Re: Research groups and the GNOME project

2006-11-14 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:20 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:44 +, Alvaro del Castillo wrote: Right now I am working in the University Rey Juan Carlos and we are working hard researching how free software is developed. By the way, I can vouch for the

Re: Research groups and the GNOME project

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Horkan
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Juha Siltala wrote: On 11/13/06, Alvaro del Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Mailing list archives These are available also, although the search has been broken for quite some time now :( I long since gave up on the search and instead use google as follows:

Re: Research groups and the GNOME project

2006-11-14 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Alan Horkan wrote: - Mailing list archives These are available also, although the search has been broken for quite some time now :( I long since gave up on the search and instead use google as follows: site:mail.gnome.org listname otherkeywords but you probably already know that ...

Potential candidates to the board

2006-11-14 Thread Quim Gil
Responses from the 7 persons I had invited to run for election: - Busy / Short of time but thinking seriously on becoming candidate. - Already invited to be part of the release team, better not combine both responsibilities. - Getting top involvement in GNOME local group, better not to combine

GNOME Day at Chile

2006-11-14 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
Hi folks, i just must to say thanks to the Board and the Foundation for the support to GNOME Day in Chile. It was a very good experience for our local team, with more than 200 attendants. We could give in trivias and lotery the stuff that we get in GUADEC (Shirts and bags). Also we could have

Re: [Fwd: [gnome-nl] promotion of gnome]

2006-11-14 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:52 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: Dear Foundation, In forward I send you a note from T-Dose organiser Jeroen Baten. T-Dose seems like intended to become for the Netherlands what FOSDEM more or less is for Belgium (but then with a call for papers and other nuance

Re: Research groups and the GNOME project

2006-11-14 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 21:20 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:44 +, Alvaro del Castillo wrote: Right now I am working in the University Rey Juan Carlos and we are working hard researching how free software is developed. By the way, I can vouch for the

Candidacy :: Glynn Foster

2006-11-14 Thread Glynn Foster
Name: Glynn Foster Nicks: Gman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corporate Affiliation: Sun Microsystems Background: I've been working for the Sun desktop group and involved in GNOME for the past 6 years. I've been a past Foundation board member during 2002 and 2003. My focus has generally been on

Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO

2006-11-14 Thread Andrew Sobala
Quim Gil wrote: Again, the bottom line should be that a GNOME member shouldn't stop from running for election because of money. A potential candidate is having precisely this concern now, this is why I'm insisting. PS: The solution might be as simple as calling the board member(s) needing

Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO

2006-11-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:19 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: This sounds as a strong argument. I wonder if we could get a general agreement on the fact that board members could request refund of these calls. I don't see why not. The Foundation can definitely do this; it's peanuts compared to what we

Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO

2006-11-14 Thread Glynn Foster
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:19 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: This sounds as a strong argument. I wonder if we could get a general agreement on the fact that board members could request refund of these calls. I don't see why not. The Foundation can definitely do this;

Re: Board Member Application Mini-HOWTO

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan Blandford
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 00:19 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: This sounds as a strong argument. I wonder if we could get a general agreement on the fact that board members could request refund of these calls. We totally can. I don't think anyone asked this year. Or if they did, they didn't ask