Tobias:
On 06/ 7/13 04:51 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
On 06.06.2013 23:04, Brian Cameron wrote:
Advisory board members are encouraged to join when there is clear
value in doing so. What work has been done over the past year to
increase this value or effectively communicate such values?
Off
Tobias:
On 06/ 5/13 05:39 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
Can you be an advocate for more corporate support?
Yes. We should try to find out what it is that keeps companies from
joining the advisory board, despite recent years being economically
tough. Another area is better service to sponsors for
My question to the candidates:
For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the
board that you are most proud of? How many action items did you accept
over your last term and what percentage were completed? If things did
not get done or tended to get done very late,
Christophe:
On 12/10/12 04:30 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
Hey Brian,
The FOSDEM devroom has always been organized like that, ie with me
taking care of the organization for GNOME, and doing it on GNOME mailing
list. Over the years we evolved from a GNOME-only devroom to a joint
devroom with
activitiy also
should focus on helping to revive and energize discussion on forums
like these.
Brian
On 12/ 5/12 11:37 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
Hi Brian,
2012/12/4 Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com
mailto:brian.came...@oracle.com
Christophe:
If CrossDesktop DevRoom
Christophe:
If CrossDesktop DevRoom is THE place for cross-desktop entente, then
why have I seen no discussion about this event on any FreeDesktop mail
forum? I only notice GNOME mailing lists in the current cc:list, or am
I missing something?
What FreeDesktop forum is even supposed to be
RMS:
On 11/17/12 07:53 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Tools that use non-free technologies like Skype or
Vonage are not just popular, but a requirement for many people who
pay
for such services. How many average people would purchase a device
RMS:
On 11/19/12 03:32 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
I respect that those artists who create digital art should have
mechanisms to own their artwork or to control how it should be
consumed or presented.
This is why we started the DefectiveByDesign.org. I suggest making
GNOME
Richard:
On 11/16/12 07:12 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Tools that use non-free technologies like Skype or
Vonage are not just popular, but a requirement for many people who pay
for such services. How many average people would purchase a device
that did not support such
Seif:
On 11/15/12 03:31 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote:
Good points Brian :)
I like the last part this advanced UNIX-hacker type does not seem to
be the primary user GNOME is focusing on anymore.
For better or worse, I would say that most Solaris GNOME users probably
fall either in the advanced
Allan:
On 11/15/12 06:46 AM, Allan Day wrote:
Brian Cameronbrian.came...@oracle.com wrote:
But I think the GNOME community has been
conscious that platforms like Solaris were being left behind as
decisions were being made.
That really depends on how you define the needs of the advanced
Peteris:
On 11/15/12 06:36 AM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
T , 2012.11.14. 22:37 -0600, Brian Cameron rakstīja:
On 11/15/12 03:31 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote:
But is there any strong reasons why Oracle won't chime in and support
further development of GNOME Panel (let's call it GNOME Classic
I think one of the most significant challenges for any free desktop
that is trying to reach the average user is how to deal with the fact
that most people like using computers, tablets, smartphones, etc. to
interact with non-free multimedia. Not just viewing movies and
listening to music, but
Emmanuele:
On 05/28/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
[just a bit of backstory, here, also to help out eventual other
candidates in case I'm not elected] the meeting minutes are written
down during the meeting itself by using a collaborative editor, so
that everyone on the meeting can
Foundation Members:
Anyone considering running for the board should read this:
http://vote.gnome.org/overview.html
On 05/16/12 09:10 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote:
Just a quick reminder that as per http://vote.gnome.org/2012/rules.html
the last day to announce candidacies and submit summary
Friends in the GNOME community:
After serving 4 terms on The GNOME Foundation board of directors, I will
be stepping down at the end of this term.
I would like to thank everyone in the community who has supported me
and allowed me to represent them on this board. It has been a
profoundly
of energy organizing events, so having event planning
experience can be a big help. Other examples would include experience
with fund raising (Friends of GNOME), working with GNOME User's
Groups, GNOME merchandise, etc.
Brian
On 04/17/12 05:14 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
Dear Foundation Members
Dear Foundation Members,
The GNOME Foundation board of directors and the GNOME Foundation
Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming
elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2012.
The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following:
2012 bidding process, especially the great work from Team GNOME Hong
Kong and Team GNOME Indonesia. We look forward to working with you
more in the future!
Brian Cameron
GNOME Foundation President
===
Best regards
Max
Foundation Members:
I am happy to report that the GNOME Foot logo currently used by GNOME
has been trademarked as Reg. # 4063108 filed November 29, 2011.
The GNOME Foundation is aware that we need to renew the GNOME word mark
(Reg. #3142483) before September 2012, and we are now working to get
I realize that there is a lot of development going on to make GNOME 3
function well on new kinds of devices, such as touch screen support.
Awesome, really.
However, I wonder on what sort of device GNOME 3 is best targeted for.
Most tablets that are currently popular differentiate themselves a
Foundation:
A point of clarification:
On Wed 14 Dec 2011 04:42, Brian Cameronbrian.came...@oracle.com writes:
3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to
help make events successful lately.
You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop
GNOME Foundation Members:
At two previous GNOME Foundation IRC meetings, there has been discussion
about how to approach the Desktop Summit[1] going forward.
At the October 26th IRC meeting, Jon McCann spoke about his concerns
about the Desktop Summit.[2] At the November 23rd meeting, Dave
Reminder that you have 2 days to touch base with the Brno organizers
to organize any additional hackfests there over February 17-21.
Brian
On 11/30/11 01:26 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
The Brno Hackfest organizers have recently let the GNOME Foundation
board know that additional rooms
Allan:
On 12/ 5/11 04:17 AM, Allan Day wrote:
Ping. Does someone who is on the board want to comment? How do we take
this forward?
I very much like the idea of streamlining the way we get the word out,
so I think merging the new feed for gnome.org and the Foundation blog.
We could probably
The Brno Hackfest organizers have recently let the GNOME Foundation
board know that additional rooms for Hackfest use can be secured for
roughly $25-42 USD per day (depending on the size of room needed).
Rooms can be available from February 17-21. However, the organizers
need to reserve rooms
Welcome new members!
Brian
On 11/18/11 05:04 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
Hi,
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.
They are: *
*
Paul:
Great to see you on the list!
= Minutes for Meeting of September 20 =
[...]
* Brian - Follow up with getting Alan Day and Sumana Harihareswara
to sign the Copyright Assessment from SFLC.
I can't seem to find any info about a SFLC 'Copyright Assessment'
anywhere; could you tell me
Joanie:
The announcement was just made today that the summit is October 8-10
in Montreal:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-September/msg0.html
Brian
The other day I heard an interesting rumor, which I've since been able
to confirm [1]: There's a small chance that
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= Minutes for Meeting of June 28th, 2011 =
== Next Meeting ==
July 12th, 2011
== Attending ==
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Karen Sandler
* Rosanna Yuen
=== Regrets ===
* Og Maciel
* Stormy Peters
* Emily Chen
=== Missing
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= Minutes for Meeting of June 14th, 2011 =
== Next Meeting ==
June 28th, 2011
== Attending ==
* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Karen Sandler
* Og Maciel
* Stormy Peters
=== Regrets ===
* Bastien Nocera
* Rosanna Yuen
=== Missing
minutes follows --
= Minutes for Meeting of June 7th, 2011 =
== Next Meeting ==
June 14th, 2011
== Attending ==
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy Peters
=== Regrets ===
* Paul Cutler
On 05/26/11 12:38, Lefty wrote:
I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose
to do to
address the ongoing waste of time and energy in the community over trivia like
Linux
versus GNU/Linux, free versus open source, and the like. This extends to
things
like
Dave:
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 member.
1. If elected, will you seek a named position
RMS:
* What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free
software, beyond being composed of free programs.
GNOME is a free software project, so I do think it is important to work
to promote the ideals of free software. I think GNOME does a great job
doing this in many
Gil:
On 05/26/11 17:27, 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
Andy:
On 05/26/11 04:51, Andy Wingo wrote:
You just used the name Richard Stallman as a token for this argument
is invalid.
You then proceeded to call someone stalinist; was it Richard? Was it
GNOME OS proponents? Unclear.
This was a poor attempt at humor, I guess. With my words I was
Jeff:
On 05/26/11 07:43, 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?
Overall,
Olav:
On 05/26/11 05:01, 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?
I am proud to say that
Andy:
On 05/25/11 13:10, 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 Debian, and
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Board Meeting Private Agenda
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* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Og Maciel
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Paul Cutler
Missing
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* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Emily Chen
Missing
Recurring
Jon:
On 04/27/11 09:56 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
What does this call (and its deadline) mean with regard to a potential
co-hosting with aKademy in 2012 again (Desktop Summit)?
The GNOME Foundation board and the aKademy board has already decided
that the Desktop Summit will be a bi-annual
Olav:
On 04/26/11 09:35 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:29:09AM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
For example, there have been several occasions where organizations
have approached The GNOME Foundation wanting to donate funds with the
idea of doing a link exchange. We have
The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC, the annual GNOME
conference, during the Summer of 2012. GUADEC is the biggest gathering
of GNOME users and developers and includes a multi-day conference, the
annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a
week of
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* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
Missing
Recurring
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* March 29th, 2011
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
Missing
Recurring
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* March 8th, 2011
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* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Andreas Nilsson
Regrets
* Rosanna Yuen
Missing
Recurring
Vincent:
A few years ago, it was agreed that it's fine to use the GNOME logo with
just GNOME instead of GNOME™: the trademark is still valid even if we
don't explicitly put the ™. Is this still valid?
Use cases:
- GNOME logo during boot of the GNOME 3 live image
- GNOME logo in the System
Allan:
Sounds good. Let me know when you have the page updated and I'll ask
the legal folks to give it a final look over to make sure the wording
is good.
Brian
On 03/ 2/11 09:43 AM, Allan Day wrote:
I understand that as it's okay to remove the TM in the two examples I
gave. If someone
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* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Brian Cameron
* Og Maciel
Regrets
* Andreas Nilsson
Missing
Recurring Items
* Review
Og:
On 02/16/11 02:16 PM, Og Maciel wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brian Cameronbrian.came...@oracle.com wrote:
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Stormy:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Brian Cameron
brian.came...@oracle.com mailto:brian.came...@oracle.com wrote:
* Review past action items.
* Did each person with action items send their status reports to
the board list before the meeting?
Has this been
Og:
Looking on the board mailing list archives, you did send regrets to the
list on February 1st. So I think you did not attend.
Brian
On 02/16/11 03:07 PM, Og Maciel wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Stormy Petersstormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
You represent GNOME. You are a
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* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
Missing
* Brian Cameron
Vinicius:
I would really like to go, but at the moment I am worried about how
much it would cost for me to go from Brazil to India. Kayak.com tells
me it is a 27 hours flight with prices from about USD 1800.
Considering that with this amount of money I can almost attend to two
European
Mohd:
On 01/19/11 06:28 AM, Mohd Fazli Azran wrote:
Dear sir,
I`m representative form Open Source Developer Club Malaysia (OSDCMY). We
are the local community in Malaysia that promote and market OSS to
Malaysia people. We now to ready to lead the OSS community in Malaysia s
now we start many
Ben:
This sounds like a wonderful opportunity. Thanks for continuing to
help us in this valuable way. Some questions:
- When is the date?
- Considering it doesn't make sense to travel to someplace like Ghana
for just 1 day, how many days lodging do you think is reasonable to
motivate
In the latest GNOME Foundation board meeting minutes (January 6th),
some information that we intended to keep private was included:
* Hiring updates
o Marketing: only Lefty has applied so far (private)
+ ACTION: Andreas will send out emails to get more
Mohd:
Thank you for expressing an interest in setting up a GNOME Users Group.
Note that The GNOME Foundation has official User's Groups sign the
Trademark Agreement for Users Groups which you can find here:
http://live.gnome.org/Trademark
So, the first step would be to send bo...@gnome.org
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Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Bastien Nocera
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
Missing
Dave:
* Brian - Develop trademark usage forms for common use cases. James
Vasile from legal is working with Brian on this.
I suggest looking at the MariaDB trademark guidelines for a good
starting point. I especially like that they have outlined overall goals
that inform the
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* January 6th, 2010
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* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Bastien Nocera
* Og Maciel
Missing
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* December 23rd, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Og Maciel
Missing
Dave:
On 12/ 8/10 07:46 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
Also, there's a decent copyright claim there by the icon author, if his
artwork is being reused without his knowledge or consent, unless of
course there's a GNOME foot in the wild somewhere under FDL or a CC license.
The GNOME Foot could only be
Stormy:
Attending
* Stormy Peters
I was not there but I think about you all lots!
Oops, corrected in the Wiki minutes.
Brian
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* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Stormy Peters
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
Dave:
* Justin Colannino from the Software Freedom Law Center sent the
board an email with the form to register the GNOME trademark to
review before submission.
Have you talked to Luis about the trademark registration process he went
through some years ago? He spent a lot
On 11/17/10 12:36 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On 11/17/10 13:35, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
For what it's worth, GNOME pretty much ignores such regulations in all its
other dealings. Doesn't necessarily mean that it's violating any law. It
just doesn't bother checking. Doing it for such a small
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* November 6th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson (IRC only since he is attending the Ubuntu
Developer Summit)
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og
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* October 28th, 2010
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* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel (late)
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy
Meeting minutes from today's IRC meeting is here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/IRC20101027
The log of the meeting is also attached to the above Wiki page.
Brian
On 10/27/10 10:42 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
Hi GNOME folks,
Thanks for participating in the GNOME Foundation
The meeting minutes for the September 30th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published. Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100930
Discussed on the mailing list
[...]
* The board approved providing $4,000 (USD) to cover 7º Forum @
Latinoware (November
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* October 14th, 2010
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* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Og Maciel
* Stormy Peters (attending
Foundation Members:
I have been working with James Vasile and Luis Villa over the past year
to update the GNOME Brand licensing forms for merchants and user's
groups. We just finished what I think is the last round of review and
have addressed all the concerns raised by both James and Luis.
