running, since it's a greater commitment. However, I'd be interested to hear what you think about it. Allan Yes, that's the main risk. The benefit is we would only

Re: Preliminary Results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2017

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > This year we had 225 registered voters, 110 of which sent in valid > ballots. I am not surprised that so few voted. Can anyone think of a way to encourage more candidates? For comparison, last year we had 253

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

I won't take a stance on Discourse but I would like to hear from our Discourse moderators about their thoughts on a couple moderation issues I've noticed. #1, posts are being hidden rather aggressively, including seemingly innocuous posts like

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2020

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 2:55 pm, Andrea Veri wrote: The deadline for submitting candidacies is tomorrow, please send your one in if you're willing to run for this year's elections :-) Currently we have only one candidate (Regina) to replace four open seats. Do the bylaws specify what happens

Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey

On Thu, Mar 4 2021 at 01:05:03 PM +0100, Kristi Progri wrote: Please fill out this survey [https://surveys.gnome.org/267157?lang=en 4] to share with us your feedback. The whole survey will take you around 10 minutes to fill it out. The survey is broken: """ We are sorry but the survey is

Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey

On Tue, May 11 2021 at 04:23:13 PM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: Well I think basically it has expired. Oh I see, the mail was sent on March 4, but got stuck in moderation for two months until May 11. Alas! ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

Hi Andrea, I've pushed all the screenshots here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/static-web/-/commit/d205056a93ab19e53afbb1fe53310d71d7f0afd1 so it should be easy to set up a redirect now. I've also submitted MRs to all affected apps to transition them from using the people.gnome.org

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 06:07:18 PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can push those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make sure stuff won't break. Let me know whether that works for you, thanks! Oh OK, yes

Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with a good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March. Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a good idea back in 2014,