On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:22:00AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > > Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's "unconditional
> > > supp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:02:49AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's "unconditional
> > support" for OOXML, you're pointing guns at your own feet (and in fact
> > just took
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:44:52AM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Don't cry about people who criticize the Foundation's "unconditional
> support" for OOXML, you're pointing guns at your own feet (and in fact
> just took another shot).
Nice trollish statement.
--
Regards,
Olav
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Hi,
Funny then, that even after nothing being done by GNOME on TC45 since
July (previous to OOXML vote on September 2) ECMA is still claiming
GNOME participates in the disposition of comments:
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/First%20group%20of%20662%20proposed%20dispositi
On Nov 22, 2007 12:11 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What do you see as the best way to spend this money? In terms of hiring,
> do you prefer hiring a sysadmin, or an executive director? What other
> priorities do you have for expenditure this year, outside of our usual
> cost center
On Nov 22, 2007 5:52 PM, Anne Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Questions to the candidates:
>
> Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME?
>
> Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board
> member?
For those who don't know, before going
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 06:34 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > * This year has been pretty tough for me as a Board member, as I've
> > been starting a new business which has required a lot of time, I have
> > been travelling a lot, and conference calls have been at a particularly
> > bad time
Hi,
2007/11/23, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 14:42 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a
> > > meeting or for another
Hi,
Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
>> This is generally caused by the habit of only making decisions in
>> meetings, instead of making decisions on the mailing list. And a tendency
>> to think that all decisions must be unanimous.
>
> A majority of the decisions this year were made on the mailing list,
Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 14:42 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> [snip]
> > Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a
> > meeting or for another event to take a decision, while the decision is
> > pretty tr
> Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME?
If elected to the Board, this will be my first time to learn the
intricacies of the job and get acquainted with what such a role really
implies. So it is fairly safe to say that I would not run for such
position yet. :)
> Will
> What do you see as the best way to spend this money? In terms of hiring,
> do you prefer hiring a sysadmin, or an executive director? What other
> priorities do you have for expenditure this year, outside of our usual
> cost centers (GUADEC + salaries + travel sponsorship)?
As many of the other
> This is generally caused by the habit of only making decisions in
> meetings, instead of making decisions on the mailing list. And a tendency
> to think that all decisions must be unanimous.
A majority of the decisions this year were made on the mailing list, with a
quorum consensus rather tha
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
[snip]
> Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a
> meeting or for another event to take a decision, while the decision is
> pretty trivial. It might be related to my first item, since pinging
> people so they say
> (also I'm not sure why you mention GTK+ developers never requested a GTK+
> summit: it seems to me they did)
It's sort of in the middle -- they wanted to do one, but never really came
to the Board for support. We've always been 100% behind helping though! I'm
going to spend some time putting t
Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 11:58 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit :
> For example, the board has included in the published budget a grant for
> a GTK+ summit, which GTK+ developers have never requested. Perhaps
> people expect the board to organise the thing as well as spend the
> money? Similarly, t
Hi,
Lucas Rocha wrote:
>> After two years without a full-time employee, the foundation's finances
>> are in a decent state, with $150K cash and $50K receivables [2].
...
> I think the best way to spend this money in 2008/2009 is:
> - To support (presential) activities that will facilitate contr
Hi Dave,
> I did send these to the membership committee, but voting's nearly open,
> and I think they're important, so I guess I'll just ask...
Ok.
> The foundation's role is essentially to facilitate the enthusiasm of the
> GNOME project, as Andrew Cowie blogged earlier [1]. This consists of tw
Hi,
2007/11/23, Anne Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Questions to the candidates:
>
> Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME?
No.
> Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board
> member?
I don't plan to change my job next year.
> Will
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