Re: GNOME Foundation 2018 Annual General Meeting

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 mee

GNOME.Asia Summit 2017 Travel Sponsorship

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

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, GNOME Software and Orc

Re: Mission Statement

Hi On 2014-08-06 20:19, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 6 August 2014 19:49, Michael Hill wrote: "This hasn't only exposed us to substantial financial risks; it has caused actual financial problems for the project. This year, GNOME temporarily ceased funding of hackfests in order to recover from t

Re: Can a foundation member have access to the sponsorship history?

Hi Fabiano On 2014-06-06 09:09, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: Here is the whole conversation where, according to Ekaterina, I *strongly* imply that the board and the travel committee are corrupt: http://rachacuca.org/~fidencio/friendly_chat.log I am extremely surprised to find details of Kat's pers

Re: question for candidates

Hi Andy On 2014-05-20 11:56, Andy Tai wrote: GNOME's core toolkit, gtk+, is used by numerous projects. Currently gtk+ development seems to be driven mainly by the GNOME desktop. However, gtk+ also play critical roles in other free software projects, like MATE, XFCE, and the Cinnamon desktop,

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

Hi Karen On 2014-05-20 12:27, Karen Sandler 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 members who are able

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

Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya 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 benefit from a divers

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

Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 09:51, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > You are a very busy person with many responsibilities, if you get > elected to the Board do you feel confident that you can spend the > necessary time on Board work? While I think you do a lot for Free Software and your passion and

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

Hi Jim On 2014-05-19 11:19, 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?) I think that corporate donat

Re: Question for candidates

Hi Emmanuele On 2014-05-20 12:07, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 20 May 2014 11:36, David King wrote: Thanks for pointing this out. As you can see from the income and expenses in the preliminary 2013 annual report, the Desktop Summit (co-located event with KDE) has traditionally been a much more

Re: Question for candidates

Hi Michael On 2014-05-19 18:48, Michael Catanzaro 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 the executive director role

Re: Question for candidates

Hi Richard On 2014-05-20 06:25, Richard Stallman wrote: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] One possible idea would b

Re: Question for candidates

Hi Dave On 2014-05-19 16:14, Dave Neary 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 of raising

Re: Question for candidates

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: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Anish Patil

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

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

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

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

On 2014-04-13 02:20, Karen Sandler 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 - the Foundatio

Re: Exceptions to renewals / new memberships processing during elections

Hi Andrea On 2013-05-28 21:40, Andrea Veri 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 for the 2013

Re: GNOME.Asia 2013

On 2013-02-08 12:19, Andre Klapper wrote: Will something like GNOME.Asia Summit 2013 happen? If so, when and where? Knowing would help for planning. Looks like it: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2013Summit https://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/Minutes/20130129 Seoul, (South) Korea, 2013-05-24 -