Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Alexandre Franke]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Rosanna Yuen  wrote:
> Hi Everyone,

Hey,

> The deadline for their campaign is coming soon.  At this point, speed is
> paramount.  Can we have a deadline for posting this please?

How does 50 minutes ago sound? ;-)

(Some of us gathered on IRC and got this finished and published)

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Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Oliver Propst]

Great to see the statement published. A message [1] with a link to the
statement have been posted from the GNOME twitter account, consider
retweet/like if you are using twitter.

1 https://twitter.com/gnome/status/687042047035969536

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Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Rosanna Yuen]

Hi Everyone,

The deadline for their campaign is coming soon.  At this point, speed is
paramount.  Can we have a deadline for posting this please?

Thanks,
Rosanna

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Franke  wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Jeff F. T.  wrote:
> > It seemed okay/nice-to-have
>
> I agree with that, it gave a bit of context and I think we should keep it.
>
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Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Jeff F. T.]

Thanks for continuing the work on this!
Looking at the evolution of the draft, I see that there was this
opening sentence that was removed:
> The GNOME community dedicated the last 18 years to building a
> cohesive desktop experience for our users. We have created a library
> of work that is found not only in our desktop but also in various
> other important software and hardware.
It seemed okay/nice-to-have, so I'm just curious to hear the reasoning
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Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Oliver Propst]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Jeff F. T.  wrote:
> Thanks for continuing the work on this!
:)

>
> Looking at the evolution of the draft, I see that there was this opening
> sentence that was removed:
>
> The GNOME community dedicated the last 18 years to building a cohesive
> desktop experience for our users. We have created a library of work that is
> found not only in our desktop but also in various other important software
> and hardware.
>
>
> It seemed okay/nice-to-have, so I'm just curious to hear the reasoning for
> removing it?

To shorten the story, based on a feedback/call to do so. Its basically
a open question whether the initial sentence should be included or
not.

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Re: Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Alexandre Franke]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Jeff F. T.  wrote:
> It seemed okay/nice-to-have

I agree with that, it gave a bit of context and I think we should keep it.

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Statement of support for the SFC's campaign

[Jeff F. T.]

Hi all,

It would be nice of us to make a public statement of support for the
SFC's campaign* to raise funds for their continued existence and their
legal battle to uphold the GPL (against infringement by VMWare)**. The
FSF has made such a blog post already***.

I discussed with the board, and they'd like the engagement team to send
an announcement to that effect, also using our social media outlets.

It should happen sooner rather than later, as there is a window of
opportunity there: donations made until January 31st will be matched up
by PIA and thus count twice.

Thanks!


*: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
**: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/
***: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/executive-director/support-the-software-
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