Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-25 Thread Andrew Sobala
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: > A bit OT, but related: has #gnome withered away because of what, > exactly? I'm guessing knowing what did not work in that case would be > useful to avoid having the next attempt work better... > It started with the birth of #gnome-hackers. #gnome had a lot of

GNOME Foundation Elections - Ballots sent

2006-11-25 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all, We have just sent the ballots for the elections. Every member who can vote for the elections should have received an e-mail with instructions explaining how to vote. If you have not received your ballot, please first verify that you are eligible to vote by looking at the list of voters an

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

2006-11-25 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We stated GNOME > to blunt the > danger of the (then) non-free QT library. I think > most GNOME users > and developers today are not aware of this. I'm aware of that, yes. I first came to Gnome because I want software that is good -- it just so

Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-25 Thread Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 17:08 +, Calum Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:55 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:25 +, Calum Benson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:27 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: > > > > Think about in utopia, wouldn't it be cool if we h

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

2006-11-25 Thread Quim Gil
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 01:58 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > I would like to ask the candidates for the board to state their views > on how GNOME can work with the broader free software movement > for the advance of computer users' freedom. Thinking out loud... Even considering all our problems a

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

2006-11-25 Thread Joachim Noreiko
--- Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Board does not > directly get involved in > the technicalities I'd actually like to stop there and ask: why not? Certainly getting involved with the board shouldn't require technical knowledge. But there is a need to plan the developme

Re: Answer to questions to candidates from Anne Østergaard

2006-11-25 Thread Dave Neary
Anne Østergaard wrote: > Who am I to think I am fit for election in this celebre "Tarzan and his > closest friends competition :-)"? Nice to know you have such a high opinion of your board colleagues. Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundati