Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

I’ve received several questions during the past days which possibly makes
sense to summarize in a single topic [1] which I can then reference.
Hopefully this specific post will help anyone looking for the same set of
answers as well. If any additional common question arises I’ll make sure to
add it to this same topic in Discourse.

Thanks and please let us know if you have any questions around Discourse or
your onboarding process!

[1]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 1:09 PM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
> platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
> managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
> 2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
> instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
> initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
> out to me directly.
>
> Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can
> follow [3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse.
> The new platform supports several login methods including your GNOME
> Account and other major OpenID providers.
>
> After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain
> alive in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind
> an alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on
> Discourse instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
> deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending
> how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase
>
> [1] https://discourse.gnome.org
> [2]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
> [3]
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5
>
> --
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> Andrea
>
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> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
>


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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Andrea Veri]

Gregory,

The target tag that was created for this specific purpose is called
"announcement", there's also a "foundation" tag which you can use in
combination with the aforementioned one for any announcement related to the
GNOME Foundation.

Thanks,

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 19:33 Gregory Leblanc via foundation-list <
foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> Foundation members,
>
> I know that this has been coming for a while but as a former contributor
> who generally just wants to keep tabs on the major changes and
> announcements, this particular change will mean that I probably don't keep
> tabs on anything.  There's no obvious replacement on 'discourse.gnome.org'.
> The closest I can see is a 'community' category which is entirely too
> broad.  Entering the 'foundation-announce' tag, which is how I interpreted
> the information below, yields nothing.  Given the immense talents involved
> with Gnome, I'm sad that no one came up with a better solution than simply
> dropping foundation-announce.
>  Greg
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 7:44 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
>> platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
>> managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
>> 2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
>> instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
>> initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
>> out to me directly.
>>
>> Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can
>> follow [3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse.
>> The new platform supports several login methods including your GNOME
>> Account and other major OpenID providers.
>>
>> After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain
>> alive in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind
>> an alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on
>> Discourse instead.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
>> deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending
>> how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase
>>
>> [1] https://discourse.gnome.org
>> [2]
>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
>> [3]
>> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Andrea
>>
>> Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
>> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
>> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>>
>> Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
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>> foundation-annou...@gnome.org
>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
>>
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Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
out to me directly.

Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can follow
[3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse. The new
platform supports several login methods including your GNOME Account and
other major OpenID providers.

After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain alive
in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind an
alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on Discourse
instead.

Thanks,

P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending
how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase

[1] https://discourse.gnome.org
[2]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
[3]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5

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Upcoming changes to GNOME's mail infrastructure

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

during early November the following changes will be applied to GNOME's mail
infrastructure:

1. SPF records will be made more strict and outgoing email for any @
gnome.org e-mail will have to transit over GNOME's mail servers
2. DKIM will be introduced to sign emails originating from a @gnome.org
alias
3. @gnome.org alias owners will have to change their mail client
configuration to use GNOME mail servers as their SMTP server with
authentication defaulting to their GNOME account credentials

There will be another communication from our side with an exact list of
modifications you will need to apply to comply with the above changes. As a
friendly reminder all the mailing lists (with the exception of l10n lists
which are undergoing a set of code changes on damned-lies) hosted on
mail.gnome.org will be retired at the end of October 2022. Please see [1].

Thanks,

[1]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html

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Retired IRC services: Commits Bot, MeetBot

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

with the advent of GitLab, Matrix and our desire to reduce the amount of
services we maintain to lower maintenance burden I'm here to announce the
following IRC services are being decommissioned:

1. Commits Bot (can be replaced with GitLab webhooks support and one of the
available Matrix or IRC integrations)
2. MeetBot (last team using it dates back to 2019)

Happy to help provide some help to anyone willing to migrate to webhooks
and available integrations to supersede the solutions we've been running
for a long time.

Thanks!

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Foundation membership - Introducing automation

[Andrea Veri]

As a follow-up to [1], we recently introduced automation to better and more
efficiently manage GNOME Foundation membership applications (new
memberships, renewals, emeritus).

There's no substantial change on how you should be requesting membership,
an existing membership renewal or emeritus status, other than making sure
you quote (via @username, in the issue description) an existing GNOME
module maintainer or Foundation member who can vouch for your membership to
be approved and the process expedited.

This particular automation ignores the title of the issue unless you're
applying for the emeritus status, in that case it looks for the string
'emeritus' (case insensitive) in the issue title itself. That's the only
current requirement.

Automation will also collect a list of approved members during the last
month and mail [2] accordingly, this as a replacement of the former
announcement we were used to send on foundation-list (mailman).

For any doubt, concern, question, please reach out to us via [2].

Thanks!

[1]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2022-September/msg0.html
[2] https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/membership/338

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Re: New GNOME Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

I forgot to mention future announcements like this one will be sent to
https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/membership/338. Any question,
concern, discussion should happen within the same Discourse category.

Thanks!

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 2:27 PM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Hello everybody!
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
> approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for
> their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!
>
> They are: *
>
>  * Jürgen Benvenuti (GNOME German Language Team Translator)
>  * Hari Rana (Fractal, Workbench, Boxes)
>  * Vojtěch Perník (GNOME Czech translator, GNOME Czech community)
>  * Corey Berla (GNOME Files)
>  * Dylan McCall (Kolibri desktop app, GNOME Break Timer)
>  * Sabri Unal (GNOME Turkish translator)
>  * Sebastian Wick (Working on HDR support throughout the stack, currently
> focused on mutter)
>  * Anisa Kuci (GNOME Engagement Team - Events)
>  * Paulo Galardi (Khronos - GNOME Circle)
>  * Rafael Mardojai (Blanket, SharePreview, WebfontKitGenerator - GNOME
> Circle)
>
> We also have two new Emeritus members:
>
>  * Christian Rose (GNOME Swedish Translation Team coordinator, GNOME
> Infrastructure Team)
>
> This email is going to be the last one we'll be sending to foundation-list
> (see
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2022-August/msg0.html
> ).
>
> For any further questions you may have, feel free to open up an issue via
> GitLab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues.
>
> * Syntax is Name, Surname, Area of involvement
>
>
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> Andrea
>
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> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
>


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New GNOME Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 * Jürgen Benvenuti (GNOME German Language Team Translator)
 * Hari Rana (Fractal, Workbench, Boxes)
 * Vojtěch Perník (GNOME Czech translator, GNOME Czech community)
 * Corey Berla (GNOME Files)
 * Dylan McCall (Kolibri desktop app, GNOME Break Timer)
 * Sabri Unal (GNOME Turkish translator)
 * Sebastian Wick (Working on HDR support throughout the stack, currently
focused on mutter)
 * Anisa Kuci (GNOME Engagement Team - Events)
 * Paulo Galardi (Khronos - GNOME Circle)
 * Rafael Mardojai (Blanket, SharePreview, WebfontKitGenerator - GNOME
Circle)

We also have two new Emeritus members:

 * Christian Rose (GNOME Swedish Translation Team coordinator, GNOME
Infrastructure Team)

This email is going to be the last one we'll be sending to foundation-list
(see
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2022-August/msg0.html
).

For any further questions you may have, feel free to open up an issue via
GitLab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues.

* Syntax is Name, Surname, Area of involvement


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Re: GNOME Accounts - Introducing Automation

[Andrea Veri]

As a follow-up we had on Discourse there's a few more key takes I wanted to
mention:

1. The git_access action mainly verifies you’re actively contributing to a
GNOME module and the module maintainer is willing to grant you access to
the LDAP group responsible for providing read-write capabilities within the
entire set of GNOME’s GitLab namespace hosted repositories. DOAP files only
control who maintains a module, for committers we mainly have one single
LDAP group which in turn maps to a GitLab group where everyone is allowed
to commit to any repository within GNOME’s GitLab namespace. This is the
former "gnomecvs" group.

2. master_access has been renamed to maint_access, documentation has been
updated. It effectively grants the ftpadmin role, the reason why we need a
module param is that this role gives you access to master.gnome.org, as
such we need an existing maintainer to vouch for your access to be created
given these permission allow you to modify tarballs we globally serve. The
idea with this self-service tool is that we also introduced additional
auditing and accounting when it comes to GNOME accounts, each action is
tracked within an individual GitLab issue and we can easily connect what
was granted and when.

3. If you do not have a GNOME Account at all, please use the new_account
action, it'll make sure your account is created and access to GNOME's
GitLab namespace is also granted. If you do have a GNOME account already
and you need commit access please use the git_access action. Same applies
if you're an existing maintainer and you need access to publish releases
via master.gnome.org, in that case you will use the maint_access action.

This will be the last update to this thread, for further updates please
head to [1] or [2], thanks!

[1]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-accounts-introducing-automation/11146/3
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Infrastructure/NewAccounts


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:32 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As we discussed during GUADEC and as many of you know, processing new and
> existing GNOME account changes has been a manual action for many years now.
> With the introduction of OCP, GitLab CI/CD, IPA and SSO, we wanted to
> enable GNOME contributors and developers to fulfil their needs in total
> autonomy and freedom without requiring interventions from our side when it
> came to provision resources or build/test GNOME software.
>
> With that in mind we're happy to announce new and existing GNOME account
> changes are now processed via automation.
>
> How it works
> ---
>
> When visiting [1] you will be shown an issue template composed of some
> documentation on top and a json dictionary. The only field that requires an
> update is the json dictionary, the following format should be used:
>
> action can be any of:
>
> 1. new_account
> 2. git_access
> 3. master_access
> 4. update_email
>
> While the module key should be the name of any GNOME module as found
> within [2], the module key should only be specified with the new_account,
> git_access, master_access actions.
>
> The title of the issue should be: "Account request".
>
> Other key takes when selecting the new_account action:
>
> 1. Your name, surname and username will be computed out of your full name
> as found in your GitLab profile
> 2. The registered email on your account will be the one of your GitLab
> profile
>
> Other key takes when selecting the update_email action:
>
> 1. The email that will be synchronized with IPA is the primary one you
> have registered on your GitLab account, please make sure that one is
> up-to-date
>
> What automation will take care of:
>
> 1. Generate your account information and allow the Accounts team to verify
> compliance, also add necessary labels
> 2. Mail individual existing GNOME module maintainers and have them
> acknowledge your new or existing GNOME account request
> 3. Once all the verifications have happened, automation will create your
> account or update it with additional permissions
> 4. Close the issue and turn the confidential flag to on once the full
> process has completed
>
> Please let us know any feedback you may have, for any bug report please
> use [3].
>
> Once an initial phase of testing has happened, the idea we have is
> introducing the same automation within the GNOME Foundation Membership
> Committee as well during the coming months.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1]
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/new?issuable_template=account-request
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues
>
>
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> Andrea
>
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GNOME Accounts - Introducing Automation

[Andrea Veri]

Hello,

As we discussed during GUADEC and as many of you know, processing new and
existing GNOME account changes has been a manual action for many years now.
With the introduction of OCP, GitLab CI/CD, IPA and SSO, we wanted to
enable GNOME contributors and developers to fulfil their needs in total
autonomy and freedom without requiring interventions from our side when it
came to provision resources or build/test GNOME software.

With that in mind we're happy to announce new and existing GNOME account
changes are now processed via automation.

How it works
---

When visiting [1] you will be shown an issue template composed of some
documentation on top and a json dictionary. The only field that requires an
update is the json dictionary, the following format should be used:

action can be any of:

1. new_account
2. git_access
3. master_access
4. update_email

While the module key should be the name of any GNOME module as found within
[2], the module key should only be specified with the new_account,
git_access, master_access actions.

The title of the issue should be: "Account request".

Other key takes when selecting the new_account action:

1. Your name, surname and username will be computed out of your full name
as found in your GitLab profile
2. The registered email on your account will be the one of your GitLab
profile

Other key takes when selecting the update_email action:

1. The email that will be synchronized with IPA is the primary one you have
registered on your GitLab account, please make sure that one is up-to-date

What automation will take care of:

1. Generate your account information and allow the Accounts team to verify
compliance, also add necessary labels
2. Mail individual existing GNOME module maintainers and have them
acknowledge your new or existing GNOME account request
3. Once all the verifications have happened, automation will create your
account or update it with additional permissions
4. Close the issue and turn the confidential flag to on once the full
process has completed

Please let us know any feedback you may have, for any bug report please use
[3].

Once an initial phase of testing has happened, the idea we have is
introducing the same automation within the GNOME Foundation Membership
Committee as well during the coming months.

Thanks!

[1]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/new?issuable_template=account-request
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues


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master.gnome.org updated its SSH host keys

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

master.gnome.org was recently rebuilt and old SSH host keys were
deprecated. The next time you attempt to log in you'll be warned host keys
have effectively changed, please make sure to remove former keys under
.ssh/known_hosts and retry. SSHFP records have been updated accordingly.
Please get in touch if anything doesn't work the way it should.

Thanks,

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Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2022 - Candidates

[Andrea Veri]

And please also refer to the election's original announcement I made in May
[1] as well.

[1]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2022-May/msg3.html

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 4:19 PM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Allan,
>
> please always refer to election rules and guidelines before voting [1].
> All the information that you may require for voting including seats up for
> election are available there.
>
> [1] https://vote.gnome.org/2022/rules.html
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 4:16 PM Allan Day  wrote:
>
>> Andrea Veri  wrote:
>> ...
>> >> Please see <https://vote.gnome.org/2022/candidates.html> for more
>> details.
>>
>> When I went to vote, I was uncertain how many seats were up for
>> election. I've dug into it, and from what I can tell, this election is
>> uncontested? Board terms are two years, the board has seven seats, and
>> last year we elected three directors (Thibault, Alberto and Philip),
>> meaning that four seats up are open this time round.
>>
>> Is that correct?
>>
>> Allan
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>
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>
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Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2022 - Candidates

[Andrea Veri]

Allan,

please always refer to election rules and guidelines before voting [1]. All
the information that you may require for voting including seats up for
election are available there.

