Re: GNOME trademarks

2010-12-08 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 10:00, Murray Cumming writes: > If we ever try to sell nuts then we may have a problem. Presumably we may however offer nuts at an event, though without perhaps labelling them as GNOME nuts. We may feel free to label the attendees as such though, as it is a different use of t

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ryan, On Mon 23 May 2011 02:00, Ryan Lortie writes: > For a while the foundation board has largely taken a hands-off approach > when it comes to technical decisions. In my opinion this has allowed a > number of problems to develop. Can you mention some examples? > I believe, however, that

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ryan, Thanks for your answers. They were thoughtful, as you are. On Mon 23 May 2011 22:38, Ryan Lortie writes: > More generally, though, during the last cycle I've heard a lot of talk > from many different people about many decisions that seemed to be made > in an opaque way. The removal o

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Brian, On Wed 25 May 2011 18:30, Brian Cameron writes: > Using the GNOME brand to foster divisions within the Free Software or > GNU/Linux community, to me, feels like the sort of thing Richard > Stallman would be into. While I love free software, I personally do > not drink this sort of Sta

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Brian, A point of clarification: On Wed 14 Dec 2011 04:42, Brian Cameron writes: > 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to >help make events successful lately. You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop Summit. Has this been a problem in

Re: New Foundation Members

2012-02-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Welcome, Joone! ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: European bank account for donations

2012-03-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 11:39, Bastien Nocera writes: > The GNOME Foundation is a US not-for-profit entity. We do not have any > legal existence in the EU or the EEA, and thus cannot hold a bank > account in the EU. I wonder if setting up a "GNOME Foundation.eu" wouldn't be a bad idea. Of course you

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-29 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day writes: > I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive > organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and > initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed. I'd > like there be less 'we need someone to organis

yay canaries!

2008-07-13 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey hackers, Yay, we're going to the Canaries next year! That's great! The purpose of this message though is to express disagreement with the way that the announcement was done (at the GUADEC closing), though. It was pretty nasty to Tampere, a place I also wanted to go. I think an apology is in o

Re: minutes of last four board meetings

2008-12-16 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Thu 11 Dec 2008 07:11, "Luis Villa" writes: > I've posted the minutes of the last four meetings to > http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes Excellent, thanks. May I ask that they also be mailed out to the list, both these ones and the future ones. That way they can spark dis

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - October 29, 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Brian, Thanks for the detailed and readable notes! On Fri 13 Nov 2009 22:27, Brian Cameron writes: > Minutes for Meeting of October 29th, 2009 [...] > More generally, we need to make sure that GNOME Foundation members > sign the GNOME Code of Conduct, and perhaps make it a requir

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-11-25 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Lucas, On Wed 25 Nov 2009 13:48, Lucas Rocha writes: > In the context of GNOME Foundation, it's really hard to argue about > how we expect our members to behave if there is no official guidelines > that members are supposed to comply with. The GNOME Code of Conduct[1] > has been serving very

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-11-25 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Behdad, On Wed 25 Nov 2009 23:19, Behdad Esfahbod writes: > On 11/25/2009 05:13 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: >> It's only IRC and DDL that are really the outliers, it seems, and there >> there is enough social pressure, combined with ignore/kill lists, that I >> don

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-11 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello Lefty, On Fri 11 Dec 2009 16:37, "Lefty (石鏡 )" writes: > On 12/11/09 7:12 AM, "Richard Stallman" wrote: >> The most minimal support for the free software movement is >> to refrain from going directly against it; that is, to avoid >> presenting proprietary software as legitimate. > > This

GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?

2010-01-25 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi all, At November's GNU Hackers Meeting in Gothenburg, there was some interest expressed in increasing communication between GNU hackers and GNOME hackers. Co-locating a GNU Hackers Meeting with GUADEC would be a great way to do this. GHM events have in the past been pretty small -- about 25 pe

Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Dave, On Tue 26 Jan 2010 15:07, Dave Neary writes: > Hi Andy, > > Andy Wingo wrote: >> So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for >> GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one >> smallish (40-50 people) room

Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Alberto, On Tue 26 Jan 2010 21:07, Alberto Ruiz writes: > 2010/1/26 Andy Wingo : > [Dave Neary wrote] >>> If GUADEC and Akademy colocate again in 2011, do you think that might >>> have an impact on the GHM? >> >> It would probably make it more awesome! Th

Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?

2010-01-27 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:08, Dave Neary writes: > And Andy, for 2010, it's probably not too late, if you get a request in > quick :) The only thing is that adding extra space for the week would > probably have an impact on the budget at this stage, which we'd have to > think about. OK, will poke GN