Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
OK, I'll bite. I was going to run for the board but I haven't been particularly active due to work and school combo. (although I must object that mailing list participation as indicator of how fit you are as a board member, talk is cheap) My comments inline: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM,

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
In this case, how about bringing a foundation member in and have them do minutes? sri On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:45 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: That's exactly correct. Another term for it is 'volunteer'. :) You're

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Tristan Van Berkom t...@gnome.org wrote: Im taking it that the majority of this discomfort is coming from the planet website as opposed to the official mailing lists or the mailing lists of important projects. Well nobody is coming out and saying if it is

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-10-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome!! sri On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Bruno Boaventura brunoboavent...@gmail.comwrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Alexander Gabriel; - Henrique Paulino Machado; - Jerry Tan. If your name is on the list

Re: GTK Questions

2009-12-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Michael, If I may suggest, you might find more useful responses on the gtk-list mailing list if you're looking for a technical breakdown of how the gtk+ widgets are put together or best practices. Of course, you've made the sad mistake of alerting us of your migration and the marketing team

Re: Supporting GTK+

2009-12-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I suggest you go to http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-listfor technical questions on GTK+. In general though GTK+ doesn't use a browser rendering engine if you're referring to something like webkit. GTK+ is a widget toolkit and has it's own way of rendering widgets. Ask your

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: Meeting Minutes Published - May 13, 2010

2010-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: * Sysadmin job o An Interview Team has been established + The Interview Team is composed of 3 people: Jonathan Blandford, Bradley Kuhn and Brad Taylor +

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - May 13, 2010

2010-05-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
technical in the sysadmin sense? I'm somewhat surprised not to see Olav Vetters as part of the team. If you want interview questions feel free to ask, I sysadmin an enterprise environment for long while now although not one devoted to programmers. sri -- -- Sriram Ramkrishna

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - May 13, 2010

2010-05-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:49:19AM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: * Sysadmin job o An Interview Team has been established

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2010/6/3 Andreas Nilsson nisses.m...@home.se On 06/03/2010 02:54 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote: And don't get me wrong -- I happen to disagree with some stuff they're doing from time to time. But it doesn't mean I should stop trusting them. But would't you like to have the points you disagree

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:53 AM, William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: This would be a good FAQ. We really do need a gnome-shell FAQ I think. I might help out on the whole community thing on shell if people are willing, it depends on whether this six month project I'm

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:53 AM, guido iodice guido.iod...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/6/14 Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net: I'll add that people writing KDE or GNOME don't push for a GNOME/GNU/Linux, or even GNOME/X.org/GNU/Linux. Just mentioning GNU/Linux is disingenious. Well, but merging

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:53 PM, guido iodice guido.iod...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/6/14 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me: It's reasonably implied that Linux includes the GNU system. There is no other system that Linux has other than GNU Pardon, but this is not true. I.e. Android has

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

2010-06-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: I have a few things to say about this. Brian, These are good comments. I think that's good enough explanation on the guidelines coupled with the living document strategy. We are not going to get right the first

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: I don't suppose someone living near Salem in Oregon has seen GNOME hazelnuts flying around local farmer's markets or health food stores, and would care to post a photo? I live in Portland and I'd think I would notice if I

Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Oregon hazelnuts are awesome ;) sri On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Frederic Muller fr...@gnome.org wrote: On 12/08/2010 07:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: http://www.gnomehazelnutfactory.com/ I don't believe there's generally any problem with two companies having

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gregory Leblanc headmaster.albus.dumbled...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: * LiMo is leaving the GNOME Advisory Board. Any details on this? Are they leaving for financial reasons, or

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 1st, 2011

2011-02-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gregory Leblanc Any details on this? Are they leaving for financial reasons, or philosophical ones? There's still a big banner on their website

gnome integration mailing list .. Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

2011-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: For a long time, The GNOME Foundation has been discussing how to make it more possible to partner with other organizations. Lately we have been talking about how to better promote organizations that do GNOME or

Re: gnome integration mailing list .. Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

2011-04-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: For a long time, The GNOME Foundation has been discussing how to make it more possible to partner with other organizations. Lately we

Re: gnome integration mailing list .. Re: Meeting Minutes Published - March 29th, 2011

2011-04-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: I don't know how successful it will be, but I know on gnome-shell-list we do have a lot of people who are sysadmins and they do talk about issues of integration for what they are doing which is which lead to my

Re: Paul Cutler stepping down from the Board of directors, replaced by Stormy Peters

2011-06-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks for all your hard work, Paul. I hope you'll be able to return in the future. And thanks to Stormy for stepping in. It's nice to see that we have the depth to let us deal with these kinds of situations.

