Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-06-09 Thread Stormy Peters
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Frederic Peters wrote: > > > I believe it is clear, from past board actions (e.g. the snowy > > hackfest) that such services are something we want to encourage, with > > our money and brand, but it seems we only have few developers engaging > > with the web, do you

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-06-08 Thread Frederic Peters
I wrote : > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I'm not sure that administration, hardware, or the likes are the major > > blockers for this sort of problem. What's really missing is the cloud > > services themselves. > > > > When we do get a cloud service worth offering for the whole of our > > communi

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Klapper
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the hardware/administr

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Richard Stallman
Cloud computing actually represents the future of innovation, Let's not be so quick to proclaim a future that we might want to avoid. "Cloud computing" is a nebulous term; it means using Internet servers. There are many ways to use servers; some pose ethical problems and some don't. Even if

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Frederic Peters
Bastien Nocera wrote: > I'm not sure that administration, hardware, or the likes are the major > blockers for this sort of problem. What's really missing is the cloud > services themselves. > > When we do get a cloud service worth offering for the whole of our > community, we'll find a way to get

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Brian Cameron
Gil: On 05/26/11 17:27, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the hardware/administratio

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi members, > > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the h

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi members, > > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the h

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Pockey Lam
On 05/27/2011 06:27 AM, Gil Forcada wrote: Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the hardware/administration/

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-27 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 26 mai 2011 à 21:02 -0400, Shaun McCance a écrit : > I think Tomboy Online is awesome. I think we should provide > more online services ourselves. I also think there's nothing > wrong with charging money for providing a service. Maybe the > foundation can't do it as a non-profit. Maybe we

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-26 Thread Stormy Peters
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Gil Forcada wrote: > > As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and > look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe > part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy > on-line account for free).

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 00:27 +0200, Gil Forcada wrote: > Hi members, > > Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's > also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). > > One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud > services is the h

Re: Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-26 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi Gil, 2011/5/27 Gil Forcada : > As a member of a the future board will you look for ways to promote and > look for resources to offer these free software cloud services? Maybe > part of a funding campaign (be a Friend of GNOME and have a Tomboy > on-line account for free). Cloud computing actu

Question to candidates: on-line services

2011-05-26 Thread Gil Forcada
Hi members, Everyday more and more services are offered on the cloud and there's also initiatives powered by Free Software (tomboy on-line...). One of the main problems for Free Software projects providing cloud services is the hardware/administration/connection expenses which are mostly a no-go