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

Le mardi 10 novembre 2015 à 09:07 +, Debarshi Ray a écrit : > 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? This was referring to the one on the board's mailing list (w

Re: Agenda for board meeting on October 26th

Hm, the subject line in my previous message is wrong, I meant to say "October 27th", obviously. Still calibrating that DeLorean I found last Wednesday. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foun

Agenda for board meeting on October 26th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its weekly meeting this Tuesday at 19h UTC. Like last week, I will be serving as interim vice-vice-chairperson. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Trademark renewals * Replacing Christian Hergert (and choosing a new v

Re: gnomes collecting pants nominations

Le samedi 18 juillet 2015 à 22:03 -0500, Michael Catanzaro a écrit : > Quick question: does this rule exclude current board members, > incoming board members, or both? Both the new (incoming) and last (outgoing) board members are excluded from this, as far as I understand it, since those presen

Agenda for board meeting on July 20th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Monday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC adboard meeting agenda * Trademark-infringing swag? (mousepads on Amazon) * GIMP expenses (tent, camera, LGM 2015 attendance) * Pants Award

gnomes collecting pants nominations

Hi folks, in preparation for GUADEC & the board meeting this Monday, we'd like to collect nominations for the traditional Pants Award. The criteria for people you'd like to nominate are: * Must go above and beyond in his or her contributions to GNOME. This should be outside (or in addition to)

Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

Le mardi 07 juillet 2015 à 09:46 +0200, Jens Georg a écrit : > > > > * https://kickstarter.com/projects/technoruninc/stratos/ > > Apart from the massive annoying marketing speech in the kickstarter, > what's the exact purpose of this point? No particular purpose other than to bring it up for di

Agenda for board meeting on July 7th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Tuesday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Desktop Summit 2011 taxes * Travel committee budget & applications status update * Vote on a travel subsidy for keynote at Open Source Hong Kong *

Agenda for board meeting on June 19th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC 2015 * Tradeoff for one potential sponsor * Last minute efforts to secure additional GUADEC

Agenda for board meeting on June 5th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 14h UTC. (We could not have a meeting last week due to time constraints, and can't have one at the regular time this week due to other scheduling constraints.) Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting:

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a "complete" desktop?)

Replying inline to your reply (stripping my own previous text): [...] > I'm not asking you to be technical, but to be managers. (Not saying > here that manager can/should/must be non-technical) [...] > Being a director of the board for me, means having the power to > allocate resources to make GNO

Re: Question to the candidates (what is a "complete" desktop?)

Hi Erick, This is such a large question, and possibly a fairly technical one, I'm not sure it is within the scope of board candidates to debate this. Unless you clearly define what you mean by "complete, fully integrated desktop environment"… as everyone is going to have a different opinion on wh

Re: More questions for Board candidates

Le jeudi 21 mai 2015 à 17:25 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : > I have a few questions for the candidates too. I agree with what has > been said by Jeff and Josh that it's important that people on the board > have a diverse skillset, so I wouldn't expect all board members to > answer yes on these,

Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

Le mardi 19 mai 2015 à 08:41 +0800, Max a écrit : > 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to > working on the board on a regular basis? As many as needed to Get the Job Done. I do not have a fixed schedule (as I mentioned last year, I don't work in a "clock-in, c

Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Jeff Fortin Tam

personal website above. Thank you for your consideration, Jean-François "Jeff" Fortin Tam ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list

Agenda for board meeting on May 15th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Friday at 16h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Cosigning a letter/statement against backdoors * GUADEC 2015: FFKP agreement * Brainstorming ideas for the next adboard meeting

Summary of work done throughout 2014-2015

Dear Foundation Members, In case you missed it with the flurry of activity on Planet GNOME lately, you might be interested in this report: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/05/07/presidents-report-the-state-of-the-gnome-foundation/ Among other things, it summarizes what your elected board of directo

Agenda for board meeting on April 30th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having a meeting this Thursday at 16 or 18h UTC. (We could not have a meeting last week due to time constraints and having had an advisory board meeting the day before.) Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GUADEC 2015 upd

Re: Agenda for board meeting on March 27th

Le vendredi 27 mars 2015 à 17:19 +0100, Alexandre Franke a écrit : > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jeff Fortin Tam wrote: > > If you would like the board to discuss any particular issues at the next > > meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda

Agenda for board meeting on March 27th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * Partnerships sitrep: adboard outreach, conferences * GNOME.Asia summit budget * Steps for getting into agreement with Conse

Agenda for board meeting on March 13th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of some of the topics for this meeting: * GIMP funds release request for travel to LGM * Sponsorship for GNOME Asia & GUADEC * Various * Review action items

Agenda for board meeting on February 27th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of the proposed agenda/topics for this meeting: * Augmented mission statement document for a donation requirement * ED search - status of adboard outreach, and next steps

Agenda for board meeting on February 13

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. That's actually in 30 minutes, sorry for not being able to announce it earlier this time. This is a "normal" meeting after the special ED Search meeting we've had this Wednesday. It replaces the meetin

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

Emmanuele wrote: [...] > arguably, this should have been set up right at the end of the > previous board's term/beginning of this board's term, but I suspect > that the GroupOn issue threw a massive spanner in everybody's > timetable. Yep. Among other things :) By the way, I wanted to let you f

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 23th, 2015

Hi Alberto, thanks for bringing this up and keeping us in check. I guess I, for one, can take some blame for the way I've been setting meeting agendas lately. Part of the problem is that we keep having to react to a ton of *time-critical* or sensitive situations (I don't know if it's always like

Re: Minutes of the Board Meeting of January, 09th, 2015

Le lundi 26 janvier 2015 à 17:25 -0800, Luis Villa a écrit : > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andrea Veri wrote: > * ED search > ? Oh, this was not written down in the minutes, but the last two topics (reviewing tasks, ED search) were not touched upon during the meeting, they were

Agenda for board meeting on January 23rd

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here's an overview of the proposed agenda/topics for this meeting: * Adboard meeting at FOSDEM 2015 * Next steps for the Outreach Program * Responding to a phone press inquiry asking t

Agenda for board meeting on January 9th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting so far: * Funding - quick status check on: Ecosystem (re)mapping Adboard outreach Sysadmin sponsorship * Sitrep on deal wi

Agenda for board meeting on December 5th

Hello Foundation members! The board will be having its regular meeting this Friday at 17h UTC. Here is an overview of the agenda/topics for this meeting so far: * Sysadmin contract renewal * Vote on Karen's GUADEC 2014 travel expenses reimbursement * GUADEC 2015 Sponsor Brochure Draft * R