Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Fabiana Simões
Hi everyone, I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and accountability on the Board. How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What should be communicated and when? Do you think we have been transparent enough in the last term? If not, how can we

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-25 Thread Alexandre Franke
Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: As part of the GNOME Trademark Fundraiser [1], the Foundation raised $102 608 USD. Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was withdrawn, it was never taken to court and the money was never spent

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Hi, I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and accountability on the Board. How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What should be communicated

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice to have a place to sum up the activities of the board. I'm not sure yet which form it would take, but it could be a wiki page per term, or a quarterly report… I also hear the board has been

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, Hi, Many free software organizations have adopted codes of conduct for their events [1] and some for their communities [2]. Detailed codes of conduct with specific enforcement guidelines signal to

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Carlos Soriano Sanchez
Hi Marina, I think we all agree we want a welcome community, and that means searching for the commune divisor and not allowing anything outside that. As far as I saw, all the previous answer from the candidates share the same opinion. I would actually like to have a code of conduct for every

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-25 Thread Carlos Soriano Sanchez
Hi Andreas, One of the things is an ED, I think everyone agrees here... On the other hand, I have specific items in mind, but I really don't know the drawbacks of them, since I don't know why we didn't do it before. So it needs discussion. I think we have to fix the where is the money I gave

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Carlos Soriano Sanchez
Hi Fabiana, - Original Message - | | | Hi everyone, | | I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and | accountability on the Board. | | How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What I think the transparency should be complete. Since

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-05-25 12:39 GMT+02:00 Fabiana Simões fabianapsim...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, Hey Fabiana! How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What should be communicated and when? Do you think we have been transparent enough in the last term? If not, how can we improve

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 05:15:29PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I suggest

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-25 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-05-24 19:23 GMT+02:00 Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se: Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was withdrawn, it was never taken to court and the money was never spent on that. What, in your mind, is the best use of these funds now? Kept as a War Chest [2] or spent

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-05-23 17:41 GMT+02:00 Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com: What do you think about adopting a detailed code of conduct, similar to the one used for GUADEC 2014 [3], for all GNOME events and creating a similarly detailed code of conduct for the GNOME community? Having a final

Re: More questions for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Andrea Veri
2015-05-21 23:25 GMT+02:00 Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org: Have you ever done any fundraising? I took an active part on the GNOME vs Groupon's fundraising campaign the GNOME Foundation launched the past year. Are you comfortable asking sponsors for money? Yes as in making sure the sponsors do

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:39:50PM +0200, Fabiana Simões wrote: I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and accountability on the Board. How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What should be communicated and when? Do you think we have been

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events and in general. And thank you for raising this issue. Some searching turned up

Re: Question to candidates: Best use of Trademark Fundraiser money?

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:23:01PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: As part of the GNOME Trademark Fundraiser [1], the Foundation raised $102 608 USD. Since the trademark claims from the other part in the issue was withdrawn, it was never taken to court and the money was never spent on that.

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Magdalen Berns
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:06:49AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: I'm entirely in favor of an improved code of conduct, both for events and in general.

Question to the candidates.

2015-05-25 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
Hi: First, thanks to all of you for running as directors. Currently, GNOME is a strong platform for development, but it's lacking integration and features to be a complete, fully integrated desktop environment like Mac OS X, for instance. My question is: What plans do you have to make GNOME a

Re: code of conduct question for Board candidates

2015-05-25 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:34:14AM +0100, Magdalen Berns wrote: OK in light of these responses, I feel I should maybe better clarify that whilst I agree this sort of stance may be a fair way to moderated communications with non-members, I do not agree with expelling card carrying members from

Re: Question for candidates: transparency and accountability

2015-05-25 Thread Magdalen Berns
Hi Fabiana, Great question, thanks! Response inline: I'd like to hear your thoughts on implementing transparency and accountability on the Board. How transparent the work of the Board should be to Foundation members? What should be communicated and when? I think it is appropriate the board

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a complete desktop?)

2015-05-25 Thread Jeff Fortin Tam
Hi Erick, This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. Unless you clearly define what you mean by complete, fully integrated desktop environment… as everyone is going to have a different opinion on

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a complete desktop?)

2015-05-25 Thread Erick Pérez Castellanos
There's some comments inline. On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Jeff Fortin Tam nekoh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erick, This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. I'm not asking you to be

Question on community to the candidates.

2015-05-25 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
It is my impression (and I state impression because I am providing no data) that GNOME has more reliance on people paid to work on GNOME than community. I do not question the passion and dedication to those who are paid on GNOME, I know that they would do it as a community even if they were not