RIP old buddy!
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:45 AM Bartłomiej Piotrowski
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been looking at Bugzilla migration requests today and have some
> related announcements.
>
> First of all, if for some reason you are still using Bugzilla, you
> should stop and move to GitLab. I hop
Neil's blog post, for those missing it:
https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
For my part, I want to apologize to everyone involved in GNOME for not
pushing GNOME to formally sever its ties with GNU a decade ago, which is
the first time in my email archives I can
This is terrific to see. I'm sorry that I probably don't have time to help
out much, but look forward to the final result.
Luis
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:49 PM Nuritzi Sanchez <
nurit...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> Dear Foundation Members,
>
> GNOME has never had a standard code of conduct for
Wikimedia has a pretty good "this week in", and it adds a lot of value. But
it is a lot of work to do well.
(I seem to recall we even used to have one in GNOME, though I can't find
evidence of that offhand. Would have been at least a decade ago.)
Luis
On Wed, May 18, 2016, 6:33 PM Michael Catanza
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> - I don't think that finding an ED is easy (it's precisely because I think
> it's extremely hard that I think we should putting a lot of efforts there)
+1 to this. Having been involved in the last two ED hires, it's not easy.
But the earlier
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> * ED search
?
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n Tue Dec 23 2014 at 8:34:51 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova <
kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/12/2014, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Someone just pinged me to ask if I knew anyone who would be appropriate
> for
> > KDE's ED position, and it made me realize that I'd heard no
Someone just pinged me to ask if I knew anyone who would be appropriate for
KDE's ED position, and it made me realize that I'd heard nothing about
GNOME's ED position for a while. What is the status of that search? Is it
ongoing? Stalled? ...
Thanks-
Luis
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e 29th of October providing
> more details about her research herself. The thread she started can be
> found at [1].
>
> cheers,
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-
> October/msg00031.html
>
> 2014-11-20 20:25 GMT+01:00 Luis Villa :
> > On
On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 11:19:57 AM Andrea Veri wrote:
> * Emma Stamm's proposal for a research project around nonprofit
> management
>
Can you elaborate on that a bit? There are, I suspect, many list members
who might be able to help out or provide resources on that front.
Luis
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> Luis
> worried that making the TODO list the Bountie list was
> dangerous, because people might end up doing only the things
> people pay for. Have we already started down this slop already
> with
Perhaps a naive question, but I would have expected discussion of hiring a
new ED - is that being handled in a separate hiring committee?
Luis
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Hello Foundation members!
> Next board meeting is April 8th at 16:00 UTC
>
> This is the agen
Terrific news!
And thanks also to all the supporters of the Foundation over the year
who have made this sort of hire possible - this investment in
infrastructure and support is extremely important to GNOME's long-term
health.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Karen Sandler wrote:
> In the spirit
Hi, Andrea-
It would be helpful if you sent a reminder of what obligations members
of the Membership Committee have?
Luis
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Og Maciel stepped down from the Membership Committee and I would like
> to take a chance to thank him for all th
Didn't we have a map of member locations at some point? Or was that just
p.g.o blogs?
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jared Jennings wrote:
> Mike,
> Thanks for the response. Shoot! Wish I had known that sooner. I've been in
> Columbus for 3 weeks and will be back in Sept.
> I hope you have a gre
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 06:49 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
>> * They are not familiar with -- and thus not comfortable teaching --
>> all the tools we use.
>> * They want certainty in terms of assignments and projects.
>> * They want predictability w
Brian-
Thanks for your selfless service the past few years. Your dedication,
including to some of the board's most thankless tasks, has been
admirable and will be very difficult for the board to replace.
Luis
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Friends in the GNOME communit
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> I know this is not exactly a GNOME topic,
That's correct. Please take the discussion to a different communication forum.
(The details of what tool are used by a non-GNOME academic are a
perfectly fine topic for discussion *with that acad
That's great to hear! Congratulations to the long list of new members.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the first time we actually receive so many membership's
> applications in just two weeks and I'm glad to notice that
> the GNOME Foundation is increasing it
Big thanks are due to Brian and SFLC for perservering with this.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Foundation Members:
>
> I am happy to report that the GNOME Foot logo currently used by GNOME
> has been trademarked as Reg. # 4063108 filed November 29, 2011.
>
> The GNOME
Thanks to all of you for doing a very important and very
underappreciated role in the project.
Luis
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Bruno Boaventura
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> It was a pleasure for me hold the chairman position of Membership
> Committee in the last two years.
> Recently we had a meeti
2010/3/1 Stormy Peters :
> GNOME Foundation IRC meeting.
How did this go?
(And as for feedback: I think these are terrific; please keep them coming!)
Luis
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Hello, folks.
>
> I'm taking a look at http://foundation.gnome.org/about/charter/ , which
> mentions it's still a draft, from Oct 2000!
>
> Do we have a final version, or is it the final version so that it can be
> renamed?
1) There is no off
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 22:52 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
>
> [CUT]
>
>> The last few mails in this thread suggest that people are happy with this
>> aspect of GNOME's philosophy. So it's something worth maintaining. How do
>> we ensure
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
> On 1/17/10 12:48 PM, "Shaun McCance" wrote:
>>
>>> To the best of my knowledge, that policy has never been written down.
>>> That is because there is and always has been a very, very, very clear
>>> and common understanding that this is the p
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
>> On 1/17/10 6:52 AM, "Ciaran O'Riordan" wrote:
>>>
>>> GNOME has a policy (written or not) that prohibits importing non-free
>> s
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote:
> On 1/17/10 6:52 AM, "Ciaran O'Riordan" wrote:
>>
>> GNOME has a policy (written or not) that prohibits importing non-free
> software
>> into its repositories.
>
> I'm not personally aware of a written policy to this effect. If there's an
> "u
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:34 -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
>> I believe we can state it this way ...
>>
>> The GNOME Foundation believes in free software and promotes free
>> software but that does not mean that GNOME is anti-proprietary
>> softw
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 12/14/2009 04:34 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
>
>> Also, the GNU project is not the FSF. When reading the thread, I have
>> the feeling that some people want the GNOME project to not be part of
>> the FSF, or to disagree with the FSF. The GNO
2009/12/14 Stormy Peters :
> Had a great GNOME Advisory Board meeting about events and copyright
> assignments. The copyright assignment discussion in particular was very
> dynamic.
Care to expand on that one? :)
Luis
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2009/11/29 Stormy Peters :
> Worked on CRM data structures and work flows, i.e. I wrote up what we need
> in the CRM system so that I can get help setting it up. (Jeff Schroeder
> installed CiviCRM on GNOME systems!)
This is terrific to hear; definitely one of those baby-steps towards
being a more
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> An organizations like GNOME is free to decide for themselves which of
> the online services they will use.
And as Richard is a member of GNOME (honorary if not in fact) he's
certainly welcome to politely share his opinion
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so
>> tha=
>> t
>> Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will en
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:41:36 -0400
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so
>> tha=
>> t
>> Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will enable people to
>> d
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so
> tha=
> t
> Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will enable people to
> direct Amazon referral fees for their purchase to GNOME.
>
> It is n
Neither california law nor our own various legal documents have anything
substantive to say on the issue.
Luis (not a lawyer; this is not legal advice)
On Jun 29, 2009 4:03 AM, "Andy Tai" wrote:
Is it legal according to California law that the membership committee can
decide the results?
Not s
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:58 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Stormy Peters wrote:
>> > I too think the election committee should just decide.
>> >
>> > (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it
>> > howev
2009/6/11 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin :
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:12 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
>> I understand it every
>> > other board meeting is held in public-but-moderated IRC; transcripts
>> > are cleaned up and made available later.
>>
>> That sounds like a good idea to me, if people in the Found
Some months ago, when we were brining Stormy on board, she asked the
board about how she could be more transparent and involved in the
community, and IRC came up in that context.
One thing I said at the time, which may be worth revisiting if there
are general concerns about board transparency, is
2009/6/7 Tobias Mueller :
> Dear Foundation Members,
>
>
> I am announcing a new timeline for the upcoming Foundation Board
> Elections because we, the Membership and Elections Committee, couldn't
> hold the deadlines. We are very sorry for that.
Given that the board forced you to switch elections
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, if anythi
2009/6/5 Vincent Untz :
> Le vendredi 05 juin 2009, à 00:29 -0400, Germán Póo-Caamaño a écrit :
>> I have some concerns, it seems longer than is needed (it defines roles
>> as president, vice-president, agents and things that does not seem to
>> fit with our Foundation. However, IANAL).
>
> Luis ha
[Apologies in my lack of interaction in this thread; I've just started
studying for the bar and have just moved to a place with no internet;
the combination has left me pretty brutally offline all week, as I
will be for most of the rest of the summer.]
2009/6/2 Jason D. Clinton :
> On Tue, Jun 2,
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
wrote:
>> I would like to see greater financial and administrative transparency. I
>
> ...
>>
>> I want to see seven board members actively communicating, and I want to
>
> ...
>>
>> front, don't fight in public, and publish/announce/... -
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:06 AM, sankarshan wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>>>> Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the
>>>> 27th of May.
>>
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the
>> 27th of May.
>
> Would it be possible to have this process be public, for example on this
> mailing list or on Desktop Notes? Knowing what questions others want to ask
>
www.hackerthreads.com/go.asp?Cc=GNOME
?
2009/4/30 Sriram Ramkrishna :
> Can we get a magnetic car gnome foot? I would totally pay for one of those
> and a "best of sri" rupert quotes t-shirt. Although you probably dont' want
> to put a GNOME foot logo wtih that. :)
>
> sri
>
> ps I was being a
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Am Montag, den 02.02.2009, 20:07 -0500 schrieb Luis Villa:
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> >> Just replying to what I said back
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:06 AM, buzz wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have come across a piece of software that appears to violate the GPL (and
> possibly the LGPL).
> I am attempting to advise you all, as instructed in the following link:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
>
> If you re no
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Shaun McCance wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>>>> Selon Claudio Saavedra :
>>>>> http://w
and has no formal
process for amendment.) So I think if the board wants to change this,
we can do it, but obviously we'd (1) want to get feedback and (2) we'd
want to ensure that there is bandwidth to ensure that the new process
works.
Luis
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From: Lui
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Shaun McCance wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>>>> Selon Claudio Saavedra :
>>>>> http://w
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shaun McCance wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:27 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
>>> Selon Claudio Saavedra :
http://www.randomimage.us/
I think that would be some kind of copyright infringment (IANAL).
>>> Thanks for the head
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu 11 Dec 2008 07:11, "Luis Villa" writes:
>
>> I've posted the minutes of the last four meetings to
>> http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes
>
> Excellent, thanks. May I
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Gregory Leblanc
wrote:
> Hi folks, couple of comments and questions below.
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> [snip]
>> Diego Escalante Urrelo will be joining the board as a new member for
>> the remainder of this term. Diego was a candi
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do have one question. I don't mean to be a shit-stirrer or anything,
yes you do. :)
> but it's not clear from the minutes of the past few board meetings what,
> if any, priorities the board is attacking systematically this
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave Neary wrote:
>> I've fixed it, I think - I removed "Known:" from the end of the ACL.
>
> So, I didn't fix anything :] No rights to edit the ACL.
>
> Jeff moved the Known: to the end earlier, which should fix the p
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's forbidden!
>
> That's a problem now, isn't it... [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, it turns ou
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's forbidden!
That's a problem now, isn't it... [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Luis
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:11:05AM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
>> My apologies that this has tak
Welcome to the new members, and a big thanks to Brunco and the
Membership Committee for taking on this important task.
Luis
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is pleased to present the new m
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM, daniel g. siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> * hackfests: no news.
>
> i recently announced the speck hack fest 2008 which will be held in
> bolzano, italy. i hope you all heard about it?
>
> http://live.gnome.org/SpeckHackFest2008
Yup! Just no news that we nee
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:21:51AM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
>> * Meeting w/ KDE about GUADEC/Akademy 2009 being scheduled for early
>> September in Berlin.
>
> So instead of trying to push fo
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Haven't seen this brought up yet, so thought I'd ask (out if curiosity
> mainly)...
>
> Since the recent Intel aquisition of OpenedHand, there now is in
> essence two entries for Intel in the Advisory Board.
>
> The
Hi, all-
It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire
Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in
talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal
combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been
involved with GNOME and with
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Ciaran O'Riordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Luis Villa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Minutes get sent to foundation-announce:
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/
>
> Aha. Then part
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Minutes get sent to foundation-announce:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/
>
> The last two meetings were not minuted because they were on a private
> board-only matter; I'
Minutes get sent to foundation-announce:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/
The last two meetings were not minuted because they were on a private
board-only matter; I've been meaning to send an announcement to
foundation-announce about that, but exams have made it difficult for
me
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > Whistler should work, yeah. I hear there's going to be a huge Firefox
> > > summit in Whistler later this Summer. I
I might suggest that this is a completely unproductive discussion that
should go off-list until someone actually has a solid proposal on the
table from a politically/morally/ethically/whatever-ly questionable
regime. We've all got better things to do than to rehash potentially
important but utterly
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Germán Poó-Caamaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > For what it is worth, we have discussed GUADLAC in previous years (I
> > think as far back as 2004, maybe 2003?) but it typically foundered on
> > travel costs, which were always unacceptably high for some la
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Jonh Wendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh, It would be really, really, amazing!
> >
> > GUADLAC, as Behdad suggested. A GNOME Conference in Americas, with the
> > same struc
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess most people have read various blog posts about how the GTK+
> hackfest went, and I've heard there'll be a small report about it too.
> But the general feeling seems to be that it was really useful.
>
> On
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trademark applications: are there plans to do any of those this year?
Yes, as a result of errors made in the last round of US trademark
application- basically, our registered mark is the old (pre-2.0) foot
rather than the n
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IANALTTL (I am not a lawyer, talk to Luis), but my understanding
> > is that copyright assignment requires signing a piece of paper to
> > be valid. I don't think private email exchan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:24 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear foundation members,
> >
> > What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected
> copyright
> > assignment?
