Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

vid (King) - has there been specific reasons why GNOME contributors from India (and in India) have not been able to get together to make things happen? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ foundation-list mailing list

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >>> Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the >>> 27th of May. >> >> Would it be possible to have this process be public, for example on this >> mailing list or on

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Yes, this is what I was getting at - there should definitely be a > collection, sifting and selection, but it would be IMHO great to have a > public way to gather questions. For example, -- htt

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

2009/5/26 BJörn Lindqvist : > Last year (1.5 years to be exact) people just posted their questions > to foundation-list and most (or all) candidates answered diligently > and dutifully at length. Is a more complicated system needed this > year? A wiki page on live.gnome.org should be a fine way to

Re: Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Last year, right after the candidates list closed, Bruno posted a list of 10 > questions which, presumably, the committee came up with: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-November/msg00153.html > > There was no gathering & fi

Re: Questions for the candidates

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 05/29/2009 01:17 PM, Susana Pereira wrote: > >>  1. For outgoing board members: what have been the upsides/good things > > By "outgoing" I assume "current" is meant here, right?  Not those not > running again. Perhaps incumbent would h

Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

[taking foundation-announce out of the cc: fields] On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: [snippet] >  The main, and most important, reason for not wanting to co-locate > next year is because the GNOME  community needs to focus on GNOME 3.0, > and next year's GUADEC will be t

Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, john palmieri wrote: [snipping out parts of an well thought out response] > To sum it all up - fools rush in.  We really need to take a step back and > really try to understand what we wish to accomplish in another co-located > event given the grand experiment of

Re: GNOME Advisory Board Member Interviews

ed adhering to the best traditions of community-driven translations which are part of GTP. I can either check the cia.vc bot or, the l10n.gnome.org site to confirm this but I am sure that anyone from the GTP team would be able to do that more nicely as well. ~sankarshan -- http://www.gutenbe

Re: Presenting the 2009 Q2 GNOME Quarterly Report

what is coming up in the next quarter (in the perspective of plans) ? I also note that the Translations Project did not have a segment for themselves. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ foundation-list mailing lis

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

define that they have "left the GNOME community" ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

ferent feeds for different > thresholds. Coming back to the starting point - what is the problem to which the solution is being discussed ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

stion was to bring forth the fact that we are discussing solutions of myriad variety without looking at whether it can be solved non-programmatically. Hence, the question. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> Sent from

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 12/09/2009 02:25 AM, sankarshan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Behdad Esfahbod >>  wrote: >> >>>> Coming back to the starting point - what is the problem to which the >>>

Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

ertainly agree to the need to have a Code of Conduct, communities have one, either implicit or, explicit. But, unless there is a clearly delineated process to handle the exceptions, a Code of Conduct is just a document. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _

Re: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum

and transparent might actually help emphasizing the ethos of transparency that GNOME has. Watching two or three folks take a discussion totally off-track is nothing new. It happens all the time. A -private, I feel, isn't the solution. Please don't do this. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <

Results for the 2005 Fall Board of Directors Election

http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=2 The Committee would like to thank all the voters and all the candidates. And to the elected members - congratulations. The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Baris Cicek Albert Mora Sankarshan Mukhopadhay

Questions for the candidates - let's start the discussion(s)

ovide the Board with a focus that steers development choices and works with allied organisations in order to define and adapt (and or adopt) standards ? *** END QUESTIONS *** Let the discussions begin ... Regards Sankarshan -- >From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, >From Darkness, Lead

Re: Regional gatherings ROCK! [Was: GUADEC 2008]

I was thinking more on GUADAC :) note the 'A', although the question does remain to be asked how many of the GNOME folks from EU also get to or like to travel to India :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Østergaard wrote: > Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 > > GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? :Sankarshan

Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008

ttendance fees in order to ensure crowd attendance and also meet the objective of herding the cats etc etc :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

[Fwd: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007]

that way too), please do address your responses to the gnome-in-list. Regards Sankarshan - Original Message Subject: [GNOME-India] Draft of a proposal for GNOME Project Day at foss.in 2007 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:58:50 +0530 From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: noooxml petition

were not consulted on the OOXML issue." :Sankarshan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: About the coming election

ght be to keep a note of such people. They would go a long way in making the Foundation and the Board efficient, effective and energetic. :Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - htt

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: > Above all else, I hope you vote for people you know and trust to represent > what you value about GNOME. To put it in a clunky but simple way, if "GNOME > is People", vote for the people who "are GNOME". That was what I guess I wa

Re: Help us prepare a budget for 2008!

cost way to ensure brand recall is swag and in this particular case being stickers, flyers and buttons. So, is this call for the budget allocations factoring in the GNOME developer trip sponsorship "plus" swag or just the latter ? :sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why

Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007

with others on swag + put in hands-on sessions evenly throughout the event + enter the event with at least 2 follow up events planned in advance + desktop bug hunting is more exciting than we think + have some video playing when speakers are in transit or lunch is in session + get artwork

Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007

big event, we plan to have a series of smaller ones and perhaps ones where various companies supporting|using|developing in|developing for GNOME and having Indian centers can provide the required resources in terms of playing the host and doing tutorials. We will require help in doing that though

Re: Report of the GNOME Project Day at foss.in/2007

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > At foss.in/2007, there was a GNOME Project Day. Details of the talks for > the GNOME Project can be found at http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ and some more pictures thanks to Ramakrishna Reddy are her

Re: I helped improve Gnome and all I got...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Behdad Esfahbod wrote: | Any one item (no matter how small) and sending it out costs at least 10 | to 15 dollars. I'm sure we can allocate funds for sending out a hundred | of them. Someone (you?) should bring a concrete proposal to board for | cons

Re: "Ga-nome" or "NOME"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ani Peter wrote: | I have heard a lot of people pronouncing GNOME as Ga-nome and I feel | Nome is the correct pronunciation. Some of the common pronunciations are: Gee-nome (where Gee rhymes with see) or Guh-nome (where Guh rhymes a bit with duh :P).

A word of thanks

) had GNOME supporters. FOSSKriti was a bit of a success for the Beagle hackfest as well. Might be [OT] for this list, but thought that it is always good to share good news. ~sankarshan - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of

Re: Copyright assignment policy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the policy of contributing to the GNOME project and expected copyright | assignment? | | I am Alexander Shopov and I act as a co-ordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome | translation team. | | Up till now, the copyrights ha

Re: Copyright assignment policy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Henstridge wrote: | So the response to your question is that by placing inaccurate | copyright statements on the translations it makes it more difficult to | do things that require consent of the copyright holder: namely | pursuing infringements

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

Bruno Boaventura wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is pleased to present the new > members: Probably not the most appropriate place to raise this - but, do the other members of the Membership & Elections Committee have access to the infrastructure bits requi