Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:05 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 3/5/10 8:44 AM, David Schlesinger le...@shugendo.org wrote: If everything gets done inside or through your browser, it would make toolkits such as GTK and desktop environments such as GNOME obsolete, except as platforms for a

Re: pvanhoof issue (was: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap)

2010-02-27 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 03:11 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 04:02 +0200, Zeeshan Ali wrote: Hi everyone, I don't think we need ethics-teachings about this. We GNOME programmers know. We do. I can't say for others but I for one find it extremely insulting when

Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

2010-01-17 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:55 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: We use the terms open and open source elsewhere, and it hasn't created particular controversy, or visibly pushed us in the direction of proprietary software, as far as I can tell. Why is it controversial here in particular? As far as I an

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

2009-12-13 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 08:33 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 12/13/09 8:22 AM, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org wrote: Unable to come up with and too dumb are your own additions, which clearly were not present in the events themselves. Clearly, a lot of misunderstanding was present in the

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

2008-04-22 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Thomas Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something I think might be useful: If we had a list of where everyone attending aKademy and GUADEC will come from (which might be decently approximated by seeing where they came from last year), we can then

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-16 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential voting to select the board. At the time I opposed

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On 10/16/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates? Constitutional crisis, I suppose... everyone's elected, and they invite specific people to

Re: Special GNOME event in California next week

2007-04-13 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On 4/13/07, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:42 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: Seriously though, this surprise announcement stuff is exactly the sort of behavior that the community despises when Novell[1] and Red Hat[2] do it, and now we're doing it to

Re: Special GNOME event in California next week

2007-04-13 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On 4/13/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Jonathon Jongsma There may be legitimate reasons for some degree of secrecy, but there is no information for us as foundation members to judge for ourselves whether that secrecy is warranted. It essentially all boils down to: trust

Re: GNOME Foundation in-confidence issues

2007-04-13 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On 4/13/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Jonathon Jongsma I'm saying that I believe the secrecy is clearly and *obviously* warranted in these cases, simply due to the nature of the examples. We can't give you sensitive employment information after the fact so you can determine