Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2022 - Candidates

Robert McQueen wrote: ... > To be elected under STV, a candidate must meet a threshold > number of votes (see https://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=32 > for example, the threshold is 28). Thanks for the clarification, Rob. That's good to know. Allan

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2022 - Candidates

Andrea Veri wrote: ... > please always refer to election rules and guidelines before voting [1]. All > the information that you may require for voting including seats up for > election are available there. Thanks Andrea! Predictably, that was the only page that I didn't look at in my quest for

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2022 - Candidates

Andrea Veri wrote: ... >> Please see for more details. When I went to vote, I was uncertain how many seats were up for election. I've dug into it, and from what I can tell, this election is uncontested? Board terms are two years, the board has seven

Re: New GNOME Account password reset tool is live!

Andrea Veri wrote: ... > the GNOME Infrastructure is making available a new web based tool that will > help you resetting your account password in case it was lost. As many of you > know, the current way of updating your password was running a command on your > terminal making sure your SSH

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2020

If it sways anyone into running: the board will likely be switching to monthly meetings after the election. :D Allan On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 15:27, Andrea Veri wrote: > > Michael, > > if the current situation persists we'll much likely extend the running period > by one more week like previous

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Neil McGovern wrote: ... > > I think with Discourse you have to opt in to get email notifications? > > That could be an issue. Certainly with things like the AGM, the board > > is required to serve notice to all members. > > Yes, you do. Although for AGM notices etc, I don't think it's >

Re: Full Proposal to Bid for Guadec 2020 at Zacatecas, Mexico

Thanks for this, Manuel! It looks like a great proposal. Allan On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 02:20, Manuel Haro via board-list wrote: > > Hello, with a biggest pleasure from the Open Source Community around the Open > Source Lab at Mexico, we wants to share and send our formal Full Proposal to > bid

Re: Bid for GUADEC 2020 in Riga

Rudolfs Mazurs via board-list wrote: > The Latvian team is officially bidding for GUADEC 2020 in Riga. Our proposal > can be found on the GNOME wiki[1]. Thanks for this, Rūdolfs! Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: Post GUADEC survey for attendees and non-attendees

Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... > As always, we are collecting feedback from those of you who attended > GUADEC and those that did not. We would appreciate it if all of you > could fill in this survey to help us plan a better conference next > year: https://surveys.gnome.org/index.php/212829 I

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Neil McGovern wrote: ... > On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 11:10 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > Not objecting at all but I think this raises a couple questions as to > > what it would entail, most notable regarding board meeting minutes > > and other announcements. Currently, most of them are sent to

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Olav Vitters wrote: ... > Was there a discussion about this at GUADEC? As it's been a while and > nobody seems to object I think everything is ok with moving to > Discourse. Given the positive response to other lists migrating, I'd be in favour. I think my only question is a more general one

Team presentations at the GNOME Foundation AGM

Hi Foundation members, The GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting is going to be happening on Saturday, as part of GUADEC. As usual, we will be inviting the various teams and committees to give quick presentations. I'm in the process of reaching out to the various team leads. However, if you

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

Hi everyone, I've created an issue for this topic, so we don't forget about it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Board/issues/102 Allan On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 00:04, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 18:10 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > > > > What steps do you think the

Re: Question to candidates - Minutes of the board meeting

Hi Max, Max via foundation-list wrote: ... > Could you promise to think a way --- Everyone get "Minutes of the board > meeting" in a very close time? Thanks for the question and for raising this issue. It's really helpful for the board to know what the ongoing concerns of the membership are.

