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

2006-11-28 Thread Sara Khalatbari
[1] What are your plans to answer the question put forward at the last GUADEC about Why should one become a member of the GNOME Foundation ? I don't think we should be trying to sell foundation membership. I became a member of the foundation because that makes me feel part of the project and

Re: Questions

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dave Neary This is now the fourth please answer my questions mail which has come to the list - the idea of Questions for the candidates is to avoid making people socially responsible for individual questions - I really don't mind, but I would have preferred that the questions for

Re: Questions

2006-11-28 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:26 +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote: (i) Concerns can be heard throughout the community every now and then, that the increasing corporate interest and investment makes it harder and harder to contribute code for volunteers. Q: What is your feeling about that? I don't

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

2006-11-28 Thread Quim Gil
I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates think about colateral aspects as well. On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: To build awareness among GNOME _users_, what do candidates think

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

2006-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:14 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates think about colateral aspects as well. On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: To

Re: Endorsement for Joachim Norieko

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Shaun McCance I also want to throw in a strong endorsement for Joachim. I'm a little concerned -- based on Joachim's answers and commments on this list -- that there would be some difficult philosophical gaps for the Board to bridge (or worse, teach) should he be elected. I don't

Re: Endorsement for Joachim Norieko

2006-11-28 Thread Luis Villa
On 11/28/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Shaun McCance I also want to throw in a strong endorsement for Joachim. I'm a little concerned -- based on Joachim's answers and commments on this list -- that there would be some difficult philosophical gaps for the Board to

Re: Endorsement for Joachim Norieko

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luis Villa Perhaps Joachim could explain some of his comments. :-) Perhaps you could explain which ones you mean, Jeff? I thought it was pretty clear: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-November/msg00110.html

Re: Endorsement for Joachim Norieko

2006-11-28 Thread Alan
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:01:08 +1100 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Shaun McCance I also want to throw in a strong endorsement for Joachim. I'm a little concerned -- based on Joachim's answers and commments on this list -- that there would be some difficult philosophical

Re: Questions

2006-11-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Rob, (i) Concerns can be heard throughout the community every now and then, that the increasing corporate interest and investment makes it harder and harder to contribute code for volunteers. Q: What is your feeling about that? I've not seen this as a problem, but would certainly be willing

Re: Endorsement for Joachim Norieko

2006-11-28 Thread Quim Gil
However big and central the philosofical gap might be, I don't see it's affecting Joachim's passionate contributions to GNOME in important aspects of the project where others just don't go through. Besides, he is always open to discussion, active search of agreement and acceptance of well