Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-06 Thread Allan Day
Stormy Peters spet...@mozilla.com wrote:
 Allan,

 I think you proposed it and got some feedback and general support. Sounds
 like a plan to me.

 Thanks for making this happen!

Cheers Stormy.

Here's a rough plan for the transition:

 1. Add gnome.org's feed to news.gnome.org [1]
 2. Ensure that everyone who needs to be able to post news on the
Foundation's behalf has access to gnome.org (just get in touch if you
need access!) [2]
 3. Add a post to the Foundation blog announcing the move
 4. Enjoy

I can write the post for the Foundation blog if no one else wants to
do it. I'll also ask our web gurus about the possibility of archiving
the Foundation posts on gnome.org.

Allan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665658
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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-06 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

On 12/06/2011 10:39 AM, Allan Day wrote:

Here's a rough plan for the transition:

  1. Add gnome.org's feed to news.gnome.org [1]
  2. Ensure that everyone who needs to be able to post news on the
Foundation's behalf has access to gnome.org (just get in touch if you
need access!) [2]
  3. Add a post to the Foundation blog announcing the move
  4. Enjoy


What would you think about copying foundation blog posts to gnome.org 
retroactively also? I don't know if Wordpress has an export/import posts 
option, but if it did, in addition to the we're moving announcement, 
that might provide consistency in the archives.


If it's not straightforward, it's not vital.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-05 Thread Allan Day
Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take
this forward?

Allan

2011/11/30 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org:
 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote:

 I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are 
 consciously
 not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and
 there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
 membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and 
 large,
 defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved in the
 GNOME project is fine.
 
 I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
 Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
 there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
 Foundation member.

 So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the
 value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people
 who said I don't want to be a foundation member.

 Things are changing on that side, we (Membership Committee) had
 several discussions and meetings with a few members of the Board about
 the guidelines and policies to adopt when renewing or accepting new
 Foundation members.

 If there is a problem, people should take it to foundation-list and
 discuss a possible solution, saying I don't want to be a Foundation
 member without a rationale or a motivation will definitely take us no
 where.

 During past elections (June 2011) we had some issues with the
 renewals notifications, someone mailed me saying there was a problem,
 the Committee had a meeting and everything is going great now or
 should I start talking about the criticisms we received about our
 application's form?

 The Foundation website is under a complete facelift and it'll go live
 really soon with a brand new application's page, more user-friendly
 with less fields and without the so-bad checkbox people out there
 hate so much.

 This is the way to solve problems and I will never stop saying
 that every GNOME hacker is *welcome* to join the Foundation, the way I
 see the GNOME Foundation is it being a big family, we should help each
 other and we should collaborate to make GNOME a better place for
 everyone.

 Fighting each other is *not* the way to go, please think about that.

 cheers,

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 2011-12-05 at 10:17, Allan Day wrote:
 Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take
 this forward?
 

personally, I have no issues whatsoever with the proposed move; on the
other hand, I have had no real interactions with the foundation's blog,
so I'm probably not the best one to ask. :-)

we can definitely put this on the agenda for the next board meeting, if
need be, but I think the matter can be easily resolved without it.

ciao,
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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-05 Thread Brian Cameron


Allan:

On 12/ 5/11 04:17 AM, Allan Day wrote:

Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take
this forward?


I very much like the idea of streamlining the way we get the word out,
so I think merging the new feed for gnome.org and the Foundation blog.

We could probably do other things to make the News more visible, like
make recent news more visible on the GNOME front page(s) for a period
of time.  I believe that one reason there is a Foundation blog is
because using it ensures that the news is visible on Planet.  It would
be ideal if we made sure that people on Planet saw the latest news,
though this could probably be done in other ways aside from having a
Foundation blog.  Perhaps, as I suggested earlier, we could just
integrate News into the Planet front page more tightly.

I am not sure what you are asking, though, when you ask how do we take
this forward.  Is there disagreement about how we should set this up,
or do we need help making the changes?  For example, do you think we
need to involve the sysadmin team?

Brian



2011/11/30 Andrea Veria...@gnome.org:

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote:


I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously
not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and
there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large,
defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved in the
GNOME project is fine.


I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
Foundation member.


So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the
value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people
who said I don't want to be a foundation member.


Things are changing on that side, we (Membership Committee) had
several discussions and meetings with a few members of the Board about
the guidelines and policies to adopt when renewing or accepting new
Foundation members.

If there is a problem, people should take it to foundation-list and
discuss a possible solution, saying I don't want to be a Foundation
member without a rationale or a motivation will definitely take us no
where.

During past elections (June 2011) we had some issues with the
renewals notifications, someone mailed me saying there was a problem,
the Committee had a meeting and everything is going great now or
should I start talking about the criticisms we received about our
application's form?

The Foundation website is under a complete facelift and it'll go live
really soon with a brand new application's page, more user-friendly
with less fields and without the so-bad checkbox people out there
hate so much.

This is the way to solve problems and I will never stop saying
that every GNOME hacker is *welcome* to join the Foundation, the way I
see the GNOME Foundation is it being a big family, we should help each
other and we should collaborate to make GNOME a better place for
everyone.

Fighting each other is *not* the way to go, please think about that.

cheers,

Andrea


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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-12-05 Thread Stormy Peters
Allan,

I think you proposed it and got some feedback and general support. Sounds
like a plan to me.

Thanks for making this happen!

Stormy

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.comwrote:


 Allan:


 On 12/ 5/11 04:17 AM, Allan Day wrote:

 Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take
 this forward?


 I very much like the idea of streamlining the way we get the word out,
 so I think merging the new feed for gnome.org and the Foundation blog.

 We could probably do other things to make the News more visible, like
 make recent news more visible on the GNOME front page(s) for a period
 of time.  I believe that one reason there is a Foundation blog is
 because using it ensures that the news is visible on Planet.  It would
 be ideal if we made sure that people on Planet saw the latest news,
 though this could probably be done in other ways aside from having a
 Foundation blog.  Perhaps, as I suggested earlier, we could just
 integrate News into the Planet front page more tightly.

 I am not sure what you are asking, though, when you ask how do we take
 this forward.  Is there disagreement about how we should set this up,
 or do we need help making the changes?  For example, do you think we
 need to involve the sysadmin team?

 Brian



  2011/11/30 Andrea Veria...@gnome.org:

 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote:

  I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are
 consciously
 not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers -
 and
 there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
 membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and
 large,
 defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved
 in the
 GNOME project is fine.


 I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
 Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
 there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
 Foundation member.


 So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the
 value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people
 who said I don't want to be a foundation member.


 Things are changing on that side, we (Membership Committee) had
 several discussions and meetings with a few members of the Board about
 the guidelines and policies to adopt when renewing or accepting new
 Foundation members.

 If there is a problem, people should take it to foundation-list and
 discuss a possible solution, saying I don't want to be a Foundation
 member without a rationale or a motivation will definitely take us no
 where.

 During past elections (June 2011) we had some issues with the
 renewals notifications, someone mailed me saying there was a problem,
 the Committee had a meeting and everything is going great now or
 should I start talking about the criticisms we received about our
 application's form?

 The Foundation website is under a complete facelift and it'll go live
 really soon with a brand new application's page, more user-friendly
 with less fields and without the so-bad checkbox people out there
 hate so much.

 This is the way to solve problems and I will never stop saying
 that every GNOME hacker is *welcome* to join the Foundation, the way I
 see the GNOME Foundation is it being a big family, we should help each
 other and we should collaborate to make GNOME a better place for
 everyone.

 Fighting each other is *not* the way to go, please think about that.

 cheers,

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Andreas Nilsson

On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote:

Hi all,

For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
gnome.org feed.

A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. Second, GNOME's
news feeds are currently in a rather poor state. They are highly
fragmented and are often dead or on life support.


I very much agree!
The foundation news on http://foundation.gnome.org/ are few and far in 
between and in a less visible place compared to the www.gnome.org 
frontpage and combining them would be a good move, since all the news 
currently on f.g.o would fit very well on w.g.o as well.

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Cutler
I strongly agree as well - having one centralized new source will help
people understand what's going on and not miss anything.  Having new
and timely news is the best way to get repeat visitors and engagement
and this is a great step towards that.

--Paul

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote:
 On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote:

 Hi all,

 For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
 Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
 gnome.org feed.

 A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
 where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
 GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
 shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
 GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. Second, GNOME's
 news feeds are currently in a rather poor state. They are highly
 fragmented and are often dead or on life support.

 I very much agree!
 The foundation news on http://foundation.gnome.org/ are few and far in
 between and in a less visible place compared to the www.gnome.org frontpage
 and combining them would be a good move, since all the news currently on
 f.g.o would fit very well on w.g.o as well.
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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote:

For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
gnome.org feed.


I definitely think that moving to a unique GNOME News feed  news page 
is a great idea.


I wonder: how will this structure allow the evolution of handling news 
for GNOME? Is there a way to submit a story or contact the editors? How 
does one become an editor?


And, just to be clear, when you talk about the gnome.org news feed, 
you're talking about http://gnome.org/news (the wordpress blog) and not 
http://news.gnome.org (the Planet aggregator), yes?



A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity.


I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are 
consciously not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME 
hackers - and there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw 
the line for membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I 
think by and large, defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as 
people involved in the GNOME project is fine.



The gnome.org news feed and the Foundation blog are almost identical
in scope. The gnome.org feed provides 'official', generally
non-technical, news about what is happening in the GNOME project. The
Foundation blog is exactly the same, except that it is restricted to
the Foundation. There is a large class of subjects that I would like
to see on both streams, including board elections, fund raising
campaigns, new members, release announcements and initiatives such as
the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Both the gnome.org news stream
and the Foundation blog would benefit from having a higher frequency
of posts.




It might be hard to lose the Foundation blog, but I think we'd be
stronger if we united our feeds.

Thoughts? Opinions?


I don't think the Foundation blog is being read by anything except the 
GNOME announcement aggregator right now, to be honest.


Occasionally people would point to foundation announcements in other 
blogs, so it's important to ensure old links keep working or redirect, 
but I'm all in favour of simplifying and consolidating foundation news 
sources, on condition that the result is interesting for people to read.


I'd also be happy to see notes pointing to significant news stories 
about GNOME written on other sources going into this news feed, by the 
way (as I think I've said before).



Presumably what to do about the Journal? and what to do about 
news.gnome.org? are separate discussions?


Cheers,
Dave.


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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
 Hi,

 On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote:

 For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
 Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
 gnome.org feed.

 I definitely think that moving to a unique GNOME News feed  news page is a
 great idea.

 I wonder: how will this structure allow the evolution of handling news for
 GNOME? Is there a way to submit a story or contact the editors? How does one
 become an editor?

Personally, I don't think it should be the role of gnome.org to be a
generic news service. It should be more 'official' than that. That
isn't to say that we could not establish such a service elsewhere, of
course (this was discussed on the marketing list not long ago [1]).

 And, just to be clear, when you talk about the gnome.org news feed, you're
 talking about http://gnome.org/news (the wordpress blog) and not
 http://news.gnome.org (the Planet aggregator), yes?

Yes.

 A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
 where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
 GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
 shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
 GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity.

 I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously
 not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and
 there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
 membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large,
 defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved in the
 GNOME project is fine.

I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
Foundation member.

 The gnome.org news feed and the Foundation blog are almost identical
 in scope. The gnome.org feed provides 'official', generally
 non-technical, news about what is happening in the GNOME project. The
 Foundation blog is exactly the same, except that it is restricted to
 the Foundation. There is a large class of subjects that I would like
 to see on both streams, including board elections, fund raising
 campaigns, new members, release announcements and initiatives such as
 the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Both the gnome.org news stream
 and the Foundation blog would benefit from having a higher frequency
 of posts.


 It might be hard to lose the Foundation blog, but I think we'd be
 stronger if we united our feeds.

 Thoughts? Opinions?

 I don't think the Foundation blog is being read by anything except the GNOME
 announcement aggregator right now, to be honest.

 Occasionally people would point to foundation announcements in other blogs,
 so it's important to ensure old links keep working or redirect, but I'm all
 in favour of simplifying and consolidating foundation news sources, on
 condition that the result is interesting for people to read.

 I'd also be happy to see notes pointing to significant news stories about
 GNOME written on other sources going into this news feed, by the way (as I
 think I've said before).


 Presumably what to do about the Journal? and what to do about
 news.gnome.org? are separate discussions?

Yes, again, check the marketing list archive.

Allan

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi,

I totally agree with you Alan as we discussed in IRC a few days ago. 
The Foundation and the GNOME project itself should use one main stream of 
News located on the homepage of gnome.org. 

As you can see at [1], the Foundation's blog has been a bit inactive 
since several months now (my post there is recent but the previous 
is dated July 12th), mainly because having several news feeds means 
having multiple writers and editors and that requires time and 
organization we would love seeing focused somewhere else.

So, ack from me for one main and well-maintained GNOME feed for both 
the Foundation and the GNOME Project itself.

cheers,


On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Allan Day wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
 Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
 gnome.org feed.
 
 A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
 where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
 GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
 shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
 GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. Second, GNOME's
 news feeds are currently in a rather poor state. They are highly
 fragmented and are often dead or on life support.
 
