GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent

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Re: Questions for all board candidates

On 05/26/2011 08:43 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? 2.) Other open sour

Re: question for candidates

2011/5/25 Andy Tai > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as > the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME technologies to > work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on other GNU/Linux > distributions like Debian, and such distributions

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Lefty wrote: > First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes > seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came up, I'd be > interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do > to address the ongoing

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Gil Forcada wrote: > > As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and > look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe > part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy > on-line account for free).

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? > Unless y

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time? > I

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi members, > > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the h

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? > Personall

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

Hi Gil, 2011/5/27 Gil Forcada : > As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and > look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe > part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy > on-line account for free). Cloud computing actu

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? First at a

Question to candidates: on-line services

Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the hardware/administration/connection expenses which are mostly a no-go

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On 2011-05-26 at 05:43, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings in > the open via IRC (such as Fedora's FESCO I believe). Would you > consider that, and if not, what about recording how board members vote > on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 /

Re: question for candidates

2011/5/25 Andy Tai : > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as > the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME technologies to > work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on other GNU/Linux > distributions like Debian, and such distributions

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011/5/26 Jeff Schroeder : > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time? I actually spend around one-two

Two Questions for the Board Candidates

First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste of time and energy in the community over trivia

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

Hi Richard, (we are not candidates and shouldn't derail this thread but just a quick response) On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: >    I really think the GNOME OS idea is a very good one, that is, making >    GNOME provide access to configuration and features of the underly

Re: Fwd: Question for the canditates

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:49 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > Forwarding to foundation-list two questions we received from > Ali-Reza Anghaie. Please don't add membership-committee@g.o > as CC, follow-ups should be kept on -list. Thanks. > > Andrea > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Al

Re: question for candidates

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME > 3.0 as the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME > technologies to work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on > other GNU/Linux distributions like D

Re: question for candidates

hi Andy, On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME > 3.0 as the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME > technologies to work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on > other GNU/Linux distributi

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 10:50 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : > > External dependencies are one thing, but I feel very strongly that any > sort of legal agreement as a precondition to participate in the > development of software that is considered part of the GNOME project is > completely unacceptable

Re: question for candidates

Andy: On 05/25/11 13:10, Andy Tai wrote: As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME technologies to work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on other GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, and suc

Re: Questions for all board candidates

hi Jeff, On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings in > the open via IRC (such as Fedora's FESCO I believe). Would you > consider that, and if not, what about recording how board members vote > on a given topic. Th

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

Olav: On 05/26/11 05:01, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? I am proud to say that

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

hi Olav, On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done?

Re: Questions for all board candidates

Jeff: On 05/26/11 07:43, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? Overall, attend

Re: Questions for all board candidates

Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder a écrit : > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time?

Re: Questions for all board candidates

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time? As

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? > > [1] ht

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

Andy: On 05/26/11 04:51, Andy Wingo wrote: You just used the name "Richard Stallman" as a token for "this argument is invalid." You then proceeded to call someone stalinist; was it Richard? Was it GNOME OS proponents? Unclear. This was a poor attempt at humor, I guess. With my words I was

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

Hi Brian, On Wed 25 May 2011 18:30, Brian Cameron writes: > Using the GNOME brand to foster divisions within the Free Software or > GNU/Linux community, to me, feels like the sort of thing Richard > Stallman would be into. While I love free software, I personally do > not drink this sort of Sta

Questions for all board candidates

1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings i

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

On 2011-05-26 at 12:01, Olav Vitters wrote: > Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I > wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? > Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, > what should be done? as a developer and ma

Candidates question: Contributor agreement

Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? [1] https://live.gnome.org/CopyrightAssignment [2] e.g. http://lwn.net/Ar