Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Gettys
Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:51 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: I'm doing a huge [CUT] here, I hope you don't mind? People like Google work *hard* on latency and understand every byte counts (among many other things: go look at the google talks by their engineers on the topic

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-05 Thread Jim Gettys
The point I was trying to make was that HTML 5 (or more formally some of the API's for javascript for accessing local storage), among other things, enables offline use of web applications. Think google gears use in google calendar and gmail or google air. Note gears was just formally

Re: Reboot: Strategic goals for GNOME

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Gettys
+, and the Windows and Mac equivalents. This provides a major opportunity; but I have seen little thought or discussion of how Gnome can/should take advantage of this. Food for thought - Jim Gettys

Re: What do you think of the foundation?

2009-06-03 Thread Jim Gettys
john palmieri wrote: The board should not mire itself in conflict resolution like this, just like it does not make technical decitions. The boards role is to obtain and distribute resources and make sure those resources are used in efficent ways. That is enormous power as it is. Giving

Re: Some perspective on the relative importannce of the board.

2005-10-30 Thread Jim Gettys
at 17:02 -0400, Nat Friedman wrote: On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 09:48 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: liaison with other organizations and companies. Yeah, I omitted this. Good point. Nat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http