Call for volunteers: looking for new Membership Committee members

2005-04-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is looking for new members. If you think you may be interested in volunteering, read on... What does the Membership Committee do? -- The main tasks are: * process membership applications * maintain the

Re: Membership drive

2005-07-21 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Dave, On Thu, July 21, 2005 17:51, Dave Neary said: Hi, I don't know who the best people to talk to about this are, but it would be great to have a membership drive for the foundation in September or October. Membership of the foundation has been stagnant, and I know that lots of

Re: Membership drive

2005-07-21 Thread Vincent Untz
On Thu, July 21, 2005 21:32, David Neary said: Hi, Alan Horkan wrote: Would that be before or after the elections? Before, I would have thought, but after would be OK too (before is probably easier). Erm. Well, easier for who? /me thinks to the membership committee ;-) But I agree,

Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

2005-09-06 Thread Vincent Untz
On Tue, September 6, 2005 08:36, Danilo Å egan wrote: If we were KDE, I'd vote for replacing aKademy with Konference so, it should be Gnomference for us ;-) I like it: it sounds like GNOME France ;-) To answer Dave: I like GUADEC (more than GConf, to be honest). But look at various other

Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

2005-09-06 Thread Vincent Untz
On Tue, September 6, 2005 12:09, Murray Cumming wrote: I think it will, because it'll be clear that it's a conference. It'll be easier for the press to write, too. Yes, GnomeCon, or such like, would be more straightforward. Let's try another question: who are the new people we want to see?

Re: poor man's SWOT analysis of GUADEC

2005-09-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Luis, Thanks for taking time to do this. I agree on nearly every point (and on your previous posts too, btw). Le lundi 12 septembre 2005 à 01:38 -0400, Luis Villa a écrit : * many other conferences more successful at reaching a broad-ranging audience and attracting a broad range of free

Re: Reducing the board size

2005-09-14 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Dave, Le mercredi 14 septembre 2005 à 21:01 +0200, David Neary a écrit : Hi all, There has been some discussion on reducing the board size on the board, and the one point which is clear is that this discussion should be in public. I'm in favour of reducing the board to 7 people. I

Re: Reducing the board size

2005-09-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Anne, I added some comments below. Le dimanche 18 septembre 2005 à 23:52 +0200, Anne Østergaard a écrit : By the way does the board have an agenda for each meeting? I have never seen one! I miss this tool. I believe so (although I'm not on the board ;-)). The agenda is probably only sent

Re: Reducing the board size

2005-09-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 19 septembre 2005 à 14:16 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit : Do you feel that you better represent the community's interests when planning conferences or building teams, Or doing marketing? I'm not answering the question since I'm unaware of the context. I just want to highlight the

Re: RFC: anonymous voting system

2005-09-26 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 15:57 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow a écrit : On Sun, 2005-25-09 at 17:07 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: + You'll need to trust people with access to the database/code since they can do a lot of bad things. = You already trust the membership elections

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Sep 28

2005-09-29 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 10:56 -0400, Daniel Veillard a écrit : ACTION: Owen to add a section on things the foundation should do once it has the money - done it's on the foundation board page Is this private or public? :-) I can't find the page anywhere, but this

Re: foundation affiliations list/page?

2005-10-20 Thread Vincent Untz
On Thu, October 20, 2005 16:08, Luis Villa wrote: Do we need an affiliations page listing our various foundation-level affiliations? Obviously we talk about our sponsors (and call FSF and debian sponsors when they aren't really quite), but we have other affiliations (

Re: Announcing the Reducing Board Size referendum

2005-10-24 Thread Vincent Untz
On Thu, October 20, 2005 10:23, Vincent Untz wrote: The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is proud to announce the beginning of the Reducing Board Size Referendum. You can find some context information about this referendum at ... For technical reasons and lack of time

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-26 Thread Vincent Untz
(I didn't have time to read this thread before, sorry for coming a bit late ;-)) On Mon, October 24, 2005 13:50, Luciana Bastos de Freitas Menezes wrote: I live in the south of Brazil, and it seams contraditory while we're raising the number of users, contributors, to decrease the number of our

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-26 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, On Mon, October 24, 2005 21:09, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: I agree with you, the referendum was created to decide if we want less members, but may be there are some opinions to get more members on the board, and that's not bad, because we can vote. On the other hand having more

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-26 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Daniel, On Tue, October 25, 2005 15:14, Daniel Veillard wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: On 10/24/05, Fernando San Martín Woerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With less members they will be forced to step down. That is my intention. After each year I

Re: New rules for the elections

2005-10-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 28 octobre 2005 à 19:16 +0200, Claudio Saavedra a écrit : Hi, On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 17:23 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: [...] I'm not saying we should block the media. I'm saying that we should try to let each candidate be able to use the same way to express themselves

How does the board work?

2005-11-11 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Two days ago, I wondered: what is the daily job of the board?. I was not wondering what the board is doing, but how it works: is there a lot of mails on the board mailing list? What's the frequency of the meetings? (one per month? more?) Are the meetings done by phone, on IRC? etc. Right

Re: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections

2005-11-11 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le vendredi 11 novembre 2005 à 12:05 +0100, Quim Gil a écrit : Being a candidate - If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested in running for election, you may (...) before November 14th 2005 (23:59 UTC). This is my first election period

Candidacy: Vincent Untz

2005-11-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Here's the usual required informations: Name: Vincent Untz Affiliation: INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) So, this candidacy is a bit late. I'd like to explain why I've been hesitating so long before explaining why I'm running. There are three or four reasons

Reducing Board Size Referendum results are now official

2005-11-14 Thread Vincent Untz
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to announce that the results for the reducing board size referendum are now official. There will be 7 slots to be filled in all future GNOME Foundation elections, instead of 11 previously. The rules for the 2005 elections have been

Re: [Fwd: Re: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections]

2005-11-16 Thread Vincent Untz
On Wed, November 16, 2005 10:33, Quim Gil wrote: If the announce was not clear or if the informations can not be easily found, please send a mail to the committee so it can be improved next year. An improvement would be to include some comments on the campaign. I don't know if it should be

Re: Candidacy: Jeff Waugh

2005-11-17 Thread Vincent Untz
, which unfortunately coincided with the original deadline. Though I was content to take the bullet and not run, I have just read that a fresh window of opportunity appeared, so my candidacy statement won't go to waste! According to Vincent Untz, the new deadline is 23:59 UTC Thursday.) Just

Re: Questions to answer

2005-11-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Answering these questions is a lot harder than what I had expected :-) Please ask for clarifications if I'm not clear (which is quite possible), or tell me I'm wrong if it's the case. On Tue, November 22, 2005 02:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Why are you running for Board of Directors?

Re: Questions to the candidates

2005-11-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, On sam, 2005-11-19 at 09:04 -0500, Curtis Hovey wrote: 1. How much time can you dedicate to the board each week? My time is quite flexible. But I think I can give ~1 hour per day. There are obviously some days where I won't be able to have time for the board, and some other where I'll have

Re: Additional questions for the board candidates

2005-11-24 Thread Vincent Untz
On mer, 2005-11-23 at 18:56 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: [...] So basically you guys will be responsible for being the official voice, steering the releases, communicating with vendors and customers, GNOME related conferences and promotion. steering the releases is really delegated to the

Re: [Off Topic] Words to Avoid Vendor [was Re: Questions to answer]

2005-11-28 Thread Vincent Untz
[I removed all the cc] On dim, 2005-11-27 at 13:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:48 +, Bill Haneman wrote: Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd suggest going with ISD, because of its similarity to the familiar ISV, at least the

