Re: Some perspective on how unimportant the board currently is.

2005-10-28 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:31 +0700, Ross Golder wrote: On ศ., 2005-10-28 at 15:07 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: Perhaps we should look at the idea of running training sessions where the trainers are not paid, but are given plane tickets and board in the city they are sent to. I'd rather

Re: Some perspective on how unimportant the board currently is.

2005-10-28 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:12 -0300, Fernando San Martín Woerner wrote: Also i want to remember GNOME Hackers training meetings in Chile as for us is very hard to get some core hacker from GNOME in our country we started a small meetings just to show how to be involved in GNOME, actually we've

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:39 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: I still think the problems being reported are nothing to do with the size of the group but to do with lack of clear process and with poor delegation. These are not easy to fix, but I don't think changing the group size will help. On

Re: poor man's SWOT analysis of GUADEC

2005-09-13 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-09-12 at 17:28 +0200, Anne Østergaard wrote: I think desktop conferences are coming up soon both locally and globally. Yes - and desktop tracks at other conferences. That may help GNOME in that it will be less neccessary to

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:05 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that outreach to take

Re: GNOME Foundation Budget

2005-08-09 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 09:17 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: Are are we just going to be treated to the figures in http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/gnome-foundation-fiscal-year-04-and-03.pdf and expect to know what they all mean? One thing to note is that there is also a GUADEC report that

Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:48 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation GUADEC has been sustainable for six years and survived economic up and down cycles. GUADEC planning is a good place for discussing next year's conference model. ... with emergency sponsorship

GUADEC Registration Accommodation

2005-04-26 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
Sixth Annual GNOME Users and Developers European Conference 29-31 May, 2005 - Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart http://2005.guadec.org Hello all, If you are making plans to attend GUADEC 6 in Stuttgart, here is some important information. Note the deadlines. *Registration GUADEC Registration is

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting 2005 Mar 9

2005-03-14 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:40 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Daniel Veillard ACTION: Dave to start looking for vendors to host the GNOME online shop How did e-flow go? (Or MozSource if that's what they are now.) They are one of the companies being considered; there are others which

Re: Outdated bounties webpage

2005-03-11 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
Hello Philip, This was discussed by the board a few days ago. The page will be fixed with an acknowledgment that the Desktop Bounty project is a Novell Donor-directed program will be posted. There was a full review in January. In some cases the bugs may be fixed, but no one has claimed the