 The gnome.org news feed and the Foundation blog are almost identical
 in scope. The gnome.org feed provides 'official', generally
 non-technical, news about what is happening in the GNOME project. The
 Foundation blog is exactly the same, except that it is restricted to
 the Foundation. There is a large class of subjects that I would like
 to see on both streams, including board elections, fund raising
 campaigns, new members, release announcements and initiatives such as
 the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Both the gnome.org news stream
 and the Foundation blog would benefit from having a higher frequency
 of posts.
 
 It might be hard to lose the Foundation blog, but I think we'd be
 stronger if we united our feeds.
 
 Thoughts? Opinions?
 
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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Veri
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Andrea Veri wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I totally agree with you Alan as we discussed in IRC a few days ago. 
 The Foundation and the GNOME project itself should use one main stream of 
 News located on the homepage of gnome.org. 
 
 As you can see at [1], the Foundation's blog has been a bit inactive 
 since several months now (my post there is recent but the previous 
 is dated July 12th), mainly because having several news feeds means 
 having multiple writers and editors and that requires time and 
 organization we would love seeing focused somewhere else.
 
 So, ack from me for one main and well-maintained GNOME feed for both 
 the Foundation and the GNOME Project itself.
 
 cheers,

Sorry, I forgot to post the link outlined above. Here it is:

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation

cheers,

Andrea

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Veri
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote:

 I wonder: how will this structure allow the evolution of handling
 news for GNOME? Is there a way to submit a story or contact the
 editors? How does one become an editor?

I think every GNOME's sub-team will have someone contributing as 
authorized editor like we do for the quarterly reports, to avoid 
giving out too many accounts.

So mainly one person per team will take care of publishing anything 
relevant for the GNOME Foundation or the project itself, and that 
person can be easily appointed by the team's consensus.

cheers,

Andrea

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Dave Neary

Hi,

On 11/30/2011 05:28 PM, Allan Day wrote:

I wonder: how will this structure allow the evolution of handling news for
GNOME? Is there a way to submit a story or contact the editors? How does one
become an editor?


Personally, I don't think it should be the role of gnome.org to be a
generic news service. It should be more 'official' than that. That
isn't to say that we could not establish such a service elsewhere, of
course (this was discussed on the marketing list not long ago [1]).


We're on the same wavelenth. I'm thinking: how will the official news 
team scale over time? I've seen maintainers for various official GNOME 
things go away over time, and it would be nice not to bake that in here 
too - Planet, the website, the GNOME software map and the original 
sysadmins come to mind.


It would be good to have a way to easily spread the load, and have as 
little as possible of the resources be under 1 or 2 people.



I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously
not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and
there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large,
defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved in the
GNOME project is fine.


I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
Foundation member.


So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the 
value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people who 
said I don't want to be a foundation member.



Presumably what to do about the Journal? and what to do about
news.gnome.org? are separate discussions?


Yes, again, check the marketing list archive.


OK - thanks. I don't know if I mentioned here that I wasn't following 
the list for a few months.


Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

2011-11-30 Thread Andrea Veri
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Dave Neary wrote:

 I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously
 not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and
 there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for
 membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large,
 defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as people involved in the
 GNOME project is fine.
 
 I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be
 Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if
 there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a
 Foundation member.
 
 So would I! But I know that in the past when we've talked about the
 value of foundation membership, there have been one or two people
 who said I don't want to be a foundation member.

Things are changing on that side, we (Membership Committee) had
several discussions and meetings with a few members of the Board about
the guidelines and policies to adopt when renewing or accepting new
Foundation members.

If there is a problem, people should take it to foundation-list and
discuss a possible solution, saying I don't want to be a Foundation
member without a rationale or a motivation will definitely take us no
where.

During past elections (June 2011) we had some issues with the
renewals notifications, someone mailed me saying there was a problem,
the Committee had a meeting and everything is going great now or
should I start talking about the criticisms we received about our
application's form?

The Foundation website is under a complete facelift and it'll go live
really soon with a brand new application's page, more user-friendly
with less fields and without the so-bad checkbox people out there
hate so much.

This is the way to solve problems and I will never stop saying
that every GNOME hacker is *welcome* to join the Foundation, the way I
see the GNOME Foundation is it being a big family, we should help each
other and we should collaborate to make GNOME a better place for
everyone.

Fighting each other is *not* the way to go, please think about that.

cheers,

Andrea



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