On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Philippe Cloutier wrote:
Greetings,
I am sorry to inform you that the spi-general mailing list has visibly been
unreachable, for at least 40 hours. I personally sent a mail to
spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org titled "Issue #16: Vague contact information
for Open Voting
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
Hi,
On 2016-07-30 10:55, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
According to Joshua D. Drake, SPI has an issue tracking system for
reimbursements, but not for other issues (see
http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2016-July/003466.html ). If
there is
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Josh berkus wrote:
On 03/07/2017 10:29 AM, Josh berkus wrote:
But STV is still a "single-winner" system. Any multi-winner
implementation of it we choose would *still* be experimental
Aha, just found the multi-winner math for STV. Please ignore this part
of my
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
The SPI donations page at http://spi-inc.org/donations/ currently
says:
These donations can be made to SPI directly, or they can be marked
for use by a particular member project. It is preferred that the
donations be made to SPI, as they can then
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Robert Brockway wrote:
The resolution below is submitted to the membership for discussion. I
believe that Chakra fulfils the requirements for acceptance as an associated
project.
Following the release of the initial proposal I've received some feedback
in private
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
I think that when an associated project is first mooted, the proposer
should tell us (the membership) some basic information, references,
etc.
Fair enough. I actually have some but concluded I hadn't written them
very well and so dropped them from the
The resolution below is submitted to the membership for discussion. I
believe that Chakra fulfils the requirements for acceptance as an
associated project.
Jonathan, please include this resolution in the April board meeting.
Resolution:
SPI resolution 2014-03-20.rtb.1
WHEREAS
1. Chakra
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
Therefore, after much reflection, I hereby resign from the SPI board of
directors, effective upon:
Hi Jimmy. It has been great to work with you on the board since I was
elected nearly three years ago.
Jimmy has been an active participant in SPI
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
This is an amended version of the resolution presented for the July 11th
AGM; I have altered paragraph 1 to include reference to the SMC mission
statement and some examples of how this ties in with the purposes listed
in article 2 of our by-laws.
Hi all. The Open Bioinformatics Foundation and Sproutcore projects still
don't have blurbs on the website at http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/
If these projects could send them through I'll put the pages up.
Cheers
Rob
--
Director, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
Email:
SFLC attorney Mishi Choudary has recently advised SPI that the Jenkins
trademark has been registered by the USPTO.
I've updated the website to reflect this:
http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/trademarks/
Please advise if anyone sees any information on this page that needs to
corrected or
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Robert Brockway wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012, Bdale Garbee wrote:
Fabian Keil f...@fabiankeil.de writes:
As mentioned before, it would be great if the services SPI
already provides for projects were documented on the website.
Thanks, I agree that this is a great idea
Hi all. We're looking at bookkeeping firms. Any thoughts on thse guys?
http://www.humanbookkeeping.com/nonprofit
I have no experience with them but thought they looked interesting.
Cheers,
Rob
--
Director, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
Email: rob...@spi-inc.org Linux
Jonathan, please add this resolution to the September meeting agenda.
Resolution drafted following a recent request to SPI from the DPL.
2012-09-07.rtb.1: Relicensing Debian Logos
WHEREAS
1) The Debian Project Leader, Stefano Zacchiroli, has requested that SPI
relicense the Debian logos
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:40:19PM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
Hi all. Debian is waiting on information from SPI to conclude an
internal financial audit. The possibility of having Martin
Michlmayr (debian auditor) work with Michael Schultheiss to complete
this has been discussed in the past
Hi all. Debian is waiting on information from SPI to conclude an internal
financial audit. The possibility of having Martin Michlmayr (debian
auditor) work with Michael Schultheiss to complete this has been discussed
in the past.
I'm conscious of the workload expected of a treasurer. While
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Michael Schultheiss wrote:
Thanks Michael. That has made things much clearer.
Questions:
(1) Who has signing rights on the bank accounts?
Josh Berkus and I have signing rights on the Key accounts. Jimmy
Kaplowitz and I have signing rights on the Chase accounts.
(2)
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
I'm afraid I've had a bit to drink now, but:
Uh oh, I think we're off to a bad start :)
This is absolutely ridiculous. Do yuo have no reading comprehension
whatsoever ? What on earth do _you_ think authortitative
decisionmaker means ? Do you have
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
I think very few SPI associated projects have the ultimate decisionmaking
authority in the hands of the rough consensus of a mailing list. Most have
something more formal than that, which might explain why it's an uncommon
issue. Or, yes, unthinking
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
I have just seen, following your reference to the
`associated-project-howto', that that document contains the wording
`authoritative decisionmaker' which I am objecting to.
