Re: New GNOME Foundation and Emeritus members

2022-09-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome to all the new GNOME Foundation members! So happy to have you all here! Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions or need a guide around the GNOME community! Best, sri On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 5:27 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership

Re: Final results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2022

2022-06-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna via foundation-list
Congratulations to the new board - looking forward to seeing all that you accomplish! Special welcome to the new board members. :) Cheers, sri On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 3:31 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Foundation members, > > The preliminary results for this year's elections were not challenged. >

Re: Board Application for spring 2022 - Regina Nkemchor Adejo

2022-06-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I would like to second Regina's nomination and strongly believe she is an asset to the GNOME foundation. Through her efforts I have seen many women thrive in free software and open source community. Best, Sri On Mon, Jun 6, 2022, 3:04 AM Regina Nkemchor via foundation-announce <

Re: New Foundation & Emeritus Members

2022-05-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 9:00 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly > approved Foundation and Emeritus members. Please welcome and thank them for > their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation! >

Re: New Foundation & Emeritus Members

2021-05-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Congratulations everyone - really pleased to see some of the names here - and looking forward to all your future contributions! All the best! sri On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 11:51 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly >

Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey

2021-03-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I just filled out and amazingly after I took it - I was filled with peace. Fill yours out today! Peace, sri On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:05 AM Kristi Progri wrote: > Hello, > > We’ve completed our the second stage of our chat evaluation, community and > team interviews, and are ready to start the

Re: Intent to deprecate Jabber server

2020-07-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:44 AM Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > Hello, > > During routine infrastructure review, we found out that our Jabber > server usage is very low, i.e. fewer than 5 users login regularly. We > would like to shut it down, but as we could have missed some serious use > case,

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of March 30, 2020

2020-05-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:31 AM philip.chimento--- via foundation-announce wrote: > * Foundation mission/vision >* Allan: I would like to get an idea of the direction of travel for this, > and a working group will work on it. The main question is what we think is > most important: user

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

2019-08-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sounds good to me. As the person who pushed engagement team to move over, I'm fully behind moving everything to discourse! sri On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 1:03 PM Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Olav, > > On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > > it has been around half a year since

A note on the candidates

2019-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
For those voting for candidates, I wanted to give some background to the two newer candidates who some may not be completely familiar with them as they are relatively new to the community. All the candidates are wonderful human beings who I think will execute the job of directors to the best of

Re: New GNOME Foundation staffer - Program Coordinator

2019-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 10:47 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > Dear Foundation members, > > I'm very pleased to announce that Kristi Progri has joined us today > (3rd January) to take on the role of Program Coordinator. This is a great news and a perfect start for the new year! I know those of us on

Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

2018-12-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:25 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 19:25 -0500, James wrote: > > One question: is Emmanuele given any particular tasks or direction > > for > > GTK+, eg: does the GNOME foundation have any specific priorities > > they'd like to address, or is it more

Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

2018-12-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:07 PM Christian Hergert wrote: > > On 12/2/18 9:51 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > > I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome in this new role! > > I couldn't be more happy to hear this news! Congrats Emmanuele, it's > well deserved! I concur! Congratulations, Emmanuele!

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of August 21, 2018

2018-08-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
re: ED report Would the ED report be available for the rest of us? It would be nice to know what's happening from the ED perspective for all our members. Also huge kudos to Phillip for consistently putting minutes out every week, on time like clockwork. Bravo! Thank for rest the board for all

Re: New Foundation members

2018-08-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Congratulations to all the new members to the GNOME Foundation! Welcome to the GNOME family! :-) As I tell all new foundation members that I hope to see great things from all of you! Cheers, sri On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:17 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Membership, > > The GNOME Foundation

Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

2018-07-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Congrats everyone!! Really excited to see Sam, Michael, Britt, Nathan accepted into the foundation! Iain - well deserved.. your work on the systemd/gnome-session is so awesome :) Jean Felder (GNOME Music) and Jan-Michael Brummer welcome! :) sri On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:06 PM Andrea Veri

GUADEC 2018 Registration is now open!

2018-06-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hello Everyone! The GUADEC team is pleased to announce that registration for GUADEC 2018 in Almería, Spain, is now open! We look forward to seeing all of you for many days of talks, hackfests, and conversations. We have some amazing events including a beach party and a picnic during the

Re: Welcome to Didier Roche, new Board member!

2018-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:25 AM Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mardi 30 janvier 2018, à 12:01 -0800, Nuritzi Sanchez a écrit : > > Welcome Didier, and thank you for accepting this position! We look > forward > > to working together in the months ahead. > > That's great news, Didier

Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

2018-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:27 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our > newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for > their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation! >

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

2018-01-23 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:32 AM Allan Day wrote: > 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 > >

Promoting Patreon campaigns in December

2017-11-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Greetings! The engagement team is interested in promoting patreon projects for the month of December. In Europe and Amercas, December is considered a time of giving and so it seems like a perfect opportunity to talk up giving to our current patreon projects. We are aware of three patreon

Re: CoC Enforcement Training Interest

2017-10-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:52 PM 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. The > event is tentative now, but we

Re: public money public code - supporting current FSFE campain

2017-09-17 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:22 AM wrote: > I am also in favour of this, but I think before sending a patch that > speaks on behalf of the Foundation you should have an explicit okay from > the board, rather than implicitly by no objections within a day. > Neal already

Re: Introducing Christoph Simon

2017-09-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 5:50 AM Christoph Simon wrote: > > Computers and Programming are hobbies to me, I do know mainly Python > and C, and some microcontroller and FPGA programming because I use > those to control my power supply. I also know GTK, I've already used it >

Re: Thanks to outgoing directors

2017-08-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 3:42 AM Allan Day wrote: > 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

Re: Send us your pants nominations

2017-07-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sorry a little late, but my nomination is for Tom Tryfonidis although I'm not sure if he will be at GUADEC. His contributions have been the new wiki design and working on various web projects. While I do respect those who work on our platform, I have a lot of respect who work on our

Re: Change of Officers | Treasurer 2016-2017

2017-06-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:25 PM Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > > The Board thanks Ekaterina for all of her work over the past few years > serving as Treasurer. She has helped shape the GNOME Foundation's financial > policies and has, in many ways, been the guardian of the financial

Re: Interested community members @ domains ownership

2017-02-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I don't think we need to keep up www.gnomejournal.org Sri On Wed, Feb 22, 2017, 9:37 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > @membership: > > The following set of domains is about to expire in less than 60 days > and the Board of Directors confirmed there's no real interest in these > renewals

Re: Quick introductions

2017-02-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:57 AM Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi all, > > As previously announced, I've now started full time as the GNOME > executive director. I thought I'd send a quick email to (officially) > say hi! > > Great to have you officially onboard! :) sri

Re: Welcome, Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation Executive Director!

2017-02-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, 2:23 PM Nuritzi Sanchez wrote: > Dear Foundation Members, > > After a long period of being without an Executive Director, I'm pleased to > announce on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board the appointment of Neil > McGovern. > Welcome! I speak for many

Re: Proposal: creation of IRC Operators Team

2016-12-12 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:33 AM Carlos Soriano via foundation-list < foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > And the people I though to be part of this team of OP's in those channels > are Andre Klapper (andre), Alexandre Franke (afranke) and me, Carlos > Soriano (csoriano). > > I plan to put this

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August, 2nd, 2016

2016-08-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 8:25 PM Hubert Figuière wrote: > On 29/08/16 01:54 AM, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > > * GNOME Summit 2016 in Montreal > > My question is: Who is in charge of this? In order to contact said team > to volunteer to help. I'm local to Montréal. > I believe Jeff

Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

2016-06-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 4:45 PM Scott Reeves <sree...@suse.com> wrote: > >>> On 6/1/2016 at 11:14 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone, > >

Re: GNOME stand at Texas Linux Fest 2016

2016-06-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:58 AM Allan Day wrote: > 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

Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members

2016-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 5:51 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our > newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them > for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation!

Re: This week in Gnome?

2016-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:47 AM Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:47:16PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me of the old days :-) > > > > Various people did that in the past: > > > > >

Re: This week in Gnome?

