Re: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Ryan Lortie

2015-05-21 Thread Philip Van Hoof
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ryan, If any, in what direction would you change gnome after being elected? Kind regards, Philip On 18/05/2015 22:43, Ryan Lortie wrote: > karaj, > > I am announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. > > If elected, this would be my sec

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Ryan Lortie

2015-05-18 Thread Ryan Lortie
karaj, I am announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. If elected, this would be my second time on the board. I have been a GNOME developer during many years, mostly on lower-level things. I am currently affiliated with Canonical where I am in the desktop team, mostly in context of wor

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
It is wise to leave most technical decisions to the people who will do the technical work, but this is not a rule, just a good default. These people will generally try to decide based on the practical usefulness and popularity of the one project they are working on. For most questions, that's the r

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Lionel Dricot
Le dimanche 22 mai 2011 à 20:00 -0400, Ryan Lortie a écrit : > name: Ryan Lortie > nick: desrt > affiliation: Codethink Limited > > I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming > election for the board of directors. [snip] Isn't your candidacy just a att

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Andrew, On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 17:16 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote: > Oracle unilaterally announced a new governing board mandating 3/5 of > whom had nothing to do with the project and/or were from companies not > contributing to the project. And then they started making technical > pronouncements

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Allan Day
Thanks for the responses, Ryan. Ryan Lortie wrote: > [removing foundation-announce from the cc:] > > hi Allan, > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nic

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-24 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:39 -0400, john palmieri wrote: > I appreciate that we are talking about the technical board as an "open > question" but I fear it could be used as a political tool to override > the decision making process that already exists in the meritocracy. > By giving a board this pow

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ryan, Thanks for your answers. They were thoughtful, as you are. On Mon 23 May 2011 22:38, Ryan Lortie writes: > More generally, though, during the last cycle I've heard a lot of talk > from many different people about many decisions that seemed to be made > in an opaque way. The removal o

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Andy, On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 20:58 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: > > For a while the foundation board has largely taken a hands-off approach > > when it comes to technical decisions. In my opinion this has allowed a > > number of problems to develop. > > Can you mention some examples? The most pr

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Ryan, On Mon 23 May 2011 02:00, Ryan Lortie writes: > For a while the foundation board has largely taken a hands-off approach > when it comes to technical decisions. In my opinion this has allowed a > number of problems to develop. Can you mention some examples? > I believe, however, that

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread john palmieri
I appreciate that we are talking about the technical board as an "open question" but I fear it could be used as a political tool to override the decision making process that already exists in the meritocracy. By giving a board this power you basically allow people who may not even be active in vari

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 13:51 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > hi Philip, > > (keeping in mind that creating a technical board is very much an open > question) > > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 19:48 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > - Will all foundation members get a single vote? > > That was indeed my inte

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 11:00 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but > > I'd like to hear some specifics before I ca

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Philip, (keeping in mind that creating a technical board is very much an open question) On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 19:48 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > - Will all foundation members get a single vote? That was indeed my intention. I think your other proposals are too difficult to implement and

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
[removing foundation-announce from the cc:] hi Allan, On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but > I'd like to hear some specifics before I cast my

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > That said, some questions: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but > I'd like to hear some specifics before I cast my vote. ;) > > * If you

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Allan Day
Hi Ryan, Ryan Lortie wrote: > name: Ryan Lortie > nick: desrt > affiliation: Codethink Limited > > I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming > election for the board of directors. > > > (( me )) > > I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more

Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Lortie
name: Ryan Lortie nick: desrt affiliation: Codethink Limited I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming election for the board of directors. (( me )) I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more than half a decade. I started in some rather user-