http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/533 <pre>Dear Foundation Members, I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of Directors. * David Nielsen * Bastien Nocera * Emmanuele Bassi * Andreas Nilsson * Joanmarie Diggs * Tobias Mueller * Max Huang * Shaun McCance * Seif Lotfy Please see &lt;http://vote.gnome.org/2012/candidates.html&gt; for details. You are invited to ask the candidates questions by sending them to foundation-list. But please try to avoid duplicates and bear in mind, that the candidates invest a lot of time answering questions, thus please be reasonable with the amount and scope of the questions. You might want to send your question to membership-committee&lt; at &gt;gnome.org instead, so that we can collect, sift and sort the questions before we send them out shortly after the ballots were sent. But again: if you feel the need to ask your question directly, please do so. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them at membership-committee&lt; at &gt;gnome.org or elections&lt; at &gt;gnome.org Cheers, </pre> Tobias Mueller 2012-05-21T19:05:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/532 <pre>Name: Seif Lotfy EMail: seif&lt; at &gt;lotfy.com Affiliation: Collabora Ltd. Since 2007, through ever-increasing code-contributions, I have been actively involved in the GNOME developer community. During the last six months, I have been working much more closely with the design team, by participating in some of Allan Day's "Every Detail Matters" tasks and programming several prototypes for the design team. At the moment, I am working together with Allan and Emily, my Summer of Code student, on the clocks application. Currently, I spend nearly 50% of my working time on GNOME-related projects, thanks to Collabora. I also spend a lot of my time working on deploying Zeitgeist into some smaller projects like Gedit (the dashboard plugin), which greatly benefited from design collaboration with Hylke Bons and Garrett LeSage. Sometimes misunderstandings and miscommunication happen in the community, especially between different teams who may share similar goals but different viewpoints. This blurred vision was evident in ma</pre> Seif Lotfy 2012-05-20T23:24:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/531 <pre>Name: Shaun McCance Email: shaunm&lt; at &gt;gnome.org Affiliation: Syllogist LLC (freelance) I've been an active GNOME contributor for about nine years, mostly involved with the documentation team. I'm currently serving on the board of directors in my first term, and serving as treasurer. I'd like the opportunity to serve GNOME for another term. If elected, I want to work to make our treasurer duties simpler and more understandable, whether as the treasurer again or as an advisor to a new treasurer. The treasurer role is inevitably difficult for somebody without a background in accounting. We need to make sure we can smoothly transition year to year, because handling GNOME's money is one of the most important things the Foundation does. -- Shaun </pre> Shaun McCance 2012-05-20T23:00:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/530 <pre>Name: Max Huang Email: sakanamax gmail com Nick: sakana Blog: http://sakananote2.blogspot.com/ ( Chinese ) http://sakananote2english.blogspot.com/ (English) Web: https://live.gnome.org/ChunHungHuang Affiliation: I am a freelancer who teach linux in the training center, also a Novell CNI instructor. I have contributed to GNOME for the past 2 years for GNOME.Asia. Teaching linux at school and have workshop with open source and linux at school. In 2010(summer), I meet Pockey and Emily. And I take the conference host for GNOME.Asia 2010 with COSCUP ( http://coscup.org/2010/en/ ). At Sep 2010 we create GNOME Taiwan Users Group, I must thanks Emily and Pockey. They guide and teach me a lot. And we have a lot of gnome workshop with gtk and have gnome 3 launch part with Beijin and Hong Kong. In 2011, we went to Bangalore, India ( http://2011.gnome.asia ). I learn how to be a host for gnome booth. I am one of Program Committee member in COSCUP. I start to learn </pre> Max 2012-05-20T08:13:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/529 <pre>Name: Tobias Mueller EMail: tobiasmue&lt; at &gt;gnome.org Affiliation: None Summary: I am a Free Software enthusiast and GNOME activist for about 5 years now. I mainly worked in the Bugsquad and the Membership Committee. Now, I want to do something new and help making GNOME a successful Free Software project. I have experience with working with people, i.e. by organising events like a GNOME party, various booths at conferences or by hosting a (mid-size) conference at our university. I want to improve the Bylaws and the visibility of Teams within GNOME. Dear Foundation, I am sticking around GNOME for about 5 years now and while I enjoy being in the community I do want to progress within GNOME and take new responsibilities. For the last years, I was active in the Bugsquad, Membership and Elections Committee as well as helping GNOME to be represented at various events like FOSDEM. I did enjoy my work and I still do. However, I want to take up on something new and challenge