[1] https://vote.gnome.org/2022/rules.html

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 4:16 PM Allan Day  wrote:

> Andrea Veri  wrote:
> ...
> >> Please see <https://vote.gnome.org/2022/candidates.html> for more
> details.
>
> When I went to vote, I was uncertain how many seats were up for
> election. I've dug into it, and from what I can tell, this election is
> uncontested? Board terms are two years, the board has seven seats, and
> last year we elected three directors (Thibault, Alberto and Philip),
> meaning that four seats up are open this time round.
>
> Is that correct?
>
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Re: Proposed amendment to bylaws to allow non-member directors

[Andrea Veri]

Frederic,

if you start the voting session from scratch, you just select the option
you want to vote for (either yes or no) and that automatically gets added
under Preferences, the next section will also show what you voted for in
order to confirm your selection.

Thanks,

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 3:38 PM Frederic Muller  wrote:

>
>
> On 5/10/22 20:14, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > On Tue., May 10, 2022, 9:10 a.m. Andrea Veri,  > <mailto:a...@gnome.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Frederic,
> >
> > unfortunately we had to re-use the voting system we use which is
> > mainly focused on Board of Directors elections. Let me explain how
> > it works:
> >
> > 1. Under candidates, you will find a list of 2 items, "yes" and "no"
> > 2. For either yes or no to end up in your preferences list, you
> > mainly need to click on either yes or no, you should expect to see
> > your final choice under Preferences and the option you didn't select
> > under Candidates
> > 3. While you can theoretically select both and have both options
> > added to preferences, it's preferred to only select one single
> > option and confirm
> >
> > Please let me know if that made things clearer for you, thanks!
> >
> >
> > Just to add to this, since I had this question (which was answered in
> > the final screen) -- the selection is to answer the question: "do you
> > support the proposed modification to allow non-member directors".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Arun
>
> Right! But I am unclear on how to get there... so whether I chose yes/no
> I get to that final question? Since I can't see what's in preferences it
> doesn't seem obvious what the yes/no selection do...
>
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Re: Proposed amendment to bylaws to allow non-member directors

[Andrea Veri]

Frederic,

unfortunately we had to re-use the voting system we use which is mainly
focused on Board of Directors elections. Let me explain how it works:

1. Under candidates, you will find a list of 2 items, "yes" and "no"
2. For either yes or no to end up in your preferences list, you mainly need
to click on either yes or no, you should expect to see your final choice
under Preferences and the option you didn't select under Candidates
3. While you can theoretically select both and have both options added to
preferences, it's preferred to only select one single option and confirm

Please let me know if that made things clearer for you, thanks!

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 3:02 PM Frederic Muller  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am sorry to ... not understand how to vote. First the display is off
> on FireFox and the button or titles hide the selection, then I don't
> understand what the questions Candidates & Preferences mean.
>
> Do we have a guide for dummies somewhere?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fred
>
> On 5/10/22 18:43, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > The Board has proposed the following change to the GNOME Foundation
> bylaws:
> >
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/foundation-web/-/merge_requests/3/diffs
> > <
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/foundation-web/-/merge_requests/3/diffs
> >
> >
> > The proposal is to widen the pool from which the Foundation can attract
> > candidates to stand for election as directors, by allowing individuals
> > who are not currently Foundation members to submit their candidacy for
> > election.
> >
> > This change is intended to bring new skills and experience into the
> > governance of the Foundation. At present, Foundation membership is
> > granted principally based on contributions to the GNOME project which
> > means the process selects for skills already present in our community,
> > such as software development, design, translation, documentation or
> > engagement. Whilst we do have some members who also bring experience at
> > fundraising, nonprofit governance and establishing partnerships with
> > external organizations, they are in the minority. The Board would like
> > to establish additional pathways to try and attract individuals with
> > these skills into the Foundation.
> >
> > The board has published some notes about the planned strategy for the
> > upcoming year:
> >
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/evolving-a-strategy-for-2022-and-beyond/9759
> > <
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/evolving-a-strategy-for-2022-and-beyond/9759
> >
> >
> > And more details about the changes and how they support the strategy
> here:
> >
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/updated-bylaw-amendment-allow-non-members-to-stand-for-election/9761
> > <
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/updated-bylaw-amendment-allow-non-members-to-stand-for-election/9761
> >
> >
> > Specifically:
> >  * The requirement that directors are Foundation members is removed.
> >  * The election process is changed such that no more than 30% of the
> > board roles can be filled by directors who are not members at the time
> > of the election. Should this happen the runner-up member candidate will
> > be considered instead, similar to the existing affiliation limit. At
> > present with a board of 7, this is a maximum of two seats.
> >  * Nominations are changed such that member nominees must be
> > seconded by one existing member, and non-member nominees must be
> > seconded by 5% of members, up to a maximum of 5.
> >  * Members who are standing for election cannot second other
> > nominations.
> >
> > In lieu of a Special General Meeting, this proposal has been put to a
> > Written Ballot of the members.
> >
> > The voting session has opened and ballots will be sent during the next
> > hour, more information can be found at:
> > https://vote.gnome.org/2022-05/index.html
> > <https://vote.gnome.org/2022-05/index.html>
> >
> > --
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> > Andrea
> >
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> >
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New Foundation & Emeritus Members

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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Francesco Masala (Bottles - GNOME Circle)
 2. Mirko Brombin (Bottles - GNOME Circle)
 3. Pietro di Caprio (Bottles - GNOME Circle)
 4. Sonny Piers (Junction, Tangram, Commit - GNOME Circle)
 5. Evangelos Paterakis (Hashbrown - GNOME Circle)
 6. Dan Nicholson (OSTree, Flatpak)
 7. Dhanuka Warusadura (libsecret)
 8. Kévin Commaille (Fractal)
 9. Peace Ojemeh (Scaleable onboarding project)

We also have two new Emeritus members:

 1. Josh Triplett (ooo-build, legal)

For any further questions you may have, feel free to open up an issue via
GitLab at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues.

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Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

[Andrea Veri]

Michael,

That's lovely, thank you. I'll make sure those redirects will be there
before retiring the service at the end of March.


Il giorno ven 11 mar 2022 alle ore 22:26 Michael Catanzaro <
mcatanz...@gnome.org> ha scritto:

> Hi Andrea, I've pushed all the screenshots here:
>
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/static-web/-/commit/d205056a93ab19e53afbb1fe53310d71d7f0afd1
>
> so it should be easy to set up a redirect now. I've also submitted MRs
> to all affected apps to transition them from using the people.gnome.org
> URLs to using GitLab instead.
>
> Michael
>
>
>

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Re: Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

[Andrea Veri]

Michael,

Adding redirects once the service is down is a viable option, you can push
those images to static.g.o and we can add a redirect afterwards to make
sure stuff won't break. Let me know whether that works for you, thanks!

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 18:02 Michael Catanzaro  wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 9 2022 at 05:44:04 PM +0100, Andrea Veri 
> wrote:
> > With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with
> > a good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March.
>
> Sadly I have images for appstream metadata hosted here (seemed like a
> good idea back in 2014, oops), meaning once it goes down, older
> releases will no longer display images in GNOME Software if distros
> rebuild their appstream metadata. Potentially affected apps:
> five-or-more, four-in-a-row, gnome-calculator, gnome-chess,
> gnome-klotski, gnome-mahjongg, gnome-mines, gnome-nibbles,
> gnome-robots, gnome-sudoku, gnome-taquin, gnome-tetravex, hitori,
> iagno, lightsoff, quadrapassel, swell-foop, tali. These images are very
> stale, so hopefully some apps have refreshed their images since I
> created them, but the rest will break. I'll go through them all soon
> and migrate all images to GitLab to ensure that GNOME 42 releases will
> be OK, but of course there is no way to fix older releases.
>
> I also had a bunch of tarballs hosted here too, but it looks like
> release team is no longer using them due to infrastructure
> improvements, so that's no problem.
>
> Michael
>
>
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Intent to retire people.gnome.org (31th of March)

[Andrea Veri]

Foundation members, developers, contributors,

We've analyzed people.gnome.org usage over the course of 2021 and Q1 2022
and the actual results did not surprise us given the multitude of ways
hosting a tarball or a simple file contributors have these days (GitLab
pages, download.gnome.org, GitLab release for non-official builds,
Openshift). What we found is the service being heavily utilized by a single
contributor with around 18 other contributors utilizing the service every
few months.

With that in mind and unless anyone within the community objects with a
good rationale we'll be retiring the service by the 31th of March.

Thanks,

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New Foundation & Emeritus Members

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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman (GNOME Asia Summit)
 2. Ivan Molodetskikh (GNOME Shell, Mutter)
 3. Michael Terry (Maintainer of GNOME Circle app Deja Dup Backups)
 4. Daniel Patricio Galleguillos Cruz (GNOME Marketing, Engagement and
Design)
 5. Maximiliano Sandoval (Multiple GNOME Circle apps maintainer/developer:
Password Safe, Lorem, Decoder)
 6. Luna Jernberg (GNOME Swedish translator, GUADEC 2015 / 2021 volunteer)
 7. Mantoh Nasah Kuma (GJS)

We also have two new Emeritus members:

 1. Christian Neumair (German translations team, Nautilus)
 2. Christophe Fergeau (GNOME Boxes, GSoC organizer / mentor for GNOME)

For any further questions you may have, feel free to mail us at
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The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
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their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Manuel Haro (GUADEC and GNOME events coordinator/contributor)
 2. Andy Holmes (GJS documentation, extensions.g.o submission reviewer,
GSConnect extension author)
 3. Evan Welsh (GNOME Tweaks maintainer, GNOME Fonts co-maintainer,
extensions community management)
 4. Javad Rahmatzadeh (GNOME 40 Port Guide, GNOME extensions)
 5. Daniel Landau (Switcher GNOME extension developer, Polari, Shotwell
contributions)
 6. James Westman (GNOME Maps)
 7. Guillaume Bernard (GNOME French Translator)
 8. Yuki Okushi (GNOME Japanese Translator)

We also have two new Emeritus members:

 1. Joaquim Rocha (OCRFeeder, GNOME Software, GNOME Control Center)
 2. Dumitru Moldovan (Former GNOME Romanian Translator)

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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Dan Yeaw (Gaphor, GNOME Circle member)
 2. Pascal Nowack (GNOME Remote Desktop)
 3. Kristi Progri (GNOME Foundation Program Coordinator)
 4. Julian Hofer (Podcasts co-maintainer)
 5. Alejandro Domínguez (Fractal)
 6. Sophie Herold (Pika Backup maintainer - GNOME Circle)

We also have two new Emeritus members:

 1. Mario Sanchez (Frogr, Epiphany)
 2. Rodrigo Moya (GNOME-DB, Evolution, GNOME Control Center)

For any further questions you may have, feel free to mail us at
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Planned maintenance: Thursday 28th of January, 12:00 - 13.30 PM UTC

[Andrea Veri]

Hello,

here to report we'll be having a maintenance / planned outage of all GNOME
services during the 12:00 - 13:30 PM UTC time frame this upcoming Thursday
due to code upgrades and switches reboots against our networking
infrastructure.

Given the nature of this maintenance and the fact we heavily use network
based storage for VM and OSCP workloads, all services will be shutdown to
avoid filesystem corruptions.

Please keep an eye at https://status.gnome.org to know when services will
be fully operational.

Thanks!

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Re: New GNOME Account password reset tool is live!

[Andrea Veri]

Allan,

that's correct, SSH keys are not a requirement anymore when requesting
Foundation membership or a GNOME Account. I made sure the GitLab form for
new membership applications [1] and GNOME Accounts [2] also reflects this.

Thanks and please let me know whether I missed anything on the templates!

[1]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/MembershipCommittee/-/issues/new?issuable_template=membership-application
[2]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/new?issuable_template=new-account

Il giorno mar 24 nov 2020 alle ore 11:54 Allan Day  ha
scritto:

> Andrea Veri  wrote:
> ...
> > the GNOME Infrastructure is making available a new web based tool that
> will help you resetting your account password in case it was lost. As many
> of you know, the current way of updating your password was running a
> command on your terminal making sure your SSH key was up-to-date with the
> one we have on our systems. That was creating a barrier to contributors
> which aren't comfortable using a terminal, SSH or other developer oriented
> toolings. The new solution will ease the process and remove the need of
> utilizing a console and/or owning an SSH key.
>
> Awesome! Will this allow us to phase out SSH keys for LDAP accounts
> and foundation memberships? (I thought I'd filed a ticket for that but
> may have dreamt it.)
>
> Allan
>


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New GNOME Account password reset tool is live!

[Andrea Veri]

Contributors,

the GNOME Infrastructure is making available a new web based tool that will
help you resetting your account password in case it was lost. As many of
you know, the current way of updating your password was running a command
on your terminal making sure your SSH key was up-to-date with the one we
have on our systems. That was creating a barrier to contributors which
aren't comfortable using a terminal, SSH or other developer
oriented toolings. The new solution will ease the process and remove the
need of utilizing a console and/or owning an SSH key.

You can access the new tool at:

https://password.gnome.org

Documentation [1] has been updated to reflect this change as well. For any
issue with the service, please open an issue at [2].

Thanks!

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Infrastructure/RetrieveYourGNOMEAccountPassword
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/password-resets/-/issues/new

P.S the former password reset method (`ssh -l username account.gnome.org`)
has been removed/deprecated

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Planet GNOME Twitter account

[Andrea Veri]

Hello there!

The GNOME Foundation is trying to revive the Planet GNOME Twitter account
which has not seen an update since November 2016. We're trying to
understand who owned the account back in the days as it's not clear whether
the account itself was created by an individual contributor using his/her
own email rather than a @gnome.org alias or a GNOME team using an alias
that was then decommissioned.

Any idea?

Thanks!

[1] https://twitter.com/planetgnome
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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation members. Please welcome and thank them for their great
and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

   1. Samson Goddy (GNOME African Engagement Team)
   2. Onuoha Maryann Chiamaka (GNOME African Engagement Team)
   3. Alex Angelou (GNOME Engagement via dedicated events talks)
   4. Ayooluwa Olosunde Adetunmise (GNOME African Engagement Team)
   5. Adebola Ogunyemi (GNOME African Engagement Team)
   6. Thibault Martin (Translator, Newcomers support)
   7. Manuel Genovés Monzó (Maintainer of Apostrophe, writer of the
   twilight calculator for GNOME Clocks)

We also have one new Emeritus member:

   1. Paul Cutler (Former Board Members, contributions spawning over
   Infrastructure, Marketing, Documentation)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly
approved Foundation members. Please welcome and thank them for their great
and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

1. Günther Wagner (GNOME Builder, To-Do, Calendar)
2. Melissa Wu (GNOME Foundation's Program Coordinator)
3. Molly de Blanc (GNOME Foundation's Strategic Initiatives Manager)
4. Antonio Cardace (NetworkManager)
5. Valentin David (GNOME Build Meta, GNOME SDK runtimes, Flathub)
6. Regina Nkemchor Adejo (Engagement, Diversity and Inclusion)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
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Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2020

[Andrea Veri]

Michael,

if the current situation persists we'll much likely extend the running
period by one more week like previous years.

cheers,

Il giorno gio 28 mag 2020 alle ore 16:26 Michael Catanzaro <
mcatanz...@gnome.org> ha scritto:

> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 2:55 pm, Andrea Veri  wrote:
> > The deadline for submitting candidacies is tomorrow, please send your
> > one in if you're willing to run for this year's elections :-)
>
> Currently we have only one candidate (Regina) to replace four open
> seats. Do the bylaws specify what happens if we have fewer than four
> candidates?
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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation and Emeritus Members. Please welcome and
thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME
Foundation!

They are: *

1. Andik Nur Achmad (Helped organizing and building GNOME.Asia 2019 website)
2. Yudhi Satrio (Helped organizing and building GNOME.Asia 2019 website)
3. Sofyan Sugianto (Helped organizing and building GNOME.Asia 2019 website)
4. Rasmus Thomsen (Packaging GNOME for Alpine Linux)
5. Ravgeet Dhillon (GTK Website re-design)
6. Jonas Dreßler (Code, bug triaging, IRC Support over multiple GNOME modules)
7. Didier Roche (Ubuntu Packaging, GNOME Shell, GNOME Settings Daemon, others)
8. Clarissa Lima Borges (Outreachy intern December 2018 to March 2019.
GNOME Brazil community)
9. Ian Santopietro (Pop_OS core contributor)
10. Gaurav Agrawal (Engagement team member, GSOC 2019 student for
gitg, GNOME Games / Builder code contributions)
11. Alexander Mikhaylenko (GNOME Games maintainer)
12. Adwait Rawat (GNOME Games, Gitg)

Emeritus Members:

1. Tim Janik (Former gtk contributor)
2. Garrett Regier (libpeas maintainer)
3. Shih-Yuan Lee (Multiple GNOME (and freedesktop) modules code contributions)
4. Adam Dingle (Yorba founder, Geary and Shotwell)

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Contacting the Accounts Team changes

[Andrea Veri]

Hello!

as everyone is well aware the only way you had to contact the GNOME
Accounts Team till now was to mail accou...@gnome.org. Given the
willingness to decommission RT (Request Tracker) and consolidate the
reporting of issues and requests of support against GitLab we're happy
to announce you can now request a new account or an update to an
existing one directly via GitLab using pre-built templates.

[1] has been updated accordingly.

Thanks and available if you need further assistance.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/AccountsTeam/NewAccounts

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Planned Maintenance on l10n.gnome.org: Monday 16th of September, 07:00 - 08.00 PM UTC

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

we'll be performing a migration of GNOME's Translations service from a
standalone virtual machine into Openshift (OSCP). The service will be
offline until we perform the migration to avoid new data to be
inserted on the old site while we finalize the setup of the OSCP
project.

The following services will be affected:

l10n.gnome.org

As usual please keep an eye at [1].

Thanks!

[1] https://status.gnome.org

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New GNOME Foundation Members and Emeritus Members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

1. Veerasamy Sevagen (Multiple GNOME modules code contributions)
2. Heather Ellsworth (GNOME Engagement Team)
3. Claudio Wunder (GNOME Engagement Team)
4. Gwan-gyeong Mun (Mutter, gdk-pixbuf)
5. Michael Gratton (Geary maintainer)

In addition, we also have one (1) new Emeritus member [1]:

1. Owen Taylor (GTK+ and GNOME Shell maintainer, past Board Member and
Infrastructure Team lead)


* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

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Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

[Andrea Veri]

Robert,

I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't
received enough candidacies for the elections and the voting phase to
begin, thus the need to extend the timelines. We currently collected a
total of 5 candidates, 2 to go for the elections to actually start:

Allan Day
Britt Yazel
Carlos Soriano
Robert McQueen
Philip Chimento

cheers,




Il giorno lun 27 mag 2019 alle ore 13:21 Robert McQueen
 ha scritto:
>
> On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 12:40 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > Foundation members,
>
> Dear Andrea,
>
> >
> due to no candidacies being received for the 2019 elections
>
> Is this a clerical / copy paste error from an old announcement? From my
> perspective I have seen four timely candidacies per the old timeline
> (myself included) and one further/late candidacy which would suit the
> revised timeline. Can you confirm the current candidate list from your
> perspective or whether any of the submissions so far have been
> discounted for any reason?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Rob
>
> > we're
> > postponing each of the items of the timeline [1] by one week in order
> > to provide additional time for possible candidates to evaluate and
> > send in their candidacy. [1] has been updated accordingly. Details on
> > how to run as a candidate and other related information can be found
> > at [2].
> >
> >
> >   *GNOME Board Elections 2019*
> > 2019-05-12: List of candidates opens.
> > 2019-06-02: Last day to announce candidacies, submit
> > summary statements.
> > 2019-06-03: Final list of candidates.
> > 2019-06-04: Instructions mailed to eligible voters,
> > voting begins.
> > 2019-06-18: Voting closes.
> > 2019-06-19: Preliminary results are announced.
> > 2019-06-26: Last day to challenge preliminary results.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > [1] https://vote.gnome.org/2019/rules.html
> > [2] 
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2019-April/msg2.html
> >
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Bug in the membership application form

[Andrea Veri]

Membership,

there seems to be a bug in the membership form [1] that triggers in
specific situations (i.e when one of the text boxes for account name,
email, jabber account is filled in) that prevents the form to actually
submit and generate an actual ticket for the membership committee to
process.

While we investigate/fix this, if you submit the form and it returns
back to the form itself and not to a thank you page, please try
re-submitting, the system will send you a response email in case of a
successful transaction.

Thanks!

[1] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/

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Re: Submit your proposals for GUADEC 2019

[Andrea Veri]

Haiton,

you used your @gnome.org alias to subscribe to those mailing lists and
that is why unsubscribing using your @gmail.com address didn't work.
It's all fixed by now.

cheers,

Il giorno mar 23 apr 2019 alle ore 12:05 Haitao Huo via
foundation-list  ha scritto:
>
> I’ve being working on open source community for over a decade, trust me, I 
> know how to unsubscribe in right way.
>
> I've tired several times but never worked for me. I did not receive any 
> confirmation email and I keep receiving the mails.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Halotn.
> > On Apr 18, 2019, at 5:40 PM, kprogri  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Halton,
> >
> > Sorry to hear for the spamming.
> > Could you please try these two links to unsubscribe:
> >
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
> >
> >
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list
> >
> > Let me know if that doesn't work,
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Kristi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On , Haitao Huo wrote:
> >> Hi Kristi
> >> I totally understand your points and could you help me on thing?
> >> I keep receive the emails from desktop-devel-l...@gnome.org, FTP
> >> Releases  , maybe more mail list. I tried
> >> to unsubcribe but all failed. Could you help me out? Those emails are
> >> kind of spam for me now.
> >> THanks,
> >> Halton.
> >>> On Apr 12, 2019, at 7:11 PM, kprogri  wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> The GUADEC Call for Papers is now officially open.  This year the
> >>> conference
> >>> will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece from 23rd to 28th of August.
> >>> This is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the GNOME
> >>> project, as
> >>> well as the wider open source community. You don’t have to be an
> >>> existing
> >>> member of the GNOME project to submit a talk: if you have something
> >>> interesting to say about software or technology, we want to hear
> >>> from you! If
> >>> you’re brand new to speaking, this is also a great opportunity to
> >>> get started
> >>> on your public speaking career — we welcome newcomers and provide
> >>> a friendly
> >>> audience.
> >>> Subjects that we're particularly interested in include:
> >>> 1- Application development and deployment
> >>> 2- Privacy and security
> >>> 3- Community building and diversity
> >>> 4- Design of user and developer experiences
> >>> 5- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
> >>> 6- Encouraging new contributors
> >>> 7- Project organisation and governance
> >>> 8- Use of GNOME by users
> >>> However, if there is another subject that you would like to talk
> >>> about, we
> >>> would still love to receive your submission. Talks can be either 25
> >>> or 40
> >>> minutes in length, which includes time for questions.
> >>> You can find more information for proposals in:
> >>> https://2019.guadec.org/pages/submit-a-proposal.html
> >>> BoFs/workshop and hacking days wiki will be updated with more
> >>> details in
> >>> the upcoming weeks.
> >>> In case you have questions for talks, please contact the papers team
> >>> at
> >>> guadec-pap...@gnome.org.
> >>> For general questions regarding GUADEC please contact the organizing
> >>> team at guadec-organizat...@gnome.org.
> >>> Best Regards,
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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Membership,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

1. Daniel Șerbănescu (GNOME Romanian Translations team Coordinator)

2. Rania Amina (GNOME.Asia design, engagement, translations)

3. Nathan Follens (GNOME Dutch Translator)

4. Felix Häcker (GNOME Podcasts)

5. Robert Mader (Mutter)

6. Bilal Elmoussaoui (Multiple contributions to several GNOME modules
(Contacts, ToDo, Games, Tweaks, Music))


In addition to them, we also have one new Emeritus Members: [1]

1. Bradley M. Kuhn (Former GNOME Advisory Board Member, back in the
days primary diplomat between FSF and GNOME)


* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

cheers,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

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Foundation Membership Application form

[Andrea Veri]

Membership,

if you attempted to submit the Foundation Membership Application form
[1] during this past week you may want to retry as we found (and
fixed) a bug on the form itself which prevented new (or renewals)
applications to actually land. Thanks!

[1] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply

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New Foundation and Emeritus Members

[Andrea Veri]

Membership,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

   * Caroline Henriksen (Engagement Team, design)
   * Falk Alexander Seidl (KeepassGtk, Seahorse)
   * Vivia Nikolaidou (GUADEC 2019 organizer, gstreamer)
   * Hans de Goede (mutter, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell,
gnome-session, ...)
   * Rico Tzschichholz (Vala maintainer)

In addition to them, we also have two new Emeritus Members: [1]

   * Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam Translator)
   * Richard Stallman (Involved in launching GNOME as part of the
development of the GNU operating system)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

Best wishes and Happy Holidays!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

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Re: projects-old.gnome.org being discontinued

[Andrea Veri]

Liam,

thanks for your comments, an additional note: this is actually NOT the
old page as in theory whenever we'll have a new way of handling
projects views the former (and to be considered old) website is going
to be [1]. In 2013 we migrated several of those links to what
projects.gnome.org is today and left projects-old un-maintained
(individual maintainers were taking care of maintaining their own
projects) which led to multiple of those links to become obsolete /
historical (pre 2010) / not relevant anymore. Do you see any value in
keeping those URLs around even if they're historical and not relevant
since several years?

cheers,

[1] https://projects.gnome.org
Il giorno gio 6 dic 2018 alle ore 22:23 Liam R E Quin
 ha scritto:
>
> On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 12:31 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > Liam,
> >
> > no, I really meant projects-old.gnome.org which as I described on my
> > original e-mail was the pre-2013 projects page we had running before
> > transitioning to the new wiki.g.o based projects listing.
>
> Yes, i understood that. Sorry if i wasn't clear.
>
> >  I believe the engagement team was looking
> > into possible new ways to unify projects listing into one single
> > view, not sure what's the status there though.
>
> Then i'd suggest holding off until you know, because redirecting the
> old page to a new mechanism would make the most sense. As i said,
> there's lots of links to projects-old.gnome.org.
>
> Liam
>
> >
> > cheers,
> > Il giorno mer 5 dic 2018 alle ore 21:10 Liam R E Quin
> >  ha scritto:
> > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:22 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in
> > > > 2013
> > > > right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki
> > > > (projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since
> > > > then)
> > >
> > > i think you mean projects.gnome.org, right?
> > >
> > > That seems to be a lot less complete, and also just has project
> > > names
> > > and not explanations. So there's (out of date) information being
> > > lost.
> > >
> > > There are also a lot of external links to the page, so you'll break
> > > a
> > > lot of links (and, for what it's worth, hurt gnome.org's search
> > > ranking
> > > a little in the process). But this could be mitigated with an HTTP
> > > redirect to a page telling people how to find what they might have
> > > wanted.
> > >
> > > > for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I
> > > > believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the
> > > > former
> > > > website all together.
> > >
> > > If it goes, it might be helpful to add short descriptions to
> > > projects.gnome.org, although that would mean a bunch of work of
> > > course.
> > > The (current) wiki pages are not organized enough to make this a
> > > question of easy scraping so maybe the answer is to automate
> > > something
> > > that grabs the page title from the linked pages, and encourage
> > > project
> > > maintaners to edit their wiki pages as needed?
> > >
> > > On the other hand it's fun exploring the page to find out what
> > > things
> > > are :)
> > >
> > > The new page is much better overall, even without descriptions,
> > > because
> > > of the division into categories.
> > >
> > > Liam (irc::ankh)
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/
> > > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read.
> > > Click here to have the slave beaten.
> > >
> >
> >
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Re: projects-old.gnome.org being discontinued

[Andrea Veri]

Liam,

no, I really meant projects-old.gnome.org which as I described on my
original e-mail was the pre-2013 projects page we had running before
transitioning to the new wiki.g.o based projects listing. I believe
the future of projects.g.o will vary, certain maintainers are setting
up GitLab pages for their project (using Jekyll / Hugo), some others
are using the wiki, still. I believe the engagement team was looking
into possible new ways to unify projects listing into one single view,
not sure what's the status there though.

cheers,
Il giorno mer 5 dic 2018 alle ore 21:10 Liam R E Quin
 ha scritto:
>
> On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:22 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in 2013
> > right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki
> > (projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since then)
>
> i think you mean projects.gnome.org, right?
>
> That seems to be a lot less complete, and also just has project names
> and not explanations. So there's (out of date) information being lost.
>
> There are also a lot of external links to the page, so you'll break a
> lot of links (and, for what it's worth, hurt gnome.org's search ranking
> a little in the process). But this could be mitigated with an HTTP
> redirect to a page telling people how to find what they might have
> wanted.
>
> > for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I
> > believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the former
> > website all together.
>
>
> If it goes, it might be helpful to add short descriptions to
> projects.gnome.org, although that would mean a bunch of work of course.
> The (current) wiki pages are not organized enough to make this a
> question of easy scraping so maybe the answer is to automate something
> that grabs the page title from the linked pages, and encourage project
> maintaners to edit their wiki pages as needed?
>
> On the other hand it's fun exploring the page to find out what things
> are :)
>
> The new page is much better overall, even without descriptions, because
> of the division into categories.
>
> Liam (irc::ankh)
>
>
> --
> Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/
> with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read.
> Click here to have the slave beaten.
>


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projects-old.gnome.org being discontinued

[Andrea Veri]

Hey,

the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in 2013
right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki
(projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since then)
for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I
believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the former
website all together. We'll be removing the vhost and the associated
DNS entry on Friday 7th of December. If there's anyone interested in
keeping it active please let me know so we can keep it around for some
additional time, the code behind it is available on GitLab [2].

Thanks,

[1] https://projects-old.gnome.org
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnomeweb-wml

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New Foundation members

[Andrea Veri]

Membership,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

* Link Dupont (GNOME Engagement Team)
* Stephen Pearce (GNOME events and websites)
* Zander Brown (libgda and podcasts)
* Bartłomiej Piotrowski  (Flathub and freedesktop-sdk-images)
* Christopher Davis (Fractal and design)
* Isaac Ferreira Filho (Brazilian l10n)
* Nick Wellnhofer (libxml and libxslt)
* Antoni Boucher (gtk-rs and webkit2gtk)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes,

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git.gnome.org being discontinued: Thursday 23th of August

[Andrea Veri]

Hey,

with GNOME finalizing the move to GitLab back at the end of May it's
time to retire the former git.gnome.org service. The service will be
shutdown next week on Thursday 23th of August.

What will we shutdown?

Mainly the git:// and ssh:// protocols. All the developers that
accessed git.gnome.org in the past 7 days have been mailed
accordingly.

What will we keep around for backwards compatibility?

The git.gnome.org vhost and its rewrites against the gitlab.gnome.org service.

If you're using jhbuild make sure you remove any reference to the
git:// and ssh:// protocols against git.gnome.org.

Thanks and at your disposition for additional questions!

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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Abderrahim Kitouni (GNOME Build Meta, Anjuta)

 2. Iain Lane (Ubuntu Desktop Team)

 3. Michael Hall (Engagement Team)

 4. Jean Felder (GNOME Music)

 5. Nathan Willis (Engagement Team)

 6. Britt Yazel (Engagement Team)

 7. Sam Hewitt (GNOME Design Team)

 8. Jan-Michael Brummer (Several GNOME/GTK environment code contributions)

In addition to them, we also have two new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Ross Burton (Sound Juicer creator, GNOME Games maintainer for a
while, Evolution-data-server)

 2. Mattias Bengtsson (GNOME Maps)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

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New GNOME Foundation members and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

1. Ask Hjorth Larsen  (GNOME Danish L10N team coordinator)
2. Alberto Fanjul Alonso  (GNOME-Music, GNOME-Builder)
3. Marco Trevisan  (Nautilus, gnome-shell, mutter, GTK+ contributions)
4. Jordan Petridis  (Librsvg, Fractal)
5. Abhinav Singh  (GNOME Games and GNOME Music developer, GSoC 2017)
6. Joseph Shields  (Gtk#, Monodevelop/Xamarin Studios packaging for Flatpak)
7. Martin Abente Lahaye  (GTK-based apps toolkit and desktop
maintainer for the Sugar Learning Platform, GNOME-stack based
libraries and tools for apps creation)

In addition to them, we also have one new Emeritus Member: [1]

1.  José María Casanova Crespo (2005,2006, 2009, 2010, 2012 & 2016
GUADEC-ES organization, one of the GNOME Hispano founders and
treasurers)



* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

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Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

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people.gnome.org SSH public key change

[Andrea Veri]

Hey,

we recently rebuild the node that was running people.gnome.org and as
such the SSH public keys for the host changed.

The SSHFP entries have been updated to reflect this.

Thanks!

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Re: Planned MAJOR OUTAGE: Thursday 08th of February, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC

[Andrea Veri]

While the move was overall successful one of the hosts has been found
having an hardware failure and requires its mainboard to be replaced.
The part will be replaced today between 14 - 15 UTC. The affected
services that will have a downtime are:

bugzilla.gnome.org
paste.gnome.org
etherpad.gnome.org
id.gnome.org
opw.gnome.org

Thanks,

2018-02-05 12:04 GMT+01:00 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>:
> Hi,
>
> this upcoming Thursday we'll be performing a rack migration for *all*
> the GNOME Infrastructure machines hosted in PHX2, the services that
> will see a one to two hours downtime are:
>
> wiki.gnome.org
> smtp.gnome.org
> mail.gnome.org
> git.gnome.org
> gitlab.gnome.org
> bugzilla.gnome.org
> www.gnome.org
> extensions.gnome.org
> sdk.gnome.org
> cloud.gnome.org
> pentagon.gimp.org (hosting all GIMP/GTK main websites)
> paste.gnome.org
> download.gnome.org
> blogs.gnome.org
> master.gnome.org
> jabber.gnome.org
> help.gnome.org
> developer.gnome.org
> planet*.gnome.*
> vote.gnome.org
> api.gnome.org
> *.guadec.org
>
>
> The GNOME Infrastructure team and Red Hat NOC will make sure the
> downtime will be minimized as much as possible. Once the machines have
> been migrated we'll move forward with service validations. As usual
> please keep an eye at [1] for status updates.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://status.gnome.org
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Red Hatter,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av



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Planned MAJOR OUTAGE: Thursday 08th of February, 17:00 - 19:00 UTC

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

this upcoming Thursday we'll be performing a rack migration for *all*
the GNOME Infrastructure machines hosted in PHX2, the services that
will see a one to two hours downtime are:

wiki.gnome.org
smtp.gnome.org
mail.gnome.org
git.gnome.org
gitlab.gnome.org
bugzilla.gnome.org
www.gnome.org
extensions.gnome.org
sdk.gnome.org
cloud.gnome.org
pentagon.gimp.org (hosting all GIMP/GTK main websites)
paste.gnome.org
download.gnome.org
blogs.gnome.org
master.gnome.org
jabber.gnome.org
help.gnome.org
developer.gnome.org
planet*.gnome.*
vote.gnome.org
api.gnome.org
*.guadec.org


The GNOME Infrastructure team and Red Hat NOC will make sure the
downtime will be minimized as much as possible. Once the machines have
been migrated we'll move forward with service validations. As usual
please keep an eye at [1] for status updates.

Thanks!

[1] https://status.gnome.org


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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Justin van Steijn (GNOME Dutch Translator)
 2. Cassidy James Blaede (GNOME UX / Design Team)
 3. Kukuh Syafaat (GNOME Indonesian translator, multiple GNOME
Projects code contributions)
 4. Zixing Liu (GNOME Chinese translations)
 5. Ludovico de Nittis (GNOME-Keysign)
 6. Matthew Leeds (GNOME Builder)
 7. Iñigo Martínez (GSoC 2007, Meson Porting)
 8. Julian Sparber (GNOME Design)
 9. Ekta Nandwani (GNOME Recipes)
 10. Daniel García Moreno (GNOME Libgepub)
 11. Marek Černocký (GNOME Czech translator)

In addition to them, we also have three new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Rafael Villar Burke (pygtk-web)
 2. Alberto Garcia (Hosting and co-organizing the 2010 GTK+ Hackfest
in A Coruña, Official Debian maintainer of some GNOME-related
packages: grilo, frogr, ocrfeeder, webkitgtk, Several GNOME-related
courses and presentations (e.g. the GNOME Developer Training sessions
at GUADEC 2010))
 3. Danielle Madeley (GNOME-Applets, Telepathy, Empathy)


* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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New Foundation Members

[Andrea Veri]

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

1. António Jorge Pinto Fernandes (Bug reporting, triaging, Design contributions)

2. Hau Heng Haggen So (Help organise GNOME.Asia)

3. Mingcong Bai (GNOME L10n Chinese)

4. Ondrej Holy (GNOME Control Center, GNOME Settings Daemon, Glib, Gvfs)

5. Mohammed Sadiq (GNOME control center, Calendar, ToDo, Nautilus, Builder)

6. Manuel Quiñones (OLPC and Sugar Labs, Flatpak)

7. Niels De Graef GNOME Contacts Maintainer)

8. Didier Roche (GNOME packaging in Ubuntu)

9. Christoph Simon (GUADEC 2016 organization, helping travel committee)

10. Tobias Bernard (Contributing to designers team)



* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

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Re: Memberships needing renewal (2017-10)

[Andrea Veri]

The script runs on the 15th of every month so it catches all the
memberships that expired within a one month time frame. What these
members will have to do is mainly submitting a renewal request, no
real consequences (none of the membership benefits are dropped, that
is) are expected in case a former member drops off from the membership
list for a couple of days (counting from the time the renewal form is
submitted) while we process the request itself.

cheers,

2017-10-16 7:57 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Franke :
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:59 AM, GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a
>> renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail:
>
> I noticed that most of these should be expired by now given today is
> already October 16th. Are these member going to be okay? Shouldn’t the
> reminder be sent in advance?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 * Cesar Fabian Orccon Chipana (Pitivi)
 * Gabriel Ivașcu (Epiphany)
 * Emel Elvin Yildiz (GNOME Recipes)
 * Mandy Wang (Chinese l10n team)
 * Tanu Kaskinen (PulseAudio)
 * Shih-Yuan Lee (NetworkManager)
 * DaeHyun Sung (gucharmap)
 * Alexandru-Ionut Pandelea (Nautilus)
 * Umang Anilkumar Jain (GNOME Photos)
 * Petr Štětka (GNOME Usage)
 * Sagar Ghuge (GTG contributions）
 * Razvan Chitu (Nautilus contributions)
 * Iulian-Gabriel Radu (GNOME Nibbles, Epiphany)
 * Juraj Fiala (Adwaita, GNOME Themes)
 * Bernd Homuth (German l10n team)
 * Yuri Konotopov (GNOME Shell integration for Chrome)
 * Muhammet Kara (Coordinating Turkish translation team)
 * Neil McGovern (GNOME ED)
 * Gomez Guillaume (Rust binding maintainer)
 * Ernestas Kulik (Nautilus contributions)
 * Timm Bäder (GTK+ contributor)

In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1]

  * Shaswat Nimesh (Founded Chennai GNOME User Group, Donated to
banshee for hosting their website)
  * Jose Angel Diaz Diaz (President GNOME Hispano, Translation Team,
GUADEC Organizer)
  * Guillaume Desmottes (Maintainer of Telepathy, Empathy)
  * Mart Raudsepp (Gentoo GNOME project, Gentoo GStreamer project)


* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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Interested community members @ domains ownership

[Andrea Veri]

@membership:

The following set of domains is about to expire in less than 60 days
and the Board of Directors confirmed there's no real interest in these
renewals as the projects that were behind them are inactive / dead
since several years now:

gnomejournal.org
tomboy-online.com
tomboy-online.org

If you have any interest in them please get in touch with me directly.

Thanks!


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Re: Memberships needing renewal (2017-1)

[Andrea Veri]

Hello,

due to an issue on the Foundation membership form all the post 28th of
November applications weren't submitted properly. Please make sure to
re-submit at [1].

Thanks!

[1] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/

2017-01-16 0:59 GMT+01:00 GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
:
>
> Hi,
>
> as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a
> renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail:
>
> First name Last name, (Last renewed on)
>
> Mathieu Bridon, 2014-12-24
> Baurzhan Muftakhidinov, 2015-01-07
> Phillip Wood, 2014-12-24
> Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro, 2014-12-24
> Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, 2014-12-24
> Jose Aliste, 2014-12-28
> Miao Yu, 2014-12-24
> Mirco M. M. Bauer, 2014-12-18
> Fabiano Fidêncio, 2014-12-18
> Bootingman Wen, Qixiang, 2014-12-18
> Xan Lopez, 2014-12-28
> Sebastian Dröge, 2014-12-18
> Anish Patil, 2014-12-24
> Philip Langdale, 2014-12-24
>
>
> The Renewal form can be found at [2].
>
> Cheers,
>GNOME Membership and Elections Committee
>
> [1] 
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg0.html
> [2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/
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Mailman Upgrade: Wednesday 23th of November, 09:00 - 10:00 CET

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

tomorrow we'll be performing a minor version upgrade of our Mailman
instance, specifically from release 2.1.15 to release 2.1.23 [1]. The
following services won't be reachable (mails will be kept in the queue
and flushed as soon as the upgrade has happened) during the
maintenance:

1. mail.gnome.org

The upgrade has been specifically scheduled to resolve the mass
un-subscriptions a few list owners have been reporting since the time
Yahoo and AOL (and any other DMARC aware domain) have decided to
enforce DMARC policies. On this side there will be two user visible
changes:

1. the From address will be modified (From: Andrea Veri
<infrastructure-annou...@gnome.org>)
2. the Reply-To header will be modified as well (Reply-To:
<infrastructure-annou...@gnome.org>, <a...@gnome.org>
3. the first and second point will be true only for the senders behind
a domain that has a DMARC policy published on the DNS (it being reject
or quarantine or none. Mailman makes a call against the DNS resolvers
and looks for a DMARC record for the target domain)

This particular option can be overridden on a per-list basis with the
following values [3]:

1. Reject
2. Discard

As usual please keep an eye at [2].

Have a great day,

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/NEWS
[2] https://status.gnome.org
[3] https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC



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Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

2016-09-26 18:40 GMT+02:00 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>:

> In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1]
>
>   1. David Zeuthen (Glib, GDBus Contributor)
>   2. Dave Neary (Former GNOME Foundation board member)
>   3. Vincent Untz (GNOME Foundation Director 2006-10)
>   4. Sebastian Wilhelmi (Thread support in GLib from 1998 to 2008)

Five actually:

5. Claudio Saavedra (Gtk and WebKit)

:-)

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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

  1. Alexandru Băluț (Pitivi Developer)
  2. Patrik Bubák (Ubuntu GNOME Design Team)
  3. Meng Zhuo (GNOME Extensions Website maintainer)
  4. Aryeom Han (GIMP Designer)
  5. Rashid Khan (Tomboy contributions)
  6. Jussi Pakkanen (Meson build system creator and maintainer)
  7. Pat David (Completely revamped the GIMP website!)

In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1]

  1. David Zeuthen (Glib, GDBus Contributor)
  2. Dave Neary (Former GNOME Foundation board member)
  3. Vincent Untz (GNOME Foundation Director 2006-10)
  4. Sebastian Wilhelmi (Thread support in GLib from 1998 to 2008)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee


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Re: The Membership Committee needs your help!

[Andrea Veri]

I'm very pleased to announce the Membership Committee has just given a
warm welcome to three additional members:

KunalJain

MarcinKolny

Tong Hui

Thanks to all the volunteers who have mailed me during the past week!
You guys are great!



2016-09-12 17:40 GMT+02:00 Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org>:
> Hey!
>
> the Membership Committee would like to thank Fabiana Simões and Marco
> Barisione for their participation within the team, their hard work and
> dedication processing new applications and welcoming new and existing
> (renewals) Foundation memberships to the GNOME Foundation.
>
> With two members leaving the Committee we are looking for possible
> volunteers to cover the two missing seats. If you are an existing
> GNOME Foundation member and you have some spare
> time to help us out, please get in touch with me so we can get get you
> started as soon as possible!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Debian Developer,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av



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The Membership Committee needs your help!

[Andrea Veri]

Hey!

the Membership Committee would like to thank Fabiana Simões and Marco
Barisione for their participation within the team, their hard work and
dedication processing new applications and welcoming new and existing
(renewals) Foundation memberships to the GNOME Foundation.

With two members leaving the Committee we are looking for possible
volunteers to cover the two missing seats. If you are an existing
GNOME Foundation member and you have some spare
time to help us out, please get in touch with me so we can get get you
started as soon as possible!

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Re: Memberships needing renewal (2016-8)

[Andrea Veri]

I can confirm you did apply for renewal and it was accepted. The date
entered on LDAP was however wrong, I amended it. No further actions
are needed from your side.

cheers,

2016-08-16 9:05 GMT+02:00 Greg KH :
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:59:14PM +, GNOME Foundation Membership 
> Committee wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a
>> renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail:
>>
>> First name Last name, (Last renewed on)
>>
>> Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2014-08-04
>
> Note, I did receive my individual email in the past, and applied for
> renewal over a month ago, so your scripts might need to be updated to
> remove those people in the "waiting for renewal acceptance" list...
>
> thanks,
>
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Voting period for the Board of Directors elections ends on the 8th

[Andrea Veri]

Foundation Members,

the time for voting for the 2016's Board of Directors elections is
running out as the deadline is due on the 8th of June, 23:59 UTC.
Please remember to vote at [1] making sure to use the token and e-mail
address combination we sent to the registered e-mail for your GNOME
Account.

If you did not receive the token please mail [2] and we'll make sure
to send it over again.

Thanks,

[1] https://vote.gnome.org/vote.php?election_id=24
[2] membership-commit...@gnome.org

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Re: Foundation Members without a working e-mail address: ballots

[Andrea Veri]

Hey, yup, I did update your e-mail address (taken from the last
renewal form) and re-sent the ballot, this time successfully.

cheers,

2016-05-26 13:43 GMT+02:00 Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org>:
> Hi Andrea
>
>> On 26 May 2016, at 13:04, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> ballots for this year's elections were sent out earlier today and
>> while pretty much all the ones we had prepared were properly sent from
>> our mailing server, four of them bounced back with a non-existing
>> domain error, they were:
>>
>> 1. Philippe Normand
>> 2. Rodrigo Moya
>
> I was going to reply that my email didn’t change, but just saw, right after 
> this one, the voting instructions mail, so seems all is ok on my side, right?
>
> Rodrigo
>
>> 3. Jan Schmidt
>> 4. Stefan Kost
>>
>> If any of this members are interested in receiving their ballot please
>> get in touch with me in order for their e-mail address to be updated
>> and ballots re-sent.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrea
>>
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>> Fedora / EPEL packager,
>> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
>> GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
>> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>>
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Foundation Members without a working e-mail address: ballots

[Andrea Veri]

Hey,

ballots for this year's elections were sent out earlier today and
while pretty much all the ones we had prepared were properly sent from
our mailing server, four of them bounced back with a non-existing
domain error, they were:

1. Philippe Normand
2. Rodrigo Moya
3. Jan Schmidt
4. Stefan Kost

If any of this members are interested in receiving their ballot please
get in touch with me in order for their e-mail address to be updated
and ballots re-sent.

Thanks,

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New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Isaque Galdino de Araujo (GNOME Calendar contributions) 
 2. Jonathan Kang (GNOME-Logs contributions) 
 3. Adelia Rahim (GNOME Engagement Team) 
 4. Cassandra Sanchez (GNOME Engagement Team) 
 5. Kunal Jain (Polari contributions) 
 6. Adrien Plazas (Boxes and Games contributions) 
 7. Jonas Adahl (Wayland support) 
 8. Simon McVittie (D-Bus, GLib, Debian packaging) 


In addition to them, we also have six new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Giovanni Campagna (GNOME Shell, Mutter, GNOME Weather, gjs top contributor) 
 2. Tomeu Vizoso (Clutter, Mutter contributions) 
 3. Luca Ferretti (Release team, Italian translation coordinator) 

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

Best wishes, 

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee


[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2016 - Candidates

[Andrea Veri]

Hello Foundation Members,

It's that time of the year again! I'm happy to announce the following
candidates for this year's Board of Directors elections:

* Allan Day
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg3.html

* Alexandre Franke
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg4.html

* Cosimo Cecchi
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg7.html

* Nuritzi Sanchez
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg8.html

* Shaun McCance
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg00010.html

* Meg Ford
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg00011.html

* Siska Iskandar
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg00012.html

* Jim Hall
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-May/msg00013.html


Please see  for more details.

Foundation Members are welcome to ask questions to the candidates on
foundation-list. Please try to avoid duplicates, and bear in mind
candidates invest a lot of time in answering questions.

If you have any questions about the elections process itself, drop us
a line at membership-commit...@gnome.org.


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Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of May, 9th, 2016

[Andrea Veri]

Hey Daniel,

after a quick look the person in question does not seem to use any
GNOME-related and protected by law logo or trademark on his Google+
page. The posts he makes look to me like personal opinions about GNOME
and the technologies around it. One should be either free to follow
him or not but even the Google+ page name mentions "Wogue" as its
title with a custom logo which doesn't seem to infringe any of the
trademarks registered by the GNOME Foundation.

If you find out any trademark infringement on the resources you
pointed out please let the Board know and it will be investigated.

2016-05-16 14:48 GMT+02:00 Daniel Espinosa <eso...@gmail.com>:
> Could you include a point to discuss how to avoid any organization or
> individual, could use GNOME trademark to promote against GNOME?
>
> Is the case of World of GNOME (WOGUE on G+). It recently has pushed blaming,
> unsupported complaints (based on real data from projects maintainers).
>
> While I'm not against he can publish his complaints on GNOME, I think he
> can't use GNOME trademark to push negative, or few news to try to support
> its negative ideas about GNOME.
>
> Sure, feedback is good, but while he is not part of GNOME Foundation, may he
> is unable to use GNOME trademark to blame and no positive actions to help.
>
> El may. 16, 2016 2:53 AM, "Andrea Veri" <a...@gnome.org> escribió:
>>
>> = Minutes for Monday, May 9th 2016, 19:30 UTC =
>>
>> Next meeting date Monday, May 16th, 19:30 UTC
>>
>> Wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20160509
>>
>> == Attending ==
>>
>>  * Alexandre Franke
>>  * Jeff F. T. (chairing)
>>  * Ekaterina Gerasimova
>>  * Cosimo Cecchi
>>  * Allan Day
>>  * Rosanna Yuen
>>  * Shaun McCance
>>
>> == Regrets ==
>>
>>  * Andrea Veri
>>
>> == Missing ==
>>
>>
>> == Agenda ==
>>
>>  * Preparing the advisory board meeting
>>  * ED Search Update
>>  * GUADEC Manchester bid
>>
>> === Ongoing ===
>>
>> '''The following section is part of the Agenda and includes items which
>> have seen updates in the last 30 days.  Items which have been updated more
>> than 30 days ago are listed under the "Ongoing but stalled" section.'''
>>
>>  * ED Search Update
>>  * Unixstickers
>>  * Google ad grant
>>  * Selling 3rd party merch at confs
>>  * Friends of GNOME
>>  * GUADEC registration fee vs donation system
>>
>> == Minutes ==
>>
>>  * Preparing the advisory board meeting
>>   * Meeting is scheduled for Monday 16th May at 16:00 UTC
>>   * Allan has a presentation draft and asks for Board members to give some
>> presentations
>>* And also should fill in as backup speakers in case some of the
>> invitees are not able to talk
>>* Need a volunteer for ED search update
>> * Shaun is happy to talk but we need to come up with a narrative
>>* Allan will prepare a draft for slides, and will require input from
>> some Board members to add data, and general proofreading
>>* Screenshots can be taken from the release notes, and we can use some
>> event photos too
>>
>>  * ED Search Update
>>   * There was a question about whether we should revise the position/job
>> description, but the Board did not come to a conclusion on this in previous
>> discussion
>>   * ACTION: Rosanna to tell Jonathan to go ahead with the job search
>>
>>  * GUADEC Manchester bid
>>   * The Board received a bid from Manchester for GUADEC 2017
>>   * There's a document to review
>>   * We want to meet with the organizing team(s) at GUADEC this year
>>   * When do we want to announce the next location? At GUADEC?
>>* For the schedule proposed by Manchester, this would be possible, but
>> depends on how many other bids we get
>>* It's not a requirement to announce it at GUADEC
>>   * There are no other bids for now
>>   * Is there anything obvious missing from the bid? We should communicate
>> that sooner rather than later
>>   * We can review the document on the m-l, collect questions and get back
>> to them
>>   * ACTION: Kat will collect and send comments once we have reviewed the
>> document
>>
>> == Ongoing ==
>>
>> '''This section includes items which have seen an update in the last 30
>> days. Format is "-MM-DD, action|discussion|resume" for this and
>> subsequent minutes sections'''
>>
>>  * ED search update
>>   * 2015-12-01, No news received in recent weeks, mostly because of
>> holidays
>

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of February, 23th, 2016

[Andrea Veri]

The Board as you may have seen since the latest few past published meeting
minutes is experimenting with a new way to take minutes.

The new way is coming from the so-called rolling agenda - minutes idea the
Board discussed and started applying a few months back.

The URL on the minutes pointing to a discussion had on the very same
meeting seems to not have much sense if you see the meeting minutes as a
standalone entity and not as a continuum of information and details we
update for each of the discussed items at every meeting. Until a specific
item is resolved (or in other words does not need more actions from the
Board) it is kept on the ongoing section of the minutes thus the need to
point out the fact that specific discussion evolved on a specific date.
Doing that will ease the reconstruction of the whole history of the item
and the direct link will just help the membership understand what happened
and when. That link will start being helpful from the upcoming meetings
together as the other ones having the same rationale.

About generating the URL before effectively sending the email to the list
is as easy as incrementing the very latest mail ID by one. No black magic
:-)
Il 26 feb 2016 10:46 PM, "Debarshi Ray" <rishi...@lostca.se> ha scritto:

> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> >* The item has been discussed during the meeting, details
> > are available at
> >
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-February/msg3.html
>
> Very interesting. An email to a mailing list linking to itself in the
> archives!
>
> Maybe this has been done before, but this is the first time I noticed.
> I guess, since posts to the announcement list are controlled, it is
> possible to manually construct the would-be link. In that case, I
> applaud your effort.
>
> If you really have a time machine of some sort, then, well, I am
> speechless.
>
> Or am I hallucinating?
>
> Cheers,
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New GNOME Foundation Members and Emeritus Members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Thomas Haller (Network-Manager contributions)
 
 2. Rafael Ferreira Fontenelle (Brazilian Portuguese language team Coordinator)

 3. Ankit (GSoC 2015, GNOME Clocks)

 4. Alessandro Bono (GSoC 2015, GNOME Photos and GNOME Documents)


In addition to them, we also have six new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Reinout van Schouwen (Dutch Translator, QA, Guadec's 2010 organizer) 

 2. Daniel G. Siegel (Cheese, GSoC Admin between 2009 and 2013)

 3. Izabel Cerqueira Valverde

 4. Laurent Vivier

 5. Jonh Wendell

 6. Mohammad Dhani Anwari Mohammad-Taib


* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes, 

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee


[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 06th, 2015

[Andrea Veri]

2015-11-02 14:41 GMT+01:00 Bastien Nocera :

> When is the board replacing Christian Hergert?
>
> Replacements are nominated by the Board, and don't have to be the
> highest voter runner-up, or even one of the candidates.

The Board is aware of that and will announce the nominated member very soon.

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Re: New Foundation Emeritus Members

[Andrea Veri]

2015-08-29 12:55 GMT+02:00 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org:
 The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
 newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
 their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

 They are: *

  1. Rashi Raswani (Documentation team
 contributions on multiple GNOME modules, GNOME-Logs)

Seems I managed to typo Rashi's surname:

 1. Rashi Aswani  (Documentation team contributions on multiple GNOME
modules, GNOME-Logs)

Have a great weekend everyone!


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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July, 07th, 2015

[Andrea Veri]

2015-07-22 0:45 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com:
 Hi,

Hey Alexander!

 I have a few questions about some pending action items.

Sure!

 On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:
 == Pending action items ==
  * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders 
 and passwords
   * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for 
 security reasons

 Does that mean that the action item has actually been completed, or is
 this private git account still not in place?

That's about correct as otherwise you would have seen the same item
being placed under the Completed actions section of the minutes.
That said when I was poked at about this topic I suggested the use of
a git repository accessible by a specific LDAP group with an encrypted
passwords file having as recipients the keys of the engagement team
members interested in it. While the idea looked fine at first we had
delays having everyone generating their own GPG key and the item got
stuck. With Allan on the Board the item should be finally marked as
resolved anytime soon :-)

  * Karen to draft a proposal for the photography policy at GNOME conferences 
 to discuss on foundation-list

 Can we have a summary of the substance of this policy? I understand it
 takes time to write such a document, but I guess you already know the
 general direction you are taking this into.

I'm not aware of any progress on this item and I'm honestly not sure
the policy draft was ever started this last year. It's been a crazy
year and the lack of an ED didn't help on this side. We will surely
discuss how to properly re-assign each of these pending action items
at GUADEC.

  * Tobi to continue pursuing the fund collection in Europe

 Now that we have WHS, what's left to do?

Actually nothing and on this side we started discussing a possible
solution to manage pending and completed action items in a more
efficient way as it's clear the process needs some automation. How it
works right now requires the secretary having to copy the action items
in two places at the end of every meeting:

1. from the minutes to the pending action items area
2. from the minutes to our tasks system based on Kanboard

The process requires time and manual intervention on each of the above
explained steps, thus the need to find a better plan asap.

Thanks for your questions!

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Re: Preliminary Results - GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2015

[Andrea Veri]

Added a redirect in place.

cheers,

2015-06-09 14:20 GMT+02:00 Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com:
 On 9 June 2015 at 13:13, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello, Foundation!

 We're happy to announce the preliminary results for this year's Board
 of Directors
 elections:

 Allan Day
 Andrea Veri
 Christian Hergert
 Cosimo Cecchi
 Ekaterina Gerasimova
 Jeff Fortin Tam
 Shaun McCance

 (details at http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=23)

 Found the correct one: https://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=23

 If you'd like to challenge these results, please send an e-mail to
 membership-committee gnome org  You can challenge them until Tuesday,
 2015-06-17, 23:59 UTC. Please note these results should not be
 considered final until all challenges have been resolved.

 This year we had 273 registered voters, 149 of which sent in valid
 ballots. We encourage everyone to check the list of all votes to
 verify their ballot:

 https://vote.gnome.org/votes.php?election_id=23

 Cheers,
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Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

[Andrea Veri]

2015-05-25 12:39 GMT+02:00 Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com:
 Hi everyone,

Hey Fabiana!

 How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What
 should be communicated and when? Do you think we have been transparent
 enough in the last term? If not, how can we improve things and how high in
 your priorities would be to do so?

During this last term we had to discuss several items that couldn't be
disclosed with the community for the particular subject they were
covering or for the parties involved that wanted to remain private.
I'm mainly referring to the Groupon legal matter and the huge amount
of behind-the-scenes action items each of us took part in during this
last year. It's clear these kind of subjects are (and were in the
Groupon's case) going to be made public when the Board will actually
decide (upon consulting with our legal counsel) that it's time to
disclose the information and the results we gathered. That's intended
to prevent the external entity, party or person involved to know the
plans and next moves of the GNOME Foundation and benefit from it.

We had other similar cases as well and I personally made sure and
asked the whole Board to evaluate how much had to be disclosed about
these specific matters. For example the WHS agreement that was finally
signed during this term was made public at [1], the GNOME Foundation
-- SFC move of Outreachy was included on the minutes of many Board
meetings in a detailed manner. What we probably omitted at first was
the name of the new program as there was an explicit request from the
organizers. That didn't mean we weren't going to let the Foundation
membership know at all about the new name but just that it was going
to take a few weeks for us to make that information available. We
valued transparency a lot during this term and you can notice how
detailed the minutes are going from the items discussed on the meeting
itself to the ones discussed on the mailing list. A few examples [2],
[3], [4]. (and more :-) )

As the Secretary of the Board transparency has been one of my main
goals and will remain as such in case of a re-election.

 In terms of accountability, it's been unclear to me since joining the
 Foundation how much different Board members contribute to the Board's goals
 and tasks. Do you think the meeting notes provide enough visibility and
 context to the work being done? By the end of a term, how can the Foundation
 have a fair understanding of one's contributions to the Board?

This is a very interesting point.  While right now meeting minutes do
provide a good overview of what's going on within the Board itself and
the items that are being discussed they don't provide a summary of who
worked on what and how long it took for an action item to be
completed. During this term we introduced a tasks system based on [5]
which helped us identifying who was in charge of a certain item. We
might want to bring the meeting minutes to the next level making them
more detailed by including the name, surname of the person who
achieved a certain action item to facilitate the membership to verify
one's involvement. Having some sort of stats every year (also in terms
of meeting's participations for each member) would also help. Although
the new tasks system served the Board great not every member got used
to it and hopefully having a new Board that will start using it from
the beginning will definitely allow everyone to be as much as
productive as we originally thought when we introduced the software.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Resources/WHSAgreement
[2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-May/msg2.html
[3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-April/msg4.html
[4] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-April/msg2.html
[5] http://kanboard.net

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Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

[Andrea Veri]

2015-05-24 19:23 GMT+02:00 Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se:

 Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was withdrawn,
 it was never taken to court and the money was never spent on that.
 What, in your mind, is the best use of these funds now? Kept as a War Chest
 [2] or spent on something specific?

The Board this year didn't have much time to discuss further how to
spend this amount or even a chunk of it. While I would be for keeping
part of this amount as part of the Foundation's cash reserves (for
when we'll be hiring an ED, possible other legal issues) I'm open to
ideas from the community and will be more than happy to discuss with
other Board members which of these proposals is more inherent to the
bolster and improve GNOME goal we promised to our donors at first.

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Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

[Andrea Veri]

2015-05-23 17:41 GMT+02:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com:

 What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar to the 
 one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating a similarly 
 detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community?

Having a final version of the Code of Conduct (from now, CoC) for the
yearly GNOME events is definitely something the new Board should look
at during the next term. While we can't legally enforce anything - as
we don't have the jurisdiction to do so - it's important for new and
existing contributors to know what they should expect from an event
the GNOME Foundation organizes. The events we promote see the
participation of contributors and users from all over the world coming
from different countries, religions and habits having in common their
love for the GNOME platform and community. One of our duties, as Board
members, is to ensure these people feel comfortable participating at
the events we promote and that no harassment or other inappropriate
behaviour takes place on any of these events. In addition the CoC
should be the document where offended people can find a local contact
to report the inappropriate behaviour they were target of.

There seems to be a misunderstanding [1] on what the purpose of a CoC
is and how enforceable one might be and at what level. The GNOME
Foundation (or any other private organization) does not have the
jurisdiction to enforce a document such as the one proposed for the
GUADEC 2014 edition [2]. A breakage of the CoC does not directly
result in a civil or penal sanction of any form unless the relevant
legal entity (police, local law enforcement) verifies the occurrence
and issues it. The same applies with a different communication channel
such as the Internet where abusers might get a ban for their account
or IP without receiving any other possible legal consequence. That
said breaking any of the rules (I would define them as General
guidelines when participating to a GNOME event) won't result in a
lawsuit or other local law enforcement *unless* the behaviour is
explicitly listed as in illicit (violation of a duty, obligation or
generally considered as harmful for other people) from a law of the
State where the event is taking place. In the case of GNOME's CoC (I'm
looking at the GUADEC 2014 edition) pretty much all the offending
behaviours listed there would be considered as illicit from the vast
majority of countries in the world as they truly represent a menace to
people's dignity, integrity and freedom and thus enforceable even by
the local law enforcement.



[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2015-May/msg00052.html
[2] https://2014.guadec.org/conduct/

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Re: More questions for Board candidates

[Andrea Veri]

2015-05-21 23:25 GMT+02:00 Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org:

 Have you ever done any fundraising?

I took an active part on the GNOME vs Groupon's fundraising campaign
the GNOME Foundation launched the past year.

 Are you comfortable asking sponsors for money?

Yes as in making sure the sponsors do actually know why they should
trust us and our mission and donate. We can do this is many ways and
Jeff's initiative on the Sysadmin's brochure is one of these cases. In
the eventuality the funds for the Sysadmin position will end the
virtual sponsors should know what has been achieved, how and what have
been the benefits of both the community and the representatives of the
company / organization itself with their daily use of the GNOME
Infrastructure. What I'm comfortable in - summarizing - is asking for
money while providing a good rationale (and documentation, past
achievements and results of the Board / other GNOME team) about why
external entities should donate to our cause.

 Have you ever been in a manager role?

No, but I've been coordinating the GNOME Infrastructure and the GNOME
Foundation Membership  Elections Committee since several years now
hopefully providing a good service for the GNOME community and
membership.

 Do you have any experience talking to reporters?

Some, my personal background includes a degree in law which helped me
a lot handling several legal matters we had to face during this term.
On this side I was interviewed by the World Trademark Review online
magazine [1]. Additionally - if that matters - I've been part of the
press myself for several months as a technical freelance writer [2]
writing about anything GNU / Linux and FOSS related.

Additionally I took part writing / reviewing / co-writing some PRs for
the GNOME Foundation back in the days.

 Have you ever talked to a group of people about why software freedom is
 important?

I did in many occasions during conferences I participated in as a
speaker. Talks there were technical but I always made sure to
introduce my speech mentioning the fact the software / tool in
question was completely Open Source and licensed under a free
software-compliant license.

[1] 
http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/Blog/detail.aspx?g=9df9d63a-417f-4a95-88b2-d781008a47f3
[2] http://www.oneopensource.it (italian website)

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Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

[Andrea Veri]

2015-05-19 2:41 GMT+02:00 Max sakana...@gmail.com:
 Hello all,

Hey Max!

 1)  How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to
 working on the board on a regular basis?

I agree with Jeff when he says we have to make sure action items are
effectively taken into the next level, discussed deeply and acted upon
in a timely manner, which is what we did in a successful way this last
year. There shouldn't be any fixed time someone should spend doing
Board activities in my opinion, we have a series of action items
assigned at every meeting (with additional tasks like correcting,
modifying, preparing and publishing the meeting minutes like in the
case of the Secretary, position which I personally covered this year)
and our mission as Board members is to solve any possible problem that
might arise and provide a final and satisfying answer to our
Foundation membership and community. This worked great this year and
hopefully it will with the new Board as well.


 2)  What's your plan and view with GNOME in Asia? How do you think
 about grow GNOME in Asia?( ecosystem / contribute / sponsor /
 volunteer ...  )

It's clear the Asia region is growing exponentially and the extremely
wide number of potential users (and possible consequential
contributors) presents us a great opportunity to expand our market and
spread the values and liberties we fight for to a larger audience.
I've been amazed by the amount of efforts the GNOME.Asia team have put
in organizing the various editions of the event and I'm delighted to
see Seafile and Gitcafe are sponsoring this year's GUADEC for the
second time. On the Membership Committee's side we've seen an
increment of membership applications coming from GNOME Asia community
members which is great as the GNOME Asia ecosystem is increasing its
importance within the global GNOME community and it deserves a space
on our Foundation membership for the electorate to properly represent
all the single communities around the world. I've been personally
following these applications and made sure they were processed in time
for the upcoming elections for this reason. That said the current
Board has been economically supporting GNOME.Asia this year [1] by
allocating funds for both travel reimbursements and subsidies and
local organization costs. What I aim if re-elected is keeping the new
Board on track with that and keep supporting you, Emily and any other
key organizer providing you with the tools (Press Releases, Social
media shares etc.) and the financial backing (travel reimbursements,
covering local organization costs) for the organization of the event
to be successful.

This wouldn't happen without your help, so thanks for your constancy,
passion and dedication.


[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2015-April/msg2.html



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Foundation Membership status verification

[Andrea Veri]

Hey,

GNOME Foundation Board of Directors elections are approaching and I
would like to take the time to remind everyone to look at the status
of the membership at [1] and [2] (only Foundation members can vote on
elections, not Emeritus members). The specific field you should be
looking at is the Last Renewed on date. If the date specified there
(in the form of -MM-DD) is older than two years (the duration of
the membership as per bylaws) you should get in touch with the
Membership Committee [3] ASAP. If the Last Renewed on date and
Foundation member since fields are empty but you are confident you
were a member before please let us know.

If you are unable to access your account please try to reset your
password as explained at point 5. under Requesting [4]. If that
won't work please get in touch with the Accounts Team [5] instead.

Have a great day!

[1] https://account.gnome.org
[2] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/
[3] membership-commit...@gnome.org
[4] https://wiki.gnome.org/AccountsTeam/NewAccounts
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Network switch for irc.gnome.org: Thursday, 14th May, 2015, 22 - 23 CET+1

[Andrea Veri]

Dear GNOME Community,

after testing the new IRCD and its integration with services 
(ChanServ, NickServ) [1] we are delighted to announce we will be 
moving the testing servers to production this upcoming thursday from 
22 to 23 CET+1.

The downtime should not take more than a few minutes: old ircds will 
be shutdown and the new ones will be restarted for properly binding 
to the default ports. (being 6667 for non-ssl connections and 6697 for 
ssl-enabled connections)

The new network will come with new features:

 - SSL (reachable by connecting to port 6697 on each of the servers 
   hosted within the network)
 - IRC services (ChanServ, NickServ), that will allow you to register 
   your nickname and channel in a safe and straightforward way. 
   Instructions on how to interact with services are available at [1], 
   [2] will receive a revamp in the next couple of days including all 
   the details and support contacts
 - Improved IPv6 support now available on both irc.acc.umu.se and 
   irc.poop.nl

As a side note the GNOME Bot known as 'Services' will be removed from 
channels that previously requested it unless a specific team requires 
its MeetBot capability. I'll give [3] a look and see which teams made 
use of it in the past years and leave it connected on those channels. 
If you want the bot to join a new channel as you would be willing to 
manage a meeting through it opening a bug at [4] should be the ideal way for 
having it added to the requested channel.

The Operators Team will be available on the #opers channel during and 
after the migration, questions and support requests should be 
redirected to that channel.

