Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Susan, Susana Pereira wrote: snip 24. Is there anything else you think is important to tell us but which you feel has not been covered by the previous questions? Wasn't there a plan to choose the 10 best out of all the questions? I can imagine answering 24 questions will take a lot

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread Lionel Dricot
Another possibility is that you start replying to the questions you want to reply on your candidate wiki page. That way, you can answer one question at once, take the time you want, proofread the day after, etc. Hi Dave, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Susan, Susana Pereira wrote: Yes, I understand it is a big, time consuming list. The reasoning for sending it this way is that in last elections the membership committee sent 10 questions, and then many people started new threads sending their own questions which is more confusing than

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Last year, right after the candidates list closed, Bruno posted a list of 10 questions which, presumably, the committee came up with: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-November/msg00153.html There was no

What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, So - this is perhaps not the best time to start this discussion, but then again maybe it's absolutely the best time. This is a call to foundation members who are happy, unhappy or disaffected to say what they think the foundation should be doing that it isn't, shouldn't be doing that

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-28 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
OK, I'll bite. I was going to run for the board but I haven't been particularly active due to work and school combo. (although I must object that mailing list participation as indicator of how fit you are as a board member, talk is cheap) My comments inline: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM,

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-28 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
I would like to see greater financial and administrative transparency. I ... I want to see seven board members actively communicating, and I want to ... front, don't fight in public, and publish/announce/... - in short, broadcast to the membership what they're working on. My only complaint

Re: Sponsoring GTK+

2009-05-28 Thread rms
It is a good thing for companies to offer support to GNOME and other free software projects. But if we accept their support, we should take care (in a tactful way) not to let their preference for the term open source seep into GNOME communications. This is particularly important if they work on

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-05-28 Thread Luis Villa
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak m...@avtechpulse.com wrote: I would like to see greater financial and administrative transparency. I ... I want to see seven board members actively communicating, and I want to ... front, don't fight in public, and

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2009-05-28 Thread Alberto Ruiz
To be honest... even reading all the answers is a hard task... :/ Next year let's stick to 10. 2009/5/29 Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com: The final list of candidates for the upcoming elections is available here: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/candidates.html We will now