I admit, I was hoping for a different reaction to this announcement. So
far I have had 4 replies, all critical of some aspect of the report.
Doesn't anyone think it's cool that we finally got something like this
(and all of the other user group stuff) done?
Dave,
It is a very nice report! It
I am more concerned about big posters, posting almost everyday some
long text and for who I have never seen any GNOME related post, and
who I never read anything from them except their blog on planet
(should I really give names ?).
People complain about the number of posts everyday and the
Hi all,
What ever happened to gnome bounties? I've only followed this list for a
year, but I see from the archives that there have been a variety of
controversies about them - but nothing really definitive.
I think it would be useful to do some like:
1) Allow someone trusted (with commit
Jeff Waugh wrote:
We've had some success and some failures, but ultimately it required quite a
lot of infrastructure and time to get it right, but hadn't really delivered
on expectations. There are also ongoing concerns about how the introduction
of financial incentives will affect volunteer
Richard Stallman wrote:
I think that one requisite of a good board member is a visible
commitment to the goal of a world in which software is free.
I think the Gnome Foundation could make heavier emphasis on free and
open data / file formats too, as a marketing tool (and mission statement
I'm sure alot of us myself included would like to spend more time working on
free software if we could only afford it...
I guess my original suggestion for a more formal bounty system would be
doomed to fail (too complicated, not in the free spirit) - but perhaps
there could be an lgo page
Posting 'a beer at
next Guadec for whoever fixes bug #7' is informal enough that I think
we avoid the main issue which is the alienation of volunteers,
however, it doesn't really address the big issue which is how can
users donate and drive development of a feature they desire?
I'm more
Has http://live.gnome.org/Academic gotten stuck?
Has the promised mailing list happened?
Can I help?
The thread on this list seemed to die out in August with no further action.
- Mike
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Fernando San MartÃn Woerner wrote:
I'm working with a French professor doing a computer science course and
using GNOME as a basis for the projects. Also, David Bolter put me in
contact with a professor who's interested in having students do some
GNOME-related projects. There's also a group of
Jeff Waugh wrote:
There were some problems creating mailing lists around that time. I'll do it
for you immediately.
Thanks Jeff! The new list is available here:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/academia-list
- Mike
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My thanks to whoever arranged for gnome's participation in ghop! It was
great as a coding exercise, and great as a PR/outreach exercise.
I found it extremely valuable for roping in contributions to gthumb, to
implement features that were beyond my areas of expertise (e.g., calling
exiv2's C++
Olav Vitters wrote:
I find it a bit strange to have the Foundation pay for something like
this. If you don't like GNOME, then you get money. If you do, then you
should work for free?
Same for e.g. non-sexy (gnome-love/GHOP) bugs. Someone should still pay
attention to those.
...
No objection
Hi all,
One of the issues forcing me to keep a few MS Windows computer around in
my company are government services relying on Windows-only software,
like this example:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/exports/download.htm
My company is required to report all exports to non-US destinations
Liam R E Quin wrote:
Some arguments that go down well are
* the need to archive
* the need for accessibility
* the need to repurpose information (e.g. print, Web, search...)
* the need to control costs
* the need to have control over core technology, to use trusted software
* the need to
Richard Stallman wrote:
Is the question really Why the government should not require the
public to be a Microsoft customer in order to deal with their
government? Presenting it that way would make a stronger point.
Yes, thank you, that is better! I've updated the wiki.
- Mike
So if you can think of a topic that would be suitable for a hackfest,
please talk about it with a few people and share your idea.
I'd like to suggest one possible topic: The pixbuf loaders. They're slow
and memory intensive, and this drags down anything that needs thumbnails
(Nautilus, etc).
As for me, the reason not pushing for Canada is that a GNOME community
in Canada is surprisingly non-existent. Sure, there's you, me, and
desrt. But that's pretty much it.
Not that it changes anything, but I'm in Ottawa...
- Mike
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I would like to see greater financial and administrative transparency. I
...
I want to see seven board members actively communicating, and I want to
...
front, don't fight in public, and publish/announce/... - in short,
broadcast to the membership what they're working on.
My only complaint
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Say, any viewer of p.g.o can vote a post +1 or -1. Then we can gather
two metrics per poster: 1) how impactful his/her posts are (avg / median
/ max number of votes). 2) how interested are readers in his/her posts
(avg / median / min/max score.
We can then have
On 01/25/2010 01:44 PM, Og Maciel wrote:
get more feedback and constructive criticism. I'd love to see
milestones related to getting localization and accessibility teams on
the roadmap for 2010 and holding sprints/what-not with members of
these teams to see how to make GNOME more accessible to
On 02/24/2010 01:05 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Software freedom is a means to furthering our vision of providing
technology to all, regardless of means, physical and technical
capability or culture.
Freedom can lead to more available technology, but it is vital in its
own right.
Board meeting. The board met. The minutes will come out soon. Brian's
doing a great job of taking minutes and making sure we all track and
update our action items.
+1, thanks for the regular stream of minutes!
- Mike
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- What additional things can the GNOME Foundation community do to
help ensure that GNOME 3 is a success?
I tested the version of gnome-shell in F13, and I thought it was really
amazing and useful - except for the absence of applets (or gizmos, or
whatever the nom de jour is). I can't seem to
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