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Vincent Untz
On Thu, December 1, 2005 13:03, Quim Gil wrote: En/na Baris Cicek ha escrit: sure if it's okay to provide this information (although I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be okay). Is there any objection to this idea? I'm for showing the participation (% of members that have already voted)

Re: Endorsements one by one [was Re: Endorsing David Neary]

2005-12-01 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Baris, On Thu, December 1, 2005 12:57, Baris Cicek wrote: Actually what Stallman and others did during voting is campaigning and this should have ended before voting get started. It's very likely that some people on the middle of their voting see these endorsements and vote them to fill

Re: Freunde von, Amigos de (etc) GNOME?

2005-12-31 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le samedi 31 décembre 2005 à 12:07 +0100, Quim Gil a écrit : Damian Keogh reports [1] from a GNOME desktop localised in German: -- Right-click the horizontal panel Info zu GNOME (About GNOME) GNOMES Freunde (Friends of GNOME) link. Link is in US, is there an

Re: GUADEC 2007

2006-02-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 04 février 2006 à 20:32 +, Thomas Wood a écrit : David Neary wrote: Hi Thomas, Thomas Wood wrote: I recently posted to the gnome-uk-list[1] to ask whether there was any interest in hosting GUADEC 2007 in the UK. There was a fairly decent response, with several people

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15

2006-02-26 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 22 février 2006 à 12:12 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:24 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Axis Informática * We are fine with giving them permission to sell products with the GNOME Logo. does this mean we can give them the

Re: Summer of Code

2006-04-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 16:52 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : Someone has asked if the GNOME Foundation is going to be part of the 2006 Google Summer of Code, but I don't know the answer. Can someone answer this question? The answer is yes. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas

Re: Summer of Code

2006-04-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 16:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 13:35 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 16:52 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : Someone has asked if the GNOME Foundation is going to be part of the 2006 Google Summer of Code, but I

Re: Summer of Code

2006-04-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 18:56 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit : On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 13:35 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le samedi 15 avril 2006 à 16:52 +0800, Davyd Madeley a écrit : Someone has asked if the GNOME Foundation is going to be part of the 2006 Google Summer of Code, but I don't

Call for talks for the RMLL (France)

2006-04-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi all, I'm pretty sure a lot of you dream of coming to France. I have the perfect occasion for you to come here, and to learn French (of course). The RMLL is a big free software in France. It will happen on 4-8 July, near Nancy. That is, after GUADEC. This is a perfect timing: you go to GUADEC,

Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-04-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi all, A Desktop Architects Meeting is scheduled on May 8-9 in Germany, where GNOME will be represented. You can see the agenda at [1], and a presentation template that should be filled at [2]. We'd love to get comments from the community on the agenda, so feel free to send them on the list or

Notes from the Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-05-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi all, I'm a bit late, but here are some notes I took at the DAM meeting. They're probably far from being complete. Other GNOME people who were there can hopefully join in and complete them or correct my errors ;-) Comments are of course welcome. Here's a list of concrete actions some GNOME

GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi all, The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, it was agreed that such a box would be most welcome for events in North America (where North America is at least Canada US). The budget to buy

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 15:47 -0500, Ariel Rios a écrit : The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, it was agreed that such a box would be most welcome for events in North America

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 17:34 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño a écrit : On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:47 -0500, Ariel Rios wrote: The GNOME Event Box in Europe has been really useful to the local groups and helped make their booths look really great. After some discussion, it was agreed that

Re: Notes from the Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
, Vincent Untz wrote: - we should try to send people in asian regional events to show that we're interested in what's happening there (they don't seem to know that we're interested in that) - inviting some managers from asian projects to events such as GUADEC might be a good

Re: LSB summit in Boston

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 09:33 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Hi all, There will be a LSB summit in Boston on 1st and 2nd of June (same place as Usenix). The details are at: http://freestandards.org/en/LSB_Summit Is there anyone from GNOME going there, or wanting to go there? One topic

Re: Notes from the Desktop Architects Meeting

2006-05-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 18 mai 2006 à 09:06 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit : [snip] One thing that was highlighted by some of the Chinese people during the discussion about this is that there is, unfortunately, a cultural difference that makes it hard for lots of Asian people to contribute. So we really

Re: Substituting Linux with GNU/Linux or GNU

2006-10-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 21 octobre 2006, à 22:44, Germán Poó Caamaño a écrit : In the last item of the agreement it says: - In the very few cases where the operative systems need to be enumerated, we recommend the use of the formula GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), that has already been used i.e. in the

Re: My interests in the GNOME Foundation

2006-11-07 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 07 novembre 2006, à 14:43, Quim Gil a écrit : I would have resigned from the board back on September if my colleagues would have requested it. I can resign now if you think it's appropriate. As I told Dave last week, I will do whatever it's best. I just want to defend my candidacy for

Re: Announcement of 2006 Board of Directors Election

2006-11-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 01 novembre 2006, à 22:56, Baris Cicek a écrit : Timeline (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST) November 2006 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 (4) 5 list of candidates open (4th) 6 7 (8) 9 10 11 12 applications/renewals closed (8th) 13 14 15(16)17(18)19

Re: New board roles

2007-02-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 05 février 2007, à 13:45, Vincent Untz a écrit : Status page is a good idea. I don't know if it's easily doable, but we should look at this. Guilherme did something related: http://www.gnome.org/~gpastore/accounts.html I'll see if we can steal this ;-) http://www.gnome.org/~gpastore

Minutes of SoC meeting

2007-02-28 Thread Vincent Untz
about potential SoC projects. We'll announce it widely soonish. Vincent = Present: SoC/WSOP students from previous years: Ryan Lortie, Max Wiehle, Clare So SoC/WSOP mentors from previous years: Behdad Esfahbod, Shaun McCance, Danilo Segan, Joe Shaw, Vincent Untz Others

Re: Minutes of SoC meeting

2007-03-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 28 février 2007, à 19:46, Vincent Untz a écrit : Hi, We had a meeting about Summer of Code yesterday in #soc. Here are the minutes. We'll have another meeting next week, probably same day + same time (Tuesday, 20:00 UTC) since there were still some topics we didn't have time

Re: Minutes of SoC meeting

2007-03-06 Thread Vincent Untz
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 Untz Bleh. Sorry that I couldn't attend, but Oralia

Re: Minutes of SoC meeting - 2007/Mar/06

2007-03-06 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 07 mars 2007, à 00:07, Lucas Rocha a écrit : * ACTION: Vincent to ask if it will be possible to merge back with full history from the separated directory To clarify this point: it's about the svn sandbox we want to provide to students. Shaun pointed out it'd be great to be

Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-21 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Ben, Le lundi 12 mars 2007, à 11:55, Ben Adida a écrit : Hi all, My name is Ben Adida, I'm a postdoc fellow at Harvard working on crypto and public policy. I spend a bunch of my time on voting systems, in particular those that let you or anyone audit the process from end to end. If

Re: Could GNOME Foundation qualify for a MATC award?

2007-03-21 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi David, Le jeudi 15 mars 2007, à 10:06, David Bolter a écrit : This is just a heads up in case it matters: http://matc.mellon.org/ Interesting. Do you think you could work on a nomination for the GNOME Foundation? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-04-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, As you probably know, there have been some research done in the acadamic world related to GNOME in the past. However, from the GNOME point of view, this is not something we've been good at, or at least, we could do better. Like, keeping track of what has been done, pushing to get more

Re: Lutèce d'Or GNOME

2007-05-31 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 29 mai 2007, à 18:55 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi Vincent, Vincent Untz wrote: Categories that can be of interest for us: + The best Community action Might I suggest WSOP? Good idea :-) + The best promotion of a Free Software solution + The best Free Software

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

2007-06-12 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 11 juin 2007, à 22:39 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : As others have suggested, a successful combined room in FOSDEM would be already a big (and useful) step. Trying to put together GUADEC and aKademy befor trying smaller challenges in save contexts would be very risky. We already had a

Re: Proposal: Shift election cycle back six months

2007-08-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 10 août 2007, à 22:11 +1000, Jeff Waugh a écrit : We can call a vote with minimum ten days notice (but we'll have to work with the membership committee to ensure the infrastructure exists to run it). Sorry, I'm going to dive into boring details... Is this something from the by-laws

Re: Proposal: Shift election cycle back six months

2007-08-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 10 août 2007, à 22:11 +1000, Jeff Waugh a écrit : quote who=Quim Gil The current board was elected for one year and there is no exceptional reason to change this. The next board can be elected for an extended period and then voters and electors know what is going on

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on universities? What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of creating a formal committe? Fernando and I had a discussion about this at

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-20 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 20 août 2007, à 13:33 -0400, David Bolter a écrit : Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on universities? What about moving the topic to ie marketing list

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007, à 17:37 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Because despite Gnome is people, I think that for most people, Planet Gnome is primarily about Gnome. No. The way planet started, it was about people. Or friends in fact. I personally am not interested in reading an

Re: Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 15 octobre 2007, à 23:23 +0300, Žygimantas Beručka a écrit : Hi, Pr, 2007 10 15 22:54 +0300, Baris Cicek rašė: The results are: yes (125 votes) no (22 votes) Even though I've voted yes, the voting activity level is depressing I must say. How many members the

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 16 octobre 2007, à 08:44 -0500, George Kraft a écrit : Here is the balloting scheme used by the former Free Standards Group. It was simple and I'm not aware of any resulting controversy. In approval voting, each voter selects as few or as many candidates for whom they wish to

Re: Who would be a good member? [Was: About the coming election]

2007-11-07 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 07 novembre 2007, à 23:53 +0200, Quim Gil a écrit : - Don't trust much the introduction written by the candidates when running for election. It's not that they are lying, they just might be too optimistic on that moment - and they are marketing themselves. Trust their path in

Help us prepare a budget for 2008!

2007-11-07 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, For the first time (I think), we had a budget [1] to help us plan how we'd spend the Foundation money this year. It turned out money it was not that closely followed, but it was still useful for us. Dave did the amazing work on this. You might remember his mail [2] asking user groups to send

Re: academic cooperation

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007, à 08:45 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak a écrit : Has http://live.gnome.org/Academic gotten stuck? The wiki page, yes, but not the idea :-) I'm working with a French professor doing a computer science course and using GNOME as a basis for the projects. Also,

Re: FOSDEM '08

2007-11-08 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007, à 20:31 +0100, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : Is somebody this year taking care of the GNOME developer room at FOSDEM? I think this year you have to request one. Let's not forget to do that :) (has somebody done this already?) Well, we had to request one every year in

Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!

2007-11-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Sorry, it seems I didn't see this mail before. On lun, 2007-11-12 at 11:24 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: This is the important bit for us in India. After the GNOME Project Day at foss.in (where we will be talking a bit about the Academy/Education bits) we expect to see requests for

Re: A question to candidates

2007-11-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 22 novembre 2007, à 18:11 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : Hi, I did send these to the membership committee, but voting's nearly open, and I think they're important, so I guess I'll just ask... The foundation's role is essentially to facilitate the enthusiasm of the GNOME

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-11-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 22 novembre 2007, à 23:52 +0100, Anne Østergaard a écrit : Questions to the candidates: Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME? No. Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board member? I'd say it's highly unlikely,

Re: A question to candidates

2007-11-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 11:58 +0100, Dave Neary a écrit : For example, the board has included in the published budget a grant for a GTK+ summit, which GTK+ developers have never requested. Perhaps people expect the board to organise the thing as well as spend the money? Similarly,

