Re: Question for candidates
Le 21 mai 2014 07:40, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org a écrit : [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] for downstream, there's the SUSE conference or the Fedora Flock; To cooperate formally with the SUSE conference would pose an ethical problem because SUSE contains lots of nonfree software. To have the event in proximity to the SUSE conference, without any public relationship with it, would not have such a problem. SUSE is a company, not a product, therefore it can not contains nonfree software. You seems to be incorrectly mixing a company (SUSE), an community project (openSUSE) done only with free software, community events around this project (openSUSE conference and summit) and friend projects like freedesktop meeting which was supported by SUSE which hosted the event in its Nuremberg office. (for the record, I'm a contributor to openSUSE and also working for SUSE). -- Frédéric Crozat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: European bank account for donations
Le 9 mars 2012 23:51, Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.com a écrit : On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 22:36, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: Are any of GNOME's 3 sister organizations that have bank accounts in Europe a tax free charity currently? About French associations tax law, in a nutshell: GNOME-FR is a non-profit organization, so called association loi 1901. As a non-profit organization, it is tax free. I am not sure what you mean by charity and how it translates into French fiscal system. Charity is mean in the sense donations are deductible from your own tax. GNOME-fr is not a charity in that sense, it would need to become a association reconnue d'utilité publique, which is a lot of paper work and budget . -- Frédéric Crozat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2012
2011/4/27 William Jon McCann william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com: Hi Brian, On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: On 04/18/11 03:05 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:02 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: For those of you who would like to host the next GUADEC in 2012 you are hereby invited to write a formal invitation to the board of the GNOME Foundation at board gnome org. The deadline for the proposals is June 20, 2011. Please send proposals to bo...@gnome.org. What does this call (and its deadline) mean with regard to a potential co-hosting with aKademy in 2012 again (Desktop Summit)? The GNOME Foundation board and the aKademy board has already decided that the Desktop Summit will be a bi-annual event for the time being. Oh, that is unfortunate. I assume that a newly elected board will be able to reverse this decision. Is that correct? I don't see any good reason for not continuing Desktop Summit, using bi-annual as a rule of thum. -- Frederic Crozat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - August 19, 2010
2010/9/3 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org: * Bastien - To contact some international banks for the possibility of a US-based dual-currency account (probably will not work, as Stormy already did research. Just a data point: Louis Desjardins mentioned to me recently that he has opened a CAD/USD/EUR account in Canada. I *guess* that international bank transfer charges will still be expensive. One thing to keep in mind : EU regulation forced EU banks to apply the exact same rate in intra-EU bank transfer rate as the one used in the country where the account is located (and in general, at least in France, it means it is free, when done using Internet) : so it would probably a good idea to have a account in EU (GNOME-FR has an account, I don't know if it could be used for that). -- Frederic Crozat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
Le 09/12/2009 20:35, Brian Cameron a écrit : I think we are mashing together a bunch of issues. So, in effect, are we looking for: [0] a way to measure what could be appropriate content for Planet GNOME [1] a way to prevent non-free or equivalent software being marketed via the Planet [2] a way to handle the consequences if there is either inappropriate content [3] a way to handle the consequences if there is a pitch for software that is orthogonal to GNOME values Is it possible to provide filters so that people who are interested in different types of blog entries can focus on what is interesting to them? Some people may only be interested in seeing technical information, and others may not want to see distro-specific things, etc. If it is done on the browser side (which cookies and some JS magic), it would exclude RSS readers. And to have it at the Atom/RSS level, it would mean having two different planets configuration. -- Frederic Crozat Mandriva ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
Le 08/12/2009 16:08, sankarshan a écrit : 2009/12/8 Pierre-Luc Beaudoinpierre-...@pierlux.com: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 03:23 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: But I find it interesting to know, say, what Miguel is up to these days. I don't think it's just me... I don't believe Frederic was pointing at Miguel. There are people who have left the Gnome community working on products that don't use any Gnome technology posting blog post/ads for said product on PGO. [0] Unless specific names are pointed out to the Board or, on this list, the shadow boxing will be more harmful So, let's start (this is list done quickly by me and I haven't contacted anybody from it), as basis: - Robert Love - Christopher Blizzard - Miguel De Icaza - Nat Friedman - Daniel Veillard - Edd Dumbill - Glynn Foster - James Henstridge - Jeff Waugh - Mark McLoughlin - Scott James Remnant [1] How does one define that they have left the GNOME community ? this list is based on people either no longer blogging at all or not blogging about GNOME and not being active in GNOME. I don't have any problem about people who blogs about non-political oriented things in their life, as long as GNOME is one of those things... I'm not even sure I should still be on Planet GNOME (even if I'm release team member), since most of my posts aren't about GNOME but about the distribution I work on. And I sometime feels those posts could be seen as propaganda for my distribution. Regarding what bedhad said, nothing prevent people to read those people blog outside Planet GNOME (like Planet Mono or anything else). -- Frederic Crozat Mandriva ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership
Le 27/11/2009 10:53, Murray Cumming a écrit : On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 16:50 -0200, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: Alternative proposal: lets deal with the problem at hand and get our story straight about what is planet.gnome.org, what can be posted there (i.e. no porn and vulgar language etc.) and how we can help to enforce a reasonably exact policy on an exact resource which is planet.gnome.org. planet.gnome.org is hard to moderate. Editors can only remove an entire blog. It would be easier if the software allowed the existing editors to remove a single blog post. Let's be honest too : there are a bunch of people which used to be active GNOME members, who changed their focus to other projects and are still in Planet GNOME for no reason. Maybe PGO editors should start cleaning the old cruft (no offense intended).. -- Frederic Crozat Mandriva ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
