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

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Do you have examples of situations where Red Hat (or any other company or > corporation for that matter) has trumped what most of the community > wants/needs? If you do, what do you think the board could/should do about > it? > I presume that

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-22 Thread Richard Stallman
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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Sriram Ramkrishna

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, 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 >> Foun

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

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Sorry for my late reply. GMail is horrible with finding old threads sometimes. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > 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

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hiya Jim! On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nelson wrote: > Hello everyone, > 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 thi

Re: Question for candidates: OEMs

2014-05-22 Thread Alberto Ruiz
Quite frankly, I don't think this is a fair question to ask. We all would like that to happen of course but we don't have our own OS (at least not just yet), and there is no way Dell, or any OEM for that matter, is going to ship an OS without a well stablished commercial entity behind (from which t

Re: Question for candidates: OEMs

2014-05-22 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-22 15:10, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: - Our somewhat nonexistent OEM story Dell is currently shipping Ubuntu computers running Unity. Wouldn't it be desirable to see a major OEM shipping GNOME as well? If so, what steps do you believe

Question for candidates: OEMs

2014-05-22 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 14:35 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: > - Our somewhat nonexistent OEM story Dell is currently shipping Ubuntu computers running Unity. Wouldn't it be desirable to see a major OEM shipping GNOME as well? If so, what steps do you believe GNOME, and the board in particular, should ta

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Fortin
Le lundi 19 mai 2014 à 11:19 -0700, Jim Nelson a écrit : > 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?) I tend to thi

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2014 - Candidates

2014-05-22 Thread Dave Neary
On 05/21/2014 12:25 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > I'm really excited about the number and the involvement of all the > candidates. Thanks to all of you for supporting GNOME! +1 from me! Also awesome to see such a diverse candidate list, both in terms of geography and gender! Dave. > On Wed, May 21

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-22 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:16:14PM +0800, Emily Chen wrote: > 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 ? Hm, I haven't developed a fully thought out plan. For now, it's mainly reaching

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-22 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 05/21/2014 07:35 PM, Jeff Fortin wrote: Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 21:17 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova a écrit : With regard to comments in this thread on candidates' time involvement, and to Andreas Nilsson's earlier message on candidates "falling behind" for not having answered the 130+ (!) mes