Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Max On 2014-05-19 09:18, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote: * What's your plan for Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia -- GNOME.Asia summit ? Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?( I saw it last GUADEC but not start to use) Other idea? I will be attending

Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Emily Chen
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 ? 2. What is the top 3 goals for GNOME Foundation in the next year, in your opinion ? 3.

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:20 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Many of the applicants for GSoC and OPW are already from Asia and especially from India. I think that the split is largely related to English being a commonly spoken language in India, but not so prominent in other Asian countries.

Re: Board of Directors Election 2014 - Candidacy - Jean-François Fortin Tam

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Jeff, On 15 May 2014 20:42, Jeff Fortin nekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Jean-François Fortin Tam Email: nekohayo at gmail Affiliation: none (freelance) Web/bio/blog/etc.: http://jeff.ecchi.ca Hi everybody, I would like to offer my candidacy to serve on the Foundation Board. Thanks for

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Emily, On 19 May 2014 16:16, 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 ? Firstly, I

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Emily On 2014-05-19 23:16, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ? The advisory board

Agenda for board meeting May 20th

2014-05-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Hello Foundation members! Next board meeting is May 20th at 16:00 UTC This is the agenda: * Quick budget update * Delegating back to the Travel Committee * Proposal from the Travel Committee to the board: https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/wip/Events * ED hiring and plans going forward * Visa

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19:37AM -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: 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 achieve this goal?)

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Oliver, On 05/18/2014 06:08 PM, Oliver Propst wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: when looking for a profile, there are a number of dials to twiddle: * Technical proficiency reputation in the community, including free software cultural alignment *

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 05/19/2014 04:31 AM, David King wrote: Right now (taking into account the poor financial situation that the Foundation is facing), I think that a candidate for the executive director position would be someone who has experience of raising funds for not-for-profit organisations. For

Re: Mass Reboot: Monday 19th of May, 21.00 - 22.00 CET

2014-05-19 Thread Andrea Veri
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Andrea Veri wrote: We'll also take the time during the reboots to switch our current storage away from our current main NFS node to the brand new GlusterFS nodes. This should not affect the reboots planned downtime. The maintenance took a bit more due to rsync taking

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - From: Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org To: Foundation-List foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:58:21 PM Subject: Question for candidates Hi everyone, For me, the defining thing the next board will do is hire a successor to Karen Sandler as

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: Finally, and only once the financial situation is more clear, the board needs to find a new executive director. I anticipate that these goals, which in some ways amount to getting the Foundation back on track will be challenging to meet

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:18 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: one of the options that I want the board to investigate is to tie in the executive director's wage and travel budget with adboard fees in such a way that the executive director will only be compensated up to a maximum of what the

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - From: Max sakana...@gmail.com To: foundation-list foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM Subject: Question for candidates Hi everyone, Thanks for run the board. This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go).

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - From: Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org To: Foundation List foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:19:37 PM Subject: Questions for the candidates: finances Hello everyone, First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also believe

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - From: Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org To: David King amigad...@amigadave.com Cc: foundation-list foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:48:54 PM Subject: Re: Question for candidates On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: