Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-06-04 Thread David Bolter
Two names I recognize... welcome Brad and Pockey And welcome Nils and Paul too :) D On 6/4/09 8:30 PM, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Brad Taylor - Nils Faerber - Paul Cutler - Pockey Lam If your

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-05-29 Thread David Bolter
Great answer. Next? D On 5/29/09 3:21 PM, Andy Tai wrote: Shouldn't the candidates be expected to oppose the foundation building this, as it is a misuse of the foundation's resources? On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM, David Bolter wrote: I'd like to add an optional tent

Re: Questions for the candidates

2009-05-29 Thread David Bolter
I'd like to add an optional tenth question: 10. If the foundation built a bike shed, what color would you paint the roof? D ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-04-29 Thread David Bolter
Welcome Willie!!! ...and everyone I don't know too :) cheers, D On 4/29/09 5:18 PM, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Alex Launi - Bertrand Lorentz - James Liggett - Marina Zhurakhinskaya - Philip With

Re: New GNOME Foundation Members

2009-04-09 Thread David Bolter
Welcome Li! D On 4/8/09 8:03 PM, Bruno Boaventura wrote: Hello everybody! The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is pleased to present the new members: - Andrew Stormont - Jonny Lamb - Li Yuan - Martin Picek If your name is on the list above, you're welcome!!! Feel embraced! Being part of

Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

2008-07-09 Thread David Bolter
Richard M Stallman wrote: 'Here's a specific example of something I like about the GNOME community. It's important to them that things be "beautiful." I put beautiful in quotes because I think the GNOME community means much more than pretty when they say "beautiful." I think the

Re: hiring Stormy Peters as executive director

2008-07-08 Thread David Bolter
Fantastic! This is such an amazing step for GNOME! Most people are hitting the blogs on this but I thought I'd capture something Stormy writes here in this thread: 'Here's a specific example of something I like about the GNOME community. It's important to them that things be "beautiful." I

Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

2008-02-28 Thread David Bolter
Richard Stallman wrote: > Note that this press release is not about free software, but about > accessibility > > It's about accessibility for GNOME, thus accessibility for free > software. The fact that GNOME is free software isn't the main point > of this announcement, but it should be a

Re: On Boston Summit organization and delegation [was Re: A question to candidates]

2007-11-28 Thread David Bolter
Hi Jeff, all, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > >> >> >> >>> Have the board paused and thought why the Summit has to be Boston? Is it >>> because most hackers work around Boston? May be it was the case. >>> >> Because there's a critical mass of developers there -- most of both the >> Red Ha

Re: Executive director [was: Re: OOXML]

2007-11-06 Thread David Bolter
It is perhaps of interest to some that the Mozilla Foundation has not found it easy to find a new Executive Director (see http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/executive-director-search.html). Note the Mozilla position comes with salary and benefits. Are we thinking the same for GNOME? cheers, D

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread David Bolter
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> planet-web already exists, but making it a free-for-all isn't a useful >> solution. >> > > I re-read http://perkypants.org/blog/2005/06/10/1118362980/ and it > mentions the possibility of making the

Re: Can we improve things?

2007-09-11 Thread David Bolter
Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:56 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> I know Planet GNOME maintenance has been patchy -- I've been thinking about >> ways to alleviate that while keeping strong editorship in place. The Board >> has prompted me about this too, so I have plent

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Hi Richard, Richard Stallman wrote: > This is very timely. I've been asked to head up a pilot project here at > the University of Toronto with a goal of engaging students in open > source development. > > If you launch a project of "open source development", you can teach > students

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-21 Thread David Bolter
Vincent Untz wrote: > Le lundi 20 août 2007, à 13:33 -0400, David Bolter a écrit : > >> Vincent Untz wrote: >> >>> Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : >>> >>> >>>> Remember this thread? Anybody k

Re: Towards more collaboration between the academic world and the GNOME community

2007-08-20 Thread David Bolter
Vincent Untz wrote: > Le lundi 13 août 2007, à 05:55 +0300, Quim Gil a écrit : > >> Remember this thread? Anybody kept working on a GNOME group focused on >> universities? >> What about moving the topic to ie marketing list with the objective of >> creating a formal committe? >> > > Fernand

Could GNOME Foundation qualify for a MATC award?

2007-03-15 Thread David Bolter
This is just a heads up in case it matters: http://matc.mellon.org/ cheers, David ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Re: Mellon awards update

2007-02-16 Thread David Bolter
Many of us are housed in Universities. If there is anyway I can help out let me know. Our group here at UofT is all about accessibility and education. I would be interested in using the money to create something like the google summer of code but with a strong GNOME accessibility focus. We nee

Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-24 Thread David Bolter
Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > David Bolter wrote: > >> Thinking aloud: >> I wonder if we could expose the #gnome channel (or similar) as perhaps a >> one-click "Get Help" menu item... perhaps under the "Place" menu. The >> user coul

Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-24 Thread David Bolter
Murray Cumming wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:19 -0500, David Bolter wrote: > >> Thinking aloud: >> I wonder if we could expose the #gnome channel (or similar) as perhaps a >> one-click "Get Help" menu item... perhaps under the "Place" menu. Th

Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)

2006-11-24 Thread David Bolter
Calum Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:55 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:25 +, Calum Benson wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:27 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: >>> Think about in utopia, wouldn't it be cool if we had ekiga or skype

Re: multi-culti board

2006-11-16 Thread David Bolter
Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > Quim Gil wrote: > > >> How nice would be to have Asian, American and African candidates! >> > > I suppose it would be fair enough.. but how nice would be to have > blonde, chestnut and ginger candidates? eh? :-) > > What I mean is that, IMO, what really ma

Re: Candidacy :: Glynn Foster

2006-11-15 Thread David Bolter
Ghee Teo wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> >> >> >> >>> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:26 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: >>> >>> >>> I don't want to be a rock star, I just want to help. If more suitable candidates are running, I'm happy to cheer them from the sidelines.

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-06-01 Thread David Bolter
Luis Villa wrote: On 6/1/06, Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ar Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:04:43PM +0200, ysgrifennodd Murray Cumming: > I don't think we need a whole organisation to police it. At the least, it > should just be how we expect people to behave on mailing lists and IRC and

Re: Code Of Conduct

2006-05-30 Thread David Bolter
[snip] and we need to welcome beginners more. [snip] YES! This is something worth spending time on... From my (limited) exposure to students (of any demographic) coming out of Computer Science programs at the University of Toronto... I'd say engaging in GNOME C development with all its

Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Preliminary results

2005-12-13 Thread David Bolter
I didn't notice the ballot :-( My spam mail folder was emptied recently but I just searched for "ballot" today (in my spam folder) and came up with lots of hits... all spam. Not an excuse... just a reason. I should have been on top of things. D Bill Haneman wrote: James Henstridge wrote: