Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 08:16 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012, à 02:03 +0100, Tobias Mueller a écrit : Bonjour Vincent :-) Thanks a lot for your valuable input! On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some working groups Do you have more details on that? Like when about that was and how that happened? There was some discussion in January 2006 about the SVG working group, for instance. We got someone from Inkscape invited as an expert in this WG. That's probably the part I remember. I also know that Daniel Veillard is (or at least was, at that time) an invited expert for the XML working group. Daniel is officially Red Hat's representative on the XML Core Working Group. Of course, that doesn't mean he can't also bring GNOME's interests to the table. One option is asking advisory board members to put people on working groups who can represent our interests. And perhaps we should just try to get more of our developers on working groups as invited experts. I'm on the MultilingalWeb-LT working group because of my itstool work, for example. But there are benefits to being a member organization. Anyway, it was just a preliminary discussion. We didn't decide one way or the other, and we welcome community feedback. -- Shaun ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012, à 16:57 -0500, Shaun McCance a écrit : On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 08:16 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012, à 02:03 +0100, Tobias Mueller a écrit : On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some working groups Do you have more details on that? Like when about that was and how that happened? There was some discussion in January 2006 about the SVG working group, for instance. We got someone from Inkscape invited as an expert in this WG. That's probably the part I remember. I also know that Daniel Veillard is (or at least was, at that time) an invited expert for the XML working group. Daniel is officially Red Hat's representative on the XML Core Working Group. Of course, that doesn't mean he can't also bring GNOME's interests to the table. One option is asking advisory board members to put people on working groups who can represent our interests. And perhaps we should just try to get more of our developers on working groups as invited experts. I'm on the MultilingalWeb-LT working group because of my itstool work, for example. But there are benefits to being a member organization. Just to be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't become a member organization. I'm simply giving the current board some background, given that the topic was raised several years ago. Back then, it was concluded we didn't need any of the benefits you get when you are a member; things might be different today -- I'm not aware of the context of the current discussion :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
this is the public agenda for the board meeting of November 20th. * GNOME Accessibility FoG project update * The a11y team have a proposal (2 project areas) on how to spend the funds and needs feedback on that. * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards. * Reports - annual report * Progress of the web version of the Annual Report. * Sysadmin position * We have funding allocated for a sysadmin that we didn't use on our last sysadmin. * Marketing director position * On foundation-list, there have been suggestions about us hiring a marketing director in order to coordinate our messaging. * webkitGTK+ hackfest * 4th annual WebKitGTK+ Hackfest. 17 participants for 4 days. * travel committee * GNOME supporter card * We should put together a GNOME supporter card for one of our donors. * Next adboard meeting * GUADEC 2013 and 2014 announcement/press release -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
Le mardi 20 novembre 2012, à 14:44 +, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : * Joining the W3C * Accessibility team have discussed the possibility of GNOME joining the W3C in order to have a stake in the emerging standards. For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some working groups (the invited experts can't vote, though). Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
Bonjour Vincent :-) Thanks a lot for your valuable input! On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some working groups Do you have more details on that? Like when about that was and how that happened? Thanks, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for the board meeting of November 20th, 2012
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2012, à 02:03 +0100, Tobias Mueller a écrit : Bonjour Vincent :-) Thanks a lot for your valuable input! On 20.11.2012 15:59, Vincent Untz wrote: For the record, in the past, what we did instead of formally joining the W3C is have some people from our community be invited experts to some working groups Do you have more details on that? Like when about that was and how that happened? There was some discussion in January 2006 about the SVG working group, for instance. We got someone from Inkscape invited as an expert in this WG. That's probably the part I remember. I also know that Daniel Veillard is (or at least was, at that time) an invited expert for the XML working group. In general we do know people at the W3C or in the relevant W3C working groups, so we can simply reach out to them to know what's the best way to contribute, and how to do so. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
