On 15/12/2009, at 2:49 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
[/me removes board hat]
Hi everyone,
I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make
foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual
Foundation members. If we make that change we would be able to
On 31/05/2009, at 11:28 AM, Glynn Foster wrote:
On 31/05/2009, at 6:53 AM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Waugh#Criticism
I'm rather stunned by this entry. I don't believe Jeff deserves this
treatment, nor do I think it's a healthy thing to encourage
On 14/05/2009, at 5:58 AM, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
2009-05-11 klockan 07:50 skrev Jaap A. Haitsma:
However Openedhand and Imendio are as far as I know a commercial
company. Don't they financially help the foundation in 2009?
It seems to me both companies no longer exist:
- Opened Hand was
GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 6th September 2007
Present: Behdad, Lucas, Anne, Quim, Zana
Regrets: Jeff
Absent: Vincent
1) Zana's Report
Things are going well. Zana has been working on sending out some
Paypal fits. She sent some updated account figures to the list
before the
Present: Lucas, Anne, Glynn, Quim, Rosanna, Jeff
Regrets: Behdad, Vincent
1) Zana's planning to be out of action with a baby due at the end of
November. She commented that she has 2 weeks off per year as is
the minimum requirement working for a single employee organization.
Quim
Hey,
Glynn Foster wrote:
Hey all,
Just a reminder that the GNOME Foundation Members meeting will be on at 5pm
Monday 16th July (TODAY!).
The board is going to present a year in review of what we've currently done,
and
what plans we have for the future. Soon after, we'll be opening
Hey,
Apologies for this being so late, just catching up on old minutes now.
Glynn
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GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 22nd June 2007
Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave (:10), Glynn, Jeff (:20), Vincent, Zana
Absent: Quim
1) ECMA
Forms are on the way to the ECMA office. Behdad is sending a
GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 5th July 2007
Present: Anne, Glynn, Jeff (:20), Zana
Absent: Quim
Regrets: Bedhad, Dave, Vincent
1) Business Development Role
We have offered the candidate a position with the GNOME Foundation. Dave
has mailed him with a formal job offer, and associated
Hey,
Here are the minutes from the Board meeting at GUADEC.
Glynn
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GNOME Foundation Board Meeting (GUADEC), 15th July 2007
Present: Anne, Behdad, Glynn, Jeff, Quim, Vincent
Regrets: Dave, Rosanna
o GUADEC
There was only one proposal to host next year's GUADEC, Istanbul. Everyone
Jeff Waugh wrote:
3. Recommend that future Boards appoint the President and Vice-President
from elected directors annually (instead of Chairman and Vice-Chairman)
As a slightly confusing nit, are we now saying there will only be President,
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer? or are
Hey all,
Just a reminder that the GNOME Foundation Members meeting will be on at 5pm
Monday 16th July (TODAY!).
The board is going to present a year in review of what we've currently done, and
what plans we have for the future. Soon after, we'll be opening it up for
discussion on where we need
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:55 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
I'd *love* to get to the stage where we could outsource the conference, but
the
last time we did that and outsourced an expo day, it was a bit of a disaster.
Financially we're probably not in the position to do
GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 7th June 2007
Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim, Vincent
Absent: Rosanna
1) ECMA
We have the opportunity of joining ECMA as a non-profit
member. Jody has expressed an interest in being a representative
for GNOME, and suggested it would
Hi there,
Apologies for the delay in these - due to the fact that I've taken on new
responsibilities in Sun, and didn't quite have the time to get these out.
Glynn
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Board Meeting :: 12th April 2007
Present: Anne, Behdad, Dave, Glynn, Jeff, Quim
Regrets: Zana, Vincent
1) Previous Action
Board Meeting :: 26th April 2007
Present: Anne, Behdad, Glynn, Jeff, Vincent
Regrets: Zana, Dave, Quim
o GMAE Post-Mortem
Jeff focused his post-moretem on the negative feedback. A few people raised
some concerns about the secrecy and the apparent mystery of the GMAE
announcement. Jeff
Board Meeting :: 10th May 2007
Note: The meeting started at 19:20 UTC and ran to 20:20 UTC due to a
problem getting access to Sun's audio conferencing facility. Many thanks
to Quim Gil for organising a conf call at the last minute on Nokia's
conference call facility.
Present: Quim, Anne, Dave
Hey,
Adrian Custer wrote:
* We often deal with commercially sensitive information, which Advisory
Board members (or others) provide in confidence.
This is exactly the kind question I would love the board to consider: in
the experience of the board over the past three years, can the
, Luis Villa and Glynn Foster sat down
with Darin Donovan from our pro-bono law firm, Wilson-Sonsini. They
discussed a number of matters relating to various liabilities for the
GNOME Foundation -
o The board is currently unhappy about the the service that
we get from our
Anne Østergaard wrote:
Hi Murray and everyone
I am in favor of a code of conduct.
Here is my go of a text:
I'm confused - now we have seemingly 2 codes of conduct. Which is the one to be
signed? I'd be reluctant to sign anything that is in the process of changing.
Glynn
Name: Glynn Foster
Nicks: Gman
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Corporate Affiliation: Sun Microsystems
Background:
I've been working for the Sun desktop group and involved in GNOME for the past 6
years. I've been a past Foundation board member during 2002 and 2003. My focus
has generally been
Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:19 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
This sounds as a strong argument. I wonder if we could get a general
agreement on the fact that board members could request refund of these
calls.
I don't see why not. The Foundation can definitely do this;
Hi,
Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mardi 07 novembre 2006, à 14:43, Quim Gil a écrit :
I would have resigned from the board back on September if my colleagues
would have requested it. I can resign now if you think it's appropriate.
As I told Dave last week, I will do whatever it's best. I just want
Hi,
Anne Østergaard wrote:
I strongly feel that under the present circumstances it would be the
only acceptable solution to let the next elected board hire the new
GNOME Business Development Director.
What are the present circumstances? I think if there are good candidates now, I
would *much*
Hi,
David Neary wrote:
Hi,
Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
So, the board can decide how many people it wants to have elected and
then it can add an arbitrary number of additional members after the
election. Why do we have elections in the first place?
The board must have at least 7 people. Aside
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
Hi,
Vincent Untz wrote:
Here's a list of concrete actions some GNOME people could do:
- look that portland doesn't do anything we don't like, or go and do
the GNOME part of the job
- join the LSB mailing lists and be active there
I think Brian Cameron is involved in that forum - or was
Hi,
Anne Østergaard wrote:
Dear GNOME Foundation Member,
You are invited to comment on where you would prefer to have at GUADEC
in 2007.
The period for comments stops on June 15th 2006.
The board (minus Dave Neary and Vincent Untz who are behind the French
invitation) will make the final
Hi,
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:17 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Ben Konrath
I just wanted to take the time to let everyone know how the GNOME booth at
Eclipse Con went.
Thanks very much for the report, and all your work on the stand - sounds
like a great success! :-)
The posters
Hey,
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:25 -0500, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Quim Gil
How much time do you think a director should dedicate to board tasks in
order to be efficient?
Please suggest an estimate of [minimum - average] hours par week or month.
Because getting things done
Hey,
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:12 -0300, Fernando San MartÃn Woerner wrote:
Also i want to remember GNOME Hackers training meetings in Chile as for
us is very hard to get some core hacker from GNOME in our country we
started a small meetings just to show how to be involved in GNOME,
actually
Hey,
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:50 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
wrote:
Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Oct 26
Actions completed:
==
ACTION: Federico to take the task to find documentation authors and
get it
Hi,
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:37 -0400, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote:
The doc project with Shaun McCance was announced at the end of the
Summit, but everyone was probably too tired to blog it. Below is the
draft outline of the project.
tim
SUBJECT MATTER DESCRIPTION:
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 01:12 -0400, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
If the board's role were limited to raising funds, who would
be responsible for important policy decisions?]
Depends what you mean by 'policy decisions' - but I'd certainly hope the
GNOME Foundation membership had a large say in the
Hi,
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:11 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
On 9/8/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested
in the first two days, or completely
Hi,
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:19 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
For 1/2 the cost, we could run summit-style (low-cost, high-fun)
events on every continent (including a big one in Europe as the
'mother ship'), and for 1/4 the cost, we could send a handful of GNOME
community leaders to every major
Hey,
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:24 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
The tabulated results for the surveys we collected at the last session
at GUADEC are now available at:
http://gnome.org/~otaylor/2005-guadec-survey.html
Thanks to Jonathan and Tim for help entering the surveys.
Apologies for
Hi,
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 13:07 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Yeah :)
The call of papers is useless any earlier than December or January,
because most people aren't thinking about May or June until then anyway.
The website doesn't need to be done until then either.
We do need to start
Heya,
Some questions offhand (many of these are answerable by going through
the existing reports for 2003/2004, but I'd love to see them pulled
out and more easily discoverable.)
And some more for me that I forwarded to Tim separately, but they'd
probably be more suitable posting here -
Hey,
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:14 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
Hey,
Budget information is trickling out, and we're engaging in concrete
plans to do things beyond GUADEC. We still need to be able to do
things like 'show what we spend money on beyond GUADEC and
administration', and enhance
Hey,
We should be working on integrating business and government, and
integrating them into our community. As it is, GUADE User day is
considered a wash-out by both presenters and attendees. The only people
attracted by User Day as it is are sponsors. I would prefer spreading
user day
Hey,
I do not want a repeat of the unexpected and/or unexpectedly high costs
that we had in Stuttgart, so let's keep this simple and stick to the
free rooms that have existing equipment.
I think that's my initial concern - from the report, it seemed like
there wasn't any, and that we would
Hey,
25 May, Thu. People start arriving
26 May, Fri. Social day for all GNOME people - bbq, beers, activities
27 May, Sat. GUADEC Developer Day 1
28 May, Sun. GUADEC Developer Day 2
29 May, Mon IGC -+
30 May, Tue IGC | - GNOME User and Business Sessions - everything from
31 May,
Hey,
How about copying pasting the basics of your mail into the wiki as a
skeleton to hang a session on?
http://live.gnome.org/Stuttgart2005/FreeformSessions
I hope we have a problem of overlap - which will mean that there are
lots of great sessions planned. If that's the case, we will
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