2016-05-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM Luis Villa wrote: > Wikimedia has a pretty good "this week in", and it adds a lot of value. > But it is a lot of work to do well. > > (I seem to recall we even used to have one in GNOME, though I can't find > evidence of that offhand. Would have been

Fwd: Texas Linux Fest 2016 CFP

2016-05-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
.de>, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org>, Sriram Ramkrishna < s...@ramkrishna.me> Greetings, valued GNOME friends, Nate Willis here; amongst my other project pastimes, I'm one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest, which is the leading community Linux-and-FOSS conference for Texas and the

01/15/2015 Engagement Meeting Minutes

2016-01-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
tl;dir summary * Engagement team will be focusing on Annual Report * Visual design for how GNOME releases software * Recruitment video to increase engagement team members If you are interested in joining the engagement team, please join our mailing list and our meetings. We are goign to be

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members and Emeritus Members

2015-12-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Rock! :) On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 5:41 AM Andrea Veri wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our > newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them > for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of August, 05th, 2015 (GUADEC)

2015-08-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
: * Tobias Mueller == Regrets == * Cosimo Cecchi * Christian Hergert Just a correction, I was at this meeting from 1pm onwards. * Old board members: * Karen Sandler * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Sriram Ramkrishna == Missing == == Board meeting == * Quick round of introduction for new

Re: Looking for speakers for hacknight in Gothenburg on Aug 11th

2015-07-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: Hi all! FOSSGBG is a local free software group here in Gothenburg that has meetups every month or so to discuss various FOSS subjects. They're having an event on the 11th of August [1]. Since this overlaps with the

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

2015-07-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Richard, Yes, there is no support for GNOME, although they don't seem to have talked about working with upstream. My concern of course is that if this is a scam, the visual design is enough that those who feel they have been cheated would wrongfully associated that product with GNOME. If

Re: Final Results - GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2015

2015-06-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Jun 20, 2015 06:46, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Foundation! The preliminary results for this year's elections were not challenged. This means, in the next term, our Board of Directors will be composed of the following Foundation members: Allan Day Andrea Veri

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Mike Saunders m...@linuxvoice.com wrote: Hi Rosanna, Thanks for that -- I'll chase it up with our own bank, and when we've confirmed that the money has been returned to us, we'll use a different method to donate to GIMP. You know, Mike. If you're

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: First, while I'm extremely impressed by the huge variety of UI design ideas that GNOME has experimented with, and many of them have been quite successful, I think GNOME needs some mechanism to recognize when an idea

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2015-05-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 May 2015 at 01:41, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board. Max come from GNOME.Asia team and thanks GNOME and board support

Re: GIMP donation

2015-05-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Mike Saunders m...@linuxvoice.com wrote: Hi everyone, I work for Linux Voice magazine and we donated £300 to GIMP (via the Gnome Foundation): http://www.linuxvoice.com/first-profit-donating-scheme-the-winners/ We made a bank transfer following the

Question on community to the candidates.

2015-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
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 would do it as a community even if they were not

Re: [OT] Re: You logo

2015-04-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: Let's be real: this is pure drama and it is more than slightly ironic that the original topic of this thread has been completely derailed by those seeking to censor off-topic discussion... For the record, I agree

Re: New GNOME Foundation Member

2015-02-19 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:13 AM, ahmad haris princeofg...@di.blankon.in wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Ahmad Haris (mostly known as princeofgiri) from Indonesia. I never contribute directly to GNOME. HI Ahmad!! Recently, I'm a part of BlankOn Developer (local linux distribution) and have

Re: New GNOME foundation member

2015-02-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:21 AM, SAHIL SAREEN sahil.sar...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello everyone I'm Sahil Sareen(#ssareen) and I've been enjoying contributing to GNOME-games especially chess. Welcome! Feel free to say Hi, if I'm around! :) Looking forward to see all the great things you'll do

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote: So yes, I still find it intimidating because it's hard

Re: foundation application..

2015-02-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Luis Menina liberfo...@freeside.fr wrote: So yes, I still find it intimidating because it's hard to feel legitimate when you're a small contibutor. And that's part of the

Re: OUTAGE: bugzilla.gnome.org, 09th February (09:00 CET) - 10th February (22:00 CET)

2015-02-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: The upgrade has been finalized and the machine is back to production. A special thank you goes to Andre Klapper and Krzesimir Nowak for their hard work to make this happen. We are also happy to announce Krzesimir has joined the

foundation application..

