Re: Concerns about the election process

2006-11-27 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Sun, 2006-26-11 at 20:18 -0600, Gabriel Burt wrote: On 11/26/06, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What he's saying is that, suppose you voted for me, Quim, Federico, Dave, Bastien, Luis, and Jeff, and were given the anonymous token 0bhnyOzwLJ05jYV2phjusfe0jBYO3HZf. How do you

Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Lortie
name: Ryan Lortie nick: desrt affiliation: Codethink Limited I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming election for the board of directors. (( me )) I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more than half a decade. I started in some rather user

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
[removing foundation-announce from the cc:] hi Allan, On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but I'd like to hear some specifics before I cast my

Re: Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

2011-05-23 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Philip, (keeping in mind that creating a technical board is very much an open question) On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 19:48 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: - Will all foundation members get a single vote? That was indeed my intention. I think your other proposals are too difficult to implement and

Re: Candidates question: Contributor agreement

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Olav, On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 12:01 +0200, 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?

Re: Questions for all board candidates

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Jeff, On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings in the open via IRC (such as Fedora's FESCO I believe). Would you consider that, and if not, what about recording how board members vote on a given topic. This

Re: question for candidates

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi Andy, On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:10 -0700, 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

Boston Summit: We're going to Montréal!

2011-09-07 Thread Ryan Lortie
, respectively. Look forward to seeing you all there! -- Ryan Lortie (on behalf of the board of directors) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Mission Statement

2014-08-07 Thread Ryan Lortie
hi meg, On Thu, Aug 7, 2014, at 11:18, meg ford wrote: I don't think it's relevant. GSoC is also outside of the mission statement, though as I said before I think there are allusions to outreach in the Charter. I think the discussion should focus on what is relevant, which is how the

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Ryan Lortie

2015-05-18 Thread Ryan Lortie
karaj, I am announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. If elected, this would be my second time on the board. I have been a GNOME developer during many years, mostly on lower-level things. I am currently affiliated with Canonical where I am in the desktop team, mostly in context of