Re: New GNOME Foundation and Emeritus members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Welcome to all the new GNOME Foundation members! So happy to have you all
here! Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions or need a guide
around the GNOME community!

Best,
sri

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:27 AM 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
>
>
> --
> 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
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Re: Final results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2022

[Sriram Ramkrishna via foundation-list]

Congratulations to the new board - looking forward to seeing all that you
accomplish! Special welcome to the new board members. :)

Cheers,
sri

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 3:31 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Foundation members,
>
> The preliminary results for this year's elections were not challenged.
> This means, in the next term, our Board of Directors will be composed of
> the following Foundation members:
>
> Robert McQueen
> Jeremy Allison
> Regina Nkemchor Adejo
> Sammy Fung
> Philip Chimento
> Martín Abente Lahye
> Thibault Martin
>
> Congratulations! And many, many thanks to all Foundation members who
> participated and voted.
>
> Cheers,
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Re: Board Application for spring 2022 - Regina Nkemchor Adejo

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I would like to second Regina's nomination and strongly believe she is an
asset to the GNOME foundation. Through her efforts I have seen many women
thrive in free software and open source community.

Best,

Sri

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022, 3:04 AM Regina Nkemchor via foundation-announce <
foundation-annou...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Name: Regina Nkemchor Adejo
>
> Affiliation: IKEA, Pranet Initiative
>
> Email: nkemreg...@gnome.org
>
> Hi Foundation Members,
>
> I will like to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation board of
> directors 2022 election. As a GNOME foundation member for three years now,
> my goal has been to support diversity within the GNOME project. Hence,
> since being elected as a board member, my activities have been around
> promoting diversity within the GNOME project. I have highlighted this in my
> talks at GUADEC, participation in the Linux App Summit (LAS), and building
> the GNOME Africa community.
>
>
>
> I have collaborated with other outstanding boards of directors for two
> years to create a strategic direction for the GNOME project. Welcome
> newcomers, establish a diverse and sustainable Linux app ecosystem, and
> funding local-first applications for the GNOME desktop are three
> initiatives that have been a priority for us to expand. The welcome
> newcomer's initiative will aid in the success of programs like Google
> Summer of Code (GSOC), Outreachy, and GNOME University outreach within the
> GNOME project. Through these initiatives, we could engage individuals to
> devote their time to run these programs, including paid mentors, and create
> resources to help newcomers in the future, such as developer documentation,
> examples, and tutorials. The main goal of a diverse and sustainable Linux
> app ecosystem initiative is to increase the financial sustainability of
> users in our community, which influences the variety of people who can
> afford to join and stay in our community. The funding Local-first
> applications GNOME desktop and apps aim to provide users with simple and
> dependable access to technology by seeking philanthropic and grant funding.
> As someone who shares the belief that a consistent board is beneficial for
> the Foundation's ability to set, refine and execute strategies over more
> extended periods. It will be a pleasure to serve on the board again as it
> continues to push strategic actions toward achieving the aims of these
> highlighted initiatives for the global growth and expansion of the GNOME
> project.
>
>
>
> As a maintainer of GNOME Africa, I have collaborated with a team of
> brilliant community volunteers to bring the GNOME project to African space.
> Today, Africans are accepted into initiatives like Google Season of Docs
> and Outreachy within the GNOME project. With the recently selected GNOME
> African university ambassadors, strategic efforts are ongoing to bring
> GNOME projects into African universities. The GNOME onboard Africa event is
> steadily becoming an annual event where experienced GNOME maintainers
> assist newcomers from Africa in understanding how to contribute to the
> GNOME project. These efforts would not have been feasible without the
> members and contributors of GNOME, who have always volunteered to support
> us on this journey. I firmly believe in the value collaboration brings to
> open source. I aim to continue this endeavour by collaborating with more
> individuals and organizations within and outside the GNOME community to
> strengthen and broaden the GNOME project's influence across Africa.
>
>
> As an observer in the Community Health Analytics Open-Source Software
> Project (CHAOSS) (A Linux Foundation Project), I have contributed to
> developing metrics on occasional contributors within open-source projects.
> A data-driven approach to diversity within the GNOME project could help
> measure and improve our health in diversity. With diversity metrics in
> place, we can thrive for improvements in our community, which can further
> help us take strategic steps that could motivate newcomers to join GNOME
> and feel a sense of belonging. Hence, if selected for this next term of the
> board in 2022, I intend to collaborate with members and contributors in
> brainstorming around diversity and inclusion metrics that would help
> improve our effort of diversity within the GNOME projects globally.
>
>
>
> My career journey has been a variety of experiences that have  improved my
> leadership and problem-solving skills. For over ten years, I have worked on
> database projects and development as a consultant to organizations within
> the information technology industry and educational institutes. My
> consulting experience has helped me build my marketing, people, and
> collaborative skills. I have worked as a faculty member where I
> collaborated with non-profits within the educational sector in Nigeria,
> developing programs and digital content for public schools. I designed
> digital educational program content and 

Re: New Foundation & Emeritus Members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:00 AM 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!
>

Welcome y'all! Like Felipe - I'm really happy to see app writers join the
foundation. Let's keep building up our ecosystem!

Cheers,
sri


>
> 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.
>
> * Syntax is Name, Surname, Area of involvement
>
> --
> 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
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Re: New Foundation & Emeritus Members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Congratulations everyone - really pleased to see some of the names here -
and looking forward to all your future contributions!

All the best!
sri

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:51 AM 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: *
>
>  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)
>
> For any further questions you may have, feel free to mail us at
> membership-committee@gnome org.
>
> * Syntax is Name, Surname, Area of involvement
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Red Hatter,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
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Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I just filled out and amazingly after I took it - I was filled with peace.
Fill yours out today!
Peace,
sri

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kristi Progri  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We’ve completed our the second stage of our chat evaluation, community and
> team interviews, and are ready to start the last step, surveys.
>
> Please fill out this survey [https://surveys.gnome.org/267157?lang=en 4
> ] to share with us your
> feedback.
> The whole survey will take you around 10 minutes to fill it out.
>
> Please complete and submit your response by *March 31st*.
> If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email me.
>
> Thank you all for your participation,
> Kristi
>
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Re: Intent to deprecate Jabber server

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:44 AM Bartłomiej Piotrowski
 wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> During routine infrastructure review, we found out that our Jabber
> server usage is very low, i.e. fewer than 5 users login regularly. We
> would like to shut it down, but as we could have missed some serious use
> case, we would like to give the community a heads up.
>
> Please reach out within 2 weeks if there is a reason to keep it running.
>

I support removing this service.

sri

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Re: Minutes of the board meeting of March 30, 2020

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:31 AM philip.chimento--- via
foundation-announce  wrote:

>  * Foundation mission/vision
>* Allan: I would like to get an idea of the direction of travel for this, 
> and a working group will work on it. The main question is what we think is 
> most important: user share of GNOME desktops? Or our influence as a project, 
> impact on the software industry and wider world?

>* Britt: I'm in favour of the influence side, as it's a truer 
> representation of what the GNOME community today is. We don't contribute to 
> GNOME because we want user share, we do it because we want to make the best 
> software possible. However, correctly or incorrectly, a common perception of 
> GNOME is that we force our ideas onto users. We should either embrace that or 
> avoid it altogether, but not in between. Currently it seems like we walk a 
> line where we don't say it but we do do it. I think either the mission 
> statement should be neutral, or embrace this perception.
>* Federico: I think we should focus on the first approach (increasing 
> adoption), since the second one (influencing the software industry) is more 
> or less already the status quo.  Users' freedoms are being eroded all the 
> time through proprietary and/or privacy-violating software. We need to give 
> them an obvious choice. It is easier for people to switch individual apps to 
> free software gradually (GIMP/Inkscape/whatever on Windows) than to make the 
> big jump to Linux systems. And yet we make very little effort to make our 
> apps available on those systems. They are available by default on Linux, or 
> with relatively little work, but making them available on Windows/Mac is 
> always dodgy.

Stay tuned next week for the next episode as we continue the
conversation next week. :-) Of course, I have no idea if this
conversation is resolved or not - but given we are talking about the
general approach to what GNOME wants to do in terms of a mission
statement - I thought I would throw in my 2 cents and maybe encourage
discussion here by foundation members in hopes that it becomes more
clearer which direction to lean towards.

I think it's worth considering learning towards influence - leading
with technical achievements, flawless design, and a passionate
community. Influence comes because people want to be part of those
three. The larger your community grows and participates the better
your project comes and that itself will lead to user expansion
organically.

But that influence needs to come with a solid sense that we need to
interop with the rest of  the open source communities that are out
there - the role of open source and even open hardware is expanding in
our daily lives. But the last mile is still proprietary (the interface
to your personal computing) but we'll get there - but I think it is
more important that we participate in other communities and not just
look internally. If we build bridges to them they will build bridges
with us and even possibly use our software instead of the proprietary
desktop they use today.

t;dir - the mission statement should encourage building on what we do,
with the community we have, and work with others as much as possible.

Best,
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Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sounds good to me. As the person who pushed engagement team to move
over, I'm fully behind moving everything to discourse!
sri

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:03 PM Neil McGovern  wrote:
>
> Hi Olav,
>
> On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > it has been around half a year since GNOME started to host a
> > Discourse[0] instance, which was generally well received.
> >
> > Listadmin wise (I'm NOT the admin here!), mailman is not really nice
> > to
> > use. If something ends up in the moderation queue it'll take quite a
> > bit
> > of effort for a moderator to look at it.
> >
> > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the
> > dependencies are also free software.
> >
> > You can sign up in various ways. First of all there's regular
> > email+password. It also allows single-sign on systems, like Google
> > and
> > Github, to authenticate yourself. Lastly (and preferred way) if you
> > have
> > a GNOME LDAP account already, you're strongly encouraged to use that
> > method of authentication.
> >
> > You can still use email to interact with Discourse, and a guide is
> > available[2]. The interaction is both ways (sending and receiving).
> > It's
> > even possible to make Discourse behave like an mailing list.
> >
> > For specific questions or feedback on Discourse, please post in the
> > appropriate category[3].
> >
> > Do people agree to move this to Discourse? Does anyone have
> > objections
> > or concerns? I didn't check with the current list admins btw.
> >
>
> As another data point, all GTK (and builder) discussions have moved to
> discourse, and I know the Docs teams are also willing to transition.
> GTK has seen much more activity on there than all GTK lists combined
> with mailman.
>
> In general, I would suggest that the foundation list moves over, unless
> there are actually any serious objections. Perhaps a discussion at
> GUADEC could also be had.
>
> If there's no objections, I'm happy to help manage the transition, with
> an aim of retiring this list by the end of October.
>
> Comments please!
>
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A note on the candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

For those voting for candidates, I wanted to give some background to
the two newer candidates who  some may not be completely familiar with
them as they are relatively new to the community.  All the candidates
are wonderful human beings who I think will execute the job of
directors to the best of their abilities.

I've known Britt for about two years.  His induction into the GNOME
community especially in the engagement community was nothing short of
meteoric.  Britt gets involved in something he does it with his full
heart and conviction and since being involved have given consistent
use of his time and efforts.  His involvement in foundation will be
similar I expect.

Chris (Davis) is part of the new generation of GNOME developers who
bring incredible amounts of energy to an over two decade project and
is clearly passionate about GNOME and about the work he does in it.
The other part of him is that he is a thoughtful, sober, diplomat who
is able to take feedback and write commentary that is always
constructive, layered and free from ego.  I've observed many such
interactions both on forums and on mastodon.  A true believer in Free
Software and it's power, it's worth doing your research on Chris -
you'll realize like I have that he is a man of layered talents. If I
had a spiritual successor to the work I do in the community, Chris has
those skills.

Christel is also someone I've grown close to for a little less than
two years.  A calm, collected intellectual that knows how to focus on
issues and work on the core of them.  I consider her a good friend,
and a mighty ally for Free Software.  She's also super funny and
witty!  I hope y'all will give her the due diligence because she is an
asset to GNOME.

The future is bright for GNOME with these candidates, the new set of
developers who continue our work in being the best desktop today - a
showcase for the power of Free Software.  As for the candidates I have
not mentioned - each of them have given years of their time and work
on GNOME and their work speaks for themselves, they deserve your
respect and admiration.

Cheers,
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Re: New GNOME Foundation staffer - Program Coordinator

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 10:47 +, Neil McGovern wrote:
> Dear Foundation members,
> 
> I'm very pleased to announce that Kristi Progri has joined us today
> (3rd January) to take on the role of Program Coordinator.

This is a great news and a perfect start for the new year!  I know
those of us on the engagement team (which I believe who will be working
closest with the program manager) are eagerly looking forward to
working with Kristi going forward.
> 
> Kristi is a previous Outreachy intern for Mozilla, and has worked
> with
> FSFE as well as running a local Hackerspace, and convinced the local
> government in Tirana, Albania to move to Nextcloud.
> She also has been organising https://oscal.openlabs.cc/ - Albania's
> largest FOSS conference with ~400 attendees. She's also talked at a
> multitude of conferences including FOSDEM, FSFE Summit and the
> Mozilla
> Leadership Summit.
> 

As an conference organizer, this is impressive stuff!

> I'm sure you'll all give her a warm welcome in this new role!
> 

Welcome aboard, Kristi looking forward to working with you!  We're are
all excited that you are here!

Cheers,
sri


> Thanks,
> Neil

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Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:25 AM Neil McGovern  wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 19:25 -0500, James wrote:
> > One question: is Emmanuele given any particular tasks or direction
> > for
> > GTK+, eg: does the GNOME foundation have any specific priorities
> > they'd like to address, or is it more self-directed?
> >
>
> In general, the Foundation has the following high level goals:
>  * Increased user base
>  * Sustainable project and foundation
>  * Wider awareness and mindshare

Any openness in improving our cross platform story?  I understand that
is a very large ask and may not be the best use of Foundation
resources, but I do believe that this is something that would be
beneficial for GTK+ as a project (vs the desktop)  especially if we
can make gains in growing sectors like automotive, healthcare and IoT.

> As part of this, we're coming up with medium length (think: 5 year)
> strategies and goals, and the GTK work will feed into this. So it's not
> a free-for-all, but as with any employment, I expect a certain amount
> of self-direction and a conversation about what any employee thinks
> would be best to concentrate on.

For sure!  Thanks for the clarification.

>
> This will start to form in the next few weeks. We're already looking at
> GTK team meetings, and a development plan.

This is excellent.  Please let the engagement team know how we can
help with outreach/wider awareness/mindshare.

Cheers,

sri


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Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:07 PM Christian Hergert  wrote:
>
> On 12/2/18 9:51 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome in this new role!
>
> I couldn't be more happy to hear this news! Congrats Emmanuele, it's
> well deserved!

I concur!  Congratulations, Emmanuele!  Super excited to see you in this role!

sri

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Re: Minutes of the board meeting of August 21, 2018

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

re: ED report
Would the ED report be available for the rest of us?  It would be nice to
know what's happening from the ED perspective for all our members.

Also huge kudos to Phillip for consistently putting minutes out every week,
on time like clockwork.  Bravo!

Thank for rest the board for all your hard work. :D

sri

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 5:33 PM Philip Chimento via foundation-list <
foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> Wiki location: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20180821
>
> Note to interested Foundation members: In coming weeks I'll be trying out
> some different styles of note-taking. So far the minutes have been quite
> detailed. The level of detail that comes naturally to me, although I've
> received some positive comments on it, does often prevent me from engaging
> fully in discussions, so I'll be trying to find a better balance.
>
> = Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, August 21st 2018, 15:30 UTC =
>
> Next meeting date Tuesday, August 28 2018, 14:30 UTC
>
> == Attending ==
>
>  * PhilipChimento
>  * AllanDay
>  * NuritziSanchez
>  * CarlosSoriano
>  * NeilMcGovern
>  * RosannaYuen
>  * FedericoMenaQuintero
>  * RobMcQueen
>
> == Regrets ==
>
>  * KatGerasimova
>
> == Missing ==
>
> == Agenda ==
>
>  * Executive Director report (Neil)
>  * ED remunerations and appraisals (a guest advisor with nonprofit
> experience dials in from 15:45 UTC - 16:15 UTC)
>  * Foundation hackfest (Allan)
>  * Formal thanks to Max Huang for his work on GNOME.Asia (Neil)
>
> == Minutes ==
>
>  * Executive Director report
>* Neil sent a draft of a report, everyone please review it. It's quite
> verbose and took a long time to put together, so if we want to maintain
> that level of detail it should be monthly. If we are okay with less detail,
> it could be biweekly.
>* Carlos: This draft is great. Can we have this and also a shorter
> weekly update?
>  * Neil: Weekly could be too short to properly give context for some
> things.
>* Nuritzi/Neil: This will also tie into our discussion with the
> nonprofit advisor later in the meeting.
>* '''ACTION''' - Everyone please review the report if you haven't
> already.
>
> [ Neil and Rosanna leave ]
>
>  * ED remunerations and appraisals (a guest advisor with nonprofit
> experience dials in from 15:45 UTC - 16:15 UTC)
>* The goal of the session is to review our current practices against
> the advisor's best practices, as well as California law which the
> Foundation is subject to.
>* The most important job of the board is evaluating the executive
> director's performance and setting their compensation. This is standard
> practice across many nonprofits but has not happened in a consistent way
> over the last few years.
>  * We need to figure out if this is something we want to do, and if
> so, how.
>* Anything relating to the rest of the Foundation's staff, is the
> responsibility of the ED, not the board.
>* What's the best reporting frequency for the ED and what form should
> these reports take?
>  * It's important to ensure accountability to the board, but on the
> other hand it should not be overly burdensome.
>  * We decide that, going forward, the ED should aim to present a
> report in the first board meeting of every month.
>* Many nonprofit boards create a compensation committee to set the ED's
> compensation.
>  * We think this is a good idea.
>* Points raised around the importance of continuity in the board as
> relates to accountability and accomplishing goals.
>  * We discussed the pros and cons of having staggered board terms of 2
> or 3 years with half or a third of the board turning over every year.
>* '''ACTION''' - Rob: Propose a charter for the compensation committee.
>
> [ Neil and Rosanna return ]
>
>  * Foundation hackfest (Allan)
>* https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/75
>* Allan: 17-19 October (not including travel). Very likely going to be
> Cambridge, office space is booked, we just need to figure out who needs
> accommodation and when
>* (Info from Kat:) Cambridge accommodation options (e.g.):
>  * £62 per room 1-2 people for Travelodge
>  * £25 per person for 3 people per room in Travelodge
>* We'll look for an Airbnb or equivalent local large place as well
>* Nuritzi: Staying in the same place increases informal camaraderie
>* '''ACTION''' - Update the GitLab ticket with who needs and who
> doesn't need accommodation (provisionally assigned to Allan, Kat)
>* '''VOTE''' - Approve travel for the Foundation board and Foundation
> employees to attend the Foundation hackfest 17-19 October
>  * +1 Nuritzi, Rob, Federico, Allan, Carlos, Philip
>
> [ Carlos leaves ]
>
>  * Formal thanks to Max Huang for his work on GNOME.Asia (Neil)
>* '''VOTE''' - The board expresses its thanks to Max for all the hard
> work he has put into GNOME.Asia and requests that Neil sends a formal thank
> you
>  * +1 Rob, Philip, 

Re: New Foundation members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Congratulations to all the new members to the GNOME Foundation!  Welcome to
the GNOME family! :-)  As I tell all new foundation members that I hope to
see great things from all of you!

Cheers,
sri

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:17 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> 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)
>
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>
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>
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Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Congrats everyone!!   Really excited to see Sam, Michael, Britt, Nathan
accepted into the foundation!

Iain  - well deserved.. your work on the systemd/gnome-session is so
awesome :)
Jean Felder (GNOME Music) and Jan-Michael Brummer welcome! :)

sri

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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. 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
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>
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>
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GUADEC 2018 Registration is now open!

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hello Everyone!

The GUADEC team is pleased to announce that registration for GUADEC 2018 in
Almería, Spain, is now open!  We look forward to seeing all of you for many
days of talks, hackfests, and conversations.  We have some amazing events
including a beach party and a picnic during the conference days.  You can
find out more about Almería at
https://2018.guadec.org/pages/about-almeria.html.

Getting there:
There are many travel options to get to GUADEC.  Please see
https://2018.guadec.org/pages/travel.html for information on how to get to
beautiful Almería.

Accommodations/Booking:
You can book accommodations at
https://2018.guadec.org/pages/accommodation.html with
http://www.residenciacivitas.com/en/ [Resident Civitas].  You can use a
code to get a discount on the accommodations.  If you are looking to share
rooms to reduce costs, you can go to the GNOME wiki -
https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2018/Accommodation and put your name there.

Meals:
You are highly encouraged to register early in order to reserve a meal
ticket.

About GUADEC:
GUADEC is the GNOME Project's largest event of the year.  Presentations are
given by software developers, business leaders and users who are involved
in Open Source, Free Software and of course, GNOME. These combine with many
practical sessions and discussion groups which set the direction of the
GNOME project. It also aims to attract new developers and contributors, as
well has serve as a meeting point for corporate interests and allow GNOME
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Re: Welcome to Didier Roche, new Board member!

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:25 AM Vincent Untz  wrote:

> Le mardi 30 janvier 2018, à 12:01 -0800, Nuritzi Sanchez a écrit :
> > Welcome Didier, and thank you for accepting this position! We look
> forward
> > to working together in the months ahead.
>
> That's great news, Didier will be doing an amazing job on the board!
>
>
I concur, a great communicator.  Welcome Didier!  :)  (also hi Vincent! :)

sri


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Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:27 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> 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!
>
>
It is always awesome to see new members!  Welcome!


> 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)
>

Can't wait to see the output of all your contributions to GNOME! :)


>
> 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))
>

Welcome back! :)


>  3. Danielle Madeley (GNOME-Applets, Telepathy, Empathy)
>
>
Woot!  Welcome back stranger!! :-)


sri


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> * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)
>
> For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
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>
> Best wishes,
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
> Red Hatter,
> Fedora / EPEL packager,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of September, 26th, 2017

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:32 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
> Benjamin Berg  wrote:
> ...
> > I have noticed that the lack of board minutes has not been resolved so
> > far and I am hoping that the community can get a quick action from the
> > board with regard to this matter. Can every board member please work on
> >  publishing the minutes at their respective earliest convenience?
> ...
>
> Thanks for raising this issue again. I agree that it needs to be
> resolved and we discussed it during a board call this week. We'll do
> our best to get the minutes published and update the list once it's
> happened.
>

Why not just ask an ex-director or board member to join the call and take
notes for everyone. :-)

They can always drop out if there are sensitive topics.

sri


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Promoting Patreon campaigns in December

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Greetings!

The engagement team is interested in promoting patreon projects for the
month of December.  In Europe and Amercas, December is considered a time of
giving and so it seems like a perfect opportunity to talk up giving to our
current patreon projects.

We are aware of three patreon projects:
Timm Bäder - gtk+
Oyvind Kolas - GEGL/Gimp
Sébastien Wilmet - GtkSourceView

We are wondering if there are others out there, or are considering having
so that we can promote it?

Thanks,
sri
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Re: CoC Enforcement Training Interest

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:52 PM Nuritzi Sanchez 
wrote:

> Hi Foundation Members,
>
> Rosanna and I are thinking of participating in a Code of Conduct (CoC)
> enforcement workshop run by Sarah Sharp on Sunday, November 26th in SF. The
> event is tentative now, but we would like to know who else might be
> interested in attending, either virtually or in person, just so we know how
> large the interest is. We may propose holding a separate large event if
> there's enough interest.
>
> The workshop would include running through some common "tough situations"
> and learning tips on how to handle them. Our goal in going is to gain some
> insights into how to better shape the GNOME Event CoC we have started and
> also get ideas on how to train local events organizers.
>
> Let us know if you're interested and thanks!
>
>
These classes are pretty informative.  I took one in Portland, although not
by Sarah.

sri

Best,
> Nuritzi
>
> 
> .
>
> *Nuritzi Sanchez*  |  +1.650.218.7388 |  Endless 
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Re: public money public code - supporting current FSFE campain

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:22 AM  wrote:

> I am also in favour of this, but I think before sending a patch that
> speaks on behalf of the Foundation you should have an explicit okay from
> the board, rather than implicitly by no objections within a day.
>

Neal already has something queued up.  So you should see something
shortly.  :)

sri


> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:11 AM Tobias Mueller 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> The FSFE has launched the following campaign: https://publiccode.eu/
>>
>> I strongly believe that it's in GNOME's interest to co-sign the
>> following open letter. I've prepared a patch to have GNOME listed as
>> supporter. I intend to send the patch in a day or so. If you think we
>> shouldn't be supporting this effort, please speak up.
>>
>>
>> Open Letter
>>
>> Publicly funded software has to be Free and Open Source Software. While
>> there are plenty of good reasons for this, many politicians don’t know
>> about them yet.
>>
>> Free Software gives everybody the right to use, study, share and
>> improve software. This right helps support other fundamental freedoms
>> like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
>>
>> This is where you can help! Sign the open letter to give our message
>> more weight. 6505 people and 38 organisations have already signed. We
>> will hand over the letter and signatures to your representatives and
>> make sure that they understand that: Public Money? Public Code!
>>
>> Public Money? Public Code!
>>
>> Digital services offered and used by our public administrations are
>> the critical infrastructure of 21st century democratic nations. In
>> order to establish trustworthy systems, public bodies must ensure they
>> have full control over the software and the computer systems at the
>> core of our state digital infrastructure. However, right now, this is
>> rarely the case due to restrictive software licences that:
>>
>> Forbid sharing and exchanging publicly funded code. This
>> prevents cooperation between public administrations and hinders further
>> development.
>> Support monopolies by hindering competition. As a result, many
>> administrations become dependent on a handful of companies.
>> Pose a threat to the security of our digital infrastructure by
>> forbidding access to the source code. This makes fixing backdoors and
>> security holes extremely difficult, if not completely impossible.
>>
>> We need software that fosters the sharing of good ideas and
>> solutions. Like this we will be able to improve IT services for people
>> all over Europe. We need software that guarantees freedom of choice,
>> access, and competition. We need software that helps public
>> administrations regain full control of their critical digital
>> infrastructure, allowing them to become and remain independent from a
>> handful of companies. That is why we call our representatives to
>> support Free and Open Source Software in public administrations,
>> because:
>>
>> Free and Open Source Software is a modern public good that
>> allows everybody to freely use, study, share and improve applications
>> we use on a daily basis.
>> Free and Open Source Software licences provide safeguards
>> against being locked in to services from specific companies that use
>> restrictive licences to hinder competition.
>> Free and Open Source Software ensures that the source code is
>> accessible so that backdoors and security holes can be fixed without
>> depending on one service provider.
>>
>> Public bodies are financed through taxes. They must make sure they
>> spend funds in the most efficient way possible. If it is public money,
>> it should be public code as well!
>>
>> That is why we, the undersigned, call our representatives to:
>>
>> “Implement legislation requiring that publicly financed software
>> developed for public sector must be made publicly available under a
>> Free and Open Source Software licence.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
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Re: Introducing Christoph Simon

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 5:50 AM Christoph Simon 
wrote:

>
> Computers and Programming are hobbies to me, I do know mainly Python
> and C, and some microcontroller and FPGA programming because I use
> those to control my power supply. I also know GTK, I've already used it
> for several (non public) apps.
>
> Thanks for having me in your community,
> I'm looking forward to improving GNOME with you,
> Christoph Simon
>

Welcome, Chistoph!!  Looking forward to seeing your contributions! :)

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Re: Thanks to outgoing directors

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 3:42 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Now that GUADEC is over, the transition period from the old to the new
> Board of Directors has ended. I'd therefore like to give huge thanks
> to Jim Hall and Shaun McCance, who are both stepping down. They have
> both been excellent board members and have made valuable contributions
> to the Foundation over the past year.
>
> Thanks Shaun and Jim!
>

Thank you, Shaun and Jim!   A heartfelt thanks from me as well.

sri


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Re: Send us your pants nominations

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sorry a little late, but my nomination is for Tom Tryfonidis although I'm
not sure if he will be at GUADEC.  His contributions have been the new wiki
design and working on various web projects.  While I do respect those who
work on our platform, I have a lot of respect who work on our
infrastructure and know how to make it look amazing.

sri


On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:45 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Allan Day  wrote:
>
>> Two names that I think ought to be on the list are Bastien Nocera and
>> Emmanuele Bassi.
>
>
> Apologies, that was meant to go to board-list.
>
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Re: Change of Officers | Treasurer 2016-2017

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:25 PM Nuritzi Sanchez  wrote:

>
> The Board thanks Ekaterina for all of her work over the past few years
> serving as Treasurer. She has helped shape the GNOME Foundation's financial
> policies and has, in many ways, been the guardian of the financial health
> of GNOME.
>

As a former Director, I would also like to extend my appreciation and
thanks to Ekaterina (and by extension, Rosanna as well) for all her work
serving as our treasurer and the time she has spent (which was substantial)
on our finances.

