Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-06-04 Thread David Bolter
Two names I recognize... welcome Brad and Pockey And welcome Nils and Paul too :) D On 6/4/09 8:30 PM, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Brad Taylor - Nils Faerber - Paul Cutler - Pockey Lam If your

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-05-29 Thread David Bolter
I'd like to add an optional tenth question: 10. If the foundation built a bike shed, what color would you paint the roof? D ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-05-29 Thread David Bolter
Great answer. Next? D On 5/29/09 3:21 PM, Andy Tai wrote: Shouldn't the candidates be expected to oppose the foundation building this, as it is a misuse of the foundation's resources? On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Bolterd...@gnome.org wrote: I'd like to add an optional tenth

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-04-29 Thread David Bolter
Welcome Willie!!! ...and everyone I don't know too :) cheers, D On 4/29/09 5:18 PM, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Alex Launi - Bertrand Lorentz - James Liggett - Marina Zhurakhinskaya - Philip

Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

2008-07-09 Thread David Bolter
Richard M Stallman wrote: 'Here's a specific example of something I like about the GNOME community. It's important to them that things be beautiful. I put beautiful in quotes because I think the GNOME community means much more than pretty when they say beautiful. I think they

Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

2008-02-28 Thread David Bolter
Richard Stallman wrote: Note that this press release is not about free software, but about accessibility It's about accessibility for GNOME, thus accessibility for free software. The fact that GNOME is free software isn't the main point of this announcement, but it should be a side

Re: On Boston Summit organization and delegation [was Re: A question to candidates]

2007-11-28 Thread David Bolter
Hi Jeff, all, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Ghee Teo Have the board paused and thought why the Summit has to be Boston? Is it because most hackers work around Boston? May be it was the case. Because there's a critical mass of developers there -- most of

Re: Executive director [was: Re: OOXML]

2007-11-06 Thread David Bolter
It is perhaps of interest to some that the Mozilla Foundation has not found it easy to find a new Executive Director (see http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/executive-director-search.html). Note the Mozilla position comes with salary and benefits. Are we thinking the same for GNOME? cheers,

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread David Bolter
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I know Planet GNOME maintenance has been patchy -- I've been thinking about ways to alleviate that while keeping strong editorship in place. The Board has prompted me about this too, so I have plenty of

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

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Vincent Untz wrote: 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

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

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Hi Richard, Richard Stallman wrote: This is very timely. I've been asked to head up a pilot project here at the University of Toronto with a goal of engaging students in open source development. If you launch a project of open source development, you can teach students how to

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

2007-08-20 Thread David Bolter
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 with the objective of creating a formal committe? Fernando and I had a

Re: Mellon awards update

2007-02-16 Thread David Bolter
Many of us are housed in Universities. If there is anyway I can help out let me know. Our group here at UofT is all about accessibility and education. I would be interested in using the money to create something like the google summer of code but with a strong GNOME accessibility focus. We

Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-24 Thread David Bolter
Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:55 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:25 +, Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:27 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: Think about in utopia, wouldn't it be cool if we had ekiga or skype server, or

Re: multi-culti board

2006-11-16 Thread David Bolter
Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: Quim Gil wrote: How nice would be to have Asian, American and African candidates! I suppose it would be fair enough.. but how nice would be to have blonde, chestnut and ginger candidates? eh? :-) What I mean is that, IMO, what really matters is

Re: Candidacy :: Glynn Foster

2006-11-15 Thread David Bolter
Ghee Teo wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Federico Mena Quintero On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:26 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: I don't want to be a rock star, I just want to help. If more suitable candidates are running, I'm happy to cheer them from the sidelines.