Re: GNOME Travel Committee & Travel Policy: A proposal for consideration and feedback

web form? It would be possible to knock up a little web management UI console whatsit that fed these requests directly into a queue thing where they could be scored by the Travel Committee. I'm happy to volunteer to whip something up to implement this. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd

Re: minutes of last four board meetings

___ > foundation-announce mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing

Re: GNOME Planet is currently unmaintained

and it's been this way since before linux.conf.au. I don't see that really changing any time soon. I would like to see a team (perhaps lead by Jeff?) formed to take responsibility for Planet. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _

Re: Concerns about the election process

NOME: http://oracle.bridgewayconsulting.com.au/~davyd/misc/gnome-voting/ It would require both a specialised GNOME voting client (well, we are a desktop UI group..) and an anonymizing service like Tor. It would also require public/private keypairs, for example the ssh keys we use for CVS.

Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO

om Australia to the US (?) and back to Australia. That said, it might be worth reevaluating. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship

> I submitted a proposal to linux.conf.au and they replied that it would > be of more interest to gnome.conf.au. Just to clear things up, you submitted a paper to linux.conf.au and it was rejected, and you would still like the chance to present that paper at GNOME.conf.au? What was that paper? -

Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship

e/discounted trip, so we should give someone else a go". Obviously this program would only be available to Foundation members (something concrete for being a member?) and for a conference like GUADEC where lots of people are flown in, still only apply to one or two people (so that we can still ha

Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:28 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Davyd Madeley wrote: > > It seems to me that sponsorship to this event should really be > > handled by linux.conf.au, but I was wondering if the Foundation saw > > any place for itself here. > > I tend to agree wit

GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship

person who presents a complementry t-shirt. Unfortunately, to do this requires funding. Does the Board think this is a good idea, and would Foundation be able to fund such an initiative? --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F

Re: Code Of Conduct

drive. I know that Pia Waugh has really gotten behind this in Australia. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Summer of Code

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? --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191

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

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 13:03 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > I'm for showing the participation (% of members that have already voted) > but not provisional results of the election. This might actually be really cool as a thermometer style graph on the webpage. --d -- Davyd Ma

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

t it is not open. It would however, be really nice if we can give them a free and open, yet stable, platform for their software so that perhaps one day they will be able to free up and open at least some parts of their technology (ala VMWare). --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 34

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

product on the platform. First we must walk, gain market share, become relevant and be validated. Then we establish a new world order. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list maili

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

ome people's utopian view of how the software industry will be overhauled, but it is a much more realisitic and achievable goal. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mai

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

on the membership committee. It would be very difficult indeed for him to cheat. Although, I happen to trust Vincent, and I don't see a real conflict of interest here. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C0

Re: Reducing Board Size Referendum - Preliminary results

> blank votes: 1 I want to thank the Election committee for the smooth and successful running of what is their first anonymously conducted referendum. An excellent job, well done. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118

Re: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections

rently does not deserve to receive a window border. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

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

ntries. Perhaps then next time someone is choosing replace Motif, they won't choose Trolltech. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.

Re: Reducing the board size

he board is "fixed", there is no reason that the number of directors can not be increased again. Like with everything else, the board, its role and its size should evolve based on the needs of the project. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 0

Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:31 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > Davyd Madeley came up with GConf. > > This isn't an improve and not enough of an improvement to merit the > change. If you had said "Gnome Con" which should need no further > explanation I might ha

Re: Spec for anonymous voting

ted as a stand alone application, after all... this is GNOME! --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ PGP Fingerprint <http://www.davyd.id.au/pgp/> 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: using GNOME foot-logo for business card

ct, and it would be nice to occasionally introduce myself without having to use my work context. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ PGP Fingerprint <http://www.davyd.id.au/pgp/> 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA __