Re: GNOME Foundation 2018 Annual General Meeting

2018-07-06 Thread David King
Hi Allan On 2018-07-03 14:48, Allan Day wrote: As usual, this year's GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting will be taking place as part of GUADEC. The details are as follows: - Time: 16:30 - Date: Saturday 7th July 2018. - Location: The Auditorium, University of Almería, Spain The

GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 Travel Sponsorship

2017-09-05 Thread David King
The GNOME Foundation provides travel subsidy to individuals who want to attend GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 and need financial assistance. We are happy to announce the Travel Committee is ready to receive applications for subsidy to

Re: More detailed team report from i18n team

2016-08-15 Thread David King
Hi! On 2016-08-13 16:11, Alexandre Franke wrote: [0] I heard the coordinator for this language, a certain Bastien Nocera, is present at GUADEC. You should go to him and encourage him to get back in the list of supported languages! I just pushed some updates to Nautilus,

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Dave On 2014-05-19 16:14, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: 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

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Michael On 2014-05-19 18:48, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 16:55 +0100, David King wrote: I have a follow-up question (for David and incumbents): why do you want (or not want) to hire a new executive director? What responsibilities do you think

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Jim On 2014-05-19 11:19, Jim Nelson j...@yorba.org 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?) I think that

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

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya mari...@redhat.com wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional consulting. The board and the Foundation

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

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Karen On 2014-05-20 12:27, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Indeed, and there is no reason that the immediate feedback cannot be gained from Karen as an adviser if she is invited to board meetings. I do not think that a board composed of some

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Max On 2014-05-19 09:18, Max sakana...@gmail.com 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

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-19 Thread David King
Hi Emily On 2014-05-19 23:16, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com 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

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-13 Thread David King
On 2014-04-13 02:20, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org 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

Re: Exceptions to renewals / new memberships processing during elections

2013-05-28 Thread David King
Hi Andrea On 2013-05-28 21:40, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: (ballots have been generated and sent already, in addition the election rules are clearly stating that Members of the GNOME Foundation as of 2013-05-22 are eligible to vote in the elections) It took me a while to find the rules