Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-04 Thread Owen Taylor
Hi Shaun, It's certainly recognized that shutting down jabber.gnome.org would cause pain for people who are using it. But in the end, system administration resources are limited, and we have to balance that against the costs to us to provide an open-ended promise to continue running the service

Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-01 Thread Owen Taylor
The secret master plan Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer somewhere! It would be really useful To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents that everybody has seen: http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf

Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

2010-01-15 Thread Owen Taylor
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 software. We believe, promote, use and write free software. We are

Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

2010-01-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:15 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 1/15/10 10:01 AM, David Schlesinger le...@shugendo.org wrote: Free software isn't a synonym for open source, and by only using 'free software' you aren't including all the OSI definitions which GNOME also endorses. This is

Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

2010-01-15 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:31 -0800, Lefty (石鏡 ) wrote: On 1/15/10 11:10 AM, Owen Taylor otay...@redhat.com wrote: We certainly all know that RMS believes that. Some other GNOME community members may as well, though probably not a large number. It, is however, your choice to focus

Changes to the System Adminstration Team

2009-04-17 Thread Owen Taylor
GNOME Foundation members, We'd like to announce a formal system administration team. GNOME has long had an informal sysadmin team that has managed the gnome.org services. Putting this team on a more formal basis similar to the GNOME Release Team will allow us to involve and recognize contributors

IRC huddle for Boston summit today

2007-10-04 Thread Owen Taylor
I want to do a quick IRC meeting about the GNOME summit today Date: Today, Thu Oct 4 Time: 2:00pm US/Eastern, 18:00 UTC Place: irc.gnome.org:#boston Agenda: * Needed supplies and equipment * Fixed schedule elements (opening sessions / closing sessions, etc) * Missing information on the

Re: Foundation and Source Code Copyright

2007-08-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:06 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: While we have been discussing this issue, we also discovered that many of the source files in control center did not have copyright statements and those that did were probably out of date and did not include the names of all the

Re: trademarks [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 09:41 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: On 2/27/06, Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps - this has been discussed on the Board for years. As I understand it, the guidance from legal consultations so far has not helped sketch out such a guideline, and I was

Re: trademarks [was Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2006/Feb/15]

2006-02-28 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:41 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: On 2/28/06, Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that going over https would make it any more legally binding... If I said https, then I'd agree with you, but I didn't. I said secure, but perhaps that was the wrong

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Sep 28

2005-09-29 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 09:34 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: On พฤ., 2005-09-29 at 17:43 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Le jeudi 29 septembre 2005 à 10:56 -0400, Daniel Veillard a écrit : ACTION: Owen to add a section on things the foundation should do once it has the money

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Sep 28

2005-09-29 Thread Owen Taylor
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:43 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: ACTION: Owen check with the Election commitee for membership reminders It's definitely planned. We're trying to move the membership database away from a plain text file before doing this, though. And this is taking more time than

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-02 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:53 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller At least one reason... there were a number of things that didn't work well in Stuttgart that need to be fixed. We once again had too many parallel sessions, too much stuff on the schedule,

Re: GNOME Trademark license and useage guidelines

2005-03-25 Thread Owen Taylor
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:33 +, Alan Cox wrote: On Iau, 2005-03-24 at 22:50, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation wrote: Can you post questions to the WiKi for one-stop review? http://live.gnome.org/Trademark You may not edit this page - and UserPreferences seems to be missing a privacy policy...

Re: using GNOME foot-logo for business card

2005-03-16 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:51 -0800, Eddy Mulyono wrote: Dear GNOME foundation, I am a big fan of GNOME and the idea of reverting computers to be slaves of men (and not the other way around). I noticed that you're in charge of the most of the marketing pages in live.gnome.org. I want to