Re: live.gnome.org Maintenance

2012-05-22 Thread Andrea Veri
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Andrea Veri wrote: Hi, tomorrow morning (from 10 AM, GMT +2) there will be a downtime of live.gnome.org, we're switching the wiki over a new machine since we're experiencing high loads and problems while loading pages. I'll follow up this mail with more details as

Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Robert Nordan
Hi all, I have a few questions for the candidates in the upcoming election to the board. They are obviously shaped by my interests, but I believe that other Foundation members may be interested in the answers as well. 1) Open Source or Free Software? This is about personal philosophy: Do you

Re: live.gnome.org Maintenance

2012-05-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:58:58AM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: live.gnome.org will go under MAINTENANCE in a few minutes while I migrate the content to the new host I finished setting up yesterday night. Another mail will follow as soon as everything got migrated. Awesome! It is still

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 05/22/2012 09:58 AM, Robert Nordan wrote: 1) Open Source or Free Software? This is about personal philosophy: Do you prefer the pragmatism of the Open Source Initiative or the political idealism of the Free Software Foundation? (Some of the candidates have already flagged a stance on

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Robert Nordan
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 10:35 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, On 05/22/2012 09:58 AM, Robert Nordan wrote: 1) Open Source or Free Software? This is about personal philosophy: Do you prefer the pragmatism of the Open Source Initiative or the political idealism of the Free Software

Re: live.gnome.org Maintenance

2012-05-22 Thread Andrea Veri
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Andrea Veri wrote: [...] live.gnome.org will go under MAINTENANCE in a few minutes while I migrate the content to the new host I finished setting up yesterday night. Another mail will follow as soon as everything got migrated. The migration has just finished and

Re: live.gnome.org Maintenance

2012-05-22 Thread Andrea Veri
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Andrea Veri wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2012, Andrea Veri wrote: [...] live.gnome.org will go under MAINTENANCE in a few minutes while I migrate the content to the new host I finished setting up yesterday night. Another mail will follow as soon as everything got

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:58 +0200, Robert Nordan wrote: Hi all, I have a few questions for the candidates in the upcoming election to the board. They are obviously shaped by my interests, but I believe that other Foundation members may be interested in the answers as well. 1) Open Source or

Re: Boston Summit?

2012-05-22 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2012-04-27 17:17, Michael Hill wrote: Hi Karen, On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Are there teams (or individuals, since this is a less formal event) in Toronto, Boston and/or Montreal that are willing to take on the burden of trying to organize this?

Re: Brian Cameron - Stepping down from the board

2012-05-22 Thread Luis Villa
Brian- Thanks for your selfless service the past few years. Your dedication, including to some of the board's most thankless tasks, has been admirable and will be very difficult for the board to replace. Luis On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote:

Re: Brian Cameron - Stepping down from the board

2012-05-22 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 05/22/2012 09:53 PM, Luis Villa wrote: Brian- Thanks for your selfless service the past few years. Your dedication, including to some of the board's most thankless tasks, has been admirable and will be very difficult for the board to replace. I want to second that. Having been on the

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
How does each candidate propose to make use of GNOME and its communication to build support in the user community for free software and the freedom it provides? The free software movement practices pragmatic idealism. Our ideal is freedom for those who use software. We say that all programs

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Robert. On 05/22/2012 03:58 AM, Robert Nordan wrote: 1) Open Source or Free Software? Open Source AND Free Software. :) With respect to my own pragmatic idealism: * I value freedom and tend to say Free Software. BUT I have no philosophical problems with those who say or prefer Open