I would like to see us all agree on GNOME Foundation goals and then work on
how I can best make those happen.
So far we've gotten very little feedback on what people think the GNOME
Foundation should accomplish in 2010.
I've put together a short survey if you'd like to weigh in that way.
Please
**
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/01/25/stormys-update-week-of-january-18th/
Finally wrapped up the very long thread on the Foundation list and most of
the side conversations.
Met with a couple of advisory board members (via phone, email and IRC) to
discuss funding and GUADEC.
We are
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote:
In response to the first draft, I pointed out that it rejected the
ideas of the free software movement, and the only form of support it
gave was use of the term free software itself. Your new draft
cancels out that little
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/01/18/stormys-update-week-of-january-11th/
Started out my week late as it turns out that Amtrak can randomly cancel
trains - like for a whole weekend.
We had a GNOME Advisory Board meeting about GNOME Foundation 2010 goals. We
got a lot of good feedback.
Hi Richard,
Your suggestions would probably be better received if they didn't sound so
much like orders.
The GNOME project has said free and open source for a long time both on
our web pages and in press releases as far back as 2000. Changing it is
likely to bring up a long debate like the one
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.comwrote:
You all represent GNOME when you are out in the world.
Let me clarify a bit more.
I think that we all represent the groups we are a part of all the time,
especially when we are the only one from that group present
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote:
Using the term free software helps because it leads people to make a
connection with a philosophy that answers exactly that question. Other
helpful measures can include more prominently displaying the fact that
Hi Philip,
Please refrain from calling people crazy or disruptive. Please keep the
discussion on the actions not people's characters.
By labelling people with negative terms, these debates turn into arguments
instead of productive discussions.
Stormy
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Philip Van
I too usually prefer to use the term open source software. However, in this
context, I think the term free software is more appropriate.
To me, open source software is any software that meets the OSI definition,
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd. It is also the way most companies talk
about free
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org wrote:
On 1/15/10 9:45 AM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote:
I think it's a great idea to (at least) use both.
I'd favor this as well. What it gains in possible awkwardness (which
doesn't
bother me, I used to say
I will amend to say free and open source in the least awkward way I can.
Stormy
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org wrote:
On 1/15/10 10:10 AM, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no objections to free and open source other than it's awkwardness
I think what Lefty was trying to do was show that the list/community/group
has lots of different opinions and we all make lots of assumptions whenever
we talk about the community.
That said, I believe surveys are a very hard way to make definitive
statements.
Stormy
2010/1/15 Andy Tai
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org wrote:
I speak as part of GNOME, perhaps, but I don't speak _for_ GNOME. The
distinction is critically important. Speaking _for_ GNOME is a job for
Stormy and the Board, and those to whom they might choose to delegate that
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/01/12/stormys-update-week-of-january-4th/
- Worked a bit on CiviCRM. Could really use some more volunteers. (A big
thanks to Jeff Schroeder, Dave Greenberg and Donald Lobo.) Put in sponsoring
companies, adboard members, (Dave Neary also added some
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/12/21/stormys-update-week-of-december-14th/
Pinged some people to help with GUADEC by mentoring or creating timelines.
Had a great conversation with Sara Crouse from Wikimedia about how they
find, apply and manage grants, like ones from the Hewlett
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote:
2009/12/14 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org:
Had a great GNOME Advisory Board meeting about events and copyright
assignments. The copyright assignment discussion in particular was very
dynamic.
Care to expand on that one
*
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/12/14/stormys-update-week-of-december-7th/
http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/12/stormys-update-week-of-december-7th.html
***
Answered a lot of emails and had a lot of discussions. As for things I
actually crossed off my todo list:
- Updated CiviCRM
Are there people on this list that are not GNOME Foundation members? If so,
can you speak up? It would be good for everyone to know why you subscribe to
foundation-list and the value you see in it.
Also, maybe someone with list admin privileges could tell us roughly the
number of subscribers and
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
There is precedent for a membership petition for an election. I ran one
to have the board size reduced some years ago:
http://live.gnome.org/BoardSizePetition
At the time I was told I needed 10% of the membership:
Planet GNOME is about people and we display everyone's full blog feed as it
represents them. There are people that work on proprietary software as well
as GNOME and that's who they are. I don't think we should reject people
because they don't agree with us 100% of the time.
My post on hunting
and energy making GNOME projects and
events a success. We couldn't do it without you.