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

Hi Philip! Philip Withnall wrote: ... > What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its > environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as a > whole? I composed this in my head before seeing the other responses to your mail, so you'll have to forgive me if I

GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Candidancy - Allan Day

Name: Allan Day Email: a...@gnome.org Affiliation: Red Hat Dear Foundation Members, I am announcing my intention to run for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. I have been contributing to GNOME for around 10 years, primarily in my capacity as a designer, although I have previously

Re: New GNOME Foundation staffer - Program Coordinator

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > > I'm very pleased to announce that Kristi Progri has joined us today > > (3rd January) to take on the role of Program Coordinator. Fantastic news! Welcome, Kristi. Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Events Code of Conduct: Effects on Hackfests

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > You are repeatedly insisting, that the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee > will never make use of these far reaching powers (only stopping at > permanent sanctions such as "removal of Foundation membership"). All I'm saying is that, in practical terms, the code of

Re: Events Code of Conduct: Effects on Hackfests

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > However, I don't think your response clearly answers my question. And I > do think it is important to understand possible implications of Board > decisions as they may directly affect community members who organise > events. > > My current understanding of your response

Re: Events Code of Conduct: Effects on Hackfests

[I'm replying as someone who helped to draft the CoC, and who was on the board when it was approved. The CoC committee is responsible for applying the code, and we have a new board now.] Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > The Code of Conduct Committee charter[1] explicitly grants committee > members the

Re: Events Code of Conduct: Effects on Hackfests

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > How does the decided event Code of Conduct and related > policies/decisions affect Hackfests organised by community members? This is explained in https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/New#Who_is_responsible_for_what.3F There's some outstanding work to improve the response

Re: GNOME Foundation 2018 Annual General Meeting

Hi Dave, David King wrote: ... > According to the bylaws of the Foundation (Section 7.4), 30 days notice > is required for an AGM, whereas this notice only gives 4 days notice. Indeed. We know that we slipped up this year. > I am not sure of the best place to add this for future GUADECs, but >

GNOME Foundation 2018 Annual General Meeting

to the new Board of Directors, a report on the previous 12 months, and a Q session with the board. The board is looking forward to seeing Foundation members there, and to celebrating our achievements over the last 12 months. Yours, Allan Day -- Vice-President & Secretary, GNOME Foundation B

Minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board, 26th June

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, June 26th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date: Wednesday, July 4th 2018 - all day meeting at GUADEC == Attending == * MegFord * AlexandreFranke * DidierRoche * AllanDay * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == * NuritziSanchez * CarlosSoriano

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > I fully understand that there is an interest for old comments and bug > reports to remain available. I raised my concerns because it seemed > like we have currently exactly one person who is barred from editing > their Gitlab history, while everyone else can do so

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 19th June

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, June 19th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, June 26th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * AllanDay * NuritziSanchez * DidierRoche * MegFord * AlexandreFranke * CarlosSoriano * CosimoCecchi * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == ==

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > I have neither gotten a response nor have I seen an indication that the > Board is discussing the issue. Is the Board planning on responding to > this request? Reading back over the thread, it's not entirely clear what the issue is, so I'll just summarise what's

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 14th june

The regular meeting on Tuesday 12th June was cancelled due to there not being quorum. These minutes are for a special meeting held on 14th June. Allan = Foundation Board Minutes for Thursday, June 14th 2018, 17:00 UTC = Special meeting called to discuss pressing issues around GUADEC 2018

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Allan Day

Hi Michael, Big apologies for the delay in responding. I'm busy with personal stuff at the moment. wrote: ... > How do you intend to ensure that the Foundation expansion occurs in a > sustainable manner? It would be unfortunate if this donation becomes > just a temporary windfall. That's a

Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Allan Day

Name: Allan Day Email: a...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: Red Hat Hi all, I'm announcing my candidacy for the upcoming Board of Directors elections. I've served on the board since 2015. If I were elected, it would be my forth term on the board. I feel that I've been an effective member

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 29th May

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, May 29th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, June 3rd 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Alexandre Franke (planned early departure) * DidierRoche * AllanDay * CarlosSoriano * MegFord * Cosimo Cecchi (planned late arrival) * RosannaYuen *

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 1st May

Hey Germán, Sorry for not replying sooner. Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 12:54 +0100, Allan Day wrote: >> Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: >> ... >> > FWIW, processing times for events like GUADEC are not usually >> > processed before the talk

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 22nd May

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, May 22nd 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, May 29th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * AllanDay * MegFord (planned early departure) * DidierRoche * CarlosSoriano * NuritziSanchez * CosimoCecchi * NeilMcGovern (planned early departure) *

Help needed: GUADEC 2019

Hi everyone, The call for bids for GUADEC 2019 has been out for a while, but the Foundation is yet to receive any bids or notifications of intent to bid. We'd therefore like to ask members of the Foundation: can you help us to find a location for next year's GUADEC? Could you help to organise

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 15 May

Note: there was no meeting on 8th May, due to the board not having quorum. = Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, May 15th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, May 22nd 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * NuritziSanchez * CarlosSoriano * AllanDay * MegFord (planned early departure)

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 1st May

Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: ... > FWIW, processing times for events like GUADEC are not usually processed > before the talks have been accepted. They cannot, as the speakers have > preference, and budget is limited. That's a good point. Maybe we could look into how the budgets are

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 1st May

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, May 1st 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, May 8th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * MegFord * AllanDay * DidierRoche * CosimoCecchi * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == * NuritziSanchez * AlexandreFranke * CarlosSoriano ==

Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, April 24th 2018, 18:00 UTC

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, April 24th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, May 1st 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * AllanDay * CarlosSoriano * NuritziSanchez * CosimoCecchi * DidierRoche * MegFord * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == * AlexandreFranke ==

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Alexandre Franke wrote: ... > The WG is a group working on a document that invites people involved > in a conflict to seek assistance from a third party. Yet it seems > that, when a conflict arised, they didn’t call for external > arbitration, and even went as far as issuing

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

meg ford wrote: ... > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: >> >> Did you mean to quote a specific part of Allan’s email? Because my >> email was about what happened during the time when discussions were >> still within the WG (and the

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > I think my stance is quite clear. As Allan stated quite literally, he > continued working on the Draft without including the rest of the WG in > this work. Regardless of whether Allan was acting as a board member or > chairman of the WG, he

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 17th April

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, April 17th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, April 24th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * AlexandreFranke * CosimoCecchi * MegFord * AllanDay * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == * DidierRoche * CarlosSoriano == Missing == ==

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Hi everyone, This is a general response to Ben's email, in my capacity as chair of the Code of Conduct Working Group. I'm only going to address the issues that have been raised in response to the group, rather than the referendum proposal, which is a question for the board. As you all know, the

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 10th April

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, April 17th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * NuritziSanchez * DidierRoche * CosimoCecchi * MegFord * AllanDay * RosannaYuen * NeilMcGovern == Regrets == * AlexandreFranke * CarlosSoriano

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 3rd April

Hey Alexandre, Alexandre Franke wrote: ... > We should either ask them to use “team” or make them a committee. I think my preference would be to come up with standard guidelines for any group wanting to run a bidding process, as we are already doing [1], rather than making

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 27th March

Carlos Soriano wrote: ... >> > * Employee Handbook & Records Retention Policy (Nuritzi) >> > * >> > https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Staff/EmployeeHandbook#Records_Retention_Policy >> >> Hi board, is there any reason for the employee handbook to be private?

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 27th March

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, March 27th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, April 3rd 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Alexandre Franke * Meg Ford * Didier Roche * Cosimo Cecchi * Allan Day * Nuritzi Sanchez * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern == Regrets == == Missing

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 20th March

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tuesday, March 20th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tuesday, March 27th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Nuritzi Sanchez * Alexandre Franke * Cosimo Cecchi * Carlos Soriano * Meg Ford * Neil McGovern * Rosanna Yuen == Regrets == * Allan Day

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th March

Hey Germán, thanks for your comments. Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: ... >> * Tile server options for Maps (Allan) ... >> * VOTE: approve $300 a month to pay Mapbox - passed unanimously >> * ACTION: Meg to inform Mapbox and the Maps team, cc'ing Rosanna >> and Neil >>* We

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th March

g in and has nominated himself as a replacement. He is also vice-president, and it's difficult to take minutes and chair at the same time. However, we can work out someone to take minutes if Allan is chairing. * VOTE: appoint Allan Day as Secretary of the Board - passed unanimously * ACTION: Nuritzi to announce

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 6th March

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, March 6th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, March 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * AlexandreFranke * AllanDay * MegFord * DidierRoche * NuritziSanchez * NeilMcGovern * RosannaYuen == Regrets == * Carlos Soriano * CosimoCecchi ==

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 27th February

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, February 27th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, March 6th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * MegFord * CarlosSoriano * AllanDay * NuriziSanchez * NeilMcGovern * RozannaYuen == Regrets == * DidierRoche * CosimoCecchi * AlexandreFranke ==

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th February

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, February 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, February 20th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Alexandre Franke * Allan Day * Nuritzi Sanchez * Didier Roche * Carlos Soriano * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern == Regrets == * Cosimo Cecchi * Meg

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 23rd February

Hi everyone, The board wasn't able to make quorum for our regular meeting last week, so we had a short special meeting at another time, in order to cover a couple of time-sensitive issues. Thanks, Allan = Foundation Board Minutes for Special Meeting, 23 February 2018 = == Attending == *

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 6th February

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, February 6th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, February 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Alexandre Franke * Allan Day * Didier Roche * Carlos Soriano * Nuritzi Sanchez * Neil McGovern * Rosanna Yuen == Regrets == * Meg Ford * Cosimo

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 30th January

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 30th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, February 6th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Allan Day * Alexandre Franke * Nuritzi Sanchez * Didier Roche * Carlos Soriano * Cosimo Cecchi * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern == Regrets == * Meg

Minutes of the Foundation Board, 23rd January

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 23th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, January 30th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Allan Day * Carlos Soriano * Nuritzi Sanchez * Meg Ford * Cosimo Cecchi * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern == Regrets == * Alexandre Franke * Didier

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, January 16th

Apologies for the incorrect subject line - these minutes are for the 9th of January. Allan On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 9th 2018, 18:00 UTC = > > Next meeting date Tue, January 16th

Minutes of the Foundation Board, January 16th

= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 9th 2018, 18:00 UTC = Next meeting date Tue, January 16th 2018, 18:00 UTC == Attending == * Alexandre Franke * Carlos Soriano * Meg Ford * Allan Day * Nuritzi Sanchez * Rosanna Yuen * Neil McGovern * Sriram Ramkrishna == Regrets == * Cosimo

Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... > It is always awesome to see new members! Welcome! > >> >> They are: * >> >> 1. Justin van Steijn (GNOME Dutch Translator) >> 2. Cassidy James Blaede (GNOME UX / Design Team) >> 3. Kukuh Syafaat (GNOME Indonesian translator, multiple GNOME >>

Conference spending policy updates

Hi everyone, During this week's regular meeting, the Board of Directors approved some updates to the Foundation's conference spending policy. The updated version can be viewed on the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/Conferences#Conference_Spending_Policy The changes are mostly to make

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October, 7th, 2017

Hey Kat, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: ... >> https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Budget#Payment_authorization > […] >> * VOTE: approve the policy as specified on the wiki page: >> https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Budget#Conference_spending_policy >

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of September, 26th, 2017

Hi Benjamin, Benjamin Berg wrote: ... > I have noticed that the lack of board minutes has not been resolved so > far and I am hoping that the community can get a quick action from the > board with regard to this matter. Can every board member please work on >

Re: CoC Enforcement Training Interest

Felipe Borges wrote: ... > Is there a link where we could follow up virtually? > If you want to virtually participate in the workshop, yes, - I think that could be arranged. Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: CoC Enforcement Training Interest

Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 15:50 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > > Hi Foundation Members, > > > > Rosanna and I are thinking of participating in a Code of Conduct > > (CoC) enforcement workshop run by Sarah Sharp on Sunday, November > > 26th in SF. > ...

Re: CoC Enforcement Training Interest

Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Di, 2017-10-03 at 15:50 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > > Rosanna and I are thinking of participating in a Code of Conduct (CoC) > enforcement workshop run by Sarah Sharp > I may be a bit naïve, but "enforcing" sounds like you just throw people >

Re: Feedback request: spending Foundation money

Hi Richard, Unlike Alexandre, I'm firmly wearing my board hat for this email. :) Richard Hughes wrote: ... > When we were arranging the gnome-software hackfest last year we had > huge problems trying to get sponsorship for a non-GNOME foundation > member. In the end

North American Events in 2017

Dear all, The board has had word that, due to declining participation, it is unlikely that there will be a Boston Summit this year. If anyone has a strong urge to make the event happen, then they should by all means do so. At the same time, we don't think that anyone should feel obligated to

Thanks to outgoing directors

Hi everyone, Now that GUADEC is over, the transition period from the old to the new Board of Directors has ended. I'd therefore like to give huge thanks to Jim Hall and Shaun McCance, who are both stepping down. They have both been excellent board members and have made valuable contributions to

Re: Send us your pants nominations

Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two names that I think ought to be on the list are Bastien Nocera and > Emmanuele Bassi. Apologies, that was meant to go to board-list. Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gno

Re: Send us your pants nominations

Two names that I think ought to be on the list are Bastien Nocera and Emmanuele Bassi. Both of them have been involved in the project for a long time and both go that extra mile. I think of them both as people who really believe in GNOME and work hard to make it a success. Bastien does a lot

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of June, 6th, 2017

Hey Tobi, There are two issues here: the practicalities of transitioning between boards, and what we are required to do by the bylaws. Regarding the first issue, as Andreas said, having a transition period before incoming board members take over is really useful. That's what we've done every

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

Michael Catanzaro wrote: ... >> My immediate thought is that it could put some people off running, >> since it's a greater commitment. However, I'd be interested to hear >> what you think about it. ... > Yes, that's the main risk. > > The benefit is we would only be

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Hey Max! Max wrote: ... > I have 3 questions to all candidates ( sorry for my poor English ) > > 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate > to working on the board on a regular basis? > > for 2nd or 3rd ( or more ) term candidacy: >

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

Michael Catanzaro wrote: ... > Here's another question: what do the candidates think about switching to > using two-year terms? My immediate thought is that it could put some people off running, since it's a greater commitment. However, I'd be interested to hear what

Board of Directors Elections 2017 - Candidacy - Allan Day

Name: Allan Day Corporate affiliation: Red Hat Foundation members, I've served on the Foundation Board of Directors for two years, and would like to continue for 2017-18. I've enjoyed my time on the board and feel that I've had a positive impact. I played a non-trivial role in hiring our new ED

Re: How to donate 1€ via PayPal without an account

Hi Javier, Thanks for getting in touch, and thanks for your donation! On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > I cannot find a contact point regarding donation issues. Would it be > a problem if I donate only 1€? For PayPal donations, we set the minimum

Re: Irregularities

Directors will review this and get back to you as soon as possible. Allan Day --- Vice-President, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Proposal: creation of IRC Operators Team

Carlos Soriano via foundation-list wrote: ... > For that reason I proposed to Andrea Veri to give OP status on several > main channels to some of us that are more time present in most of main IRC > channels. I gathered some information of what channels need some >

GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

Hi everyone, I've been contacted by Texas Linux Fest, who want to know if we'd like to run a GNOME stand this year. It sounds like a great idea to me - are there any volunteers? The event is 8-9th July in Austin. We need to get back to them no later than 20th June. Thanks, Allan

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Hi Daniel! On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > Recently has been a campaign to expose GNOME weakness, like: > > * GTK+ is C and ugly > * Bugzilla is old and user unfriendly > * Developers don't here suggestions from users > * No apps for GNOME/GTK+ > >

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Hey Max, Thanks for the questions! On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Max wrote: ... > 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to > working > on the board on a regular basis? > Board work is quite fragmented in my experience, so it's hard to

Reminder: 4 days to support GNOME through unixstickers!