I
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* September 30th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy Peters
Regrets
Missing
* Brian Cameron
Recurring Items
* Review past action items.
* Did each person with action items send their status reports to
the board list before the meeting?
* Approve and make sure that minutes of last meeting were published
to foundation-announce and foundation
Dave:
On 09/ 3/10 03:48 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,
Brian Cameron wrote:
* GNOME Trademarks
o TM can claim without formal registration
o Do we want a (R) registered trademark on the correct GNOME
foot / logo?
o GNOME foot (old) has
Behdad:
On 09/ 3/10 10:07 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On 09/03/10 04:48, Dave Neary wrote:
When I was last on board I had started gathering such documents here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPrivate/Documents
But can't find them anymore. Either someone removed that page or I'm not
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* September 2nd, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Og Maciel (late)
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy Peters
Regrets
* Brian Cameron (GNOME.Asia)
* Emily Chen
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* August 5th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson (late)
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Srini
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* August 19th, 2010
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Regrets
* Og Maciel
* Stormy Peters
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Next Meeting
* July 25th, 2010 at GUADEC
Attending
* Andreas Nilsson
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Jorge Castro
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
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* July 15, 2010
Attending
* Bastien Nocera
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo (late)
* Emily Chen
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Jorge Castro
* Og Maciel
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
Patryk:
Did you miss the common sense part? If the rules are vague, everything
can be proved to be against the rules.
These rules are for the GNOME Foundation community and the GNOME
Foundation community will decide when the rules apply and when they
have been broken. I think the GNOME
Lefty:
If it isn't clear already, the Speaker Guidelines are not intended to be
used in frivolous ways. If people think that this needs to be spelled
out more clearly in the guidelines, then please propose improved text.
I can't imagine that anybody would take a complaint about someone giving
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* June 24, 2010
Attending
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Jorge Castro
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Srinivasa Ragavan
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
You let us know overwhelmingly that ensuring that GNOME 3 is a success
is the #1 priority that the GNOME Foundation should be working on
according to the survey Stormy ran last January.[1]
Sorry, but the reference in my previous email pointed to a non-public
link. The survey I am talking
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* June 10, 2010
Attendance
* Brian Cameron
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Jorge Castro
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
* Paul Cutler
* Srinivasa Ragavan
Missing
Lionel:
I've a question about GNOME business model and sustanability. As we have
seen with the fundrising to hire a sysadmin, money is often a blocking
point. The current business model seems to be donations.
Actually, The GNOME Foundation acquires money from several sources:
- Advisory
Vincent:
1) I've read with interest the mails from the candidates announcing
they're running, and most (if not all -- I didn't double-check)
include some motivations with examples of what they'd be interested
in working on.
Why are those tasks/ideas things you cannot work on
Richard:
To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to
develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and
demand the freedom that free software offers them. We need to advance
at the practical level and at the philosophical level.
GNOME is good free
Sorry, you caught another error. I updated the Wiki minutes to say
2011 Desktop Summit instead of GCDS 2010.
Thanks,
Brian
On 05/25/10 02:32 AM, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM,csaave...@gnome.org wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:19:17PM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote
minutes follows --
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Next Meeting
* May 27, 2010
Attendance
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante Urrelo
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
* Srinivasa Ragavan
Missing
to
extend the deadline to June 9th.
Brian
On 05/24/10 09:53 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
The meeting minutes for the May 13th GNOME Foundation board meeting
is now published. Refer here:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100513
[...]
* Cornelius Schumacher sent an email
GNOME Community:
I have the pleasure of announcing the GNOME Developing World list. One
of the GNOME Foundation's high level goals is to work harder to increase
the visibility, promotion and usage of GNOME in the developing world.
This mailing list will provide a forum for people with an
GNOME Community:
I have the pleasure of announcing the GNOME Developing World list. One
of the GNOME Foundation's high level goals is to work harder to increase
the visibility, promotion and usage of GNOME in the developing world.
This mailing list will provide a forum for people with an
Name:Brian Cameron
Email: brian.came...@oracle.com
Nick:yippi
Blog:http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/
Affiliation: Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
I think it is important for more people to consider running for the
GNOME Foundation board. It is a great way
minutes follows --
= Minutes for Meeting of April 29th, 2010 =
== Next Meeting ==
May 13th, 2010
== Attendance ==
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante
* Jorge Castro (late)
* Paul Cutler
* Rosanna Yuen
* Srinivasa Ragavan
* Stormy Peters
== Regrets ==
* Vincent Untz
== Missing
minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of April 15th, 2010
Next Meeting
* April 29th, 2010
Attendance
* Brian Cameron
* Diego Escalante
* Germán Póo-Caamaño
* Paul Cutler
* Srinivasa Ragavan
* Stormy Peters
* Vincent Untz
Regrets
* Rosanna Yuen
* Jorge
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