Re: Windows-only software in government
Liam R E Quin wrote: Some arguments that go down well are * the need to archive * the need for accessibility * the need to repurpose information (e.g. print, Web, search...) * the need to control costs * the need to have control over core technology, to use trusted software * the need to encourage and support the Canadian IT industry Thanks, that's really useful. I've added it to http://live.gnome.org/Government. I'm trying to build up a base of useful arguments before firing off letters to ministers and members of parliament... - Mike ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Windows-only software in government
Richard Stallman wrote: Is the question really Why the government should not require the public to be a Microsoft customer in order to deal with their government? Presenting it that way would make a stronger point. Yes, thank you, that is better! I've updated the wiki. - Mike ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
A word of thanks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have been meaning to do this for a while. This is just a word of thanks to the Foundation Board for approving a tidy amount that came handy for swag in India. Right through foss.in to a smaller set of events in February (GNUnify, FOSSKriti, freed.in) had GNOME supporters. FOSSKriti was a bit of a success for the Beagle hackfest as well. Might be [OT] for this list, but thought that it is always good to share good news. ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzWGTXQZpNTcrCzMRAm2zAKCxG2shjRiJlc9M2DIKqkgrLUAlPQCfa0GP vJRnELm05m4Ka9zAlUa4384= =U1vH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A word of thanks
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:19 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Have been meaning to do this for a while. This is just a word of thanks to the Foundation Board for approving a tidy amount that came handy for swag in India. Right through foss.in to a smaller set of events in February (GNUnify, FOSSKriti, freed.in) had GNOME supporters. FOSSKriti was a bit of a success for the Beagle hackfest as well. Might be [OT] for this list, but thought that it is always good to share good news. ~sankarshan That's great news Sankarshan, thanks for sharing. Glad we could help. Always good to see people represent GNOME Foundation in local events. Cheers, behdad ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME @ Google Summer of Code 2008
Hi all, As you probably know, Google is organizing one more edition of their Summer of Code (GSoC) program. More information about the program can be found here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ GNOME has participated in all GSoC editions as a mentoring organization with some nice results in terms of contributions and new contributors. So, we want to participate this year too! Our first organization kickoff meeting will happen on March 6 at 18h UTC in the #soc-admin channel (irc.gnome.org). We're looking for volunteers to help us to organize GNOME's participation in GSoC 2008. So, if you want to help in any way, join us! Cheers! --lucasr ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces
GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces === The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software systems. The partnership has three aspects: * The Mozilla Foundation will join the GNOME Foundation advisory board, helping set the long-term direction of the project. * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox. * The Mozilla Foundation announces a grant of $10,000 to the GNOME Foundation, to be spent on the improvement of the accessibility of the GNOME desktop environment via the GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility program. GNOME and GTK+ have been our environment of choice for years. As we move from desktops into the mobile market, we will continue to work with GNOME to ensure that Mozilla and Firefox users on GNOME platforms will have the best experience possible, according to Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard. Mozilla and GNOME people have been collaborating for nearly a decade. Together we've been able to make contributions to the foundation of each other's platform - from GTK+ to Cairo to browser desktop integration, says GNOME Foundation Director Vincent Untz. But the real story is about two organizations sharing many common values including our shared commitment to innovation and bringing freedom to our user base. Both projects actively support open standards and formats. Mozilla contributes to the W3C HTML5 working group and WHATWG working group, in order to ensure an open web platform for all future Internet users. GNOME is a member of the ODF Alliance and works with other desktop projects under the freedesktop.org umbrella to offer the best user experience to desktop users. These involvements aim to create space for innovation and to give freedom to the user. Read the full announcement at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-03-mofojoins.html -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:13:38PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox. a) This sounds nifty. b) What will this mean for Ephy? peace T -- Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/~tthurman You're at end of road again. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces
Hi, Thomas Thurman wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:13:38PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox. a) This sounds nifty. b) What will this mean for Ephy? Epiphany is part of the GNOME desktop, I don't see that changing. There may come a day when Epiphany's reason for being (a web browser well integrated into GNOME) with go away, and Firefox will naturally be the default on all distros. That day may never arrive. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may come a day when Epiphany's reason for being (a web browser well integrated into GNOME) with go away, and Firefox will naturally be the default on all distros. That day may never arrive. /me cries a bit. -- Og B. Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keys: D5CFC202 http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US) http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Windows-only software in government
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if you want a research grant from the European Union, you're forced to be using Windows... More precisely, you're forced to use Windows plus the EC's proprietary editor -or- GNU/Linux plus VMware plus the EC's proprietary editor. Source: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/participating/gpf-editor-faq-revised_en.pdf 5. Does the GPF editor run also on Mac or Linux operated PCs? For the moment, the GPF editor is only available for Windows operated PCs. Until a Linux and Mac version is released, it has been reported that the GPF editor works on Mac with the virtual PC, and on Linux with the VMWare solution. We need to organize a campaign to change this. I wonder if Neelie Kroes could help. FWIW, FSFE will co-announce a similar campaign on Thursday, but it's for the European Parliament, not the European Commission (which is in charge of the FP7 funding). If this campaign is successful, it should be easier to do something similar for the European Commission. We decided to focus on the parliament because a good opportunity presented itself. -- Ciarán O'Riordan (+32 477 36 44 19) \ Support Free Software and GNU/Linux http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _ \ Join FSFE's Fellowship: http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ http://www.fsfe.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
