Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-07-01 Thread Sindhu S
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: Yes, the visa reimbursement for the West Coast Hackfest was issued, as the majority of the board (but not all) voted in favour of this. The board should not have done this until a decision was taken about visa

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 1sd

2014-07-01 Thread Sindhu S
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote: The board is not bending the rules. The board sets the rules. They can decide whether to decide on each visa reimbursement individually or to set a policy or to ask the travel committee to set a policy. They can also

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

2014-05-20 Thread Sindhu S
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:22 PM, anish patil anish.develo...@gmail.com wrote: I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for events/hackfests but unfortunately that did not go that well. In

Re: Welcome interns!

2014-04-22 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, Hope the summer is keeping you cheerful :) Thank you, Marina for again doing a wonderful job in organizing this! On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.comwrote: Thank you to all the mentors who helped the applicants along the way and will guide the

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-11 Thread Sindhu S
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to know more details about the problem, please read https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact the board at

Re: Minutes for the Board meeting of February 4th, 2014

2014-03-05 Thread Sindhu S
Hi! On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: * Karen met with the Debian packages for GNOME and asked the current state of Debian * The Debian packagers feel demotivated by the current situation * They agreed to blog more on the issue * The Debian

GNOME's own pod (Diaspora instance)

2014-02-10 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, This occured to me that when I was reading about Diaspora. We should run our own Diaspora pod (instance) on GNOME servers. Here are a few reasons how this move will benefit our community: - We would be supporting the use of decentralized social network software which is free and

Re: GNOME.Asia 2014 to be held in Beijing

2013-12-13 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, Max Awesome to hear this! Looking forward to participate :) Keep up the good work! -Sindhu On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Max sakana...@gmail.com wrote: Hosting GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 May 24-25, 2014 Beijing It is with great pleasure that we announce that Beijing has been

GSoC Doc Camp 2013 - we are going!

2013-09-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hi list, I am pleased to tell you that we [1] are attending The Google Summer of Doc Camp 2013 organized by Google Inc in association with Aspiration and Flossmanuals.net. The book sprint takes place at the Google offices in Googleplex, Mountain View, California. We plan to write a book about

Keysigning party at GUADEC 2013

2013-08-06 Thread Sindhu S
Hello, We are having a Keysigning party tomorrow at A112 all day. Please let everybody know to sign up on https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2013/KeysigningParty. Thank you! -Sindhu S ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https

Re: Supporting GTK

2013-06-05 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, Wile! This is not the forum to ask for help about GTK. Perhaps you could look here: http://www.gtk.org/mailing-lists.php On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:46 AM, WILE MARQUEZ wimarq...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody I need to contribute with source code I am a developer

Charter not found

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hi, all I was wondering lately what topics are OK to post on this mailing list because lately I have been seeing many people post unrelated topics on mailing lists including this [1][2] such as gtk-list[3], desktop-devel-app[4]. There are 2 posts this month on this mailing list that do not

Re: Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Thank you for this information, Andrea! We'll greatly benefit from the bot and the etherpad is a lovely addition! I have sent you a request via email regarding this. Thank you for setting this up :) -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: 2013/5/17 Andrea

Re: Charter not found

2013-05-23 Thread Sindhu S
Hello Andreas, The link originated from here: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list The link is given in the introductory text. Thank you for the correct link! -Sindhu On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2013-05-23 15:27, Sindhu S

Re: New Foundation Members

2013-05-22 Thread Sindhu S
(GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer) 9. Andres G. Aragoneses (Banshee maintainer, GSoC mentor) 10. Antonius Riha (Tasque maintainer) * Syntax is Name Surname (area

Re: Some updates from the GNOME Sysadmin Team

2013-05-18 Thread Sindhu S
Thank Andrea for the information about KGB bot and live.gnome.org wiki! I myself asked in #sysadmin channel about the mysterious Renato Barruco recently :) Am interested in information related to the wiki and bots, please keep us updated with latest happenings about them. You are doing a good

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-03 Thread Sindhu S
Thank you, Nirbheek and Max! :) On 03-May-2013, at 9:01 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to GNOME, Sindhu! ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
Hello, all Thank you, GNOME Foundation for accepting me as a member. I am absolutely thrilled! I am Sindhu. I come from a small coastal city called Mangalore in the south of India. I currently live and pursue school in Bangalore, India. I am finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science and I

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
on the mailing list and it's great to see. :-) sri On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote: Hello, all Thank you, GNOME Foundation for accepting me as a member. I am absolutely thrilled! I am Sindhu. I come from a small coastal city called Mangalore in the south

Re: Hello from a new member

2013-05-02 Thread Sindhu S
, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote: I currently live and pursue school in Bangalore, India. I am finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science and I am to graduate in June. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
Hi! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding experience but my current internship has given me the confidence to contribute even more :) This book should be a good head start at things! Thank you. On 07-Mar-2013, at 1:49 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
Hello all, So far as I can understand: 1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. 2. Manuals are and must be free. So, the bone of contention is a manual Vs a collation

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-08 Thread Sindhu S
...@shugendo.org wrote: On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Sindhu S wrote: My two cents is that going by the rule of free works and their derivatives must also be free, the author should consider releasing the book (TXT or PDF format) under a copyleft license and to be fair to the effort the author has

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

2013-03-07 Thread Sindhu S
Hi all! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding experience but my current internship has given me the confidence to contribute to GNOME even more :) This book should be a good head start at things! Thank you. On Wed, March 6, 2013 2:47 pm, tong hui wrote: