Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

Hola, On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 15:28 +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote: > My very own totally unscientific opinion is that hyperkitty is meh > while Discourse is actually quite awesome (and I’ve always said I > hated webforums prior to using Discourse). :D Okay. I assume you are referring to the Web

Re: Moving Engagement List to Discourse

Hi, On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 08:57 -0500, s...@ramkrishna.me wrote: > If you have objections, please speak up. You can still interact by > mail like you could previously so you won't see too much change. But I don't object, but I'd like to note that Mailman 3 meant to bring a Web interface if

Re: Unsunscribe

Hi, On Thu, 2018-06-28 at 20:35 +0200, Pierre Muller via engagement-list wrote: > I would like to be removed from this mailing list. You can do that yourself. In every email you get from this list, you'll find a header: List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: How to get involved in GNOME

Hey hey. On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:20 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > It does seem bizarre that we have no way to file a bug from the front > page. I'm not so surprised. We don't ship software to end-users and we (used to) encourage those users to file the bugs with their ISV first. Cheers,

Re: community input...

Hi. On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 22:26 -0300, Felipe Ferreira da Silva wrote: > but I think the lack of a more accessible medium of communication is > required. I don't think it gets more accessible than email and IRC. At least from the technical side of things. Email has been around for as long as

Re: Python Jamaica: PyCon 2017 GNOME Foundation Sponsorship/Support

Hi. On Di, 2017-07-04 at 13:41 -0500, Christopher Lee Murray wrote: > How might we go about proceeding to have GNOME Foundation as an official > sponsor? If you're asking for money, board-l...@gnome.org is your best bet. But I'd be surprised to see the GNOME Foundation sponsoring such an event

Re: Updating the adopt a hacker list

Hi. On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:24:34PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Since no one has said they'll take care of this, here's a suggestion > for an initial list of people to approach: > I have a list of the adopted hackers of the last year that I can share with interested parties. That list is

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

Hi. On Mo, 2016-08-22 at 15:01 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > > > > The issue has nothing to do with currencies. The problem is that as a > > 501(c)(3) we need to know where our donations come from >

Re: Tweeting from events

hey hey. On Mi, 2016-11-30 at 12:46 +, Allan Day wrote: > One option might be to give temporary access to @gnome for the duration of an > event There is Tweetdeck or whatever it's called. With that, you can give other Twitter accounts access to a then shared account. We sort of used that for

Re: Release marketing for GNOME 3.22

Hi. On Di, 2016-08-30 at 11:42 +0100, Lene Raastad wrote: > Do we have a budget behind it? Yeah, usually it's 0 money units. Timewise, it's three weeks from now ;-) Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Closing the GNOME BitPay account

Hi. On Mo, 2016-08-22 at 12:44 +0200, Allan Day wrote: > Unfortunately IRS regulations means that accepting payments through Bitcoin > poses some problems Do you have details? I could only find https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf which does not indicate that "virtual currency" should be

Re: GNOME is people

On Do, 2016-08-18 at 17:33 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > via Metapixel: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/ > See http://lu.is/blog/2006/07/17/gnome-is-peoplewmosaicswpeople/ Cool! Thanks! I've also found Pixelize: http://lashwhip.com/pixelize.html Do we have a collection of

Re: GNOME is people

Hi! Do you happen to know how the image had been created? If it's at all possible, we should have a new one which does not repeat the same pictures over and over again. Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Updating the adopt a hacker list

Hi. On Di, 2016-07-12 at 09:15 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > I don't mind if you want to rotate me out, but I definitely don't mind > staying on the list, it gives me a little thrill whenever I get to send > one out :) Same here :) Cheers,   Tobi ___

Re: Asset licensing guidelines

hi. On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:32:36PM +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Oh, interesting I didn't think of that. That said, the share-alike license > does grant Facebook and Twitter rights to duplicate which is all they are > asking anyways. Last time I've checked Facebook ToS they wanted rights

Re: How to archive photos?

Hi. On Di, 2016-05-17 at 17:53 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Often photos won't be published online under a free licence, but will > be provided to us directly. Like how? An in-line mechanism might be much easier to implement and maintain as opposed to something out-of-band like posting to a

GNOME supporter of OpenSUSE conference 2016

Hi folks! Our friends from SUSE offer to list us as supporters for the openSUSE conference. I don't think there is anything actionable on our side, except providing logos for the Web site if we're asked to. I'll investigate. Of course, we have the

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 11:11 +, Allan Day wrote: > Which address does that initial email get sent from? frie...@gnome.org http://hg.cryptobitch.de/gnome-paypal/file/67703e591bf2/createmail.py#l12 > Is there a way that more people could help out > with this part of the administration? The

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

Hi. On Di, 2016-03-08 at 12:23 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Do you know if that covers only Germany, or some other European  > countries as well? They said that their (German) tax officer said that their (German) tax exempt status applies to EU member states, due to EU legislation.  Of course,

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

Hi. On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 11:12:46AM +, Allan Day wrote: > I thought that donations were tax deductible in Europe too, though? Donations to WHS are tax deductible. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

Hi! On Di, 2016-02-23 at 12:35 +, Allan Day wrote: > I said "no rewards for donors, like postcards or t-shirts" - that's > the perks. :) You are right, of course. Cheers,   Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org

Re: Revisiting the Friends of GNOME webpages

Hey hey! Cool.  I like the mockups. They miss perks for donations. That may or may not be the intention. Not having perks reduces overhead on our end which is good. I might prevent people from donating, though. I think we can live without sending out perks, but as it hasn't been mentioned in

Re: GNOME 3.20 Release Video: Manuscript Draft 1

Hi! On Mo, 2016-02-22 at 20:47 +0100, Bastian Ilso wrote: > I've started work towards the GNOME 3.20 release video. You can find > an early draft of the manuscript here: > > https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNineteen/ReleaseVideo Cool! How about ending the video with smth like "check

Re: Infographic

Hi Mohammed. On Fr, 2016-02-12 at 18:11 +, Irfan Mohammed wrote: > Please review it and let me know if there's something which I can do > to make it more informative and attractive. I'd be more attractive to me if it wasn't 9MB in size ;-) I think we're not much focussing on the Linux, as in

Re: Statistics and how do we serve our website users

Hi! Is anyone interesting in compiling information out of our Website monitoring systems? Maybe something like Andreas did a couple of years ago :-) Maybe there is anything that we can learn from the data that we gather. Cheers, Tobi On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:54:46PM +0100, Andreas

Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:04:02PM +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: > .. > > I'm a bit confused as to why Apple's CUPS is on that list. > > Am I missing anything that makes it particularly one of > > "our technolog

Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

Hi! On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:06:27PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > People who have contributed to GNOME's printing stack (in GTK+, or in > the Printers panel, or even in system-config-printer which offers > backend services) have all contributed to CUPS Cool! Thanks for the info. Cheers,

Re: Fundraising on download.gnome.org

Hi Ole. On Do, 2015-10-01 at 22:34 +0200, Ole Aamot wrote: > When you download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ the > text > > > "Your donation will fund Eclipse IDE development" > > > and a form for paying with Paypal is provided. > > > Would it be an idea to add such a page

Re: [guadec-list] [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos

Hey hey! On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:54:29PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: We should definitely find a better location for GUADEC videos as we can't provide the bandwidth or the disk space for them to be hosted under the GNOME Infrastructure. Let me know if there is a need for more space on other

Re: [General Info] Plan for GUADEC 2015 videos

Hi! On Fr, 2015-08-14 at 09:51 +0200, Bastian wrote: (hoping the guadec servers can handle the traffic) We can offer torrents once this becomes a problem. We can also do it in first place, but that seems to be more work... Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: GNOME Foundation AGM 2015

Hi! We were thinking that the engagement team could and should present at this year's AGM. Could you give a very short presentation (up to five minutes) on what happened last year? Cheers, Tobi On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: Hi everyone. Just

Re: GUADEC preparation..

Heya. On Fr, 2015-07-31 at 16:42 +, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Does everybody have all the materials ready to bring to GUADEC? (e.g. t-shirts, stickers, etc) I've heard that we'll have small bags from this year's GNOME.Asia Summit. I might be able to bring GNOME shoes to GUADEC. Cheers,

Re: Some press releases needing research writing

Heya. On Fr, 2015-05-15 at 21:27 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: the deal looks overly expensive I think the deal is exceptionally good. And it's a very big deal for us to accept money within the EU. And now we can do it quite cheaply, even with the benefit of the donations being tax deductible.

Re: Some press releases needing research writing

Heya. On Fr, 2015-05-15 at 14:53 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: Can you explain how this will work concretely? With German taxes you can fill a field with how much money you've given to registered charities. Amounts below a certain threshold (maybe 150EUR?) don't need an invoice. Amounts above

Re: Engagement meeting..

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:07:16AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: I found this open source based chat tool, that might work better: http://voicechatapi.com/ It seems as if Flash is required :-/ Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list

Re: 3.16 Release Promotion

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 03:32:14PM +, Allan Day wrote: Thanks Olav. I can give out permission to most of the channels; let's see who wants to do what. FWIW: I'm still looking for Facebook, Github, and Youtube in order to connect our Flattr account with those. Cheers, Tobi

Re: FOSDEM organization..

Hi. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 08:12:01PM +0100, Bastian wrote: * T-shirts events box. Furthermore, me and Tobi talked about printing some new ones. I told Tobi I would design some - I think we could print some simple GNOME ones. Do you have a design? We always need one and we could keep

Re: SCALE

Hi. On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:35:07AM -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: I could probably bring a machine down with me from SF that we can use for a booth table. We also have an EventsBox in the US somewhere: https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/GnomeEventsBox/NAGnomeEventBox cheers, Tobi

Re: FOSDEM recap and report

Heya :-) On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 12:08:16PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Tobias Mueller mue...@cryptobitch.de wrote: Some of you have attended FOSDEM. I think it'll be helpful to collect feedback on the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/edit/Events

FOSDEM recap and report

Hey folks. Some of you have attended FOSDEM. I think it'll be helpful to collect feedback on the wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/action/edit/Events/FOSDEM/2015#feedback Could you please add thoughts on what went well and what we should do differently next year. Also, we will probably want to have

Re: Invitation to openSUSE conference!

Hey folks. openSuSE Conference in the Hague would be a good opportunity to represent GNOME. Is anyone available from 1-4 may 2015? Cheers, Tobi On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 12:55:37PM +0100, Hans de Raad (OpenNovations) wrote: Hi all, I've just spoken to Luis menina from the GNOME-FR team at

Re: FOSDEM GTK+ brochure

Hi. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 05:40:08PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: I can print them. How many copies? 500 should be more than enough. In colors or black and white? Well. If you have the option of printing colour, then do it. Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: Engagement Meeting - Wednesday Dec 3rd 2014 19:00 UTC

Hi. On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:11:37PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: anything else to talk about? We could talk about the Annual Report. We need people writing about various events, such as FOSDEM, GUADEC, maybe FSCONS. Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: FOSDEM Table Application

Hi Sébastien. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: If someone wants to write the content, perfect. Otherwise I can write an initial version. Cool! Really great. Looking forward to your flyers! :-) Cheers, Tobi ___

Re: Release retrospective

Hi everyone. Congratulations everyone to this awesome release and our communications around that. Would it be possible for someone to come up with a text that we can use for the upcoming Annual Report? Now the release is fresh in memory. We might also reuse the stats Sri mentioned. The more we

Re: GNOME 3.14 Release Video Draft 1

Hi. On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:19:48PM +0200, Bastian Hougaard wrote: https://wiki.gnome.org/BastianIlsø/ReleaseVideoG3.14/draft2 This, sir, is amazing. A minor nit: For my taste, the volume of the voice and music is not well balanced, i.e. the music is a little too loud. I also think it's a

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

Hi. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:53:22PM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: One thing that recently come to my mind was the possibly for the foundation to accept Bitcion donations [1] [2]. Have you checked our web site? i.e. http://www.gnome.org/friends/other-ways-to-donate/ Cheers, Tobi

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

Hi. On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:31:22PM +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote: I sent the email. I was thinking whether it would be good to use that letter to our donors as a news story on gnome.org. I understand that we have many news items lined up and it's probably bad timing now. But it's probably

Lincence for photo for our Annual Report 2013

Hi ChangSeok. We want to use a photo you made for our Annual Report. The photo is http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_UIxvTANYM/UrFazeo_FtI/AhI/5SO6cuizHdY/s1600/%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%84.JPG from http://gnome-kr.blogspot.se/2013/12/webkitgtk-hackfest-2013.html The report is here:

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:55:10AM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: Maybe we should bundle the letter with the Annual Report that we plan publish next week? I'm more in favour of sending another email to our donors. MAybe not next week, but the month after. Some time after GUADEC maybe. FWIW: I'm

Re: annual report progress and deadlines

Hi Andreas. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:59:57AM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: If anyone wants to take a stab at editing the document, here is the scribus source file: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-marketing/blob/master/annual-report-2014/GAR2013.sla I've just tried to open the

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

Hi. On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 23:17 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: [...] This is a great idea! The text can be pretty short. Here's a possible draft, please improve and correct: Great text, have some minor comments. Cool. Can you

Re: How we can improve our fundraising efforts

Hi. I've compiled a list of email addresses of donors of the last 365 days. I suggest writing an email to those donors, thanking them for their support, inviting them to GUADEC, telling them what we've done so far. Any volunteer for drafting such an email? FWIW: Allan and I were thinking about

Re: Purchasing a toll free international number for SIP conferences?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: Since we have trouble to get a working free software voip solution for meetings [...] My biased opinion is that it's inherent to SIP. The protocol is just bad in pretty much all dimensions you can imagine. I suggested

Re: REMINDER: Engagement team meeting tomorrow on IRC 19:00 UTC

Hi :) On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:42:08AM +0100, Oliver Propst wrote: Ok its was very obvious question sorry about that. But I really think we should try to get a working voice conference solution as I think IRC meetings tend drag out on time (and its nice to hear each other.). FWIW: There is

Re: GNOME Desktop Promotional Brochure

Hi! On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Bastian Hougaard wrote: http://rvzt.net/Temp/GNOMEv4.pdf Wow! Impressive. Good job. Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list

Re: Default Adopt a Hacker value per month

Hi! On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Just to make sure, this is for new subscribers, right? Not for existing ones? Correct. Cheers, Tobi ___ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org