Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
On 2013-05-21 09:16, Brian Cameron wrote: My question to the candidates: For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the board that you are most proud of? How many action items did you accept over your last term and what percentage were completed? If things did not get done or tended to get done very late, please explain why. If you were to give your own performance a grade, what would it be? I am mostly happy about: * Keeping the meetings on time and on topic. - In theory meetings could go on forever, but board members have other meetings to attend and one hour slots fits most schedules. Last period we were able to keep most meetings in one hour. On occasions spilling over 5 or 10 minutes. * Creating the Annual Report. It was really unfortunate that we had to create a 2010-2011 report instead of two single ones and it gives the impression of a sloppy Foundation to the foundation members, the advisory board and the wider community. While the 2012 report is late, it is in progress. I also want to take the opportunity to highlight a accomplishment by Joanie, who came up with the very creative resolution to the fact that we had two really good GUADEC bids from teams that had applied several times before to accept both of them, but for different years (and at the same time solving the issue that teams have asked for more time to prepare the conferences). I like these kind of creative soultions from her a lot! 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 on the board on a regular basis? It ties into it, and if I wasn't on the board, I would do about the same volunteer work anyway. 10 hours a week. - Andreas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Charter not found
Hi, all I was wondering lately what topics are OK to post on this mailing list because lately I have been seeing many people post unrelated topics on mailing lists including this [1][2] such as gtk-list[3], desktop-devel-app[4]. There are 2 posts this month on this mailing list that do not pertain to the idea of this mailing list. While it's OK for a user unaware of these things to post and we can address our replies to him/her only and point them in the right direction, however I think all active GNOME contributors (especially those who are new to the community) must be made aware of correct etiquette for posting on mailing lists *explicitly* while signing up by perhaps by giving a small description of what the subscriber can post on the mailing list? While it's easy to simply hit 'Delete' or look the other way at such queries for help, these attitudes do not align with the right spirit of Open Source and of GNOME as a community. I suggest we take a few proactive measures to minimize occurrence of such e-mail. I also decided to check out http://www.gnome.org/foundation/charter.html, which does not seem to exist. Andreas? Thank you. -Sindhu [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00140.html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00102.html [3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2013-May/msg00014.html [4] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-May/msg00016.html ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team
Thank you for this information, Andrea! We'll greatly benefit from the bot and the etherpad is a lovely addition! I have sent you a request via email regarding this. Thank you for setting this up :) -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: 2013/5/17 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org KGB Bot --- I've been working during the past week on the KGB Bot [4] (it has been a pain to package dozen of perl libraries!), which is a little IRC bot capable of sendind out notifications when a commit occurs on a specific git repository. I'm currently waiting the RH IT to open the specific port on the firewall for the kgb-client to communicate correctly with the bot which is hosted on a machine outside the datacenter where git.gnome.org runs. I'll make sure to send out an additional mail when the service is ready to go accepting new requests. KGB Bot is finally ready to go, if you are interested in receiving commit notifications for a specific GNOME module on an IRC channel hosted at irc.gnome.org, please open a bug against the 'sysadmin' module on Bugzilla or directly mail me the relevant information: 1. repository-name 2. channel-name In addition to this, the Etherpad istance hosted by the GNOME Infrastructure is up and running at https://etherpad.gnome.org. The service is and will be restricted to all the GNOME teams that will request access to it (at the moment the Board, Release Team, Advisory Board, Marketing Team), if you are interested in the service please drop me an e-mail anytime. -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Charter not found
On 2013-05-23 15:27, Sindhu S wrote: I also decided to check out http://www.gnome.org/foundation/charter.html, which does not seem to exist. Andreas? Where did this url originate from? This is the correct url as far as I know: https://live.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter - Andreas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Charter not found
Hello Andreas, The link originated from here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list The link is given in the introductory text. Thank you for the correct link! -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-05-23 15:27, Sindhu S wrote: I also decided to check out http://www.gnome.org/** foundation/charter.html http://www.gnome.org/foundation/charter.html, which does not seem to exist. Andreas? Where did this url originate from? This is the correct url as far as I know: https://live.gnome.org/** Foundation/Charter https://live.gnome.org/Foundation/Charter - Andreas __**_ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/foundation-**listhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
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 which single one of these candidate not to put on the board. That is getting pretty close to no choice at all. What would we do if there were only 7 candidates? If there were only 6? I propose changing the election rules for future elections so that if the number of candidates is less than 7/4 the size of the board, there will be another request for candidates, giving 5 days for people to step forward. If that squeezes the subsequent step, then expand it by moving all the previous dates 5 days earlier. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
Seems like a valid point. p.s. not saying the current candidates are not valid or worthy :) p.s.s. a valid point that this year we should continue as is. It isn't fair to the ones that have submitted their candidacy on time. -- Jared Jennings On Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:57 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 which single one of these candidate not to put on the board. That is getting pretty close to no choice at all. What would we do if there were only 7 candidates? If there were only 6? I propose changing the election rules for future elections so that if the number of candidates is less than 7/4 the size of the board, there will be another request for candidates, giving 5 days for people to step forward. If that squeezes the subsequent step, then expand it by moving all the previous dates 5 days earlier. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org (http://www.fsf.org) www.gnu.org (http://www.gnu.org) Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org (mailto:foundation-list@gnome.org) https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
Fully agreed Richard, these items are on the Membership Committee's agenda for the next meeting already. 2013/5/23 Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org 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 which single one of these candidate not to put on the board. That is getting pretty close to no choice at all. What would we do if there were only 7 candidates? If there were only 6? I propose changing the election rules for future elections so that if the number of candidates is less than 7/4 the size of the board, there will be another request for candidates, giving 5 days for people to step forward. If that squeezes the subsequent step, then expand it by moving all the previous dates 5 days earlier. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Charter not found
Heya :) On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:57:02PM +0530, Sindhu S wrote: I was wondering lately what topics are OK to post on this mailing list because lately I have been seeing many people post unrelated topics on mailing lists including this [1][2] such as gtk-list[3], desktop-devel-app[4]. At least one of those emails landed in global the moderation queue that I look after evey so often. I usually don't reject mails unless it's SPAM or very obviously off topic. I'd prefer more list owners so that less mails will hit the global moderation queue. I suggest we take a few proactive measures to minimize occurrence of such e-mail. Cool. Do you have a concrete suggestion? I quite sure that we can put up a small text next to the mailing lists. Cheers, Tobi ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