2015-02-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Do people find the application to the foundation to be intimidating? I've talked to a number of people and I get the feeling that unless I do coding or something that I'm not a valuable member. Even with all the stuff I do, I still feel inadequate when I renew... I was just curious if other

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

2015-02-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
* Rosanna Yuen * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Jeff Fortin * Andrea Veri * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Sriram Ramkrishna == Regrets == == Missing == == Board meeting == * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015 * Unfortunately was not organized yet, so possibility of piggybacking

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

2015-02-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Zhurakhinskaya * Jeff Fortin * Andrea Veri * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Sriram Ramkrishna == Regrets == == Missing == == Board meeting == * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015 * Unfortunately was not organized yet, so possibility of piggybacking on the SFC dinner event

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 09th, 2015

2015-01-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Luis Villa l...@lu.is wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: * ED search ? Clearly, we don't have anything new to report on that front. However, I do plan on having a discussion at FOSDEM and figure out how to go about

Re: The GNOME Infrastructure is now powered by FreeIPA!

2014-10-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Andrea, Thank you for all you and Patrick's hard work on getting this done! Awesome! ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

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

2014-09-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote: On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: It seems to me that this thread has turn into a series of counter arguments with no specific direction. Before we go ahead, can we please clarify: a) What

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of August 29th, 2014

2014-09-15 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 23:42 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: * Getting a Bountysource account for the Foundation? (see Bounties for GNOME/GTK thread) * ACTION: Rosanna to open the account and coordinate with Daniel

Re: Boston Summit 2014

2014-07-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote: Hi, I know people are busy with GUADEC prep, but I just wanted to start the thread early around this year's Boston Summit. Last year's was in Montréal, so following the pattern we'll do Boston again, right? I can take

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hiya Jim! On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org wrote: Hello everyone, Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sorry for my late reply. GMail is horrible with finding old threads sometimes. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sri, On 14 May 2014 01:16, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Affiliation: Intel Corporation I'm running

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Affiliation: Intel Corporation I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation. I plan on continuing my efforts

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

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote: Do you have examples of situations where Red Hat (or any other company or corporation for that matter) has trumped what most of the community wants/needs? If you do, what do you think the board could/should do about it? I

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Pardon my late reply. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Andy Tai a...@gnu.org wrote: Hi, I would like to post this question to the candidates: GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks for run the board. This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit. My question to all of you: * What's your plan for Promote /

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Full disclosure - I wrok for Intel as the Tizen SCM architect. Since I brought up Tizen, I wanted to make it known that there is a relationship. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to ask below questions to future board: 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? I've read

Re: Upcoming deadline - candidates please answer the question from the foundation

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Yes, sorry, it's been a little busy with personal projects at home, so I haven't had as much time to answer. I've been working on answering them as I go. :) On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: We're five days away from voting opening. While some candidates

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil anish.develo...@gmail.com wrote: I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for

Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Affiliation: Intel Corporation I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation. I plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME Foundation and to external. There is still many things to do in order to make our platform and desktop attractive to everyone and I

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: If the board is going to make a policy change, then please bring it into working *first* and then entertain cases that occur after it not before. Otherwise it's just plain unfair. Since visa process is not in

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

2014-04-26 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote: The difference between your situation and Diego is that Diego isn't going anywhere and is out of money. I honestly *needed* 130 USD on the upcoming berlin hackfest but I was told the sponsorship is to *help* and not to cover

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

2014-04-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Mathieu Stumpf psychosl...@culture-libre.org wrote: Le mercredi 02 avril 2014 à 16:02 -0400, Richard Stallman a écrit : [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]

Re: OpenSSL's Heartbleed security bug status report

2014-04-08 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Apr 8, 2014 3:09 PM, Mathieu Duponchelle mduponchel...@gmail.com wrote: Good to see you react so fast, thanks for the work! Indeed! Thanks Andrea! On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2014, Andrea Veri wrote: Have an awesome day everyone

Re: Agenda for board meeting March 24th

2014-03-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
FYI tuesday isa March 25th. :-) Either that, I'm in big trouble! On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: The next board meeting is this Tuesday the 24th of March at 16:00 UTC * Outstanding reimbursements * Improve the cumbersome workflow * After a

Re: internal engagement

2014-03-04 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
an experiment, I will talk about some of the things the board is doing and if I see some positive feedback I will continue. How do people feel about that? sri On 1 March 2014 17:52, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: Greetings, foundation members! This list has been pretty quiet and I'm

internal engagement

2014-03-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Greetings, foundation members! This list has been pretty quiet and I'm wondering how best to talk about things going on in GNOME internally that would capture people's imagination. For the most part, we've been talking mostly about new members and welcoming them. But, I feel that we don't

