Re: It's time again for pants nominations

2018-06-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:15:35PM +0100, Karen Sandler wrote: > > > * 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

Re: Fixing copyright notices on gnome.org websites

2016-12-07 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 06:47:46PM +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > Unless the individual contributors working on the site have actually > > legally assigned copyright to the GNOME Foundatio

Re: Send us your pants nominations

2016-07-18 Thread Josh Triplett
s like gnome.org ought to have such a list somewhere. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME trademark authorization

2016-05-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:28:04AM -0400, Dave Neary wrote: > On 05/16/2016 09:41 AM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > How to avoid any organization or individual, could use GNOME trademark > > to promote against GNOME? > > You cannot use trademark to stop someone from calling a thing by its >

Re: gnome.io domain donation

2016-05-02 Thread Josh Triplett
for other purposes (such as the same purpose as debian.net or github.io, namely a home for developer subdomains for projects). I think it'd be entirely appropriate for the GNOME Foundation to receive this. Someone from the Board (BCCed) would be the most appropriate person to either broker that or

Re: Yorba Foundation looking to pass on copyrights

2016-03-24 Thread Josh Triplett
lf does not hold copyrights. Is anyone > aware of any other free software organization that might be willing and able > to receive our copyrights? Thanks - You might consider the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Software in the Public Interest (SPI),

Re: Agenda for board meeting on November 3rd

2015-11-05 Thread Josh Triplett
will instead get a link to f-droid. Doing so seems quite similar to making an application available for Windows: we don't encourage people to run Windows, but we sometimes make Free Software available for Windows for users who already do run it. - Josh Triplett _

Re: gnomes collecting pants nominations

2015-07-19 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:03:33PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 12:33 -0400, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: * Is not a board member (since the board decides who the winner is). Quick question: does this rule exclude current board members, incoming board members, or both?

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

2015-07-09 Thread Josh Triplett
seek such support or that we'd offer it), and more concerned about whether they're actually acting in good faith or whether they might be doing something that will actively damage the reputations of Linux, GNU, GNOME, and other Free Software projects. - Josh Triplett

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-02 Thread josh
Software, if you feel that that would more fully acknowledge Free Software. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-06-01 Thread josh
hosting point for a repository. To that end, I have a first draft of Responsible Distribution of Free and Open Source Software, which I'd love to get feedback on. I'll send that draft privately as well. (I intend to distribute it for *public* feedback in the very near future, as well.) - Josh

Re: GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread Josh Triplett
on a historical basis. I've CCed Paul Tagliamonte of the Sunlight Foundation (also of OSI and Debian), who might be able to help here. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

GNOME Foundation 501(c)3 status

2015-05-27 Thread josh
as well, and I'm curious how that happened. I would also suggest that this should be the top priority issue for the GNOME Foundation to fix. Is the current Board already working to fix this? - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-27 Thread Josh Triplett
with installers for Free Software, including GNOME projects like the GIMP. I'm currently thinking of writing up a Hosting Free Software Responsibly statement for projects, organizations (FSF, GNOME, etc), and hosting sites to sign on to. - Josh Triplett

Re: Questions for candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Software. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Question on community to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
GNOME projects due to problems like those. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Question to the candidates.

2015-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
of native applications, and a novel new UI. These are points that would help GNOME do better at what it does today, and take better care of the users it has. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-26 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:05:30PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Nobody is asking anyone to sign anything. A CoC would simply be a stated policy for expected behavior on community resources, such as mailing lists

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
, that should wait until we have the new board. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
transparency would have been helpful, as an example of what to improve? I certainly plan to be entirely transparent about my *own* activities if elected to the board. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events and in general. And thank you for raising this issue. Some searching turned up https

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
that I would not want to see GNOME become; there are too many of those already, because there are too many projects unwilling to kick out awful people. See also http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-your-project - Josh Triplett

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-23 Thread Josh Triplett
, and members of the Foundation and the Board. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: More questions for Board candidates

2015-05-21 Thread josh
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 05:25:51PM -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: 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

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2015-05-19 Thread josh
and GNOME technologies, and building a support base there. That's in addition to existing efforts to establish events and volunteer contributors. - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2015-05-19 Thread josh
. Someone needs to seek out quest information to solve ancient challenges, talk nobles and businessfolk into offering high rewards, rally others to the cause, or offer off-the-wall ideas and encouragement. :) - Josh Triplett ___ foundation-list mailing list

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Josh Triplett

2015-05-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Name: Josh Triplett Email: j...@joshtriplett.org or jtripl...@gnome.org Affiliation: Intel, but not speaking for Intel or wearing my Intel hat except when explicitly stated as such. I've been a Free Software developer for 15 years, and a GNOME user since the early 1.x days, running

Re: Can there be an Official Hardware Partner for GNOME

2006-12-20 Thread Josh Kress
to Peter from my side, because you made me think about it more carefully! Regards, Josh ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Can there be an Official Hardware Partner for GNOME

2006-12-20 Thread Josh Kress
Hi On Wed, 2006-20-12 at 14:44 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Josh Kress wrote: Thanks for the replies so far. [No replies from the board directly, but this might be due to bad timing on my side] Let me be the first. I didn't feel the need to reply, because Peter's reply so well summed

Can there be an Official Hardware Partner for GNOME

2006-12-15 Thread Josh Kress
and the hardware for the event box is already a deal. I now try to get Novell, Red Hat, Sun etc. to provide some funds as well (The plan is to plaster up the box with the logos of the sponsors). I'll keep you posted! Regards, Josh PS: Do we have an official contact with Intel? Maybe they will provide