Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-30 Thread Allan Day
Andy Wingo wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day writes: > >> I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive >> organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and >> initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed.  I'd >> like there be less '

Re: Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-29 Thread Brian Cameron
Emmanuele: On 05/28/12 12:06 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: [just a bit of backstory, here, also to help out eventual other candidates in case I'm not elected] the meeting minutes are written down during the meeting itself by using a collaborative editor, so that everyone on the meeting can actual

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-29 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 28 May 2012 11:53, Allan Day writes: > I would personally like to see the board be a more proactive > organization, where the needs of the GNOME project are discussed, and > initiatives intended to benefit it are instigated and managed. I'd > like there be less 'we need someone to organis

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-28 Thread Allan Day
[jumping into the thread at random] Dave Neary wrote: ... >>So I would try to have the minutes sent >>around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet >>to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more (timely) >>public. > > I don't know if I count or not, but I

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-28 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, "Tobias Mueller" wrote: >So I would try to have the minutes sent >around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet >to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more (timely) >public. I don't know if I count or not, but I have asked publicly several times th

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Allan; thanks for the question. On 25 May 2012 08:21, Allan Day wrote: > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? > If it is, what do you think can be done about it? I think that, given the role

Re: Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-27 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 06:06 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 28 May 2012 05:03, Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > >> > >> ne doesn't know what is happening and thus > >> being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes > sent > >> around A

Re: Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-27 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 28 May 2012 05:03, Frederic Muller wrote: > > > On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: >> >> ne doesn't know what is happening and thus >> being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes sent >> around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet

Re: Board public IRC meetings - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-27 Thread Frederic Muller
I meant "not getting board meeting MINUTES" below. Sorry. On 05/28/2012 11:44 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 05/28/2012 05:59 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: Unless we had an interesting agenda item (e.g. future of the Desktop Summit), people didn't attend. I assume it's because they didn't have anyt

Board meeting minutes - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-27 Thread Frederic Muller
On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: ne doesn't know what is happening and thus being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes sent around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough yet to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more (ti

Board public IRC meetings - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-27 Thread Frederic Muller
On 05/28/2012 05:59 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: Unless we had an interesting agenda item (e.g. future of the Desktop Summit), people didn't attend. I assume it's because they didn't have anything pressing to say. I have made an effort to attend those meetings and my problems at the times were n

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Tobias Mueller
Bonjour :) On 25.05.2012 09:21, Allan Day wrote: > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? > If it is, what do you think can be done about it? I wouldn't say I see a "divorce". I'd say it feels a bi

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Shaun McCance
I'm going to reply here, because I really don't know how to answer the original email. On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > ... > >> Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > >> from the rest of the GNOME project. > > > > I don'

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-27 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that > you are interested in doing this important work. > > A question for you: > > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-26 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 05/25/2012 09:21 AM, Allan Day wrote: Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? If it is, what do you think can be done about it? Having been off the board for a year, I can definitely say it somet

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 05/25/2012 09:24 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote: Why do you think the Board of Directors is "divorced" from the project? I personally don't hear or see very much of what the board gets up to, and I don't feel like Foundation membership

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 18:33 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > ... > >> Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > >> from the rest of the GNOME project. > > > > I don't quite understand the question. The Board is not where technical > > decisions are made

board/ED contact (was Re: A question for the candidates)

2012-05-25 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2012-05-25 12:54, gnomeu...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/5/25 Allan Day : Hi all, Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that you are interested in doing this important work. Thank you. A question for you: Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Allan Day
Bastien Nocera wrote: ... >> Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced >> from the rest of the GNOME project. > > I don't quite understand the question. The Board is not where technical > decisions are made, it's not where applications or new dependencies are > made. Yet

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread gnomeu...@gmail.com
2012/5/25 Allan Day : > Hi all, > > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that > you are interested in doing this important work. Thank you. > A question for you: > > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME proje

Re: A question for the candidates

2012-05-25 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 08:21 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that > you are interested in doing this important work. > > A question for you: > > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the r