Best wishes,
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Re: Interested community members @ domains ownership

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I don't think we need to keep up www.gnomejournal.org

Sri

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 9:37 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> @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!
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrea
>
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Re: Quick introductions

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:57 AM Neil McGovern  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As previously announced, I've now started full time as the GNOME
> executive director. I thought I'd send a quick email to (officially)
> say hi!
>
>
Great to have you officially onboard! :)

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Re: Welcome, Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation Executive Director!

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, 2:23 PM Nuritzi Sanchez  wrote:

> Dear Foundation Members,
>
> After a long period of being without an Executive Director, I'm pleased to
> announce on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board the appointment of Neil
> McGovern.
>

 Welcome!   I speak for many of us when I  say they we excited to have you
and can't wait to see the great things that we can accomplish together!

Sri



> This is
>
>
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Re: Proposal: creation of IRC Operators Team

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:33 AM Carlos Soriano via foundation-list <
foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote:

>
> And the people I though to be part of this team of OP's in those channels
> are Andre Klapper (andre), Alexandre Franke (afranke) and me, Carlos
> Soriano (csoriano).
>
> I plan to put this information in the wiki, so users of IRC can know who
> to contact in case of any issue (for example in case some of us prefer to
> be on non-OP status for regular talking in the channel).
>
> If you are current op or creator of those channels, what do you think of
> this idea? What do you think of the people and channel selection?
>

Sounds good to me.  My only reservation is that your list of opers are all
on european time frame and you don't have a proper spread across all time
zones.  You should add two more in the U.S. and Asian time zone so there is
so overlap.

Also I apologize for not being around on at least #gnome-hackers as I know
I am ops there.

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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August, 2nd, 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 8:25 PM Hubert Figuière  wrote:

> On 29/08/16 01:54 AM, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> >  * GNOME Summit 2016 in Montreal
>
> My question is: Who is in charge of this? In order to contact said team
> to volunteer to help. I'm local to Montréal.
>

I believe Jeff Fortin is the person doing at least the venue part.

Sri


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Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 4:45 PM Scott Reeves <sree...@suse.com> wrote:

> >>> On 6/1/2016 at 11:14 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like
> to
> >> run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are
> there
> >> any volunteers?
> >>
> >> The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later
> >> than 20th June.
> >>
> >
> > I would like to underscore the importance of being visible in our
> > community. :)  Please seriously consider this if you live in the area, we
> > will give you all the support you need to help set up.
>
> Hi Sri,
> Mike Gorse is willing to run this booth.
> Would you like to coordinate the details on a specific list or private
> conversation ?
>

Excellent!   If he can join engagement-list that would be best.   We can
work on planning with him.

Sri

>
> Scott.
>
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Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like to
> run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are there
> any volunteers?
>
> The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later
> than 20th June.
>

I would like to underscore the importance of being visible in our
community. :)  Please seriously consider this if you live in the area, we
will give you all the support you need to help set up.

sri


>
> Thanks,
>
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Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:51 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> 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)
>

Congratulations, and welcome to the foundation!!  Glad to have you!  You
guys have done so much already, cant' wait to see what else you will be
doing in GNOME!


>  3. Adelia Rahim (GNOME Engagement Team)
>  4. Cassandra Sanchez (GNOME Engagement Team)
>

Adelia and Cassandra, such an absolute pleasure to see you now part of the
foundation!  Welcome and look forward to your contributions!

 5. Kunal Jain (Polari contributions)
>

Welcome, Kunal!  Looking forward to see you hacking on Polari and anything
else that is out there!


>  6. Adrien Plazas (Boxes and Games contributions)
>  7. Jonas Adahl (Wayland support)
>  8. Simon McVittie (D-Bus, GLib, Debian packaging)
>

Welcome, I know people like Simon have been really active in GNOME and it
is great that all of you applied for the foundation and accepted!  Welcome!



>
>
> In addition to them, we also have six new Emeritus Members: [1]
>
>  1. Giovanni Campagna (GNOME Shell, Mutter, GNOME Weather, gjs top
> contributor)
>

Glad you're still with us, Giovanni!  I hope I get to see you at LAS GNOME!
:)


>  2. Tomeu Vizoso (Clutter, Mutter contributions)
>  3. Luca Ferretti (Release team, Italian translation coordinator)
>
>
Thanks for all the gerat work on GNOME in the past and welcome back as
emeritus!


Thanks to the Andrea and the rest for all their work in processing all
foundation applications. :)

sri


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Re: This week in Gnome?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:47 AM Sébastien Wilmet  wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Thanks for reminding me of the old days :-)
> >
> > Various people did that in the past:
> >
> >
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-July/msg00021.html
> >
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-April/msg00034.html
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-April/msg00068.html
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2004-March/msg00017.html
> >
> > I think that last one is the last that was sent, but not really sure.
>
> More recently, Frédéric Péters wrote the commit digests:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/
>
> With statistics. I think statistics are great and is a source of
> motivation when we are listed, and it can be automated (like sending a
> mail to desktop-devel-list each week).
>

I'm okay with sending out metrics, but they need to have a purpose.
Basically, what do we do with these metrics and what goal do they drive?

When we did GNOME summaries, we also tried to do some interpretation and
some observations as part of the metrics.  Otherwise, they get sent out and
they get wholly ignored as noise.  I don't want people people taking the
trouble information.

Some things to think about.  Again, I'm happy to mentor people who are
interested in doing this as I've been thinking about this for awhile at
least from an onboarding perspective.

sri


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Re: This week in Gnome?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM Luis Villa  wrote:

> Wikimedia has a pretty good "this week in", and it adds a lot of value.
> But it is a lot of work to do well.
>
> (I seem to recall we even used to have one in GNOME, though I can't find
> evidence of that offhand. Would have been at least a decade ago.)
>

We used to have something called GNOME Summaries, that Christian   Schaller
and I both did back in the late 90s.  It wasn't a ton of work back then,
but doing it now would be a considerable amount of work.

To do something like that requires creating tools that watch bugzilla.

If someone is interested in helping I am sure we can put together something
that could address it.

sri

Luis
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016, 6:33 PM Michael Catanzaro 
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 23:36 +, John McHugh wrote:
>> > Was thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to set up a this week
>> > in
>> > gnome blog.
>>
>> Can you make it happen?
>>
>> It sounds like a good idea to me, but it needs someone to make it
>> happen.
>>
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Fwd: Texas Linux Fest 2016 CFP

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We are looking for people who could speak at this conference.  Any
volunteers?  Being out in the community is an important goal this year and
GNOME needs to show presence.  The U.S. especially has not seen the kind of
presence that is needed to help draw contributors and sponsors to
conferences and is an important component of being part of Free Software.

If you are interested, I can help you with what kind of talks we would like
to see and can help formulate one.  But to wit:

1) Runtime/SDKs - xdg-app (now flatpack) technical talk
2) social talk about how GNOME is user space engineering and an important
part of the Linux kernel and GNU eco-systems.
3) GNOME Software - the complete app store.
4) GNOME Builder - next generation development tool to make building GNOME
apps easier.

If you have other passion that you would like to talk about (e.g.
accessibility, GTK+, etc) then we are more than happy to see them.

Thanks,
sri

-- Forwarded message -
From: Nathan Willis <nwil...@glyphography.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:15 PM
Subject: Texas Linux Fest 2016 CFP
To: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3...@gmail.com>, Tobias Mueller <
mue...@cryptobitch.de>, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org>, Sriram Ramkrishna <
s...@ramkrishna.me>


Greetings, valued GNOME friends,

Nate Willis here; amongst my other project pastimes, I'm one of the
organizers of Texas Linux Fest,
which is the leading community Linux-and-FOSS conference for Texas and
the surrounding region.

Our event is July 8th and 9th this year, in downtown Austin, TX.  We'd
really love it if folks from the GNOME project & community can be there—be
they local or from out of town.

I especially wanted to draw your attention to our call for
participation.  We're intent on attracting a wide variety of speakers
representing open source and free software, both users and developers,
from all corners.  The details are here:

http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/call-for-papers

and the deadline is approaching.

Please consider submitting a talk proposal, and we would love it if
you could help us spread the word by sharing the CFP with your community!

If you have any questions, or if you want to know more about Texas
Linux Fest in general, please get in touch!

Thanks, from me and on behalf of the entire TXLF 2016 team,
Nate

PS - I've tried to make this email just general enough that, if you feel
like
it, you could just forward it to any mailing lists or cut-and-paste it into
any discussion forum that seems appropriate.  It's also just short enough
to take to the tattoo parlor.  Feel free!

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01/15/2015 Engagement Meeting Minutes

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

tl;dir summary

* Engagement team will be focusing on Annual Report
* Visual design for how GNOME releases software
* Recruitment video to increase engagement team members

If you are interested in joining the engagement team, please join our
mailing list and our meetings.  We are goign to be sending out a poll for
weekly cadence.


Engagement Team Meeting

Attending: Sri, Lasse, Rosanna, Allan, Adelia, Alexandre

Introductions -

- discussing the annual report and when to have a retrospective + kickoff
meeting
 * A little late to be retrospective, maybe?  Might want to do this sooner
rather than later.  Have a wiki page on what they remember and what could
be improved? - Aday will create the wiki page.
 * So we were very late last year - the target should not be GUADEC but
before GUADEC   - end of June
 * need to make sure that we have someone coordinating everything through
the whole process.  A more comprehensive schedule would make things easier.
 * When should we have an initial schedule?  Adelia is willing to
coordinate the Annual Report!

- upcoming conferences and updates
- Restocking the events boxes
 * European box is being restocked for FOSDEM (by Kat and Bastian) - need
to check with relevant people that they have everything needed
 * N America box is still lost to us. We could try to retrieve, but is
there a demand for it? Content not so much, box itself yes.
 * Shipping events boxes can be expensive. In some situations it might be
cheaper for locals to produce their own materials. The N America box is
huge.
 * Events boxes should have: banners, table clothes, t-shirts, stickers,
leaflets, a demo machine.
  * Would be great to run one of Jakub's tutorials on a loop, rather than
using a machine for demos what about a playlist of Bastian's videos?
Getting started tutorials maybe too?
 * Events booths need more than just stickers - needs to be something
interactive and interesting - competitions, games, selling beer(licence
required in many countries). Bring back the love/hate wall?
 * ACTION: start a mailing list thread after the meeting.

- Adding a merchandise page to the website
 * Sri to take that forward. Allan to help out with design.

- indian hackathon -   https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/indiahacks-speakers
 * GNOME is a participating project and has proposed mentors and projects
 * Looking for general introductory talks. Lasse is looking for speakers
* More proposals would be nice but are not necessarily needed.

 - updating the new/upcoming initiative-s list
 * Engagement team resources for newcomers are in a poor state:
  * Old list of tasks is out of date and a bit of a mess -
https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Tasks
  * Getting involved page -
https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/GettingInvolved
  * More recent list of initiatives -
https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/List_of_GNOME_Engagment_Team_initiatives
  * These need tidying up.
 * Nuritzi and Rosanna have made contact with willing new Engagement Team
contributors in the bay area. Difficult to know how to get them started,
and they have struggled with the website. What can we do to help them get
started?
  * Tidy up the pages we have.
  * Create a mentors list
  * Create a crash course in how the GNOME project works - how the release
process works, who the teams are. Should probably be visual - infographics.
We can start with simple visuals to begin with and get artistic advice
later. Things to focus on - how does a release happen? What are the teams?
How do contributions come from, how they get processed and integrated, etc?
Sri will project manage
  * A video advert for contributing? Could try again at doing video
interviews at GUADEC.
  * Video tutorials and a stronger presence of videos on the website.
  * Regular Engagement Team meetings.
 * 15 minutes for updates and new business
 * 45 minutes on tasks


 - theme for this year?

- Next Meeting focus

* Visuals  - 20 minutes
* Reviewing the action items that we agreed
* Ask others what they would be interested in as well
* Send out reminder of meeting 2-3 days in advance
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Re: New GNOME Foundation Members and Emeritus Members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Rock! :)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:41 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> 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. Patrick Griffis (GNOME Builder, GLib, JHBuild contributions)
>

Who is continuing to rock and doing stuff on Builder. :)  Now if I can
convince him to do some stuff on Polari!


>  2. Marcus Lundblad (GNOME Maps)
>
 3. Tom Tryfonidis (GNOME Greek Translator, GNOME Greek web services
> maintainer)
>
 4. Fabio Tomat (Friulian GNOME Translations Team Coordinator)
>

Congrats, and welcome to the GNOME Foundation!!


>  5. Nuritzi Sanchez (GNOME Engagement Team)
>

Well earned considering all the great work she is doing on the engagement
team today and helping bringing in more volunteers!


>  6. Trần Ngọc Quân (Coordinator of the GNOME Vietnamese translations team)
>

Welcome, to the GNOME Foundation! :)


>  7. Siska Restu Anggraeny Iskandar (Local organizer of GNOME.Asia Summit
> 2015, volunteer at GUADEC 2015)
>

Ah, Siska, welcome. :-)  GUADEC was a great time with you there!


>
> In addition to them, we also have six new Emeritus Members: [1]
>
>  1. Iain Holmes (GNOME-Media maintainer between 2001 and 2004,
> gnome-control-center, Mutter, Evolution, Clutter contributions)
>  2. Kristian Rietveld (Substantial and valuable GTK+, GIMP and Pango
> contributions)
>  3. Thomas Vander Stichele (Several contributions of multiple GNOME
> modules including gnome-media)
>  4. Pablo Castellano (NetworkManager contributions)
>  5. Sergey Udaltsov (GNOME Keyboard Input framework contributions)
>  6. Damon Chaplin (GooCanvas maintainer since 2008)
>
>
So awesome to see all these familiar names!  Thanks for taking the time and
interest in continuing to associate with the Foundation.

BTW Iain, I think you or maybe I owe beers? :-)

Best wishes,
sri


>
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Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of August, 05th, 2015 (GUADEC)

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015, 4:45 AM Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

= Minutes for Wednesday, August 05th, 2015, 10:00 CEST =

Next meeting date TBD

== Attending ==
 * Shaun !McCance
 * Ekaterina Gerasimova
 * Rosanna Yuen
 * Jeff Fortin
 * Allan Day
 * Andrea Veri

* Old board members attending:
 * Tobias Mueller

== Regrets ==
 * Cosimo Cecchi
 * Christian

Hergert

Just a correction, I was at this meeting from 1pm onwards.

