Re: SiS video cards and GNOME 3
Em Sáb, 2010-11-06 às 21:32 +, Bastien Nocera escreveu: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 11:12 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:19 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote: 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem Ideas, suggestions? Given the statements at: http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/~linux-sis/index.php?page=Preface and the statements that used to be on Thomas Winischhofer's page (that page has disappeared now), you're better off talking to SiS directly, and making it clear that they will be made irrelevant in the Linux desktop business if they don't change their ways. I don't think it's up to GNOME to ensure that decent 3D drivers are available for each and every video cards available. The only thing that I can advise you is: - Contact SiS yourself about this Perhaps Jonh can draft a letter and we can get it reviewed and Jonh can send it officially on behalf of the GNOME Foundation. Thoughts? I think Jonh saw the amount of work that would be needed, above and beyond getting specifications, and dropped the idea. We already had a couple of e-mails between Jonh and myself about the content of the mail, and I gather he feels that the task is beyond just providing specifications, as the whole community behind the previous SiS drivers has left. Jonh, is that correct? Cheers Yep, that's right. It's a lot of work that I cannot handle in my spare time. cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
contributions from new members
Hello, folks. This subject was already discussed here, but we still see the issue, so, I'm raising it again. Dear Membership Committee, When someone applies to be a Foundation member[1], [s]he fills a form with his/her list of contributions to GNOME. The person [s]he informed as contact to support his/her application should receive that info. Once [s]he is accepted as Foundation Member, you also should send this info in the announcement email (on this mailing list). So, is it possible to do that? If you need man power, count on me to help you guys on this task ;) [1] - http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/application.php Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
SiS video cards and GNOME 3
Hi, folks. As some of you might already know, the average computer in Brazil is shipped with SiS video card. Which doesn't have a proper X driver. So, most people in Brazil will not be able to run gnome-shell. They will simply not feel the GNOME 3 experience. (this includes myself, btw). The answer buy a better hardware just doesn't work here. We're talking about a development country (3rd world...). The fallback for gnome-shell is just to stick with gnome panel/metacity, which means GNOME 2 experience. I really feel bad about this. In every conversation I have, people keep asking/complaining about this issue. So, I'm wondering if the Foundation could, somehow, help in this area. Two ideas came up (not mutually exclusive): 1) Fund someone to writer a proper X org driver for SiS cards 2) Talk to SiS to solve the problem Ideas, suggestions? Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - September 16, 2010
Em Seg, 2010-09-27 às 22:07 -0500, Brian Cameron escreveu: Minutes for Meeting of September 16th, 2010 * Sponsorship proposal process o ACTION: Stormy to update the hackfest wiki pages to make it clear that The GNOME Foundation needs detailed information about expenses included with proposals if they are asking for GNOME Foundation sponsorship. + Goals for attending: For example, why the sponsored travelers need to be there? + Goals for event. + Costs, broken down to the level of who is traveling from where. Particularly expensive travel costs should be justified. If, for example, on traveler is considerably more expensive than the others, there should be some clear justification. + Potential sponsorship and income. + Provide a write up after the event? Hi, board. I particularly find this item a bit intimidating. I, for one, living in Brazil, have my costs more expensive than anyone else for the DevTools Hackfest. I'm considering dropping my name from the list[1], just because I'm not comfortable in having to answer questions like: Hey, you are much more expensive than others, why do you deserve to go? [1]-http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/DevDocTools -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Meeting Minutes Published - September 16, 2010
Em Seg, 2010-10-11 às 08:28 -0600, Stormy Peters escreveu: Hi Jonh, Thanks for the feedback. We are aware that not only is it more expensive to fly from some parts of the world but that it also means that it's a bigger burden for the individual. Especially when they are coming from a country with a lower cost of living too. So we worded it poorly in the minutes. We didn't mean to imply that some people need more justification but rather that if something stands out, we might need more information. For example, we would understand $1,000+ airfare if we knew you were coming from Brazil to Europe. Good! A question, have you actually gotten this feedback or do you just feel like you might? I understand that it does not feel good either way, I am just curious as to the magnitude of the problem. No, no. It didn't happen. I just read the text and felt bad about that. And for what it's worth, I don't think the cost breakdown needs to be on the public wiki. I think the travel committee needs it but they keep a lot of other information private. Perhaps you could suggest a process change to the travel committee, travel-commit...@gnome.org? Will do it. Thanks for the clarification, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: New GNOME Foundation Members
Em Sex, 2010-08-13 às 14:43 +0200, Tobias Mueller escreveu: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: * Randal Barlow * Peter Hutterer * Florian Müllner * Garrett Michael LeSage * Djavan Fagundes * Alexandro Silva * MilanBouchet-Valat * Flamarion Jorge * Friedel Wolff * Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias * Ritesh Khadgaray Wow, 3 Brazilians! Welcome Alex, Djavan and Flamarion! Also, welcome Florian (I know you from libgami fame), great to see you working hard on gnome-shell. Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A few questions for the candidates
Em Ter, 2010-06-01 às 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz escreveu: Hi, Hi Vincent, hi all. 1) I've read with interest the mails from the candidates announcing they're running, and most (if not all -- I didn't double-check) include some motivations with examples of what they'd be interested in working on. Why are those tasks/ideas things you cannot work on while not being on the board? Indeed I can help GNOME even not being in the board. That's what I already do. The point is that I think I can help *more* by being part of it. Why? Because I'd discuss directly in a small team that can actually get things done (that's why that team exists btw). 2) What are your non-usual (ie, not code, not translations, not documentation, etc.) contributions as a GNOME Foundation member? (organizing events, pushing people to do things, finding sponsors, etc. are all possible answers) This is already answered in my candidacy ;) I'll paste here: I contribute to GNOME in - code, translation - spreading GNOME: I'm always giving talks in Brazil about GNOME and how to contribute. - kind of coordinate GNOME Brazil: motivating users, managing Planet, managing mailing lists, etc - now that you mentioned it, I remembered: I'm also trying to find a way to Brazilian people donate money to the Foundation in a 'more brazilian way'. 3) What is your opinion on the co-location of Akademy and GUADEC in 2011? And if you think it was not the best choice, will you still be able to help it happen? Personally, I'm not a big fan of this. Of course, I can live with that. I think if we need to work together with other teams, we could do that in a hackfest for example. GUADEC is the GNOME event, it's kind weird to meet people around wearing kde shirts :) 4) How much free time per week do you think you will be able to allocate for the board? (I'm very well aware that this could be 0 for some weeks, and 100% of your time for other weeks; I'm just asking in general) I think 10h-15h a week. 5) Are you okay giving up some of your current GNOME responsabilities/activities to join the board? (give up a maintainer hat, or hack less, or participate less in a specific team) Or do you think it won't be necessary and why? (I know it's a bit related to the previous question :-)) I'm aware of this, for sure. The area I could leave is translation, once Brazilian team currently has great man power. 6) Will you be interested in being treasurer, president or secretary if elected? If yes, which role and why? I'd prefer not to pick any of these positions right now. As I'd be a new director, I think I need first to learn how things work in these areas. I'd be happy to work in general activities, like to be close to the Marketing team. 7) What do you think of the current GNOME Foundation budget? Had you read it at least once before reading this mail? (it's okay if you didn't look at it before, btw) I think it's a bit confusing. Perhaps with GNUCash effort going on things become easier to read and understand. 8) What do you think our next fundraising campaign should be about? (I'd love to not read 11 times the same answer, thanks :-)) Maybe not answering directly your question, but: I think we should be more aggressive asking for donations directly in the desktop. gnome-about should do this job for us. This is related to a thread started yesterday in marketing list (which I've replied). 9) Will you be at GUADEC this year? (there's a board meeting and an advisory board meeting there) Yes! 10) Make or break question: what's your favorite french expression? I pass... :( Thanks, Vincent Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: question for candidates
Em Ter, 2010-06-01 às 17:03 -0400, Richard Stallman escreveu: Here is a question for the candidates. To advance to the goal of freedom for software users, we need to develop good free software, and we need to teach people to value and demand the freedom that free software offers them. We need to advance at the practical level and at the philosophical level. GNOME is good free software, and thus contributes at the practical level. How will candidates use the user community's awareness of GNOME to contribute to educating the communityn about freedom? Hi Richard and all, Personally, in my talks about GNOME, often (depending on the audience), before talking about GNOME itself, I talk about free software, its principles, its benefits, its philosophy. Then I explain why GNOME was created and how tied GNOME is with free software and the GNU project. We should encourage people to do the same when talking about GNOME as a project (in non technical talks). GNOME Marketing team is working on a subproject called GNOME ambassadors: We rely on GNOME Ambassadors like you to spread the word of GNOME and teach people the advantages of using a free desktop. (quote from http://live.gnome.org/Ambassadors). This is a great opportunity to do such task. Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
State of Foundation charter
Hello, folks. I'm taking a look at http://foundation.gnome.org/about/charter/ , which mentions it's still a draft, from Oct 2000! Do we have a final version, or is it the final version so that it can be renamed? Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009
Em Ter, 2008-04-22 às 12:13 -0700, Ted Gould escreveu: On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is in Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences? I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally. However, I suspect that because the GNOME summit is held in Boston every year we will have to make due. It seems to me that the Boston Summit should turn into the Americas Conference and leave GUADEC as the European Conference. While I know that there are a lot of GNOME Folks in Boston, it would seem that moving it around the Americas would be reasonable. Now all we need is a cleaver acronym for it :) --Ted Oh, It would be really, really, amazing! GUADLAC, as Behdad suggested. A GNOME Conference in Americas, with the same structure as GUADEC (aka sponsorship). /me wonders about a huge GNOME crowd here in Brazil... :-) -- Jonh Wendell www.bani.com.br ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
IV Brazilian GNOME Forum - Thanks
Hi, folks. I just want to say a big THANK YOU, to the GNOME Foundation, which has helped us in this event. It was my first event as member of GNOME community, and i am very, very happy with it. It was really very cool, in all senses. We felt a strong receptivity from the people there, and a some of them want to start contributing to the GNOME in some areas. I'd like to thank Izabel too, who made all this possible ;) So, guys, i am proud to be part of that nice community, and got more than motivated to contribute more with the project, by developing or spreading GNOME to all parts of Brazil! PS: Bruno has blogged about the event: http://blogs.gnome.org/brunobol/2007/09/29/iv-forum-gnome/ As long as i get the new photos in my machine, i'll be blogging too ;) Cheers, -- Jonh Wendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MSN / Google Talk) Linux User #114432 https://launchpad.net/~wendell ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
