Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP

2016-11-28 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, We haven't received a lot of submissions so far, the deadline is next Monday, don't wait too much for submitting a proposal :) Cheers, Christophe On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 08:16:33PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > Hello, > > Here is the Call for Participation for the

FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP

2016-10-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
org/listinfo/desktops-devroom <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom> Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Michael Zanetti, Unity - Phili

Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation

2015-12-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 06:55:39PM +, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Christophe Fergeau <t...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Given the amount of projects asking for devrooms, I suspect this is > > going to be hard. The FOSDEM organizers asked us

Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation

2015-12-08 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 01:45:59PM +, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > While I greatly appreciate your (and of everyone involved) voluntary > work on organising the devroom, I really wish we did not put all these > big projects into one devroom for just one day. Is there

Re: FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation

2015-12-03 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Just a few more days to go, deadline is on December 6th. If you haven't submitted your proposal yet, now is the time! Christophe On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:25:50PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation > > FOSDEM is one of the largest g

FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation

2015-11-07 Thread Christophe Fergeau
ps-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Mi

FOSDEM 2015 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks

2014-11-03 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hello, --8--- FOSDEM http://www.fosdem.org is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium). One of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as CrossDesktop DevRoom), which will host Desktop-related talks.

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-10-05 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:40:16PM +0200, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote: On 16/09/14 17:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, rather than having these 15 students, plus

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-18 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey Michael, On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: It would also be good to actually consider the value of student projects before funding them. With GSoC we just picked which students seemed most likely to successfully complete the projects they proposed, rather

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-18 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: In the past you mentioned that you think we should fund any GNOME-related project. I disagree. I'm not sure if it would be beneficial to mention specific projects, but to be blunt, I think some of our GSoC projects were a waste

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-18 Thread Christophe Fergeau
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Most of the GSoC projects we get proposals for are ideas which were suggested by mentors/members of the GNOME projects on https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2014/Ideas Students are also encouraged to come up with

Help wanted - FOSDEM desktop devroom

2014-01-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hello, The FOSDEM organization wants every presentation recorded this year. They will provide equipment and training, we need to provide the manpower. The schedule for the devroom can be found at https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/desktops/ Please get in touch with me if you are willing to

Re: FOSDEM 2014 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks

2013-11-27 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey everyone, just a reminder that this Call for talks is still open, don't wait until the last minute to send your proposal! Christophe 2013/11/6 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com: Hey, As usual, it's time to submit your talk proposal for FOSDEM --8--- FOSDEM is one of the largest

Re: plans for FOSDEM 2014?

2013-08-15 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, 2013/8/15 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com: I know that the FOSDEM organisers haven't sent out the email for booths and/rooms yet, but I just wanted to ask well in advance if we had volunteers for either. The call for devrooms has actually already been sent:

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Christophe Fergeau
2013/8/15 Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org: Why did I choose github? Because that's where everybody is these days. Because we have nothing to lose by mirroring our repos there and we have a lot to gain. Promoting the non-free github while a free alternative exists (gitorious) is a big loss in my

Fwd: [crossdesktop-devroom] deadline extension for the cross-desktop devroom

2012-12-20 Thread Christophe Fergeau
The deadline for the crossdesktop devroom has been extended by just a few days, you now have until this Friday to submit talk proposals! Christophe -- Forwarded message -- From: Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org Date: 2012/12/15 Subject: [crossdesktop-devroom] deadline extension for

Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks

2012-12-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
-- Forwarded message -- From: Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org Date: 2012/11/29 Subject: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks To: x...@lists.freedesktop.org Hello, The Call for Talks for the CrossDesktop DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013 is officially open

Re: Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks

2012-12-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi Brian, 2012/12/4 Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com Christophe: If CrossDesktop DevRoom is THE place for cross-desktop entente, then why have I seen no discussion about this event on any FreeDesktop mail forum? I only notice GNOME mailing lists in the current cc:list, or am I

Re: Fwd: Reminder: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks

2012-12-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey Brian, 2012/12/5 Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com That said, how do we really expect to make much progress when efforts to meet in person are not matched with efforts to organize planning on appropriate cross-desktop forums, like mailing lists on FreeDesktop.org? In other words,

Re: Suggestions for format of AGM next year

2012-08-04 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi karen, 2012/8/3 Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org: Perhaps this should have been appended to the lightning talk session for the outreach participants, which actually ended 15 minutes early this time. The lightning session ending early wasn't planned, we had budgeted 3 minutes per student + 1

Re: Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-03-19 Thread Christophe Fergeau
to follow up on soc-mentors-list, or to ask on IRC. You can find us on #soc. Cheers, Christophe 2012/2/26 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com: Hiya GNOME lovers! It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need

Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2012

2012-02-26 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hiya GNOME lovers! It's that time of the year again: Google's Summer of Code is approaching. We are in the midst of preparing it all [1] but we need your help by submitting great project ideas. Student proposals will start to roll in on March 26, but we'd like to make sure there are plenty of

Re: FOSDEM stand

2012-01-23 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hey, 2011/12/21 Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de: Bonus points if we can manage to check that we've got the following items ready at the FOSDEM booth:  * Posters and Flyers for the GUADEC  * Looong power extension cords A few of these could be helpful in the devroom too (along with a

FOSDEM 2012 - Crossdesktop Devroom Call for Talks

2011-11-21 Thread Christophe Fergeau
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium). One of the tracks will be the CrossDesktop DevRoom, which will host Desktop-related talks. We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source

Re: Call for Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi Emily, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 07:16:37PM +0800, Emily Chen wrote: I click on below link, but see a message below: *We have temporarily disabled the creation of new requests and invites in preparation of the launch of the new UI for Melange later this week.* So, we will wait for the

Call for Summer of Code ideas

2011-03-07 Thread Christophe Fergeau
tasks, pop on over to #soc-admin, join the soc-mentors-list and let one of the administrators for the program know you want to be involved in making GNOME rock. This year's administrators are Vincent Untz, Ruben Vermeersch, Christophe Fergeau and Daniel Siegel. Cheers, The GNOME Google Summer

Re: Crossdesktop at FOSDEM: call for papers

2010-12-13 Thread Christophe Fergeau
have to apply for one in the crossdesktop devroom instead. Cheers, Christophe (call for paper email below) 2010/11/16 Christophe Fergeau t...@gnome.org: [Forwarding this email on Bart's behalf, I'll be the gnome contact for the fosdem devroom] FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source

Crossdesktop at FOSDEM: call for papers

2010-11-16 Thread Christophe Fergeau
[Forwarding this email on Bart's behalf, I'll be the gnome contact for the fosdem devroom] FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source events. It is held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 people. This year we will have a devroom for 2 days dedicated to Cross-Desktop

Re: GUADEC 2010, call for papers

2010-03-09 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, The GUADEC Call for Participation has the following time line: * Friday, March 19th: Deadline for submission of abstracts * Friday, April 10th: Notification of speakers Please submit your proposal before March 20th through [1]the online paper submission system. Papers

Re: Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)

2010-01-05 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, best wishes for 2010! 2009/12/13 Christophe Fergeau cferg...@gmail.com Hi everyone, As for the last few years, we'll have a GNOME devroom next year at FOSDEM (6/7 feb in Brussels), and as always, we want *YOU* to give a talk about the cool project you are hacking on in this devroom

Call for Talks - FOSDEM 2010 (GNOME devroom)

2009-12-14 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, As for the last few years, we'll have a GNOME devroom next year at FOSDEM (6/7 feb in Brussels), and as always, we want *YOU* to give a talk about the cool project you are hacking on in this devroom During this week-end, we'll have half a day dedicated to GNOME specific talks, and

Re: Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2009-01-23 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, 2009/1/22 Christophe Fergeau t...@gnome.org: If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world As I already said in a few mailing lists, I'd like to make it clear that this email didn't originate from me. Some spammer forged emails using my

[eugnome] Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2009-01-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world, the real power behind the so-called ''military-industrial complex'', the real maleficent power that has led this world to inexorable conflict, war, hatreds, destruction of real human values, morality, conscience

Wake Up World! Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

2009-01-22 Thread Christophe Fergeau
If you want to know who the real establishment is in America and around the world, the real power behind the so-called ''military-industrial complex'', the real maleficent power that has led this world to inexorable conflict, war, hatreds, destruction of real human values, morality, conscience

Fosdem 2007 - Call for talks

2007-01-03 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi everyone, and happy new year ;) This year again we'll have a GNOME devroom at FOSDEM, and we need *you* to give a talk in that room to make it rock even more than the one we had in 2006. Devroom talks are 30/35 minute long talks presenting one aspect of the GNOME community you care about.

FOSDEM: Call for Talks for the Gnome Dev Room

2006-01-18 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Want to have fun in Brussels? Here is a reminder, we are still looking for people to give talks in the gnome devroom during FOSDEM. You are a hacker and you are going to FOSDEM ? So you surely want to present the project you are hacking on to the world, to convince fellow hackers that your stuff

FOSDEM Gnome Dev Room: Call for Talks

2005-12-01 Thread Christophe Fergeau
Hi, During the week-end of February 25 and 26th, the FOSDEM 2006 will be held in Brussels. FOSDEM is a 2 days event to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Gnome has a dedicated Developers Room, where we can give talks about the project. That's why we are looking for