This is the list of servers that will populate the network:

 - irc.acc.umu.se: IPv4: 130.239.18.215, IPv6: 2001:6b0:e:2018::215
 - irc.eagle.y.se, IPv4: 82.99.16.155
 - irc.gimp.ca, IPv4: 142.4.222.129
 - irc.poop.nl, IPv4: 83.98.201.42 - IPv6: 2001:16f8:4::42

The irc.gimp.org (the record irc.gnome.org points to) round robin will 
be updated with the new IPs on the same day, it might take a few hours
for all the DNS resolvers to get in sync, in case make use of the IPs of
the machines to connect as listed above.

As usual keep an eye at [5].


[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2015-April/msg00010.html
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/IRC
[3] https://meetbot.gnome.org/
[4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=sysadmincomponent=IRC
[5] https://status.gnome.org


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GIMPNet / irc.gnome.org: enhancements for the end users and migration to a new ircd, call for public testing

[Andrea Veri]

GNOME Community,

the GIMPNet Operators Team and the GNOME Sysadmin Team have been
working together recently to finally migrate the IRC network they 
manage to a newer ircd with enhanced features (such as SSL) and proper 
IRC services (Nickserv, Chanserv).

We are proud to announce the network is finally ready for public 
testing. Please read on if you are interested in participating on its 
launch.

The new network is currently composed by 6 servers and another one 
(irc.poop.nl) will join its ranks soon:

irctest0.acc.umu.se
irctest2.acc.umu.se
irctest3.acc.umu.se
irctest4.acc.umu.se
irc.eagle.y.se
irc.gimp.ca

Connecting to any of these servers can be done on the following ports:

6668 (non-ssl port)
6697 (SSL port)

An irc-test.gnome.org and irc-test.gimp.org DNS entries have also been 
added to the gnome.org and gimp.org DNS zone files. You can safely 
connect to one of them and your client will do the rest. Servers
are using a certificate having one DN (currently being the FQDN of the 
host) so connecting to one of the two DNS entries above with SSL 
verification turned on will result in an error as the DN won't match. 
That is expected, in case you are willing to verify the SSL 
certificate (on XChat make sure the 'Accept invalid certificate'
flag is not set, on irssi make sure '-ssl -ssl_verify' is appended to 
your connect command) make sure to connect to a single server on the 
list above with the proper flags set. The Operators Team is currently
evaluating whether the network can be moved under one main wildcard 
certificate (in the form of irc[0-9].gimp.org).

Once connected, make sure to register your nickname by querying 
NickServ. A 'help' command can be issued to NickServ when a query 
window has been created. The 'help' will provide you the needed
information for succesfully registering your nickname. If you are a 
GNOME module maintainer or you lead a certain team or group and are 
interested in registering a channel through ChanServ please do so.
The same 'help' command output provided by ChanServ will provide you 
the appropriate syntax for registering your channel. Please DO NOT 
abuse the registration of new channels and please get in touch with the 
Operators Team for requesting the cancellation of a registered
channel / nickname in case an abuse has happened.

Your points of contact for reporting issues or other related queries 
are:

#opers, for a direct chat with the Operators Team
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=sysadmincomponent=IRC, 
for reporting a bug at GNOME's Bugzilla

A few more details about the new network we are introducing:

1. It might definitely happen for your client to connect to the 
   network through the SSL port and ending up on an empty channel. 
   Don't be scared as that's expected as in most cases the ircd runs
   on the same server as the current production network. Note the 
   current production network is not SSL-capable.
2. Most of the servers (while just irc.poop.nl was in the past) 
   are now IPv6-capable. 
3. All nicks and channels registered during the public testing 
   will be kept. 
4. Another announcement will follow when we will be close to 
   switch over to the new network. The announcement will have
   all the references and details for you to properly migrate
   your client to the new network.
5. The public testing duration is expected to be 2 weeks and 
   unless any critical issue arises we will move forward and 
   perform the switch over to the new network. See point 4. on
   this regard.

IRC plays an important role on the communications of the GNOME Project 
and allows every single GNOME contributor, developer or user to get in 
touch with the GNOME community as a whole and we totally believe the 
new network we've been building will improve the way you were used to
manage your nickname, your channels and your privacy thanks to the 
newly introduced SSL capability.


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New Foundation and Emeritus Members

[Andrea Veri]

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

 1. Chao-Hsiung Liao (Coordinator of the of Chinese (Traditional) translation 
team)
 2. Misha Shnurapet (GNOME Russian translator) 
 3. Cheng-Chia Tseng (GNOME translator of Chinese (Traditional) translation 
team) 
 4. Vivien Malerba (GNOME-DB long time contributor and currrent maintainer) 
 5. Lasse Schuirmann (GNOME Boxes, GNOME administration team during GSoC 2015) 

In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Simos Xenitellis (former Greek Translations Team coordinator)
 2. Diego Escalante Urrelo (Code, bugs and events organization, former Board 
member)
 3. Miguel de Icaza (GNOME Project Founder and developer of the early GNOME 
libraries and applications, started Mono and Gnumeric)
 4. Bruno Boaventura (Previous Bugsquad team member and Membership Committee 
Chairman)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at 
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for
their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

 1. Georges Basile Stavracas Neto (translations, GNOME Calendar) 
 2. Edward Hervey (Glib and Pitivi contributions)
 3. Sahil Sareen (GNOME games contributions) 
 4. Ahmad Haris (GNOME promotion in Indonesia through the BlankOn GNU/Linux 
distribution)
 5. Pranav Kant (GSoC student working on gnome-photos with additional 
contributions on gnome-documents) 

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

In addition to them, we also have four new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Holger Berndt
 2. Lucas Rocha
 3. Ronald S. Bultje
 4. Bryan Clark

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-commit...@gnome.org.

Best wishes,

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers


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Re: foundation application..

[Andrea Veri]

2015-02-22 14:08 GMT+01:00 Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com:

 Again, a brilliant question. On the face of it this seems to be purely about
 reducing paper work for the membership committee (i.e. fewer applications
 means less work for them). However there are clearly some implications which
 affect our democratic processes. The question of whether we have a
 justifiable reason to take steps like this to deny this group of people a
 vote or not on the basis we worry they might not use it, is an important one
 because that does not objectively make sense. Clearly, the extra paper work
 shouldn't be a factor in decisions like this.

The Membership Committee actions are unequivocally oriented to the
benefit of the GNOME Foundation. I've been chairing the Committee
since five years now and this is honestly the first time ever someone
arises a controversial point on the policy and procedures we follow
when processing new or renewal applications. The following thread
started by Sriram with the pure scope of enhancing the membership
application experience it diverged into a crescendum of accusations to
the Membership Committee which clearly state the fact you are missing
the point of being a GNOME Foundation Member. From your point of view
being a Foundation member strictly relates to having made a
non-trivial amount of contributions (which is totally correct as per
Bylaws) but there's one more action the applicant should perform in
order for the application to be processed.

This action juridically speaking is an act of will. The person by
browsing [1] and filling in all the fields acknowledge its intent to
apply for Foundation Membership. Applying for membership is not an
obligation of any kind and you aren't required to submit an
application if you don't have a real interest in doing so. The
following announcement [2] (which seems to have caused so much
confusion between interns) is misleading in many ways and seems to
suggest interns they should apply - not because they believe in the
GNOME Foundation and the values it pursues - but for the mere reason
to keep a blog aggregated to Planet GNOME. If I was an intern myself
reading such an announcement and without having a knowledge of what
Foundation membership is about I could definitely started seeing the
membership itself as a way for my blog to stay aggregated on Planet
GNOME. There's no single reference of what Foundation membership is
about, what the duties are and what we are trying to accomplish in
terms of building a membership base made of people who really believe
in our mission, participate to the community discussions, vote on the
yearly elections. Many interns probably applied for Membership after
reading that announcement having in mind the fact having keeping their
public visibility through their blog was only possible if they
requested membership.

This totally goes against what Foundation membership is about. Our
mission - as the Membership Committee - is to make sure a strong and
consistent membership base is created in terms of contributors who
want to step forward and join the Foundation because they believe
doing so can definitely strengthen their relationship with the project
and bring it to the next level. As stated on my previous e-mail [3]
we've seen a lot of interns dropping their contributions to zero right
after the internship ended so while they contributed in a non-trivial
way to the Foundation why would they even decide to apply afterwards?
they are NOT obliged to apply for membership and they probably
wouldn't apply if they knew that being a member is not only receiving
a bunch of benefits but also being an active part of the community
participating to discussions and voting at every year's elections. The
rationale behind an extended period for interns isn't there because we
don't believe interns have contributed enough or because of their
gender (yeah, you even managed to accuse the Committee to apply
blanket rules depending on the gender of the applicant [4]) but just
to find out whether there was a strong and real interest in joining
the GNOME Foundation going beyond having a blog aggregated on Planet
GNOME.

While this thread (not how it started but how it diverged) is full of
accusations I don't recall hearing a single intern reaching out the
Committee complaining about her application being rejected. Not a
single case out of hundreds I personally processed since 2009. We
value our members and we always make sure to use our discretionary
power to further the goals of the GNOME Foundation, this in many ways:

1. by introducing Emeritus [5]
2. by supporting former members who have decreased the number of
contributions to re-apply and be accepted trying to encourage them
keeping up their valuable contributions over the project without
leaving

We aren't scared about having more paper work in place and we never
neglected to call for help in case we needed it. [6] [7]

The Membership Committee - as I see it - is here to 

Re: foundation application..

[Andrea Veri]

2015-02-15 16:17 GMT+01:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com:

 This policy came about after I encouraged interns who were 2/3rd of the way 
 through their internship in 2012 to apply for the Foundation membership. The 
 membership
 committee preferred that interns have a chance to figure out their level of 
 participation in GNOME after the internship before applying and, as a rule, 
 wanted to see non-trivial
 contributions for a period longer than 6 months. The intention of having this 
 statement in the internship wrap-up e-mail is to tell interns about the 
 foundation membership and
 encourage them to apply at an appropriate point. I think some guidelines 
 there are preferable to not mentioning the foundation membership to interns 
 at all. I believe most
 interns make non-trivial contributions during their internship, but because 
 the membership committee has further discretion about the expectations for 
 the membership
 applications, we need to figure out how to communicate these in future 
 e-mails in a way that is encouraging and relates the case-by-case provision 
 of the bylaws.

Interns do indeed make a non-trivial contribution to the project. What
we expect is waiting *two* more months [1] after the internship ended
for them to apply for the Membership Committee to make sure the
individual has a true and real interest in being part of the GNOME
community. We encourage interns to apply and we would love more of
them to do so if they feel their contributions have been non-trivial
enough and they would be willing to participate to Foundation's
debates. Being a Foundation member grants many benefits [2] but also
invites the member to actively participate to discussions made on
foundation-list and voting on the yearly Board elections. Discussing
important topics on foundation-list and voting who will be in charge
of managing the GNOME Foundation requires a certain knowledge of how
the organization and the community works behind the scenes, thus the
need for the contributions to be non-trivial, durable and coming from
an individual who strongly believes in the values and the mission we
daily pursue as a project and community.


[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/ProcessingAnApplication
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/MembershipBenefits

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Re: OUTAGE: bugzilla.gnome.org, 09th February (09:00 CET) - 10th February (22:00 CET)

[Andrea Veri]

The upgrade has been finalized and the machine is back to production.
A special thank you goes to Andre Klapper and Krzesimir Nowak for
their hard work to make this happen.

We are also happy to announce Krzesimir has joined the GNOME
Bugmasters team and admin status has been granted to him on
bugzilla.gnome.org. We are also delighted about the fact today's
upgrade has given a new life to the Bugmasters team: new members are
joining and more are willing to participate to the team and most of
all old members are back on track to provide their valuable feedback
and expertise.

While we are confident enough testing was made we welcome everyone to
submit bugs that may arise at [1].

Have an awesome evening everyone!

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.gnome.org

2015-02-04 20:22 GMT+01:00 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org:
 Hi,

 this upcoming monday we'll be performing bugzilla.gnome.org's upgrade
 to the very latest Bugzilla release, it being 4.4.8.

 The upgrade time frame has been kept wide enough for us to perform the
 following operations:

 1. Make sure the Bugzilla database is replicated on our MySQLd replica
 (mainly dumping the DB and restoring it on the replica so they are
 both in sync. We need all the tables to be on READ LOCK while doing
 this so the upgrade is a good time for the replication of this
 database to be restored)
 2. Perform the upgrade itself from release 3.4 to release 4.4.8
 3. Perform post-upgrade maintenance operations

 More information about what happened behind the scenes during these
 months can be found at [1].

 As usual keep an eye at [2], we'll make sure to update it with ETAs as
 things move forward.

 [1] http://krnowak.blogspot.it/2015/01/gnome-bugzilla-upgrade.html
 [2] https://status.gnome.org

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Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of Clytie Siddall

[Andrea Veri]

Hello Amaya,

thanks for forwarding this information to us, we were contacted by the
Debian Marketing Team about this already and we made sure a joint
press release was prepared and reshared through our social network
accounts.

cheers,

2015-02-05 3:51 GMT+01:00 Amaya am...@debian.org:
 FYI

 - Forwarded message from Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org -

 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:46:37 +
 From: Neil McGovern ne...@debian.org
 To: debian-n...@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Debian Project mourns the loss of Clytie Siddall

 
 The Debian Project   https://www.debian.org/
 Debian Project mourns the loss of Clytie Siddallpr...@debian.org
 February 4th, 2015 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150204
 

 The Debian Project sadly announces that it has lost a member of its
 community. Clytie Siddall passed recently after a long battle with
 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

 Clytie was a contributor of Vietnamese translations to Debian and other
 projects for many years. Within Debian she worked on translations for
 the installer, dpkg, apt and various documentation. She also contributed
 translations within the GNOME community and many other projects. Clytie
 was a GNOME foundation contributor.

 The Debian Project honours her good work and strong dedication to Debian
 and Free Software. Clytie's contributions will not be forgotten, and the
 high standards of her work will continue to serve as an inspiration to
 others.


 About Debian
 
 The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
 volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
 operating system Debian GNU/Linux.


 Contact Information
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 For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
 https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to pr...@debian.org.



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Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 09th, 2015

[Andrea Veri]

2015-01-27 0:31 GMT+01:00 Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net:




 On 27 Jan 2015, at 00:11, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

  * GNOME Privacy project (what to do with the remaining funds): hackfest? 
 internships?

 Hmm, remaining? Was some of the money spent already? What was it spent on?

The GNOME Privacy project funds were never touched, seems a bad
phrasing was used and the text became misleading. I've updated all the
references for the next meeting minutes to clarify that.


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Re: Agenda for board meeting on January 9th

[Andrea Veri]

2015-01-12 18:07 GMT+01:00 Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com:
 Hi Alexandre,

 No, that's not quite the same thing. Most of the core teams mentioned on
 https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/ do not appear on that list.

The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors has a meeting once every two
weeks where existing and previously assigned to-do items are reported
to the Board by the member in charge of that item after the relevant
preliminary activity has taken place. Once that happens and we have
enough material to base a vote on we discuss the findings and start a
vote which will lead to a result we do consider as final for that
request, issue, dispute.

To-do items and private notes on a specific argument aren't public as
they are most likely suggested to change while the preliminary
activity moves forward or when the Board starts discussing a specific
item and further activity occurs. Additionally the Board has no core
teams internally but specific members taking care of managing
particular tasks within the Board itself. We value transparency and we
make sure the meeting minutes contain every single item we discussed
on a meeting (except for private items we do not disclose as per
requestor request or argument, i.e Groupon) with a detailed overview.
Foundation members are also encouraged to ask for more details if any
of the reported items are unclear.

Many of the teams you proposed do exist already, what kind of
contributions would you be interested in?

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New GNOME Foundation Members

[Andrea Veri]

Hello everybody!

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

They are: *

 1. Sagar Ghuge (GTG GSoC student)
 2. Stefan Sauer (GTK-Doc maintainer)
 3. Marcin Kolny (Gstreamermm's maintainer)
 4. Magdalen Berns (GNOME Accesibility contributions)
 5. Jim Hall (GNOME usability testing)
 6. Greg Kroah-Hartman (member of the GNOME Advisory Board, Linux kernel)
 7. Kay Sievers (systemd, kdbus)
 8. Shivani Poddar (gnome-music, gnome-weather, OPW intern, GSoC student, GNOME 
QA team)
 9. Daniel Espinosa Ortiz (GXml, libgda)

In addition to them, we also have two new Emeritus Members: [1]

 1. Stormy Peters 
 2. Michael Monreal

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
membership-committee@gnome org.

Best wishes, 

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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The GNOME Infrastructure is now powered by FreeIPA!

[Andrea Veri]

As preannounced at [1] the GNOME Infrastructure switched to a new 
Account Management System which is reachable at https://account.gnome.org.

All the details will follow.


Introduction
--

It's been a while since someone actually touched the underlaying 
authentication infrastructure that powers the GNOME machines. The very 
first setup was originally configured by Jonathan Blandford (jrb) who 
configured an OpenLDAP istance with several customized schemas. 
(pServer fields in the old CVS days, pubAuthorizedKeys and GNOME 
modules related fields in recent times)

While OpenLDAP-server was living on the GNOME machine called clipboard 
(aka ldap.gnome.org) the clients were configured to synchronize users, 
groups, passwords through the nslcd daemon. After several years Jeff 
Schroeder joined the Sysadmin Team and during one cold evening (date 
is Tue, February 1st 2011) spent some time configuring SSSD to replace 
the nslcd daemon which was missing one of the most important SSSD 
features: caching. What surely convinced Jeff to adopt SSSD (a very 
new but promising sofware at that time as the first release happened 
right before 2010's Christmas) and as the commit log also states (New 
sssd module for ldap information caching) was SSSD's caching feature. 

It was enough for a certain user to log in once and the 
'/var/lib/sss/db' directory was populated with its login information 
preventing the LDAP daemon in charge of picking up login details (from 
the LDAP server) to query the LDAP server itself every single time a 
request was made against it. This feature has definitely helped in 
many occasions especially when the LDAP server was down for a 
particular reason and sysadmins needed to access a specific machine or 
service: without SSSD this wasn't ever going to work and sysadmins 
were probably going to be locked out from the machines they were used 
to manage. (except if you still had '/etc/passwd', '/etc/group' and 
'/etc/shadow' entries as fallback)

Things were working just fine except for a few downsides that appeared 
later on:

 1. the web interface (view) on our LDAP user database was managed by 
Mango, an outdated tool which many wanted to rewrite in Django 
that slowly became a huge dinosaur nobody ever wanted to look into again
 2. the Foundation membership information were managed through a MySQL 
database, so two databases, two sets of users unrelated to each other
 3. users were not able to modify their own account information on 
their own but even a single e-mail change required them to mail 
the GNOME Accounts Team which was then going to authenticate their request 
and finally update the account.

Today's infrastructure changes are here to finally say the issues 
outlined at (1, 2, 3) are now fixed.


What has changed?
--

The GNOME Infrastructure is now powered by Red Hat's FreeIPA which 
bundles several FOSS softwares into one big bundle all surrounded by 
an easy and intuitive web UI that will help users update their account 
information on their own without the need of the Accounts Team or any 
other administrative entity. Users will also find two custom fields on 
their Overview page, these being Foundation Member since and Last 
Renewed on date. As you may have understood already we finally 
managed to migrate the Foundation membership database into LDAP itself 
to store the information we want once and for all. As a side note it 
might be possible that some users that were Foundation members in the 
past won't find any detail stored on the Foundation fields outlined 
above. That is actually expected as we were able to migrate all the 
current and old Foundation members that had an LDAP account registered 
at the time of the migration. If that's your case and you still would 
like the information to be stored on the new setup please get in 
contact with the Membership Committee at membership-committee AT 
gnome DOT org stating so.


Where can I get my first login credentials?
--

Let's make a little distinction between users that previously had 
access to Mango (usually maintainers) and users that didn't. If you 
were used to access Mango before you should be able to login on the 
new Account Management System by entering your GNOME username and the 
password you were used to use for loggin in into Mango. (after loggin 
in the very first time you will be prompted to update your password, 
please choose a strong password as this account will be unique across 
all the GNOME Infrastructure)
 
If you never had access to Mango, you lost your password or the first 
time you read the word Mango on this post you thought why is he 
talking about a fruit now? you should be able to reset it by using 
the following command:

ssh -l yourgnomeuserid account.gnome.org

The command will start an SSH connection between you and 
account.gnome.org, once authenticated (with the SSH key you previously 
had registered on our Infrastructure) you will 

PLANNED MAINTENANCE: Tuesday 07th of October, 9 AM - 12 PM

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

this upcoming tuesday we'll be performing a maintenance on all the
hosted machines, what is planned:

1. mass reboot to apply latest security updates
2. switch to the new authentication system based on FreeIPA

As usual keep an eye at [1] and stay tuned on Planet GNOME for a blog
post with all the details and instructions from one of the most
significative changes we have ever planned on our infrastructure.

[1] http://status.gnome.org


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James Shubin joined the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

[Andrea Veri]

Hello Foundation Members!

I'm really happy to announce James Shubin (purpleidea) kindly offered his
help to keep the business of the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee up
and running!

After a trial period of a few weeks and the awesome work commenting and
providing feedback about existing applications we are more than happy to
welcome him aboard!

Thanks James and welcome again!

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/purpleidea



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Mass Reboot: Sunday 17th of August, 21.30 - 23.00 CET

[Andrea Veri]

Hi,

we'll be performing a mass reboot of all our machines this upcoming sunday
to apply all the kernel and security updates. All the services will be
affected for a few minutes until the machines reboot, please stay tuned for
more updates from the Sysadmin Team and most of all keep an eye at [1],
we'll make sure to update it as things move forward.

Have an awesome day and thanks for your attention!

[1] http://status.gnome.org


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Re: GUADEC registration

[Andrea Veri]

Hello Richard,

The form do support on-site payments, just make sure to select all the
relevant accommodation and lunch details then submit, from there do not
select pay through PayPal but on-site payment instead.

If you have any doubt do not hesitate to contact me or join #guadec on
irc.gnome.org.

Cheers,

Sent from my Android
Il 21/lug/2014 19:05 Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org ha scritto:

 [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]]
 [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
 [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

 I was glad to see that https://www.guadec.org/register
 does not demand correct personal data and does not require
 running Javascript.  But there is still one problem:
 it requires online payment through systems that identify the payer.

 Do attendees have the option of paying cash at the door?  The page
 does not say so, but maybe they do.

 How about allowing people to pay with bitcoin?

 I am raising the issue here because I don't know
 of a better place.  If someone tells me the right place
 I will raise it there.

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Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th

[Andrea Veri]

2014-07-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org:

 On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
  I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss
  any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the
  agenda for the following meeting at any time.

 Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting
 minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication.


Hey Michael!

as Ekaterina correctly pointed out we'll be discussing and electing the new
officers very soon. That means a new secretary will be in charge of taking
meeting minutes and publishing them within one or two week from the meeting
as per [1].

I would like to remember everyone being on the Board is not a paid position
and it may happen the secretary or any other officer might not be able to
perform a certain action in the prescribed timeline. What I can assure you
is we'll do our best to publish the meeting minutes as soon as possible!

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard

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GUADEC 2014 registration is now open!

[Andrea Veri]

The GUADEC organization team is happy to announce the availability of the
registration form [1] for the upcoming GUADEC to be held in Strasbourg,
France at Epitech, a software engineer school in the heart of the city, is
glad to welcome our community and host the venue [2] for the event! This
year we are going to include a list of participants to the event online at
[3].

Once registered to the event do not forget we also provide a set of badges
[4] you can use to share on your website! Let everyone know you are coming
to such a great event held in one of the most beautiful cities of Europe!

About GUADEC

The GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC), is an annual
conference taking place in Europe, whose prime topic is the development of
the GNOME desktop environment which sees many participants from all over
the world.

[1] https://www.guadec.org/register
[2] https://www.guadec.org/venue
[3] https://www.guadec.org/participant-list
[4] https://www.guadec.org/media

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Re: [OT] Bugzilla/Splinter [was: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller]

[Andrea Veri]

Let me rephrase a bit:

the current Splinter (originally wrote by Owen Taylor) we are running is
release '1' (at least that's what info.pl tells me by looking at
extensions/splinter), this extension has proven to be very stable and
reliable during all these years and still today there are very rare reports
about it not working properly when trying to load a certain patch for
review and hanging there forever.

Unfortunately I have no reports of istances running the very latest BZ
release and Splinter and according to [1] it seems some minor changes had
to be added between the 4.0 and the 4.2 migration. (the code then was never
updated, might it be the maintainer found it being working just fine on the
4.4 series? so yeah, mine was mainly a guess on the current status of the
splinter extension)

As I reported in multiple occasions (and as the diff between stock 3.4 and
b.g.o shows) the greatest changes were introduced on the attachment
statuses management which are custom to our istance. I would like to
publicly say how much disappointed I am about the previous BZ migration
(that took place back in 2009) and how it was handled. Just a few words can
be used to describe it all: a lot of custom changes introduced (both
hardcoded into the original code like the attachment status patches
themselves and as extensions), no documentation of any form for future
upgrades, no one looking at and maintaining the
b.g.o-related-customizations properly. We ended up with a indomitable beast
no one is able or willing to tame.

As a side note we do have a 4.4 istance set up at [2] already running an
old copy of the b.g.o database, what we are actually missing is:

1. Making a list of what we really want to port or not
2. Remove the customizations we don't want
3. Port the extensions / customizations we really want (and really need) to
see deployed
4. Put all together and migrate the latest database

On this matter Kat was so great to find someone willing to help us out, I'm
currently in touch with him and will send a status update as soon as
possible.


[1]
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.bugzilla.devel/month=20120101
[2] http://bugzilla-new.gnome.org


2014-06-01 16:43 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net:

 Oy,

 On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 22:04 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
  Splinter is currently being actively maintained upstream so bringing
  in the latest Bugzilla release will also bring a newer Splinter.

 I'm curious what upstream means here (that there is a code repository
 at http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/extensions/splinter/ ?) and what
 actively maintained means here and if you do know that somebody has
 tested that code to work with recent Bugzilla versions (sidenote: bmo
 developers seem to work towards ReviewBoard integration nowadays).
 Just saying.
 Things might be totally fine of course; wondering if you /guess/ or if
 you /know/ that things are fine. ;)

 andre

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Re: Voting instructions missing?

[Andrea Veri]

Hey Bastien!

my bad I was following the timeline specified at [1], seems a wrong date
was pushed to the vote.gnome.org website and it resulted in the Committee
preparing the database for the 27th instead of the 25th as specified on my
original announcement.

The Committee will prepare the ballots today and send them along to all the
eligible voters. Expect all the ballots to be pushed within a few hours.

Thanks for your report, I'm making sure the error is adjusted on [1] as
well!

[1] https://vote.gnome.org/2014/rules.html

2014-05-26 14:33 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net:

 Hey,

 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/629
 says:
 
 The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by
 2014-05-25 via email.
 

 Should I be worried that I did not receive anything?

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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller

[Andrea Veri]

2014-05-20 1:32 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org:

 On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:28 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
  As the board minutes show from a few weeks ago, the board has been in
  touch with some advisory board members to find out if they could
  donate some person time towards the upgrade. Since then, the sysadmin
  team has also been in touch with someone who may be able to port the
  only customisation that we really need. What resources would you steer
  towards the goal?

 Is this customization the Splinter patch review system?


Splinter is currently being actively maintained upstream so bringing in the
latest Bugzilla release will also bring a newer Splinter. The major
customization that still needs porting and is currently being looked at is
related to the attachments statuses (it being the attachment status you can
set on the Create New Attachment page) which is custom to the GNOME
Bugzilla istance. The changes there are huge and spread over several files
as you can see by diffing the 3.4 upstream branch against the
bugzilla.gnome.org branch hosted on LP. (the header at [1] has the
instructions for generating the diff)

We are in contact with someone who might be able to help on this matter,
let's hope we'll finally be able to make some progress on this matter. As
of today the only service that needs some polishing is our Bugzilla
installation, sadly a lot of customizations and changes were added to stock
BZ and we ended up having a lot of customizations and extensions without
anyone properly maintaining them. We are currently evaluating whether we
should just drop some of the old / useless extensions and bring our BZ
installation as close to the stock installation as possible to prevent any
delay when a newer release will be out. We don't want this situation to
happen ever again.


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