Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2010 - Preliminary Results

2010-06-15 Thread Baris Cicek
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 02:33 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 16 juin 2010, à 01:57 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit : > > Candidates in order of (first) votes received, with affiliations: > > May I suggest that, in the future, you don't put this list in the > announcement since it's

Re: Q: Motivation to run [WAS: Re: GNOME Board of Directors FoundationElections Spring 2010 - The candidates]

2010-05-26 Thread Baris Cicek
> A question addressed to late runners... As I expect you didn't know in > advance the deadline for announcing candidacies would be delayed, what > in those two extra days finally convinced you to run? As I have stated in my candidacy statement, some old board members not willing to runn for bo

Candidacy: Baris Cicek

2010-05-25 Thread Baris Cicek
Name:Baris Cicek Email: bci...@gnome.org Nick:baris Affiliation: Nerd Software Bio I'm 27 years old, and contributing GNOME since early 2000s. I've been taking role of GNOME Turkish translation coordinator since 2004, and in past served community at GNOME Memb

GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open

2008-06-10 Thread Baris Cicek
GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open! Please visit: https://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/register in order to register for GUADEC 2008. Payments will be handled by PayPal this year as well. You can pay directly using the guadec.org web page. Registration fees are same as last year[1]

Re: Re-considering expectnation web service

2007-12-30 Thread Baris Cicek
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 14:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 18:28 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On sam, 2007-12-29 at 00:35 +, Baris Cicek wrote: > > > Currently we're using Drupal as CMS on guadec.org. Although it is

Re-considering expectnation web service

2007-12-28 Thread Baris Cicek
nding with Paypal - Better content management of web page. Regards, Baris Cicek [1] http://www.expectnation.com/public/content/home ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election

2007-12-24 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi, The challenge period has ended. And it is time to officially declare the *Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election* Here goes: Brian Cameron Behdad Esfahbod John (J5) Palmieri Lucas Rocha Vincent Untz Luis Villa Jeff Waugh

GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

2007-12-11 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. We strongly encourage everyone to check content of his/her vote via this address using the token you have taken: http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Ballots sent

2007-12-02 Thread Baris Cicek
gle ballot that's why waiting most tickets is better way. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Baris Cicek On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:35 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote: > Hello, > > > Le lundi 26 novembre 2007 à 00:43 +0200, Baris Cicek a écrit : > > Hi all, > > &g

GNOME Foundation Elections - Ballots sent

2007-11-25 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all, We have just sent the ballots for the elections. Every member who can vote for the elections should have received an e-mail with instructions explaining how to vote. If you have not received your ballot, please first verify that you are eligible to vote by looking at the list of voters an

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

2007-11-19 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as > > > in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. > > I've been posted to

Final List of Candidates Running for the 2007 Elections

2007-11-18 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for the 2007 elections. You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the calendar of the elections below. Official list of candidates -

Re: GUADEC 2008 dates?

2007-11-14 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:31 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote: > Could someone confirm the dates for GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul? Unfortunately, exact dates are not certain yet, we're trying to fix the date as soon as possible, all I can say is that it'll be most probably in July. I'll announce the dates as s

Reminder for prospective candidates of BoD 2007

2007-11-14 Thread Baris Cicek
] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] As of today, there's no candidacy announcement sent to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. Regards, Baris Cicek ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Announcement of 2007 Board of Directors Election

2007-11-03 Thread Baris Cicek
Who can vote? - To be able to vote, you need to be a member of the GNOME Foundation and your membership needs to be valid at least until the end of the elections. For example, a member whose membership ends on November 30th 2007 won't be able to vote for the elections. A notification e

Result for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws are now official

2007-10-22 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce that the result for membership vote regarding change to bylaws are now official. By-laws[1] on foundation web site will be replaced with amendment soon. No challenge has been sent to the Committee since the prelimina

Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-15 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws. We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify their vote. These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to [EMAIL

Call for Membership Committee Volunteers

2007-09-30 Thread Baris Cicek
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 member

GNOME Foundation Membership Vote - Ballots sent

2007-09-28 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all, We have just sent the ballots for the membership vote. Every member who can vote for the membership vote should have received an e-mail with instructions explaining how to vote. If you have not received your ballot, please first verify that you are eligible to vote by looking at the list

Retraction of "Referendum Notification" in favor of Board's Vote Proposal

2007-09-17 Thread Baris Cicek
Retraction of "Referendum Notification" in Favor of Board's Vote Proposal As Jeff Waugh informed Membership and Elections Committee, we don't have "referendum" described in bylaws. Thus, we just have vote. In order to prevent any ki

Announcement of Change to Bylaws Announcement Referendum

2007-09-14 Thread Baris Cicek
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Announcement of Change to Bylaws Referendum Relevant information regarding discussions on this referendum can be read at the following URLs: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-Septembe

Re: Hiring a part-time sysadmin?

2007-06-23 Thread Baris Cicek
> > Lastly, we need to stop being hostile to people trying to help. I > offered to help with the foundation membership and was rebuffed and > now you just rebuffed Diego. I doubt that you (or anyone indeed) rebuffed. On the conrary, I remember even committee was positive about your volunteering.

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-24 Thread Baris Cicek
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 07:04 -0700, Elliot Lee wrote: > Baris Cicek wrote: > > > I'll talk w/ our local GUG about if we can organize to host GUADEC next > > year in Istanbul. > > Not Constantinople? It was called Constantinople ages ago, afaik, but however you call

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-23 Thread Baris Cicek
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 11:29 +0100, Christian F.K. Schaller wrote: > I think we should in general encourage people who think they are located > in a place that make it feasible for people in west Europe and the US > to go there to apply to host GUADEC. Even if they are not in Europe per > se. For i

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

2007-03-22 Thread Baris Cicek
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 10:37 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > Anne Østergaard wrote: > >>> Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 > >>> > >>> GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. > > > > Does that automatically exclude those o

Re: New board roles

2007-02-06 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:05 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Vincent Untz wrote: > > Le lundi 05 février 2007, à 05:31, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez a écrit : > >> One thing that appears to need improvement is the handling of foundation > >> membership applications. > > ... > > > However, things have been g

Re: New board roles

2007-02-06 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 05:31 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: > Hi all, Hi Mariano, thanks for bringing this issue forward. > > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:08 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > > [snip] > > My candidate program was focused on internal board/Foundation > > improvements, and this is what I

Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election

2006-12-29 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi, The challenge period has ended. And it is time to officially declare the *Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election* Here goes: Quim Gil Dave Neary Jeff Waugh Glynn Foster Vincent Untz Anne Østergaard Behdad Esfahbod The results can be found at http://foundation.g

GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

2006-12-17 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. We strongly encourage everyone to check content of his/her vote via this address using the token you have taken: http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=

Reminder: Last day to vote for BoD 2006 election

2006-12-15 Thread Baris Cicek
Dear Members; Tomorrow (December 16th, 2006) is the last day to vote for Board Of Directors 2006 Fall election. Please don't forget to vote before 23:59 UTC. In order to vote, please go to: http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/ Preliminary results will be announced on December 17th. If you h

New set of ballots have been sent

2006-12-04 Thread Baris Cicek
Dear Foundation Members; New set of ballots for those renewed after voting start sent yesterday. 84 people renewed their membership last week and all of them (including members who has changed their e-mail addresses last week) should have recevied their ballots and can vote before 16st of December

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

2006-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:14 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board > responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates > think about colateral aspects as well. > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > T

Re: Questions

2006-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
> This year, there have been some issues with the election - and one of > the things missing was the request for questions for the candidates - if > I understand correctly, they were gathered on IRC at some period of some > day. That's actually a pretty poor way to do things, and I hope that the >

Extending voting period due to renewals

2006-11-26 Thread Baris Cicek
Dear Foundation Members; We've taken couple of complaints about some members did not get their ballots because their membership is not valid. Reason behind this is they did not get renewal notices from membership committee. Even though we have announced dates weeks before elections start, it's un

Re: Concerns about the election process

2006-11-26 Thread Baris Cicek
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 21:40 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote: > Hello. > > This falls under the category of "concerns about the election process". > It's a bit of a nit-pick. > > I'm writing about two concerns. The two concerns are secrecy of the > vote (nobody can discover who I voted for) and security

GNOME Foundation Elections - Ballots sent

2006-11-25 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all, We have just sent the ballots for the elections. Every member who can vote for the elections should have received an e-mail with instructions explaining how to vote. If you have not received your ballot, please first verify that you are eligible to vote by looking at the list of voters an

Final List of Candidates Running for the 2006 Elections

2006-11-18 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for the 2006 elections. You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the calendar of the elections below. Official list of candidates --

Reminder and correction for closing candidates

2006-11-16 Thread Baris Cicek
Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) votes must be returned (9th) (10)11 12 13 14 15 16 preliminary results announced (10th) 17 18 19 20 21 22(23) challenges to the results close (23rd) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Baris Cicek (on behalf of the Membership Committee) signature.asc Descrip

Re: My interests in the GNOME Foundation

2006-11-07 Thread Baris Cicek
To be honest, someone hired for the GNOME Foundation Administrator position should be first selected from Board members. I would suggest putting other candidates second priority about this, if they don't have some extra experience overcoming this. The reason why is, firstly Board members are comm

Announcement of 2006 Board of Directors Election

2006-11-01 Thread Baris Cicek
Who can vote? - To be able to vote, you need to be a member of the GNOME Foundation and your membership needs to be valid at least until the end of the elections. For example, a member whose membership ends on November 30th 2006 won't be able to vote for the elections. A notification e

Re: Draft Timeline For 2006 Board of Directors Elections

2006-10-31 Thread Baris Cicek
We need to code a small script doing that for new membership system. After fixing timeline, Membership Committee will inform expired members to renew their membership before renewal deadline. On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:27 +, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:18 +0200, Ba

Draft Timeline For 2006 Board of Directors Elections

2006-10-30 Thread Baris Cicek
Here's the draft schedule for 2006 Board of Directors election of GNOME Foundation. If nobody oppose the timeline with a valid reason, it will be announced as official schedule on 1st of November, 2006. Gnome Foundation Membership Committee -- Who can vote? - To be able to vote, you

Re: Substituting "Linux" with "GNU/Linux" or "GNU"

2006-08-05 Thread Baris Cicek
> >From the Linux developer point of view it's really about theft of credit > (and I've heard the same from X11 people). The FSF tries to steal the > credit for the Linux OS despite having been actively anti-Linux in the > early days. There are two reasons it does this. The first is that the > FSF

Membership Committee Meeting Minutes

2006-08-02 Thread Baris Cicek
GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Meeting, 2006/08/01 = Attendance: Baris Sankharshan Vincent (Board Represantative) Dave (Visitor) Summary --- As Membership Committee (MC) we decided to have a meeting on IRC (#membership @ irc.gno

Re: Who should get a Sun Ultra machine?

2006-08-01 Thread Baris Cicek
My vote is for Christian Rose. He's doing hell a lot of job on GTP for years and without any glitch. If it has to be a hacker, then I believe someone from Release Team should take it. With growing GNOME they will need those CPU cycles. > Hi, > > Sun Microsystems kindly donated two Ultra 20 worksta

Re: Membership Committee Mailing List Archives

2006-07-11 Thread Baris Cicek
Seems like consensus for this topic is to keep list public. Thank you all for your comments. On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:34 +0200, David Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Baris Cicek wrote: > > Today Behdad asked about why private list like membership-committee > > mailing list is pu

Membership Committee Mailing List Archives

2006-07-09 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi; Today Behdad asked about why private list like membership-committee mailing list is public. We're using this list for asking information about applications, and even though vast majority of the responses are positive, there can be negative ones as well. For that reason, it's not good to m

Asking Reference for Alireza Kheirkhahan

2006-07-08 Thread Baris Cicek
Dear Foundation List Members; An applicant with name Alireza Kheirkhahan has applied[1] for GNOME Foundation Membership, however references for his/her application did not reply our e-mails. Is there anyone who can be reference for Alireza? In case of nobody give any reference for him/her we

Asking Reference for Prem Gupta

2006-07-08 Thread Baris Cicek
Dear Foundation List Members; An applicant with name Prem Gupta has applied[1] for GNOME Foundation Membership, however s/he did not gave any references for his/her application. We asked himself/herself for further information about his/her contributions but we could not get any reply. Is ther

