On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 16:37 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
On Wed, 2005-28-09 at 18:26 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
However, the board didn't agree on even having a referendum this evening
(this is the problem which reducing board size will fix).
That's not a fair
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 00:09 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Could you provide references to the use of Linux and GNU/Linux in the
GNOME documentation?
I was not examining documentation, but the GDP folks said such
examples are extremely rare, and I beleive so. I was
-faq.html.
This issue was first brought at GTP; I was substituting Linux with
GNU/Linux in my translations and our team leader asked for a general
solution on the -i18n list. Christian Rose, one of the GTP
spekespersons, said that it is a terminology issue that has to be
solved by GDP. Shaun
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 18:16 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:31:08 +0200
From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org
Subject:
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 11:27 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I must say, I hadn't read Joachim's other comments until
after I'd sent my endorsement. I stand by my assertion
that he's been a highly motivated contributor to the GDP,
although it's now somewhat hard to understand
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 05 mars 2007, à 20:46, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
El mié, 28-02-2007 a las 19:46 +0100, Vincent Untz escribió:
SoC/WSOP mentors from previous years: Behdad Esfahbod, Shaun McCance,
Danilo Segan, Joe Shaw, Vincent
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 22:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Hi all,
This is an issue various previous Boards have discussed, and it came up very
briefly during GUADEC this year, but I'm going to do the bullet-taking thing
I enjoy so much, and propose it here for real. :-)
Currently the GNOME
On 6/10/07, Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a non-profit we (GNOME) would not have voting privileges.
The membership will serve as a mechanism to allow interested
foundation members to join ECMA committees. I'm advocating this in
relation to ECMA376/TC45 aka MS
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:44 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:03 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
I read http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ with
great concern.
Since I am not an expert, I cannot tell on my own if that description
of the situation
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 10:11 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
I just want to put this in perspective: the foundation has $200,000 in
the bank, with guaranteed income of $100,000 a year approx. One employee
costs at least $70,000 per year, and depending on the role up to
$100,000 or
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 18:05 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Ani Peter
I have heard a lot of people pronouncing GNOME as Ga-nome and I feel Nome
is the correct pronunciation.
Appreciate if someone please advise me which is the correct pronunciation.
When folks ask me about this at
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
[Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the
Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.]
Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential
voting to select the board. At the time I opposed
[snip plenty of good discussion]
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 10:33 +0900, James Henstridge wrote:
On 17/02/2008, Shaun McCance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any preferential voting systems is going to make the
voting process more difficult. If I had had to order
my votes in previous elections
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:34 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is
in Europe.
This American
Owen sent an email to the list a short while back about a
FoG fundraising drive for a sysadmin:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-April/msg00025.html
There have been occasional conversations on IRC about having
a progress meter we could put on our web sites. I know some
other
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:22 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
2009/6/26 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org:
Hi,
Dave Neary wrote:
A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work:
Well, actually, I just found out from the OpenSTV guys, that how Filippo
said is how they work.
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:23 -0400, john palmieri wrote:
Hi Soumen,
Foundation list is not a technical list. Please go here
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo) to find a more appropriate
list in the future (gtk-list might be a good starting point). I also
suggest going on Freenode irc
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:09 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
Of the GNOME people who collaborated with a KDE person:
* 78% said it went well, 7% said it didn't
* 67% said we should co-locate next year, 29% said no
* 28% said we should co-locate in the future but not next year, 25%
said no
* 53%
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 19:22 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote:
Hello everybody!
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members:
- Milo Casagrande
Hooray for Milo! Welcome to the Foundation.
--
Shaun
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on gnome.org.
--
Shaun McCance
http://syllogist.net/
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foundation-list mailing list
foundation-list@gnome.org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
: extensive documentation and an SDK.
Shaun McCance and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm
not trying to steal his thunder (and I hope he replies on list) but he
has spent a significant amount of time in the last couple of weeks and
has put together some thoughts around planning
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:54 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Hi,
When I decided to run for the foundation board in 2006, many of the old timers
where not running again and there was the feeling that new people are needed
on the board. The board work has been very educational and rewarding for
on the existence of those
plugins on this list (please). But I think most would agree
that our servers shouldn't host non-free software.
It's a simple one-liner: GNOME only hosts free software on
addons.gnome.org. It's worth adding.
