Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy
On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: > The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so > we will not have much choice in our voting. > > On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have > already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more > people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to > stay in the race. I am pleased to say that the candidates we already have are *all* exceptionally strong. I feel that I should point out that there are one or two people who would probably join the race as well if we extended the deadline. As I said, though, the current candidates are pretty awesome and they all got their announcements in on time :) karen > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call > > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy
The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to stay in the race. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: LinuxTag 2013 - Not going to happen
I'm really sorry to hear that. Most unfortunate. :/ sri On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hey folks, > > unfortunately, we lack people to run the booth at LinuxTag. I thus > cancelled our booth and two presentations we had. > > Cheers, > Tobi > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-l...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: New Foundation Members
Welcome folks! Especially Sindhu who decides to stay on even after her internship. Awesome! As well folks writing apps, and other cool things. Thank you for joining! sri On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our > newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their > great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. > > They are: * > > 1. Stefan Westerfeld (beast contributor, gst123 maintainer) > 2. Daiki Ueno (caribou and gettext maintainer, IBus developer) > 3. Sreerenj Balachandran (GStreamer contributor, commits to several GNOME > modules) > 4. Michael Hasselmann (GTK+ contributor, EDS and Rygel contributions) > 5. Hau Heng Haggen So (GNOME.Asia organization, GNOME Hong Kong organizer) > 6. Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) > 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) > 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer) > 9. Andres G. Aragoneses (Banshee maintainer, GSoC mentor) > 10. Antonius Riha (Tasque maintainer) > > * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement) > > For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at > membership-commit...@gnome.org. (or me directly) > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Sysadmin, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
My question to the candidates: For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the board that you are most proud of? How many action items did you accept over your last term and what percentage were completed? If things did not get done or tended to get done very late, please explain why. If you were to give your own performance a grade, what would it be? For all candidates, how do you see being on the board will enhance or facilitate the volunteer work you already do in the commutity? How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to working on the board on a regular basis? Brian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
Thanks Max, Emmanuele and Andreas for the replies! Having the minutes of the Board meetings is certainly helpful. Problem is, IMO, that the granularity of the information there is way to high to inform the broader progress and accomplishments of the Board. On 21 May 2013 03:23, Dave Neary wrote: > Suggestion: when you could use help with something, send an email asking. > When you finish a task, drop a quick email letting people know. That's a great idea as a way to keep an open communication channel with the Foundation. However, I'm not opposed to the idea of the "report" as an additional resource. With these reports every 2-3 months, one would only need to check a couple of emails (wiki pages, blog posts or whatever form they take) to be able to have an idea of what the Board is up to and, in elections time, make an informed vote. Additionally, if the reports are indeed desirable, it's the role of the Foundation Members to make sure the Board make they happen. Regards, Fabiana On 21 May 2013 03:23, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On May 20, 2013 10:33 PM, "Andreas Nilsson" wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting IRC meetings per se, but we need some kind of > mechanism to report to the broader foundation what we are up to on a > regular basis, similar to how we communicate with the Advisory board. > > If only there were a way to communicate asynchronously with foundation > members - a mailing list or something - you could avoid an inconvenient > real-time meeting. > > > If something like a e-mail with a status report from the board to > foundation-list would be a better mechanism, I would support that. > > That sounds like an excellent idea, except calling it a status report is a > guarantee it won't happen regularly. > > Suggestion: when you could use help with something, send an email asking. > When you finish a task, drop a quick email letting people know. > > If you're announcing things to members, they're not involved. If you're > talking to them, they can be (see the difference?). > > Cheers, > Dave. > > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
New Foundation Members
Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. They are: * 1. Stefan Westerfeld (beast contributor, gst123 maintainer) 2. Daiki Ueno (caribou and gettext maintainer, IBus developer) 3. Sreerenj Balachandran (GStreamer contributor, commits to several GNOME modules) 4. Michael Hasselmann (GTK+ contributor, EDS and Rygel contributions) 5. Hau Heng Haggen So (GNOME.Asia organization, GNOME Hong Kong organizer) 6. Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer) 9. Andres G. Aragoneses (Banshee maintainer, GSoC mentor) 10. Antonius Riha (Tasque maintainer) * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement) For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at membership-commit...@gnome.org. (or me directly) -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME etherpad instance [WAS: Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates]
2013/5/20 Frederic Peters
> [ not related to the current election ]
>
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>
> > a month ago or so, we finally switched from gobby to an etherpad
> > instance running on gnome.org; this has facilitated immensely my work
>
> I found it at https://etherpad.gnome.org but it doesn't allow me to
> edit pads ("You do not have permission to access this pad" after it
> created a pad); we have been using various external etherpad for
> release team meeting, it would be nice if we could use the gnome.org
> one; is it planned to open it?
>
As Emmanuele pointed out already, we don't plan to open the service to the
wide public, but any GNOME team can request access to it. Just get in touch
with me for having a pad created with a custom username and password to
access it in the case you want to keep the information on the pad private.
--
Cheers,
Andrea
Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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A Question for New Candidates
Hi everyone, Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing to spend time on the foundation. It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find myself asking is: what do you think you will personally bring to the role if you are elected? In other words: why do you think that you will be a good board member? I don't expect an essay here, btw. :) Thanks again, Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
