Re: Board of Directors Elections 2019 - Candidacy - Jeremy Allison
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:08:12PM -0700, Jeremy Allison via foundation-list wrote: > Yes, thanks for the correction Karen. Not being a lawyer means I'm often > not very precise about these things (I'm very precise about my technical > terminology instead :-). > > [...] > > > > I don't currently contribute other than helping the > > > gnome-vfs maintainers use one of the libraries (libsmbclient) of > > > my primary project, Samba to access SMB1/2/3 servers. Then allow me to nitpick and point out that it's GVfs, not gnome-vfs. :) It's been a while since GnomeVFS [1] has been deprecated and replaced by GVfs [2,3] and the application-facing API is fronted by GIO [4]. Either way, I appreciate your help maintaining the Samba backend, and your interest in running for the board! [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-vfs/ [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/ [4] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the board meeting of August 14, 2018
> * Private meeting minutes issues (Nuritzi) >* https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/60 Umm... some of the comments on this issue read a little too aggressive to me. Electronic communication is hard as it is. Let's not make it more complicated by repeatedly using phrases that seem to indicate malicious intent on part of the Board. It's almost impossible to get it right a 100%. I have myself written sentences, which I have later thought could have come across as too harsh. My strategy in such cases is to ensure that my follow-up comments are more welcoming to make up for any negativity brought about by my previous messages. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Announcing List Fest 2018
Hello everybody, We are organizing List Fest in Brno from 10th to 14th September. This is a small focused event to address the scalability problems in GtkListBox and GtkFlowBox. For further details, see: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/ListFest2018 Cheers, Rishi ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017
Hey, On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:11:50PM +0100, a...@gnome.org wrote: > Debarshi Ray wrote: >> I cannot see any mention in https://www.gnome.org/news/, so I can only >> assume that this hasn't happened. :) > > If you wanted to make sure that it happens, you could draft a post to > put on there. Or we could just promote the campaigns through our social > media accounts. Umm... I didn't quite understand the implication of that. :) It appears [1] that a decision was already taken on the 28th of February to use our Engagement channels for promoting these Patreon campaigns. Given that there is enough overlap between the Foundation's board and the Engagement Team, I am wondering where things stand at the moment. Would you like someone to draft a post? There is enough information in my initial email [2] for someone to compose an article. I understand that everybody is busy, and I'd rather let somebody more accomplished write the article, but I can also do it if you want me to. Or is somebody from the Engagement Team already working on this? Thanks, Rishi [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2017-April/msg7.html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2017-March/msg7.html ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017
On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:04:38AM +0100, a...@gnome.org wrote: >Our expenses have recently increased due to hiring an ED, so > there's a need to be frugal. >The Foundation hasn't contributed to fundraisers in the past. > Contributing to these two would therefore set a precedent, and we might > need a policy regarding which fundraisers we support and how much. >I think there were some concerns about funding individuals through > a subscription service like patreon, as opposed to more targeted > fundraisers, although I'm not sure of the details. I wasn't expecting the Foundation to donate to the fundraiser, but to help spread the word. Of course, I don't know the original context in which this topic was brought up. > The board was positive about the fundraisers in general, and did decide > to encourage the Engagement Team to publicise them. If this hasn't > happened, there's still time. I cannot see any mention in https://www.gnome.org/news/, so I can only assume that this hasn't happened. :) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017
Hey, On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:34:36PM -0800, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 31st 2017, 18:00 UTC = > > [...] > > * From the mailing list - patreon campaign > * We're going to have an ED, it's going to cost us for a bit until they > can bring in money. We should be conservative in the meantime. > * The campaigns are not very well framed, it is unclear what they would > be working on. > * ACTION: Allan to encourage the engagement team to promote the campaigns > * ACTION: Allan to reach out to Lapo saying we're keeping an eye on it > * ACTION: Nuritzi to ask Neil for his opinion I was waiting for a wider or more prominent discussion about this with more context, but I haven't seen anything. I also don't know if Lapo was able to clarify the framing of the comapigns. I'd surprised if he didn't. :) So, anyway, since I am not on board-l...@gnome.org and can't access the archives, I'll bite based on some wild assumptions. Hopefully, it will help. I assume that by "campaigns" we are talking about pippin and Tanu's campaigns: * https://www.patreon.com/pippin * https://www.patreon.com/tanuk Tanu's campaign is about Pulseaudio, something that I use daily but know next to nothing about. So I will just comment on the other one. ie., pippin's campaign. It is not clear to me why you consider it to be "not very well framed"? Is it about the introductory wording on https://www.patreon.com/pippin? pippin (ie. Oyvind Kolas) is one of the two most prolific contributors to the GIMP/GEGL/Babl stack (mitch being the other one). As far as I understand, the Patreon campaign is meant to enable him to focus more on that work and still afford a living. GEGL/Babl is the image processing toolkit that lets GIMP 2.9.x/2.10 support more than 8-bits per colour channel [1]. ie., more than 256 levels for red, green and blue blue in a pixel. Going forward it will enable GIMP to be a non-destructive editor. These are all very important and major milestones for GIMP if it has to stay relevant in this day and age. On a more personal and less prominent front, GEGL/Babl is one of the core dependencies of GNOME Photos. We use it for everything from decoding and loading image files to memory, for all our non-destructive editing, for rendering it on the screen, and for thumbnailing. So, GEGL/Babl is relevant to GIMP and by extension to GNOME and we will all be better off it was strongly maintained. Regarding what the Patreon campaign has yielded so far ... Ever since pippin started devoting more time to this, I have noticed a distinct uptick in patch reviews and a general tightening of all feedback loops. As a GEGL contributor, I find this very encouraging. As a GEGL user who is on a much shorter development cycle than GIMP, this is very helpful. I can expect releases to show up whenever I need them to. Moving on to more eye-catching things. You can see some highlights on https://www.patreon.com/pippin itself. However, those can be hard to parse for the casual onlooker, so I'll try to summarise. Babl's performance has benefitted from a new persistent cache. That benefits all conversions from sRGB to linear RGB to CIE Lab and so on. See https://www.patreon.com/posts/8bpc-jpg-images-7894246 A ton of work on MIP mapping. It was lying unfinished for years, and is now in a state that applications can actually think of using it. For the uninitiated, MIP maps enable massive performance gains by reducing the amount of pixel data that needs to processed during interactive editing of images. See https://www.patreon.com/posts/mipmaps-now-at-8143154 and https://www.patreon.com/posts/gegl-mipmap-8436181 It has also yielded the odd funky image processing operation. See https://www.patreon.com/posts/spachrotyzer-8554146 and https://pippin.gimp.org/spachrotyzer/ The GIMP community has already backed this: https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/01/16/pippin-patreon-fundraising-started/ I hope GNOME will do so too. Cheers, Rishi [1] https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of February, 23th, 2016
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: >* The item has been discussed during the meeting, details > are available at > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-February/msg3.html Very interesting. An email to a mailing list linking to itself in the archives! Maybe this has been done before, but this is the first time I noticed. I guess, since posts to the announcement list are controlled, it is possible to manually construct the would-be link. In that case, I applaud your effort. If you really have a time machine of some sort, then, well, I am speechless. Or am I hallucinating? Cheers, Rishi pgp6lWdbcGa30.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:57:35PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > It is easy to do streaming with free software, in a way that lets > everyone watch with free software, Incorrect. It is possible, but it is not easy... > and I know people who would be glad > to help you do this. ... and this is why. ;) You could have made it easier, than it is now, by pointing to an URL which tells us how to do it instead of taking the "I know people..." approach. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016
Hey, [Removed a few mailing lists from CC] On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 02:49:34PM -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > * Remote video? (assuming participants are comfortable with that) We did run a live stream on Google Hangouts during the first day of the Content Apps Hackfest in Madrid. Instead of making it a public broadcast, we specifically invited only those who had expressed a desire to participate remotely. This does require having a spare laptop to run the stream. Cheers, Rishi ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015
Hey, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Jeff F. T. wrote: > Just for the record: in this case the thread we're referring to is the > one actually started by you (when you mailed the board list with your > questions a while ago). You were kept in c.c. of all the discussions, > and as such did not miss anything on that front. Ok, good to know. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Cheers, Rishi pgpEL5pSijfU_.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > Le mardi 10 novembre 2015 ? 09:07 +0000, Debarshi Ray a ?crit?: > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > Deferred: > > > ?* Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by the same name > > > > Where is this thread? > > > This was referring to the one on the board's mailing list You mean this one: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/board-list ? Am I allowed to join it? I am asking because it says: "Private list for Foundation Board of Directors discussions" Thanks, Rishi pgpfO3JmKSQLu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > Deferred: > * Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by the same name Where is this thread? Thanks, Rishi pgpHf9g9XmLee.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: New challenge
Hey Karen, Thanks for your work on GNOME over the past few years. Working with you to make GUADEC happen in Brno was great fun and a memorable experience. Wish you all the best for your future. Cheers, Debarshi -- It has its possibilities but I am bound by my limitations. -- Vivek Shah pgpLc1so4m9aI.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more > > open source code and tools than the gitorious community. We accept > > money from Google for the GSoC's every year and I see no complaints. > > Everything is a matter on how you look at things really. > > I agree that everyone should be free to pick their fights. I agree > that you you are free to pick yours and have them different from mine. > Do you agree that mine can be different from yours? And, yet, you use GMail. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpni5UQsr2RJ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC videos are available only with nonfree codecs
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the GUADEC videos on > http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/ are available only in > proprietary formats, H.264 for the video and MP3 for the audio-only > option. Well, atleast they don't use Flash. :-) > Why aren't they available at least *also* in formats using Free codecs > (webm / theora / ogg) ? Preferably they should even be available *only* > using Free codecs! We had asked SuperLectures to use WebM, if possible, but I think it fell through the cracks. I will ask them about it. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpOOPb56fKZT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror
Hey, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > Anyway this is really not what was the most important point to me in > my previous email and you didn't answer the question I really cared > about, so I'm asking again: is there a way for maintainers to opt out > of the github mirroring? Speaking as someone who has a Gitorious account and not a GitHub one, what will you gain by opting out? It won't stop someone from cloning your code on GitHub. This way you atleast have a canonical tree on GitHub where you can see what people are doing with your stuff. Basically, I don't think that choosing to opt-out is strong enough message even on ethical grounds. Cheers, Debarshi -- Life is like bein' on a mule team. Unless you're the lead mule, all the scenery looks about the same. pgpFx8h4V1R17.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: jabber.gnome.org's future
>> doing stuff over Google hangouts these days. It would be nice if >> we could make something like that work with open standards and >> free software. I don't think IRC is the right starting point. >> >> > Sure.. it's not a good fit for a free software project though since it > isn't free software. In fact, I would say it clearly indicates a gap in > our platform that we don't have something similar. We have Muji [1], but it sucks because it sends the video/audio to each of the parties separately, which is why it does not scale and runs into bandwidth issues. People from Google had earlier said that they want to release the specifications for Hangouts [2], but that hasn't happened and we have not been able to find a contact inside Google to help out with that. Happy hacking, Debarshi [1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji [2] http://juberti.blogspot.cz/2011/07/hangouts-mailbag.html -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgpMuQElibjx6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: jabber.gnome.org's future
> Also, the password is tied to the Mango password, which is > some autogenerated nonsense I can never remember. Good thing > we have a keyring in GNOME, but it's a hassle when setting > up a new machine. Jabber/XMPP lets you change your password using a client. Empathy does not expose this option in its UI, but you can use Pidgin or Gajim on a one-off basis to change the password. And, yes, having an entry in GNOME Online Accounts for the GNOME infrastructure sounds cool, but I wonder how many people would be using it. Cheers, Debarshi -- If computers are going to revolutionize education, then steam engines and cars and electricity would have done it too. -- Arjun Shankar pgp5wDd8HDrYX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME now
> What you say is not a vision. That's a "what", not a "why". Also, are we in > the same business as Apple? Apple is in the business of challenging the > status quo and thinking differently. ($:04 in the video) Are we? > WHY are we doing GNOME? We are in the business of challenging the status quo in free software. Happy hacking, Debarshi -- There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. pgp6iI5TjuiLo.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!
> Maybe private email? Maybe bringing it up in a different way? Sri's > initial email didn't mention Emily at all - were you just waiting for an > opportunity to bring up your discontent? The point still remains that people posting on Planet GNOME should be more informed about what they write. Especially when they are writing about a sensitive topic and their words can be interpreted by outsiders as coming from a position of authority. I can understand that their intentions are noble, but the last time someone took their chances we ended up with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#cite_note-6 (Yes, I know Wikipedia is a community project and anyone can edit a page, and so on, but GNOME is a community driven free software project too and we are not that different from them.) Biting the hand that feeds you [1] is not the answer to effective communication. Happy hacking, Debarshi [1] http://todoentiempo.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/open-communication/#comment-574 -- There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. pgp6kBohLMEU8.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus
> Interestingly, is an emeritus eligible to be listed in gnome planet? From the portion of the original announcement that you quoted: "Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion" :-) Happy hacking, Debarshi -- K&R is like the Bible. The fervent read it from end to end, the religious keep a copy. -- Arjun Shankar pgphGhONTPSMh.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Introduction
Hello everybody, I am a new member of the GNOME Foundation. I am originally from the city of Kolkata in eastern India, but I am currently located in Brno, Czech Republic. In the recent past I have been hacking on Telepathy Idle, and sending the occasional patch to Gstreamer to make it work better with my Matroska videos. Before that I used to develop Gnote; and in the dying days of GNOME 2.x I took a shot at writing a photo management application based on Tracker called Solang. Thank you for approving my membership. Happy hacking, Debarshi -- You have a better chance of dying today, than winning the lottery. Especially if you didn't buy the ticket. pgpfC0TIE2klP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
