Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Hi, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 2:32 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 11:00 -0500, meg ford via foundation-list wrote: > > I do need to send emails to foundation list on > > behalf of the Travel Committee though and dealing with moderation as > &g

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Hi, On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:38 PM Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > I am a GNOME Foundation Member *Emeritus*, so please don't take my opinion > as > too important. > > Olav Vitters wrote, back in August when proposing Discourse: > > Discourse is free software (including the Javascript) and the > >

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Hi, On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:28 AM Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:14 PM meg ford via foundation-list > wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Meg, > > > I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to > leave foundation list, but st

Re: Moving foundation-list to discourse?

Hi, I'd prefer to use Discourse. I'm sick of the spam and would like to leave foundation list, but still want to read Board minutes. Thanks, Meg On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:22 AM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 18:28 +, Olav Vitters wrote: > > It's > > even possible to

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of June 24, 2019

Hi, On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Florian Müllner wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, 16:43 , wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:33 PM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list >> wrote: >> > Suggested dates are November 19–21 >> >> Any later than Aug 14-19 will lose US university students, for

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Announcing the New Foundation Travel Policy

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Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2019: revamped timeline

Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:41 PM Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 07:48 -0500, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > I didn't express myself clearly enough: I really meant we haven't > > > received enough candidacies

Re: New GNOME Foundation staffer - Strategic Initiatives Manager

Welcome, Molly! This is great news :) On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:42 PM Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > That's a name I came across a lot when translating the monthly issues > of the Free Software Supporter and reading Planet GNU. Welcome on > board, Molly de Blanc! Congratulations! > > Best regards,

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board 4 July 2018

Hi, Thanks for the minutes! On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:16 AM Philip Chimento via foundation-list < foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hello from your new secretary! A few points of order to accompany these > minutes: > > These minutes were recorded during the meeting and published on the wiki

Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Meg Ford

*Name: Meg FordEmail: megf...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: MitelHi Foundation Members,I am running for a third term as a member of the Foundation Board of Directors.I have been a Foundation Member since 2011. I joined after participating in the second round of the Outreachy (formerly Outreach

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Hi, On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > Did you mean to quote a specific part of Allan’s email? Because my > email was about what happened during the time when discussions were > still within the WG (and the conflict that emerged from it) and yours > is

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Hi, On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Allan Day wrote: > > because Ben's behaviour had become so unacceptable (despite multiple > > warnings regarding basic behaviour) that it was difficult to

Re: Proposal for an Events Code of Conduct and Policy Referendum

Hi, On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2018-04-21 at 13:35 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote: > > I do not think that this is just a technicality that can be taken > > lightly. Should the Board continue to discuss the proposal as is, it > >

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th March

Hi, On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Jens Georg wrote: > Hi, > > > > > * Tile server options for Maps (Allan) > > > > ... > > > > * VOTE: approve $300 a month to pay Mapbox - passed unanimously > > > > * ACTION: Meg to inform Mapbox and the Maps team, cc'ing > > > > Rosanna

Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th March

Hi Germán, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 10:00 +, Allan Day wrote: > > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, March 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC = > > [...] > > * Moderation of public mailing lists (Carlos) > > * There have been

Re: Illicit GNOME logo use on campingrocks.bg [was: Irregularities]

Hi Andre, On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > [removed a bunch of addresses from the CC] > > On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 09:49 +, Allan Day wrote: > > Zlatina Gancheva wrote: > > ... > > > I want to report a problem. > > > Your

Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings

Hi, On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > Hi, > > There are a number of GNOME or GNOME-related project fundraisings: > > For GIMP: > https://www.gimp.org/donating/ > https://www.patreon.com/pippin > http://film.zemarmot.net/en/ > >

Re: Term duration for board members (was GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates)

Hi, On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Michael Catanzaro > wrote: > > Here's another question: what do the candidates think about switching to > > using two-year terms? > I think this is an

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Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Hi Max, On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Max wrote: > > > I know there will be more people ask questions about all domain with GNOME, > so I ask 1 question with Asia first. > I have 3 questions to all candidates > Thanks for taking the time to send these questions! > > >

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Hi Daniel, On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > Recently has been a campaign to expose GNOME weakness, like: > > * GTK+ is C and ugly > * Bugzilla is old and user unfriendly > * Developers don't here suggestions from users > * No apps for GNOME/GTK+ > >

Re: foundation application..

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: As regards comments on Outreachy internships (which seem to have clearly been cited a lot more in defence of this new practice, than GSoC); this is an internship specifically developed to address an identified

Re: foundation application..

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: As Meg seems to have pointed out already in her question, the same could be said for any sponsored contributor. The bylaws are explicit in not discriminating against sponsored/paid contributors compared with any other

Re: foundation application..

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications are dealt with on a case-by-case basis. In that case, I suggest that we don't make general statements telling interns to not apply, but instead

Re: foundation application..

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 02:02:48PM -0600, meg ford wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Right, but as I've said, it's not a general answer and applications

Re: Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: Perhaps some might be seeing Richard as the FSF too quickly and not giving due regard what he is actually saying about this in the reactions to what he's putting forward. How he's defined dodgy links really does not

Re: Links that recommend running nonfree JS code.

Hi Magdalen, On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: This makes perfect sense to me. At the moment I am not totally convinced that the rest of the community are on board with what you have said though. It is not clear whether or not people understand the

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

Hi, On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Christian Hergert christ...@hergert.me wrote: On 01/05/2015 03:44 PM, Magdalen Berns wrote: To elaborate on the point about fundraisers a little further: Also though I have to wonder whether future fundraisers could maybe be handled in the same way as

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

Hi Magdalen, On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: I think you have agreed with me on the wiki and the blog but seem to not realise that, for some strange reason. To clarify, I agreed that individuals should be able to make their own choices for how they

Re: Builder crowdsourcing banner on PGO

I also support putting a banner on Planet GNOME. Meg On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Magdalen Berns m.be...@thismagpie.com wrote: Oh dear. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio fabi...@fidencio.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Alexandre Franke

Re: Call for OPW project ideas

Hi, These contracts are very standard in the US. Some examples form local nonprofits in Chicago: 1. Habitat for Humanity https://www.windycityhabitat.org/uploads/files/WCHFH_Release_Waiver.pdf 2. Pumping Station:One https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/images/Liability-waiver.pdf 3. Friends of the

Re: GNOME, Bounties and paid development [Was: Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?]

Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tristan Van Berkom tris...@upstairslabs.com wrote: I think perhaps, if we organized bounties which clearly and definitely improve software that industry is going to use, and not only for the singular purpose of the GNOME Desktop Environment, then perhaps

Re: Mission Statement

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Mathieu Duponchelle mduponchel...@gmail.com wrote: It seems I'm far from being the only one to think OPW should be abstracted away from GNOME. The subject of this thread clearly is GNOME's mission statement, and I'm interested in further discussion / opinions

Re: Mission Statement

Hi Ryan, On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014, at 11:18, meg ford wrote: I don't think it's relevant. GSoC is also outside of the mission statement, though as I said before I think there are allusions to outreach in the Charter. I think

Re: Groupon @ Phoronix

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTc1MjI | Hopefully the GNOME Foundation and others will be able to extrude | their forces in clearing up this odd and unfortunate situation. Has GNOME's legal counsel

Re: GUADEC 2010 Talks

Hi, On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Hubert Figuière h...@figuiere.net wrote: Hub [1] While youtube has its own set of privacy concern, youtube offer one of the very few reliable video solution that doesn't involve installing patent encumbered codecs and/or non-Free Flash.[2] The Chicago

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: I am extremely busy. I was just reading through all of the emails to board candidates this morning, as the time I've had in the last few days for GNOME I've spent volunteering on time sensitive things that I think

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

Hi Zeeshan, On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: Since visa process is not in the hands of the board, I think any help that board offers is a big favour so IMO what is unfair here is for you to complain for not getting a favour while another

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

Hi Germán , I apologize for the bad paste. I was replying to Mathieu Duponchelle but the paste was from an email in which you quoted his previous email. Cheers, Meg On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

I have also have a question: can the Board please explain why they were not aware of this situation until now, and how they became aware of it? This seems like a lot of money and I would like to know how it is that no one noticed the shortfall until we got to this point. It seems like this

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: I'll play devil's advocate here: Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities more directly beneficial to its future than OPW? I think a better approach might be: how can we motivate

Re: New challenge

Hi Karen, Thanks for all of your great work and strong leadership as director! I wish you the best of luck in your new position! I'm very glad to hear that you will still be around and am excited that we may be seeing you in a different leadership role in the future. Meg Ford On Mon, Mar 31