Re: A question to candidates

2007-11-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 14:42 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit : On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: [snip] Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a meeting or for another event to take a decision, while the decision is pretty trivial

Re: two questions for candidates

2007-11-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le lundi 26 novembre 2007, à 10:28 -0500, Richard Stallman a écrit : 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about OOXML? I might have changed a word or two, and I would have liked to see this statement out sooner, as others said... But no big change. 2. How do you

Re: GNOME dependent on Mono

2007-11-29 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007, à 18:03 -0500, Joe Shaw a écrit : It's been frustrating over the past few years that GNOME hasn't taken a firm position on the issue. I have personally felt very in limbo because my application is in C#, and it would make me much more comfortable if the community

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

2007-12-02 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Sorry, I'll reply briefly because my free time is limited today. I hope it will be understandable :-) Le vendredi 30 novembre 2007, à 02:51 +0100, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : Hi there, The questions: o. Given that the Foundation of GNOME has plenty of money, will you if elected vote

Re: ghop

2008-01-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le jeudi 24 janvier 2008, à 08:49 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak a écrit : My thanks to whoever arranged for gnome's participation in ghop! It was great as a coding exercise, and great as a PR/outreach exercise. I found it extremely valuable for roping in contributions to gthumb, to

Re: reusing / copy of the gnome logo

2008-01-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 27 janvier 2008, à 12:06 -0500, Luis Villa a écrit : On Jan 27, 2008 12:01 PM, Kalle Vahlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/27, Luis Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Oddly, they don't use it on their website (assuming that is supposed to be for igloo.info.) Do you remember what event

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le samedi 16 février 2008, à 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa a écrit : [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

Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

2008-02-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Richard, Le mercredi 27 février 2008, à 11:08 -0500, Richard Stallman a écrit : This activity sounds very useful, but there's a problem in the announcement: it doesn't mention free software, but does mention open source. Could you revise it so that free software gets equal weight (at

Re: Windows-only software in government

2008-02-29 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 28 février 2008, à 09:22 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak a écrit : Hi all, One of the issues forcing me to keep a few MS Windows computer around in my company are government services relying on Windows-only software, like this example:

GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces

2008-03-04 Thread Vincent Untz
been collaborating for nearly a decade. Together we've been able to make contributions to the foundation of each other's platform - from GTK+ to Cairo to browser desktop integration, says GNOME Foundation Director Vincent Untz. But the real story is about two organizations sharing many common values

Minutes of Summer of Code meeting (06/03/2008)

2008-03-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Buddhika Laknath Semage Christian Kellner Gabriel Burt Johannes Schmid Lucas Rocha Marco Barisione Rob Taylor Sandy Armstrong Vincent Untz (maybe one or two other people?) ACTION: Adam to work on setting up and announcing the Ideas wiki page. ACTION: Adam to check the SoC wiki page

Re: GNOME SoC Call for Ideas

2008-03-19 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Stormy, Le mercredi 19 mars 2008, à 14:28 -0600, Stormy Peters a écrit : I was wondering if it makes sense to recruit students to help with some of the things that are planned for the to-be-hired Biz Dev person? If someone can help figure out what that list looks like (or point me to the

Call for hackfest ideas

2008-04-15 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, I guess most people have read various blog posts about how the GTK+ hackfest went, and I've heard there'll be a small report about it too. But the general feeling seems to be that it was really useful. One of the things the Board wants to see happen this year is hackfests, and the fact that

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 24 avril 2008, à 17:14 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amsterdam Frankfurt Paris Brussels Geneva Milan Helsinki, anyone? I heard there's someone who organized a GUADEC living in Helsinki. Maybe he can

Re: Minutes for Directors Meeting of May 5th, 2007

2008-06-04 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 04 juin 2008, à 09:26 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit : [ If it is regarding some technical detail, please follow up to gnome-infrastructure (reply-to set to that). ] On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:46:04PM -0700, Luis Villa wrote: * Accounts team ACTION: vincent to ask around

GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009

2008-07-15 Thread Vincent Untz
The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological

Re: Proposal: Desktop Search hackfest

2008-07-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008, à 11:40 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : Hi, On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal: Desktop Search Hackfest. Only a note to say that the proposal goes forward, more projects are willing to join (Strigi, Nepomuk) and

Re: GNOME Hispano Wins the Navegantes de Hoy Awards!