 * Old board members:
  * Karen Sandler
  * Marina Zhurakhinskaya
  * Sriram Ramkrishna

== Missing ==

== Board meeting ==

 * Quick round of introduction for new and old members
  * Motivations and what they'd like to see happening this year
  * Tactical evaluation of everybody's capabilities and availability for
board work (a.k.a. character profiles or specializations  interests)

 * Introspection — what went well in 2014, what didn't, and understanding
the constraints the board was dealing with beneath the surface
  * Kat: The first part of the year has been very busy for the whole Board
with the Groupon's legal matter
  * Kat: In the ending part of the term a few members lost interest in
Board's activities as they found a new job
  * An ED kept the advisory board members in touch with the GNOME
Foundation and kept them engaged with GNOME's activities
  * ACTION: Jeff to get advisory board contact details from Karen. If this
fails, we need to start developing our own contacts and record them on the
wiki. (Once we have these, we need to discuss how to make use of them!)
  * ACTION: start doing quarterly advisory board meetings again.
  * ACTION: complete the 2014-15 annual report.
  * ACTION: ensure that we have an ambassadorial presence at key
conferences. Remind Sri to do this at the conferences he attends. Review
which  conferences we should be at; organise people to attend (Christian
could help with this - need to identify other individuals).

We probably need to discuss what this translated to.  Next month I will be
talking freshman at Purdue school of science..  Any ideas on what to do
there?




 * Preparing the GUADEC Advisory Board Meeting
   * Christian will be arriving in the afternoon only, so will be an
afternoon only meeting.
   * Attendees: Christian Schaller at noon, Scott Reeves, current board
(7), Rosanna, Tobi, Sri (?)

I was there :)

Sri
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Re: Looking for speakers for hacknight in Gothenburg on Aug 11th

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote:

 Hi all!
 FOSSGBG is a local free software group here in Gothenburg that has
 meetups every month or so to discuss various FOSS subjects. They're
 having an event on the 11th of August [1].
 Since this overlaps with the GUADEC hackdays, the organizers of FOSSGBG
 thought it'd be nice to make this edition of their meetup about GNOME.


This is great!  I want to see this happen.



 They are looking for people from the GNOME community who would like to
 present their work at the meetup. Let me know if you'd like to
 volunteer. We'd like to have three 20-30 minutes talks. Subjects that
 would be interesting to the audience would be things like app
 development, Wayland and privacy.


I would love to see this happen.  I wonder if I can volunteer people. :-)
 I can also present on their behalf as well.   But I would like someone to
talk about:

1) xdg-app
2) changes in GTK+ - maybe the CSS
3) gnome-builder

Are the ones that come to mind.  Maybe Bastien Nocera has some hardware
related type talk that he could talk about?

sri


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Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Richard,


Yes, there is no support for GNOME, although they don't seem to have talked
about working with upstream.  My concern of course is that if this is a
scam, the visual design is enough that those who feel they have been
cheated would wrongfully associated that product with GNOME.  If anything I
would prefer to ask them to change their visual design so that it is
reasonably differentiated from ours.

(sorry for top posting, for some reason I can't seem to get this webmail
thing to do quoting)


On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:32 AM Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:

 The joke is on me.  I naively assumed they must be asking for GNOME
 support.

 --
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Re: Final Results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2015

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Jun 20, 2015 06:46, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Foundation!

 The preliminary results for this year's elections were not challenged.
 This means, in the next term, our Board of Directors will be composed
 of the following Foundation members:

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

Congratulations to the new board!  I expect great things from all of you!

I would also like to thank the membership and election committee for their
hard work and dedication in  collating the votes and publishing the results!

Finally, thank you members  for your participation in this election.
Selecting our board is one of the most important roles we can play as a
foundation member and effects dramatically the success of our foundation
and ultimately the GNOME Project.

Sri


 Congratulations! And many, many thanks to all Foundation members who
 participated and voted. I hope the engagement and excitement we saw
 during the elections remain active for the year :)

 Cheers,
 Fabiana - on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Membership  Elections
Committee


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Re: GIMP donation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Mike Saunders m...@linuxvoice.com wrote:
 Hi Rosanna,

 Thanks for that -- I'll chase it up with our own bank, and when we've
 confirmed that the money has been returned to us, we'll use a different
 method to donate to GIMP.


You know, Mike.  If you're interested in writing some GNOME related
articles, us folks on the engagment team are happy to help. hint,
hint :-)

sri

 --
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 Linux Voice magazine
 http://www.linuxvoice.com


 On 2015-05-27 18:37, Rosanna Yuen wrote:

 Hi Mike,

 When our account was closed with Citizens Bank, our ties with the bank
 were severed.  As we neither own the account nor sent the funds, it is
 unlikely either bank will be willing to give us information about your
 wire transfer.  If you contact your bank you should be able to
 initiate a trace on the wire and see where it went.  I am unfamiliar
 with Northern Trust but a trace would tell you if they were affiliated
 with your transfer.

 Thanks,
 Rosanna

 On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
 kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 27 May 2015 at 17:02, Mike Saunders m...@linuxvoice.com wrote:

 On 2015-05-27 17:58, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:



 Those instructions are wrong, I have contacted someone at GIMP

 asking

 them to update the details for the donations.



 Thanks. Can you find out if the money was accepted? We've never

 heard of

 Northern Trust either, but if if now owns the Citizens Bank

 account listed

 for the GNOME Foundation on GIMP's donation page, that may

 explain why £300

 has come back to us...


 We'll do our best to find out as quickly as possible, although the
 process tends to be very slow from what I have seen previously.
 That
 account is actually long since closed so in the best case the money
 that you received was those funds being returned. In the worst case
 the account has been reopened and we need to extract the funds from
 it, which would take about a month or so.

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Re: Question to the candidates.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
 First, while I'm extremely impressed by the huge variety of UI design
 ideas that GNOME has experimented with, and many of them have been quite
 successful, I think GNOME needs some mechanism to recognize when an idea
 isn't working or doesn't really appeal to the majority of users, and say
 well, that was a fun experiment, but let's drop it.  For instance, I
 rather strongly suspect many GNOME 3 users would sigh with relief if
 alt-tab went back to switch windows and alt-` became a
 backward-compatibility synonym.  As far as I can tell, though, design
 ideas only really tend to get dropped when they get replaced with some
 other, newer design idea; for instance, the notification tray gave way
 to the excellent new notification mechanism in the latest release of
 GNOME.

 I think it would make sense to have a convenient way to float design
 experiments as extensions or branches, rather than as part of mainline
 GNOME, until they become less experimental.  And in the meantime, I
 think we need a way, as a community, to decide that a UI experiment was
 unsuccessful and should be reverted.

I just want to say that these two paragraphs is just full of win.
There is absolutely needed a mechanism that lets us figure out when
something is not working.  In GNOME, I think we have problems with
either 1) communicating how features are implementing in GNOME 2)
communicating how features (if you want to call them that) are removed
in GNOME.  When features are removed, they do cause regressions and it
is important that at least we have some kind of historical reason why
we removed it in the first place.  While people might object to the
removal or adding, that doesn't matter, only that there is a story.
Maintainers who remove or add features should provide good notes to
the release team on why something was removed or added so that we can
provide a good story to the story.  I sometimes feel that we don't
take into account users who use our systems.  Maintainers might have a
vision of the end state, but end users may not and when the story is
murky it leaves people with vivid imaginations to tell the story.




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Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 19 May 2015 at 01:41, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello all,

 First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board.
 Max come from GNOME.Asia team and thanks GNOME and board support Asia.

 I have 2 questions to all candidates

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

 Around 5 hours or so. I can spend more time on it when it is needed,
 but it would be unsustainable of me to commit more on a regular basis.

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

 The ecosystem in Asia is very different from in Europe and North
 America. I think that the local community is much better placed at
 promoting and growing GNOME in that region than I am, so I would be
 most effective on the board at ensuring that any resources which are
 needed by people like you which the Foundation can provide are
 available for you to use. This can be everything from funding for
 events to putting you in touch with other people who can help.


I just want to tell you, that Ekaterina (and by extension Rosanna)
has spend an enormous time on the board working on financial matters
for the past year.
I have every confidence that she will put the time she needs to get
the job done right, as have the board members that have
 not been running for the board.

sri
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Re: GIMP donation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Mike Saunders m...@linuxvoice.com wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 I work for Linux Voice magazine and we donated £300 to GIMP (via the Gnome
 Foundation):
 http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/

 We made a bank transfer following the instructions here:
 http://www.gimp.org/donating/

 That was on 18th of May, with reference For Gimp - LV. I also emailed
 fundrais...@gnome.org with details but heard nothing. Then, on 20th of May,
 £300 was sent to us from Northern Trust. Is that the money bouncing back
 to us? Can someone from the Foundation please respond about the donation?


We can help follow up.  Private mail from the board will follow.

sri

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Question on community to the candidates.

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no
data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME
than community.  I do not question the passion and dedication to those
who are paid on GNOME, I know that they would do it as a community
even if they were not paid.

If you agree with my impression, what actions do you think would help
increase participation in GNOME?  Participation in the core parts of
GNOME is not trivial, and requires an enormous amount of time and
dedication to get to become familiar with the huge codebase that we
have, as well as gain the trust of the maintainer of the module you
are interested in.

If you disagree with my impression, what makes you believe that it is
not the case? How would you change my mind?  I did not bring any data
points, so you don't have to either.  I'm more interested in giving
you a biased opinion and I want to know how you would react to it.

sri
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Re: [OT] Re: You logo

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote:
 Let's be real: this is pure drama and it is more than slightly ironic that
 the original topic of this thread has been completely derailed by those
 seeking to censor off-topic discussion...

 For the record, I agree 100% with the moderators - that censorship of any
 card carrying member would be totally unacceptable (especially on this
 list).

This is not censorship.  We're not restricting anybody's ideas here.
This is just enforcing the rules of the list.  The subsequent
responses after Richard's are from those who are upset that rules are
not being followed.  There is a certain tolerance when people do that,
but when it is consistent over a period of years.  Tolerance erodes
quickly and when not resolved, people leave the list.

Please.  No more replies to this thread.  I have already invited the
original poster to talk with the board after he initially posted and
we have an active conversation already.  The matter is being resolved
at the right level.

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Re: New GNOME Foundation Member

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:13 AM, ahmad haris princeofg...@di.blankon.in wrote:
 Hello everyone,

 I'm Ahmad Haris (mostly known as princeofgiri) from Indonesia. I never
 contribute directly to GNOME.

HI Ahmad!!


 Recently, I'm a part of BlankOn Developer (local linux distribution) and
 have experience in many different team such as Artwork, Packaging, Public
 Relation and Project Manager.


Very nice!

 Today, I also supporting Local Organizer to make GNOME.ASIA 2015 come true.
 ^_^

Oh wow, thank you for all your upcoming hard work on GNOME ASIA!  I
took a look at the city and it look so lovely!


 I'm interesting to promoting GNOME desktop for everyone.


Thanks for joining the GNOME Foundation!  We expect great things from you! ^_^

sri

 Thank's for approval.
 Haris

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Re: New GNOME foundation member

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:21 AM, SAHIL SAREEN sahil.sar...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hello everyone

 I'm Sahil Sareen(#ssareen) and I've been enjoying contributing to
 GNOME-games especially chess.

Welcome!  Feel free to say Hi, if I'm around! :)

Looking forward to see all the great things you'll do here!

Best,
sri
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Re: foundation application..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexandre Franke
 alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote:
 So yes, I still find it intimidating because it's hard to feel
 legitimate when you're a small contibutor.

 And that's part of the problem. This guy calls himself a small
 contributer, which he is not. Sure he's not a maintainer of one of
 our core libraries, or even the leader of one of our teams, but he's
 been sustainably active for quite a long time now.

 Yes, I've had other anecdotes where people relate the same thing.  As
 I said, I'm intimidated too when go through it.  Maybe if there are
 interested people we could work on it together?


Who would be interested in working with me on this?  This would be a
nice easy task.  Perhaps I will ask the Internet as well.

sri

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Re: foundation application..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexandre Franke
alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote:
 So yes, I still find it intimidating because it's hard to feel
 legitimate when you're a small contibutor.

 And that's part of the problem. This guy calls himself a small
 contributer, which he is not. Sure he's not a maintainer of one of
 our core libraries, or even the leader of one of our teams, but he's
 been sustainably active for quite a long time now.

Yes, I've had other anecdotes where people relate the same thing.  As
I said, I'm intimidated too when go through it.  Maybe if there are
interested people we could work on it together?

sri


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

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:
 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!


I just want to thank everyone on the sysadmin team for this.  This has
been a long time coming and took quite amount of work due to the fact
that we had a specialized bugzilla install.  It's times like this is
why having an expert sysadmin team is so important.  We are _lucky_ to
have such awesome ones.  I've worked in a lot of environments, and I
know what I speak of.

Thanks again guys, you guys are the best!

Now if we can maybe get someone to change the UI a bit on bugzilla
that would be something...

sri

 [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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 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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 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 application..

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Do people find the application to the foundation to be intimidating?
I've talked to a number of people and I get the feeling that unless I
do coding or something that I'm not a valuable member.

Even with all the stuff I do, I still feel inadequate when I renew...

I was just curious if other people felt that way as well..

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Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
 Hi,

 No comment on the minutes beyond what others have already asked about -
 I just wanted to say that it warms my heart to see people reading board
 minutes and offering suggestions, asking questions and proposing their
 help on items in the minutes.

Me too.. the board should and continually be challenged by its members.


 This is a vindication of publishing the minutes early after the meeting,
 and shows what a great community GNOME has

Yep.

Since this was somewhat offtopic - let's put it back on topic.

We had planned on a discussion at FOSDEM, but unfortunately it didn't
happen.  Sorry, that was my fault as it was my task to organize it.
In any case, we are proposing an alternative meeting outside our
regular board meeting to get this moving.  Alberto made a good point,
it is hard and while each of us have tried to do some outreach, we
haven't been effective with our current adboard members.  I think
that's a shame.

I  expect that the various teams should take up more responsibilities,
so that the board is not distracted by issues that could be delegated
to the teams and we have more free time to work on ED search as that
will take some time I expect.

