Re: Question for the candidates : money !

2010-06-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:11 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Lionel: I've a question about GNOME business model and sustanability. As we have seen with the fundrising to hire a sysadmin, money is often a blocking point. The current business model seems to be donations. Actually, The GNOME

Re: Question for Bastian Nocera

2010-06-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:36 +0200, Javier Jardón wrote: Hello, in your application you say: - (Re-)defining GNOME: The Foundation charter defines GNOME as a loose collection of independent project, though we need to stop considering it as such if GNOME is to take an important role in

Re: question for candidates

2010-06-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:03 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: 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

Re: A few questions for the candidates

2010-06-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long time and I'm not being

Re: A few questions for the candidates

2010-06-04 Thread Emily Chen
Vincent, Those are very good questions. See my reply in lines. 2010/6/2 Vincent Untz vu...@gnome.org Hi, I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for Friday while the voting period is already

Meeting Minutes Published - May 27, 2010

2010-06-04 Thread Brian Cameron
The meeting minutes for the May 27th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100527 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes -- text of the latest