Hi Ian. If you look at the resolutions (see link below) you will see the
same
Hi all. FFmpeg has applied to become an SPI Associated project. Comments
and questions are welcome.
I support and am sponsoring this application because:
* FFmpeg is a genuine Free Software community project:
FFmpeg is released under the GPL or LGPL licenses depending on
the choice of
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
Robert Brockway writes (FFmpeg as SPI associated project):
...
4. Stefano Sabatini is recognised by SPI as the authoritative decision
maker and SPI liaison for FFmpeg. Successors will be appointed
following a concensus on the ffmpeg-de
Hi all. SPI is investigating options for Directors and Officers
insurance.
I'm interested in any recommendations for insurance companies, brokers or
other organisaations who offer DO insurance packages suitable for US
not-for-profit corporations. Please feel free to provide recommendations
in
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, MJ Ray wrote:
j...@postgresql.org
Strongly suggest redmine
Redmine was discussed. However, SPI has existing expertise in the IT
team in deploying and maintaining RT. And SPI doesn't need Redmine's
non-tracker features.
I'm interested to hear how SPI will migrate
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Bdale Garbee wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:24:18 +1000 (EST), Robert Brockway rob...@spi-inc.org
wrote:
As well as assisting with tracking tasks it could help us set monitor
SLAs.
What SLAs might we be considering?
Hmm, I was sloppy using the term SLA sorry. What I
Hi all. There was a discussion recently on #SPI about using a tracking
system to help SPI keep track of tasks.
The general concensus during the discussion was that Request Tracker (RT)
was the preferred option as several of the people present (mostly board
members) have quite a bit of
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I have added this, but the previous approach has been that such
discussion should take place on the lists beforehand, rather than a new,
free ranging discussion being begun at the meeting itself.
Hi Jonathan. I don't envision the discussion at the
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
One thought first on discussing this in the meeting: we should probably
have a predetermined time limit for this item, since discussions are
Yes fair enough. I find that having a real time discussion with all or
most directors present is a useful
Jonathan, please add the item Discussion of back office support to the
February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within general
business but don't mind if you put it in another category.
My intention here is for the board to discuss this topic, not to make any
firm decisions during
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Robert Brockway wrote:
Hi all. I find it slightly annoying that the index page requires the person
to click 'Read more' to see much information.
I propose merging the 'About' page in to the Index (Home) page and having it
readable without having to click 'Read more
Following discussions with legal counsel and the contributing members over
the last couple of months the board agreed today to alter the criteria for
board list membership.
The board list is now comprised of board members only. Legal counsel and
project liaisons will be CC:ed on board list
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Alvaro Luna Bautista wrote:
Shoul I formally add my proposal to a board meeting agenda? how? What
should I do to give our proposal some traction apart from posting on the
mailing lists? Thank you for your help
I think Jimmy made a persuasive argument that what your
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
With DST ending in the northern hemisphere in over the next few weeks it
would be convenient to me if we moved the meeting time to 21:30 UTC (ie
keeping it at 13:30 US/Pacific rather than it moving back to 12:30
US/Pacific). I asked about this on
Hi all. Fluxbox has applied to become an SPI Associated project.
Comments and questions are welcome.
Fluxbox is a windowmanager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1
code.
I support and am sponsoring this application because:
* Fluxbox is a genuine Free Software community project:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Fabian Keil wrote:
(http://www.spi-inc.org/drafts/associated-project-howto/) that includes
a list of services that SPI offers.
I'm aware of that, but I always thought the list wasn't complete. Is it?
I think I covered the major services. Part of the reason I want
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Fabian Keil wrote:
I think a complete list of services SPI is currently providing
and instructions how a project can apply for them would be useful,
too.
Hi Fabian. I've proposed a new version of the Associated Project Howto in
another thread
Hi all. I'd like to get feed back on adding additional information to the
project pages. Specifically I'd like to add:
* SPI services that the project is actively using and any that it has
declined to use (some projects have declined to accept donations via SPI).
* The name of the current
Fabian Keil fk at fabiankeil.de wrote:
1) There seems to be a word missing (be?):
| Refunds for legitimate project expenses will made from
| funds earmarked for an associated project with the consent
| of the project liaison.
Well spotted. Fixed.
2) It's in the original as well,
Hi all. I personally feel that the associated-project-howto could be made
clearer. I also read a few threads on various forums where some people
had expressed confusion over certain aspects of how SPI works, even after
reading the associated-project-howto.
I've written a new version which
Hi all. I personally feel that the associated-project-howto could be made
clearer. I also read a few threads on various forums where some people
had expressed confusion over certain aspects of how SPI works, even after
reading the associated-project-howto.
I've written a new version which
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