As a member of membership committee I can honestly say that Vincent's
instant leaving membership committee would end up problems with
elections as well. That must be the real reason that kept him in
committee still.
Even though we have experienced some as members in past, other members
of
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2005 elections.
We're sorry for being late on this announcement. However we decided to keep
old schedule unless threre happens to be a technical obstacle for the rest
of
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 06:49 -0700, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
On Mon, 2005-28-11 at 10:32 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote:
2005 Fall Board of Directors Election voting period is started on
November 27th. Ballots have been sent to foundation members. Voting
instructions are written in the mails you
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:48 -0500, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
Well that's totally against the spirit of voting. Current counts may
change people's idea and might get them affected and they would vote
strategically instead of on their own free will.
I'm sure that a large percentage of
Hi all;
Murray asked on membership-committee list if we should ask to
prospective members these questions, which are optional to answer:
gender, to track lack of female involvement;
nationality, to track lack of Asian involvement;
And one more can be:
public key, we can encrypt ballots in
I wanted to put my 2 cents on this women involvement issue.
Actually women in proprietary software market have a good motivation
like earning money from what they do. But in free software world, they
hardly have this motivation, and most of time it's volunteer work.
I doubt that female
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:09 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:57 +0300, Baris Cicek wrote:
I wanted to put my 2 cents on this women involvement issue.
Actually women in proprietary software market have a good motivation
like earning money from what they do
Actually, it should be someone who is able to detect possible obstacles
that put Asians or Women out of GNOME (or in general Free Software). I
doubt that anyone have any emprical study about that. But is it harsh
and rude behavior of developers or the community? Or technical limits?
Or even
That might be a little technical and maybe out of this discussion
boundaries but, why instead of making IE run over wine, you use more
than necessary non-free software? (ie. Windows, VMWARE). I bet are
already paid, but I use wine for IE related stuff, and it just works.
Besides, I find Linux (or
Hi;
Today Behdad asked about why private list like membership-committee
mailing list is public.
We're using this list for asking information about applications, and
even though vast majority of the responses are positive, there can be
negative ones as well.
For that reason, it's not good to
Seems like consensus for this topic is to keep list public.
Thank you all for your comments.
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:34 +0200, David Neary wrote:
Hi,
Baris Cicek wrote:
Today Behdad asked about why private list like membership-committee
mailing list is public.
We're using
Here's the draft schedule for 2006 Board of Directors election of GNOME
Foundation. If nobody oppose the timeline with a valid reason, it will
be announced as official schedule on 1st of November, 2006.
Gnome Foundation Membership Committee
--
Who can vote?
-
To be able to vote,
We need to code a small script doing that for new membership system.
After fixing timeline, Membership Committee will inform expired members
to renew their membership before renewal deadline.
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:27 +, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:18 +0200, Baris Cicek
To be honest, someone hired for the GNOME Foundation Administrator
position should be first selected from Board members. I would suggest
putting other candidates second priority about this, if they don't have
some extra experience overcoming this.
The reason why is, firstly Board members are
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2006 elections.
You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the
calendar of the elections below.
Official list of candidates
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:14 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
I'm not sure if these questions are closely related to board
responsibilities, but anyway. It's probably good to know what candidates
think about colateral aspects as well.
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:23 +, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
To
Dear Foundation Members;
New set of ballots for those renewed after voting start sent yesterday.
84 people renewed their membership last week and all of them (including
members who has changed their e-mail addresses last week) should have
recevied their ballots and can vote before 16st of
Dear Members;
Tomorrow (December 16th, 2006) is the last day to vote for
Board Of Directors 2006 Fall election.
Please don't forget to vote before 23:59 UTC.
In order to vote, please go to:
http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/
Preliminary results will be announced on December 17th.
If you
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.
We strongly encourage everyone to check content of his/her vote via this
address using the token you have taken:
Hi,
The challenge period has ended. And it is time to officially declare the
*Results for the 2006 Fall Board of Directors Election*
Here goes:
Quim Gil
Dave Neary
Jeff Waugh
Glynn Foster
Vincent Untz
Anne Østergaard
Behdad Esfahbod
The results can be found at
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 05:31 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Mariano, thanks for bringing this issue forward.
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:08 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
[snip]
My candidate program was focused on internal board/Foundation
improvements, and this is what I will try
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:05 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 05 février 2007, à 05:31, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez a écrit :
One thing that appears to need improvement is the handling of foundation
membership applications.
...
However, things have been getting much
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 07:04 -0700, Elliot Lee wrote:
Baris Cicek wrote:
I'll talk w/ our local GUG about if we can organize to host GUADEC next
year in Istanbul.
Not Constantinople?
It was called Constantinople ages ago, afaik, but however you call it,
as long as we point same land
Lastly, we need to stop being hostile to people trying to help. I
offered to help with the foundation membership and was rebuffed and
now you just rebuffed Diego.
I doubt that you (or anyone indeed) rebuffed. On the conrary, I remember
even committee was positive about your volunteering.
GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee
Announcement of Change to Bylaws Referendum
Relevant information regarding discussions on this referendum can be
read at the following URLs:
Retraction of Referendum Notification in Favor of Board's Vote
Proposal
As Jeff Waugh informed Membership and Elections Committee, we don't have
referendum described in bylaws. Thus, we just have vote.
In order to prevent any kind
Hi all,
We have just sent the ballots for the membership vote. Every member who can
vote for the membership vote should have received an e-mail with instructions
explaining how to vote.
If you have not received your ballot, please first verify that you are
eligible to vote by looking at the list
Hi,
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is looking for
new members. If you think you may be interested in volunteering, read
on
What does the Membership Committee do?
--
The main tasks are:
* process membership applications
* maintain the
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to
Bylaws.
We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify
their vote.
These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
[EMAIL
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce that the result for membership vote regarding change to bylaws
are now official. By-laws[1] on foundation web site will be replaced
with amendment soon.
No challenge has been sent to the Committee since the
Who can vote?
-
To be able to vote, you need to be a member of the GNOME Foundation and
your membership needs to be valid at least until the end of the
elections. For example, a member whose membership ends on November 30th
2007 won't be able to vote for the elections. A notification
] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As of today, there's no candidacy announcement sent to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
Regards,
Baris Cicek
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On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 18:31 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote:
Could someone confirm the dates for GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul?
Unfortunately, exact dates are not certain yet, we're trying to fix the
date as soon as possible, all I can say is that it'll be most probably
in July. I'll announce the dates as
The GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the final list of candidates running for the 2007 elections.
You will find the list of candidates, the invalid nominations and the
calendar of the elections below.
Official list of candidates
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote:
On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as
in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story comments.
I've been posted to
that's why waiting most tickets
is better way.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards,
Baris Cicek
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:35 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
Hello,
Le lundi 26 novembre 2007 à 00:43 +0200, Baris Cicek a écrit :
Hi all,
We have just sent the ballots for the elections. Every
Hi,
The challenge period has ended. And it is time to officially declare the
*Results for the 2007 Fall Board of Directors Election*
Here goes:
Brian Cameron
Behdad Esfahbod
John (J5) Palmieri
Lucas Rocha
Vincent Untz
Luis Villa
Jeff
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 14:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 18:28 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
Hi,
On sam, 2007-12-29 at 00:35 +, Baris Cicek wrote:
Currently we're using Drupal as CMS on guadec.org. Although it is
convenient if you want to use web page
GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open!
Please visit: https://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/register
in order to register for GUADEC 2008.
Payments will be handled by PayPal this year as well. You can pay
directly using the guadec.org web page.
Registration fees are same as last
Name:Baris Cicek
Email: bci...@gnome.org
Nick:baris
Affiliation: Nerd Software
Bio
I'm 27 years old, and contributing GNOME since early 2000s. I've been
taking role of GNOME Turkish translation coordinator since 2004, and in
past served community at GNOME Membership
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