Re: two questions for candidates
On Nov 26, 2007 2:54 PM, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 2. How do you think the GNOME Foundation should support the Free Software Movement in general? [snip] More long-term, working with the online desktop folks, and hopefully with many other interested parties, we need to reframe what software freedom means in a network-centric world. It is now abundantly clear to most everyone that source code access is frequently insufficient to guarantee user autonomy; the question, then, is what additional (or perhaps different) requirements will help our users maintain their autonomy in the future. This is much bigger than GNOME, of course, but it seems likely that we will be at the cutting edge of it, and so we're going to have to deal with it whether we're the best forum for it or not :) I'm not quite clear on what you mean here, Luis. Can you suggest some links that I might peruse that would describe what you mean by 'user autonomy' and why source code access is insufficient to guarantee it? Thanks, Greg ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Questions to the candidates
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 16:31 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:48 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 23:52 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote: 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? No Will you attend at least 90% of the board calls? Yes Can you accept competing official ISO standards? Yes, as long as they are open and free of intellectual property concerns. It is then up to the developers what direction they wish to go in. The board should not set technical direction but rather reflect the will of the community while offering moral guidance as well as advice from expert advisers. If they are fully interoperable there might not be a legal problem, but rather a political problem for the society about the costs. Well in that case we will also have an other situation to deal with, in the case where the dominant standard has near monopoly status. Then it becomes a question about monopoly versus free and open competition. We have all seen that even with a clear cut monopoly case in The European Court of Justice recently, it is not easy to have the loosing part change its conduct. Even if it eventually does so, it will take an awful long time and it will probably not be to 100%. You are completely correct and I think the community can make the right choices here that 6 elected people can not. I do however think the foundation is well within it's power to make statements based on community experts recommendations but for the most part should let things be settled in the community. -- John (J5) Palmieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Call for logo -- GNOME Asia Summit
A LOGO FOR GNOME ASIA SUMMIT All ideas and propositions are welcome. We suggest the following basic principles : Asia specific feature the logo related to GNOME or simple Send your logo and interpretation to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This logo will not only be used in GNOME Asia Summit - Beijing 2008, but also be used in the following GNOME Asia Summits. It is a great honor if your logo get accepted in GNOME Asia Summit. -Emily ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for logo -- GNOME Asia Summit
Where can I get more info about the specifications/requirement of the logo..? Thanks Tim http://dominor.com Emily chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A LOGO FOR GNOME ASIA SUMMIT All ideas and propositions are welcome. We suggest the following basic principles : Asia specific feature the logo related to GNOME or simple Send your logo and interpretation to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This logo will not only be used in GNOME Asia Summit - Beijing 2008, but also be used in the following GNOME Asia Summits. It is a great honor if your logo get accepted in GNOME Asia Summit. -Emily -- marketing-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list Be a partner of our 16 Real Estate Websites to boost your Search Engine Ranking. Exchange link with 16 real estate websites at once http://www.miami-realestate.net/en/submitlink.php?catid=55 Thanks Tracyimage/png___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: two questions for candidates
quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Richard Stallman 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about OOXML? I'd probably include a message about not fighting OOXML on political grounds because they have no impact on the ISO standardisation process. To succeed, we need to fight OOXML under the terms defined by ISO, which means nuking it as hard was we possibly can on technical grounds. Actually, a very important point, which I'm not just saying because this is a reply to a question from Richard... :-) What I *wouldn't* change in our statement is that the number 1 point in our position statement was Software Freedom, and that our final comment was to encourage people to contribute to Software Freedom. That's important because ultimately, whatever goes on with standards and their impact on our industry, *our* number 1 priority is Software Freedom, and making sure our users can access it, use it and enjoy it. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light. - Spike Milligan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
