Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

2009-01-05 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Olav Vitters o...@bkor.dhs.org wrote: Anyway, I'd rather add John Carr to the sysadmin team. I plan to make a proposal to switch GNOME to a DVCS where Git works using Johns suggestion. Then other sysadmins[1] can suggest whatever proposal they want. These

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-23 Thread Elijah Newren
At the risk of sounding like a bad person... On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM, James Henstridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the same arguments about not locking out candidates stand when you generalise single seat instant run-off to multiple seat single transferable vote: if the

Question for the candidates [Was: Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates]

2007-11-30 Thread Elijah Newren
Hi, As warned about earlier in this election (by someone with better foresight than I have), when there isn't an organized call for questions people will fire off zillions of them at random. This puts an unreasonable burden on not only the candidates who feel obligated to spend time responding

Re: Proposal: Shift election cycle back six months

2007-08-08 Thread Elijah Newren
On 8/7/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: So here's the proposal: I'd like to suggest we shift the election cycle back six months, landing the process in May and June [1]. More controversially, I reckon the best way to achieve this without a lot of pain would be to

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

2007-06-18 Thread Elijah Newren
On 6/18/07, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE. When both sides mentioned that the logistics of such an event seemed quite difficult, someone pointed out that helping with this kind of collaboration is one of the reasons for the existence of the Linux Foundation. So, there may

Re: Code of conduct (bis)

2006-12-04 Thread Elijah Newren
On 12/4/06, Andrew Sobala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has 82 signatures. Last year 169 members could be bothered to vote for the board. It sounds like we've pretty much got community adoption now, or will in a couple of days ;-) Additionally, the mailing list consensus is that no top-down

Re: Foundation Board Activity Watch

2006-10-26 Thread Elijah Newren
On 10/25/06, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you ever thought the board needs more transparency you should have a look at http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/2006ActivityWatch Hopefully this page will help communicating better the board activities. All the information is taken from the

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Elijah Newren
On 6/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. It doesn't look at all arbitrary to me. Behdad and

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Elijah Newren
On 6/5/06, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: So, the board can decide how many people it wants to have elected and then it can add an arbitrary number of additional members after the election. Why do we have elections in the first place? The board must have

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

2005-12-11 Thread Elijah Newren
On 12/11/05, Baris Cicek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. Candidates in order of votes received, with affiliations: Luis Villa (119 votes) - Harvard Law School Jeff

Re: Questions to answer

2005-11-26 Thread Elijah Newren
On 11/26/05, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Richard M. Stallman Does ISV stand for Independent Software Vendor? If so, the term is often misleading, because the most important developers of GNOME applications--those developing free software--are mostly not vendors. We use

Re: Questions to answer

2005-11-25 Thread Elijah Newren
On 11/25/05, Jonathan Blandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, we need to push our ISV platform. This is one of the biggest issues facing us, and as big an effort as getting GNOME 2.0 out was. We should start another group to work on this (similar to the release team) and for this

Re: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections

2005-11-11 Thread Elijah Newren
On 11/11/05, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being a candidate - If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested in running for election, you may (...) before November 14th 2005 (23:59 UTC). This is my first election period in the GNOME

Re: Petition for referendum

2005-10-09 Thread Elijah Newren
On 10/9/05, Ross Golder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wording of David's original call seemed clear enough to me: If you would like this issue to be debated, and decided, by the foundation membership, please add your name to the page. That may have been the wording in his email, but not on

Re: GNOME trademark guidelines and user group agreement

2005-09-10 Thread Elijah Newren
On 9/9/05, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Neary wrote: Let's say that it was a mistake, or that distributing the foot under the GPL is incompatible with defending it as a trademark - what remedy do you think we should consider? Seems like that's what

Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

2005-09-06 Thread Elijah Newren
On 9/6/05, Rob Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General Upgraded Android Designed for Efficient Calculation. Grandiose Ubiquitous Acronyms Designed to Eradicate Conflict ...or maybe at least the flamewars, though there might be a bug in their current implementation. ;-)