Free tickets to SCaLE 16x!

2018-03-06 Thread Emily Gonyer
Hi All! Exciting news for anyone in the Pasadena/Los Angeles area: GNOME has a few extra tickets to SCaLE 16x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/16x) - currently a $90 value. The first person to reply to this email will be given one of them, and the rest will be raffled on social media (twitter

Re: Privacy campaign funds

2015-02-25 Thread Emily Gonyer
Why not run a specific contest to find a couple interns specifically to work on privacy issues? No need to involve OPW specifically. On Feb 20, 2015 5:10 PM, "Ekaterina Gerasimova" wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Magdalen Berns wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:28:58PM +, Magdalen Berns w

Re: Supporting the free software movement

2014-06-04 Thread Emily Gonyer
For what its worth, I believe that if we truly want to promote free software, we need to begin reaching out to people outside of the typical tech-sphere. A great place to begin would be with educators and kids. There are many conferences not specifically related to tech and free software where we c

Re: Supporting the free software movement

2014-06-01 Thread Emily Gonyer
use as we recognize that no one project is 'right' for everyone, but that free software is. Emily Gonyer On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitu

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-21 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 01:39 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: >> To cooperate formally with a Linux Foundation event would run into a >> problem -- they would probably want to call the GNU/Linux system >> "Linux", and we should not accept that.

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-21 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> >> Of course people should be able to be paid to work on free software. >> That's great. But when one or two large companies pay the majority o

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-21 Thread Emily Gonyer
at 7:18 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 07:15 -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> Of course people should be able to be paid to work on free software. >> That's great. But when one or two large companies pay the majority of >> developers, it becomes hard to

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-21 Thread Emily Gonyer
Of course people should be able to be paid to work on free software. That's great. But when one or two large companies pay the majority of developers, it becomes hard to argue that it is still a 'community led' project, let alone one which is independent. And that's where GNOME is right now. On We

Re: question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
couraged to submit talks, and become foundation members. As a member of the board, I will do my best to engage with them and encourage them to do so, while also doing my best to ensure that their voices, thoughts, concerns, etc are heard, understood and thought of in any and all changes going fo

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
I agree whole heartidly that this is a valuable and good use of GNOME time and resources. As a free software project ostensibly committed to freedom, privacy and security, it behooves us to participate. Emily Gonyer On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: > Hi, its great to

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
ests? Shouldn't the needs of the project come first, and not the needs of any individual corporation? On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > "On 20 May 2014 12:10, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova >>

Re: Question for candidates

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Emily Chen wrote: > Hi, > > 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 ? > I think it is of utmost

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
corporate money. Emily Gonyer On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:28 AM, oliverp wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:48 +0200, oliverp wrote: >> On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 22:02 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: >> I think we can do more with organization sponsorship and individual >> donat

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > Hi Emily, > > On 17 May 2014 19:42, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> Name: Emily Gonyer >> Email: emilyyr...@gmail.com >> Affiliation: None >> >> Dear Foundation, >> >> I'm intereste

Re: Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2014

2014-05-18 Thread Emily Gonyer
I have re-sent my application to the aforementioned lists (foundation-announce & elections), and it is 'awaiting moderator approval'. On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > 2014-05-17 17:55 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper : > >> On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 21:48 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: >> > CA

Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

2014-05-13 Thread Emily Gonyer
Name: Emily Gonyer Email: emilyyr...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear Foundation, I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first time, in order to help steer GNOME in a more open and community led direction. It is my opinion that GNOME has strode too far

Re: GUADEC 2014 organization meeting

2013-11-26 Thread Emily Gonyer
Erm... is this today (Tuesday November 26th) or on Thursday November 28th?? On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > Hi, > > As you should know by now, next GUADEC will happen in summer 2014 in > Strasbourg, France. > > The first online meeting for the organization will happen o

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> And, once again, I have to ask, how much different does it have/need >> to be? > I don't think any designer would want my advice as to h

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-25 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Allan Day wrote: > Dave Neary wrote: >>> My stance is that I am happy for them (or anyone) to include GNOME in their >>> product. They have permission (IIRC) to name it "something GNOME". So it's a >>> different product, i.e. not "GNOME". I am happy if they use ou

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-24 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: >> Why would we want it to communicate "Distinguish this from GNOME"? I >> won't say there can't be any such reason, but I don't see that there >> is one. I haven't seen any discu

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-22 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Nov 22, 2013 7:33 AM, "Allan Day" wrote: > > Vincent Untz wrote: > ... > >> Yeah, so the thing that I think we really miss is some examples of > >> what is cool to do. Like examples of t-shirts and stickers, and > >> original designs based on the logo. My understanding is that this > >> would

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-22 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi, > > Le jeudi 21 novembre 2013, à 12:17 +, Allan Day a écrit : >> Vincent Untz wrote: >> >> Do we have examples of the guidelines "hurting us"? >> > >> > I can think of groups simply choosing to not use the GNOME logo anymore >> > beca

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-21 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On 11/21/2013 10:59 AM, Allan Day wrote: >> Máirín Duffy wrote: >>> I see the brand book I put together with Jeff Waugh way back when (where >>> that vertical version of the logo came from, and the existing logotype) >>> has been unceremonio

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of October 29th, 2013

2013-11-17 Thread Emily Gonyer
So, what would Ubuntu GNOME need to do to differentiate their logo from the 'normal' GNOME logo? Can they not use the GNOME foot at all? Could they simply add a line 'not sanctioned by the GNOME Foundation' to the website? What needs to be done? Emily On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Bastien Noce

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Emily Gonyer
Hi Jim - I totally understand. Most of what I've done has simply been updating names/dates/etc (mostly related to the current vs former board of directors) and minor grammatical/ease of reading edits. I hope/assume that's OK. :) Emily Gonyer On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Jim Nel

Re: Looking for someone to help update GNOME Foundation wikipedia

2013-10-31 Thread Emily Gonyer
I've made a few preliminary edits and will try to get some more done tomorrow. But I/we will certainly keep such things in mind :) Are there other wikipedia pages we should should be keeping an eye or two out for? Emily On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31,

Re: [worldof]gnome forums

2013-10-19 Thread Emily Gonyer
Yes its vanilla forums. I've been busy and haven't checked in in week or two and it appears most of the spam didn't start till ~the end of sept/beginning of oct. There's (unfortuantly) no easy, quick way to delete multiple posts at once :( Having forums that were actively maintained by gnome would

Re: plans for FOSDEM 2014?

2013-08-25 Thread Emily Gonyer
I'd be happy to help run the booth again. I'd need funding, as always, but would be happy to come and help out. I can assist with booth details as needed, though someone else would have to bring the box(es). Emily On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > hi. > > On 15.08.2013 1

Re: "Boston" Summit 2013?

2013-04-25 Thread Emily Gonyer
Portland would be awesome in my book! :) On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:15 PM, meg ford wrote: > +1 for Portland. > > Meg Ford > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > >> Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If >> people want to take my sugge

Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

2013-03-11 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: > Hi all, > > I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had > no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts > on it, or how to go about doing so. > > What's more, over the last week, I tried to help two peopl

Re: GNOME Quarterly Reports

2012-12-16 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 12:45 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: >> On 12/15/2012 04:47 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: >> > On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 20:40 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: >> >> As feedback is often slow (needs several times of nagging) I'd like to >>

Re: GNOME now

2012-12-02 Thread Emily Gonyer
Theres the forthcoming "PengPod" (www.pengpod.com). I'm not 100% sure that its entirely free, but it sounds as though it may be. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > > This is especially true given that there is NO tablet that can run a > > completely free operating

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> > Lets be intellectually honest - a command line client editor is *NOT* >> > user-friendly. >> >> I don't agree at all with this assessment: it depends entirely on the >> audience it is targeting. > > If the goal is freedom then presumably the g

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-28 Thread Emily Gonyer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi Dave; > > On 28 November 2012 13:57, Dave Neary wrote: And if GNOME continues to bury all the configuration in secret corners without a UI, and even the basic stuff only by an add on (tweak tool) you'll continue to fail t

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
eeded. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 13:38 -0500, Emily Gonyer wrote: >> Why not just include an "About GNOME" section in System Settings > > It would be a start, but some down sides might be - > . administrators locking a

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
Why not just include an "About GNOME" section in System Settings where we can talk about these sorts of things - about software freedom and what it means. About DRM and why we don't include tools to allow its use, and why free formats like OGG are preferable. We could have multiple tabs: One about

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-18 Thread Emily Gonyer
I agree completely. However, that doesn't mean we should make it purposefully *hard* to get those things. Should we warn people? Absolutely. They should know what they are doing and be informed. But that doesn't mean we need to make it hard, and certainly not on purpose. On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 a

Re: GNOME now

2012-11-15 Thread Emily Gonyer
First up, I know my post is likely out of order, but I'm not sure how to correct that... I'm reading and replying to the first post by Seif in the archive... Anyhow.. So Seif's three questions were/are: [1] Where’s the product going? [2] What problem are we trying to solve? [3] How are we going t

GNOME Annual Report

2011-12-01 Thread Emily Gonyer
und using a multi-faceted approach to the annual report, with a downloadable PDF file as well as online videos & other content - thoughts?). Juanjo Marin, Karen Sandler & I are currently working on the report but we cannot do this alone! Please help us get the annual report out in a timel