Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

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.

Re: GNOME: lack of strategic roadmap

How about a healthy dose of ambition and aim for becoming the best platform of choice, regardless of the freeness? All desktops are aiming for that, free or not. And honestly, most desktops are "good enough". We're already the most free and open platform out there. But we seem embarrassed

Re: On self-moderation and making GNOME a fun project again!

As for the discussion about strategic goals for GNOME: this is indeed an important topic. We apparently need to find a better way to discuss such a complex topic than just an open discussion, though. A solution could be to have someone collect feedback from the community, and then have a group of

Re: Stormy's Update: Week of April 26, 2010

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 ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: Ensuring GNOME 3 is a Success

- 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 p

Re: GNOME annual report

> 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!

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

Vincent Untz wrote: > GNOME resources are of course available to make all this happen: svn, > wiki, mailing lists, website, and many other things. > > Feedback is welcome, and volunteers will be cheered :-) A wiki page with "Ideas for Students" would be great! Perhaps it could list ideas for PhD

Re: Can we improve things?

>> We absolutely *do* have editorial control at the moment. The challenge I > > I wonder if this control in itself is a source of frustration to some > people who've been contributing code to the gnome project and want > to brag about it on planet gnome The planet-web hacking file says the editor

Re: Can we improve things?

> 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

bounties?

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 acces

Re: bounties?

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 voluntee

Re: Who would be a good member? [Was: About the coming election]

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 bu

Re: bounties?

> 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 l

Re: bounties?

> 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

academic cooperation

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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://

Re: academic cooperation

Fernando San Martín 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 gr

Re: academic cooperation - new list up

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 ___ foundation-list maili

Re: bounties?

>> Gnome Miles. :) > > Already there. Called Bugzilla points :). Exactly. I'd rather keep my Bugzilla points than trade them for Gnome socks... That just rewards insiders (not a bad thing...) but it doesn't address the idea of developing a commercial support ecosystem... (Don't get me wrong

ghop

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++ A

Re: ghop

> What we can certainly do is keep a list of such tasks somewhere. > we'd need an easy way to manage this, though. Bugzilla could work, if we > agree on some whiteboard words, I guess. It would be a bit like the > gnome-love bugs. The hard thing is to have people correctly tag the > bugs. Thinking

Re: ghop

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 objec

Windows-only software in government

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 using

Re: Windows-only software in government

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

Re: Windows-only software in government

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 _

Re: Call for hackfest ideas

> 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).

Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009

> 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 ___ foundation-

Re: Call for hackfest ideas

Vincent Untz wrote: > > 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. Maybe this is still too-low-level, but there been lots of talk and no action on a Nautilus dbus api... - Mike _

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

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 w

Re: Stormy's update, week of May 25th.

Stormy Peters wrote: I have been posting my weekly updates on http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/. It was pointed out to me that I should also post them to foundation-list for those that don't read news.gnome.org regularly. So here it is! This stuff is great, Stormy! It

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

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 thres

Re: GNOME Foundation and CEO Goals

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 pe