Re: Private Foundation-List Petition for referendum

2009-12-20 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:27 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 12/15/2009 10:58 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mardi 15 décembre 2009, à 11:57 +0330, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ a écrit : Also, is a referendum really necessary to create a new members-only mailing list? Noting that becoming membership

Call for speakers for The GNOME Day during LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

2008-01-11 Thread Anne Østergaard
me about what your contribution could be. This mail is send to the Foundation List as well as the Marketing List. I think it will be best to continue on the Marketing List, if there are any general questions etc. Kind regards, Anne Østergaard

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

2007-11-26 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 10:23 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 26 novembre 2007, à 20:17 +1100, Jeff Waugh a écrit : quote who=George Kraft [6] Some of the tasks of a Board Member are mundane administrative tasks, are you comfortable taking on such tasks as opposed to being

Re: Questions to the candidates

2007-11-26 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 09:48 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 23:52 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote: 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

About the coming election

2007-11-06 Thread Anne Østergaard
About the coming election of new board members. It is time for reflection on whether you would like to run for election, for the next GNOME Board of Directors, for the next period of eighteen months. In my view, it is important to have a variety of skills represented on the board. I do not

noooxml petition

2007-08-31 Thread Anne Østergaard
the decision in a fair ISO process? Kind regards Anne Østergaard ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Propose agenda items for meetings at GUADEC 2007

2007-07-09 Thread Anne Østergaard
to focus on for the immediate future. You are likely to become involved in the work connected with tasks you are proposing :) On behalf of the board best regards Anne Østergaard ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http

Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-21 Thread Anne Østergaard
. The invitation should be send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Anne Østergaard aoe(at)gnome.org at the latest on May 15th 2007. As the conference is getting bigger and hopefully better and more important every year there is no reason not to tell you that it takes a lot of persons actively involved

Guademy - Call for Hacking- March 23-25 2007 in Coruna , Spain

2007-02-15 Thread Anne Østergaard
Guademy - Call for Hacking in Spain Please react quickly if you want to participate. See: http://www.guademy.org/ http://www.guademy.org/index.php?lang=en What is Guademy? Guademy is a meeting where the developers of the free desktops KDE and GNOME share working sessions with other people

Re: 5 endorsements

2006-11-27 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 27 11 2006 kl. 12:40 +0100, skrev Danilo Šegan: On Friday at 17:10, Dave Neary wrote: Vincent is one of the nicest people I know, and a hard worker on the board. I have also enjoyed working with Vincent on this years board. He does not talk a lot, he is a respected, and committed do'

Candidacy Announcement GNOME Board 2007: Anne Østergaard

2006-11-10 Thread Anne Østergaard
Candidacy Announcement Name: Anne Østergaard Mail: aoe AT gnome DOT org Affl: Easterbridge.dk Nationality: Danish I run for the Gnome Foundation Board of Directors. Things I will work for as board member: * Explaining the mission, the values, and the goals of the GNOME foundation more

Re: My interests in the GNOME Foundation

2006-11-07 Thread Anne Østergaard
tir, 07 11 2006 kl. 14:43 +0100, skrev Quim Gil: My colleagues at the board recommend that I make explicit my current interests in the GNOME Foundation in this list, for you to know: - I announced internally my interest in the position of business development director in September, as soon

Announcement: Next years GUADEC will be held in Birmingham, UK from 15th - 21st of July 2007

2006-08-18 Thread Anne Østergaard
regards on behalf of the Birmingham Team and the GNOME Board Anne Østergaard -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

GUADEC 2007 will be held in Birmingham, UK from 15th - 21st of July 2007

2006-08-16 Thread Anne Østergaard
! Kind regards on behalf of The Birmingham Team and The GNOME Board Anne Østergaard ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Code of Conduct final draft?

2006-08-02 Thread Anne Østergaard
tir, 01 08 2006 kl. 11:26 +0300, skrev Kalle Vahlman: 2006/8/1, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm fairly happy with the Code Of Conduct draft now: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct I can certainly agree with all of this but where is the one thing I feel the GNOME community excels

Re: Required: Administrator for the Foundation

2006-06-09 Thread Anne Østergaard
tor, 08 06 2006 kl. 17:52 -0500, skrev Federico Mena Quintero: Hi, The GNOME Foundation is in need of a part-time administrator based in the USA. Our administrator will: 1. Collect, sort and summarise mail for the Board. 2. Handle bills in a timely manner. 3. Prepare checks for the

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-09 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 15:42 +0200, skrev Anne Østergaard: Hello all GNOME Foundation Members, About the size of the present board. The Board would like to propose to you a temporary enlargement of the board with two persons: Behdad Esfahbod and Germán Poó-Caamaño. Background: Not so

The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: Takes place in CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, June 22nd 23rd

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
The 3rd International GPLv3 Conference: Takes place in CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, June 22nd 23rd! The venue has now been confirmed as Aula 1, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea (CCCB).www.cccb.org/ Important information especially to those of you who are going to this years GUADEC and have not yet

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 17:52 +0100, skrev Alan Horkan: On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Anne [ISO-8859-1] stergaard wrote: Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:42:04 +0200 From: Anne [ISO-8859-1] stergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: foundation-list@gnome.org Subject: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 12:08 -0500, skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I think it should be three people. Those two guys, and me :) Seriously though, you can't arbitrarilly pick two people and not expect everyone else to be arbitrarilly picked. OK these two persons were next on the list of

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread Anne Østergaard
man, 05 06 2006 kl. 20:07 +0300, skrev Baris Cicek: Anne you better also send this mail to foundation-announce because every foundation member might not be subscribed here, but they do to foundation-announce. I will do so. Also I wonder why Board need to enlarge its size, but instead asking

Denmark to follow in the foot steps of Massachuchets on open standards

2006-06-02 Thread Anne Østergaard
Denmark to follow in the foot steps of Massachuchets on open standards. Half an hour ago the Danish Parliament, Folketinget voted on B 103 on introducing open standards in the state administration: The short version: To introduce and maintain a set of open standards from January 1st 2008 or

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-06-01 Thread Anne Østergaard
ons, 31 05 2006 kl. 20:38 +0100, skrev Bill Haneman: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 19:25, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: Nobody will be driven away by that, people might be driven away by us stating that you now are part of a community with a code of conduct. Actually if persons are driven away by not

Re: Women in GNOME (Was: Code Of Conduct)

2006-06-01 Thread Anne Østergaard
tor, 01 06 2006 kl. 16:27 +0300, skrev Baris Cicek: Actually, it should be someone who is able to detect possible obstacles that put Asians or Women out of GNOME (or in general Free Software). I doubt that anyone have any emprical study about that. But is it harsh and rude behavior of

Re: Women in GNOME (Was: Code Of Conduct)

2006-06-01 Thread Anne Østergaard
tor, 01 06 2006 kl. 08:13 -0400, skrev Luis Villa: On 6/1/06, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne wrote: [snip] I do not say this to start a new long debat in this tread. But it has become obvious that the 1% participation of women in FLOSS is embarrassing and we need to

Re: Women in GNOME (Was: Code Of Conduct)

2006-06-01 Thread Anne Østergaard
tor, 01 06 2006 kl. 18:57 +0200, skrev Murray Cumming: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:57 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Iau, 2006-06-01 at 14:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: Hmm, how about people working together? It just seems that the person who most most obviously wants this should be the person

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-05-30 Thread Anne Østergaard
tir, 30 05 2006 kl. 16:47 +0200, skrev Murray Cumming: I would hate to see us resort to written, legalistic rules If your lawyer wrote rules like these then you'd have to fire him. I'm aiming for something warm and friendly. You are right to be wary of rules for their own sake. But I think