--
Shaun McCance
http://syllogist.net
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 18:37 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
There are some licenses which are open source but not free software.
Fortunately they are not used very often. You can find them, more or
less, by comparing the OSI's list of approved licenses with
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:45 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:04 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011, à 23:41 +0800, Frederic Muller a écrit :
So Hackfest registration is happening here:
http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 , call for papers
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:03 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
I also have the training material I used from the GNOME developer
training at GUADEC last year, which included an overview of the GNOME
platform from Fernando Herrera
How is this different from the upstream Platform Overview we
have in
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:39 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
I had a discussion with Bradley Kuhn at last year's Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit - it's not possible to dual license these two
copylefts. The GNOME Documentation team is licensing all new
documentation for applications (and on
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I
wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]?
Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so,
what should be done?
[1]
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of
missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much
time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you
plan on spending that time?
As a
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Tai wrote:
As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME
3.0 as the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME
technologies to work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on
other GNU/Linux distributions like
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote:
Hi members,
Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's
also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...).
One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud
services is the
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:34 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
I'd like to ask the candidates this question:
* What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free
software, beyond being composed of free programs.
Hi Richard,
I want to echo something from my candidacy statement:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi all,
I was away last week travelling, so I'm coming late to the election
campaign. I have almost decided who I would like to vote for, but there
are still a few things which are important to me when considering a
prospective board
Hi Foundation members!
Tomorrow, July 13th at 14:00 UTC is our GNOME Foundation IRC meeting
in the #foundation IRC channel. Your new board will be there to take
questions. Details here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda
Add topics to discuss here:
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 14:37 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
Hi Foundation members!
Tomorrow, July 13th at 14:00 UTC is our GNOME Foundation IRC meeting
in the #foundation IRC channel. Your new board will be there to take
questions.
Thanks to all who attended. If you weren't able to make
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 19:32 +0100, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 18:25 +0100, Johannes Schmid wrote:
Hi!
A GNOME developer in the list would have seen this and could have
responded, raises the issue in the appropriate GNOME list, or whatever
is TRT. It isn't
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 17:32 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
mention that this particular behaviour is specified:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
They can recommend, but they cannot specify anything for us. In the
GNU Project we pay attention to standards, and usually
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 09:58 +0200, Robert Nordan wrote:
Hi all, I have a few questions for the candidates in the upcoming
election to the board. They are obviously shaped by my interests, but I
believe that other Foundation members may be interested in the answers
as well.
1) Open Source or
I'm going to reply here, because I really don't know how to answer
the original email.
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote:
...
Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
from the rest of the GNOME project.
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 11:21 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote:
Hi all,
First of all thanks for running for this critical role on GNOME!
My question is about hardware and contacts:
The average user is not going to ever install its own operating system
by itself, for them hardware and software
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 00:25 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
Dear Shaun,
It has come to my attention that you are running for the Gnome board
again this year.
In the past year and a half, I have tried to contact you in your role of
treasurer on multiple occasions to talk about a small
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:33 +, Gino Aielli wrote:
Hi!
I am a staffing consultant and I am looking for a full-time GTK+
resource to join a client of mine in Nevada. I know that the GTK
community is very small, is there any way to spread the word among you
blog readers?
Hi Gino,
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 22:44 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:39 AM, William Jon McCann
william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Karen,
I think these are good suggestions. But I think it would be a
mistake to leave this critical
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 08:16 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
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
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 13:45 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
Howdy guys,
as you may know we're currently hosting an openfire istance (jabber
server) on one of our machines, I'm currently migrating a good bunch
of services and reviewing all the services we host in case they need
an upgrade or
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:59 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
Hi Shaun,
It's certainly recognized that shutting down jabber.gnome.org would
cause pain for people who are using it. But in the end, system
administration resources are limited, and we have to balance that
against the costs to us to
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:11 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
I have a hard time though thinking it is a superior chat system
compared to IRC. Mostly because, we have bots, we have just added
some new IRC services. Plus some of us run irc under screen, giving
us 24/7 access to chat so we
Hi all,
I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had
no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts
on it, or how to go about doing so.
What's more, over the last week, I tried to help two people use
their jabber.gnome.org accounts with no success.
I think
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:26 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
Hey,
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
Hi all,
I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had
no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts
on it, or how to go about
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 17:04 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
Hola,
On 12.03.2013 14:38, Shaun McCance wrote:
So I get to
send my password in plain text to register with our new bot.
