Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

On 11/19/2012 08:57 AM, Stéphane Raimbault wrote: If we need a marketing director to convince people to use GNOME, we failed. This is a cute statement, but is it really true? The people that could most benefit from our choice to build a simple to use system are those that are least likely to

Re: GNOME support for fixmydocument.eu

On 02/04/2015 06:28 AM, Inge Wallin wrote: As a great proponent of ODF, I think it would be interesting to know what Gnome actually does for ODF? I mean aside thinking that it's a good idea in general... If I'm not mistaken, both AbiWord and Gnumeric support ODFs. Gnumeric is actually

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

On 02/04/2015 08:25 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I'm not sure what it rhymes with but that caught my eye as well. The current name might be more effective. Let's not trivialize this into a discussion of a name. Good luck with the move Marina, Karen, and others. Let me know if I can help with

Re: foundation application..

On 02/12/2015 07:33 PM, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: I think you bring up an interesting point, but I also like the idea that foundation membership is not a badge you earn if you contribute enough, but hints to a deeper involvement with the community inner workings. I argue that a 3-months

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

On 01/05/2015 03:44 PM, Magdalen Berns wrote: To elaborate on the point about fundraisers a little further: Also though I have to wonder whether future fundraisers could maybe be handled in the same way as the groupon fundraiser was managed. http://www.gnome.org/groupon/ since that did not

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

On 01/06/2015 02:54 PM, Magdalen Berns wrote: The stigma related to bitcoin is just the media doing their thing to try and discredit it, in my humble view. A lot of people do not buy into that stuff. With that said, it is reasonable for anyone to be uncomfortable with something and not be made

Re: Linking to non-free websites from gnome.org

On 01/03/2015 07:48 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: That's because the several crowdfunding sites I had investigated all had the same unethical practice of requiring donors to run nonfree software. There was not one that we could use without contradicting the principles of the free software

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Christian Hergert

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Name .. : Christian Hergert Email . : cherg...@gnome.org Affiliation : No Affiliation Foundation Members, Over the years, I have watched our Board of Directors knowing that someday I wanted to contribute on that level. This past year has

Re: More questions for Board candidates

Hi, On 05/21/2015 02:25 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has been said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board have a diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to answer yes on these, but I think

Re: Looking for speakers for hacknight in Gothenburg on Aug 11th

On 07/20/2015 12:41 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I would love to see this happen. I wonder if I can volunteer people. :-) I can also present on their behalf as well. But I would like someone to talk about: 1) xdg-app 2) changes in GTK+ - maybe the CSS 3) gnome-builder I'll probably be

Affiliation change and stepping down

Friends, It is with both a sad heart and great excitement for the future that I'm notifying you of my decision to step down from the GNOME Board of Directors. As of Oct 5th, I will be a RedHat employee. There are already two wonderful board members who are also employed at RedHat (our limit

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

On 12/24/2015 11:17 AM, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm really interested in participating but circumstances prevent me from > attending in person. I just signed up as the first remote participant. > My purpose with this e-mail is to encourage other remotees to sign up; > and to ask for

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

On 12/27/2015 07:57 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > Google Hangouts requires nonfree software. Please don't ask people to > run a nonfree program in order to view something. > > It is easy to do streaming with free software, in a way that lets > everyone watch with free software, and I know people

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

On 12/29/2015 10:14 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > We don't know how similar or dissimilar they are, but you can find out > quickly by writing to Mallory Knodel . I did contact her yesterday and the answer was jitsi. It seems reasonable, but I haven't had a chance to test it

Re: GNOME 3.26 Release Parties

On 09/15/2017 02:07 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: 2. Would you like to check whether a person can use Transferwise without the person's running nonfree software? I am concerned that its web site may send nonfree software to the user's browder and require the user to run it. It's difficult and

Re: New GNOME Foundation employee - GTK+ Core Developer

On 12/2/18 9:51 AM, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome in this new role! I couldn't be more happy to hear this news! Congrats Emmanuele, it's well deserved! -- Christian ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: New GNOME Foundation & Emeritus Members

On 9/1/20 9:12 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation! 1. Samson Goddy (GNOME African Engagement Team) 2. Onuoha Maryann Chiamaka (GNOME African Engagement Team) 3. Alex Angelou (GNOME Engagement via