I hesitate to invite people to a ED search committee just yet.  We
have an upcoming meeting and I'll send out something regarding it.
Thanks.

sri

 Next meeting due on February 6th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC

 == Attending ==
  * Ekaterina Gerasimova
  * Rosanna Yuen
  * Marina Zhurakhinskaya
  * Jeff Fortin
  * Andrea Veri
  * Karen Sandler
  * Tobias Mueller
  * Sriram Ramkrishna

 == Regrets ==

 == Missing ==

 == Board meeting ==

  * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015
* Unfortunately was not organized yet, so possibility of piggybacking on 
 the SFC dinner event with a GNOME table? ($40 in advance/euro 40 at the 
 door per attendee)
* People can go on an individual basis, but the general feeling among 
 board members seems to be we're probably not setting this up as an official 
 event; maybe just sending an informal invitation email to the adboard list 
 to let them know they can join us there
* ACTION: Sri to send an informal invitation mail to the adboard for the 
 event

  * Next steps for the Outreach Program
   * Marina sent an e-mail to board-list with all the planned next steps for 
 the OP
* This is a follow-up to a discussion we started during the GUADEC 2014 
 board meeting about the growth  requirements for the Outreach Program
* GNOME has been a good home to launch and grow the project so far, but 
 the program has somewhat outgrown the capabilities of GNOME. Preparations 
 are being made to create an environment where the OP can grow over time 
 without creating too much burden to the GNOME Foundation (in terms of 
 workload on the Board, Rosanna's time handling the payments and invoices)
* OP is being renamed to Outreachy
* OP would be joining the SFC; GNOME would still be providing its 
 infrastructure, for the time of the transition
   * When this round will end (around March) funds (general OP and travel 
 funds) will have to be transferred from the GNOME Foundation to the SFC
* Obligations (reimbursements etc.) will be then moved to the SFC itself
* Rosanna will still be required to help out OP with invoicing / 
 reimbursement till the end of March
* Travel allowances will still have to be approved by the Board for this 
 (round that ends in March) and previous rounds
   * VOTE: The board agrees to move of OP to the SF Conservancy to further 
 the growth of the program. GNOME will continue to be the infrastructure 
 partner for the time being. Details on the transfering of funds and any 
 other information and the exact timetable will be established in due course, 
 upon consulation with counsel.
 * The GNOME Foundation would not be bound by the contract of the SFC. 
 The primary reason for this vote is that SFC wants to make sure that GNOME 
 is okay with this move
 * +1 from Jeff, Tobi, Sri, Kat, Andrea - Karen  Marina abstain
   * ACTION: Karen  Marina should provide a more detailed plan as things are 
 being figured out (timeframe, next steps)

  * 500$ materials sponsorship request for GNOME Peru Fest 2015
   * VOTE: approve the 500$ materials sponsorship: +1 unanimous

  * Next board meeting: our backlog is huge. We could have an extra meeting 
 right after FOSDEM, intsead of waiting 2 weeks.
* ACTION: Tobi/Sri to evaluate the situation while at FOSDEM and request 
 an extra meeting if needed

 Deferred:
  * Responding to a phone press inquiry asking to reach Stormy Peters
   * Comment from Stormy: There is a press mailing list to deal with press 
 inquiries. And if they are looking for me, they should be able to find me 
 but you are welcome to point them my way.
   * ACTION: maybe Rosanna can check with the caller to see what he wants and 
 see if we need to get back to him by press contact, or if he really

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
 Did anything happen with the adboard at FOSDEM? It's very important to keep
 up relationships with adboard members if we want to continue to depend on
 them for financial contributions. And you should never pass up a chance to
 meet with them in person!


I agree completely.  It's a lot harder without a executive director
who primarily does this.  That said, I did send a note out about
having an adboard meeting possibly during the Conservency dinner.  We
generally have enough members do one at FOSDEM.  This time we did not
have a quorom unfortunately.

sri

 Stormy

 On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

 = Minutes for Friday, January 23th, 2015, 17:00 UTC =

 Next meeting due on February 6th, 2015 at 17:00 UTC

 == Attending ==
  * Ekaterina Gerasimova
  * Rosanna Yuen
  * Marina Zhurakhinskaya
  * Jeff Fortin
  * Andrea Veri
  * Karen Sandler
  * Tobias Mueller
  * Sriram Ramkrishna

 == Regrets ==

 == Missing ==

 == Board meeting ==

  * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015
* Unfortunately was not organized yet, so possibility of piggybacking
 on the SFC dinner event with a GNOME table? ($40 in advance/euro 40 at the
 door per attendee)
* People can go on an individual basis, but the general feeling among
 board members seems to be we're probably not setting this up as an official
 event; maybe just sending an informal invitation email to the adboard list
 to let them know they can join us there
* ACTION: Sri to send an informal invitation mail to the adboard for
 the event

  * Next steps for the Outreach Program
   * Marina sent an e-mail to board-list with all the planned next steps
 for the OP
* This is a follow-up to a discussion we started during the GUADEC 2014
 board meeting about the growth  requirements for the Outreach Program
* GNOME has been a good home to launch and grow the project so far, but
 the program has somewhat outgrown the capabilities of GNOME. Preparations
 are being made to create an environment where the OP can grow over time
 without creating too much burden to the GNOME Foundation (in terms of
 workload on the Board, Rosanna's time handling the payments and invoices)
* OP is being renamed to Outreachy
* OP would be joining the SFC; GNOME would still be providing its
 infrastructure, for the time of the transition
   * When this round will end (around March) funds (general OP and travel
 funds) will have to be transferred from the GNOME Foundation to the SFC
* Obligations (reimbursements etc.) will be then moved to the SFC
 itself
* Rosanna will still be required to help out OP with invoicing /
 reimbursement till the end of March
* Travel allowances will still have to be approved by the Board for
 this (round that ends in March) and previous rounds
   * VOTE: The board agrees to move of OP to the SF Conservancy to further
 the growth of the program. GNOME will continue to be the infrastructure
 partner for the time being. Details on the transfering of funds and any
 other information and the exact timetable will be established in due course,
 upon consulation with counsel.
 * The GNOME Foundation would not be bound by the contract of the SFC.
 The primary reason for this vote is that SFC wants to make sure that GNOME
 is okay with this move
 * +1 from Jeff, Tobi, Sri, Kat, Andrea - Karen  Marina abstain
   * ACTION: Karen  Marina should provide a more detailed plan as things
 are being figured out (timeframe, next steps)

  * 500$ materials sponsorship request for GNOME Peru Fest 2015
   * VOTE: approve the 500$ materials sponsorship: +1 unanimous

  * Next board meeting: our backlog is huge. We could have an extra meeting
 right after FOSDEM, intsead of waiting 2 weeks.
* ACTION: Tobi/Sri to evaluate the situation while at FOSDEM and
 request an extra meeting if needed

 Deferred:
  * Responding to a phone press inquiry asking to reach Stormy Peters
   * Comment from Stormy: There is a press mailing list to deal with press
 inquiries. And if they are looking for me, they should be able to find me
 but you are welcome to point them my way.
   * ACTION: maybe Rosanna can check with the caller to see what he wants
 and see if we need to get back to him by press contact, or if he really
 wanted to reach Stormy in particular?
  * Sysadmin sponsorship: should we have a guadec-style sponsors' brochure
 to help with that?
  * WHS
  * OEM Linux distribution including GNOME - any action required wrt Narcis
 Garcia's email?
  * Review action items in kanban board, for completeness and status
  * ED search

  * Deferred until further mailing list discussion occurs from other board
 members (or missing info):
* Reviewing and harmonizing our logos  trademark guidelines wrt ®, ™,
 etc.
* Discuss plans for reviewing salaries/hourly rates of
 employees/contractors
* Trademark defense campaign has ended and been a success: start

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

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Luis Villa l...@lu.is wrote:

 On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

  * ED search


 ?

Clearly, we don't have anything new to report on that front.  However,
I do plan on having a discussion  at FOSDEM and figure out how to go
about organizing this.  We should have some relevant people there to
start a discussion.  At the moment, myself, Marina, and Kat are
responsible in putting this together.  I'll post an update after
FOSDEM since there are some of you who are interested in this.

sri
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Re: The GNOME Infrastructure is now powered by FreeIPA!

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Andrea,

Thank you for all you and Patrick's hard work on getting this done!  Awesome!
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Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote:
 On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:

 It seems to me that this thread has turn into a series of counter arguments 
 with no specific direction.

 Before we go ahead, can we please clarify:
 a) What problem are we trying to solve.

 My impression, increasingly, is that the “problem we are trying to solve” is 
 that you are giving money to a bunch of girls, and some folks would be 
 happier if you didn’t. All guys, strangely enough.

Actually, not true.  I'm fairly sure that this bridges both genders.
Don't assume that this sort of thing is just males.

sri
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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August 29th, 2014

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote:
 On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 23:42 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
 * Getting a Bountysource account for the Foundation? (see Bounties
 for GNOME/GTK thread)
* ACTION: Rosanna to open the account and coordinate with Daniel
 Foré (Sri to get them in touch)

 Does this mean we're considering posting bounties on bugs? I think
 that's a great idea; it seems to be an effective way of generating
 interest in solving a bug [1] [2]. But would it be less expensive for
 the Foundation to handle bounties itself, rather than going through
 Bountysource?  Bountysource takes a 10% cut of each bounty; that seems
 quite high. Ideally, the Foundation would handle payment of bounties
 instead; presumably our cost of administration would be less than 10%?

There hasn't been any plans for posting bounties on bugs.
ElementaryOS does this and since they extensively use the GNOME stack
they had some bounties on some bugs that were fixed by GNOME
foundation members.  They have been sitting in a Bountysource account.
He asked me if there was some way to transfer the money from the
bountysource account to the foundation.  Zana was going to create an
account for making that transfer and the action item was to put them
in touch with each other.

Daniel Foré

 Their terms of service [1] are also highly questionable. They reserve
 the right to take all the money in our account, or cancel our bounties
 without refunding our money, at any time and without any explanation,
 without cause or notice (section 6.5). Without cause seems like a
 pretty good place for us to draw a line

Daniel Foré should probably be the one who we should alert.  We don't
use it ourselves.  However, I am intrigued if people believe that we
should put out bounties?  What I get a lot of times and you've seen
this yourselves is that a lot of bugs are complex and takes a lot of
intimate knowledge of the GTK+ or GNOME stack.  Would it be effective?

sri
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Re: Boston Summit 2014

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote:
 Hi,

 I know people are busy with GUADEC prep, but I just wanted to start the
 thread early around this year's Boston Summit.  Last year's was in
 Montréal, so following the pattern we'll do Boston again, right?

 I can take as an action item getting in touch with MIT for a venue
 again.  Would someone be able to look at sponsors?

Colin, I've forwarded you a mail from Karen with confirmation that the
rooms have been booked.  She did this back in May.

Here is the summary:

CONFIRMATION OF CLASSROOM RESERVATION / FALL 2014 -

SAP: MIT GNOME SUMMIT



DATE:   Saturday, October 11-Monday, October 13

TIME:9am-6pm

ROOM:  E51-315, E51-325, E51-335, E51-345


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Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hiya Jim!


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would
 you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances?  (Or do you feel
 these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this goal?)

Corporate sponsorship tends to bring in a lot of money in and it is
always beneficial to be able to increase that.  If you wanted to do
grass roots based fundraising, that would require setting up a better
donation system than we have now.  We can definitely do better, and
the board has had some discussions about alternative systems last
year.

Some people have suggested using flattr or some other method of
micro-payments that could bring in revenue.  I think I threw out
something about tying donations to bug fixes.  You could setup
marketing calls to various companies who might be using our stack and
ask for donations that way for smaller amounts like 1000 dollars or
5000 dollars.

In general, they do okay, but they won't be very large.  You need to
grow the audience to really take advantage of that strategy.

Another idea might be to take advantage of funding opportunities like
grants from the government or companies.  We don't necessarily have to
make a technology argument, we could focus on programs like OPW or our
underlying philosophy of freedom.  We are after all a philanthropic
organization, we could make that argument.  Here is a grant
application from JP Morgan as an example:

http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/grant-programs

Of course this one is corporate, but I'm sure we can find others.

Another idea is to fundraise at conferences, and not necessarily our
tech ones.  Most of fundraising is about making 1:1 connections and
then making a compelling argument.

sri




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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Sorry for my late reply.  GMail is horrible with finding old threads sometimes.

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Sri,

 On 14 May 2014 01:16, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
 Affiliation: Intel Corporation

 I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation.  I
 plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME
 Foundation and to external.  There is still many things to do in order
 to make our platform and desktop attractive to everyone and I wish to
 continue talking about our story.  I can continue to be effective in
 leveraging what I've learned as Director as well as the extensive set
 of contacts I have as part of my day job and the open source project I
 am involved there as well.

 Could you give us a few example of what you would like do to make the
 GNOME desktop more attractive?

Let me modify my statement a bit - I want to make GNOME attractive to
everyone both as a place to volunteer for non-technical projects, to
hack on cool technology, and of course a pleasant experience to use.
That being said:

For volunteer capture, we should continue to make sure that we have a
great path to being able to get to someone human, or mailing list to
get simple tasks to work on.  We  should have volunteers that make
sure that the documentation for getting JHbuild up and running is
smooth.  Examples should always work with the latest code from git.
To some extent, the  QA team is looking at some of this.  Basically,
we continue to increase the quality of GNOME by integrating with GNOME
Continuous with good unit tests, and also making sure that JHBuild
works for the most part and is predictable.  Nothing stops frustrates
people more when they can't even get to the part they want to do but
have to spend long hours just trying to get set up and failing at it.


 During my tenure as Director, I have organized a hackfest, help start
 a QA team, and worked to get many people involved in GNOME as
 contributors. Long hours and days were spend engaging the Free and
 Open Source community.  I find myself continuing to be energized in
 being part of this organization of which I am proud of.  I ask for
 your vote and confidence to continue working on the board.

 Hackfest organisation, team management/contribution/organisation and
 outreach are some of the core tasks that many of our community members
 do as part of their contributions to GNOME. In what ways did your
 board membership affect your ability to do these and what can be done
 to make it easier for other community members to do these without
 joining the board?


Being part of the board help me get exposed to situations that I would
not normally be exposed to.  Whether it is issues with reimbursements
or confusion with process that kind of thing.  You see the big picture
when you're trying to put on an event and what not.Because you see
the big picture, you're able to see where something is broken.  So
doing the work on the core tasks makes you a better director.  It
doesn't necessarily mean the other way around.  My activities doing
hackfests and team management is what helps gives context to when you
see something that is not working right.  The counter is that your own
ideas are challenged of maybe what is fair and what isn't.  Others can
give you a different side of a story.  I've always enjoyed our
discussions on the board precisely because of this.  You learn
something.  That's cool. :)

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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
 Affiliation: Intel Corporation

 I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation.  I
 plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME
 Foundation and to external.  There is still many things to do in order
 to make our platform and desktop attractive to everyone and I wish to
 continue talking about our story.  I can continue to be effective in
 leveraging what I've learned as Director
 What have you learned the past year as a Director ?


