On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 14:05 -0700, Jeremy Allison via foundation-
announce wrote:
>
> I would respectfully like to submit my candidacy for the GNOME
> Foundation Board of Directors.
I wholeheartedly endorse this candidacy. Jeremy is a great person to
work with!
Federico
To the Foundation membership: please don't dignify this rant with a
response. The poster is not even a Foundation member.
Federico
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On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 10:59 +0100, Robert McQueen wrote:
>
> The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce our
> new code of conduct for online behavior.
Thanks for the announcement, Rob!
For the record, the link in this announcement goes to my personal web
page's scratch space.
Dear everyone,
The Foundation Board invites you to nominate people for the
Pants of Thanks that is traditionally awarded during GUADEC. We give
this award to someone who has done outstanding work for the community.
Please mail bo...@gnome.org with your nominations!
Thanks,
Federico on behalf
On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 18:10 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
>
> What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its
> environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as
> a whole?
All the previous replies have good ideas. We should definitely enable
remote hackfests.
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 13:52 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> Could the Board please clarify what the status of the working group
> is?
Hi, Benjamin,
The work of the Code of Conduct Working Group is finished now; all
matters around the Code of Conduct are delegated to the Committee now.
We have no
On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 16:58 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
>
> I have a number of questions about the events Code of Conduct. Is
> there
> another way to submit questions rather than only during the AGM?
You can ask here or to code-of-conduct-commit...@gnome.org :)
Federico
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On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 11:31 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> Our friends at ownCloud have been in touch to see if we want to
> endorse the next version of the User Data Manifesto [1]. This is due
> to be launched at the ownCloud contributor conference at the end of
> August. A number of other prominent F
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 14:00 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote:
> Therefore, to anyone reading this, in light of the formation of the
> Safety Team and the safety/privacy BoF session that occurred at GUADEC,
> it would help tremendously if you (as individuals and as a team) would
> start coming up with a sp
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:09 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Hosting services in general are not SaaSS. Maybe some specific thing
> about GitHub is SaaSS; if so, can you explain the details?
Please take discussions of GitHub off-list. The Foundation Board will
discuss the GNOME mirror during it
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 11:03 +0200, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> I've been working with the GitHub guys and Andrea Veri on setting up a
> mirror for all GNOME repos in GitHub.
This is great news! It should make it easier for people to keep
independent/experimental branches of Gnome modules and have a pl
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:46 -0007, Jim Nelson wrote:
> I'd like to toss in my two cents in support of a Stack Exchange-style
> GNOME developer site. I think Stack Exchange is a proven winner for
> developers helping each other with technical problems. Ask Ubuntu has
> gone over very well, and it
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 12:01 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> from today the Services bot will be able to manage / log meetings by
> using the MeetBot plugin.
This is pretty awesome. Thanks for setting up nice services like these!
Federico
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On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 13:42 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> If anyone wants to join, I'll work on Bugzilla during Dec 22 - Dec 30
> together with Andrea.
Thanks for doing this really valuable work :)
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On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 08:03 -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> * determine who "owns" this network
> * verify if it is really unmaintained
> * if it really is unmaintained, offer to become a maintainer
> * improve it with the specified features
Gimpnet is very old. It predates Freenode!
As far as
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 20:15 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> After serving 4 terms on The GNOME Foundation board of directors, I will
> be stepping down at the end of this term.
Thanks for all the work you put into your position, Brian :)
Federico
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On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 13:09 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> * Co-locating in 2011. Vincent talked to Cornelius Schumacher, and
>the KDE community is very interested in co-locating. The GNOME
>board would like to first discuss with the advisory board before
>making any de
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:33 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> So either the list of guidelines is horribly long, or the co-maintainers
> are not doing their job. I'd like to know who they are, if you please,
> so that I can help :)
OK, I won't bother you with this
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 15:06 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > Who's on the "potential maintainership team" for PGO, so that we may
> > inquire them about the progress?
>
> Sorry, but I'm not going to get caught up in pointless crap like this. Some
> folks may think it's okay to treat me differently
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:51 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > What I want to resolve is this:
>
> So do I, as already noted.
>
> > "Sucking guidelines out of my head" --- that's exactly the kind of
> problem
> > we need to solve.
>
> That's why I mentioned it.
But please don't ignore the quest
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 08:24 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> The module's maintainership isn't sucking in general, but there have been a
> number of periods in which it hasn't been great. Please don't make this out
> to be worse than it is, that kind of approach doesn't help resolve anything.
What I wa
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:20 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > The current "editorial control" is simply more or less "if you ever
> did
> > something peripherally related to GNOME, you can be on Planet,
> regardless
> > of what you post".