Re: Required: Administrator for the Foundation

2006-06-20 Thread Baris Cicek
That might be a little technical and maybe out of this discussion boundaries but, why instead of making IE run over wine, you use more than necessary non-free software? (ie. Windows, VMWARE). I bet are already paid, but I use wine for IE related stuff, and it "just works". Besides, I find Linux (o

Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 2 persons

2006-06-05 Thread 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. Also I wonder why Board need to enlarge its size, but instead asking for help outside the board. Like delegating some work to groups and just

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

2006-06-01 Thread 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 developers or the community? Or technical limits? Or even communi

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-05-30 Thread Baris Cicek
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:09 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:57 +0300, Baris Cicek wrote: > > I wanted to put my 2 cents on this women involvement issue. > > > > Actually women in proprietary software market have a good motivation > > like earn

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-05-30 Thread Baris Cicek
I wanted to put my 2 cents on this women involvement issue. Actually women in proprietary software market have a good motivation like earning money from what they do. But in free software world, they hardly have this motivation, and most of time it's volunteer work. I doubt that female enthusias

Asking more information to prospective members

2006-05-22 Thread Baris Cicek
Hi all; Murray asked on membership-committee list if we should ask to prospective members these questions, which are optional to answer: gender, to track lack of female involvement; nationality, to track lack of Asian involvement; And one more can be: public key, we can encrypt ballots in future

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

2006-05-18 Thread Baris Cicek
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 11:18 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > I certainly agree that we need to consider the financial risk of a > conference, but GUADEC is cheap, and could even be cheaper. Why cheaper? I'm not talking about the extravaganza, but with the growing user base of GNOME, GUADEC should be mo

GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

2005-12-11 Thread Baris Cicek
http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=2 The Committee would like to thank all the voters and all the candidates. The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Baris Cicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Albert Mora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sankarshan Mukhopadhay <[E

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

2005-12-01 Thread Baris Cicek
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:48 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: > > Well that's totally against the spirit of voting. Current counts may > > change people's idea and might get them affected and they would vote > > strategically instead of on their own free will. > > I'm sure that a large percentage of

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

2005-12-01 Thread Baris Cicek
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:16 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > 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

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

2005-12-01 Thread Baris Cicek
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? > Well that's totally against the spirit of voting. Current counts may change people's idea and might get them affected and they would vote strategically

Re: 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election Voting Started

2005-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 06:49 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 10:32 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: > > 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election voting period is started on > > November 27th. Ballots have been sent to foundation members. Voting > > instructio

2005 Fall Board of Directors Election Voting Started

2005-11-28 Thread Baris Cicek
2005 Fall Board of Directors Election voting period is started on November 27th. Ballots have been sent to foundation members. Voting instructions are written in the mails you will be get. For this elections you will have 13 candidates[1] and you should vote 7 of them which more than two of them co

One Day Delay Due To Technical Problems

2005-11-25 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is sorry to announce that due to technical problems 2005 Fall elections will start with one day delay. The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee will extend election period one day if necessary. The GNOME Foundation Membership & El

Re: Additional questions for the board candidates

2005-11-25 Thread Baris Cicek
I concur this. In this particular case I think Board members should make their stand clear. Mono is great Project and should exist, Java is also superior development platform. But they have issues that *might* harm Free GNOME. I wanted to put that question into Question List because from last years

Final List of Candidates Running for the 2005 Elections

2005-11-21 Thread Baris Cicek
The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the final list of candidates running for the 2005 elections. We're sorry for being late on this announcement. However we decided to keep old schedule unless threre happens to be a technical obstacle for the rest of elect

Re: Candidate questions?

2005-11-19 Thread Baris Cicek
Yesterday I posted a news on gnomedesktop.org, but seems like still waiting for approval. We got previous years questions as well and some of them still valid. I agree that we start this as soon as possible to have more time before voting starts. As you suggested anyone can post questions as repl

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

2005-11-16 Thread Baris Cicek
As a member of membership committee I can honestly say that Vincent's instant leaving membership committee would end up problems with elections as well. That must be the real reason that kept him in committee still. Even though we have experienced some as members in past, other members of membersh