Fwd: Articles, updated list

2014-03-01 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm looking for some fine volunteers to help us on writing our annual report! sri -- Forwarded message -- From: Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.org Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:09 PM Subject: Articles, updated list To: Engagement list engagement-l...@gnome.org Hey, Thanks

Re: [Introducing Myself] Back to my very first passion and love

2014-02-11 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: Dear GNOME Foundation Members, My name is Ali and 'amjjawad' is the username I use with FOSS Communities. I am also well-known as Ali Linx which is my first name and my endless Love that changed my entire life, that is

Re: Self-introduction

2014-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Welcome! Glad you took the plunge, and I thank you for all your work in making our Polish translations excellent in GNOME! On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Piotr Drąg piotrd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm Piotr Drąg, and I'm proud to be accepted as a Foundation member. I've been contributing to

Re: Hello from a new member

2014-01-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Yosef! Welcome to GNOME! Thank you for all your work, and it is great that you're helping out! Welcome again! On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Yosef Or Boczko yosef...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Thank you for accepting me as a member. I am Yosef Or Boczko, 16 y.o resides in Kokhav Ya'akov,

Re: FOSDEM 2014 participation

2014-01-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Jan 20, 2014 1:56 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Hello everyone. If you intend to go to FOSDEM, please consider to add yourself to this list: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/FOSDEM/2014/Stand#attendees We still need some people who commit to help out at the stand. I

Re: Happy to be a member of the gnome foundation

2014-01-02 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Mario Wenzel maw...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, as a new member of the foundation you are, so says the welcome-email, highly encouraged to write to this mailing list in order to introduce yourself. I am 25 years old and studying computer science (master) at the

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. We're

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
should should be keeping an eye or two out for? Emily On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US

Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia page with accurate information. (eg current board of directors, the list of companies on the advisory board and so forth) Currently, the information is very stale. Can someone volunteer? Probably take you about 30 minutes tops.

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-29 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
stale. Perhaps, we could identify them and perhaps pick a day and then get them all updated all at once? sri On 29 October 2013 15:58, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: We're looking for someone to update the GNOME Foundation wikipedia page with accurate information. (eg current

beginner tutorials in developer.gnome.org

2013-10-27 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I was looking at the tutorials and it seems that the tutorials we currently have are only tested against 3.6. Meaning we do not test them on a current release and then republish them under the new release. What can we do to ensure that the excellent work that Taryn Fox has done continues to work

Re: New Foundation members

2013-10-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. Welcome folks!

Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

2013-10-24 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Great job, guys! -- Sriram Ramkrishna (sriram.ramkrishna_@@_...@.gmail.com (remove _@@_) On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Status update: 1. bugzilla and clipboard are back up again and the services were restored just fine. 2. the manegement cards have

Re: Mass Reboot: Sunday 20th, 22:00 - 23:30 PM GMT+2

2013-10-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Thanks for the status, Andrea. Much appreciated. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, all the servers rebooted successfully except two machines (seems they are stuck at Rebooting machine) that are actually going to be power-cycled as soon as the on-site

Re: [worldof]gnome forums

2013-10-18 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Christian Schaller cscha...@linuxrising.org wrote: Any explanation for why the forum is so unmaintained? I mean I am sure it would be possible to get community volunteers to help clean it up. Probably a lack of active volunteers. I didn't remember it being

Re: Status of reports

2013-09-30 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Oliver, I believe there is still interest. We completed the 2012 Annual report and it was passed out at GUADEC. Some folks from the engagement team and others help put in the work on 2012. I don't know if we can pull together something for 4th quarter which is what I think we have time for

Re: Agenda for board meeting September 17th

2013-09-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I think we should also discuss the Friends of GNOME donation situation which I believe we had discussed at the F2F. If I recall, we do not have a good way to track contributions with our current provider and we really should think about alternatives or find some alternatives. sri On Fri, Sep

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of September 3, 2013

2013-09-13 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, On 09/12/2013 01:49 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: * Spam for board-related lists * Andrea suggested that the only way to reduce spam is to moderate the list * Added new rules SpamAssassin integration with

Re: New Foundation Member from Peru

2013-07-10 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Sergio! Welcome to the GNOME Foundation! Have some coffee, write some code, be excellent! :) On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Sergio Infante Montero raulserg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all A few days ago, I received a welcome message to GNOME Foundation as a new member in response to my

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