Re: FYI, incorrect link (Was: GNOME Foundation Elections - Ballots sent)

2009-06-08 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hey folks :) Jan Schmidt wrote: Just a note that the link in the ballot email I received is incorrect. The email has http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/vote.php?id=13 which leads to an error page. The correct link seems to be http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/vote.php?election_id=13 but it's easy

GNOME leadership [was Re: So what do people *except* me want from the foundation?]

2009-06-08 Thread Luis Villa
[Apologies in my lack of interaction in this thread; I've just started studying for the bar and have just moved to a place with no internet; the combination has left me pretty brutally offline all week, as I will be for most of the rest of the summer.] 2009/6/2 Jason D. Clinton

Re: GNOME leadership [was Re: So what do people *except* me want from the foundation?]

2009-06-08 Thread Luis Villa
2009/6/5 Luis Villa luis.vi...@gmail.com: At any rate, I agree completely that we need some strong leaders to develop in GNOME. But the Foundation is not the place for it. I think the right question is 'why have leaders not come from other sources? what can the Foundation do, if anything,

Re: GNOME leadership [was Re: So what do people *except* me want from the foundation?]

2009-06-08 Thread Lucas Rocha
Hi, 2009/6/8 Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org: 2009/6/5 Luis Villa luis.vi...@gmail.com: At any rate, I agree completely that we need some strong leaders to develop in GNOME. But the Foundation is not the place for it. I think the right question is 'why have leaders not come from other sources?

Re: Announcing GNOME Board elections 2009

2009-06-08 Thread Luis Villa
2009/6/7 Tobias Mueller mue...@auftrags-killer.org: Dear Foundation Members, I am announcing a new timeline for the upcoming Foundation Board Elections because we, the Membership and Elections Committee, couldn't hold the deadlines. We are very sorry for that. Given that the board forced

Re: GNOME leadership [was Re: So what do people *except* me want from the foundation?]

2009-06-08 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 14:47 +0100, Lucas Rocha wrote: Hi, 2009/6/8 Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org: 2009/6/5 Luis Villa luis.vi...@gmail.com: At any rate, I agree completely that we need some strong leaders to develop in GNOME. But the Foundation is not the place for it. I think the right

Stormy's update: Week of June 1st

2009-06-08 Thread Stormy Peters
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/06/08/stormys-update-week-of-june-1st/ Went to the Open Source Systems Conference http://oss2009.org/. This was a very different academic group than TOShttp://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Pageand HFOSS http://hfoss.org/. Instead of professors using

Re: About the unpublished board meeting minutes

2009-06-08 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Maybe I missed something but are these unpublished board meeting minutes published by now? If not when will they be available Regards, Jaap 2009/6/4 Anne Østergaard a...@oestergaard.nu: About the unpublished board meeting minutes. The board is responsible. It has been mentioned on this

Minutes from the board meetings

2009-06-08 Thread Stormy Peters
The minutes from most of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors' meetings have now been posted at: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes The rest will be posted tomorrow. Please feel free to post any questions here for discussion. (I am debating posting the contents of the minutes

Re: 2009 Current Year Budget

2009-06-08 Thread Stormy Peters
I had already put it in the wiki and removed my old spreadsheet on this page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME We can also put it on the finance page. If you have access to that, that'd be great. (I can only modify the wiki ...) Thanks, Stormy On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at

Re: 2009 Current Year Budget

2009-06-08 Thread Jaap A. Haitsma
Stormy, I'm referring to the 2009 year budget.(My apologies if this was unclear) The wiki page you refer to contains the donations of Friends of GNOME not the Jaap On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 22:48, Stormy Peterssto...@gnome.org wrote: I had already put it in the wiki and removed my old spreadsheet

Re: 2009 Current Year Budget

2009-06-08 Thread Stormy Peters
Oh, sorry. Too much email today ... Sounds good. If you can give me a hand putting it there that'd be great. I'll look into getting a git account and maybe get someone to give me a mini-tutorial if necessary at GUADEC. Stormy On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org