Re: New foundation member: Dhanuka's introduction
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 1:17 PM Arun Raghavan wrote: > I'm Dhanuka Warusadura from Sri Lanka. And I'm your newest GNOME > Foundation member :) I'm a contributor to libsecret project, a GSoC 2021 > intern and also an Outreachy alumnus. I truly need to thank my mentor Daiki > Ueno for this great opportunity. So, thank you Daiki! And thank you all for > accepting me as an official member of the GNOME Foundation. > > Welcome aboard, Dhanuka! > Indeed. And I very much hope you will find the GNOME welcoming and find motivation necessary to continue your hopefully long journey with GNOME because I definitely think no understatement that there are still so many tasks and projects to contribute to within the project Dhanuka. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey
That said I agree with Sri that it was very satisfying to fill out and complete so I'm lucky that I got a chance to do so. On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 4:23 PM Oliver Propst wrote: > Well I think basically it has expired. > > -- > -mvh Oliver Propst > -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Chat Platforms Evaluation Survey
Well I think basically it has expired. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: foss-north 2018 GNOME presence
Hi Kritsi thanks for your mail, sounds good with presence at foss-north. Depending on availability I will consider to help out (in some capacity at least). *as might be known. On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:08 PM Kristi Progri wrote: > Hi all, > > Hope this email finds you well. > This year we will be present again with our booth in foss-north conference > <https://foss-north.se/2019/>. > The event takes place during *April 7-10* at Chalmers Conference Centre > in *Gothenburg, Sweden*. > > Will any of our volunteers be at the event, who would like to give us a > hand during the conference? > We need an address to ship the box to with our swag, if someone could help > with that would be great. > > Please let us know if you are coming > https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/foss-north/2019 > > Thanks in advance, > Kristi > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: New GNOME Foundation staffer - DevOps Sysadmin
Welcome, Bartłomiej. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:58 PM Michael Hill via foundation-list < foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-12 at 18:34 +, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > I'm very pleased to announce that Bartłomiej Piotrowski has joined us > > yesterday (11th January) to take on the role of a DevOps oriented > > Sysadmin. This role is to support both Flathub and our existing > > Sysadmin, Andrea Veri. > > Congratulations and welcome, Bartłomiej! > > Mike > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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Re: New Foundation and Emeritus members
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Congrats everyone!! > +1 -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Election 2018 - Candidacy - Federico Mena Quintero
Your agenda, especially the part about development infrastructure looks very interesting, excellent. On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > Candidacy statement for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors > > Name: Federico Mena Quintero > Email: feder...@gnome.org > Corporate affiliation: Suse > > Hello, everyone, > > My candidacy is around two things: the Code of Conduct for GNOME, and > our development infrastructure. > > * Code of Conduct > > Over the past year or so, I have been a support member of the Code of > Conduct Working Group. While the group's task of drafting and > proposing the Events Code of Conduct are done, the CoC is not in place > yet. If I am elected as a member of the Board, I would like to help > put the Events Code of Conduct in place, along with its enforcement > guidelines. Along with the other members of the CoC Working Group, I > attended one training session about CoC enforcement by Sage Sharp from > Otter Tech. As part of the Board, I would like to make it possible > for GNOME conference organizers to attend such training sessions and > set up the infrastructure for having Code of Conduct enforcement in > all of GNOME's events. > > As an extension of that, I would like to help with updating GNOME's > Code of Conduct at large, not just for events. Think of our online > interactions within the project - gitlab, mailing lists, etc. Our > current CoC has obsolete form and practices, and with all the > knowledge there is now about how to have a good Code of Conduct - and > all the organizations that can assist us in making one and validating > it - I think we can have a modern CoC that will make GNOME friendlier > to a diverse set of people. > > * Development infrastructure > > Several things are converging in GNOME to make it a much more > attractive to new contributors: we now have Gitlab, which makes it > easy for people to submit changes, and Flatpak, which makes it easy to > ship applications and SDKs. > > However, there are some parts of our development infrastructure which > have gotten stale. My pet peeve is developer's documentation. We > have a mixture of DocBook, gtk-doc, Markdown, and a disparate set of > tools. Our devel docs get rendered to HTML versions of DocBook > documents, which is... very last decade. It shows up in > developer.gnome.org and in tools like Devhelp, and it is outdated in > both. > > I think we can make use of the new GNOME Internships program to tackle > some problems. > > - Improving our documentation tools so they use more modern > documentation formats, or that render and aggregate docs to more > useful versions. > > - Do an editing pass over all of GNOME's developer documentation. I > want to take inspiration from the Rust docs project, which has found > a good way to parallelize huge editing/writing tasks like these by > humans. > > - Finish the necessary work to integrate something like Bors/Homu into > our Gitlab instance, so that we have repositories that never break, > and so that it is possible to automate many menial tasks around > rebasing, integration testing, and reviewing merge requests. > > * Reaching out to underrepresented language communities > > Last year, as an Outreachy project I tried and failed to recruit > people to translate GNOME to indigenous languages from Mexico - > Náhuatl, Mayan, Mixe, etc. I think GNOME could set the example by > funding people to translate our desktop to these languages. This > cannot be done by unpaid volunteers, as they generally live within > several layers of marginalization. We need translations (and new > vocabularies for concepts that we cannot borrow from other software, > since they are untranslated to these languages), keyboard maps, and > outreach in general to these communities. > > Federico > ___ > foundation-announce mailing list > foundation-annou...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce > > -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC 2018 event dates
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Jeff F. <nekoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before I can chip in in that effort, I would need to know *when* GUADEC > will actually happen in 2018, as I've vaguely heard it would be earlier > this year, not in July-August, but didn't get something definitive and > set in stone. Well as stated & announced in the official news item [0] the dates for this years edition of GUADEC is July 6-11. 0 https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/02/guadec-2018/ I've been hoping for final dates to officially appear on > 2018.GUADEC.org for some months now, but that website is still > essentially a blank slate. Yeah would be good to see progress on the website... -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Reagarding current board meeting minutes
Yeah as a foundation member it feels great to see them published, thanks. *hope the board manage to keep up with the pace (mostly at least) going forward. again thanks. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Introducing Daniel García
Welcome *Daniel *was glad to hear/learn more about your contributions (and your intent to contribute more) hope you find the community enjoyable -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Highlight individual project fundraisings
Hm yes think a news-item is something that would make very much sense -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Quick introductions
+1 yeah -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Welcome, Neil McGovern, GNOME Foundation Executive Director!
Yeah Welcome Neil -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Self Introduction: Kunal Jain
Nice that you joined the foundation Kunaal, welcome. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: 01/15/2015 Engagement Meeting Minutes
Great to see this, seems as a very good productive meeting. Have added the notes to the wiki [1]. 1 https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings/15-JAN-2016 -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Affiliation change and stepping down
Glad you accepted the role at RedHat, its good news for GNOME (and of course the specific projects you will work on). -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Hello to Foundation List
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 15:45 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > Welcome Siska, it was a pleasure to meet you at GUADEC, we need > > people as > > cheerful and energetic as you are so I am really glad you're a > > foundation > > member now. > > Quite true. Welcome! :) > +1 Good luck with the release party! Hope to see some pictures from the event ;) -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: BOFs and Hackfests at GUADEC 2015
We can now confirm that IT-University [1] will host BOFs. Details including a map are available on the wiki [2]. 1 http://www.ituniv.se/english 2 https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/BOFs On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Andreas Nilsson li...@andreasn.se wrote: On 2015-05-15 21:28, Andreas Nilsson wrote: However, if that falls through, we might need to make a call for BOFs, since we would have a limited amount of rooms to offer. If you would like to host a BOF or a Hackfest, please *get in touch with the local team as soon as possible*, so we can arrange things and add your event to the count. Actually, to make it easier, please add your event to the following list: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2015/BOFs Thanks for your help! - Andreas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: I still enjoy my duties. What do you conciser is your board duties? -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Ekaterina Gerasimova
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova k...@gnome.org wrote: I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have about what I would bring to the board. Are you interested in continue severing as the Foundation treasurer and in general doing work to keep the foundations finances in order? -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADEC 2015 when?
+1 [1] 1 http://www.gnome.org/news/2015/02/guadec-2015-to-happen-from-august-7-9-in-gothenburg-sweden/ On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/01/2015, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:14:16PM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: We've been planning to run the conference between August 7-9, with a flexible hackfest schedule after that. That might changedepending on the final venue, but hopefully it helps with planning! Thanks for the update! I cannot take vacation after 9 August, so hopefully no delays. Ideally one week earlier, but alas. In case you haven't heard, the dates are 7-9th August for the conference, with hackfests most likely afterwards. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: OUTAGE: bugzilla.gnome.org, 09th February (09:00 CET) - 10th February (22:00 CET)
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: I just want to thank everyone on the sysadmin team for this. This has been a long time coming and took quite amount of work due to the fact that we had a specialized bugzilla install. It's times like this is why having an expert sysadmin team is so important. We are _lucky_ to have such awesome ones. I've worked in a lot of environments, and I know what I speak of. Thanks again guys, you guys are the best! +1. Now if we can maybe get someone to change the UI a bit on bugzilla that would be something... Yeah that would be awesome. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME support for fixmydocument.eu
I hope a board member step-up and sign the agreement for GNOME. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Hi. On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 11:51:41AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: There's a website to encourage support for open standards, so ODF usage within European Union. On http://fixmydocuments.eu/?page_id=27 I see Good idea. Does anybody feel like writing a short statement? Cheers, Tobi ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Conservancy as potential home for OPW (was Re: Mission Statement)
Was interesting to hear about the Outreachy announcement at FOSDEM are looking forward to learn the details. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org wrote: [ I want to be clear that I'm here primarily as an individual member of the GNOME Foundation. However, this particular post is primarily on behalf on Conservancy -- since Oliver called out Conservancy explicitly as a possible home for OPW. I'm the President, on the Board of Directors, and an employee of Conservancy. ] Oliver Propst wrote at 05:58 (EDT): I know an organization [1] that have administrative and legal expertise, maybe they would be interested in govern the program? 1 https://sfconservancy.org/overview/ Conservancy would of course welcome an application by OPW to join Conservancy, and Oliver is correct that Conservancy's primary daily activities are handling the types of administrative tasks that GF has struggled to handle for OPW. OPW is somewhat different from our usual member project, which are primarily Free Software projects themselves. However, Conservancy has established in the past some projects that are primarily services to advance and/or protect the adoption of Free Software. Thus, an OPW application to Conservancy is not unprecedented. Conservancy's evaluation committee would need to consider OPW as an applicant to Conservancy and decide. (Conservancy's eval committee meets monthly.) However, one useful component of any application from a project with an existing affiliation to a Free Software 501(c)(3) non-profit is a definitive statement from the governing body of that non-profit (in this case, likely, from GF's Board) which indicates the existing org has no objection to the application. Particularly in this case, Conservancy has an excellent relationship with GF; thus, Conservancy would certainly seek a joint decision for a relocation of OPW to Conservancy. If this change is really something GF wants to pursue and Conservancy can make an impact here helping OPW flourish, I'm prepared personally to prioritize such a transition to make sure it's smooth and easy. Máirín Duffy wrote at 12:55 (EDT) on Wednesday: Red Hat and the Software Freedom Conservancy are funding Marina and Karen's time spent on administering it respectively Regardless of anything that happens about the issue raised above, Conservancy remains very supportive of OPW. Conservancy's employment policy in fact allows use of some resources to do some volunteer work for other charities. I use that to do volunteer work for the FSF myself, and Karen has done so to help OPW and GF, so I don't expect Karen will cease involvement with OPW in any event. (IIUC, Karen also volunteers further on nights/weekends for OPW and GF as well.) Finally, I personally remain very supportive of OPW. I've been urging existing Conservancy member projects for years to participate more in OPW. Sadly, I haven't been as successful as I'd like, but both Karen and I actively have been working on that since she came to work at Conservancy, and hopefully we'll see more Conservancy member projects sponsoring OPW slots in the future! -- Bradley M. Kuhn President Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 09th, 2015
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: * Discussions with startups reveals that those who are server-intensive are looking for good desktop tooling, it's something GNOME is lacking in and Mac OS X has a lot of traction in. Well is a reason I'm so exciting about Builder and have encouraged [1] [2] our community to support Christian's effort. I know there have been suggestions [3] [4] about doing some kind research among web starts-up about what exact tools they use/need. I wounder if some companies really understand that by founding some work which would be for a well founded company a very small investment they could make really great, needed improvements of our platform. A second question is if people who have talked to start-ups have mentioned this possibly? A third question is can the foundation do the proceess of founding specific work that needs to be done to enhance our platform easier? * At least in Portland, GNOME is a very well recognized brand, 7/10 times it needs no explanation; similar story among developers in some venues in NYC; we have a strong brand +1 Its also my impression that GNOME is a loved brand, thus I think its important that we a) Nurture it b) Think more about how we can it use to our advantage c) Be better at telling our story. Of course every task involve a subject of smaller tasks and is something that takes a good amount of time and is depending on people's efforts. 1 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-December/msg00026.html 2 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2015-January/msg00028.html 3 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-December/msg4.html 4 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-December/msg00010.html -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Mission Statement
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: I think OPW is great. Having it ran by GNOME is great as well. Lack of status update is bad. Having OPW funds under the same legal entity is IMO questionable. I think it should be a separate legal entity. For as it already caused risks, and I don't see how this is aligned with mission statement. Meaning: A lot of money is being moved via GNOME. GNOME has special status (the donate for free bit), IMO legal entity would be needed. Very wise opinion. Speaking as a member of the Engagement team I think OPW is really really great but that don't necessarily means that GNOME should have the administrative responsibility as it apparently put extra pressure on GNOME's already strained resources (speaking here primarily about the board members time). One must also think one of take into take into account the exceptionally growth of the program, I do not think the original organizers could envision such sucess when the program was started but the questions is now how to best move the program forward. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Question for the Candidates: Donations to application developers?
On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:03 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: Hi, perhaps a little late to the party here but I thought I'd ask anyway. One of the most frequent enhancements people suggest to gnome-software is the ability to donate to both upstream applications, and to independent developers. This is something I think we need to address if we want random developers to actually write applications for GNOME. Allan suggested something GNOME-specific without too much detail but a lot of people have suggested something like a GNOME-themed Flattr page, which only really works for GNOME applications and means we rely on a non-free-software service (albeit one that's solved a lot of legal problems). There are a plethora of legal (do we allow refunds?), ethical (should we be encouraging users to pay for free software?) and other issues, and it would be interesting to hear what candidates have to say about this. Thanks, Richard. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list I understand of course that implementing working a solution is not a trivial thing and have many challenges but for me that is to large degree what GNOME are about, find free software solutions to hard problems. I see this as yet another area where GNOME can pioneer and advance free software. Selling free software is as probably most of you who are following this list are nothing new. RMS sold copies of emacs on discs (complete with source code of course) in the 80’s [2] and before RedHat switched to a subscription model for its operating system, the main revenue for the company was selling Linux operating systems in a CD-box [3]. I think that in the last years with the introduction of the different appstores many people are today happy to pay for good quality software [4], especially if its a small price, some people even think that gratis software equals bad quality. I do not think its realistic long-term in today’s market to have a platform and not offer developers a way of monazite app development. I don’t expect this to be an easy journey, there will sure be bumps in the road but I think the longer we wait with implementing a solution the more we distance ourselves from the general developer community. 1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708269 2 Free Software, Free Society, 2nd by Richard Stallman, page 12 for reference 3 http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/23/red_hat_q2_revenue_up/ 4http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/smartphone-owners-willing-to-pay-for-apps/#!beZgiz I know the election are over, but did not see this until now and wanted to clearly state my opinion on this topic. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors publicity
During the election period there was a desire from some foundation members (including me) that the board should have a more public profile then it currently have. Now that the elecetion are over and the new board have been elected I think its time think about how to turn this vision into reaillty. As a first step I want to do some interviews that we can publish on gnome.org, a wiki page with more info about this are available [1]. Somewhat related I have reached out to a (soon) former board member and asked if he wants to be interviewed. 1 https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Board -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
Thanks for all the info and your input Shaun. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign
I have now asked the board to take a decision in this matter. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:39 PM, 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 -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Marina Zhurakhinskaya
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya Emails: mari...@redhat.com and marina...@gmail.com Affiliations: Community Engagement Lead at Red Hat, Advisor and Director at the Ada Initiative Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina Dear Foundation, I'm running for a second term on the board to lend my organizing skills and my interest in reaching out to people to the Foundation and ensure its growth. We have an amazing community and high quality technology. My interests as a board member are to enable face-to-face work, development in the areas of interest to donors and advisory board members, and better external visibility of GNOME. Most recently, I've been helping organize sponsorship materials and process for GNOME.Asia and GUADEC, and contacting prospective sponsors. What have you learned the past year as a Director? How does a Board position help you become more effective in your contributions? Thanks! -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes help other orgs (like the FSF) on legal and other free software related matters. As promised when I left the position of Executive Director, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for the Board of Directors. I think I can help bring continuity to the board (Stormy was incredibly helpful on the board when I started as ED). Also, as a lawyer I sometimes have an additionally useful perspective. I'm still doing volunteer work for GNOME both as pro bono counsel and as a volunteer on nonlegal matters for GNOME. I've been helping with fundraising, collecting on outstanding invoices and generally wherever I can. You are a very busy person with many responsibilities, if you get elected to the Board do you feel confident that you can spend the necessary time on Board work? Thanks! -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. In early 2013, the board briefly investigated W3C membership, Interesting, any notes about this? The cost of a W3C membership is 7,900 USD and there is extensive information available on their website at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership . What benefits do you feel that joining the W3C will bring to GNOME and how would you approach sustainable raising the funding for the membership fees? While I have not done any extensive investigation about benefits, I have some thoughts about this. If more free software entities where to join WC3, proponents of a open unrestricted and Web would have a stronger voice thus be able to making a lager impact and ultimately shaping the future of the Web in a free software friendly direction (for those who wants to have more info about WC3 and its work I recommend this video [1]). Right now to my knowledge Mozilla are only the free software foundation that are a W3C member[2], as the events of the past week have showed fighting for a Open Web in that environment is hard [3], They have to carry a very heavy load. Its also brings up a point that we as a free software project are used to tell a story from a outside perspective when there is value of to join others and collaborate across organizational boundaries (something are very used to do within the project and on the technical side ). Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. I understand of course a that a membership fee should never threaten the financial situation of the foundation. With that said I hope that the Foundation will have larger revenue in the future, thus be able to pay the membership fee or find other founding opportunities. 1 http://www.w3.org/2011/11/w3c_video.html 2 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List 3https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ 4 http://webkitgtk.org/ 5 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. Have you checked whether those contributors are interested, or have the time for this? As I have stated I intend to to do a investigation,I have not done any so far. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014 15:00, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Actually, I was able to get most of the way towards the discounted fee for the fist years of WC3 membership when I was Executive Director, but we just didn't have the bandwidth to participate in it. If the new board thinks it's valuable, I can help pick up that conversation (whether I am on the board or not of course). Great, thanks for the info! foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. I would also want to work for the Board to have a stronger and more public profile (especially in light of the current situation where we have no ED). 1 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-April/msg00116.html 2 http://www.w3.org/ -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Self introduction
Hi, my name is Oliver Propst [1], I'm a new foundation member. I have contributed to the marketing efforts of GNOME (as part of the Engagement Team) since around 2010. Beside my GNOME contributions I'm also involved with the Mozilla community [2] and organizing the free software/society conference FSCONS [3] (which Karen keynoted last year). Other interests includes exercise, take pictures [4] and read comics [5]. Professionally I work as a public school teacher, although this semester I'm attending a course at the University here in Gothenburg, Sweden where I live. I look forward to continue contribute to the Engagement Team efforts and collaborate with the rest of the GNOME community. 1 https://twitter.com/Opropst 2 https://reps.mozilla.org/u/oliver_propst/ 3 https://fscons.org/2013/ 4 http://500px.com/oliverpropst 5 https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18407066-oliver-propst -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Status of reports
Hi, What are the status of the annual and quarterly reports that the GNOME foundation was producing? Have they been discontinued because of lack of interest/time from those who was producing them? If we want to have a 2013 annual report is not about time to start working on it? Maybe a wider dissection about the relevance/importance of the reports are needed. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
