Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Vincent Untz
On Thu, December 1, 2005 13:03, Quim Gil wrote: En/na Baris Cicek ha escrit: sure if it's okay to provide this information (although I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be okay). Is there any objection to this idea? I'm for showing the participation (% of members that have already voted)

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Baris, On Thu, December 1, 2005 12:57, Baris Cicek wrote: Actually what Stallman and others did during voting is campaigning and this should have ended before voting get started. It's very likely that some people on the middle of their voting see these endorsements and vote them to fill

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Quim Gil wrote: [...] I'm for showing the participation (% of members that have already voted) but not provisional results of the election. I was only hoping for participation (like a very simple exit poll) which might encourage more people to vote. Showing the

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
Well that's totally against the spirit of voting. Current counts may change people's idea and might get them affected and they would vote strategically instead of on their own free will. I'm sure that a large percentage of foundation memebers voted strategically; they just did so blindly and

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 07:46 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-12 at 13:03 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: Showing the percentage of participation at any time may help increasing the percentage of vote at the end of the election, and it's a harmless data by itself. As you said in

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Baris Cicek
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:48 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: Well that's totally against the spirit of voting. Current counts may change people's idea and might get them affected and they would vote strategically instead of on their own free will. I'm sure that a large percentage of

FOSDEM Gnome Dev Room: Call for Talks

2005-12-01 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, During the week-end of February 25 and 26th, the FOSDEM 2006 will be held in Brussels. FOSDEM is a 2 days event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Gnome has a dedicated Developers Room, where we can give talks about the project. That's why we are looking for

Re: FOSDEM Gnome Dev Room: Call for Talks

2005-12-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Christophe Fergeau If you are interested about giving a talk, please send me an email telling me what you want to give a talk about. I'll be there - would love to do a talk about GNOME advocacy and kicking arse in that field. :-) - Jeff -- Ubuntu USA Europe Tour: Oct-Nov 2005

Re: [Off Topic] We need Vendors? [was Words to Avoid Vendor]

2005-12-01 Thread Richard M. Stallman
We want to encourage non-free apps to use GNOME, but we don't want to appear to grant those non-free apps ethical legitimacy. We have to choose our words with care to achieve both goals at once. These are your priorities. Other people have other priorities, though they