Voting reccommendations

2005-11-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Following on from Reinout's example, I'd like to reccommend votes for the following candidates, some of whom are perhaps not as well known as others: * Vincent Untz - he's great. A nice guy, a great worker, and a born leader. The kind of person you'd like to have on the board. * Quim

Re: 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election Voting Started

2005-11-28 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 10:32 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election voting period is started on November 27th. Ballots have been sent to foundation members. Voting instructions are written in the mails you will be get. For this elections you will have 13 candidates[1]

Re: 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election Voting Started

2005-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 06:49 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 10:32 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election voting period is started on November 27th. Ballots have been sent to foundation members. Voting instructions are written in the mails you

Re: The changing of the board

2005-11-28 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:19 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Anne Østergaard wrote: The changing of the board: I have been thinking that it might be an advantage to the Foundation if the next board in fact took their seats immediately after the final announcement of the list of

Re: The changing of the board

2005-11-28 Thread Dominic Lachowicz
On 11/28/05, Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally the old board can only do day to day business if needed. Once a new board has been elected I think that it is the new board that should rightly take all major decisions such as hiring new staff. At least this is customary in all

Endorsing Anne Østergaard

2005-11-28 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I will be voting for Anne Østergaard also, because she too is a supporter of the ethical ideals of free software. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

[Off Topic] We need Vendors? [was Words to Avoid Vendor]

2005-11-28 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:42 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: In all of this discussion about whether they are third-party developers or independant software developers, I think people have missed the important point. That point is that we need to encourage traditional independant software

Re: [Off Topic] Words to Avoid Vendor [was Re: Questions to answer]

2005-11-28 Thread Vincent Untz
[I removed all the cc] On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote: Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar ISV, at least the

Re: [Off Topic] Words to Avoid Vendor [was Re: Questions to answer]

2005-11-28 Thread Bill Haneman
Vincent Untz wrote: [I removed all the cc] On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote: Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the