I learned that sometimes being open and transparent to the public is
the wrong thing to do.  It's okay to reveal our finances within the
foundation and to those who have graciously donated to us, but
sometimes not okay to reveal to the general public.  It is a surreal
experience  doing damage control and I'm being called into account by
an angry commentator who neither has a financial stake in GNOME nor
even uses GNOME but feels that they deserve answers.

How we reveal our information in the public is important and it is
important that we get our messaging correct when we deliver bad news
to the Internet.  In a talk I gave, I said something along the lines
of bad news travel fast, ugly news travel even faster through social
media.  A point that sadly has proven true.

as well as the extensive set
 of contacts I have as part of my day job and the open source project I
 am involved there as well.
 Can you provide any exemple of how these contacts have benefited GNOME
 and/or how you plan to leverage them in the coming year?


In the future, you'll see a GNOME page on 01.org. :-)  This just
another angle of having greater name exposure and also demonstrates
how much GNOME technologies are being relied on for a number of
projects that are being worked on.

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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
 Do you have examples of situations where Red Hat (or any other company or
 corporation for that matter) has trumped what most of the community
 wants/needs? If you do, what do you think the board could/should do about
 it?


I presume that it is the fact that a lot of the core maintainers of
GNOME are Red Hat employees.  From what I understand of Red Hat
culture, that doesn't really mean much.  I was having drinks with a
person who used to work at a company who got bought out by Red Hat.  I
believe it was Cygnus.  The biggest culture shock they had was the
fact that Red Hat employees regularly flamed each other on a number of
mailing lists and often quite gleefully.  I'm not sure Red Hat is the
picture of corporate toe the line that you generally see at other
places.  I think in general, FOSS people do tend to be an ornery
crowd. :-)

If there is an issue though with voices not being heard then that
should be addressed.

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Re: question for candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Pardon my late reply.


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Andy Tai a...@gnu.org wrote:

 Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates:

 GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects.  Currently gtk+
 development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop.  However, gtk+
 also play critical roles in other free software projects, like MATE, XFCE,
 and the Cinnamon desktop, and large applications like GIMP, Inkscape, etc.


I think inclusivity of these projects are very important.  Embracing these
other projects is an important step in making sure that GTK+ and GLib are
healthy eco-systems that projects downstream can depend on.


 What are your views on the participation of the people of these projects,
 as stake holders in the direction of gtk+, in the GNOME Foundation?  Should
 the GNOME Foundation encourage (reach out to) these people to get them
 involved in the GNOME Foundation so they also have a say and even
 contribute to gtk+ so gtk+ can continue to serve their needs well,
 important for the continuing successes of gtk+ in the free software world?


We are already reaching out and we've made a little progress.  During the
West Coast Hackfest, thanks to Allan Day, we were able to invite one of the
ElementaryOS designers over, and he was able to spend a couple days with
us.  One of the positive outcomes was that we are hopefully set to
eliminate ElementaryOS's private widget set library and use GNOME's.  In
turn, there are several widgets that Matthias have identified that was
useful for GTK+.  So here is an excellent example of how diversity solves
problems.  I can say that both GNOME and ElementaryOS folks were quite
enthusiastic afterwards from my conversations with them.[1]

A couple comments on the West Coast Hackfest - the hackfest is geared to be
outward facing.  Most of our conferences and hackfests are quite insular
and internal.  You want GNOME hackers to be exposed to people who use our
software or might want to use our software.  In turn, we want to really
highlight the benefits of using the GNOME stack. We don't do enough of
this.  I hope the next year, we can work on a more aggressive conference
instead of a hackfest that will bring more attention to the GNOME
eco-system to people who are developing either software solutions or
turnkey hardware appliances like kiosks.  In general, thanks to the hard
work of Tiffany, Christian Hergert, and Cosimo we had successful hackfest
and is a good base.

Now regarding foundation and these other projects. I've long thought that
need to find a way to support these projects.  I have a proposal in the
works that will suggest that the Foundation will help pay for hackfests
that does not benefit GNOME the product (e.g. the desktop) but does benefit
GNOME the eco-system.  The idea is that in exchange for the money, that
everyone would participate in working in the lower levels of the stack and
not necessarily the design.  This is controversial because of using our
finances, but there are questions on whether this will dilute the brand.
But that is a separate discussion.

Nothing excites me more than seeing GNOME partner wtih more people and
organization, being diversified will help hopefully attract more adboard
members as well.  We live in interesting times, we have many projects that
have pick up the design the desktop as a product bug, and they have
choosen GNOME as the basis of it.  I think that is  fantastic.



sri

[1] See my blog post on West Coast Hackfest, the release notes for the last
GTK+ release, and Matthias's post on West Coast Hackfest



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Re: Question for candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 Thanks for run the board.
 This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go).
 GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit.

 My question to all of you:

 * What's your plan for Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia
 -- GNOME.Asia summit ?
  Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?(  I saw
 it last GUADEC but not start to use)
  Other idea?


Growth in Asia has been a bit of a puzzle for me.  But let's think
strategically on how we could promote and grow in asia.  Now, I think
there are a couple of things that we can do in terms of promotion.
Let's first talk about Tizen.  Tizen stack is the basis of the mobile
phone stack which interestingly enough contains many pieces of GNOME
technologies.  So by extension people who use Tizen use GNOME
technologies and there is a wealth of companies specifically in Asia
that are using Tizen for IVI, Mobile, and IOT.  There is probably some
fundraising opportunities there and a way to get our name out.

How about partnering with Asian based distros and make sure that we
have a specific asian experience on GNOME?  Recruiting folks who might
be interesting to do this?

Most of these ideas require a stable platform to do volunteer
recruitiment.  So while they maybe good ideas, you need to make sure
that we put in an infrastrucutre in place that immediately makes them
useful.



 -- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women
  What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia?

Should there be a plan?  We should take applicants who are interesterd
regardless of race, creed, or color.  In general, we seem to have good
representation from Asia in tehse programs.

  How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote
 it with more country in Asia?

I think the same thing applies as above.  Now, if you're talking about
highlighting the program in Asia, the best place to start is to put
posters in universities or popular cultural events.  For instance, in
SXSW, we put a lot of posters out there talking about teh next round
of OPW.  We even had some responses of that.  Having presentations
from GNOME OPW students in Asia is another good way to do this.  At
Linuxcon, there are a number of OPW kernel who are doing BOF and
presentation and they are coming as a group to talk about the work
tehy are doing.  We did something similar at GUADEC last year, but we
should really expand that to other areas.

While tech conferences and universities are a good place, don't be
afraid to go to places that are unusual.  Open air markets for
instance might be interesting.  Pay a kid to walk around handling
fliers to out to people outside a store? Or maybe do it yourself.



 -- GNOME Foundation member in Asia?
  How do we know our other member in Asia?( I suggest tobi last year, if
 they want to fill their country when foundation member renew or new )
  How do we get these member / resource together?


This isn't something the board itself can solve.  This is really
something that you want the engagement team to be working on.  The
board can help fund, and provide logistical support.  But ultimately,
we want to get enthusiastic people recruit others.  Sometimes that is
really easy.  For instance, I knwo at least two people we brougiht
into the foundation simply because we noticed that they were
doingpro-bono support on #gnome.  Sending them a t-shirt and
sponsoring their inclusion into GNOME Foundation is a great way to
reward people like them.


 -- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve?


I would love to be involved, but my opportunities to travel is quite
small due to job constraints and time constraints.  But I would love
to help logistically if I can.  In fact, I encouraged at least one
person in the foundation to help GNOME Asia with the conference
logistics as an event planner.


Max, it's unfortunate you did not run for the board this year.  I hope
you or Emily Chen will consider running next year.
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Re: Question for candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Full disclosure - I wrok for Intel as the Tizen SCM architect.  Since
I brought up Tizen, I wanted to make it known that there is a
relationship.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
 On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 Thanks for run the board.
 This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go).
 GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit.

 My question to all of you:

 * What's your plan for Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia
 -- GNOME.Asia summit ?
  Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?(  I saw
 it last GUADEC but not start to use)
  Other idea?


 Growth in Asia has been a bit of a puzzle for me.  But let's think
 strategically on how we could promote and grow in asia.  Now, I think
 there are a couple of things that we can do in terms of promotion.
 Let's first talk about Tizen.  Tizen stack is the basis of the mobile
 phone stack which interestingly enough contains many pieces of GNOME
 technologies.  So by extension people who use Tizen use GNOME
 technologies and there is a wealth of companies specifically in Asia
 that are using Tizen for IVI, Mobile, and IOT.  There is probably some
 fundraising opportunities there and a way to get our name out.

 How about partnering with Asian based distros and make sure that we
 have a specific asian experience on GNOME?  Recruiting folks who might
 be interesting to do this?

 Most of these ideas require a stable platform to do volunteer
 recruitiment.  So while they maybe good ideas, you need to make sure
 that we put in an infrastrucutre in place that immediately makes them
 useful.



 -- Google Summer of code / Outreach Program for Women
  What's your plan for GsoC and OPW in Asia?

 Should there be a plan?  We should take applicants who are interesterd
 regardless of race, creed, or color.  In general, we seem to have good
 representation from Asia in tehse programs.

  How many country get GsoC / OPW in Asia? What's your plan for promote
 it with more country in Asia?

 I think the same thing applies as above.  Now, if you're talking about
 highlighting the program in Asia, the best place to start is to put
 posters in universities or popular cultural events.  For instance, in
 SXSW, we put a lot of posters out there talking about teh next round
 of OPW.  We even had some responses of that.  Having presentations
 from GNOME OPW students in Asia is another good way to do this.  At
 Linuxcon, there are a number of OPW kernel who are doing BOF and
 presentation and they are coming as a group to talk about the work
 tehy are doing.  We did something similar at GUADEC last year, but we
 should really expand that to other areas.

 While tech conferences and universities are a good place, don't be
 afraid to go to places that are unusual.  Open air markets for
 instance might be interesting.  Pay a kid to walk around handling
 fliers to out to people outside a store? Or maybe do it yourself.



 -- GNOME Foundation member in Asia?
  How do we know our other member in Asia?( I suggest tobi last year, if
 they want to fill their country when foundation member renew or new )
  How do we get these member / resource together?


 This isn't something the board itself can solve.  This is really
 something that you want the engagement team to be working on.  The
 board can help fund, and provide logistical support.  But ultimately,
 we want to get enthusiastic people recruit others.  Sometimes that is
 really easy.  For instance, I knwo at least two people we brougiht
 into the foundation simply because we noticed that they were
 doingpro-bono support on #gnome.  Sending them a t-shirt and
 sponsoring their inclusion into GNOME Foundation is a great way to
 reward people like them.


 -- Are you interesting to involve Asia event? and how do you involve?


 I would love to be involved, but my opportunities to travel is quite
 small due to job constraints and time constraints.  But I would love
 to help logistically if I can.  In fact, I encouraged at least one
 person in the foundation to help GNOME Asia with the conference
 logistics as an event planner.


 Max, it's unfortunate you did not run for the board this year.  I hope
 you or Emily Chen will consider running next year.
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Re: Question for candidates

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I would like to ask below questions to future board:

 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your
 plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ?

I've read some of the responses of the other candidates, and I would
say that I largely agree that having diversified group both local and
corporate is a good starting point.  But for that we need to create
relationships with these companies.  Our advisory board mainly
consists of tech giants like Google who support Free Software.  But it
would be interesting to use our existing set of regional mailing lists
to brainstorm ways to talk with local companies.  For instance, we
have very few companies that are purely European, Latin American or
Indian.  Why is that?  Those are good questions to ask.  Who are using
our stack?  Did you know?  If you use DBus, you're using our stack?
GLib is a dependency.  Start with that conversation to the companies
you talk with at a local conference.

Max alluded to this question a bit but he focused purely on activity
in Asia.  But that answer needs to be answered globally.   The plan
really rests on having a competent Executive Director who can make
cogent arguments to propspective donors.  Let me give you an example,
go through all the projects on http://01.org/, how many of those
projects depend on DBus? Gstreamer?  How many blu-ray players depend
on libxml2?  Have you ever looked at the packaging of various common
consumer devices like your SmartTV?  Read the licenses?  Identify any
of the libraries?  Free Software is ubquitous.  Every large company
has some kind of plan for Free Software/Open Source, some of them have
a community manager.


 2. What is the top 3 goals for GNOME Foundation in the next year, in your
 opinion ?

I think getting our finances in order is a good start.  Secondly, I
really like to continue working on volunteer capture.  Volunteers are
the lifeblood of an open source project, and we want to be able to get
diversified set of talents.  Not necessarily talking about coders, but
people who have background in marketing, technical writing, video
editing, and so forth.  If you didn't have people like Bastian
Hougaard, you wouldn't have that awesome release video for GNOME 3.12.
 Those people don't come easily.  Finally, we really do need to find a
good Executive Director, one is saavy and can build the financial net
to fund these important initiatives.


 3. How to raise and increase the fund for GNOME Foundation ?

I think I answered this above.  Increasing our value to our current
adboard members, by showing improvement on the stack, show how we are
improving the Linux (the kernel) eco-system are examples that I think
will resonate with our adboard member.  Obviously, we will need to
find new sources of income, and that could be micro-payment system.
For instance, if a bug is fixed on bugzilla, then a donation button
could be presented so that money can go back into the foundation.
Continue working on getting specific fundraising like we've done for
privacy.  These are all good ways to get revenue.  Finally, build the
best damn desktop out there.  Money will come if we are successful in
our endeavor.


 4. How many hours you work in GNOME Board related work each week?


I generally work about 5-7 hours a week on GNOME Foundation.  It's
been fluctuating lately because Ive been putting efforts in
engagement and the qa team.

sri

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Re: Upcoming deadline - candidates please answer the question from the foundation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Yes, sorry, it's been a little busy with personal projects at home, so
I haven't had as much time to answer.  I've been working on answering
them as I go. :)

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote:
 We're five days away from voting opening.
 While some candidates have been very active in answering questions from the
 foundation, other are falling behind. I will be unable to vote for you if I
 have no idea where you're standing.

 In addition to that, board-list is a high traffic list so keeping up with
 these questions is a good test drive for candidates :)

 Thank you for taking the time!
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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote:
 On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil anish.develo...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is
  fund
  raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for
  events/hackfests
  but unfortunately that did not go that well.


 In Bangalore, we have four GNOMEies as I know of (Arun Raghavan, Aruna S,
 Srinivasa
 Ragavan and myself). Aruna is involved and is an active FMSK person. FSMK is
 very
 keen on bringing FOSS to students and Bangalore people. Though each of us
 have our own time commitments to take care of, the planned talk/hackfest
 at FSMK did not go through. Anish, would you be interested in picking this
 up
 from where it was left off?