We look forward to an exciting 2010 and the release of GNOME 3.0!
Best,
Stormy
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:08 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote:
[1] How does one define that they have left the GNOME community ?
If this is a concern that many have, maybe it would be simple enough to
send an annual reminder to people that are aggregated on Planet GNOME to let
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/11/29/stormys-update-november-21st-29th/
Attended (and gave several planned and several impromptu talks at) the GNOME
Asia Summit http://gnome.asia/November 20-22nd. It was great to see GNOME
Asia successfully transition to a an annual conference. The GNOME
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Mukund Sivaraman m...@banu.com wrote:
I think this is taking it too far. The Code of Conduct being
presented as a set of guidelines is OK, but it is not wise to make it
policy. The GNOME project is not a sect, to control what I can and
cannot say/do in
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Lionel Dricot pl...@ploum.net wrote:
What is exactly the problem here? Sometimes some people are offended by
the content of planet GNOME? OK, it has always be the case but it's a
problem. A rare one but still a problem.
What effect will have deciding of
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mukund Sivaraman m...@banu.com wrote:
Hi Stormy
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:36:41AM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
We are talking about GNOME hosted platforms. Planet GNOME,
blogs.gnome.organd the GNOME mailing lists are all forums we host and
I think we can
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/11/21/stormys-update-october-11th-november-20th/
Not as much detail as normal as I'm covering a much longer time frame ...
I'll be returning to weekly updates now.
Marketing
hackfesthttp://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/11/gnome-marketing-hackfest.html.
Helped
The GNOME Foundation would like to present the Q3 2009 Quarterly report (HTML
version http://foundation.gnome.org/reports/gnome-report-2009-Q3.html).[1]
Q3 is always a big quarter for the GNOME Foundation and this one was bigger
and better than usual. During Q3 we had our annual GUADEC, and
*
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/10/19/stormys-update-september-29th-october-16th/
***
I went to two conferences during the past couple of weeks:
- Grace Hopper Women in Computing
http://gracehopper.org/2009/Conference in Tucson, Arizona. I went to
the Grace Hopper Women in Computing
The HFOSS project has received another round of funding from the National
Science Foundation that will support their activities through August 2011.
The HFOSS project stimulates interest in the computer science major by
getting students involved in humanitarian free software projects. Last year
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/09/28/stormys-update-week-of-september-14th-and-21st/
*
*
*This is my update for work done for the GNOME Foundation during the weeks
of September 14th and 21st.*
I spent a lot of my last week communicating with lots of people. (At one
point I had three IM
Paroz cla...@2xlibre.net wrote:
Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 à 18:08 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
Le samedi 12 septembre 2009, à 10:09 +0530, sankarshan a écrit :
Hi,
2009/9/11 Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org:
This is our first quarterly report[1]. Please let us know if you find
Jamse Vasile and Josh Levy have invited all GNOME friends in the New York
area to their Software Freedom Day event.
A reminder to all GNOME folks, please register any GNOME parties you know of
at http://softwarefreedomday.org/ and let the press team (
gnome-press-t...@gnome.org) know so they can
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/09/14/stormys-update-week-of-september-7th/
Monday was a US holiday.
Met with a company interested in using Linux and GNOME. (Actually using it
but not as much as they'd like.) They had a lot of feedback for us and we
talked about ways that they could get
Hi GNOME Foundation members,
I just wanted to remind everyone that there is a GNOME Women mailing list
[1] and welcome people to join.
There are some plans coming up to encourage and promote women's
participation in GNOME:
* There is a Mini Summit on Women in Free Software this Saturday at the
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/09/08/stormys-update-week-of-august-31st/
If you measure productivity based on what gets done (as opposed to how hard
you work), this was a frustrating week.
What I got done:
- Got a new advisory board member invoiced. (Well, Rosanna invoiced them,
/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange/ROSE-Blog-Interviews-Stormy-Peters-Executive-Director-of-the-GNOME-Foundationwith
Rikki Kite for her series on women
in open
sourcehttp://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/ROSE-Blog-Rikki-s-Open-Source-Exchange-
suggested some more GNOME women
, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, August 24th, 2009 -- On
September 19, 2009, Deborah Nicholson of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation and Hillary Rettig, free
software activist and author of The Lifelong Activist, will gather a
small group of women activists
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
conference in one go. Also why the Linux Foundation (Gold in GUADEC
2008) didn't come back in the Summit? Was this a consequence of the
co-location or would have happened anyway with the Global Crisis? And
Intel, and ARM...?
I interviewed 21 advisory board members representing 15 organizations in
June 2009. Each conversation took 30-60 minutes. My full notes were sent to
the GNOME Board of Directors.
During these interviews, I was specifically asking for feedback. While most
of the people I talked to were positive
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/08/08/stormys-update-week-of-august-3rd/
Worked on the quarterly report.Got 11 updates out of the 15 we’d like to
include. (And if I forgot a team, please let me know!!) Working on two more
with the team leads. Waiting on two additional ones. Editing them
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/08/03/stormys-update-week-of-july-27th/
The GNOME Accessibility team will be using some of their earmarked funds to
have a booth at 2010 CSUN - set up by Eitan Isaacson. I think this is great
as it's a way to reach users who may not already be using a free
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/07/27/stormys-update-week-of-july-20th/
Thanks to everyone who helped get things done this week!
I think we could have a bunch more roles in GNOME. We could have someone in
charge of customer case studies, someone responsible for GNOME presentation
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/07/20/stormys-update-week-of-july-13th/
First thing Monday morning I went to the doctor who determined that I had a
sinus infection. (For fellow travelers, if your cheekbones ache and your
teeth feel like they are going to fall out every time the plane takes
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/06/12/stormys-update-week-of-june-8th/
This was a crazy week with a ton of meetings but I asked for it!
I set up one on one (phone) meetings with (almost) all the advisory board
members. I wanted to talk about their GUADEC plans, what they’d like to see
at
Short week as I got back from vacation mid-week. (The lab setup went really
well. Hopefully people will start to blog on http://www.kidsoncomputers.org
.)
Caught up with a ton of email. Only sent out two redundant emails I think.
(That’s emails that I wouldn’t have sent out if I read all my mail
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/07/07/stormys-update-week-of-june-29th/
Answered several sets of email interview questions for articles about the
Desktop Summit.
Interviewed several more advisory board members. Tried to get the writeup
out before GUADEC but didn’t quite manage.
Wrote one
I too think the election committee should just decide.
(From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it however
Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee should
decide.)
Stormy
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Winship d...@gnome.org wrote:
On
There was no active moderator on the marketing list and I think the sys
admin team just corrected that. (Yeah!)
Stormy
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.comwrote:
Paul:
Brian, I show this as sent May, 15th:
Ah, yes, I see that now. Sorry for the noise.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
So if the Concrete Goals are your quarterly bonuses what is the Extra
Budget
Goals are broken down into concrete goals, things you can say yes, that
happened and discretionary which is things the board will have to make
Thanks, Jaap.
I asked several people to review it prior to sending. I appreciate you
taking the time to walk through it and check all the calculations.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Stormy,
You might also want to check the Wages and Travel sheet. I
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org wrote:
Hi Stormy,
I was making the budget spreadsheet a bit less error prone by using
named cells and found another bug.
If you look at the Corporate Contributions sheet the total for
programs in 22K$ on the Programs sheet
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2009/06/08/stormys-update-week-of-june-1st/
Went to the Open Source Systems Conference http://oss2009.org/. This was a
very different academic group than
TOShttp://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Pageand
HFOSS http://hfoss.org/. Instead of professors using
The minutes from most of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors' meetings
have now been posted at:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes
The rest will be posted tomorrow. Please feel free to post any questions
here for discussion. (I am debating posting the contents of the minutes
I had already put it in the wiki and removed my old spreadsheet on this
page:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/Tasks/FriendsOfGNOME
We can also put it on the finance page. If you have access to that, that'd
be great. (I can only modify the wiki ...)
Thanks,
Stormy
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at
Oh, sorry. Too much email today ...
Sounds good. If you can give me a hand putting it there that'd be great.
I'll look into getting a git account and maybe get someone to give me a
mini-tutorial if necessary at GUADEC.
Stormy
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma j...@haitsma.org
:
Stormy Peters wrote:
I have been posting my weekly updates on
http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/. It was pointed out to me that I
should also post them to foundation-list for those that don't read
news.gnome.org http://news.gnome.org regularly. So here it is!
This stuff is great, Stormy
Philip,
Sometimes people say inappropriate things in inappropriate tones on GNOME
forums, irc, mailing lists, blogs, etc. Right now, the community just lets
them. We don't enforce our Standards of Conduct.
Dave was pointing out what we do have the power to do something about it. If
we decide to
AM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 10:27:00 -0400
Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On 05/30/2009 08:10 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
(And we have lost members of our community because we haven't enforced
that Code of Conduct.)
How accurate
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:45 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
That's exactly correct. Another term for it is 'volunteer'. :) You're
certainly welcome to volunteer to improve it yourself, of course.
It's far beneath her
So I'm hearing Dave say we need more policing and Philip saying everything
is ok. What do others think?
Does the community think everything is ok? Or if not, do they want to self
police or delegate taking action to the board? (Or both.)
Philip, I agree that your blog is yours, but supposedly you
You're right. That $15,000 seems to be hard coded in and it should be
pulling from the corporate contributions spreadsheet. I'll fix it.
That said, the fix should probably be in the corporate contributions
spreadsheet as many of the companies that expressed interest in sponsoring
hackfests are no
If anyone is interested in helping, we've brought up the idea of a GNOME
store several times on marketing-l...@gnome.org. Please join us there.
Stormy
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On 05/01/2009 02:07 PM, Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote:
On Fri, May
If you are interested in hosting the GNOME booth at OpenSource World, please
let GNOME marketing know, marketing-l...@gnome.org.
Stormy
-- Forwarded message --
From: Don Marti dma...@zgp.org
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Dot-Org Zone at OpenSource World
To: Don
That's the idea. There would be a process for people to submit their own
stuff.
Stormy
2009/4/30 Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me
Can we get a magnetic car gnome foot? I would totally pay for one of those
and a best of sri rupert quotes t-shirt. Although you probably dont' want
to put
The idea would be to have a store where we could add any merchandise we
want. A GNOME store instead of a store that happens to sell GNOME stuff.
Stormy
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Luis Villa l...@tieguy.org wrote:
www.hackerthreads.com/go.asp?Cc=GNOME
?
2009/4/30 Sriram Ramkrishna
Hi Jason,
We've formed a GNOME Foundation travel committee (as discussed on the list a
while back) and they will be handling GUADEC travel assistance.
I expect them to be announced today some time ...
Stormy
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.comwrote:
When I
Hi GNOME Foundation members,
I need your help defining GNOME projects you'd like to see happen if we had
grant money to fund them.
Brian Cameron has been encouraging us to apply for grant money for a while
and I think he's right - there are organizations out there willing to
sponsor good work in
The Foundation hasn't decided to cut back on hackfests. However, to fund
them, we are going to have to come up with a new approach. Typically
hackfests are funded by corporate sponsorship and that money is not readily
available this year.
We can certainly do better at showing companies return on
Claudio,
I think the 200 € was intended to apply to GUADEC. GUADEC is most of our
travel money. But it could be set on a case by case and could even be
lowered or waived on a case-by-case basis. (If we adopt it.)
Stormy
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Claudio Saavedra csaave...@gnome.orgwrote:
I feel strongly that students should be covered completely. I'd suggest that
as a standard policy whatever we decide on the 200.
Stormy
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bruno Boaventura brunoboavent...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
I
are thinking about and what you'd like to see!
Stormy
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know your thoughts or if you'd like to help out on the
travel committee.
Thanks,
Stormy
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You can find the missing attachment (the application form for travel
assistance) at
http://live.gnome.org/Travel?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=gnome_travel_subsidy.odt.
Stormy
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Stormy Peters sto...@gnome.org wrote:
The GNOME Board of Directors is proposing
Congratulations! Thanks to all the GNOME Hispano guys for all your hard
work!
See you soon!
Stormy
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz
j...@nccextremadura.org wrote:
Hi all
Again GNOME Hispano wins Best Initiative in Free Software Awards in
the
Navegantes de HOY
Mailing lists are a comfortable medium for most of us on this list, but I
think most recruiters are website/forum type people (and probably more
forums than wikis), so it's good to have a place they can work comfortably.
Stormy
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want to get more sponsorship, an idea would be to ping the current
corporate sponsors for ideas. You could agree to focus on an area important
to them in exchange for sponsoring the event - the venue, food or travel.
Stormy
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I was wondering if it makes sense to recruit students to help with some of
the things that are planned for the to-be-hired Biz Dev person? If someone
can help figure out what that list looks like (or point me to the list, if
it exists), I'd be willing to help figure out which one a student might
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