Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 08:43 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? 2.) Other open

Supporting GTK

2011-05-27 Thread Giovanni Papadia
Thank's for help and escuseme for English. I need to compile my application with Eclipse CDT + minigw in Win32/64 Operative System. I have problem to linker The code of compiler error is down You can help me please.. Thank's Giovanni Rebuild of configuration Debug for project gtknew

GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent

2011-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Foundation Members, we have just sent the ballots to the registered email addresses of the electorate. If you have not received your voting instructions, have a look on the list of eligible voters on

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 06:01 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? I also think that the

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? My

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/27/2011 01:38 AM, Lefty wrote: First: Since the issue of divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux' came up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste of time and

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 21:02 -0400, Shaun McCance a écrit : I think Tomboy Online is awesome. I think we should provide more online services ourselves. I also think there's nothing wrong with charging money for providing a service. Maybe the foundation can't do it as a non-profit. Maybe we

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? [1]

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? I am

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:38 -0700, Lefty wrote: First: Since the issue of divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux' came up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? I think

Re: question for candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as the default desktop, It's the first one to come out, but it certainly won't be the last. I expect other distributions to follow suite shortly. how would you

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Brian Cameron
Gil: On 05/26/11 17:27, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Jeff Schroeder
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: ... snip ...  what about recording how board members vote on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abstains and perhaps give a small comment on any -1 or abstain. Stormy brought this up last year, to a number of

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Stormy Peters
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:11 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: ... snip ... what about recording how board members vote on a given topic. This

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Og Maciel
2011/5/27 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: But if someone is going to spend time automating something, please, please, please help automate the financial stuff. Paypal, gnucash and our Friends of GNOME system really needs to be integrated. Several people have looked at it but it's still

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Frederic Peters
Bastien Nocera wrote: I'm not sure that administration, hardware, or the likes are the major blockers for this sort of problem. What's really missing is the cloud services themselves. When we do get a cloud service worth offering for the whole of our community, we'll find a way to get past

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
Copyright assignments to one organization put that organization in a strong position to enforce the GPL in court, because it can claim copyright over the whole work. The FSF's lawyers advised us to get copyright assignments for contributions to our packages saying it would reduce uncertainty in

Question for candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
I'd like to ask the candidates this question: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org Skype: No

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
Cloud computing actually represents the future of innovation, Let's not be so quick to proclaim a future that we might want to avoid. Cloud computing is a nebulous term; it means using Internet servers. There are many ways to use servers; some pose ethical problems and some don't. Even if

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent

2011-05-27 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:52 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Foundation Members, we have just sent the ballots to the registered email addresses of the electorate. If you have not received your voting instructions, have a look on the list

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:33 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: Copyright assignments to one organization put that organization in a strong position to enforce the GPL in court, because it can claim copyright over the whole work. The FSF's lawyers advised us to get copyright assignments for

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent

2011-05-27 Thread Andrea Veri
2011/5/27 Bryen M. Yunashko susero...@bryen.com: I haven't received a ballot yet.  I've doublecheceked the list (I'm on it) and the spam folder (nothing there).  Is anyone else who was supposed to get a ballot getting theirs? Bryen, if you didn't receive your ballot, please mail

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi Lefty, 2011/5/26 Lefty le...@shugendo.org: First: Since the issue of divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux' came up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do to address the ongoing

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: I'd like to ask the candidates this question: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. Hi Richard, I want to echo something from my candidacy statement:

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: I'd like to ask the candidates this question: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. We should write Free Software that doesn't suck, and that people

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. Free Software and Open Source will not be successful on a mass market because of its license. It can only

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? I consider