Re: Hello from a new member

Hi Yosef, Welcome, and thanks for translating gnome-sound-recorder for me! Meg Ford On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Michael Hill mdhil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Yosef Or Boczko yosef...@gmail.com wrote: I am Yosef Or Boczko, 16 y.o resides in Kokhav Ya'akov

Re: Technical and legal aspects of pitivi's crowdfunding campaign.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Have there been any thoughts about a third option: actually having the Foundation hire the people? There are probably several downsides (in terms of costs; in terms of legal paperwork, as I understand that this is about

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 11/21/2013 05:03 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: I had no idea there was even an engagement list. Was it announced on this list? Why was a redirect put in place? It comes off as very aggressive. Why not have a

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

-Visual Identity. Meg Ford [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Presentations ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? [1]http://forums.worldofgnome.org/ On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:18 AM, James purplei...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:08 +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote:

Re: ask.gnome.org for developers

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 08:25 -0500, meg ford wrote: We have the non-official GNOME Forums already[1]. Hosting something else ourselves seems like a waste. Am I missing something? [1]http

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

Hi Philip, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 17:06 -0500, meg ford wrote: Hey Meg, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

Hi Philip, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 08:55 -0500, meg ford wrote: Hi Meg, In general when people use the term PC in the US, they are talking about being adopting extra careful/ newly coined language. That's

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

Hi Bastien, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 16:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 10 May 2013 15:55, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: I've never heard the word gimp used as a slur against handicapped people If it

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

is. Changing its name could have pretty negative consequences for their project I would imagine (due to reduced name recognition), even though the acronym is unfortunate and offensive. Meg Ford I was just pointing out that, although the proposed change can be put into effect without much further

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

it is to not use the term gimp. The US, where I live, has pretty strong free speech laws, but people don't use this term because it's too offensive. So I think this is kind of an I18n issue. Meg Ford The proposal is to make irc.gnome.org be an DNS A record and we will continue to honor irc.gimpnet.org

Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

to have this name in our infrastructure. 100% agreed; gimp is a slur and it's embarrassing to mention it when helping new people get into GNOME. I agree. It's a slur, and we'd be better off with a different name. Meg Ford The proposal is to make irc.gnome.org be an DNS A record and we

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into applying for a future year. We are in the middle of the US, and have a major international airport, so it might be a nice option. Meg On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Jared L Jennings jaredljenni...@gmail.com wrote: +1

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Jared L Jennings jaredljenni...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if i can go, but I think this is a very valid point. While, Portland, the city sounds great and I think would be awesome. Chicago or Dallas, would likely be cheaper flight costs. True, but there

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

+1 for Portland. Meg Ford On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If people want to take my suggestion seriously I will make a bid. There are a lot of places that provide hacker areas

Re: Is it really possible to hijack a topic?

judge yourself to be changing the topic. Indeed, this applies to all of us on the list. I was aware that you have different habits when it comes to email so I thought I would comment based on how my client sorts the messages. Meg Ford -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation

Re: Setting moderation bit for members who consistently hijack topics

is interested in the subject. I think it would make a big difference if you did this. Then people who are interested in hearing your thoughts can read and respond to them and the main topic can also continue. Meg Ford ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

for focusing *only* on the fact that we are, well, *dropping fallback mode?* * * Meg Ford That's pretty much what was happening. People read the headline and then think GNOME is getting rid of features and then start grumbling again. The whole GNOME is removing stuff is a widespread meme

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

. Meg Ford and used a blog post by a troll to make false assertions about GTK+ 3.x's API stability. You might want to vouch for your community managers before you let them loose... ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

to the public, I think we need to at least have the board members agreeing on the basic message. I hope this doesn't offend anyone; I'm just saying this because, as a member of the foundation, I would really appreciate it if the board members could present a united front. Meg Ford The end goal

Re: US Members

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org wrote: Le vendredi 03 août 2012, à 14:05 -0700, Luis Villa a écrit : Didn't we have a map of member locations at some point? Or was that just p.g.o blogs? https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide Not sure if the map is still being

Re: Boston Summit?

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.comwrote: I'm also considering going to Grace Hopper, especially if the panel proposal I'm a part of gets accepted. The speaker notifications for Grace Hopper will happen May 17th. I know there might be just a few of us for