Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: [/me removes board hat] I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members. If we make that change we would be able to discuss matters freely without making lots of news that more often than not are harmful to our image to the world in general. Please sign here: http://live.gnome.org/PrivateFoundationListPetition We would need 35 to 40 signatures to put this to vote. This isn't the way to go. Trolls will be everywhere and, discussions will float on to news sites. For example, I see that happen for Fedora far often. Taking the discussions into a -private might stop news from percolating via journalistic sources, but get out it will. Keeping the discussions open and transparent might actually help emphasizing the ethos of transparency that GNOME has. Watching two or three folks take a discussion totally off-track is nothing new. It happens all the time. A -private, I feel, isn't the solution. Please don't do this. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: I don't believe Frederic was pointing at Miguel. There are people who have left the Gnome community working on products that don't use any Gnome technology posting blog post/ads for said product on PGO. I wonder whether these products are free software. If not, they certainly shouldn't promote them on Planet GNOME. I think we are mashing together a bunch of issues. So, in effect, are we looking for: [0] a way to measure what could be appropriate content for Planet GNOME [1] a way to prevent non-free or equivalent software being marketed via the Planet [2] a way to handle the consequences if there is either inappropriate content [3] a way to handle the consequences if there is a pitch for software that is orthogonal to GNOME values I can certainly agree to the need to have a Code of Conduct, communities have one, either implicit or, explicit. But, unless there is a clearly delineated process to handle the exceptions, a Code of Conduct is just a document. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
2009/12/8 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin pierre-...@pierlux.com: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 03:23 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: But I find it interesting to know, say, what Miguel is up to these days. I don't think it's just me... I don't believe Frederic was pointing at Miguel. There are people who have left the Gnome community working on products that don't use any Gnome technology posting blog post/ads for said product on PGO. [0] Unless specific names are pointed out to the Board or, on this list, the shadow boxing will be more harmful [1] How does one define that they have left the GNOME community ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 12/09/2009 01:37 AM, Sankar P wrote: Say, any viewer of p.g.o can vote a post +1 or -1. Then we can gather two metrics per poster: 1) how impactful his/her posts are (avg / median / max number of votes). 2) how interested are readers in his/her posts (avg / median / min/max score. We can then have threshold to hide / collapse unpopular posts. That part can even be done using JavaScript and you can the threshold on the page and more posts will collapse/uncollapse... Really ? Most people read posts in Google reader (offline) and may not even be interested to vote for every author. No one *has* to vote. And we can have different feeds for different thresholds. Coming back to the starting point - what is the problem to which the solution is being discussed ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Coming back to the starting point - what is the problem to which the solution is being discussed ? Read the thread? I have been following the thread since the inception. The intent of the (rhetorical ?) question was to bring forth the fact that we are discussing solutions of myriad variety without looking at whether it can be solved non-programmatically. Hence, the question. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Presenting the 2009 Q2 GNOME Quarterly Report
Hi, 2009/9/11 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: This is our first quarterly report[1]. Please let us know if you find it useful! In these quarterly reports we want to focus on what the GNOME Foundation and its members are doing, so most of the reporting is done by the teams doing the work. (If you would like to contribute an update in the future, please let me know.) For example, in the quarterly report, you can learn how: This is incredibly useful - a big thank you to all those involved in the production of the report. Is it possible to include a section that deals with what is coming up in the next quarter (in the perspective of plans) ? I also note that the Translations Project did not have a segment for themselves. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Advisory Board Member Interviews
2009/8/13 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org: Thank you for the extremely well laid out and detail of the note. [snip] * Qt is seen as having better API documentation because Trolltech has documentation writers. I believe that the above sentiment has been coming up for a considerable number of times in the past, are there ways to start a discussion to progress towards having better documentation and, more importantly, some improved stability ? [snip] GNOME on a stick. Sugar on a stick has been very successful. Should consider GNOME on a stick - would also enable people to experiment more without feeling like they were changing all of GNOME. SoaS did have a somewhat more elevated aim than being a mere show off at an event way of doing things. Would GoaS be able to differentiate itself from the GNOME LiveMedia (Foresight based) that is available during post-release (and, which are extremely good to have) ? [snip] Mentioned an article by J5 that talked about that RH, Novell and others are less involved because of the maintenance burden.They spend time on money on things like translations. No process to get them upstream and so they do it all over again next year. I am a bit curious to know more about the context of the comment above. Which translations, which projects and, specific examples of non-upstream(ing). To the best of my knowledge, translations (at least the Indic ones) are upstream and, have been consistently maintained adhering to the best traditions of community-driven translations which are part of GTP. I can either check the cia.vc bot or, the l10n.gnome.org site to confirm this but I am sure that anyone from the GTP team would be able to do that more nicely as well. ~sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
[taking foundation-announce out of the cc: fields] On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Srinivasa Ragavansraga...@gnome.org wrote: [snippet] The main, and most important, reason for not wanting to co-locate next year is because the GNOME community needs to focus on GNOME 3.0, and next year's GUADEC will be the most sensible place to plan and do whatever finishing work needs to be done. While we support doing co-located conferences in the future, next year simply doesn't make the most sense to do this again. We need to make sure our focus is on making GNOME 3.0 a finished product and co-locating would likely be a distraction to this goal. There were few more points like preserving GUADEC and Academy as one of main conferences for GNOME and KDE respectively. We co located this year and if we do next year also, the message could be a bit different. It was a hard decision because, there is real interest in making KDE and GNOME work well together. While this is also an important goal, but we don't need to co-locate every year for this. We might have hackfests together with KDE/GNOME in the future. Would it be then appropriate to conclude that in-spite of the really positive blogs|reports from the GCDS, the underlying feeling is not conducive towards co-location ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Sent from Raleigh, NC, United States ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, john palmierijohn.j5.palmi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipping out parts of an well thought out response] To sum it all up - fools rush in. We really need to take a step back and really try to understand what we wish to accomplish in another co-located event given the grand experiment of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Given that the polls were not overwhelmingly for or against (I would say they pointed to a more moderate, I had a good time so yay either way) we should look at the no for next year as a middle ground also. It allows us to discuss the pros and cons on the Foundation list without hamstringing efforts to organize next years conference (we really need to start organizing now). I would say it is very likely we will co-locate the following year and even organize smaller events sooner than later. If we want to do this right, we do it slowly and methodically. We don't rush in because of an air of urgency due to impatience. Thank you for the detail in your response. I would say that it does make it a bit more clear than the numbers from the survey (which make sense now). /s -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Last year, right after the candidates list closed, Bruno posted a list of 10 questions which, presumably, the committee came up with: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-November/msg00153.html There was no gathering filtering of questions, so if people had questions that the membership committee hadn't thought of, they felt like they hadn't had a chance to ask them. If memory serves right, the context of the questions have always been picked from the discussions off the planet and various GNOME lists. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the 27th of May. Would it be possible to have this process be public, for example on this mailing list or on Desktop Notes? Knowing what questions others want to ask (or seeing that no-one has asked the thing they're interested in yet) may jolt people into action. Fedora uses a wiki page for this, I believe, which seems like a good idea. Traditionally, the questions are collection from interested parties and, an individual from the Membership and Elections Committee posts it in public so as to allow the candidates to frame responses and, respond. A wiki page could form the basis of a collection, sorting, sifting and finalizing of questions I guess. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions
2009/5/26 BJörn Lindqvist bjou...@gmail.com: Last year (1.5 years to be exact) people just posted their questions to foundation-list and most (or all) candidates answered diligently and dutifully at length. Is a more complicated system needed this year? A wiki page on live.gnome.org should be a fine way to [i] collect the questions [ii] sift, select and collate them [iii] present a final set of questions for t -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Copyright assignment policy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected copyright | assignment? | | I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome | translation team. | | Up till now, the copyrights have been assigned to the Free Software Foundation, Inc. Allow me to ask a different question : what is the problem or anticipated problem that compels you to ask this question, given that until now FSF was being assigned copyrights ? Perhaps a response to that can also provide a guidance on to the reply ... I have heard this question on various l10n projects however, I do not recall anyone actually coming up with a solution or even a response to what is the problem we want to resolve ? Sorry for forking the thread though - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH2cy6XQZpNTcrCzMRAqotAJ9etMxrar0786UjrRiABG023Mb/tgCfa+1+ ZrC9L1krePxQBgoueGZonPo= =v5iu -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
A word of thanks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have been meaning to do this for a while. This is just a word of thanks to the Foundation Board for approving a tidy amount that came handy for swag in India. Right through foss.in to a smaller set of events in February (GNUnify, FOSSKriti, freed.in) had GNOME supporters. FOSSKriti was a bit of a success for the Beagle hackfest as well. Might be [OT] for this list, but thought that it is always good to share good news. ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzWGTXQZpNTcrCzMRAm2zAKCxG2shjRiJlc9M2DIKqkgrLUAlPQCfa0GP vJRnELm05m4Ka9zAlUa4384= =U1vH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Ga-nome or NOME
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ani Peter wrote: | I have heard a lot of people pronouncing GNOME as Ga-nome and I feel | Nome is the correct pronunciation. Some of the common pronunciations are: Gee-nome (where Gee rhymes with see) or Guh-nome (where Guh rhymes a bit with duh :P). http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=gnome has a pronunciation that's a rhyme with nome Could be a page on live.gnome.org :) - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHsoaMXQZpNTcrCzMRAh2jAJ982PdmKTRj3KMfqtiW2VIUtF5lPACgu2NL AsDQ4BkUhhSnAge+sh8sWRc= =vQ9L -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ and some more pictures thanks to Ramakrishna Reddy are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/gnomeprojectday/ :sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYQt6XQZpNTcrCzMRAo43AJ9EjJM5rfc2PtX6FjSPTDDBFv3rYQCgwPQd wXeB5bs+vNqcEM8tB/AkSjg= =/2fI -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Untz wrote: + local groups: if you want to organize events, invite someone to do a talk at an event, get some material (t-shirts, flyers, posters, etc.), it's always better to tell us about it while we're preparing the budget. If you're going to organize many events, send one request, but tell us where the money would be going. Eg, $500 to print t-shirts for the whole year, $50 for posters for event A and $60 for flyers for event B, and also $700 to get Quim to this fantastic event! You get the idea. This is the important bit for us in India. After the GNOME Project Day at foss.in (where we will be talking a bit about the Academy/Education bits) we expect to see requests for GNOME talks (and not merely evangelist kind talks) shoot up. A reasonably low cost way to ensure brand recall is swag and in this particular case being stickers, flyers and buttons. So, is this call for the budget allocations factoring in the GNOME developer trip sponsorship plus swag or just the latter ? :sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHN+qOXQZpNTcrCzMRAgFSAJ92WzxVtC5iywkG6y5+sKm4+YAexACfSP01 uHPCwKbTnlaultbSrmAhu10= =Y38i -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Who would be a good member? [Was: About the coming election]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: Above all else, I hope you vote for people you know and trust to represent what you value about GNOME. To put it in a clunky but simple way, if GNOME is People, vote for the people who are GNOME. That was what I guess I was getting at. Unless the circle of trust is cast wider each year, the set of people one knows and trusts would perhaps be static. In fact, I'd rather say (a personal opinion and not that of the Membership Committee) that a few of aspiring GNOME Foundation candidates (this year and coming year) might like to also get involved with the Membership Committee - that's a great place to get to know people and become aware what they are doing and who all are doing the cool things along side them There has to be a strong movement towards telling GNOME contributors that there's no magical halo that entitles them to a place on the Foundation other than the willingness to put in hours to make it a better place for all. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMX6TXQZpNTcrCzMRAoaLAJ42rlz/c7ryS1XiXU5JPL9Q8Y2bmQCgvvAI cVPE3HjythHavTX6BZPHHPM= =TMXr -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: noooxml petition
Anne Østergaard wrote: I read about the proces here: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/ Where is the transparency and the possibility for everyone to influence the decision in a fair ISO process? Some more thoughts on this from Venkatesh Hariharan at : http://osindia.blogspot.com/2007/08/memo-to-microsoft-stop-wasting-our-time.html especially the part I checked with the IT ministry in Pakistan and brought to their attention that Pakistan is now a P member of ISO which entitles it to vote on OOXML. This was news to them as they were not consulted on the OOXML issue. :Sankarshan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
[Fwd: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Cross posted to both foundation and gnome hackers lists] Hi, Quoted below in entire form is a mail from the gnome-in list about a proposed GNOME Project Day at foss.in. The details about the event of course should be available from foss.in. This mail is (for lack of other alternative) to ask if GNOME contributors from outside of India would be interested in being part of GNOME Project Day. And of course an effort to have more folks looking into the proposal. If you feel that this is not the list to discuss this (I sort of have a feeling that way too), please do address your responses to the gnome-in-list. Regards Sankarshan - Original Message Subject: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:58:50 +0530 From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Advocacy, chit-chat and event planning in India [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Advocacy, chit-chat and event planning in India [EMAIL PROTECTED] ToDo + Date of the proposed day + Proposer for the Project Day proposal + Gather speakers GNOME PROJECT DAY at foss.in Pre-requisites to participate: Interest in getting involved and contributing to GNOME. The project day is proposed to achieve the following: o getting together the largest possible number of GNOME contributors from India o demonstration of what they are working on etc o BoF session for GNOME Women in India Thus, familiarity with the GNOME roadmap, i18n and l10n, documentation, bug triaging would be good to have. Audience: application developers, extension developers, open-source evangelists enthusiasts, localizers Theme of the day: FIXME + Opening remarks by a GNOME contributor to set the tone for the day - small pitch about GNOME Marketing in India + GSoC time (GSoC participants get to talk about their work) + Contribute to GNOME - l10n (translation/review sprint ?) - i18n - documentation - bug triaging - applications that need love + GNOME and a11y + GNOME Women BoF + GNOME Online Desktop (?) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGz7deXQZpNTcrCzMRAnp0AKC0h5QMM9/FdL5JrbJKY0Acr2O5BACfa3vn JMeTg0NiHQ97qvDgDOk0D2A= =8YeC -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Neary wrote: But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will exclude anything outside North America and Europe. Or, in short unless a conference outside NA or EU reimburses travel expenses for attendees/speakers a Regional GNOME Conference or a GUADAC with developer participation from NA or EU is effectively ruled out. Hmm...kind of puts regional organisers between rock(s) and hard place(s) since it will raise the sponsorship and attendance fees in order to ensure crowd attendance and also meet the objective of herding the cats etc etc :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAlPtXQZpNTcrCzMRAm14AJ4s2/aX3ckW38TrR6TGO9h//zSQZQCfSpTu 6MR2KNmdAsDDlayBi8cyhAs= =n4SB -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Østergaard wrote: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAgUgXQZpNTcrCzMRAiSpAJ9xk0fSv+cjrYjXMdNAQUMe7X+DVgCggLwA u1BMR2UYThx1RnYeSh7V6Bs= =hCGB -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)
Hi, The list of candidates for the elections are available here: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2006/candidates.html With this mail, one hopes to start off the series of discussions amongst the candidates in the fray for the Board. The underlying vein in the series of questions is that they are *not* technology (ie hacker/developer) centric. The Board does not directly get involved in the technicalities, the bunch of questions are more board-related. In the spirit of the 2003 mail from Telsa Gwynne the questions are mostly positive in nature. The first question is from Baris (via a discussion/chat on IRC) *** BEGIN QUESTIONS *** [1] What are your plans to answer the question put forward at the last GUADEC about Why should one become a member of the GNOME Foundation ? Would you be in a position to elaborate on your plans/projects to make membership more interesting for the GNOME Community ? [2] What do you think is the most important item on the Board's agenda right now ? What will you do more or better than the previous boards ? [3] How do you manage your time and that of others ? Are you good at working with others including those who might have a differing opinion than yours and try to reach consensus and agree on actions ? [4] How are you going to manage your current contributions to GNOME once you become a Board Member ? [5] What do you think is the most important market for GNOME over the coming year and what do you feel you can do to help GNOME achieve better presence ? [6] What are your plans to encourage and mentor contributions to GNOME from Latin America, Africa and Asia ? How would you increase community participation ? [7] What areas do you see lacking currently in a complete Free Software Desktop ? What would your role be (should you be elected) in addressing the issues ? [8] What are your planned activities to promote use of GNOME in small and medium business environments which potentially deliver many users to GNOME ? [9] What sources of funds do you as a Board Member (should you be elected) try to establish ? What areas do you think require most fund-love ? [10] Please rank your interests: * GNOME evangelizing to government, enterprise, small business and individual * GNOME marketing and merchandising of branded items (nationally and internationally) * GNOME legal issues like Copyright and Patents * GNOME finances and fund raising * Alliance with other organisations [11] How much familiar are you with the day-to-day happenings of GNOME ? How much do you follow and participate in the main GNOME mailing lists ? [12] Can you elaborate about your plans to provide the Board with a focus that steers development choices and works with allied organisations in order to define and adapt (and or adopt) standards ? *** END QUESTIONS *** Let the discussions begin ... Regards Sankarshan -- From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, From Darkness, Lead me towards the Light, From Death, Lead me to Life Eternal. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