Hi everyone, GNOME is the unixstickers project of the month this April, meaning that a donation is made for every product sold. There's less than a week to go, so if you'd like to buy some stickers, now's the time to do it! http://www.unixstickers.com/donations Allan

Re: Travel committee disfunctional?

Hi Zeeshan, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: ... > I'm sorry to bring this up but it seems to me that travel-committee > members do not have time for doing their job in a timely manner. ... You're right to say that the Travel Committee are volunteers, and I think it's worth

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 19th, 2016

Hey Tobi, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > * Unixstickers > > * They're selling GNOME branded items > > * No trademark licence agreement has ever been signed with them > Are they offering anything related to computers under the name "GNOME"? > So far I only see stickers and

GNOME Merchandise Available on HELLOTUX

Hi everyone, HELLOTUX have just started selling GNOME clothing, including t-shirts, polo shirts, and jackets. They look really nice, and a portion of the profits from each sale goes to the GNOME Foundation. See: https://www.hellotux.com/gnome Thanks to Bastian Ilso and Sri Ramkrishna for

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

Hi Michael! Michael Catanzaro wrote: ... >> This is awesome! So does this make the second trademark license >> agreement >> that we had? Allan and I were working with someone else, is it it >> the same >> person or is this a different one? > > Isn't 10% of profit

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

Hey Sri, I'll just respond to the trademark and merchandise questions here, since that's what I'm most familiar with. Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: ... >> * ilovewhatido.eu trademark license agreement >> * It will last for two years >> * 10% of net receipts (profits) will be

Re: User Data Manifesto

Philip Withnall wrote: ... > Now that we’ve endorsed it (yay!), what are we going to do about it? > Should we do a review of GNOME apps to make sure they all comply where > necessary? A GNOME Goal, maybe? That's a good question. The manifesto primarily refers to cloud

Re: User Data Manifesto

Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: ... Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of August. A number of other prominent FOSS

Re: User Data Manifesto

Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: ... Their server is redirecting to HTTPS but not sending any chain of trust, which is broken, so I haven't read it yet: ... Thanks for the tip, Michael! I've passed it on. Should be fixed now. Allan

Re: User Data Manifesto

Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: ... Their server is redirecting to HTTPS but not sending any chain of trust, which is broken, so I haven't read it yet: ... Thanks for the tip, Michael! I've passed it on. Allan ___ foundation-list

User Data Manifesto

Hi all, Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of August. A number of other prominent FOSS projects are lined up to also endorse it. Any

Re: GNOME Summit 2015

Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: Thanks very much to Walter Bender, we have a confirmed reservation at MIT for the 2015 GNOME Summit! ... That's excellent. Thanks for organising this, Colin! Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July, 07th, 2015

Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: ... == Pending action items == * Kat to create a private wiki page on the web services accounts holders and passwords * Allan and Kat decided to go for a private git account instead for security reasons Does that mean that the action

Re: Questions for candidates

Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: I would like GNOME to positively influence other projects both propriety and Free Software ones. A positive influence has to be a good thing -- but what does it mean to have a positive influence on a proprietary program? Convincing its developers

Re: Questions for candidates

Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: I'd like to ask the candidates, how do you think GNOME should contribute more to the advance of free software and users' freedom in general (in addition to being useful free software). Obviously we want GNOME to be successful and for there to be greater

Re: Question to the candidates.

Hey Erick! Erick Pérez Castellanos eric...@gnome.org wrote: ... First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop environment like Mac OS X, for

Re: Question on community to the candidates.

Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME than community. I do not question the passion and dedication to those who are paid on GNOME, I know that they

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

Hi Marina! Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: ... Thanks to all the candidates for stepping up to run for the board and for all the work you already do for the Foundation! Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their events [1] and some for their

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