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: Over the years, GNOME community events have grown in frequency, size and the expectations of hosting professional quality events. It is a challenge for a volunteer community to keep up with consistently year after

Re: Additional Hackfests - Brno

2011-12-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
So are we going to be find another venue? Just trying to keep this thing on track. I think we will definitely need to do some marketing on GNOME 3.4 which will have some fairly large features that I think we need to start talking about. I can try to do Portland, and perhaps we can mix it up

Re: Introduction

2012-02-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2012/2/28 Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se Hello everybody, I am a new member of the GNOME Foundation. I am originally from the city of Kolkata in eastern India, but I am currently located in Brno, Czech Republic. In the recent past I have been hacking on Telepathy Idle, and sending the

Re: Introduction

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Olivier Sessink oliv...@bluefish.openoffice.nl wrote: Hi all, My name is Olivier Sessink, and I'm a new member of the GNOME foundation. I live in the Netherlands. Welcome! I've been working for a long time on the sidelines of the gnome project. I've

Re: Introducing myself

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Juan A. Suarez Romero jasua...@igalia.comwrote: Hello everybody. My name is Juan A. Suarez, and I'm a new member of GNOME Foundation. I'm from Spain, and I'm living in Barcelona. Welcome, Juan! Thanks for applying and joining up, we're happy to have you!

Re: Introduction

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
you :) (and little things too!) sri 2012/3/8 Daniel Mustieles García daniel.mustie...@gmail.com Welcome Olivier, nice to read you :) El 7 de marzo de 2012 20:27, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.meescribió: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Olivier Sessink oliv

Re: Self Introduction

2012-03-07 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Giovanni Campagna scampa.giova...@gmail.com wrote: Hello fellow GNOMErs! I just received the acceptance mail from the membership committee and I must say I'm enthusiastic to be now a member of the Foundation. It's great to be part of GNOME, and I consider

Re: Presentation

2012-03-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2012/3/8 Erick Pérez Castellanos eric...@gnome.org Hi, everyone My name is Erick Pérez Castellanos and I'm a new member of the Foundation. I live in Cuba, and I've been helping with Gnome Contacts so far. I'm looking forward to increase my contributions to Gnome. Thxs everyone who has help

Re: Introduction

2012-03-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2012/3/28 stefano.cand...@gmail.com stefano.cand...@gmail.com Hi all, My name is Stefano Candori and I'm a new member of the Foundation. It's really a huge honor for me to be here: being part of GNOME make me fell really happy. Welcome, Stefano! Glad you applied to the GNOME foundation!

Re: Introducing myself: Andres Gomez

2012-04-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2012/4/5 Andres Gomez ago...@igalia.com Among other works, I'm the lead developer of GDigicam[1], the library on top of GStreamer's CameraBin used in the Camera integrated in the Nokia N900, but I've also been developing some other pet projects such as Application's Fullscreener [2] and the

Re: Belated introduction to the foundation (Yay! I'm a member!)

2012-04-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.netwrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 17:34, Guillaume Emont guijem...@igalia.com wrote: I started fixing a bug[12] there, but I probably need to get my arse kicked a bit to make me finish that work (I can be very lazy).

Re: Introduce myself

2012-08-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jiro Matsuzawa jmatsuz...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, My name is Jiro Matsuzawa. I am a new member of the GNOME Foundation. I live in Japan. Welcome! I've been translating GNOME into Japanese since 2010. The Japanese translation team is so active. I'm

Re: New Foundation Members

2012-09-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Most of the home-hosted bots are there to substitute the work of missing services like nickserv and chanserv, the other ones I recall (nagbot and bugbot) are hosted by Bugzilla and by the GNOME infrastructure. Can we get

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Sebastian Keller sebastian-kel...@gmx.dewrote: I have seen people on #gnome on freenode asking for the official channels of gnome components, but those were very very few and almost all of them were asking for support and not how to contribute to

Re: Regarding Gnome t-shirt

2012-11-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 4:25 AM, chandan kumar chandankumar.093...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am committer of gnome l10n hindi localization team[1]. For spreading the spirit of gnome in near by my college, i need a gnome t-shirt. What is the process to get a gnome t-shirt for a gnome

Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm looking for some charismatic, happy GNOME folks who can help engage with our community. We've had a bad run of late with a lot of folks getting the wrong idea of what we're trying to do. I'm looking for some talented folks who can help us engage with the press, on blogs, on mailing lists and

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
. sri On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 11/14/2012 01:07 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I'm looking for some charismatic, happy GNOME folks who can help engage with our community. We've had a bad run of late with a lot of folks getting the wrong idea

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
with the right approach. If the feedback is positive, then I hope you will take that as encourage and motivation to keep doing it. sri On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: Hey Sri, On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 16:07 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I'm looking for some

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Cowie and...@operationaldynamics.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 11:50 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Sheesh. Seems an over-reaction, Dave. We've had some abysmal press lately, and I agree with Bastien; a number of the things generating headlines have

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: Maybe private email? Maybe bringing it up in a different way? Sri's initial email didn't mention Emily at all - were you just waiting for an opportunity to bring up your discontent? The point still remains that people

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Seif Lotfy s...@lotfy.com wrote: Quoting Stormy Peters comment on a recent blog post concerning GNOME: We haven’t shared our vision or our roadmap for the future. Where’s the product going? What problem are we trying to solve? How are we going to do that?

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:39 AM, William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Karen, I think these are good suggestions. But I think it would be a mistake to leave this critical responsibility to a committee of volunteers. One of the many challenges we face is that our voice

Re: new people [was: Re: Og Maciel left the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee]

2012-11-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Congratulations, guys! It's great to see you onboard! On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 15:57 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is welcoming two new members: - Federico Mena Quintero -

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 22:44 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Let me add one other position. We need to hire another sysadmin person. Along the same community support, we need to also be able to have

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 21, 2012 1:14 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: So it doesn't surprise me to see people pushing back against forums here. And it wouldn't surprise me to see a lot of push-back from active forum posters to joining a mailing list. A StackExchange channel (or whatever they

Re: Introduction

2012-12-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome, Andika! We are happy to have you! Being able to have everyone in all corners of our world is able to use our software is important and so you're important! :) On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Andika Triwidada and...@gmail.com wrote: Fellow GNOME Foundation members, thank you for

Re: Bugzilla upgrade work

2012-12-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Is there some way we could make these extensions and patches we can put in a puppet install? I realize the database portion is going to be the manual stuff, but it seems that it would be easier to be able to automate it. Of course, this is just my observation and I have not looked at the

Re: Introducing myself

2012-12-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi James! Welcome! Glad you applied! That's really great that you're deploy GNOME to users, it would be great to hear feedback from your users on what they think of GNOME and what gaps there might be. I actually thought about an a gnome-integration mailing list. (I actually already created it)

Re: Are membership renewals generally discussed publicly on the list? (was Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics)

2013-01-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Bradley, No, this is not standard procedure. This should have been a private matter and not something that should have been brought out in public. Regardless of who it is, this should have been communicated privately with the list owner. Stormy has done something similar in keeping things in

Re: Mango / Foundation Database / RT down

2013-01-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
+1 On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Dodji Seketeli do...@seketeli.org wrote: Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org a écrit: I've finally managed to migrate all the services to a new machine. You should be able to apply/renew your membership and request changes to your accounts again. \o/. This

Re: Andrea Veri - GNOME's new part-time sysadmin hire!

2013-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Congratulations, Andrea! Well deserved! I hope all of you will support Andrea in his new post as sysadmin. I know I will! sri On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: In the spirit of the below email from last week, I'm extremely pleased to announce that the

Meeting Minutes - Feb 12, 2013

2013-02-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is the link to the meeting minutes. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/MarketingTeamMeetings/12FEV2013 In the interest of better communications, I am CC'ing the foundation-list. Foundation-list: Marketing team have a bi-weekly phone call to discuss community outreach, quarterly reports

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I remember we have it, but I've never really seen instructions in how to log in or anything. It should be part of the welcome packet when someone joins the foundation. In general, I've been using IRC for my communication. I tend not to use IM mostly because I always feel I'm bugging someone

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:11 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I have a hard time though thinking it is a superior chat system compared to IRC. Mostly because, we have bots, we have just added some new IRC services

Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

2013-03-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I remember there was one, but I never took advantage of it. I still can't take advantage of it due to some wierd password issues. I said earlier, I'm willing to evaluate on its merits. sri On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at

Re: SERVICE Migration: people.gnome.org, projects.gnome.org, art.gnome.org

2013-03-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hello, I'm in the middle of migrating a few services to a new machines, specifically: 1. people.gnome.org 2. projects.gnome.org 3. art.gnome.org The people.gnome.org service has been migrated successfully. At your next

Re: LDAP Groups not being synchronized correctly

2013-03-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks Andrea! Now I know what all those restarts was about. :) sri On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Everything's back at full capacity since a few hours. Have an awesome day everyone! 2013/3/29 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org Hi, the SSSD daemons (the

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Portland! It's just like Boston, but on the other side of the coast! :D On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com wrote: Hey all. We should probably be thinking about where the Boston Summit will be this year. :) Do we want to have another Montreal Summit? (And if

Re: Our poster made it to BetaGroup

2013-04-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
That's a great gesture, I concur. +1 On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Hello guys, BetaGroup (the coworking space that hosted the DX hackfest in Brussels) has received thank you poster and they seem quite happy about it. I would like to thank the

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
can also enjoy the city. sri On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 13:43 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Portland! It's just like Boston, but on the other side of the coast! :D People whine a lot there. It could either

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for Portland. Meg Ford On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If people want to take my suggestion seriously I will make a bid. There are a lot

Re: Services is now MeetBot capable

2013-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is awesome! Worth having! Sri On Apr 26, 2013 3:01 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hello guys, from today the Services bot will be able to manage / log meetings by using the MeetBot plugin. The logs will be publicly available at [1]. For more information about the plugin itself

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
, but there are only three established GNOME contributors in Chicago, and none of us work for companies that would sponsor space/time for planning, afaik. Meg Even Boston is is a second tier for many of us in the USA. Jared Jennings jaredljenni...@gmail.com On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Sriram

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:31 -0700, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the venue for free during

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
OK folks, let's keep moving otherwise we'll just rathole into a topic that we don't need to get into. Richard has made his point. Let's move on. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.comwrote: On 27 April 2013 19:15, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote: On Apr 27,

meeting board minutes..

2013-04-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
The last meeting board minutes hasn't been posted since January 2013. Can someone post minutes? It's hard to judge what the board is doing if there is no published documentation. I'm sure you guys are doing a great job, please let us know what it is! :-) If minutes is an issue perhaps some of

Re: New service: Jabber.gnome.org

2013-04-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
This is great! thanks for bringing this service back! On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hello Foundation members, the new Jabber istance I promised I while back is ready to go. Some details about it: 1. Which software are we using? We're currently using

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Benjamin Otte o...@gnome.org wrote: Sriram Ramkrishna sri at ramkrishna.me writes: I agree that is a point worth considering. Portland is a second tier city and sometimes takes a extra hop because there are not a lot direct flights especially from Europe

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James purplei...@gmail.com wrote: I previously mentioned that I'm based in Montreal, and happy to help organize this if people are interested. HTH, James OK, looks like we have a winner. Do you have a venue that you can research? BTW Columbus Day is

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com wrote: It's not that we don't like Portland. Hell, if Portlandia is any indication, Portland might be the best city EVER. :) Even the inconvenience of people having to take an extra and/or longer flight, while not great, is

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:41 PM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote: If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into applying for a future year. We are in the middle of the US, and have a major international airport, so it might be a nice option. Meg, that sounds like a

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-05-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I couldn't see it, but since I see it is Portlandia where young people go to retire ;) On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 13-04-30 08:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except maybe

Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

2013-05-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We are looking into changing our irc server name from irc.gimpnet.org to irc.gnome.org and looking for feedback. Essentially, it's become problematic to have 'gimp' in the name of our server. To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

2013-05-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think we need to split this thread. If people want to debate about how the community functions then it's a worthy debate and we should have it. Regarding the gimpnet name. I'm okay with leaving it, and we don't need to remove it. But we will need to make sure that irc clients have

Re: New Foundation Members

2013-05-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome folks! Especially Sindhu who decides to stay on even after her internship. Awesome! As well folks writing apps, and other cool things. Thank you for joining! sri On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is

Re: LinuxTag 2013 - Not going to happen

2013-05-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm really sorry to hear that. Most unfortunate. :/ sri On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: Hey folks, unfortunately, we lack people to run the booth at LinuxTag. I thus cancelled our booth and two presentations we had. Cheers, Tobi --

Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)

2013-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 4:57 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: It is not a good thing when there are so few candidates that nearly all have to be elected. With just 8 candidates and a 7-member board, we are only voting about

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2013-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote: For all candidates, how do you see being on the board will enhance or facilitate the volunteer work you already do in the commutity? How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to working

Re: Questions for candidates

2013-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: Hello, I also thanks people running for the board. I would like to know: In order to be in the board, what are you going to do *less*? In other words, what would the trade-off be for you? Are you going to spend

Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)

2013-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 15:23 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: IMHO, for many people is not clear what the board of directors does and its limitations. Neither what it should be expected for a director nor what could be

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

2013-06-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:25 AM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote: We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ The problem is that they are unofficial. The reason they

Re: New Foundation Member from Peru

2013-07-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Sergio! Welcome to the GNOME Foundation! Have some coffee, write some code, be excellent! :) On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Sergio Infante Montero raulserg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all A few days ago, I received a welcome message to GNOME Foundation as a new member in response to my

Re: Agenda for board meeting September 17th

2013-09-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think we should also discuss the Friends of GNOME donation situation which I believe we had discussed at the F2F. If I recall, we do not have a good way to track contributions with our current provider and we really should think about alternatives or find some alternatives. sri On Fri, Sep

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of September 3, 2013

2013-09-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 09/12/2013 01:49 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: * Spam for board-related lists * Andrea suggested that the only way to reduce spam is to moderate the list * Added new rules SpamAssassin integration with

Re: Status of reports

2013-09-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Oliver, I believe there is still interest. We completed the 2012 Annual report and it was passed out at GUADEC. Some folks from the engagement team and others help put in the work on 2012. I don't know if we can pull together something for 4th quarter which is what I think we have time for

Re: [worldof]gnome forums

2013-10-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller cscha...@linuxrising.org wrote: Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being

Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

2013-10-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks for the status, Andrea. Much appreciated. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, all the servers rebooted successfully except two machines (seems they are stuck at Rebooting machine) that are actually going to be power-cycled as soon as the on-site

Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

2013-10-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Great job, guys! -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Status update: 1. bugzilla and clipboard are back up again and the services were restored just fine. 2. the manegement cards have

Re: New Foundation members

2013-10-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. Welcome folks!

beginner tutorials in developer.gnome.org

2013-10-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I was looking at the tutorials and it seems that the tutorials we currently have are only tested against 3.6. Meaning we do not test them on a current release and then republish them under the new release. What can we do to ensure that the excellent work that Taryn Fox has done continues to work

Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia page with accurate information. (eg current board of directors, the list of companies on the advisory board and so forth) Currently, the information is very stale. Can someone volunteer? Probably take you about 30 minutes tops.

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
stale. Perhaps, we could identify them and perhaps pick a day and then get them all updated all at once? sri On 29 October 2013 15:58, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia page with accurate information. (eg current

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org 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. We're

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
should should be keeping an eye or two out for? Emily On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US

Re: Happy to be a member of the gnome foundation

2014-01-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Mario Wenzel maw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, as a new member of the foundation you are, so says the welcome-email, highly encouraged to write to this mailing list in order to introduce yourself. I am 25 years old and studying computer science (master) at the

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