Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-22 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 2011-05-22 at 02:59, Luca Ferretti wrote: some of these questions are technical in nature; I do have a technical opinion in these matters, but it's not part of the Foundation's mandate, nor it's why I'm running for the board. if I just wanted to have a GNOME ISO, I'd probably JFDI and punch my

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-22 Thread guido iodice
2011/5/22 Luca Ferretti lferr...@gnome.org: How should we test all the stuff needed for a first class experience (hardware support, drivers, ecc)? This is a very interesting question. I have many computers and I help other users to install and configure GNU/Linux on their PCs. The user

orphaned GNOME Foundnation web site

2011-05-22 Thread Andy Tai
FYI, there is an old site at http://gnome-foundation.org/ which shows information from about 2001. Maybe the URL should be auto-forward to the current site. -- Andy Tai, a...@atai.org, Skype: licheng.tai Year 2011 民國100年 自動的精神力是信仰與覺悟 自動的行為力是勞動與技能 ___

Re: orphaned GNOME Foundnation web site

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 11:21 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: FYI, there is an old site at http://gnome-foundation.org/ which shows information from about 2001. Maybe the URL should be auto-forward to the current site. This is not an official GNOME website hence not much that can be done. You could

Re: orphaned GNOME Foundnation web site

2011-05-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:02:41PM -0700, Andre Klapper wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 11:21 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: FYI, there is an old site at http://gnome-foundation.org/ which shows information from about 2001. Maybe the URL should be auto-forward to the current site. This is not an

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

2011-05-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00:45AM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote: I want to achieve to make obvious to anybody that all the GNOME technologies (including GTK+) are technologies adapted to a commercial product and that high quality commercial support exist for them. I hope this will help GNOME to

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

2011-05-22 Thread Lionel Dricot
Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 22:23 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:00:45AM +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote: I want to achieve to make obvious to anybody that all the GNOME technologies (including GTK+) are technologies adapted to a commercial product and that high quality

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

2011-05-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 22 mai 2011, à 23:45 +0200, Lionel Dricot a écrit : It would have been easy to criticize, to say loudly that the board should improve the situation without moving a single finger. But I think that, if you want something to happen, you have to make it yourself. I think that the

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

2011-05-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 23 mai 2011, à 00:14 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le dimanche 22 mai 2011, à 23:45 +0200, Lionel Dricot a écrit : It would have been easy to criticize, to say loudly that the board should improve the situation without moving a single finger. But I think that, if you want something

Candidacy: Germán Póo-Caamaño

2011-05-22 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño Mail: g...@gnome.org Nick: gpoo Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://calcifer.org/blog/ (for Spanish speakers) Affiliation: None Summary I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for re-election for the Foundation Board because I am

Candidacy: Andre Klapper

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Klapper
Name: Andre Klapper Mail: ak...@gmx.net / aklap...@openismus.com Nick: andre_ or andre Affiliation: Openismus GmbH http://www.openismus.com/ Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ Biography: https://live.gnome.org/AndreKlapper Who am I? - I've been active in GNOME since 2003 or 2004. I

Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Lortie
name: Ryan Lortie nick: desrt affiliation: Codethink Limited I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming election for the board of directors. (( me )) I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more than half a decade. I started in some rather

Candidacy: Diego Escalante Urrelo

2011-05-22 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
With a more experienced point of view, a record of stuff done, and a new background in communication, I'd like to join the Board again to help. About me: - I'm Diego Escalante Urrelo, contributor since 2007, living in Lima, Perú (UTC-5). - My main involvement has been hacking on Epiphany, but

Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

2011-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
At Lanedo, we have been surprised a few times by people who were thinking that there was no commercial support available for GTK+. It would make good sense for GNOME to have a list of commercial service providers. It should have stated rules of good conduct and list anyone who agrees to

Re: Candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

2011-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
the main lesson learned in these past 10 years is that writing a graphical interface in a vacuum, shielded by layers of abstractions is not only impossible: it's actively wrong. Ok. GNOME requires, in order to build a full user experience (not just the user interface bits,