Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-31 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Been more than two weeks that the petition has been up and it did not attract support of 10% of membership as required by the charter. The request is dropped as far as I'm concerned. Thanks everyone for the support and/or useful discussion. behdad On 12/18/2009 09:27 PM, Behdad Esfahbod

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-20 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:27 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 12/15/2009 10:58 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009, à 11:57 +0330, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ a écrit : Also, is a referendum really necessary to create a new members-only mailing list? Noting that becoming membership

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/15/2009 10:58 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009, à 11:57 +0330, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ a écrit : Also, is a referendum really necessary to create a new members-only mailing list? Noting that becoming membership and participation is always optional. It's not necessary to

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-17 Thread Richard Stallman
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups I am being discriminated against because I can not make improvements or discuss where the project is headed. The definition of open source is a criterion for software licenses; I don't think it applies to mailing list usage at all. But I

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-17 Thread Richard Stallman
To deny a group or a person the legitimacy to keep intellectual property proprietary goes against criteria five of the Open Source Definition: A statement that uses the term intellectual property is tremendously vague, since that refers to many laws at once, and treats them as one single

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Philip Van Hoof
Hi there, Right now I think we should do the vote Behdad is calling for. I'm waiting until the discussion about it goes to sleep to make up my mind about it (and then either add or don't add my name to the wiki page). I think the implementation should be broader than only foundation members. I

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote: ps. The rest is off topic. It's a bit silly that yet another off topic thread is starting. Richard, the topic is Behdad's call for a vote. Not your ethical believe system. No matter how important you think that is.

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
On 12/15/09 1:25 PM, Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com wrote: Perhaps what we do need is for the board to have a stronger connection to mass media and be ready to articulate public responses properly framing discussions and correcting any incorrect reporting. Actually, this is something

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
Typically, you work with a public relations firm. Media training is mostly a bunch of pointers (Never say, 'No comment'; Never cite specific numbers, unless you are confident you can back them up) and a bunch of structured practice in question-and-answer situations, confrontational and non-. We

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Claudio Saavedra
El mié, 16-12-2009 a las 01:01 -0500, Richard Stallman escribió: Doesn't this undermines the values of the open source community? To cite the values of open source as an ethical standard is ironic, because the motive for open source was to avoid presenting an ethical standard. You are (once

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 12/15/09 1:25 PM, Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com wrote: Perhaps what we do need is for the board to have a stronger connection to mass media and be ready to articulate public responses properly framing discussions and correcting any incorrect reporting.

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.dewrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1On 15.12.2009 15:50, Jason D. Clinton wrote: No, do not detract it. There's a reason there's a debian-devel-private and a kde-private. According to Jeff in

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I bet I could find such training. I'd like to do some of the media work. I'm a natural talker, but I need some rules to make sure that I say the right things as I can spew garbage from time to time. sri On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.netwrote: On Wed, Dec

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-16 Thread Tobias Mueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Heya, On 15.12.2009 15:50, Jason D. Clinton wrote: No, do not detract it. There's a reason there's a debian-devel-private and a kde-private. According to Jeff in 20091215033304.ge4...@node.waugh.id.au there is gnome-private as well:

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: On 12/14/2009 09:04 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: 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

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Koen Martens
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:04:50PM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: 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. Speaking up. I'm currently

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:30 +0100, Koen Martens wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 07:04:50PM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote: 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

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 14 décembre 2009, à 19:04 -0700, Stormy Peters a écrit : Also, maybe someone with list admin privileges could tell us roughly the number of subscribers and how many of them appear to be GNOME Foundation members. We have 574 subscribers on the mailing list. However, there are quite a

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:04:50 -0700 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Technically I'm

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread brendan
Doesn't this undermines the values of the open source community? While where at making a private list for discussions, why not make the whole gnome project, closed source. The news we generate from such discussions, gives the gnome project public visibility that is needed for gnome to grow. The

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jonathan Corbet wrote: I watch a lot of projects. In my opinion, the projects which conduct their discussions in the open tend to be the most robust and the most successful. Those which hold their discussions behind closed doors, perhaps occasionally issuing a press release to tell the

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Juanjo Marin
El lun, 14-12-2009 a las 19:04 -0700, Stormy Peters escribió: 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. I'm not a foundation member, I

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 15 décembre 2009, à 11:57 +0330, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ a écrit : Also, is a referendum really necessary to create a new members-only mailing list? Noting that becoming membership and participation is always optional. It's not necessary to hold a vote to create a list, but I think

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Murray Cumming
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:05 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members. If we make that change we would be able to discuss matters freely without

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Og Maciel
Since there isn't a place to do this that I'm aware, here is my vote against this petition. For the same reasons that many here have already expressed, I want to keep GNOME open for everyone. And even though GNOME != GNOME Foundation when it comes down to our code, GNOME == GNOME Foundation when

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/15/2009 08:52 AM, Og Maciel wrote: Since there isn't a place to do this that I'm aware, here is my vote against this petition. For the same reasons that many here have already expressed, I want to keep GNOME open for everyone. And even though GNOME != GNOME Foundation when it comes down to

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: Given the excellent comments so far, I'm leaning towards retracting the proposal. However, there's quite a few others who support it now. So I let it move forward naturally. No, do not detract it. There's a reason

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:50 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: No, do not detract it. There's a reason there's a debian-devel-private and a kde-private. Sometimes reaching concensus requires meeting behind closed doors away from the noise of those who are not as informed or involved as others.

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Clare So
Hi all, 2009/12/14 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: 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. I am not a GNOME Foundation member,

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:50 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: This is about signal-to-noise ratio, not about keeping secrets. So why not just moderate the list? In fact, I thought that non-foundation-members were not even allowed to post here? For instance, I don't understand why RMS's emails

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Gregory Leblanc
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:50 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: This is about signal-to-noise ratio, not about keeping secrets. So why not just moderate the list? In fact, I thought that non-foundation-members were not

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.comwrote: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:50 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: This is about signal-to-noise ratio, not about keeping secrets. So why not just moderate the list? Because part of increasing signal-to-noise is giving

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I believe that we should keep the foundation-list open for anyone to read. As Jeff said, trollumnists do not need to play by the same rules that we do, they do not need to stick to the facts when they do not serve their purpose. When facts get in the way, they will just

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Doesn't this undermines the values of the open source community? To cite the values of open source as an ethical standard is ironic, because the motive for open source was to avoid presenting an ethical standard. The founders of open source split off from the free software movement in 1998

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:02:15PM +1000, brendan edmonds wrote: I used the term 'open source' to refer to the following criteria of the definition for a project to be open source (http://opensource.org/docs/osd). I approved this non-member email. However, from

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: [/me removes board hat] Hi everyone, I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members.  If we make that change

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Stormy Peters
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

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Glynn Foster
On 15/12/2009, at 2:49 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: [/me removes board hat] Hi everyone, I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members. If we make that change we would be able to

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Eustáquio Rangel
2009/12/15 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: 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. Hi there. I'm not a GNOME Foundation member

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
2009/12/14 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: 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. Yes. I'm not a Foundation member, but I am on

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/14/2009 10:20 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: As long as GNOME is a project that matters, there will always be bozos who will post uneducated articles about what you are doing. If your discussions are in the open, people who really care can see what was *really* said and help to keep those

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Behdad Esfahbod [/me removes board hat] Hi everyone, I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members. If we make that change we would be able to discuss matters freely

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
On 12/14/09 7:14 PM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net wrote: 2009/12/14 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: [/me removes board hat] I like to ask for your support in my petition for referendum to make foundation-list archives private and membership limited to actual Foundation members.  If we make that change we would be able

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/15/2009 12:23 AM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: In any case, journalist-impersonators like Mr. Varghese are going to write a load of smack, no matter what, even if they have to simply invent it. After all, they have in the past. Given that all the past incidents I can think of involve that same

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2009/12/15 Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com: 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. Pick me! :-) I just like to follow what

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Sergey Panov
I am one of those old farts on foundation list (first e-mail in my gfnd folder is from Sep 19 2000). I left foundation because I thought I was not contributing (I did some i18n work, while I had free time). I was following the recent controversy closely. I am with Dave Neary on a subject of that

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 12/15/2009 01:50 AM, Sergey Panov wrote: Politics aside, what was Lefty(Open source advocate for ACCESS Co., Ltd.) and Philip Van Hoof (self-appointed propitiatory software advocate) contribution to GNOME in the last year? Are those two still members of the foundation? As per Code of

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Sergey Panov
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 01:56 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: As per Code of Conduct, please assume people mean well. Which both Lefty and Philip do. Sorry, if I managed to brake some CoC. I have no idea what you mean by mean well, but their attack on RMS was quite tasteless. Philip is a

Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-14 Thread Lefty (石鏡 )
On 12/14/09 11:35 PM, Sergey Panov si...@sipan.org wrote: Nothing personal, but I never trusted those corporate Open Source Advocates ... . No offense taken, I'm sure... I fear you distrust a fair proportion of the Foundation's Advisory Board. Besides, Lefty does not work for ACCESS Inc.