2008-12-11 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 12 décembre 2008, à 02:32 +0100, Jose Angel Diaz Diaz a écrit : Hi all Again GNOME Hispano wins Best Initiative in Free Software Awards in the Navegantes de HOY www.navegantesdehoy.es It's a prize from a great Newspaper in Extremadura, the big one for the region.

Re: Supporting GTK+

2008-12-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Le mardi 16 décembre 2008, à 16:59 +0800, wuy a écrit : Hi Please tell me how to zoom on the gtkwindow/gtkwidget You should probably send your question to the gtk-app-devel-list mailing list. Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.

Re: Changes to the GNOME board

2008-12-18 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 15 décembre 2008, à 13:56 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : Diego Escalante Urrelo will be joining the board as a new member for the remainder of this term. A belated but warm welcome to Diego! I'm pretty sure he'll make good progress on his ice-cream-eating abilities now :-) Vincent

Re: New Friends of GNOME program launched!

2009-01-17 Thread Vincent Untz
Le samedi 17 janvier 2009, à 09:32 -0300, Jonh Wendell a écrit : Em Ter, 2009-01-13 às 17:36 -0700, Stormy Peters escreveu: Hi GNOME fans, We are excited to tell you that today we launch our new Friends of GNOME program. Now supporters can sign up to help the GNOME Foundation with

Change in Planet GNOME maintenance

2009-02-23 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, Jeff has been maintaining Planet GNOME alone for years but it has always been a difficult task. So the Planet now has a full team of editors! The team is currently composed of Lucas (Rocha, in case you're wondering which one), Jeff and myself. This is of course not a static team, and new

Next GNOME Foundation Elections to use preferential voting

2009-03-24 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi, The GNOME Foundation Board has decided that the next Foundation Elections will use a preferential voting mechanism, namely Single Transferable Vote (STV) [1]. When this was discussed in the past (eg, [2] [3]), the community mostly seemed to like the idea and there were proposals to at least

Re: Fundraising Progress

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Hey Shaun, Le mardi 28 avril 2009, à 16:13 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : 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

Re: 2009 Current Year Budget

2009-05-13 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 13 mai 2009, à 19:58 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee a écrit : 2009-05-11 klockan 07:50 skrev Jaap A. Haitsma: However Openedhand and Imendio are as far as I know a commercial company. Don't they financially help the foundation in 2009? It seems to me both companies no longer exist:

Candidacy: Vincent Untz

2009-05-22 Thread Vincent Untz
Name: Vincent Untz Mail: vuntz gnome org Nick: vuntz Blog: http://www.vuntz.net/journal/ More: http://live.gnome.org/VincentUntz Affiliation: Novell 75 words Summary Hi, here I am, Vincent, 7 gnome-years old now. I'm running for the Foundation Board this year, after thinking

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-06-03 Thread Vincent Untz
Le dimanche 31 mai 2009, à 09:42 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit : So, I've detailed my vision, with two major changes: - include foundation members in the daily running of the foundation by having the majority of board business happen in the open on foundation-list, including having the working

Re: About the unpublished board meeting minutes

2009-06-05 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 05 juin 2009, à 00:29 -0400, Germán Póo-Caamaño a écrit : On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 00:04 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote: [...] Can the candidates all confirm that they have read the Foundation bylaws? I read it. (I did too, but not this year) I have some concerns, it seems longer

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