I randomly joined the gnome.in list last week, mostly because I was
working on an article regarding hackfests and saw that you were
organizing it, there was a lot of traffic on the mailing list last
year, but then nothing since.  I was planning on posting just to
invigorate the list to see if we could bring some discussion back as I
was somewhat interested in seeing what happened?

I have a events planner if you need help. :-)  Just ask!

sri
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Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Affiliation: Intel Corporation

I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation.  I
plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME
Foundation and to external.  There is still many things to do in order
to make our platform and desktop attractive to everyone and I wish to
continue talking about our story.  I can continue to be effective in
leveraging what I've learned as Director as well as the extensive set
of contacts I have as part of my day job and the open source project I
am involved there as well.

During my tenure as Director, I have organized a hackfest, help start
a QA team, and worked to get many people involved in GNOME as
contributors. Long hours and days were spend engaging the Free and
Open Source community.  I find myself continuing to be energized in
being part of this organization of which I am proud of.  I ask for
your vote and confidence to continue working on the board.

Thank you!
sri
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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
zeesha...@gnome.org wrote:


 If the board is going to make a policy change, then please bring it into
 working *first* and then entertain cases that occur after it not before.
 Otherwise it's just plain unfair.

 Since visa process is not in the hands of the board, I think any help
 that board offers is a big favour so IMO what is unfair here is for
 you to complain for not getting a favour while another person did. I'm
 a bit sad to hear this from an ex-OPW participant as OPW is itself an
 unfair[1] advantage and you were one of the people to get that. If it
 makes you feel better, Diego will not get that favour.

This has nothing to do with OPW.  Please stop bringing OPW into this
conversation.

Zeeshan, what Sindhu expects is consistency.  It would have halped her
and anyone else if they applied and failed to get a visa.  That is not
unreasonable, and she has the right to express her frustration.  She
has a general frustration over how GF has been handling refunds in
general and I think this is part of it.

sri
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Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote:

 The difference between your situation and Diego is that Diego isn't going
 anywhere and is out of money.

 I honestly *needed* 130 USD on the upcoming berlin hackfest but I was told
 the sponsorship is to *help* and not to cover everything. I had to borrow it
 from someone and now I in debt. Is my reason not good enough for a 130 USD
 more?

Sorry, I didn't know your situation.


  The second difference is that Diego only applied for the visa because I
 asked him to come to the west coast hackfest.  So it wasn't even his idea or
 his initiative but mine.  That's why it was looked at as a special case.

 I did *not* apply to come to Docs Hackfest, Kat told me to. She was my
 mentor then. I then applied for sponsorship after she instructed me to do
 so. I was contributing to GNOME 2 months then, I had no idea about sponsored
 events.  Why wasn't I special case?

I don't know.  I didn't know your situation, I only what progression
of events with mine.  I felt strongly about it and if board had not
approved the expenses I was willing to do it out of my own pocket. My
other argument for the board was Diego was a long time contributor who
had put a lot of time into GNOME sometimes at the expense of school,
also a former board member, and a number of other positions.

I think your situation is similar although for different reasons.  I
will ask the board on whether we can retroactively look at your visa
processing situation.  It depends on how many of those want it and
what money we have and so forth.


 All I ask of the board is not to bend rules. Whatever revision on the
 reimbursement policy, please bring it in force *first* and then entertain
 cases that occur once the policy is in working, not before. It is unfair to
 me and to everyone who lost money due to visa rejections.

You make a good point and in our next board meeting I'll bring this up.

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Re: Is there GNU/Linux distribution which includes always latest gnome 3

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote:
 Le mercredi 02 avril 2014 à 16:02 -0400, Richard Stallman a écrit :
 [[[ 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. ]]]

 This mean, there is an ArchLinux system, which is a GNU/Linux
 system, not only Linux system, but the name is still ArchLinux.

 Their distro is a version of the GNU/Linux system.  By calling their
 distro ArchLinux, they are (in effect) changing the name of our
 system, calling it Linux.

 So they have no right to complain if we correct their error
 and call their distro Arch GNU/Linux.


 By the way, there also an Arch Hurd distro[1] as well as a Debian
 GNU/kFreeBSD version.

That would be Arch GNU I suppose?

sri


 [1] http://www.archhurd.org/


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Re: OpenSSL's Heartbleed security bug status report

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On Apr 8, 2014 3:09 PM, Mathieu Duponchelle mduponchel...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Good to see you react so fast, thanks for the work!



Indeed!  Thanks Andrea!
 On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

 On Wed, 09 Apr 2014, Andrea Veri wrote:

  Have an awesome day everyone and please mail support AT gnome DOT
  org in case of problems.

 Issues like (Error code: sec_error_ocsp_unknown_cert) on Firefox
 should be fixed within 24 hours from now, our CA has a delay
 between 1 to 24 hours before the new certificates being acked as
 valid.

 You can temporary bypass this issue by disabling the OCSP check on
 your Firefox's preferences.

 --

 Cheers,

 Andrea

 Debian Developer,
 Fedora / EPEL packager,
 GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
 GNOME Foundation Membership  Elections Committee Chairman

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Re: Agenda for board meeting March 24th

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

FYI tuesday isa March 25th. :-)  Either that, I'm in big trouble!


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote:
 The next board meeting is this Tuesday the 24th of March at 16:00 UTC

 * Outstanding reimbursements
  * Improve the cumbersome workflow
* After a positive response from Rosanna about travel reimbursement wiki
 page, created one for general reimbursements at
 https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Reimbursements
 * Upcoming events
  * GUADEC 2014
 * Waiting on a legal entity in France to transfer leftover money from
 GUADEC 2013
  * GNOME.Asia
   * FUDcon happening at the same time
 * Privacy guide for GNOME
  * We need a guide for developers on how to treat user privacy
  * Potential future issue
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/software/version2/wire-os-registration.png

 Let us know if you have any feedback!
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Re: internal engagement

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Fabiana Simões
fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote:
 Quite honestly, I never expected broader discussions about the project
 to take place in this list. I believe those should welcome anyone
 interested, and not only Foundation members.


Ah I see, so people feel this is primarily a way for members to talk
to the board and vice versa.

 To a large extent, I always expected this to be an active
 communication channel between Foundation members and the board. The
 meeting notes and agenda are great, but they give very little insight
 about the milestones and major accomplishments we're hitting (and
 aiming to hit) as a Foundation.

Unfortunately, previous boards have many attempts to have IRC meetings
and it's been poorly attended.  So I'm not sure what would generate
interest in talking to the board?  What about status reports from the
other teams?

For instance, people may not know but we started a QA team around
gnome-continuous to increae the quality of our software.  Potentially,
we would centralize our testing to GNOME instead of each distro doing
the testing individually.  We could try to get the engagement team to
write these kind of things weekly?  For board matters, you already
have the minutes.


 To answer your question: I do care, but I know little about what the
 Board is doing or should be doing to initiate any discussions I find
 pertinent to this mailing list. It also strikes me that the Board
 never has anything to ask or communicate to us besides the elections
 announcements. I think more openness and dialogue would give us some
 food for thought, and seed discussions.

Well I can certainly start discussions.  But I worry that apathy has
set in on this list and I'm interested to know if that is the case.

I will do an experiment, I will talk about some of the things the
board is doing and if I see some positive feedback I will continue.
How do people feel about that?

sri


 On 1 March 2014 17:52, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
 Greetings, foundation members!

 This list has been pretty quiet and I'm wondering how best to talk
 about things going on in GNOME internally that would capture people's
 imagination.

 For the most part, we've been talking mostly about new members and
 welcoming them.

 But, I feel that we don't really talk much about the project here from
 a general perspective.  There is a lot going on, but this list doesn't
 really reflect the work going on within GNOME.

 So, let me ask all of you a question.  When you signed on as
 Foundation members, what kind of discussions or involvement did you
 hope to see?  What should the various team communicate with you?

 We've tried a lot of things to help communicate out ot the project,
 but it's been met mostly with silence and participation has been low
 with irc meetings that the board has come up with.  So something is
 going on.  Are you busy?  Do you not care?  What is your enthusiasm
 level?

 I'm being blunt because we should have a blunt conversation.  If you
 don't want to tell me on-list, you can tell me off list.  I think most
 of you know that I take a soft touch both internally and externally in
 GNOME.  You should not be afraid to tell me what you are feeling.

 The engagement team has spent a lot of time working on our external
 engagement, but I think it's time we focused on internal engagement.
 Organizational health so to speak.

 My goal is to have an engaged foundation.  I  want and need your
 active participation.

 If you have a hostile response, or something fairly controversial I
 would prefer that you email me off list, and I will summarize it on
 the list.  One thing I want to do is control the conversation without
 it going into the hinterlands.  We need to have effective
 communication.  Whatever we can't solve we will take it up at GUADEC
 as a BOF or as part of the general GUADEC meeting.  Whatever problems
 we have, we will solve it as one team. Together.  So use your
 judgement, as we are all adults.

 So, let's spend the weekend and casually talk about GNOME!!

 sri
 (speaking as an engagement team member, not board btw)
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internal engagement

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Greetings, foundation members!

This list has been pretty quiet and I'm wondering how best to talk
about things going on in GNOME internally that would capture people's
imagination.

For the most part, we've been talking mostly about new members and
welcoming them.

But, I feel that we don't really talk much about the project here from
a general perspective.  There is a lot going on, but this list doesn't
really reflect the work going on within GNOME.

So, let me ask all of you a question.  When you signed on as
Foundation members, what kind of discussions or involvement did you
hope to see?  What should the various team communicate with you?

We've tried a lot of things to help communicate out ot the project,
but it's been met mostly with silence and participation has been low
with irc meetings that the board has come up with.  So something is
going on.  Are you busy?  Do you not care?  What is your enthusiasm
level?

I'm being blunt because we should have a blunt conversation.  If you
don't want to tell me on-list, you can tell me off list.  I think most
of you know that I take a soft touch both internally and externally in
GNOME.  You should not be afraid to tell me what you are feeling.

The engagement team has spent a lot of time working on our external
engagement, but I think it's time we focused on internal engagement.
Organizational health so to speak.

My goal is to have an engaged foundation.  I  want and need your
active participation.

If you have a hostile response, or something fairly controversial I
would prefer that you email me off list, and I will summarize it on
the list.  One thing I want to do is control the conversation without
it going into the hinterlands.  We need to have effective
communication.  Whatever we can't solve we will take it up at GUADEC
as a BOF or as part of the general GUADEC meeting.  Whatever problems
we have, we will solve it as one team. Together.  So use your
judgement, as we are all adults.

So, let's spend the weekend and casually talk about GNOME!!

sri
(speaking as an engagement team member, not board btw)
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Fwd: Articles, updated list

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I'm looking for some fine volunteers to help us on writing our annual report!

sri


-- Forwarded message --
From: Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org
Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:09 PM
Subject: Articles, updated list
To: Engagement list engagement-l...@gnome.org


Hey,

Thanks so much for everyone who has already claimed an article :-).

Here's how it's going so far:

Assigned:
 * hashem and flavia: GSOC  OPW
 * sri: Hackfests
 * andreasn: 3.8 and 3.10 releases
 * alexgs: GNOME Foundation finances 2013
 * brett: GNOMEs goals for the future
(Thanks!)

Open (partial or full):
 * Bugzilla statistics
 * Conferences:
  * emily: GNOME.Asia
  * GUADEC
  * GNOME Summit
 * Privacy campaign,
  * jjmarin: Report on Accessibility achievements

Please feel free to join!

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Re: [Introducing Myself] Back to my very first passion and love

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote:
 Dear GNOME Foundation Members,

 My name is Ali and 'amjjawad' is the username I use with FOSS Communities. I
 am also well-known as Ali Linx which is my first name and my endless Love
 that changed my entire life, that is 'Linux'.

 First of all, it is a pleasure and an honor to be part of this great family.

Welcome!



 New chapter of my life has been written when I have joined Ubuntu GNOME. New
 and Small Community, was in need for QA Driver to help them for testing as
 they don't have one. What do you think has happened? someone with a massive
 experience with two years, 24/7, super active with Lubuntu who has just
 joined a new project which is trying to walk with the giants?

 I took a break. I thought about it. I realized that Ubuntu GNOME is in bad
 need to someone like me. Someone who could make a huge difference, not just
 with QA but almost everything.


Funny you should mention QA, as that seems to be on my mind and
several others as well.  I am in fact trying to coordinating creating
a  QA team.  We're in the midst of planning right now and trying to
figure out how to put things together.  If you're interested, please
let me know!


 And, that is nothing. You have my words, that is just the very beginning.

 As a tribute to my first passion (GNOME DE), I had to do something and
 decided to join GNOME Foundation. Thanks a lot for the Committee, I got
 approved as an official member.


Welcome to the Foundation, Ali!  So happy that you've decided to
return and be involved. :)

 I am going to put each and every single cell in my body and each and every
 bit of my energy to make Ubuntu GNOME one of the best Linux Distribution in
 the whole world. If I couldn't, then that is not a failure. I just found
 10,000 ways that didn't work. But, I am very sure 10,001 try will be
 successful, no doubt about that.

Sweet!  Love your passion! :)


Looking forward to seeing all the results of your work on Ubuntu GNOME!

Best wishes,
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Re: Self-introduction

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Welcome!  Glad you took the plunge, and I thank you for all your work
in making our Polish translations excellent in GNOME!

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Piotr Drąg piotrd...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm Piotr Drąg, and I'm proud to be accepted as a Foundation member.
 I've been contributing to GNOME Project for several years now as a
 translator into Polish language, and also the Polish translation team
 maintainer and a member of the Translation Project Coordination Team.
 I try to be active on many fronts of free software, but the GNOME
 community has been the most welcoming and wonderful so far! :)

 Looking forward to working with you even more,

 --
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 http://raven.fedorapeople.org/
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Re: Hello from a new member

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Hi Yosef!  Welcome to GNOME!  Thank you for all your work, and it is
great that you're helping out!  Welcome again!

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Yosef Or Boczko yosef...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey,

 Thank you for accepting me as a member.

 I am Yosef Or Boczko, 16 y.o resides in Kokhav Ya'akov, Israel.
 I have been using GNOME for two years (more or less, from 3.6).

 I am currently contributing to many of projects in GNOME, mainly
 many of small patches and a few more bigger.
 As a native Hebrew speaker (Written from right to left a.k.a RTL)
 I fixed lots of small RTL issues, but I have a more many to do ;-)
 In the last month I also contributing to the Hebrew Translation.

 I hope to continue contributing and to be a part of this awesome
 community.

 Regards,
 Yosef Or Boczko

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Re: FOSDEM 2014 participation

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Jan 20, 2014 1:56 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote:

 Hello everyone.

 If you intend to go to FOSDEM, please consider to
 add yourself to this list:
 https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014/Stand#attendees

 We still need some people who commit to help out at the stand.


I will add myself and sign up!

 I'm also looking for someone who is willing to moderate a (rather non
 technical) joint panel with KDE.
 If you feel comfortable asking snarky questions and dealing with an angry
mob in
 the audience, please contact me off list.


Gosh almost like you are begging me to do this!  As long as people realize
I might be snarky right back.   Besides,  I have my own talk that will have
a new angry mob :-)
 Thanks,
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Re: Happy to be a member of the gnome foundation

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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Mario Wenzel maw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 as a new member of the foundation you are, so says the welcome-email, highly
 encouraged to write to this mailing list in order to introduce yourself.

 I am 25 years old and studying computer science (master) at the Leipzig
 University of Applied Science (Germany). I fell in love with the
 gnome-concept when I first saw the drafts of the gnome-shell (esp. in
 connection with the Zeitgeist-project which I desperately want to be
 integrated in everything I do and own, automating my whole user experience).
 I've been using gnome religilously since then. After sending in some patches
 for gnome quadrapassel last year and having no one look over them, I
 stumbled into the role of quadrapassel maintainer. I am also triaging bugs
 for and releasing a few other games regularly (in tandem with the rest of
 the current games team).
 In the future I'd like to do much more gnome-related work. I have been
 working at a company that creates web-based software for a few well-paying
 advertising-analysts and I found I much prefer well paced releases having
 lots and lots of people using the code I've written than only a few people
 driving iteration cycles that are only a few weeks long. Coding for a better
 world, so to speak ;)

 In the remaining spare time, besides reading and watching YouTube, I am
 politically active in my community and part of the local blogosphere as well
 as consulting/helping out for our local Code Girls (grails girls but not
 only with grails).

 Looking forward to doing much needed handywork and maybe a little bit of
 innovation as well :)


Welcome, Mario!  So nice of you to share details about yousrelf!  If
you have any issues or looking for advice, feel free to contact me or
the engagement team!

sri

 Thanks for accepting me
 Mario

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Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
 [ 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.

 We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia
 page with accurate information.

 When someone does this, could she also please make sure it says free
 software or free/libre software, not open source?  And if it
 refers to the GNU/Linux system, it should not call the system Linux.


Sure.

 --
 Dr Richard Stallman
 President, Free Software Foundation
 51 Franklin St
 Boston MA 02110
 USA
 www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
 Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.

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Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org wrote:
 I hate to be a buzzkill, but as someone who used to be very active on
 Wikipedia (and a bit protective of it), I ask anyone associated with the
 GNOME Foundation editing articles related to GNOME or the Foundation to
 review Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI

 Thanks,


Actually this is why I was hoping to get someone other than the board
to do it due to conflict of interest.

It would be nice to have some outside entity take care of other parts
that doesn't pertain to the position. (e.g. historical stuff)

sri


 -- Jim


 On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've made a few preliminary edits and will try to get some more done
 tomorrow. But I/we will certainly keep such things in mind :) Are there
 other wikipedia pages we should should be keeping an eye or two out for?
 Emily On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me
 wrote:

 On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:

 [ 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. We're looking for someone to
 update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia page with accurate information. When
 someone does this, could she also please make sure it says free software
 or free/libre software, not open source? And if it refers to the
 GNU/Linux system, it should not call the system Linux.

 Sure.

 -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St
 Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree
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Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia
page with accurate information.  (eg current board of directors, the
list of companies on the advisory board and so forth)

Currently, the information is very stale.  Can someone volunteer?
Probably take you about 30 minutes tops. :-)

sri
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Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Tiffany Antopolski
tiffany.antopol...@gmail.com wrote:
 I could possibly give it a shot over the next couple of day.

 Tiffany Antopolski

That would be great!  There is actually a number of GNOME related
pages in wikipedia that would require we update as it is all stale.
Perhaps, we could identify them and perhaps pick a day and then get
them all updated all at once?

sri



 On 29 October 2013 15:58, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:

 We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia
 page with accurate information.  (eg current board of directors, the
 list of companies on the advisory board and so forth)

 Currently, the information is very stale.  Can someone volunteer?
 Probably take you about 30 minutes tops. :-)

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beginner tutorials in developer.gnome.org

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I was looking at the tutorials and it seems that the tutorials we
currently have are only tested against 3.6.  Meaning we do not test
them on a current release and then republish them under the new
release.  What can we do to ensure that the excellent work that Taryn
Fox has done continues to work on future versions of GNOME?


My second thing is that none of the tutorials show a proper GNOME 3
designed app.  For instance you'll note that core apps have a
particular look.  It would be nice to provide css and at least a shell
that will provide the same look as well.

If we are interested in doing this then we should set up a volunteer
project for people to update it.  Additionally, it's important that
when we do each release that we test the tutorials against the new
release.  This could possibly be part of OSTree testing maybe?  The
source code is fairly simple.

Some thoughts in making sure that people who are invested in the
platform or want to develop against the platform have the right
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Re: New Foundation members

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:
 Hi, 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.


Welcome folks!  Thanks for joining up and being part of our community.
 Some of the names of recognize others I look forward to interacting
with in the future.

If you have questions or anything feel free to mail foundation-list.
You can email me as well.

sri

 They are: *

 1. Patrick Uiterwijk (GNOME Infrastructure Team)

 2. Seán de Búrca (Coordinator of Irish localization team, active translator,
 bug triager and patch submitter)

 3. Lars Uebernickel (Glib, GTK+, gnome-settings-daemon's code contributions)

 4. Marta Maria Casetti (GTK developer documentation)

 5. Joshua Lock (gnome-control-center and Brasero contributor)

 6. Daniel Korostil (Coordinator of Ukranian Translations)

 7. ChangSeok Oh (webkitgtk+ contributor, GNOME Korea organizer)

 8. Stefano Facchini (baobab and gnome-system-monitor contributor)

 9. Parin Porecha (gtg, gtg-online contributor)

 10. Michael Gorse (at-spi contributor)

 11. Evgeny Bobkin (gnome-clockes contributor)

 In addition we also have a new Emeritus member:

 1.  Kaushal Kumar (Huge contributions as a Bugzilla triager and bug fixer)

 * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

 For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at
 membership-committee gnome org. (or me directly)

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Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Great job, guys!

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

 Status update:

 1. bugzilla and clipboard are back up again and the services were restored
 just fine.
 2. the manegement cards have been finally configured. (this allows us to
 reboot, power cycle, check the status of the hardware remotely)
 3. mysqld's replication has been configured and will be finalized in the
 next few hours.
 4. a bugzilla-backup node will be set up to avoid any downtime in the case
 vbox (the machine hosting bugzilla) will get in trouble.

 The GNOME Sysadmin team worked as much hard as it could to restore the
 services but most of all we would like to thank everyone for the usual
 patience and help you gave us reporting issues and contacting us when a
 problem occurred.

 Have an awesome day,


 2013/10/21 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org

 Hi,

 all the servers rebooted successfully except two machines (seems they are
 stuck at Rebooting machine) that are actually going to be power-cycled as
 soon as the on-site personnel will phisically reach the machines given that
 (unfortunately) the PDUs for the two machines appear to be non-responsive
 to our logins. (a ticket has been opened to have this fixed asap as well)

 The machines affected are:

 1. bugzilla
 2. clipboard (ns-master.gnome.org and ldap.gnome.org, all the DNS
 requests are currently being served by our slave while SSSD is luckily
 caching all the logins to git.gnome.org, you might be experiecing slow
 git pushes though given sssd tries to ping ldap.gnome.org anyway)

 We'll be making sure that the machines will be power cycled as soon as
 possible to restore all the services.

 Thanks for your patience and as always keep an eye on [1].

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


 2013/10/16 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org

 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,

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


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 Cheers,

 Andrea

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 Fedora / EPEL packager,
 GNOME Sysadmin,
 GNOME Foundation Membership  Elections Committee Chairman

 Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av




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 Andrea

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 Fedora / EPEL packager,
 GNOME Sysadmin,
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 Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av




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Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Thanks for the status, Andrea.  Much appreciated.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:
 Hi,

 all the servers rebooted successfully except two machines (seems they are
 stuck at Rebooting machine) that are actually going to be power-cycled as
 soon as the on-site personnel will phisically reach the machines given that
 (unfortunately) the PDUs for the two machines appear to be non-responsive to
 our logins. (a ticket has been opened to have this fixed asap as well)

 The machines affected are:

 1. bugzilla
 2. clipboard (ns-master.gnome.org and ldap.gnome.org, all the DNS requests
 are currently being served by our slave while SSSD is luckily caching all
 the logins to git.gnome.org, you might be experiecing slow git pushes though
 given sssd tries to ping ldap.gnome.org anyway)

 We'll be making sure that the machines will be power cycled as soon as
 possible to restore all the services.

 Thanks for your patience and as always keep an eye on [1].

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


 2013/10/16 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org

 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,

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


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 Andrea

 Debian Developer,
 Fedora / EPEL packager,
 GNOME Sysadmin,
 GNOME Foundation Membership  Elections Committee Chairman

 Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av




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Re: [worldof]gnome forums

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller
cscha...@linuxrising.org wrote:
 Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it
 would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up.


Probably a lack of active volunteers.  I didn't remember it being this
bad.  It can work if we get a large enough volunteer pool who are
willing ot do spam filtering and also a better infrastructure.

It isn't worth putting the effort unless we can at least get a minimal
of 5-6 volunteers to manage the forums.

sri


 On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote:

 The worldofgnome.org's domain was renewed a few minutes ago and it should
 be live again soon.

 cheers,


 2013/10/15 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org

 I was suggested to give [1] a try and honestly speaking it really looks
 like a good alternative to the current forums at worldofgnome.org with a big
 plus: the platform will be maintained by the GNOME Sysadmin Team and
 possibly by a team of moderators.

 As a note seems the worldofgnome.org's domain wasn't renewed in time and
 the website went down, I'll try and poke Alex about that asap.

 cheers,

 [1] http://www.discourse.org/


 2013/10/14 Christian Persch c...@gnome.org

 Hi;

 we seem to promote forums.worldofgnome.org as our (semi?)official
 forums: we link to it from the homepage of https://wiki.gnome.org/ under
 'Communication', and also, more importantly, allow it to use the GNOME
 logo.

 However, those forums are overrun with spam:

 - *All* of the 'popular tags' (as seen on the right hand sidebar on the
   forums) are spam words.

 - Looking at the list of all 'discussions' at
   http://forums.worldofgnome.org/discussions shows that the content
   itself is all spam, as well.

 So those forums are of no use to our users. Therefore, I think
 we should remove the link from wiki.g.o to the forums, and we should
 rethink their authorisation to use the GNOME logo.

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Re: Status of reports

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Oliver,

I believe there is still interest.  We completed the 2012 Annual
report and it was passed out at GUADEC.  Some folks from the
engagement team and others help put in the work on 2012.  I don't know
if we can pull together something for 4th quarter which is what I
think we have time for given the amount of time we spent on the 2012
annual report.

What do others think?

sri


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,
 What are the status of the annual and quarterly reports that the GNOME
 foundation was producing?
 Have they been discontinued because of lack of interest/time from
 those who was producing them?
 If we want to have a 2013 annual report is not about time to start
 working on it?
 Maybe a wider dissection about the relevance/importance of the reports
 are needed.


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Re: Agenda for board meeting September 17th

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

I think we should also discuss the Friends of GNOME donation situation
which I believe we had discussed at the F2F.  If I recall, we do not have a
good way to track contributions with our current provider and we really
should think about alternatives or find some alternatives.

sri


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote:

 Hello everyone!

 The next board meeting is this Tuesday the 17th of September at 16:00 UTC

 * Implement a Foundation employee policy for COLA (Cost of Living
 Adjustment)
  * At the face to face board meeting we discussed having employee salaries
 increase when inflation increases, as other comparable nonprofits do.
  * 
 http://data.bls.gov/**timeseries/CWURSA0?output_**view=pct_12mthshttp://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CWURSA0?output_view=pct_12mths

 * Adopting a photography policy for GNOME events.
  * Ongoing action, see last meeting minutes

 * Montreal Summit update
 * Scheduling an IRC Foundation meeting
  * waiting until after 3.10
 * Travel reimbursement time frame request form Michael Hill (see
 https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/private/board-list/**
 2013-September/msg00027.htmlhttps://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2013-September/msg00027.html)
  * Reimbursement should happen within a specified time period, for example
 2 weeks after receipts are sent in
  * How will this affect the new process for small events?
 * New travel sponsorship process for small events
  * Update for Montreal Summit
 * Womens Outreach Program
  * New round is coming up
  * General status update
  * It would be good to discuss some questions around the contracts for the
 mentors

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Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of September 3, 2013

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:

 Hi,

 On 09/12/2013 01:49 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
   * Spam for board-related lists
* Andrea suggested that the only way to reduce spam is to moderate the
 list
* Added new rules

 SpamAssassin integration with Mailman works wonders. I recently enabled
 it for some oVirt mailing lists, and our moderation queue has dropped to
 0. http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/

 This would allow you (with a corpus of ham  spam to train it) to keep
 the list unmoderated.


 Andrea was planning on using it but we have to do a little surgery after
teh spam has been removed.  So, there is some glue code we have to write.

sri


 Cheers,
 Dave.


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Re: New Foundation Member from Peru

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Sergio!  Welcome to the GNOME Foundation!  Have some coffee, write some
code, be excellent! :)


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Sergio Infante Montero 
raulserg...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello all

 A few days ago, I received a welcome message to GNOME Foundation as a
 new member in response to my application. I'm really happy for this
 approval, and I want to keep contributing to GNOME Projects.

 My full name is Sergio Infante Montero, I'm a web/mobile software
 developer and UX designer from Lima Peru, I used GNOME programs, since
 2007, and I do some contributions since 2008:

 - Bug Triagging
 - Patches
 - Bug Report
 - Translation of content
 - Speechs organization about GNOME
 - Participate of summits in Dia GNOME in Chile for 3 years.
 - Participate in users mailing list
 - Participated in GSOC 2010 with this project using Mallard:
 https://wiki.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010/SergioInfanteMontero_Mallard

 This year I have the personal purpose to contribute and improve the
 design  of web sites from GNOME Projects. I think it would be great

 Thank you guys for make a great software and projects for the world.


 Cheers from Lima


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