Re: Changes in Membership Committee

Thanks for the great work Bruno! --lucasr 2010/3/23 Bruno Boaventura : > Hello! > > It was a pleasure for me hold the chairman position of Membership > Committee in the last two years. > Recently we had a meeting to resolve some issues. One of these things > were to elect another chairman to the

Resigning from the Board

Hi all, I've been thinking a lot about what to do about my participation on GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors in face of the fact that my wife and I are expecting our first baby in February. After careful consideration, I decided to resign. I want to be fully focused on my family (especially i

Code of Conduct and Foundation membership (Summary)

Hi all, It's quite obvious that the original thread ended up branching into several separate topics. I thought it would be useful to summarize some of the key points on each topic in an attempt to bring a more practical perspective to the whole discussion. This is not an official message from the

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - October 29, 2009

Hi, 2009/11/24 Vincent Untz : > Le mardi 24 novembre 2009, à 23:53 +0100, Andy Wingo a écrit : >> Hi Brian, >> >> Thanks for the detailed and readable notes! >> >> On Fri 13 Nov 2009 22:27, Brian Cameron writes: >> >> > Minutes for Meeting of October 29th, 2009 >> [...] >> >       More generally,

Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

Hi all, The Board has recently received some complaints from members of the community about certain the inappropriate behaviors. In the context of GNOME Foundation, it's really hard to argue about how we expect our members to behave if there is no official guidelines that members are supposed to c

Re: Questions for the candidates

Hi, Apologies for the delay... 2009/5/29 Susana Pereira : > Hello, > > Here is the updated list of questions. Hopefully, this one will let us > discuss important issues without taking too much time from our > candidates. > > You can find the list of candidates for the upcoming elections here: > >

Re: GNOME leadership [was Re: So what do people *except* me want from the foundation?]

Hi, 2009/6/8 Luis Villa : > 2009/6/5 Luis Villa : >> At any rate, I agree completely that we need some strong leaders to develop >> in GNOME. But the Foundation is not the place for it. I think the right >> question is 'why have leaders not come from other sources? what can the >> Foundation do

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

Hi Dave, 2009/6/2 Dave Neary : > Hi, > > john palmieri wrote: >> >> I'm of the same mind here.  There are a number of people who I don't like >> to read on blogs and whatnot but I would rather us as a community figure out >> productive ways of dealing with it as opposed to lording our own views ov

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

Hi Dave, (This is just my personal opinion. No official Foundation Board hat here...) As I said on irc today, I like your message. It's your way to present your expectations towards the board and how you think the Foundation could be better as an organization. I think feedback from Foundation mem

Candidacy: Lucas Rocha

Name: Lucas Rocha Mail: lucasr gnome org Nick: lucasr Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr More: http://live.gnome.org/LucasRocha Affiliation: litl Summary I've been part of the Foundation Board for almost 2 years now. My impression is that the Foundation is gradually improving every year

New Affiliation

Hi all, As you probably know, I left Nokia in the end of March. I now work for LiTL (www.litl.com), a startup company developing a consumer product that involves hardware, software, and online services. I'm the only Board member affiliated to this company so no issues here. Thanks, --lucasr ___

Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2007 released!

Hi all, Important: there's no GNOME Foundation revenue attached to the price of the printing services at Lulu.com. This means that you're not donating anything to GNOME Foundation by ordering your hard copy from Lulu.com! --lucasr 2008/3/10, Lucas Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

GNOME Foundation Annual Report 2007 released!

Hi all, Last year, Dave Neary and others started this new tradition by producing the first GNOME Foundation annual report which has got very positive response from community. So, we decided to follow the new tradition by preparing the GNOME Foundation annual report 2007! I've been slowly working

GNOME @ Google Summer of Code 2008

Hi all, As you probably know, Google is organizing one more edition of their Summer of Code (GSoC) program. More information about the program can be found here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ GNOME has participated in all GSoC editions as a mentoring organization with some nice results in t

GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility - List of tasks published!

Hi all, For those interested in participating in the GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility, you probably want to have a look at the list of tasks that has just been published in the program's website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/ So, now what? Read the program rules very carefu

GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 2nd January 2008

GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 2nd January 2008 Members of current board and previous attending. Present * Behdad Esfahbod * Anne Oestergard * John Palmieri * Vincent Untz * Jeff Waugh * Brian Cameron * Lucas Rocha Missing * Quim Gil * Glynn Foster

Re: The Final Logo for GNOME Asia Summit

Hi Emily, Congratulations for the logo! It's pretty nice! :-) --lucasr 2007/12/13, Emily chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Thanks for everyone's support, we finally got 307 votes on the logos of > GNOME Asia Summit. The winner is : Bamboo + GNOME logo carved on rounded > Asia stamp. Please

Re: Vote the logo for GNOME Asia Summit -- Deadline is 9th Dec, 2007

Hi Dave, > Lucas Rocha wrote: > > I'd like to propose something simpler: > > > > http://www.gnome.org/~lucasr/misc/gnome-asia-summit.png > > I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but the modifications to the foot to > make it an A go outside what I'd

