Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of October, 27th, 2015

2015-11-08 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le lundi 2 novembre 2015 à 16:53 -0800, Cosimo Cecchi a écrit : > > > * ACTION: Jeff and Cosimo to handle the first review of sysadmin > > > sponsorship brochure and any eventual improvement to the > > > sponsorship brochure itself > > Would we be able to see this brochure? > > > This action

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015

2015-11-11 Thread Jeff F. T.
Just for the record: in this case the thread we're referring to is the one actually started by you (when you mailed the board list with your questions a while ago). You were kept in c.c. of all the discussions, and as such did not miss anything on that

Re: Travel committee disfunctional?

2016-03-18 Thread Jeff F. T.
Indeed the issue, as far as I know, is that the Travel Committee is has finite human resources. IMHO the only way to alleviate this is to have additional trusted Foundation members join that team to share the workload. Personally, I'm quite grateful for their existence. I can imagine the

Re: Travel committee disfunctional?

2016-03-19 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 15:28 -0700, Germán Poo-Caamaño a écrit : > The delay may be explained by several factors. One thing is checking > that everything is in order to approve the reimbursement. A different > thing is to proceed with the actual payment. > > The second one means giving access

Re: This week in Gnome?

2016-05-18 Thread Jeff F. T.
I'm under the impression that even just making a digest of Planet GNOME alone would be a full-time job* (also tricky in terms of curation)... If on top of that you widen the scope to include even third-party apps from outside of the GNOME infrastructure, well... you turn into That Recently

Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!

2016-09-04 Thread Jeff F. T.
Hi folks, we’re planning to host the GNOME Summit in Montréal this year, most likely on October 8-9-10 (US Colombus Day week-end, Canadian Thanksgiving). See https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/Summit/ Please pre-register* by Friday (so we can estimate the size of the event), indicate any topics of

Re: Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!

2016-09-11 Thread Jeff F. T.
Oops, I realize now that I sent this only to foundation-list instead of sending it to foundation-announce. Anyway, let's consider this as a reminder for everybody interested to put down their names on the "/Participants" page! Having more names in there will increase the likelihood of the event

Re: Pre-register for the 2016 GNOME Summit in Montréal!

2016-09-12 Thread Jeff F. T.
Some other good piece of news: today I got a preliminary confirmation for the venue. I'll get the details at the end of the week. I also checked with the Alt Hotel (~5 mins walk from the venue) and participants would be able to book at a reduced rate (140* CAD per room per night instead of 160)

Re: Send us your pants nominations

2017-07-05 Thread Jeff F. T.
Le mercredi 5 juillet 2017, James a écrit : > Here's a nomination for Milan Crha who does lots of hacking on Evolution. [...] He would also get my vote. Those who have ever talked to me about email or follow me on various online outreach outlets (including Twitter or G+) might know how much of a