I agree whole heartidly that this is a valuable and good use of GNOME time and resources. As a free software project ostensibly committed to freedom, privacy and security, it behooves us to participate.
Emily Gonyer On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Oliver Propst <oliver.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, its great to see the all the activities around the upcoming Board > election, I hope we still are able to focus on day-today things. > > There is right now a campaign, Reset the Net [1] about remind people > about government surveillance and the the importance of privacy on June > 5 [2], one year after the NSA/Snowden revelations. > > Some participants include: Demand progress, Freepress.net, Free > Software Foundation, Open Technology Institute, Reddit and > Duck Duck Go. > > With our commitment to privacy and recently improved tools in this > area (the new privacy setting panel and new privacy > features in Web for exemple) [3] I think its makes sense for GNOME to > participate. > > This would include: > Display a banner on GNOME.org, 5 June with link to > https://www.resetthenet.org/ > Promote our participation on the campaign website > Promote our our participation and our work in this area in our own > channels (gnome.org och twitter). > > On the last Engagement Team Meeting [4] we agreed that this something > interesting. What do you foundation members think? If there is no > serious concerns I plan to ask the Board for approval. > > > 1 https://www.resetthenet.org/ > 2http://resetthenet.tumblr.com/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0MzA3MDcxLGVtYWlsaWQ9NzU1MQ== > 3 https://www.resetthenet.org/#add-yourself > 4 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/etm-2014-05-08 > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list