http://blog.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/341 The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran Canaria. The GNOME and KDE communities will use this co-located event to intensify momentum and increase collaboration between the projects. It gives a unique opportunity for key figures to collaborate and improve the free and open source desktop for all. Please visit the official web for further information: http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/ This announcement is also available at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-11-25-grancanaria.html Behdad Esfahbod 2008-11-25T21:12:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/340 _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce Stormy Peters 2008-11-03T14:00:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/339 Many GNOME-friendly companies have job openings that they announce on blogs, IRC, or random mailing list. Many GNOME hackers look for jobs and they crawl blogs, mailing lists, or ask on IRC. Now there is a central place that community members can post GNOME-related job openings, and job seekers can subscribe to. Nothing fancy, a good old wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/Jobs Regards, behdad Behdad Esfahbod 2008-10-15T19:31:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/338 = Minutes for Meeting of Aug. 20, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Sept. 3 == Attendance == * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Stormy * Zana === Regrets === * Luis * Jeff * Lucas == Minutes == * significant private discussion * GNOME.Asia: * Fund travel? * ACTION: Brian to ask Emily for list of more people to sponsor. Preferably closer, more local, people. * Behdad suggests Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay. * GUADEC+Akademy: * ACTION: Behdad to send a proposal to list about finances. * J5: We should be careful... Keep our identity. Not gov't run. Make sure we get the conference that we want. etc... * Everyone discuss on board list. * GTK+ Adboard meeting: * Vincent to contact GTK+ team again. Luis Villa 2008-09-17T13:29:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/337 = Minutes for Directors Meeting of 2008-09-03 = == Next Meeting == 2008-09-17 == Attendance == * Luis * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Stormy * Zana * James Vasile (guest) === Regrets === * Lucas * Jeff == Minutes == === Recurring items === * GUADEC 2009: ongoing discussion of budget/strategy; planning for next meeting. ACTION: Stormy and John to attend planning meeting. * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: Stormy to propose list of replacement speakers to Dave * insurance: (covered on list) moving forward on insurance; some details still need clarification. * hackfests: no news. * Summit: prep is ongoing. * Stormy annual goals: update on progress from John, Stormy. ACTION: Jon to elaborate and clarify; board to thumbs up/thumbs down. === New items === * next ad board meeting: ACTION: Stormy and Vincent will continue working on this. * ad board meeting after that: discussion on list * financial report: Board profusely thanks Zana for her work on this. Behdad points at http://ev.kde.org/report Luis Villa 2008-09-17T13:21:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/336 Hi, everyone: On behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board, I'd like to announce the appointment of a new mobile stewardship team to coordinate and focus GNOME's mobile efforts. The team members will be Paul Cooper, Dave Neary, and Stormy Peters. The team will have two primary tasks. First, the board wants to make sure that there is a coherent vision and strategy around GNOME Mobile so that we can all move forward. We want this team to help discover and clarify that vision- holding and leading whatever conversations, meetings, etc. are necessary so that we can understand where GNOME Mobile is, where it should be going, and how the Foundation can be most helpful in getting it there. It is important to stress that the people already involved in GNOME Mobile will be the ones setting the direction- in keeping with the Foundation's charter, this team will be facilitators, not decision makers. Second, the team will also work on communication. The Board want to ensure that there are people empowered to speak on GNOME Luis Villa 2008-09-08T13:54:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/335 Attendance * Luis * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * Behdad * Stormy * Zana Regrets * J5 * Jeff Minutes New items * Ad Board meetings: discussion of topics for upcoming advisory board, including budget, GTK+ schedule, etc. * mobile: plans for mobile strategy discussed. * budget: updates from Zana; discussion of updating in response to inquiries from members. * Stormy's goals: long discussion of priorities and management for Stormy; ACTION: board members to continue work on formalizing plan for Stormy. Ongoing Items * GNOME.Asia: ACTION: organizers to reach out to translators; Brian, Emily, and Stormy to discuss budget for travel. * getting insurance: ongoing between insurance company, Bryan, and Stormy; should be resolved soon. * GUADEC finances: ongoing; mostly wrapping done but some concerns about travel financing. Next Meeting: Aug. 6, 2008 Luis Villa 2008-08-06T18:14:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/334 The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade. While there were other excellent bids, the GNOME foundation and KDE e.V. have settled on Gran Canaria because of its position as Port to Africa and the excellent circumstances for holding such an event there. Unfortunately, having three proposals, two have to be rejected. The proposals from Tampere in Finland and Coruna in Spain were close contenders. Both foundations would like to thank those organisers for the work they have put into their proposals and encourage them to consider their cities for conferences in future years. Read the full press release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html Vincent Untz 2008-07-15T09:57:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/333 Hi, all- It is my pleasure to announce that the Board has decided to hire Stormy Peters as Executive Director of the Foundation. We've been in talks with her for some time and feel that she has an ideal combination of skills and background to fill the role, having been involved with GNOME and with the open source business community for a long time. For the fuller story on her bio, check out the press release, linked blow. Stormy's responsibilities will include (among other things) strengthening and growing the GNOME Foundation's infrastructure, working with the Board of Directors, Advisory Board members, GNOME membership, and other GNOME supporters to create an awesome free and open source desktop that is easy to use and provide a strong development platform, and accelerating the adoption of GNOME and strengthening the Foundation by attracting new industry members and community contributors. No small task but we think she's up to it. If you're in Istanbul this week, please say hi to Stormy and welcome her Luis Villa 2008-07-07T13:54:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/332 _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce Behdad Esfahbod 2008-06-23T18:31:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/331 GUADEC 2008 Registrations are Open! Please visit: https://guadec.expectnation.com/guadec08/public/register in order to register for GUADEC 2008. Payments will be handled by PayPal this year as well. You can pay directly using the guadec.org web page. Registration fees are same as last year[1] with minor rounding as follows: Student Registration €15.00 Standard Registration €45.00 Professional Registration €200.00 We will have difference colored badges for different kind of registration levels. And registration will be mandatory in order to participate GUADEC 2008 organization events[2]. GNOME Foundation members will get benefit of 50% discount for Standard and Professional registrations. Now it's time to spread the word! [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/guadec-list/2007-May/msg00053.html [2] http://guadec.expectnation.com/public/content/event _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/ Baris Cicek 2008-06-10T10:21:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/330 = Minutes/Agenda for GNOME Foundation Directors Meeting of May 7th, 2008 = == Attendance == * Lucas * Brian * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Behdad * Luis * Jeff == Old Items == * '''insurance''': Brian wants to discuss gnome.asia inclusion and what to cut out. ACTION: Luis to do a final check on the form contents. ACTION: Zana to fill in the forms and J5 to sign them. STATUS: John never got the forms from Brian (mail client problems), done by friday * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff says it may happen this weekend. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: Vincent to work with on getting funds for this ($25k needed, according to the current plan). STATUS: Vincent asks if we want to do both exec director and sysadmin at the same time. Will check fo rfunfs. andfeasibility. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html|old draft jo Luis Villa 2008-06-04T06:46:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/329 The board had meetings on the 14th and 21st to discuss a confidential matter which the board hopes to disclose in the near future. No minutes were taken because of the confidential nature of the meetings, and because no final decisions (save one) were taken at either meeting. This email is offered to the list to document that meetings have been occurring. Attendance, 5/14/2008: Present: * Luis * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * John * Behdad * Jeff Attendance, 5/21/2008: Present: * Lucas * Brian * John * Behdad * Jeff Regrets: * Luis * Vincent Luis Villa 2008-06-04T06:37:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/328 Hi, The final program of GUADEMY and more information is available in this link: http://www.guademy.org/programa.php?lang=en To enable participation of all people in GUADEMY 2008, we are going to broadcast the event through video streaming, and we have configured a Jabber room as a return channel for enable the online participation in the discussions. Friday, 25 April 2008 * GUADEMY 2008 Inaugural Ceremony * Introduction Forum: current state and objectives * QtWebKit by Mr. Holger FREYTHER (FU-Berlin) * Novell GNOME-KDE sharing project GNOME/KDE sharing and FreeDesktop.org by Mr. Rodrigo MOYA (GNOME Hispano); Mr. Will STEPHENSON (Novell, KDE) * freedesktop.org specifications: are they boring? by Mr. Vincent UNTZ (Novell, GNOME) * Developing on GNU by Mr. Aleix POL (KDE) Saturday, 26 April 2008 * The future of Free Software graphical toolkits by Mr. Carlos GARNACHO (Imendio AB); Mr. Holger FREYTHER (FU-Berlin); * Mr. Javier FERNANDEZ GARCíA-BOENTE (Igalia) * Metadata management in desktop by Mr. Ivan F Domingo González 2008-04-22T18:20:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/327 The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009. This would be the first time that the conferences are to be co-hosted. The combined conference is expected to have around 800 attendees, being one of the biggest meetings of free software developers in the world. The content of the conferences will be organized independently, with a number of co-ordinated cross-over sessions with appeal to all attendees. Both organizations have noted, however, that proposals to host the conferences independently are invited as well. The decision about the events will be made in collaboration of the KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation based on the suitability of the available proposals. Read the full release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html Behdad Esfahbod 2008-04-22T18:10:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/326 Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009 ============================== The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC, the annual GNOME conference, during the Summer of 2009. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a week of coding, meeting, and discussing. For the first time we also invite proposals to hold GUADEC and Akademy, the KDE community conference, at the same time, in the same location. Proposals should detail plans for hosting up to 800 attendees, with separate facilities available for Akademy and GUADEC planned sessions. The conferences should be held independently, in the same location, with facilities available for joint sessions of interest to both communities. A co-hosted event would constitute one of the largest events on the planet dedicated to free software on the desktop. Proposals for GUADEC-only should be sent to board< at >gnome.org, proposals for a co-hosted Behdad Esfahbod 2008-04-22T17:04:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/325 (Apology as per last two minutes. This is the last one tonight; minutes of the Apr. 9th meeting will be finalized and sent out in the next few days.) = Minutes for Meeting of Mar. 26th, 2008 = == Note on meeting of 3/12 == Because of a variety of travel and other conflicts, no meeting was held on Mar. 12th. == Next Meeting == April 9th == Attendance == * Brian * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Behdad * Luis === Missing === * Jeff * Lucas === Asia.Summit === Three coordinators of the GNOME.Asia Summit attending this meeting * Emily Chen * Will LaShell * Alfred Peng == Minutes == * Since this meeting did not meet quorum, little was discussed aside from talking about the GNOME.Asia Summit. The "Old Items" section is pretty much a copy of the previous week's minutes with some updates to reflect what was discussed on the list. === GNOME.Asia Summit === * Sun Microsystems has become a sponsor, providing $10,000. They also have $2,000 from other sources. * The organizers are conside Luis Villa 2008-04-20T22:25:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/324 (My apologies for the late delivery of these, as noted in the previous email.) = Minutes for Meeting of Feb. 27, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Mar. 12, 2008 == Attendance == * Lucas * Vincent * Brian * J5 * Behdad * Jeff * Zana === Regrets === * Luis == Minutes == === Old items === * '''insurance''': board members have edited answers in the wiki. STATUS: Brian: some remaining questions to answer before we can submit to agent. Some hard questions: what events do we want to cover? We need to list them in advance. DECISION: discuss more and decide at next meeting. * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: Jeff is experimenting with moin wiki farm configuration for some non-GNOME wikis, in order to implement it for GNOME wikis. Blocked by the results of those, so to not duplicate the work. Expects two weeks. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: on hold b/c of lack of time; volunteers to refine the job description needed Luis Villa 2008-04-20T22:19:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/323 (My apologies for the lag in delivering these; it had completely slipped my mind as the semester got more intense. Several more are on the way this evening.) = Minutes for Meeting of Feb. 13th, 2008 = == Next Meeting == Feb. 27th == Attendance == * Luis * Lucas * Brian * Behdad * J5 * Vincent === Regrets === * Jeff == Minutes == === Old items === * '''insurance''': ACTION: Brian to put remaining questions for insurance forms in wiki so that rest of board can help fill them out. [DONE; other board members have edited.] * '''foundation.gnome.org''': ACTION: Jeff to wiki-fy foundation.gnome.org, with privacy on by default. STATUS: On hold. * '''system administrator''': STATUS: on hold b/c of lack of time; volunteers to refine the job description needed- contact Vincent Untz. * '''Mozilla''': OWNERS: Vincent, Dave Neary STATUS: Press release ready to send out. * '''Business developer:''' We have a [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-October/msg00001.html old draft job Luis Villa 2008-04-20T22:18:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/321 Hi all, Last year, Dave Neary and others started this new tradition by producing the first GNOME Foundation annual report which has got very positive response from community. So, we decided to follow the new tradition by preparing the GNOME Foundation annual report 2007! I've been slowly working on it for a few months with invaluable contributions from several people. The report is now available in GNOME Foundation's website: http://foundation.gnome.org/about/gnome_annual_report_2007.pdf (1860 KB, PDF) We'll soon send nice hard copies of the report to the Advisory Board members and existing GNOME event boxes. Our plan is to also print a bunch of extra copies to be used for promoting GNOME on events around the world. Feel free to request some copies for your local GNOME event. This year, we chose Lulu.com as the printing service in order to allow us to easily print more copies on demand and to make it possible to anyone to order personal hard copies by just paying for the printing. You can buy a hard c Lucas Rocha 2008-03-10T17:25:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/320 GNOME Foundation and Mozilla Foundation join forces =================================================== The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software systems. The partnership has three aspects: * The Mozilla Foundation will join the GNOME Foundation advisory board, helping set the long-term direction of the project. * Mozilla reaffirms its commitment to integrating with the GNOME platform for the XUL development platform, and for Mozilla Firefox. * The Mozilla Foundation announces a grant of $10,000 to the GNOME Foundation, to be spent on the improvement of the accessibility of the GNOME desktop environment via the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" program. "GNOME and GTK+ have been our environment of choice for years. As we move from desktops into the mobile market, we will continue to work with GNOME t Vincent Untz 2008-03-04T21:13:38 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce