Re: Board of Directors Elections 2019 - Candidacy - Jeremy Allison

2019-06-01 Thread Karen Sandler
Google and outside of Google. I've had my differences with some of the design decisions in the past (as Karen Sandler can attest :-), but I would really like to help add my experience and enthusiasm for Free and Open Source Software to the project. :D karen

Re: It's time again for pants nominations

2018-06-03 Thread Karen Sandler
* Sriram Ramkrishna for his community work, which is a list too long to summarize here +1, and just to be effusive about why... Sri has continually contributed to GNOME's PR, bringing life to the engagement team and looking out for newcomers generally. He's always enthusiastic and the fact

Re: Yorba Foundation looking to pass on copyrights

2016-03-25 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2016-03-25 05:19, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Adam, On 25 March 2016 at 08:46, Adam Dingle wrote: If GNOME itself could accept these copyrights, that would be ideal in my opinion. GNOME board members, I assume you are on this list - would you be willing to consider

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

2016-02-18 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2016-02-18 11:20, Tobias Mueller wrote: Hi! On So, 2016-01-24 at 16:33 +0100, Andrea Veri 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"?

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2015-05-29 19:35, Magdalen Berns wrote: Hi Karen, Thanks for your input. Also, we are not allowed to work for or against specific candidates for office. I think you are correct about this. Am I right in assuming that only applies to political parties in the USA, then? I don't know -- for

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-29 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2015-05-29 13:54, Richard Stallman wrote: Does this not limit the ability of the FSF to campaign against US laws which attack software freedom somewhat? In practice, the requirement is no difficulty at all. We could legally spend up to 10% of our budget on lobbying. Even if we did lobbying,

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2015-05-27 13:33, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: With that said, at the moment we are technically “delinquent so we have lost our tax exempt status for not submitting required 990 forms.[4,5] Assuming that has been a mistake and

More questions for Board candidates

2015-05-21 Thread Karen Sandler
I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has been said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board have a diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to answer yes on these, but I think it's good to know if at least a few people on the

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

2014-11-10 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-11-10 04:38, Magdalen Berns wrote: I highly doubt being an OPW mentor will increase the likelihood of my ending up in court. I think that is not in question here. The point is that if a big organisation who can afford to get sued is not willing to take a risk, why should an individual

Re: Agenda for board meeting on September 26th

2014-10-02 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-10-01 08:53, Richard Stallman wrote: GNOME is part of the GNU Project, whose goal is freedom for users. Not only that, but GNOME in particular was started to protect users from a specific threat to their freedom (nonfree Qt). So freedom is at the heart of GNOME and should never be

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

2014-09-29 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-09-29 13:13, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: [only foundation-list] On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 13:13 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: - Original Message - From: Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org On Sat, 2014-09-27 at 11:45 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: - Original Message

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th

2014-07-18 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-07-18 09:26, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda for the following meeting at any time.

Re: Supporting the free software movement

2014-06-03 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-06-03 17:33, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org To: foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 6:22:38 AM Subject: Supporting the free software movement [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider

Re: Question for candidates: OEMs

2014-05-22 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-22 15:10, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: - Our somewhat nonexistent OEM story Dell is currently shipping Ubuntu computers running Unity. Wouldn't it be desirable to see a major OEM shipping GNOME as well? If so, what steps do you

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-21 Thread Karen Sandler
I'm not going to quote the emails about company control and Red Hat's contributions in particular as I think it's gotten fairly heated and my thoughts are more easily generally expressed. I think we need both to be successful - companies that are invested in GNOME technologies who are users

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-21 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-21 13:04, Jeff Fortin wrote: Le dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 12:58 -0400, Dave Neary a écrit : So my question to all of you is: what are the main characteristics you will be looking for in the next executive director? When looking for a profile, there are a number of dials to twiddle: *

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:30, Emily Gonyer wrote: In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why? Because GNOME is, at least in theory, a free software 'project'. As such,

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:48, Oliver Propst wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:49, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: On 20 May 2014 14:30, Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com wrote: In regards to paid and unpaid contributors to GNOME, I honestly feel that unpaid contributions should be favored. I realize that is probably unlikely to occur, but it ought to. Why?

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:17, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:42, meg ford wrote: Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I am extremely busy. I was just reading through all of the emails to board candidates this morning, as the time I've had in the last few days for GNOME I've spent volunteering

Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-13 Thread Karen Sandler
Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes help other orgs (like the FSF) on legal and other free software related matters. As promised when I left the position of Executive

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-12 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-04-12 14:45, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: No, it wasn't know. If it had been known, spending would have been frozen by then and a budget for the hackfest would not have been approved. For perspective, people actually call this a success crisis. Thank you so much to the board and

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-12 Thread Karen Sandler
it already had in place. karen On Apr 12, 2014 5:26 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On 2014-04-12 14:45, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: No, it wasn't know. If it had been known, spending would have been frozen by then and a budget for the hackfest would not have been approved. For perspective

Re: Agenda for board meeting April 8th

2014-04-08 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-04-08 04:57, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Luis, On 8 April 2014 09:07, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote: Perhaps a naive question, but I would have expected discussion of hiring a new ED - is that being handled in a separate hiring committee? The board has discussed it for the last

Re: Is there GNU/Linux distribution which includes always latest gnome 3

2014-04-03 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-04-03 04:28, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Arch is a variant of the GNU/Linux system, so please let's not call it Arch Linux.  Calling the whole system Linux is, in effect, giving Torvalds credit for our work, so we get no credit for it. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html [1] and

Re: New challenge

2014-04-01 Thread Karen Sandler
Thanks everyone for your warm wishes, I'm so glad that leaving the paid role doesn't mean an end to the great work we're doing together. :) karen ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

New challenge

2014-03-31 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi Foundation members, I've posted some news on my blog. Working as the GNOME Foundation Executive Director has been an incredible experience for me and GNOME has made some impressive progress in my time at the Foundation. I'm proud of where the GNOME community is and think it's time for me

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 4th, 2014

2014-03-05 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-03-05 10:15, Sindhu S wrote: Hi! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote:    * Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the current state of Debian    * The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation    * They agreed to

GNOME.Asia Summit is calling for speaker submissions

2014-02-20 Thread Karen Sandler
hi all! The GNOME.Asia team has opened their call for papers: http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/02/gnome-asia-2014-is-now-calling-for-papers/ There's a list of suggested topics, and they're specifically looking for newcomers and experienced speakers alike. The conference will take place May

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-29 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2013-11-29 03:20, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi Karen, Le mardi 26 novembre 2013, à 00:47 -0500, Karen Sandler a écrit : As a lawyer I want to point out that the main thing about our trademark is to make sure that users (under the law: consumers) aren't confused about what comes from GNOME

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Karen Sandler
Apologies, I'm just going to jump in and respond here as there really was a lot of discussion I missed and I can't respond to everything. I'm also on the road even though I'm back from vacation (speaking at a conference in Ecuador), so I haven't been able to read everything. Firstly, I think it's

GUADEC 2015 bid deadline extended

2013-09-30 Thread Karen Sandler
Hello bidders, As I've talked about with each of you, I'm pleased to let you know that the bid process is extended another month, until October 31. Given that the event is not until 2015, it makes sense to give you a little more time to get organized. Thanks so much for submitting your

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-09-13 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, August 15, 2013 5:03 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub. As you can see in the minutes published today, the board discussed the thread about GitHub and the various concerns on this issue.

Re: GUADEC videos are available only with nonfree codecs

2013-08-15 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, August 15, 2013 6:39 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 08/15/2013 12:02 PM, Christian Persch wrote: Yesterday I discovered that the GUADEC videos on http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/ are available only in proprietary formats, H.264 for the video and MP3 for the audio-only option.

GNOME Annual General Meeting August 2

2013-07-31 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi everyone, I wanted to write a little about the Annual General Meeting that we have scheduled for Friday. As we've done in the past, we have lined up short 5 minute presentations from the various team members so that the membership can find out what is going on across GNOME. I contacted

Re: Supporting GTK+

2013-07-04 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, July 4, 2013 4:06 pm, Martyn Russell wrote: On 07/01/2013 05:56 AM, Hu Zheng wrote: Can your tell me your paypal account? I want to donate some money to gtk project! As far as I am aware there is no PayPal account for the project specifically. AFAICS, your options are to either

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2013 - Preliminary Results

2013-06-10 Thread Karen Sandler
On Mon, June 10, 2013 8:13 pm, Max wrote: Congratulations to all the preliminary candidates ! ^__^ Thank you for running, Max, and congratulations to you on another successful GNOME.Asia Summit! (which surely distracted you from being able to write long responses to the questions on this list)

Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)

2013-05-25 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, May 23, 2013 4:57 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: It is not a good thing when there are so few candidates that nearly all have to be elected. With just 8 candidates and a 7-member board, we are only voting about which single one of these candidate not to put on the board. That is getting

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

2013-05-10 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, May 10, 2013 10:55 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our infrastructure. I've never heard the word gimp used as a

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

2013-05-09 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, May 8, 2013 3:53 pm, Philip Van Hoof wrote: Yet another PCPOS in GNOME. When will this stop? Is there an end? Any? I refer you to GNOME's Code of Conduct: https://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct/ Be respectful and considerate, patient and generous. Please take this into consideration in

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, April 26, 2013 4:51 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I'd love to visit Portland! However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west coast will have an impact on the travel budget since a lot of people live in Europe and the east coast. I know Sri is working hard to look into

Re: ANNOUNCE: The GUADEC 2013 Call for Presentations is now open!

2013-04-02 Thread Karen Sandler
On Tue, April 2, 2013 7:10 pm, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 2013-04-02 19:47, Gil Forcada wrote: El dt 02 de 04 de 2013 a les 18:09 +0100, en/na Emmanuele Bassi va escriure: Hi everyone! The call for presentations for GUADEC 2013 in Brno is finally open. You can register here: cut Sorry

Reminder: Call for a11y bids deadline in one week

2013-03-08 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi everyone, Just a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal to do a11y work with our Friends of GNOME money and Mozilla sponsorship is coming up a week from today. Details are here: http://www.gnome.org/news/2013/02/call-for-bids-for-gnome-accessibility-work/ Extra tip for

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-07 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, March 7, 2013 4:35 pm, alex diavatis wrote: Hello all and hello Stallman, On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: If it is going to be sold via Amazon, GNOME might want to look into the Amazon non-profit affiliates program. Please don't

Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-06 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi everyone, Packt Publishing has recently put out a book on GNOME 3, which was written by Mohammad Anwari. It would be great to have a review of the book on gnome.org. As with all of their books about free software projects, Packt will give us a small percentage of the royalties as a donation,

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-06 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, March 6, 2013 3:01 pm, Chris Leonard wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Hi everyone, Packt Publishing has recently put out a book on GNOME 3, which was written by Mohammad Anwari. It would be great to have a review of the book on gnome.org

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-06 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, March 6, 2013 2:47 pm, tong hui wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Mohammad Anwari I searched his name, so here is the book URL http://www.packtpub.com/gnome-3-application-development-beginners-guide/book Through the brief instruction

Andrea Veri - GNOME's new part-time sysadmin hire!

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Sandler
In the spirit of the below email from last week, I'm extremely pleased to announce that the Foundation is hiring Andrea to work as our new sysadmin contractor. We've been without someone in this position since Christer stepped down last year, and Andrea has really been sensational as a volunteer

Re: Andrea Veri - GNOME's new part-time sysadmin hire!

2013-01-24 Thread Karen Sandler
, Luis! I should note that this is made possible by both our individual Friends of GNOME sponsors and our corporate supporters. There's tons of work to be done, which I hope will help us in the coming years! karen On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote

Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics

2013-01-09 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, January 9, 2013 5:28 pm, Tobias Mueller wrote: Heya, On 09.01.2013 23:15, Andrew Cowie wrote: Would it be possible to set the moderation bit for Richard Stallman's posts to GNOME lists? sure it would be. The list is managed by mailman and it has that feature. As Stormy pointed out,

Re: Reaching out to Amazon for credit?

2013-01-06 Thread Karen Sandler
On Sun, January 6, 2013 9:20 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: There are some things that we must not tolerate on any pretext. Spyware is one of them. I agree with this sentiment, and am glad you are raising the issue. I liked the post you wrote, which I discuss with Bradley on our oggcast. To

Re: GNOME Quarterly Reports

2013-01-02 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, January 2, 2013 7:49 pm, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 23:53 +, Juanjo Marín wrote: I personally think that the major drawback is that there is a mismatch between the quarterly reports and our release scheme. Rather than being a PR exercise, the quarterly report

Re: Questions about the new GNOME Forums

2012-11-21 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, November 21, 2012 1:14 pm, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, Are those new forums: http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ the official GNOME forums? If so, why does they not follow the GNOME web style used on gnome.org, and more importantly, why are they hosted on a fansite (worldofgnome.org)

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-15 Thread Karen Sandler
to admit we need professional help - a point I'm sure even our harshest critics will agree with. Jon On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, November 14, 2012 8:40 am, Bastien Nocera wrote: - And discontent. Well, I think that I have reasonable doubts

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, November 14, 2012 2:28 pm, meg ford wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: The wrong idea of course is that people think we're just removing features for no apparent reason even though for instance fallback mode was never guarantee.

Re: Google Code-In 2012?

2012-10-15 Thread Karen Sandler
On Sun, October 14, 2012 10:49 am, Andre Klapper wrote: Google will run Google Code-In (GCI) again this year (see [1] below if you don't know what that is). Is the GNOME community interested in participating? Would you (developer, translator, doc writer, designer) be a mentor and provide

Re: Google Code-In 2012?

2012-10-15 Thread Karen Sandler
On Mon, October 15, 2012 6:01 am, Simos Xenitellis wrote: The announcement indeed does not mention translations. Are we positive that the organizers specifically do not want to have translation tasks this year? Citation? There's a page called Information for Mentors and Org Admins for GCI

Re: GNOME foundation exposure in BSD Mag?

2012-08-07 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi Antoine, On Tue, August 7, 2012 9:45 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi. As a regular contributor to the BSD Magazine I was proposed to put a half-page of advertisement free of charge in one of my articles (the ad does not need to be commercial). I was wondering if there was any interested

Re: Suggestions for format of AGM next year

2012-08-03 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, August 3, 2012 5:29 am, Allan Day wrote: Hi, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: ... I thought a bit about the AGM we had a few days ago, and I'd like to suggest we find a different format for next year. Thanks for putting this down, Vincent! Here's a list of issues with the

Call for GUADEC 2013 proposals

2012-06-29 Thread Karen Sandler
We announced this earlier this week on gnome.org - I hope you consider submitting a proposal! http://www.gnome.org/news/2012/06/call-for-guadec-2013-proposals/ Call for GUADEC 2013 Proposals The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC 2013. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2012-05-27 00:44, Stormy Peters wrote: I try to avoid these conversations because I think there are lots of over generalizations, stereotypes and emotions. I just want to say that I generally use the term open source *and* I believe in many of the values attributed to free software. I don't

board/ED contact (was Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-25 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2012-05-25 12:54, gnomeu...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/25 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com: Hi all, Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that you are interested in doing this important work. Thank you. A question for you: Sometimes it can feel like the Board of

Re: Brian Cameron - Stepping down from the board

2012-05-23 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2012-05-23 15:52, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 20:15 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: After serving 4 terms on The GNOME Foundation board of directors, I will be stepping down at the end of this term. Thanks for all the work you put into your position, Brian :) Yes,

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

Re: Boston Summit?

2012-04-27 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, April 27, 2012 2:47 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 04/27/2012 02:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: On 04/27/2012 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla offices? What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend

Re: GNOME Deutchland e.V. [Was: Re: European bank account for donations]

2012-03-09 Thread Karen Sandler
On Fri, March 9, 2012 7:30 am, Chris Kühl wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Dave Neary dne...@free.fr wrote: Hi, GNOME has at least 3 sister organisations, with bank accounts, in the EU: GNOME Hispanic, GNOME-fr and GNOME Deutschland eV. Why not create some kind of official

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, February 23, 2012 1:44 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: Google Docs operates using nonfree Javascript code. Is it possible for people to fill out your questionaire without running that nonfree program? I don't know, but I guess not. George, You might want to consider looking into

Re: IDLELO 5: March 19 - 23 2012

2012-02-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On Mon, February 20, 2012 4:12 pm, Tobias Mueller wrote: Heya, On 26.01.2012 16:30, Karen Sandler wrote: I think it's really important for GNOME to have a presence there. Is anybody going now? Not that I know of sadly. Perhaps we should start thinking about our participation next year now

Re: IDLELO 5: March 19 - 23 2012

2012-01-26 Thread Karen Sandler
On Tue, January 24, 2012 19:56, Ben Konrath wrote: For those interested, IDLELO 5 is taking place between March 19 - 23 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria. People requiring a visa must meet the requirements to get a visa application letter by February 20, 2012. Details can be found on this page:

Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-15 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, December 15, 2011 5:28 pm, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:41 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: What did the previous MIT contact do? Maybe I can get it done. We used to get free rooms (~4) at MIT on Columbus day long weekend. It would be great if you can get done

AGM Agenda for today! (4pm)

2011-08-09 Thread Karen Sandler
The AGM will be from 4pm-6pm in AGM, Fritz-Reuter-Saal at Dorotheenstraße 24 We will have short update presentations in the following areas: * Release Team * Design Team * Bug Squad * Accessibility Team * Marketing Team * Mobile * Website * Localization * Documentation Team * Events * Membership

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-08-03 Thread Karen Sandler
On Wed, August 3, 2011 2:50 am, Frederic Muller wrote: Why is it difficult to just give a rough number at end of our financial period ('09 or '10) and be done with it for now? The GNOME Foundation obviously hasn't complied to state laws for years (by not making the required form available to

my OSCON keynote

2011-08-02 Thread Karen Sandler
In case you are interested, O'Reilly has posted the video from my OSCON keynote, in which I connect my medical devices work to the importance of the desktop. Not sure how it translates to video, but it got a great response live - it was awesome to get people excited about freedom generally and

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-29 Thread Karen Sandler
This section is quite broad, and is only modified by the somewhat vague Fair Use section. Unfortunately, if taken literally, it would prevent On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:24 pm, Alan Cox wrote: The Fair Use section has another problem btw when someone is looking at this. Fair Use has no meaning

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:12 am, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011, à 20:13 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included, such as email, online discussion, package names, non-graphical advertisements (when

proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-27 Thread Karen Sandler
Various people have pointed out that a part of the GNOME Foundation Trademark Usage Guidelines for Third Parties could be improved. The Guidelines are at: http://foundation.gnome.org/licensing/guidelines/ The section entitled Use Proper Notice of Trademark reads: Identify GNOME Trademarks

my new GNOME blog

2011-07-24 Thread Karen Sandler
Hi! I've launched a blog where I plan to talk about my work for the GNOME Foundation as executive director: http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/ I've just published the following post, the first, I hope, of many! Hopefully the blog will also be on the planet soon. -Karen So we’re just over 3 weeks