Upcoming GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: March 23rd, 2011
Howdy fellow GNOMErs! I’d like to invite you all to join us once again for another GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting! When: Wednesday, March 23rd, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (your local time) Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation Foundation IRC meetings are just that, meetings held on #foundation in irc.gimp.org to discuss current matters related to the GNOME Foundation. Any GNOME Foundation member or non member are welcome. As long as you contribute positively to the discussion you are welcome. The meeting is moderated by Board members that are present, and they will guide the discussion through all the Agenda topics. Everyone can comment and speak at any time, just remember to be respectful and concise so it’s easy for everyone to follow the discussion. Tthis is a great opportunity to discuss the topics you care about, or to get more information from the Board if you think we’re not communicating enough on some topics The agenda of the meeting is really up to you! So please add the agenda items you’d like to discuss to http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MembersAgenda Your topics will automatically appear on the meeting page: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda For reference, the minutes of the last meeting are available at: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/ Thanks, Og Maciel, on behalf of the GNOME Board of Directors -- Og B. Maciel GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Foresight Linux Community Manager omac...@foresightlinux.org ogmac...@gnome.org 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: Wiki text licensing
It is best to ask the SFLC lawyers for advice on how to go about asking contributors to relicense. I think it is not terribly hard. Please use a dual license, GFDL | CC-BY-SA, for the Wiki text. It is important to be compatible with the GNU standard licensing practice. (I changed the Subject because I recommend that we not describe potentially useful works of software documentation works as "content". That term denigrates the works. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html@Content for the reason.) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:22 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Brian Cameron wrote: > > * Hardware > > o The System76 laptop will be made available to the new ED > > when hired. > > o A new laptop will be purchased to replace Rosanna's aging > > one. > > o ACTION: Paul will follow-up to acquire a laptop for > > Rosanna. > > Have you considered asking one of our advisory board partners to donate > a laptop for the Executive Director? I believe that Tim Ney's laptop was > donated in the past. It was discussed, but Rosanna's laptop died some time ago, and we cannot wait on donations to replace it. She's currently having to use a personal netbook, which is far from ideal for the work she does. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Website content licensing
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > While I don't wish to ride slipshod over copyright law, I think you're > over-thinking this. We can cover >90% of the contributors with one mail > to f-l, and unless anyone objects to the licence change, Just Do It. > > If someone objects, then we need to either remove or re-write the > content they contributed. > > If after the relicencing someone comes out of the woodwork to object, > then we can rewrite or remove their contribution, or convince them to > relicence. While I'm sure it's not likely anyone would mind, it's really how the laws work. We cannot assume that not voicing an objection is the same as actively agreeing. Licenses to be valid have to be granted by the actual copyright holders :( -- Patryk Zawadzki I solve problems. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Website content licensing
Hi, Vincent Untz wrote: > I think you're referring to the footer on the web page? I believe the > GNOME project being marked as copyright holder here is just a way to say > "copyright held by many contributors to the GNOME project". I don't > think anybody signed any paper to assign copyrights for the website > changes that were done to the Foundation. > > So to answer your question: it is probably more complex than what you're > hoping :/ While I don't wish to ride slipshod over copyright law, I think you're over-thinking this. We can cover >90% of the contributors with one mail to f-l, and unless anyone objects to the licence change, Just Do It. If someone objects, then we need to either remove or re-write the content they contributed. If after the relicencing someone comes out of the woodwork to object, then we can rewrite or remove their contribution, or convince them to relicence. Since most of the content of the site is being rewritten or edited, and I believe that everyone (including myself) who has contributed content to gnome.org did so on the understanding that the content was being given to the project, I do not think that in practice we will have any issues. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - February 15th, 2011
Hi, Brian Cameron wrote: > * Hardware > o The System76 laptop will be made available to the new ED > when hired. > o A new laptop will be purchased to replace Rosanna's aging > one. > o ACTION: Paul will follow-up to acquire a laptop for > Rosanna. Have you considered asking one of our advisory board partners to donate a laptop for the Executive Director? I believe that Tim Ney's laptop was donated in the past. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
