Introduction

2012-02-28 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hello everybody, I am a new member of the GNOME Foundation. I am originally from the city of Kolkata in eastern India, but I am currently located in Brno, Czech Republic. In the recent past I have been hacking on Telepathy Idle, and sending the occasional patch to Gstreamer to make it work better

Re: A new Membership status: Emeritus

2012-05-29 Thread Debarshi Ray
> Interestingly, is an emeritus eligible to be listed in gnome planet? From the portion of the original announcement that you quoted: "Aggregation on Planet GNOME will be left up to the Planet Editors discretion" :-) Happy hacking, Debarshi -- K&R is like the Bible. The fervent read it from en

Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

2012-11-14 Thread Debarshi Ray
> Maybe private email? Maybe bringing it up in a different way? Sri's > initial email didn't mention Emily at all - were you just waiting for an > opportunity to bring up your discontent? The point still remains that people posting on Planet GNOME should be more informed about what they write. E

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
> What you say is not a vision. That's a "what", not a "why". Also, are we in > the same business as Apple? Apple is in the business of challenging the > status quo and thinking differently. ($:04 in the video) Are we? > WHY are we doing GNOME? We are in the business of challenging the status quo

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-01 Thread Debarshi Ray
> Also, the password is tied to the Mango password, which is > some autogenerated nonsense I can never remember. Good thing > we have a keyring in GNOME, but it's a hassle when setting > up a new machine. Jabber/XMPP lets you change your password using a client. Empathy does not expose this option

Re: jabber.gnome.org's future

2013-03-05 Thread Debarshi Ray
>> doing stuff over Google hangouts these days. It would be nice if >> we could make something like that work with open standards and >> free software. I don't think IRC is the right starting point. >> >> > Sure.. it's not a good fit for a free software project though since it > isn't free softwar

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > Anyway this is really not what was the most important point to me in > my previous email and you didn't answer the question I really cared > about, so I'm asking again: is there a way for maintainers to opt out > of the githu

Re: GUADEC videos are available only with nonfree codecs

2013-08-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Christian Persch wrote: > Yesterday I discovered that the GUADEC videos on > http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/ are available only in > proprietary formats, H.264 for the video and MP3 for the audio-only > option. Well, atleast they don't use Flash.

Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:23PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > We should pick our fights, on the other hand, GitHub has released more > > open source code and tools than the gitorious community. We accept > > money from Google for the

Re: New challenge

2014-04-01 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey Karen, Thanks for your work on GNOME over the past few years. Working with you to make GUADEC happen in Brno was great fun and a memorable experience. Wish you all the best for your future. Cheers, Debarshi -- It has its possibilities but I am bound by my limitations. -- Vivek Shah pgpLc

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015

2015-11-10 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > Deferred: > * Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by the same name Where is this thread? Thanks, Rishi pgpHf9g9XmLee.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ foundation-list mailing lis

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015

2015-11-10 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > Le mardi 10 novembre 2015 ? 09:07 +0000, Debarshi Ray a ?crit?: > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > Deferred: > > > ?* Instagram filters in GNOME: see email thread by t

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of November, 3rd, 2015

2015-11-11 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Jeff F. T. wrote: > Just for the record: in this case the thread we're referring to is the > one actually started by you (when you mailed the board list with your > questions a while ago). You were kept in c.c. of all the discussions, > and as such di

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-27 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, [Removed a few mailing lists from CC] On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 02:49:34PM -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: > * Remote video? (assuming participants are comfortable with that) We did run a live stream on Google Hangouts during the first day of the Content Apps Hackfest in Madrid. Instead of m

Re: [Builder] Developer experience (DX) hackfest 2016

2015-12-28 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:57:35PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > It is easy to do streaming with free software, in a way that lets > everyone watch with free software, Incorrect. It is possible, but it is not easy... > and I know people who would be glad > to help you do this. ... and this is

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of February, 23th, 2016

2016-02-26 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: >* The item has been discussed during the meeting, details > are available at > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2016-February/msg3.html Very interesting. An email to a mailing list linking to itself in the arc

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017

2017-03-31 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 06:34:36PM -0800, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, January 31st 2017, 18:00 UTC = > > [...] > > * From the mailing list - patreon campaign > * We're going to have an ED, it's going to cost us for a bit until they > can bring in money. We sh

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017

2017-04-05 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:04:38AM +0100, a...@gnome.org wrote: >Our expenses have recently increased due to hiring an ED, so > there's a need to be frugal. >The Foundation hasn't contributed to fundraisers in the past. > Contributing to these two would therefore set a precedent, and we m

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of January, 31st, 2017

2017-04-12 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:11:50PM +0100, a...@gnome.org wrote: > Debarshi Ray wrote: >> I cannot see any mention in https://www.gnome.org/news/, so I can only >> assume that this hasn't happened. :) > > If you wanted to make sure that it happens, you could draft

Announcing List Fest 2018

2018-08-15 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hello everybody, We are organizing List Fest in Brno from 10th to 14th September. This is a small focused event to address the scalability problems in GtkListBox and GtkFlowBox. For further details, see: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/ListFest2018 Cheers, Rishi

Re: Minutes of the board meeting of August 14, 2018

2018-08-20 Thread Debarshi Ray
> * Private meeting minutes issues (Nuritzi) >* https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Board/issues/60 Umm... some of the comments on this issue read a little too aggressive to me. Electronic communication is hard as it is. Let's not make it more complicated by repeatedly using phrases that see

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2019 - Candidacy - Jeremy Allison

2019-06-04 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 07:08:12PM -0700, Jeremy Allison via foundation-list wrote: > Yes, thanks for the correction Karen. Not being a lawyer means I'm often > not very precise about these things (I'm very precise about my technical > terminology instead :-). > > [...] > > > > I don't currently c