Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread sankarshan
emphasizing the ethos of transparency that GNOME has. Watching two or three folks take a discussion totally off-track is nothing new. It happens all the time. A -private, I feel, isn't the solution. Please don't do this. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-09 Thread sankarshan
, communities have one, either implicit or, explicit. But, unless there is a clearly delineated process to handle the exceptions, a Code of Conduct is just a document. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-08 Thread sankarshan
community ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-08 Thread sankarshan
in Google reader (offline) and may not even be interested to vote for every author. No one *has* to vote.  And we can have different feeds for different thresholds. Coming back to the starting point - what is the problem to which the solution is being discussed ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-08 Thread sankarshan
was to bring forth the fact that we are discussing solutions of myriad variety without looking at whether it can be solved non-programmatically. Hence, the question. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Re: Presenting the 2009 Q2 GNOME Quarterly Report

2009-09-11 Thread sankarshan
is coming up in the next quarter (in the perspective of plans) ? I also note that the Translations Project did not have a segment for themselves. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list

Re: GNOME Advisory Board Member Interviews

2009-08-13 Thread sankarshan
of community-driven translations which are part of GTP. I can either check the cia.vc bot or, the l10n.gnome.org site to confirm this but I am sure that anyone from the GTP team would be able to do that more nicely as well. ~sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re

Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

2009-08-12 Thread sankarshan
[taking foundation-announce out of the cc: fields] On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Srinivasa Ragavansraga...@gnome.org wrote: [snippet]  The main, and most important, reason for not wanting to co-locate next year is because the GNOME  community needs to focus on GNOME 3.0, and next year's

Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

2009-08-12 Thread sankarshan
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, john palmierijohn.j5.palmi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipping out parts of an well thought out response] To sum it all up - fools rush in.  We really need to take a step back and really try to understand what we wish to accomplish in another co-located event given

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Last year, right after the candidates list closed, Bruno posted a list of 10 questions which, presumably, the committee came up with: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-November/msg00153.html There was no

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

2009-05-26 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the 27th of May. Would it be possible to have this process be public, for example on this

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

2009-05-26 Thread sankarshan
2009/5/26 BJörn Lindqvist bjou...@gmail.com: Last year (1.5 years to be exact) people just posted their questions to foundation-list and most (or all) candidates answered diligently and dutifully at length. Is a more complicated system needed this year? A wiki page on live.gnome.org should be

Re: Copyright assignment policy

2008-03-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected copyright | assignment? | | I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome | translation team. | | Up till now, the copyrights

A word of thanks

2008-03-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
) had GNOME supporters. FOSSKriti was a bit of a success for the Beagle hackfest as well. Might be [OT] for this list, but thought that it is always good to share good news. ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library

Re: Ga-nome or NOME

2008-02-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ani Peter wrote: | I have heard a lot of people pronouncing GNOME as Ga-nome and I feel | Nome is the correct pronunciation. Some of the common pronunciations are: Gee-nome (where Gee rhymes with see) or Guh-nome (where Guh rhymes a bit with duh

Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007

2007-12-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ and some more pictures thanks to Ramakrishna Reddy are here http

Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!

2007-11-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
and in this particular case being stickers, flyers and buttons. So, is this call for the budget allocations factoring in the GNOME developer trip sponsorship plus swag or just the latter ? :sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why

Re: Who would be a good member? [Was: About the coming election]

2007-11-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: Above all else, I hope you vote for people you know and trust to represent what you value about GNOME. To put it in a clunky but simple way, if GNOME is People, vote for the people who are GNOME. That was what I guess I was

Re: noooxml petition

2007-08-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
. :Sankarshan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

[Fwd: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007]

2007-08-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
that way too), please do address your responses to the gnome-in-list. Regards Sankarshan - Original Message Subject: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:58:50 +0530 From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
fees in order to ensure crowd attendance and also meet the objective of herding the cats etc etc :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Østergaard wrote: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? :Sankarshan - -- You see

Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2006-11-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
with a focus that steers development choices and works with allied organisations in order to define and adapt (and or adopt) standards ? *** END QUESTIONS *** Let the discussions begin ... Regards Sankarshan -- From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, From Darkness, Lead me towards the Light, From