>
> It's somewhat more intricate than that -- I'm writing
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:13 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > We have no editorial control. Get over it :)
>
> We absolutely *do* have editorial control at the moment. The challenge I
> have at the moment is to continue that, while improving what people see to
> be the drawbacks of the current p
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 06:26 -0700, Sanford Armstrong wrote:
> I know their are a few random blog posts floating around, but I'd like
> to see something on l.g.o that documents the suggested workflow for
> git-svn/bzr-svn/hg-svn/etc. Is it really a passable solution to all
> this? Does it help reg
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:56 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> That's exactly like how NewAccounts [1] work. So, just use that process
> for planet. Pros:
NewAccounts is our current process, which means endless delays and a lot
of screaming.
Right now I don't care about the reasons why it is so;
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 17:19 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Some editorial control for planet is essential - there are already so
> many feeds that the planet's become less useful - we're up to 50 or 60
> posts a day.
>
> The question is how to marry reactivity to requests and accountability
> with th
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 14:05 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> Put another way, I would find it uncomfortable to say someone "sorry,
> you don't belong here", so these situations should be avoided.
>
> I think that adding a requirement for the applicant to have someone from
> the community to spons
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> planet-web already exists, but making it a free-for-all isn't a useful
> solution.
I re-read http://perkypants.org/blog/2005/06/10/1118362980/ and it
mentions the possibility of making the SVN module essentially a
free-for-all.
.. And I quit
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:42 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Anyway. I'm not sure the old cvs-commits-list type approach really
> scales to GNOME's current size, but I think something *was* lost.
Yes, something definitely was lost. It was quite pleasant to see commit
messages go by; people cared
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:21 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> That's the way things are handled ATM. With the exception that only Jeff
> is supposed to commit to the appropriate file (there's a README or
> HACKING somewhere there).
Well, we can certainly stea^H^H^H^Hfree Jeff from the drudgery of
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 10:17 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
Hi, Olav,
> You are ignoring the central place. You need somewhere all GNOME devs
> are able to commit. This is what is so wrong about
> www.gnome.org/~foo/git/.
The interesting question is, "why are people doing ~foo/git/blah in the
first p
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 incentive to resolve it
> without an
El sáb, 14-04-2007 a las 04:12 +1000, Jeff Waugh escribió:
> I am particularly sensitive to the issues you've raised here, and they've
> been at the top of my mind working on this over the last 9 or so months. I
> am satisfied that it has been consultative (with a particular subset of the
> commun
El mar, 06-03-2007 a las 23:01 +0100, Vincent Untz escribió:
> > > + performance analysis projects are interesting but might not produce
> > >concrete results in the end
> >
> > Interesting. How did you come to this conclusion?
>
> Hrm, I don't have the logs of the meeting, so maybe someon
El mié, 28-02-2007 a las 19:46 +0100, Vincent Untz escribió:
> SoC/WSOP mentors from previous years: Behdad Esfahbod, Shaun McCance,
>Danilo Segan, Joe Shaw, Vincent Untz
Bleh. Sorry that I couldn't attend, but Oralia and I were jet-setting
around Belgium ;)
> + performance analysis proje
Oops, I forgot this bit:
* OSGeo:
We agreed an administration fee of 6% with OSGeo. We authorised a
payment of $18,800 to them, based on their grant request.
Federico
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Minutes of the Board meeting, 2007/Jan/04
-
Board transition meeting
Attendance:
Anne Østergaard
Behdad Esfahbod
Dave Neary
Federico Mena
Jeff Waugh
Quim Gil
El sáb, 06-01-2007 a las 07:06 +0100, Quim Gil escribió:
> We had our first 2007 meeting last Thursday. Every board member was able
> to call to a free phone number in her country and the conference
> happened somewhere in telecom space. This will be the system for the
> rest of meetings this year
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Nov/15
===
Attendance:
Anne
Dave (+30 min)
Federico (+15 min) (rest of the minutes)
Jeff
Jonathan
Vincent (initial minutes)
No attendance:
Quim (regrets)
MINUTES
===
* Extra:
Thanks to Vincent for takin
Clearing out the drawer of old minutes...
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Oct/25
===
Attendance:
Quim
Federico
Zana
Vincent
Jonathan
Anne
Dave
No attendance:
Jeff Waugh (regrets)
MINUTES
Mena Quintero
Absent:
Jeff Waugh
Minutes:
* ACTION: Anne to mail the members of gnome-legal to organise required
actions for contacting Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Roseti
- Scope of relationship with SFLC
- We need to contact WSGR and make sure we have a channel of
communication
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:19 -0500, David Bolter wrote:
> Thinking aloud:
> I wonder if we could expose the #gnome channel (or similar) as perhaps a
> one-click "Get Help" menu item... perhaps under the "Place" menu. The
> user could have an automated nick that describes their distro etc.
> Fri
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.
Too late, Glynn, you *are* already a rock star :)
Federico
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On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:19 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> This sounds as a strong argument. I wonder if we could get a general
> agreement on the fact that board members could request refund of these
> calls.
I don't see why not. The Foundation can definitely do this; it's
peanuts compared to what we
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:44 +, Alvaro del Castillo wrote:
> Right now I am working in the University Rey Juan Carlos and we are
> working hard researching how free software is developed.
By the way, I can vouch for the extreme jaw-dropping coolness of the
work of Álvaro and his group. Their
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:29 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
>Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO
I will not be running as a candidate for this election, by the way :)
Federico
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Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO
Federico Mena-Quintero
November 2006
Background
==
In pretty much all the elections for the Board of Directors of the
GNOME Foundation, it has been inevitable that the "rock
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Sep/13
===
Attendance:
Anne
Dave (chairing)
Federico (minutes, 10 mins. late)
Jonathan
Quim
Rosanna
Vincent (minutes for the first 10 mins.)
No attendance:
Jeff (sleeping)
OLD ACTIONS
===
* Jeff to write a pr
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 14:54 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Now the Board would like to ask the Foundation members: who should get
> the other machine? Do you have a favorite hacker whom you would like to
> thank with a ridiculously powerful x86-64 workstation?
Thanks to eve
Hot minutes straight out of the oven!
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/Aug/02
===
Attendance:
Anne
Dave (chairing)
Federico (minutes)
Jeff
Zana
No attendance:
Jonathan (regrets)
Quim (regrets)
Vincent (regrets)
AGENDA
==
* Trademark applicatio
Dear Foundation members,
I'm pleased to inform you that the Board has nominated GNOME for the
Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration:
http://rit.mellon.org/awards
The submission looks as follows:
The GNOME Foundation would like to nominate the GNOME Project for
participation in t
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:46 +0200, Carlos Fenollosa wrote:
> I'm Carlos. At the Guadec I become aware that a Gnome Foundation
> existed... and applied to join. And, thanks to somebody, now I'm here!
> Thanks again!
Welcome to the zoo^H^H^HFoundation, Carlos :)
Federico
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Hi,
Sun Microsystems kindly donated two Ultra 20 workstations to the GNOME
Foundation, with the intention of giving them away to people who have
been kicking ass in GNOME development.
The Board has already picked one of the people who will get one of the
machines. I'm sure he'll tell you who he
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/07/19
==
Attendance:
Dave (chairing)
Federico (minutes)
Quim
Jonathan
Vincent (phone trouble; stayed on IRC for the rest of the meeting)
Zana
No attendance:
Anne
Jeff
AGENDA
==
1. Hire - status (who's contacted
Here is your secretary sending out minutes, late as always!
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/06/25 (GUADEC)
===
Attendance:
Anne
Dave (Chairing, Minutes)
Federico (Minutes)
Jeff (the man with the packs of Tim Tam chocolate-covered cookies)
Jona
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:51 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:
> As a member is our obligation to ask for information, for instance, ask
> for the minutes of the board's meetings. But, how to ask if we don't
> know when the meetings happen. We only know it happen every two week,
> but not exactly
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/04/26
==
Attendance:
===
Dave Neary (Chairing, minutes)
Luis Villa
Anne Oestergaard
Vincent Untz
Jeff Waugh
Missing:
Jonathan Blandford (arrived :50)
Federico Mena Quintero
Dusting out the drawer of old minutes...
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/04/05
==
Attendance:
Dave (Chairing, minutes)
Vincent
Luis
Jonathan
Rosanna
Jeff (0:10)
Regrets:
Anne
Missing:
Federico
Actions:
Luis to mail boston-social@gnome.org
Are you a deployment of GNOME? Are you like the City of Largo, Florida,
or like the districts of Extremadura and Andalucía in Spain, who have
big installations of machines running GNOME?
At the GNOME Foundation we are conducting a little, informal study of
how we can make your lives easier. If yo
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 Board to sign.
4. Track donations and fees.
5. Maintain a list of Board
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:37 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> http://rit.mellon.org/awards
>
> The GNOME Foundation qualifies for these awards, surely.
>
> Who would like to write a first draft of a (max. 1000 words) nomination?
> In my experience, the shorter the better, if you can do it in 200 words,
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:44 -0400, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote:
> Could be this be able for Latin America too?
I'd *strongly* advise against sending machines from the USA to Latin
America. At least not to Mexico.
It is a truly tremendous pain in the ass to get hardware out of customs.
It
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:32 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2006-05-14 at 19:52 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Since lawyers talk .doc, and use revision control to track changes to the
> > documents, that's what we ge too.
>
> Disappointing. I hope the foundation will reconsider that decision and
>
More late minutes.
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/03/22
==
Attendance:
Anne
Federico (+10 mins, minutes)
Jonathan
Luis
Rosanna (new admin)
No attendance:
Dave (regrets)
Vincent (regrets)
PREVIOUS ACTIONS
Jeff: ongoing
JRB to fi
More late minutes.
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/03/15
==
Attendance:
Anne
Dave
Federico
Jonathan
Quim (guest starring)
Vincent
No attendance:
Jeff
Luis (regrets)
PREVIOUS ACTIONS
* Jeff to organize and contact people in variou
Late minutes, sorry.
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/03/01
==
Attendance:
Anne
Dave (+30 mins)
Federico (minutes)
Jeff
Luis
Vincent
No attendance:
Jonathan (regrets)
PREVIOUS ACTIONS
* Jeff to organize and contact people in vario
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/02/15
==
Attendance:
Anne
Dave
Federico
Jonathan
Luis (+15 min)
No attendance:
Jeff
Vincent (regrets)
ACTIONS
===
* Jeff to organize and contact people in various countries and regions
to act as local press co
Since I suck, I didn't send these minutes until today. Apologies for
the tardiness.
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/02/08
==
Attendance:
Quim (guest starring)
Anne
Dave (chairing; see below)
Federico (minutes)
Hi,
Sorry for the late minutes. That's what happens when we lose Daniel ;)
Federico
GNOME Foundation Board Meeting, 2006/01/18
==
Roll call
-
New board:
Luis
JRB
Anne
Vincent
Dave
Federico (minutes)
Jeff
Old board:
Owen
JRB
Daniel
Jody (missi
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 22:40 +0100, David Neary wrote:
> /me checks http://foundation.gnome.org/stats
>
> Nope.
Interesting! I didn't even know such stats existed.
These are sorted by number of hits this month:
http://www.gnome.org/stats 429468
http://planet.gnome.org/stats
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:22 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> I'm a bit sad that only 169 members (out of more than 350) voted,
> though. If anyone has some ideas on why less than 50% of the members
> voted or on how to change this, please share them. I'd really love to
> see this figure at 80% in the
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 17:34 -0500, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> Nearly - though any new acronym can obfuscate. For that reason, I'd
> suggest going with "ISD", because of its similarity to the familiar
> "ISV", at least the reader may clue in by association and context.
>
> ISD wo
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:56 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> How important are desktop standards for you. How will you attempt to let
> the GNOME developers cooperate even more with the freedesktop.org
> movement? Or do you dislike that movement? In in general: What should
> GNOME "do" with fd.org?
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or
> better than previous years Boards have done?
I am running because I think I can be useful in figuring out the
technical direction in which GNOME needs to go in o
As you all know by now, the referendum to resize the board down to 7
members had a "yes" result.
The Board has of course ratified this decision. The Board next year
will indeed be composed of 7 members, with no executive director for the
time being.
Good luck to all the candidates!
Federico
Name: Federico Mena-Quintero
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affiliation: Novell, Inc.
I have been working on GNOME since it began in August 1997. Since then,
I've maintained or done substantial work on several modules. I have
served as a Foundation Board member for two periods, once four year
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 18:48 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > SUBJECT MATTER DESCRIPTION: Introduction, The GNOME Family,
> > Overview, Core Technologies, IPC and Network Support, Desktop
> > Technologies, Language Bindings, Appendix
>
> Who's the target audience of this docum
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 22:55 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > There have been a couple of *really* good examples this year - the hiring
> > of someone to do a contract on docs (which stalled for 3 months on the
> > writing of a job contract, until the person got another job) is one.
>
> How is it that
Hi,
One of the marketing efforts that the Foundation Board discussed during
GUADEC is the possibility of having "certification levels" for GNOME
applications. Apps that get rated higher are "nicer" or "more
GNOME-like"; hopefully we can use the rating metrics to let users gauge
how well a partic
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:52 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Of course, we have no way to make it mandatory, but GNOME as a brand has
> > suffered greatly by the whitewashing practiced by distributions, most
> > notably the "Java Desktop Environment" (I mean, honestly, what the hell is
> > that?), but
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