But your bot password isn't as valuable as *the one* GNOME password that
the jabber server currently uses
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 12:34 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
This takes in another problem, is the service supposed for Foundation
members or for the big public? (where big public means all the
GNOME contributors having a Git account)
Out of curiosity, does anybody know how large the set of
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 21:20 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
Is it advisable to use
Name: Shaun McCance
Email: sha...@gnome.org
Affiliation: Red Hat
Foundation Members,
I'm announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. I'm a long-time
GNOME developer and enthusiast, because I believe GNOME does important
work in ensuring free software is usable for everybody. I spent ten
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 08:41 +0800, Max wrote:
Hello all,
First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board.
Max come from GNOME.Asia team and thanks GNOME and board support Asia.
I have 2 questions to all candidates
1) How many hours per week do you expect you
On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 17:25 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has
been said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board
have a diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to
answer yes on these, but I
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 21:16 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no
data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME
than community. I do not question the passion and dedication to those
who are paid on GNOME, I
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 12:39 +0200, Fabiana Simões wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and
accountability on the Board.
How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members?
What should be communicated and when? Do you think we
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 19:23 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Dear candidates. Thank you all for running!
As part of the GNOME Trademark Fundraiser [1], the Foundation raised
$102 608 USD.
Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was
withdrawn, it was never taken to court
The next board meeting is November 17. Here's our public agenda. We
welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.
* Filling the vice president role
* Update on adboard meeting prep
* West Coast Summit
* Ubuntu GNOME trademark agreement
* Logo copyright issues
* ED search update
--
Shaun
On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 19:00 +, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote:
> > Le mardi 10 novembre 2015 ? 09:07 +, Debarshi Ray a ?crit?:
> > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > > > Deferred:
> > > > ?* Instagram
On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 19:08 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Do, 2015-11-05 at 16:30 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> > > If I recall correctly, it's not a rule for the board to pick someone
> > > based on election
The next board meeting is October 13. Here's our public agenda. We
welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.
* Review GUADEC sponsorships
* Replacing Christian Hergert
* Adboard member list
* Instagram filters in GNOME
* GIMP reimbursements
* Open items:
* ED search
*
The next board meeting is October 6. Here's our public agenda. We
welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.
* Heads up about Annual Report printing+shipping
* Desktop Summit taxes
* Action items:
* Trademark registration followup with Pam (Kat)
* Ubuntu GNOME agreement followup
On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 22:27 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 10:09 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > The next board meeting is October 13. Here's our public agenda. We
> > welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.
> >
> >
> > * Review GUAD
The next board meeting is September 29. Here's our public agenda. We
welcome questions or feedback on any of these items.
* Funding Outreachy internships
* COLA increase paperwork for Rosanna
* Discussion of regional domain names.
* Action items:
* Trademark registration followup with Pam (Kat)
On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 13:44 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:52:09PM -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> >
> > GUADEC is coming up soon, and with GUADEC comes the annual Pants
> > Award.
> > Every year, GNOME awards a pair of pants
Hi all,
GUADEC is coming up soon, and with GUADEC comes the annual Pants Award.
Every year, GNOME awards a pair of pants to somebody in recognition of
their outstanding contributions. The board will make the final decision
on who receives the pants, but we'd love to hear your nominations.
The
Correction: To keep the suspense, please send your nominations just to
the board at board-l...@gnome.org, instead of to this list.
Thanks,
Shaun
On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 14:52 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> GUADEC is coming up soon, and with GUADEC comes the annual Pant
On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 07:04 +0200, Jens Georg wrote:
> Can you please stop leaking half a conversation from a private
> mailing
> list to a public one? Thank you.
In Richard's defense, I don't believe the emails he's replying to are
intended to be private. In the mailing list archives, there are
I've served on a few boards over the years. All of them have had either
two or three year staggered terms, except GNOME. And while I consider
this a good practice, I never thought it was worth the effort to change
the GNOME Foundation, for a couple reasons. First, we usually happened
to elect a
I want to let the Foundation know that my role at Red Hat is changing.
I am in the process of transitioning to CentOS community manager.
I'm not a GNOME Foundation director, but I do serve as treasurer of the
Foundation, appointed by the directors. My new role with CentOS will
make me responsible
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