GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Bruno Boaventura
With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each candidate's candidacy can be found at:

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Bruno Boaventura wrote: With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in past years? Usually

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Dave Neary
Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Bruno Boaventura wrote: With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Bruno Boaventura
On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story comments. I've been posted to gnomedesktop too, but it's not appearing yet... is there some type of

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Murray Cumming
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story comments. I've been posted to

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Luis Villa
On Nov 19, 2007 5:39 AM, Bruno Boaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/candidates.html Note: I have a very unusual/atypical candidacy statement. I've sent one clarification in response to questions in IRC. If anyone has more questions, please *please* send

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Bruno Boaventura [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board have on your current contributions to GNOME ? Not a huge amount -- most of what I do these days is either related in some way to the Board, or keeping things ticking as maintenance. While I've

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story comments. I've been posted to

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Thanks for the thoughtful questions. With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board have on

Re: [Candidacy] Thomas Thurman

2007-11-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:07:27PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: I did send this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and foundation-list@gnome.org, but in a conversation a short while later I was convinced that I could best help the Foundation by not being on the BoD; I cancelled the foundation-list

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Murray Cumming
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 20:07 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: I think the members can propose questions and send them to the Membership Committee select the best questions. Can the others members of MC say something about this? That's

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 22:16 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: Please do stick to the regular routine. But I guess it's too late for that now. May I suggest that all further questions be sent to the election committee (no CC to foundation-list!) for a second round? -- behdad http://behdad.org/

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
On 11/19/07, Bruno Boaventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-19 Thread Og Maciel
Hello there, Had a pretty long day at the office and didn't get a chance to work on this all day... so here it goes. [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board have on your current contributions to GNOME ? Up until now all of my contributions have been in the form of

Re: [Candidacy] Thomas Thurman

2007-11-19 Thread Thomas Thurman
On 19/11/2007, Olav Vitters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:07:27PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: I did send this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and foundation-list@gnome.org, but in a conversation a short while later I was convinced that I could best help the Foundation by