On 08/05/2009 04:51 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 23:15 -0700, Bo Yang wrote:
Recently I’m working on GTK/DirectFB, and I found a coding mistake (I
think) at gdk/directfb/gdkgeometry-directfb.c:249.
When dx or dy is negative, the destination point is calculated wrong.
On 06/09/2009 10:34 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Here's a question that I would like the candidates to answer.
What do you think GNOME should do to support the
broader cause of free/libre software,
and the freedom of computer users?
I see one thing GNOME should *continue* to do: improve the
On 05/29/2009 01:17 PM, Susana Pereira wrote:
1. For outgoing board members: what have been the upsides/good things
from your previous stint at the Board which you would like to see
carried forward into this term ?
I was not previously member of the board.
2. If you are a new
Name: Hubert Figuiere
Mail: h...@figuiere.net
Nick: hub
Blog: http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/
Affiliation: None
Summary:
I have been involved with Free Software for a decade or so, mostly
working on the application side: AbiWord, gnote, etc.
I have attended several Free Software conferences
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:07 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
Having said all that, I think housing is a lower priority than
flights.
When you have a budget to deal with the statement does not make sense.
As Pascal said, what's the point of flying there if you can afford
accommodations.
Hub
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:02 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
I am not here to deny anyone free use of Glade, that would include
any company who might need to write a proper sdk for their GNU/Linux
based embedded/handheld/realtime/insert-flavour-here platform.
Seriously, that even more reason
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:03 -0400, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
Licensing Glade under the LGPL means that we
might, at some point down the road, have an IDE that doesn't suck,
which we can use for hacking Gnome. While I'm sure you don't agree, I
would rather have some IDE, regardless of license,
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:09 -0400, Richard M Stallman wrote:
I don't think any of the free software flash players handles Flash 9.
Gnash has partly implemented it, but not completely; its maintainer
says that swfdec is less advanced.
If that is true, it is a bad thing to use Flash 9,
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:48 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
Otherwise, if we're not worrying about budgets, then by all means.
European summers are lovely.
Or elsewhere since we are not worrying about budgets in this hypothesis.
Hub
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On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:03 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Except that we have been advertising it as GUADEC, The GNOME
Conference for the past couple of years. Maybe we should make that
official.
About GUADEC out of Europe, that's fine as long as the place is Ok for
travel. Bangalore
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:42 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
An aside: some of my preferred locations for GUADEC would be (planting
ideas in the heads of possible organisers):
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
Paris
Brussels
Geneva
Milan
FYI, Akademy is in Belgium this year.
Hub
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 23:02 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
Whjile I disagree with Mozilla's trademark policy for precisely its
affect on the free software development community, their policy is not
incompatible with Firefox as free software, in the same way as Sun's
policy concerning Java does not
Usually I don't care what slashdot can say, but this time they are
making statements that are not true.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/12/11/161252.shtml
and I quote:
... and GNOME Foundation director Quim Gil's stonewalling of the
patent-free Ogg Vorbis / Theora format on behalf of Nokia.
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 07:53 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Perhaps a roaming Columbus Day weekend conference (still
in the USA) would be a good thing?
s/USA/North America/
Canada do exist. And in that case Columbus day is Thanksgiving in Canada
so it might be wise to move the date a bit.
Hub
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:19 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
Are you also Novell's representative on TC 45 if I may ask?
Jody no longer works for Novell. Novell has its own representative on
TC-45.
Hub
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Anne Østergaard wrote:
noooxml petition
Read more about the petition on
http://www.noooxml.org/petition
http://www.noooxml.org/
NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard I ask the national
members of ISO to vote NO in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office
OpenXML or OOXML
This is no reason we shouldn't _try_ to implement OOXML. As long as
we are not forcibly stopped, we may as well try to implement
everything that users want.
This work is currently being done jointly with Sun and Novell in
OpenOffice.org. It is developed openly in OpenOffice.org CVS and is
Richard Stallman wrote:
However, it may be true that we don't have much of a choice in this
matter. Certain aspects of OOXML are patented by Microsoft, in the US
and some other countries. Microsoft offers a gratis patent license,
on conditions that do not allow free implementations. To
Alan Cox wrote:
But one thing is for sure - the travel costs for attendees is something
which will definitely be taken into account, and in general that will
exclude anything outside North America and Europe.
That depends upon the time of year and location. The bit of North
America which is
Esben Stien wrote:
I fear we are not setting correct guidelines for GNOME applications.
It would be very nice with a policy of separating the core and UI
throughout GNOME. This does not only mean applications using
libraries; this means using daemons as the core of every application.
This
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