Re: Mellon awards

2006-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
Thanks for this Federico. Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:37 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: We just need to figure out how the GNOME project provides a direct and demonstrably significant benefit to the arts or the environment. snip The GNOME Project's software is widely

Asking more information to prospective members

2006-05-22 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all; Murray asked on membership-committee list if we should ask to prospective members these questions, which are optional to answer: gender, to track lack of female involvement; nationality, to track lack of Asian involvement; And one more can be: public key, we can encrypt ballots in

Re: Asking more information to prospective members

2006-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Baris Cicek wrote: Murray asked on membership-committee list if we should ask to prospective members these questions, which are optional to answer: gender, to track lack of female involvement; nationality, to track lack of Asian involvement; I have no problems with these. And one more

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-22 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:44 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: Could be this be able for Latin America too? I'd *strongly* advise against sending machines from the USA to Latin America. At least not to Mexico. It is a truly tremendous pain in the ass to get hardware out of customs. It