Re: Vote the logo for GNOME Asia Summit -- Deadline is 9th Dec, 2007

Hi Emily, > Please vote your favorite logo for GNOME Asia Summit from here : > > http://www.gnome-cn.org/gnome-asia-submit/gas-logo-vote/ > > Thanks for Yang Hong's great help on build this vote system! > > We will announce the final logo on Monday, the winner will get free > registration to GNOME

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

Hi, 2007/12/3, Lucas Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > > The questions: > > > > o. Given that the Foundation of GNOME has plenty of money, will you if > >elected vote to spend this money on important projects? > > > >Being mostly intere

Re: Money spending, questions for the candidates

Hi, > The questions: > > o. Given that the Foundation of GNOME has plenty of money, will you if >elected vote to spend this money on important projects? > >Being mostly interested in mobile targets and GNOME Mobile, I could >certainly come up with some projects that might both increase

Re: two questions for candidates

Hi, 2007/11/26, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about > OOXML? I would change the date it was released. :-) I think the most serious problem about GNOME Foundation participation on ECMA TC45-M was that it wasn't properly expla

Re: A question to candidates

Hi, 2007/11/23, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 14:42 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit : > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > [snip] > > > Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a > > > meeting or for another

Re: A question to candidates

Hi Dave, > I did send these to the membership committee, but voting's nearly open, > and I think they're important, so I guess I'll just ask... Ok. > The foundation's role is essentially to facilitate the enthusiasm of the > GNOME project, as Andrew Cowie blogged earlier [1]. This consists of tw

Re: Questions to the candidates

Hi, 2007/11/23, Anne Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Questions to the candidates: > > Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME? No. > Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board > member? I don't plan to change my job next year. > Will

GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 10th October 2007

Hi all, I'm really sorry for the delay. The draft got lost in my Gmail account and completely forgot to send it. It won't happen again. :-/ --lucasr - GNOME Foundation Meeting Minutes :: 10th October 2007 Present: Behdad, Lucas, Anne, Vincent, Zana, Glynn (for 10 minutes) Regre

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!

Hi, 2007/11/19, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit > questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years > prospective Board of Directors. > > The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each

Annual Report Kickoff

Hi all, It's time to start working on our 2007 annual report! Last year we had a very nice report. So, let's make it even better this year! I've created a wiki page to organize the work: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/AnnualReport2007 Any kind of contribution is welcome! There are sever

Re: Can we improve things?

Hi, 2007/9/13, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vincent Untz wrote, On 13/09/07 11:00: > > Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007, à 17:37 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : > >>> Because despite Gnome is people, I think that for most people, Planet > >>> Gnome is primarily about Gnome. > >> No

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

Hi, I hate to do this but... again... please move this discussion to a more appropriate mailing list like d-d-l or gnome-infrastructure. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/11, Sanford Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I simply meant that less

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

Hi all, Could you please move this discussion to d-d-l and/or gnome-infrastructure? This mailing list is definitely not the place to discuss SCM in GNOME. Thanks, --lucasr 2007/9/10, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > 2007/9/8,

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

izing our conference, let's try to solve them in the best possible way in our own boundaries. IMO, merging with KDE will bring more problems than solving from the communities point of view. Specially on defining the agenda. Just my 0,2 cents. --lucasr 2007/6/11, Lucas Rocha <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

Hi, > 4) GNOME and KDE Conference > >There has been some discussion about a possible merge of GNOME >and KDE conferences. This has been discussed at the advisory >board level, along with the KDE e.v. members list. If there is >considerable opposition from both sides, then it isn't

GNOME @ Summer of Code 2007 - Update

invited by the SoC admins or explicitly volunteered to be part of the committee. The SoC selection committee is composed by: - Christian Kellner - Murray Cumming - Christian Schaller - Paolo Borelli - Raphaël Slinckx - Bryan Clark - Lucas Rocha - Federico Quintero - Shaun McCance -

Minutes of SoC meeting - 2007/Mar/06

Berkom Olav Vitters Ryan Lortie Lucas Rocha Christian Kellner Mads Chr. Olesen (Other inactive attendees were there too) 1) Actions from previous meeting * ACTION: Vincent to talk with sysadmins about getting a sandbox repository or main repository access for students (DONE) Vincent

Re: Board Meeting Minutes :: 15th February 2007

Hei, >Membership Committee > >Baris had worked on renewals, but his laptop was recently stolen so he has >to start again. There's a membership committee meeting next week where >this will be discussed, along with other topics (like membership >applications taking a long time to

Re: GNOME and the free software movement

Hi, 2006/11/27, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Freedoms 1 and 3, the freedom to study and change the source and the > freedom to distribute modified versions, involve programming. People > can exercise them only to the extent of their programming skill. But > when others change the prog

Re: GNOME Event Box for North America

Hi, I think the situation is different in Europe than in Latin-America. I do not think that is feasible to do it at least in South America (I would like to be wrong, anyway). I strongly agree. :-) In South America the distances are very different than in Europe and our custom offices are not