Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, It is also important to give equally good support to other systems people can use for telling each other about events; for instance, social networking sites of the free software community, and peer-to-peer methods.  This way, GNOME won't favor Facebook over those other methods. I'm

Re: FOSDEM Report

2010-02-27 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Hi Vincent, The GNOME presence at FOSDEM this year was quite good, and I believe things went (surprisingly ;-)) smoothly: Thanks for the nice summary. :)  + the beer event on Saturday evening was a good

Re: Foundation IRC Meeting on Saturday, February 27th

2010-02-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 23 février 2010, à 14:01 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit : Hi, As discussed during the last IRC meeting of the Foundation, we're going to hold another IRC meeting next Saturday: When: Saturday, February 27th, from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation

Re: FOSDEM Report

2010-02-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 27 février 2010, à 16:29 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit : On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote:  + the beer event on Saturday evening was a good place to catch up with   GNOME friends. While that event is always awesome due to many GNOME

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:26 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: but none has actually stepped up to write actual code (as Martyn says, everytime you start writting something, you hit the legacy wall). It sounds like this might be a case of conflicting goals that cannot all be satisfied.

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: If people are going to use Facebook, they should access it with free software. And it is useful for GNOME to do a good job of that. Richard, I wish you and the FSF would focus more on user rights and licensing of (meta)data coming from

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Alberto Ruiz
I'm going to call for an end of thread, If people want to sort out what their personal points of view on what GNOME should be, I would suggest them to follow up that discussion in private and not in this list anymore. If people want to contribute to a strategic roadmap for GNOME, I think we all

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 00:30 +, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I'm going to call for an end of thread, I think you're wrong, this thread should not be closed yet. If people want to sort out what their personal points of view on what GNOME should be, I would suggest them to follow up that discussion

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
El dom, 28-02-2010 a las 00:30 +, Alberto Ruiz escribió: I'm going to call for an end of thread, If people want to sort out what their personal points of view on what GNOME should be, I would suggest them to follow up that discussion in private and not in this list anymore. +1.

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

2010-02-27 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 19:48 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: Hey Diego, El dom, 28-02-2010 a las 00:49 +0100, Philip Van Hoof escribió: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: [cut] I wish you and the FSF would focus more on user rights and licensing of (meta)data

pvanhoof issue (was: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap)

2010-02-27 Thread Zeeshan Ali
Hi everyone, I don't think we need ethics-teachings about this. We GNOME programmers know. We do. I can't say for others but I for one find it extremely insulting when Mr. Van Hoof represent me without my concent. I really want to know who in the the hell made him the GNOME developers'

Re: pvanhoof issue (was: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap)

2010-02-27 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 04:02 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: Hi everyone, I don't think we need ethics-teachings about this. We GNOME programmers know. We do. I can't say for others but I for one find it extremely insulting when Mr. Van Hoof represent me without my concent. I really want to

Re: Foundation IRC Meeting on Saturday, February 27th

2010-02-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:01:21PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: As discussed during the last IRC meeting of the Foundation, we're going to hold another IRC meeting next Saturday: Please send this to foundation-announce instead. It is meant for announcements. I am going to unsubscribe from

Re: pvanhoof issue (was: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap)

2010-02-27 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 03:11 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 04:02 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: Hi everyone, I don't think we need ethics-teachings about this. We GNOME programmers know. We do. I can't say for others but I for one find it extremely insulting when