Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Ghee Teo
Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> No, according to the GNOME Foundation by-laws, the Board may appoint a >> new director in the case of a vacancy >> > > This is standard practice in the not-for-profit world (lest you be > worried that this is

Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

2007-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 17:50 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > If a long standard is part of an attack, we can use that for our own > purposes. In this case I suspect that the length of the standard is largely a consequence of the format being an XML serialization of the existing complex and wart-f

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:22 +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > No, according to the GNOME Foundation by-laws, the Board may appoint a > new director in the case of a vacancy This is standard practice in the not-for-profit world (lest you be worried that this is somehow unusual or improper) AfC Birmingha

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Does this also implies there is a going to be by-election (first one > ever) :) ? No, according to the GNOME Foundation by-laws, the Board may appoint a new director in the case of a vacancy (which we did last year under the same circumstances). - Jeff -- GUADEC 2007 in Beautiful Birmingha

Re: Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Ghee Teo
Congrats on becoming father third time! Thank you for all the hard work you put in as a Board member :) Does this also implies there is a going to be by-election (first one ever) :) ? -Ghee Dave Neary wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you have noticed, I'm not at GUADEC this year. The reason is

Resigning from the board

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, As some of you have noticed, I'm not at GUADEC this year. The reason is a happy one - Anne is going to be giving birth sometime over the next couple of weeks (I'll keep ye posted). The combination of the arrival of a third child, and a change in role at work over the past few weeks, have

REMINDER: GNOME Foundation Members Meeting

2007-07-16 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey all, Just a reminder that the GNOME Foundation Members meeting will be on at 5pm Monday 16th July (TODAY!). The board is going to present a year in review of what we've currently done, and what plans we have for the future. Soon after, we'll be opening it up for discussion on where we need to