Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Max
Dear Marina Thanks for reply my question. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Max" > > To: "foundation-list" > > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM > > Subject: Question for candidates > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Thanks

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Max
Dear Andrea On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > Hey Max! > > > My question to all of you: > > > > * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" > > -- GNOME.Asia summit ? > > Central event management system

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Catanzaro" > To: "David King" > Cc: "foundation-list" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:48:54 PM > Subject: Re: Question for candidates > > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: > > Finally, and only once the financial situation is more

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Jim Nelson" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:19:37 PM > Subject: Questions for the candidates: finances > > Hello everyone, > > First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also believe > finding an executive direc

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Emily Chen" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 11:16:14 AM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi, > > > I would like to ask below questions to future board: > > > 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what i

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Max" > To: "foundation-list" > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:18:33 PM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for run the board. > This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). > GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:18 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > one of the options that I want the board to investigate > is to tie in the executive director's wage and travel budget with > adboard fees in such a way that the executive director will only be > compensated up to a maximum of what th

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: > Finally, and only once the financial situation is more clear, the > board > needs to find a new executive director. I anticipate that these > goals, > which in some ways amount to getting the Foundation "back on track" > will be challenging t

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller

2014-05-19 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:28 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > As the board minutes show from a few weeks ago, the board has been in > touch with some advisory board members to find out if they could > donate some person time towards the upgrade. Since then, the sysadmin > team has also been in t

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Dave Neary" > To: "Foundation-List" > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:58:21 PM > Subject: Question for candidates > > Hi everyone, > > For me, the defining thing the next board will do is hire a successor to > Karen Sandler as executive director of the found

Re: Mass Reboot: Monday 19th of May, 21.00 - 22.00 CET

2014-05-19 Thread Andrea Veri
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Andrea Veri wrote: > We'll also take the time during the reboots to switch our current > storage away from our current main NFS node to the brand new GlusterFS > nodes. This should not affect the reboots planned downtime. The maintenance took a bit more due to rsync taking

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 05/19/2014 04:31 AM, David King wrote: > Right now (taking into account the poor financial situation that the > Foundation is facing), I think that a candidate for the executive > director position would be someone who has experience of raising funds > for not-for-profit organisations. For

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19:37AM -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) > would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or > do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this > goal?) Redu

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Oliver, On 05/18/2014 06:08 PM, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Dave Neary wrote: >> when looking for a profile, there are a number of dials to twiddle: >> * Technical proficiency & reputation in the community, including free >> software cultural alignment >> * Strategy

Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Jim Nelson
Hello everyone, First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also believe finding an executive director may be the most important task for the incoming board. From some earlier discussion it sounds like the other defining task will be stabilizing GNOME's finances. Other

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Andrea Veri
On Mon, 19 May 2014, Max wrote: > Hi everyone, Hey Max! > My question to all of you: > > * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" > -- GNOME.Asia summit ? > Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?( I > saw it last GUADEC but not start to use) >

Agenda for board meeting May 20th

2014-05-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Hello Foundation members! Next board meeting is May 20th at 16:00 UTC This is the agenda: * Quick budget update * Delegating back to the Travel Committee * Proposal from the Travel Committee to the board: https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/wip/Events * ED hiring and plans going forward * Visa

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Emily On 2014-05-19 23:16, Emily Chen wrote: I would like to ask below questions to future board: 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? The advisory board has seen a shrinking m

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Emily, On 19 May 2014 16:16, Emily Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ask below questions to future board: > > 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your > plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? Firstly, I think that relia

Re: Board of Directors Election 2014 - Candidacy - Jean-François Fortin Tam

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Jeff, On 15 May 2014 20:42, Jeff Fortin wrote: > Name: Jean-François Fortin Tam > Email: nekohayo at gmail > Affiliation: none (freelance) > Web/bio/blog/etc.: http://jeff.ecchi.ca > > Hi everybody, > > I would like to offer my candidacy to serve on the Foundation Board. Thanks for throwing y

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 15:20 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > Many of the applicants for GSoC and OPW are already from Asia and > especially from India. I think that the split is largely related to > English being a commonly spoken language in India, but not so > prominent in other Asian countri

Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Emily Chen
Hi, I would like to ask below questions to future board: 1. For GNOME big event, call for sponsor is really important, what is your plan to call for more sponsors for conference like GUADEC and GNOME.Asia ? 2. What is the top 3 goals for GNOME Foundation in the next year, in your opinion ? 3. H

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Sri, On 14 May 2014 01:16, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > Affiliation: Intel Corporation > > I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation. I > plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME > Foundation and to external. There is still many things to do in ord

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Emily, On 17 May 2014 19:42, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Name: Emily Gonyer > Email: emilyyr...@gmail.com > Affiliation: None > > Dear Foundation, > > I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first > time, in order to help steer GNOME in a more open and community led > directi

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Tobias Mueller

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Tobi, On 8 May 2014 09:15, Tobias Mueller wrote: > > Name: Tobias Mueller > EMail: tobiasmue@gnome org > Affiliation: SAP > > > Dear Foundation, > > I am throwing my hat in the ring for serving another term on the Foundation's > Board of Directors. > > I have served on the Board of the GNOME F

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Max! On 19 May 2014 02:18, Max wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for run the board. > This is the most busy time for GNOME.Asia summit(4 days to go). > GNOME.Asia team and Beijing team are busy for the summit. > > My question to all of you: > > * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in

Re: Travel assistance for GUADEC 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi all, please make sure to download a new copy of the sponsorship application form before you apply. It has changed since last year and is now available as an ODT and in plain text for your convenience. I would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that sponsored attendees are hig

Minutes of the Board Meeting of May 6th, 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20140506 = Minutes for Tuesday, May 6th, 2014, 16:00 UTC = == Next meeting == * Tuesday, May 20th, 2014, 16:00 UTC == Attending == * Andreas Nilsson * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Tobias Mueller * Joanmarie Diggs * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Emm

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
Hi Dave, On 18 May 2014 17:58, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For me, the defining thing the next board will do is hire a successor to > Karen Sandler as executive director of the foundation. > > So my question to all of you is: what are the main characteristics you > will be looking for in

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Anish On 2014-05-18 21:22, anish patil wrote: I did try to run hackfest in India couple of times but real problem is fund raising, i did reach few Indian companies to sponsor for events/hackfestsbut unfortunately that did not go that well.Being a board director i wоuld get better insight for

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Max On 2014-05-19 09:18, Max wrote: * What's your plan for "Promote / Growth GNOME in Asia" -- GNOME.Asia summit ? Central event management system for both GUADEC and GNOME.Asia?( I saw it last GUADEC but not start to use) Other idea? I will be attending GNOME.Asia this year (as

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Dave On 2014-05-18 12:58, Dave Neary wrote: * Technical proficiency & reputation in the community, including free software cultural alignment * Strategy experience - the ability to formulate and communicate a direction for GNOME * Administrative and organizational experience * Business acume