Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015
Le lundi 2 novembre 2015 à 16:53 -0800, Cosimo Cecchi a écrit : > > > * ACTION: Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin > > > sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement to the > > > sponsorship brochure itself > > Would we be able to see this brochure? > > > This action item for me and Jeff hasn't been completed yet. > Once it is completed, it will be shared more widely. FWIW, my draft brought a few high-level questions to my mind, which I posted there, hoping others will weigh in so I can refine the draft a bit before posting it: mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2015-November/msg00014.html ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015
Just for the record: in this case the thread we're referring to is the one actually started by you (when you mailed the board list with your questions a while ago). You were kept in c.c. of all the discussions, and as such did not miss anything on that front.___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Travel committee disfunctional?
Indeed the issue, as far as I know, is that the Travel Committee is has finite human resources. IMHO the only way to alleviate this is to have additional trusted Foundation members join that team to share the workload. Personally, I'm quite grateful for their existence. I can imagine the processing times would be much longer if the committee didn't exist and everything had to go through the Board (as you folks know how loaded the board##SELECTION_END## is already :)___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Travel committee disfunctional?
Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 15:28 -0700, Germán Poo-Caamaño a écrit : > The delay may be explained by several factors. One thing is checking > that everything is in order to approve the reimbursement. A different > thing is to proceed with the actual payment. > > The second one means giving access to GNOME's bank and PayPal > accounts, plus coordination to avoid reimburse twice, avoid mistakes > that make the transfer going to the wrong place, and so on. [...] Ah, I was basing myself on what I'd heard a while back (that there wasn't exactly a lot of people willing to do this work), and was still under the impression that the biggest problem would be "available time and energy" for people to process requests. After all, I can imagine it's a lot of unexciting verification work (decipher receipts in various languages and currencies, make sure numbers match, discuss among team members, write emails, etc.). I presumed the verification work to be more complicated than the funds transfers, so I guess that colored my appraisal of the situation. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: This week in Gnome?
I'm under the impression that even just making a digest of Planet GNOME alone would be a full-time job* (also tricky in terms of curation)... If on top of that you widen the scope to include even third-party apps from outside of the GNOME infrastructure, well... you turn into That Recently Discussed News Site That Shall Not Be Named. It also overlaps, to some extent, with http://news.gnome.org or our various social media outlets (much easier to just point to blog posts using social media). IMHO, those would seem to be good places for this writing to happen, were it to be in any official fashion. *: or for it to be done collectively and systematically, the ##SELECTION_END##Engagement team would need to be much bigger than it is right now. Care to join? :)___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!
Hi folks, we’re planning to host the GNOME Summit in Montréal this year, most likely on October 8-9-10 (US Colombus Day week-end, Canadian Thanksgiving). See https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/ Please pre-register* by Friday (so we can estimate the size of the event), indicate any topics of interest you would like to propose for collective tackling during the summit, and indicate your travel and accommodation needs. I will try to secure the venue and figure out all the details surrounding the event soon. Oh, and if you’re in any position to ask one of the GNOME-friendly companies for sponsorship, please do so and drop me an email. Thanks! *: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2016/Participants https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2016/travelsponsorship ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!
Oops, I realize now that I sent this only to foundation-list instead of sending it to foundation-announce. Anyway, let's consider this as a reminder for everybody interested to put down their names on the "/Participants" page! Having more names in there will increase the likelihood of the event happening by making it a more compelling case for the venue and sponsors. -- Original message --- Hi folks, we’re planning to host the GNOME Summit in Montréal this year, most likely on October 8-9-10 (US Colombus Day week-end, Canadian Thanksgiving). See https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/ Please pre-register* by Friday (so we can estimate the size of the event), indicate any topics of interest you would like to propose for collective tackling during the summit, and indicate your travel and accommodation needs. I will try to secure the venue and figure out all the details surrounding the event soon. Oh, and if you’re in any position to ask one of the GNOME-friendly companies for sponsorship, please do so and drop me an email. Thanks! *: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2016/Participants https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/2016/travelsponsorship ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!
Some other good piece of news: today I got a preliminary confirmation for the venue. I'll get the details at the end of the week. I also checked with the Alt Hotel (~5 mins walk from the venue) and participants would be able to book at a reduced rate (140* CAD per room per night instead of 160) simply by mentioning that it's "part of the group for the GNOME conference at the ETS on thanksgiving weekend".##SELECTION_END## *: approx. 105 USD___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Send us your pants nominations
Le mercredi 5 juillet 2017, James a écrit : > Here's a nomination for Milan Crha who does lots of hacking on Evolution. [...] He would also get my vote. Those who have ever talked to me about email or follow me on various online outreach outlets (including Twitter or G+) might know how much of a fan I am of the tireless work he quietly does on Evolution, which is a fairly critical productivity tool to many. However, for him to get such a prize, one would need to ensure he actually attends GUADEC. I have never had the opportunity to meet him there so far, although I often expressed my interest in seeing him at GUADEC, so this is me sending a wish into the world that he can be extracted from Brno this year ;)___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
