Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012, à 02:03 +0100, Tobias Mueller a écrit : > Bonjour Vincent :-) > > Thanks a lot for your valuable input! > > On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: > > For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the > > W3C is have some people from our comm

Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Tobias Mueller
Bonjour Vincent :-) Thanks a lot for your valuable input! On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: > For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the > W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some > working groups Do you have more details on that?

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Good point... perhaps make it a seperate app then? Just call it "About > GNOME" that way anytime you open up the applications over view its the > first listing. Give it a GNOME foot logo, and write it in Python & > GTK+3 (or similar basic lang

Re: newcomer experience survey - REMINDER

2012-11-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Hi all, Thank you to everyone who has participated in the survey. Please complete it by this Friday, November 23 if you haven't done so yet, but started contributing to GNOME after January 2010 and have been active in the last 6 months. We would love for everyone who qualifies to complete this

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Rūdolfs Mazurs
O , 2012-11-20 13:48 -0500, Emily Gonyer rakstīja: > Good point... perhaps make it a seperate app then? Just call it "About > GNOME" that way anytime you open up the applications over view its the > first listing. Give it a GNOME foot logo, and write it in Python & > GTK+3 (or similar basic languag

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> Actually I think Richard made a really helpful suggestion - a screen > built in to the desktop that explains the goals. Can the desktop by > default at least have such a document on it for people to read? One place to put it is part of an introductory first run tutorial which also explains thing

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Stormy Peters
I think it's a great idea to include an "About GNOME" in the product. However, it's more important for us as a project to know what we are doing and why. If we do the right thing for the audience we are targeting, they will know what and why. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Liam R E Quin wrot

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Nicolás Satragno
El 20/11/12 15:26, Liam R E Quin escribió: Actually I think Richard made a really helpful suggestion - a screen built in to the desktop that explains the goals. Can the desktop by default at least have such a document on it for people to read? Regards, Liam Hello, I believe this is indeed a

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
Good point... perhaps make it a seperate app then? Just call it "About GNOME" that way anytime you open up the applications over view its the first listing. Give it a GNOME foot logo, and write it in Python & GTK+3 (or similar basic languages) so its simple to update and edit as needed. On Tue, No

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 13:38 -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Why not just include an "About GNOME" section in System Settings It would be a start, but some down sides might be - . administrators locking away access to "about gnome" . people not thinking to look in a configuration tool for information

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
Why not just include an "About GNOME" section in System Settings where we can talk about these sorts of things - about software freedom and what it means. About DRM and why we don't include tools to allow its use, and why free formats like OGG are preferable. We could have multiple tabs: One about

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 09:44 -0800, Lefty wrote: > Mr. Stallman thinks [...] Please let's not have personal attacks on the foundation list. The GPL does not prohibit making money; it seeks to prohibit people from profiting by withholding knowledge from others. Let's get back to the questions of

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 11:38 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > It is a fact that many people use DRM schemes, but that gives them no > legitimacy. We are trying to convince people to reject them. We MUST > try, not only because DRM denies the users long-established freedoms, > but also because the

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Richard Stallman
"Consume" is not the best word to use as you point out. Some works of art are expensive and require financing. Most movies or digital games cost a small fortune to make, for example. DRM may not be the best way for such works to be financed, but it is a popular way used by many

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Richard Stallman
> This is why we started the DefectiveByDesign.org. I suggest making > GNOME inform users about DefectiveByDesign.org so as to boost the > campaign. (People reading this might want to sign up.) How do you propose GNOME should inform users? By displaying the information on the sc

Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 20 novembre 2012, à 14:44 +, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > * Joining the W3C > * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining > the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards. For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W

Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
this is the public agenda for the board meeting of November 20th. * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend the funds and needs feedback on that. * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME jo

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 20 November 2012 14:11, Dave Neary wrote: >> == Board Meeting Agenda == >> >> * Future adboard meetings >> * We need to plan the next adboard meeting. Last meeting was at >> GUADEC. >> * When should we have the next meeting? >> * What topics should we cover? >> *

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Dave; sorry, nothing to see here, move along. :-P ciao, Emmanuele. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 11/20/2012 03:04 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: == Board Meeting Agenda == * Future adboard meetings * We need to plan the next adboard meeting. Last meeting was at GUADEC. * When should we have the next meeting? * What topics should we cover? * Ideas for the next ca

Minutes for the board meeting of November 6th, 2012

2012-11-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20121106 = Minutes for Meeting of November 6th, 2012 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Joanmarie Diggs * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lo