Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 01:45:15AM +0200, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote: > I'll play devil's advocate here: Hi Mathieu, I'll start by saying that playing devil's advocate isn't really likely to be a helpful way to contribute to this discussion. The board should consider the opinions that the GNOME

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread meg ford
I have also have a question: can the Board please explain why they were not aware of this situation until now, and how they became aware of it? This seems like a lot of money and I would like to know how it is that no one noticed the shortfall until we got to this point. It seems like this discussi

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi All, On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova < kittykat3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 April 2014 05:29, Sindhu S wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova > > wrote: > >> > >> The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to > >> know m

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Mathieu Duponchelle
Yep, they were mine. Hijacking the thread to ask you which channels you're hanging in Meg, have tried #gnome-music once or twice but you were not around, I've started some work on a waveformer object, I guess you'll be interested :) On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:06 AM, meg ford wrote: > Hi Germán

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread meg ford
Hi Germán , I apologize for the bad paste. I was replying to Mathieu Duponchelle but the paste was from an email in which you quoted his previous email. Cheers, Meg On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote: > > On Fri, Apr

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > > > > I'll play devil's advocate here: > > > > > > Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities > > > more directly beneficial to its future than OPW? > > I

Re: Changes on the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

2014-04-13 Thread James
On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 16:02 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > James and Aruna - it's awesome that you want to help with this. :) > > Allan Thanks Allan! Haha-- The way you say it... Should we be afraid? ;) James signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Stormy Peters
Is the budget and the current state of financials (account balances, invoices due, money expected) public? If not, can we get at least a summary? Are we paying our employee during this freeze? Is it expected that we would be able to employ an executive director if we want to? Thanks to the board

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Right! Thanks Emmanuele, We need to work out on the goolge juice so that "how to donate to gnome foundation" shows something useful in a search engine :-) 2014-04-13 17:40 GMT+02:00 Emmanuele Bassi : > hi Alberto; > > you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of GNOME > program

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Alberto; you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of GNOME program: https://www.gnome.org/friends/ which is also linked directly and prominently from the www.gnome.org landing page. ;-) ciao, Emmanuele. On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > So, the FAQ has a ca

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Alberto, On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > So, the FAQ has a call for donations, however I can't find how to donate > anywhere, the closest thing I can find is making a PayPal donation to GIMP > :-) There's a link from https://www.gnome.org to https://www.gnome.org/friends/ and th

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Alberto Ruiz
So, the FAQ has a call for donations, however I can't find how to donate anywhere, the closest thing I can find is making a PayPal donation to GIMP :-) 2014-04-13 15:40 GMT+02:00 Allan Day : > David King wrote: > ... > >>> Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating > >>

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 13 April 2014 14:40, Allan Day wrote: > David King wrote: > ... Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating expenses as reserves. >>> >>> >>> I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm >>> recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foun

Re: Changes on the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

2014-04-13 Thread Allan Day
James and Aruna - it's awesome that you want to help with this. :) Allan On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Aruna Sankaranarayanan wrote: > Hi, > > I am a member of the Docs team, and interned with the Foundation in OPW > July - September'13. > > I would like to apply to become a part of the Membe

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread Allan Day
David King wrote: ... >>> Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating >>> expenses as reserves. >> >> >> I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm >> recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundation has adequate >> reserves for GNOME's ordinary

Re: relicensing to GPLv3-family of licenses (was Re: Distribution Naming System)

2014-04-13 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:26:52AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > RMS wrote at 12:58 (EDT) on Monday: > >>> For many libraries, using LGPLv2.1 may be best, to allow use in > >>> GPLv2-covered programs. > > I have to disagree with RMS on this point. As I proposed on > desktop-devel a long time ag

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread David King
On 2014-04-13 02:20, Karen Sandler wrote: On 2014-04-13 01:43, Stormy Peters wrote: Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating expenses as reserves. I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundatio