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/594 <pre>Dear Foundation Members, I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of Directors: * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Sriram Ramkrishna * Andreas Nilsson * Emmanuele Bassi * Joanmarie Diggs * Max Huang * Tobias Mueller Please see &lt;http://vote.gnome.org/2013/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. </pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-22T15:30:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/593 <pre>I hereby withdraw my candidacy for the board of directors. I think I will not bring to the table as much as what the other candidates can bring. I wish them all the best. Cheers Seif _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce </pre> seiflotfy< at >googlemail.com 2013-05-20T13:30:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/592 <pre>Name: Seif Lotfy Email: seiflotfy (at) gmail.com Affiliation: None I have been a GNOME contributor since 2007. And served on the board of directors the past year. If elected, I would try to push for more initiatives to get communications across all gnome teams solidified as well as push for more outreach and marketing support from the community as well as the Advisory board. cheers, Seif _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce&lt; at &gt;gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce </pre> seiflotfy< at >googlemail.com 2013-05-19T23:51:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/590 <pre>Name: Ekaterina Gerasimova (kittykat) Affiliation: none I have experienced the difficulties that are encountered by our local teams when organising events and I agree with Joanie that the Foundation's processes need to become more efficient. These responsibilities need to be clarified and followed to reduce friction and improve collaboration within the GNOME community. Our existing processes are missing defined fallbacks and resolution paths. When decisions become stuck or blocked on, opportunities fall through and the Foundation loses out when its members cannot attend conferences and hackfests. However, fallbacks and resolution paths should be a last resort. For instance, GUADEC, our annual flagship conference, would benefit from more continuity and consistency. This will help organisers, attendees and supporters of GNOME events. My time as the GNOME Board liaison for the Desktop Summit 2010 in Berlin and helping out with the GNOME booth at events has given me an insight into the workings of events, whi</pre> Ekaterina Gerasimova 2013-05-19T21:12:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/589 <pre>Name: Sriram Ramkrishna Email: sri&lt; at &gt;ramkrishna.me Affiliation: Intel I have decided this year to continue to increase my participation in GNOME. I joined GNOME in 1997, working on GNOME Summaries that led to the GNOME Journal. We expanded from a one man contributor to a full 4-5 person team writing professional level articles on GNOME. I am currently very active in the marketing team working on community outreach and volunteer management. I worked dilligently during the initial two releases of the GNOME 3 release by presentations at Linuxcon America and Northwest Linuxfest. I worked as a community manager during this time engaging with individuals from random people on the internet to pillars in the Free Software community. I've made people who criticized GNOME to contributors. I have helped the marketing team by organizing regular meetings, posting agenda, and following up on action items and making sure things are on track. I am also part of the sysadmin team, although Andrea does such a good job</pre> Sriram Ramkrishna 2013-05-19T19:23:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/588 <pre>Name: Andreas Nilsson Affiliation: Red Hat Designer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, involved in GNOME since 2005. I am part of the Marketing Team, mainly hacking on our websites and putting together printing materials for conferences. I also contribute to the Design Team, filing design bugs and doing some UX design. I've been an OPW mentor 2 times already, and hopefully will be a 3rd time this summer. I would like to run for the Board again. I've served two times previously, one time in 2010-2011 and the other one during the current term, 2012-2013. I currently hold the seat of President on the Board, making sure our meetings have a clear agenda and are run on time, in a productive way. In addition to that, I also conduct phone meetings with Karen Sandler, our ED, every two weeks. For the last two years, I've also put together our annual reports, an essential part of our communication with the Advisory Board and the community. For this next term, I would like to focus on growing our contributor b</pre> Andreas Nilsson 2013-05-18T22:50:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/587 <pre>name: Emmanuele Bassi email: ebassi (at) gnome.com affiliation: Endless Mobile I have been a GNOME contributor for the past 10 years, and served as secreatry on the board of directors for the past two years. I would love to continue serving as secretary on the board; I want to help facilitating the communications between teams, contributors, adboard members, ISVs that wish to target GNOME, as well as OSVs that wish to use GNOME as their platform of choice for their products. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-05-18T09:09:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/586 <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 six+ years as a developer and maintainer of the Orca screen reader and as a member of the GNOME Accessibility Team. This past year I have also served on the GNOME Foundation's Board. My first year as a Board member was in large part spent getting up to speed and participating in the routine duties of being on the Board. Doing so gave me the opportunity to look for where I can best lend a hand to help the Foundation and its members. My conclusion, and what I have since begun working on, is streamlining Foundation processes, my first target being our travel sponsorship procedures. Streamlining processes might strike you as an extremely dull area in which to work. But, as crazy as it might sound, I actually enjoy it. I personally hate inefficiencies: Life is too short, and the work we all </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2013-05-17T12:08:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/585 <pre>* Name: Max Huang Email: sakanamax gmail com Nick: sakana Blog: &lt;http://blogs.oracle.com/yippi/&gt; http://sakananote2.blogspot.com/ ( Chinese ) http://sakananote2english.blogspot.com/ (English) Web: https://live.gnome.org/ChunHungHuang Affiliation: I am working in National Center for High-performance Computing Taiwan( http://www.nchc.org.tw/en/). I have contributed to GNOME for the past 3 years. Promote open source, freeware and linux at school in Taiwan. I am one of GNOME.Asia Committee member, work with GNOME.Asia team. 2010: * Meet Pockey and Emily. Take the conference host for GNOME.Asia 2010 with COSCUP ( http://coscup.org/2010/en/ ). * Create GNOME Taiwan Users Group, have a lot of workshop with gtk and organize gnome 3 launch party with Beijin and Hong Kong. 2011: * Went to Bangalore, India ( http://2011.gnome.asia ), Learn how to host gnome booth, start making GNOME User video with summit. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KUKaBKqWF8) * Pro</pre> Max 2013-05-17T07:02:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/584 <pre>// English \\ (fuer eine Deutsche Version siehe unten) # FrOSCon 2013 Call for Projects # We would like to invite you to take part in the eights Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon 2013). FrOSCon is a two-day conference on Free Software and Open Source, which takes place on August 24th/25th, 2013 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany. Main part of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks and workshops. Furthermore, there is a large exhibition area, where projects have the opportunity to present themselves and get in touch with users and developers. Moreover, we offer a few rooms for Free Software projects to organize developer meetings or to present their own program for the visitors of the conference. We would be pleased if your project would like to contribute to this year's FrOSCon and thus support the communication and exchange within the Open Source and Free Software community. Depending on the kind of your participation, the</pre> Jochim Selzer 2013-05-15T19:39:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/582 <pre>Dear Foundation Members, The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2013. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2013* 2013-05-06: List of candidates opens. 2013-05-19: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements. 2013-05-22: Final list of candidates. 2013-05-26: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins. 2013-06-09: Voting closes. 2013-06-11: Preliminary results are announced. 2013-06-18: Last day to challenge preliminary results. 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 what will be 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-anno</pre> Andrea Veri 2013-05-06T09:29:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/581 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130416 = Minutes for Meeting of April 16th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 30th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Karen Sandler === Missing === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * GUADEC * Update on GUADEC 2013 * No updates from the papers committee * The sponsors brouchure is ready * E-mail regarding GUADEC 2015 from Worldwideconventions. * Seems to be spam * They don't seem to be targeting our kind of conference * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * No updates * Cross Desktop Collaboration Summit proposal status * We have received a report from Ryan * Needs to be published alongside with the KDE board * '''ACTION''': Andreas to email the KDE eV board to agree on publishing the Collaboration Summit results * Documentation hackfest sponsor</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:31:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/580 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130402 = Minutes for Meeting of April 2nd, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * GUADEC 2013 progress. * Florian Nadge left RH but he made sure to have continuity in the local organization * The website is live * CfP is ready to go live on the website and on the mailing lists * The marketing team should pick it up on social media * '''ACTION''': Emmanuele to publish the CfP for GUADEC 2013 * When should we announce a call for bids for GUADEC 2015? * We should not detract from the current GUADEC * We could have informal talks with teams that want to submit a bid during GUADEC 2013 * '''ACTION''': Karen to raise the question on bi</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:30:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/579 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130319 = Minutes for Meeting of March 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * No new updates * Waiting for the call for sponsors from the GUADEC team * We should start contacting the advisory board members * CfP still waiting on the website going live * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * New funding/sponsorships for the Asia summit * We should allocate the same budget for travel sponsorship that we allocated last year * Last year's budget: USD 15,000 * Our line for GNOME.Asia in the Foundation's budget is currently USD 10,000 * Travel budget, and incidental expenses * We may be able to get some of that funding back through sponsorship * </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:29:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/578 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130305 = Minutes for Meeting of March 5th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Seif Lotfy === Regrets === * Karen Sandler === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Events * Update on GUADEC * Conference website is still pending * CfP is blocking on that * Emmanuele is going to send the CfP for review to guadec-papers * Update on GNOME.Asia Summit * CfP is running, not many submissions but still some time to go * The CfP announcement hit gnome.org, but it may not have hit PGO * GNOME Fest sponsorship * Julita Inca asked for sponsorship of 250 USD in order to host a GNOME event in Lima, Peru. * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-February/msg00022.html * 90 students, presentations * We don't have a specific place in the bu</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:29:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/577 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130219 = Minutes for Meeting of February 19th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, March 3th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Rosanna Yuen * Bastien Nocera * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Seif Lotfy * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Emmanuele Bassi === Missing === == Board Meeting Agenda == * Problems with Gobby, lost historical minutes (they are still available in the Wiki) * '''ACTION''': Andreas? Karen? to contact Andrea about reliability of gobby, restore from backups, etc. * 2013 Budget * Needs vote to finalize (was +1 from Emmanuele, Joanie, Shaun, Tobi, Andreas) * +1 from Seif * Abstain from Bastien * Passed with votes from previous meeting * Sysadmin status update * Andrea is very responsive, and working with the CivCRM contractor, Stuart Gaston * CiviCRM status update * Should take up to 10 business days * Contractor offered training on the new tools,</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:28:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/576 <pre>wiki: https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130122 = Minutes for Meeting of January 22th, 2013 = == Next Meeting == * Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, 15:00 UTC == Attending == * Emmanuele Bassi * Rosanna Yuen * Shaun !McCance * Andreas Nilsson * Karen Sandler * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs === Regrets === * Bastien Nocera === Missing === * Seif Lotfy == Board Meeting Agenda == * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM * Good attendance: Red Hat, FSF, Debian, Google, SUSE (maybe), Canonical (maybe) * Karen is planning the adboard dinner after the meeting * Agenda * User testing (with the design team attendance) * Travel/event sponsorship for adboard employees and volunteers for hackfests * Sponsorship package for hackfests and GUADEC * 2013 Budget * Shaun have published a rough budget for 2013. * Needs discussion * Planning ahead for changes in the revenue of the foundation * Budget for the worst case scenario of losing an advisory member fee * We should che</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-28T22:27:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/575 <pre>the CfP will be closed this Saturday, and we still have potential slots for talks. in order to submit a talk proposal, you have to subscribe on www.guadec.org and follow the link that will be sent to you via email. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ </pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-23T16:03:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/574 <pre>Hey all. We should probably be thinking about where the "Boston" Summit will be this year. :) Do we want to have another Montreal Summit? (And if so, do we have someone to make those arrangements?) Thanks and take care. --joanie </pre> Joanmarie Diggs 2013-04-23T15:24:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/573 <pre>Hi everyone! The call for presentations for GUADEC 2013 in Brno is finally open. You can register here: https://www.guadec.org/wp-login.php?action=register and submit your talk once you receive the registration email. I have attached the CfP body in the email, but the executive summary is: • talks are going to be submitted on the GUADEC website; • you can submit a talk until Saturday, April 27th; • you will receive a notification whether your talk has been accepted or not around May 4th; • lightning talks and BoF sessions will have their own CfP. See you all in Brno! ciao, Emmanuele. +++ GUADEC Call for Participation GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community, held in Europe since 2000. GNOME is a free software project which drives user interfaces of many GNU/Linux-powered devices, ranging from smartphones to laptops and personal media centers. GUADEC is the world's largest gathering of users and developers who are involved with the free desktop and mobile user interf</pre> Emmanuele Bassi 2013-04-02T17:09:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce/572 <pre>The GNOME Foundation &lt;http://www.gnome.org/foundation/&gt; provides travel sponsorships to individuals who want to attend GNOME.Asia 2013 and need financial assistance. We are happy to announce the Travel Committee&lt;https://live.gnome.org/Travel&gt; is ready to receive applications for sponsorships to attend GNOME.Asia 2013. This year, GNOME.Asia 2013 is being held in NIPA Business Center, Sangam-dong Seoul, Korea on May 24 -25, 2013 The instructions are detailed at http://live.gnome.org/Travel Please read them carefully. Deadline: Mar 29, 2013, 19:00 UTC. You can start sending in your applications now! Some extra comments: * Any information you send to the Travel Committee will be private. * Asking for sponsorship *does not* guarantee you will get sponsored. * A good application with good information will be processed fast. * If you need help with accommodation, you should state in your application that you need lodging, and leave the cost blank. * Always choose the most economical option when possible. </pre> Bharath Acharya 2013-03-24T17:50:37 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.announce