GNOME 3.0 Global Launch Party

2010-10-13 Thread Pockey Lam
Dear GNOME friends, The GNOME.Asia committee is working on making a big launch party (which includes a 5 days hackfest) to celebrate, promote and work on the GNOME 3.0 release as part of our effort to promote GNOME in Asia. Potential venues are in India, Indonesia or Hong Kong. If you are a

Invitation to participate in GNOME.Asia survey

2010-10-27 Thread Pockey Lam
ex.php?sid=92495 Thanks for your support in advance! Pockey Lam GNOME.Asia Committee ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: How to open Gnome Malaysia Usergroup

2011-01-19 Thread Pockey Lam
Dear Mohd, It's nice to see you so passionate about FOSS and GNOME! You can find a lot of useful information about how to start and run a local GNOME community at http://live.gnome.org/UserGroups As Brian mentioned, gugmasters and GNOME.Asia groups [1] are the right places for you to contact

Re: How to open Gnome Malaysia Usergroup

2011-01-25 Thread Pockey Lam
Dear Mohd, we are looking forward to hearing more good news about the GNOME Malaysia UserGroup. As you know that GNOME 3.0 is coming, one way to attract more members to join the group is to organize a GNOME event: launch party. Besides, the GNOME Foundation is giving out goodies to those who

Re: Official announcement and invitation to GNOME 3.0 Hackfest and GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

2011-02-01 Thread Pockey Lam
Thanks for supporting the event :) Would you please fill your names at http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011 It would be nice if you could give a presentation during the conference on April 2nd to inspire local developers and students to know more and contribute to GNOME in different

Re: Customization of Gnome Fund Contribution to Country levels

2011-04-06 Thread Pockey Lam
Hi Zenwalker, We distributed tshirts to some volunteers and speakers :) to thank them for their supports to the event. We distributed 80 tshirts in total. While we got 20 participants donated 800 rs, and we gave away 20 tshirts in total as gifts :-) A big thank you to those who donated (inclu

Re: [question to candidates] GNOME OS

2011-05-25 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/25/2011 02:24 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: Hello all, GNOME OS has been mentioned and questioned repeatedly in recent discussions on desktop-devel-list, about its definition itself[1], and the changing (or not?) role of the GNOME project with regards to distributions (based or not on the Lin

Re: Fwd: Question for the canditates

2011-05-25 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 01:49 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: I'd like to ask two questions of all the candidates please: 1) As GNOME has matured the number of officially supported language bindings has decreased. The quality and availability of various language communities own bindings has varied wildly to say th

Re: question for candidates

2011-05-25 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 02:10 AM, Andy Tai wrote: As Fedora is the only current GNU/Linux distribution adapting GNOME 3.0 as the default desktop, how would you facilitate to make GNOME technologies to work well (meaning minimal local patching needed) on other GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, and such

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-26 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 08:43 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you plan on spending that time? 2.) Other open sour

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/26/2011 06:01 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: Given that we already have a policy on copyright assignments[1], I wondered what is your position regarding contributor agreements[2]? Should the board do something with contributor agreements and if so, what should be done? I also think that the curr

Re: Two Questions for the Board Candidates

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/27/2011 01:38 AM, Lefty wrote: First: Since the issue of "divisive attitude[s] such as Richard sometimes seems to [promote?] when he talks about 'GNU/Linux'" came up, I'd be interested to know what, if anything, candidates for the Board propose to do to address the ongoing waste of time an

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/27/2011 06:27 AM, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the hardware/administration/

Re: Question for candidates

2011-05-28 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/28/2011 04:34 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: I'd like to ask the candidates this question: * What do you think GNOME should do to help promote the ideals of free software, beyond being composed of free programs. I agree with Andre that successful promotion of Free Software goes through maki

Re: Questions for candidates - board processes & significance

2011-05-30 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/30/2011 10:11 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi all, I was away last week travelling, so I'm coming late to the election campaign. I have almost decided who I would like to vote for, but there are still a few things which are important to me when considering a prospective board member. 1. If elect

GNOME.Asia Summit 2012 Call for hosts

2011-05-31 Thread Pockey Lam
-asia-committee-list gnome org if you have any questions. Please help to spread the words and we are looking forward to hearing from you soon! GNOME.Asia Committee Pockey Lam [1] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia/event-organization-checklist [2] http://2011.gnome.asia/about/gnomeasia