> >
> > I am Alexande
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:24 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear foundation members,
>
> What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected
> copyright
> assignment?
>
> I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome
> translation team.
>
> Up ti
On Feb 16, 2008 6:47 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the board elections, we are electing seven people,
> and we each get to cast up to seven votes. I don't
> think we've ever seen the list of candidates unfairly
> cut due to non-preferential voting.
Well, of course we haven't
[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 it, for reasons I
don't fully recall but which in retrospect
On Jan 27, 2008 12:01 PM, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/1/27, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Oddly, they don't use it on their website (assuming that is supposed
> > to be for igloo.info.) Do you remember what event they were
> > adve
Oddly, they don't use it on their website (assuming that is supposed
to be for igloo.info.) Do you remember what event they were
advertising for?
Note that in the future you (and others) can use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
for this sort of thing so that the whole foundation membership is not
emailed with th
On Dec 4, 2007 11:55 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard, I also like to see you show up in the GNOME Advisory Board
> meetings and mailing list as FSF's representative.
>
> Does that require travel, or can it be done by phone?
Typically by phone, though once annually
On Dec 3, 2007 1:11 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If people are going to be looking at licenses, I would very
> much like to discuss the FDL v2, and our usage of the FDL in
> general. There are some troublesome parts whose implications
> for GNOME aren't clear t
On Nov 30, 2007 3:56 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If people are going to be looking at licenses, I would very
> > much like to discuss the FDL v2, and our usage of the FDL in
> > general. There are some troublesome parts whose implications
> > for GN
On Nov 30, 2007 3:51 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:54 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Nov 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2. How do you think the GNOME Foundation should support the F
On Nov 29, 2007 12:44 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007 3:13 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2007 8:31 AM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 29, 2007 1:33 PM,
On Nov 29, 2007 10:37 AM, Jonathan Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:54 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Luis Villa wrote:
> > > Jeff has ably debunked this particular fiction already in the thread,
> > > and more generally ably
On Nov 29, 2007 8:31 AM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2007 1:33 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 29, 2007 5:59 AM, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I think
On Nov 29, 2007 5:59 AM, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > I think you're way too harsh on people who actually concluded things like:
>
> Sorry, but the negativity of that site greatly outweighs the positive. It
> takes more than a little sucking up to earn back my respect after the cr
On Nov 28, 2007 7:15 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't see how the foundation can 'make sure' of anything in this
> > instance. It can not force developers towards or away from either
> > spec. That is simply not in it's mandate.
>
> I may be being obtuse, but wha
On Nov 27, 2007 7:20 AM, Gregory Leblanc
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2007 2:54 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Nov 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > 2. How do you think the G
On Nov 26, 2007 10:28 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Would you change anything in the GNOME Foundation statement about
> OOXML?
I wish it were more explicit about how the Foundation feels that the
ODF folks have been undermining the standards process. It isn't
obvious to ever
On Nov 22, 2007 12:11 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What do you see as the best way to spend this money? In terms of hiring,
> do you prefer hiring a sysadmin, or an executive director? What other
> priorities do you have for expenditure this year, outside of our usual
> cost center
On Nov 22, 2007 5:52 PM, Anne Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Questions to the candidates:
>
> Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME?
>
> Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board
> member?
For those who don't know, before going
On Nov 21, 2007 11:24 AM, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Find a way to better track what the board is currently dealing with,
> so nothing gets forgotten. I've tried doing this only with mails and
> some notes here and there, but without success. It should be done in a
> much str
On Nov 19, 2007 5:39 AM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/candidates.html
Note: I have a very unusual/atypical candidacy statement.
I've sent one clarification in response to questions in IRC. If anyone
has more questions, please *please* se
lationships and processes that outlive my term on
the board.
Hope that helps-
Luis
On Nov 16, 2007 2:31 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This announcement is available with better formatting at
> http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/10/31/running-for-the-gnome-foundation-board/
>
se.
Luis
On 11/9/07, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luis Villa wrote:
> > Since March of this year, I've been trying to help out on a variety of
> > miscellaneous Foundation-related legal projects- some important, some
> > not so much. All
On Nov 2, 2007 7:43 PM, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > I volunteered to take leadership on this position months ago.
>
> We chose to have a Board member as liaison to the Legal team, which was very
> clearly delegated the responsibility to provide legal support and advice to
> the F
On 10/31/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm hesitant to declare it a failure until I see more evidence that
> > delegation has been tried and failed. For example, I could do this sort of
> > thing without being on the board at all- no need to appoint me to the
> > board. But fra
On 11/1/07, Andy Tai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OOXML will be a de facto standard entirely due to Microsoft's dominant
> position in the computing industry... the fight is about preventing it to be
> a formal standard.
I remain open to being convinced (1) that that distinction matters and
(2) th
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