Re: Call for comments on where to have GUADEC in 2007

2006-05-17 Thread Anne Østergaard
ons, 17 05 2006 kl. 10:20 +1200, skrev Glynn Foster: Hi, Anne Østergaard wrote: Dear GNOME Foundation Member, You are invited to comment on where you would prefer to have at GUADEC in 2007. The period for comments stops on June 15th 2006. The board (minus Dave Neary

How to get involved and may be train for future board service

2006-03-23 Thread Anne Østergaard
Dear Foundation Member The board promised to become better at delegating work to our fine foundation members and future foundation members. If your GNOME friend is not yet a member tell him/her to join. Here is a brief: How To How to get involved and may be train for future board service: The

Women are joining the world of Free- and Open Source Software

2006-03-08 Thread Anne Østergaard
Women are making there way into the information age and joining the world of Free- and Open Source Software More women in Free (and all kinds of) software will lead to democracy, more humanism and diversity in society. March 8th each year is an important date for making status of the land

Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2007

2006-02-19 Thread Anne Østergaard
. The invitation should be send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Anne Østergaard aoe(at)gnome.org at the latest on April 19th 2005. As the conference is getting bigger and hopefully better and more important every year there is no reason not to tell you that it takes a lot of persons actively involved

Program for GNOME Foundation 2006

2006-02-18 Thread Anne Østergaard
ways. Inspiration knows no borders. Some times lack of resources may lead to the development and deployment of new technologies. Not only rich countries can lead the way for mass deployment of GNOME and Free Software. The Board, February 18th 2006 On behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board Anne

Re: GUADEC 2007

2006-02-06 Thread Anne Østergaard
for this? How is the final decision made? Here you can find the mail I sent last year to this list: Fra: Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: foundation-list@gnome.org Emne: Call for invitations for GUADEC

Re: The changing of the board

2005-11-28 Thread Anne Østergaard
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:19 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Anne Østergaard wrote: The changing of the board: I have been thinking that it might be an advantage to the Foundation if the next board in fact took their seats immediately after the final announcement of the list

The changing of the board

2005-11-25 Thread Anne Østergaard
spokesperson etc. Jeff has mentioned this and I agree with him. (May be others have expressed these kind of thoughts too- then I apologise for not mentioning there names.) What do you think about my two suggestions? Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-11-16 Thread Anne Østergaard
remember that Miguel de Icaza one year was announcing his candidacy a little after the time limit and his candidacy was not accepted by the committee. He also was on travel and was a very serious candidate for the board. So we do have some precedence in these matters. Regards Anne -- Anne Østergaard

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

2005-11-16 Thread Anne Østergaard
candidate to a seat on the board. Regards Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Candidacy for the board: Anne Østergaard

2005-11-12 Thread Anne Østergaard
Candidacy Announcement Name: Anne Østergaard Mail: aoe AT gnome DOT org Affl: Easterbridge.dk Nationality: Danish I would like to run for the Gnome Foundation Board of Directors. Summary: Things I will work for as board member: * Explaining the mission, the values, and the goals of the GNOME

Re: Some perspective on how unimportant the board currently is.

2005-10-31 Thread Anne Østergaard
informations and new friends! I will vote for Germán as a new board member. GNOME greetings Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Reducing the board size

2005-09-18 Thread Anne Østergaard
community where one immediately feels than there is enough room for many more to come and where there is time to help and assist them to find there own favourite place in the GNOME family. Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list

Re: poor man's SWOT analysis of GUADEC

2005-09-12 Thread Anne Østergaard
the momentum will soon be recognised by both governments, businesses and organisations. I think that we will see a desktop conference in Europe taking place fairly soon. Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Mar 9

2005-03-12 Thread Anne Østergaard
and a possible import tax. I agree. We buy our books send from for example UK or DE (or an other country ewithin The European Union) in order to avoid this type of problems. Regards Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Mar 9

2005-03-12 Thread Anne Østergaard
to talk to the lawyers for this? I have no problem putting a disclaimer on the site at all. The Planet.GNOME.org is a free debate forum where each individual or sender is responsible for his/her own postings and opinions. Anne -- Anne Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED