Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread danigm
El mar, 4 de jun 2019 a las 8:12 AM, Philip Chimento via foundation-list escribió: I think it would be interesting to experiment with all-remote hackfests, where we try to build an experience in between the normal "type text, hit submit, wait for text in return" interaction, and the resource-

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Tristan Van Berkom via foundation-list
Hi Philip, On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 18:10 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for running for the board! > > What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its > environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as a > whole? > Thanks for raising this i

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Philip Chimento via foundation-list
Hi Philip, On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:11 AM Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for running for the board! > > What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its > environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as a > whole? > > I’m asking in more of an org

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Niels De Graef via foundation-list
Hi Philip, First of all, thanks for awareness on this issue. As the board, I think we can make 2 areas of impact here: to add (hard/soft) requirements to the travel policy and to give guidelines for events. Whether the decisions we make should be considered as rules/guidelines or hints will of co

Re: Question to candidates - Minutes of the board meeting

2019-06-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hi Max, and thank you for the question, Generally speaking I tend to be of the opinion that meetings should be efficient and expedient, and for a large distributed community where meetings are generally held behind closed doors I believe communication should be expedient too so as to ensure transp

Re: Question to candidates - Minutes of the board meeting

2019-06-03 Thread Max via foundation-list
Hi Philip and all Thanks for reply the mail. Yes, I know the guidelines for meeting minutes. I know the 2 weeks and I want to say 10 days just an example not a real number. ( So my question is ask Board to think a way, I just suggestion ) During the my role of GNOME.Asia team, I wrote some minu

Re: Question to candidates - Minutes of the board meeting

2019-06-03 Thread Philip Chimento via foundation-list
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:43 PM Max via foundation-list < foundation-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for running for the board. > > Thanks everyone who want take times to make GNOME better. > Just a simple question about Minutes of the board meeting. > > Data and information might be di

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of March 13, 2019

2019-06-03 Thread Philip Chimento via foundation-list
Hi, On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:51 AM Benjamin Berg wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 18:37 -0700, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 4:55 AM Benjamin Berg > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 18:08 -0700, philip.chime...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 15, 20

A note on the candidates

2019-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
For those voting for candidates, I wanted to give some background to the two newer candidates who some may not be completely familiar with them as they are relatively new to the community. All the candidates are wonderful human beings who I think will execute the job of directors to the best of t

Question to candidates - Minutes of the board meeting

2019-06-03 Thread Max via foundation-list
Hi all, Thanks for running for the board. Thanks everyone who want take times to make GNOME better. Just a simple question about Minutes of the board meeting. Data and information might be different. For me - a GNOME foundation member Data - Get "Minutes of the board meeting" after 1 month or 2

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Christel Dahlskjaer
Hi Philip and thank you for the question, I currently have little insight into how environmental impact factors into the cost-benefit analyses that the Foundation carries out in relation to meetings, events and general expenditure so my answer will be fairly broad and a bit open-ended perhaps. Op

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Jeremy Allison via foundation-list
This one hits me where I live :-). I work for a company which has over 100,000 employees, all of whom it forces to commute into central offices, despite being one of the planer's largest internet companies. Quite frankly, it's insane. I would argue for face-to-face meetings to be the exception,

Re: Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Benjamin Berg
Hi, On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 18:10 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its > environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as a > whole? It is an interesting question. I really believe that this is an important issue and tha

Question to candidates: eco-friendliness

2019-06-03 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi all, Thanks for running for the board! What steps do you think the Foundation could take to reduce its environmental impact, and the environmental impact of the project as a whole? I’m asking in more of an organisational sense than a technical sense. It’s up to individual maintainers to ensur