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
* 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
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
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"?
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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:
*
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,
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
, 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
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,
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
On Wed, January 2, 2013 7:49 pm, Andrew Cowie wrote:
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 23:53 +, Juanjo MarÃn 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
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)
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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