Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > Luis > worried that making the TODO list the Bountie list was > dangerous, because people might end up doing only the things > people pay for. Have we already started down this slop already > with

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
[Resending in full, as in my previous I accidentally pressed the Send button by mistake] On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:43 -0500, meg ford wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom < > tris...@upstairslabs.com> wrote: > > > > I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:43 -0500, meg ford wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom < > tris...@upstairslabs.com> wrote: > > > > I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely > > improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the > > s

Re: preparing for the use of the Privacy campaign funds

2014-09-17 Thread Oliver Propst
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Jeff Fortin wrote: > (Forking this particular topic out of the OPW discussion) > > > Le dimanche 14 septembre 2014 à 18:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro a écrit : > >> > [...] it's been a year since we collected the privacy campaign >> > money; I guess we still have no

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread meg ford
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom < tris...@upstairslabs.com> wrote: > > I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely > improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the > singular purpose of the GNOME Desktop Environment, then per

GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

2014-09-17 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
Changing topic as this thread has branched in many directions (as others later in this thread pointed out). On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 15:16 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 13:58 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote

Re: preparing for the use of the Privacy campaign funds

2014-09-17 Thread Jeff Fortin
(Forking this particular topic out of the OPW discussion) Le dimanche 14 septembre 2014 à 18:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro a écrit : > > [...] it's been a year since we collected the privacy campaign > > money; I guess we still have no clue what we're doing with it? :) Le mardi 16 septembre 2014

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 09/17/2014 01:58 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: The approach to budgeting is similar in that the Foundation and Google both have a budget, but our budgets are quite different. Any spending in any area means that that money can

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi; > > On 16 September 2014 14:22, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > >> Philip said for example: > > Philip has scarcely any idea about any of this stuff, as he already > demonstrated plenty of times, couple with an overinflated sense of his > im

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread john palmieri
On Sep 17, 2014 9:17 AM, "Bastien Nocera" wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 13:58 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > > The approach to budgeting is similar in that the Foundation and Google > > > both have a budget, but our b

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 13:58 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > The approach to budgeting is similar in that the Foundation and Google > > both have a budget, but our budgets are quite different. Any spending > > in any area mea

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > The approach to budgeting is similar in that the Foundation and Google > both have a budget, but our budgets are quite different. Any spending > in any area means that that money cannot be spent in another area. What if the Fo

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-17 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 16/09/2014, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Thank you very much for your answer, Kat. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:12:15PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> interns attending events in 2014 were sponsored within allocated >> travel budgets out of general funds or by sponsors for that event. > >