myself with new duties. I am that type of p</pre> Tobias Mueller 2012-05-20T15:03:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/528 <pre>Name: Joanmarie Diggs E-mail: jdiggs&lt; at &gt;igalia.com Affiliation: Igalia, S.L. More about me: * http://gnomejournal.org/article/102 * http://www.linkedin.com/in/joanmariediggs I have contributed to GNOME for the past five+ years as a developer and maintainer of the Orca screen reader and as a member of the GNOME Accessibility Team. For most of those years, my GNOME-related work had to be done evenings, weekends, and holidays as a community contributor. Joining Igalia in October 2011 has made it possible for GNOME Accessibility to become part of my DayJob, which in turn has given me a very precious commodity: spare time. I would like to spend some of that time serving on the GNOME Foundation Board. Should I be elected, I would be happy to work in most areas, and feel that I could lend a hand wherever the more senior members of the Board see fit. Beyond that and, of course, accessibility, I would like to see GNOME working actively with colleges and universities to facilitate the integration of Free Software d</pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2012-05-19T22:13:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/527 <pre>Name: Andreas Nilsson e-mail: andreas&lt; at &gt;andreasn.se Affiliation: None (freelancer) I've been involved in GNOME since 2005 doing a variety of things. Mainly graphics and websites. I served on the Board of Directors between 2010 and 2011. If I get elected, I want to primary focus on two things. Fundraising and getting new developers. I want to make our fundraising campaigns really effective and make it as fun and rewarding to make donations to the GNOME project as possible. I'm happy that we have now been able to release the new, more effective Friends of GNOME site, but there is more we can do in this area. For new developers, I'm happy with the outcome of the GSOC and WOP's we've been running, and we should continue to do these, but I also want to make sure the inroads for potential contributors who visit our website is as clear as possible. I'm sure I will get very much tangled up in whatever pops up during the way for the board (as things tend to do), but I will keep these two items in mind as go</pre> Andreas Nilsson 2012-05-19T11:58:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/526 <pre>Name: Emmanuele Bassi email: ebassi&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Affiliation: Intel Corporation I have contributed to GNOME for the past 10 years as a developer and maintainer; I served on the GUADEC papers committee multiple times, as well as a Director of the Foundation's Board for the past year in the role of Secretary. I plan to continue serving as Secretary, with the hope of improving the review and publication of the Board Meetings minutes; I also plan to improve my efforts with Friends of GNOME. Finally, I intend to continue pestering people into creating a viable roadmap as well as getting involved in the effort of making GNOME a best of breed and powerful offering for powering devices ranging from the Desktop/clamshell to handhelds and tablets. ciao, Emmanuele. </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-05-19T09:15:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/525 <pre>Name: Bastien Nocera E-Mail: hadess&lt; at &gt;hadess.net Affiliation: Red Hat UK Ltd I've been a GNOME contributor for the past 13 years and served on the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors for the past two years. I intend to carry on being a point of contact for developer relations, and a technical advisor within the Board itself. I'm also the one asking naive questions about US employment law and accountancy rules. </pre> Bastien Nocera 2012-05-18T18:29:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/524 <pre>Name: David Nielsen Email: gnomeuser&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Corporate Affiliation: None I have been part of GNOME in various roles since the early 2.x days and I think it is time to volunteer for an organizational role. I have already arranged 2 hackfests under GNOME and found that I enjoy the work and that I have a talent for the required fundraising as well as drumming up excitement. I have plenty of sparetime as I am retired on medical grounds and I would love to dedicate some of it towards dragging GNOME kicking and screaming into the 21th century. I have plenty of ideas for how to raise funds and for where GNOME can (and should) go in the future. Thank you for the consideration, David Nielsen </pre> gnomeuser< at >gmail.com 2012-05-10T17:51:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/523 <pre> Dear Foundation Members, The GNOME Foundation board of directors and the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2012. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2012* 2012-05-20: List of candidates closed 2012-05-27: Voting Begins 2012-06-10: Voting Ends 2012-06-19: Challenges End ELECTIONS ========= The seven members of our current Board of Directors have been ruling GNOME for 12 months now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have to elect a the board of directors for the next year. CANDIDACY ========= If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to foundation-announce gnome org and elections gnome org with your full name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and yo</pre> Brian Cameron 2012-04-17T22:14:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/522 <pre>Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120403 = Minutes for Meeting of April 3 = == Next Meeting == April 17, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Emmanuele Bassi * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Brian Cameron (Late) * Ryan Lortie (Late) === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Process * Need to publish past minutes. * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele - To finish publish the minutes since February 7, 2012. * Budget and Annual Report * Shaun provided an updated budget on March 12. * Shaun said that the budget section of the Annual Report should be ready around the same time as the GUADEC and GNOME.Asia event brochures. * Events * The GNOME and Mono Festival of Love 2012. * David Nielsen asked for help with the visa. * David said Fluendo may be interested in sponsoring. * Hackfests * None currently planned. Need to identify the next hackfests. * https://live.gno</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-04-17T16:23:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/521 <pre>Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120320 = Minutes for Meeting of March 20 = == Next Meeting == April 3, 2012 == Attending == * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Ryan Lortie * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === * Bastien Nocera === Missing === * Germán Póo-Caamaño == Board Meeting Agenda == * Planet GNOME Policy * Anything further to do, any announcements? * Branch of Planet-Web needs to be merged to implement the changes. * The change has already been announced, and the grace period has passed. * '''ACTION''': Ryan - To ping Alberto to perform the merge of the Planet policy changes. (DONE) * Alberto pointed out that there are a couple of blogs in the feed that would be removed with the new policy, but that would be nice to keep nevertheless. * The board should try and reach out to these bloggers. * By-laws * Tobias Mueller again provided us with his comments about the by-laws. * Karen ha</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-04-17T16:23:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/520 <pre>Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120306 = Minutes for Meeting of March 6 = == Next Meeting == March 20, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Germán Póo-Caamaño (late :17) * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Ryan Lortie * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Friends of GNOME * This week: $9,019 - $10,981 to go! * Two weeks ago: $6,700 with $13,300 to go. * Got legal approval for new testimonial. * Budget * Review &amp; Discuss. * Process: move more information about event sponsorship into GNUCash, to improve the budget process. * Adding new categories for events: GUADEC, GNOME.asia, and maybe the Boston Summit. * Keeping the hackfest accounts split up in the GNUCash file. * Should we relate the FoG donations to the campaign? * It is currently done on demand, because there is a single PayPal account, and it needs manual intervention to split out eve</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-04-17T16:23:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/519 <pre>Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120221 = Minutes for Meeting of February 21 = == Next Meeting == March 6, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Ryan Lortie * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Timeline for upcoming elections. * https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/private/board-list/2012-February/msg00070.html * '''ACTION''': Brian - Will talk with Tobias about where the Foundation voting website went. * '''ACTION''': Karen - Will confirm what bylaws say about starting date * Next Advisory Board Meeting * Planning for Tuesday, February 28th. * The previous Advisory Board meeting was about 4 months ago, last October. * Agenda Topics * Frequency of advisory board meetings. * Accessibility (Friends of GNOME). * Joanie and Piñeiro will give the presentation * Hackfest Update (GTK+, Docs,</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-04-17T16:23:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/518 <pre>Wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20120207 = Minutes for Meeting of February 7 = == Next Meeting == February 21, 2012 == Attending == * Bastien Nocera * Brian Cameron * Emmanuele Bassi (late) * Germán Póo-Caamaño * Karen Sandler * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Stormy Peters === Regrets === === Missing === * Ryan Lortie == Board Meeting Agenda == * Karen sent a membership certificate to Milan Bouchet-Valat on January 29th as requested via Membership Committee (Andrea Veri). * Next Advisory Board Meeting * Planning for Tuesday, February 28th. * Were notifications sent out? * Last Advisory Board meeting was on 10/25/2011. * Agenda Topics: * Accessibility (Friends of GNOME). * Hackfest Update (GTK+, Docs, Accessibility, GStreamer, WebKitGTK+). * Have a GNOME release that is supported similarly to distribution LTS releases (Cc: adboard, distributor-list, release-team). * How systemd as a dependency is changing GNOME. * Bylaws * </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2012-04-17T16:22:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/517 <pre>Dear all, GNOME.Asia 2012 is calling for papers. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible. Learn more: http://sakananote2english.blogspot.in/2012/04/gnomeasia-2012-is-now-calling-for.html https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit ======================================= *Sign your name here ^__^ https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit/Participants If you want to help out in planning and organization for the event, join asia-summit-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org and say hi! To learn about detailed planning, join gnome-asia-list&lt; at &gt;gnome.org Cheers, Chandni Verma GNOME.A</pre> Chandni Verma 2012-04-05T03:42:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/516 <pre>Dear all, GNOME.Asia 2012 is calling for papers. GNOME.Asia Summit is Asia’s GNOME user and developer conference, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia. The conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 9 and 10. The conference follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible. Learn more: http://sakananote2english.blogspot.in/2012/04/gnomeasia-2012-is-now-calling-for.html https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2012Summit Max </pre> Max 2012-04-04T20:00:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/515 <pre>Hi, The Call for Presentations for GUADEC 2012 is now open: http://2012.guadec.org/cfp I've attached the full CfP below, but the two main things you should know are: - you can submit your proposal at https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0 - deadline for submitting is Saturday, April 14th Cheers, Vincent ====== GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe since 2000. GNOME is the Free Software project that drives the user interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops, or personal media centers. This get-together event is the world's largest gathering of those involved with the free desktop or mobile user interfaces. GUADEC 2012 is expected to draw hundreds of attendees who will discuss and direct the future of the GNOME project. Developers, artists, translators, users, and representatives from government, education, and businesses, and anyone else who shares an interest are welcome. For the 2012 edition, GUADEC co</pre> Vincent Untz 2012-02-28T09:58:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/514 <pre> Hosting GNOME.Asia 2012 June 9-15, 2012 Hong Kong It is with great pleasure that we announce that Hong Kong has been selected as the venue of our upcoming GNOME.Asia 2012. GNOME.Asia 2012 follows the release of GNOME 3.4, helping to bring new desktop paradigms that facilitate user interaction in the computing world. It will be a great place to celebrate and explore the many new features and enhancements to the groundbreaking GNOME 3 release and to help make GNOME as successful as possible. Hong Kong is well known for being one of the largest cities in Asia, with a thriving cultural scene, solid infrastructure, and robust public transportation system. Many countries have a visa-free period for travel with Hong Kong and the city has well integrated international connections. We believe that hosting the event in Hong Kong will bring the spotlight on GNOME and make an impact locally, regionally and internationally in terms of business and community building. Aside from being a business capital, Hong Kong</pre> Brian Cameron 2012-02-20T17:41:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/513 <pre>As a follow-up of [1]: It's an honour for me to announce that the Foundation's website has been completely migrated to gnome.org. We've been working on this for a few months now, but the result is simply awesome. That said, I would like to thank Vinicius DePizzol (vdepizzol) for all his work and contributions to make this happen. His devotion and willingness to contribute to the GNOME Foundation are amazing and working with him during all these months has been a pleasure for me, he's a superb contributor and most of all a great guy. The new Foundation's website can be reached at the following link: http://www.gnome.org/foundation while the new voting area is now available at: http://vote.gnome.org Please report any broken link or error to &lt;membership-committee&lt; at &gt;gnome.org&gt; or by opening a bugzilla ticket against the website product. [2] cheers, Andrea P.S redirects are working properly, so http://foundation.gnome.org will now take to the brand new website. P.P.S the quarterly reports have be</pre> Andrea Veri 2012-02-16T23:15:35 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce