live.gnome.org Maintenance

Hi,

tomorrow morning (from 10 AM, GMT +2) there will be a downtime of 
live.gnome.org, we're switching the wiki over a new machine since 
we're experiencing high loads and problems while loading pages.

I'll follow up this mail with more details as soon as the migration 
will be completely done.

If you have any question, please join #sysadmin on GIMPNET.

cheers,

Andrea

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Travel assistance applications to attend GNOME.Asia 2012

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Brian Cameron - Stepping down from the board

Friends in the GNOME community:

After serving 4 terms on The GNOME Foundation board of directors, I will
be stepping down at the end of this term.

I would like to thank everyone in the community who has supported me
and allowed me to represent them on this board.  It has been a
profoundly rewarding and truly inspirational experience to help The
GNOME Foundation and GNOME community to grow.

The years that I have served on the board have been exciting and
productive times.  I am proud to have served as president and secretary;
to have been involved with the development, release and celebration
surrounding the GNOME 3 release; and to have helped with the
development of successful GNOME programs like the Outreach Program for
Women.  In my time on the board, I have witnessed so much growth within
the community.  Since then, the GNOME Foundation has hired two executive
directors, started having successful annual summits in Asia, and has
more than doubled the number of hackfests held each year.  Just to
mention a few highlights.

My stepping down should not be viewed as me becoming less involved
with GNOME.  I plan to continue working on GNOME for Oracle and expect
that I will continue helping the GNOME Foundation and community in
many ways.  I mostly feel that it is just time for me to step down to
reclaim some of my life back.  4.5 years (including one 18-month term
in 2008-2009) is a long time to serve on The GNOME Foundation board of
directors.  I believe that only Jonathan Blandford served as a board
member for a longer period of time (5 years).

With the two most senior board members (Germán and myself) both
stepping down at the end of this term, it is especially important for
passionate people to serve the community.  So I again encourage people
who are considering to run for the board to step forward.  It is a great
way to increase one's involvement with GNOME and free software and to
help make sure that GNOME continues to rock.

Brian

Travel assistance applications to attend to GUADEC

Dear hackers,

As you may know, the GNOME Foundation provides travel sponsorships to
individuals who want to attend GUADEC and need financial assistance.

We are happy to announce the Travel Committee is ready to receive
applications for sponsorships to attend to GUADEC 2012.  This year,
GUADEC is being held in the Faculty of Computer Science at the
University of A Coruña, in the beautiful city of A Coruña (Spain), from
Thursday 26th July until Wednesday 1st August.

The instructions are detailed at http://live.gnome.org/Travel
Please read them carefully.

Deadline: May 16, 2012, 23:59 UTC.  You can start sending your
applications now!

Some additional comments:
      * Any information you send to the Travel Committee will be
        private.
      * Asking for sponsorship *does not* guarantee you will get
        sponsored.
      * A good application with good information will be processed
        faster.
      * If you need help with accommodation, the Travel Committee will
        handle it directly with the organization.  You should state that
        you need accommodation, and leave the cost blank.
      * Always choose the most economical option whenever possible.
        People who need travel sponsorship, should look for the best
        price (e.g. through a service like kayak.com).  If the Travel
        Committee finds a cheaper price, that will be the price
        considered during the   evaluation.
      * If you are applying to a Google Summer of Code program (as
        student or mentor) you should mention it in your application.
      * GSoC students usually get a percentage of their GUADEC expenses
        covered.
      * If you submitted an abstract to be presented at GUADEC, you
        should mention it in your application.  Preference will be given
        to people giving presentations at GUADEC.
      * The travel committee will cross check with the GUADEC paper
        committee the talks that have been accepted, so as long as you
        let us know you submitted one, there is no need to follow up.
      * The Travel committee should reply back about receiving your
        application within 2-3 days. After that we would accumulate all
        the sponsorship requests and process them together. So please do
        not panic if we take some time to reply on the status.
        Affirmative/Negative you would surely get a response.
      * If you need an invitation letter, you must clearly state your
        contributions and name at least two fellow hackers that can
        directly support your requirement.
      * No personal emails. Please keep travel-committee Cc'ed on all
        your replies.

You can find us in the #travel channel at irc.gnome.org.

Kind regards,

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Membership's Renewals April 2012

Hi,

as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a 
renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail:

1.   Cosimo Cecchi, last renewed on 2010-05-02.
2.   Owen Taylor, last renewed on 2010-05-02.
3.   William Jon McCann, last renewed on 2010-05-02.
4.   Florian Müllner, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
5.   Peter Hutterer, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
6.   Djavan Fagundes, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
7.   Sasa Ostrouska, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
8.   Garrett Michael LeSage, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
9.   Michael Pruett, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
10.  Bryan Clark, last renewed on 2010-05-06.
11.  Milan Bouchet-Valat, last renewed on 2010-05-07.
12.  Alexandro Silva, last renewed on 2010-05-07.
13.  Wouter Bolsterlee, last renewed on  2010-05-12.
14.  Serdar Cicek, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
15.  Luis Miguel Cunha Medinas, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
16.  Gabriel Burt, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
17.  Karsten Bräckelmann, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
18.  Jonathon Jongsma, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
19.  Jose Angel Diaz Diaz, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
20.  Johannes Schmid, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
21.  Sara Khalatbari, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
22.  Carl Worth, last renewed on 2010-05-12.
23.  Jukka-Pekka Iivonen, last renewed on 2010-05-13.
24.  Flamarion Jorge, last renewed on 2010-05-14.
25.  Tim-Philipp Müller, last renewed on 2010-05-26.
26.  Armin Burgmeier, last renewed on 2010-05-26
27.  Erwann Chénedé, last renewed on 2010-05-28.

The Renewal form can be found at [2].

cheers,

Andrea

[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-November/msg00000.html
[2] http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/apply/

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Boston Summit?

Hey guys.

Looking at my fall calendar I noticed that the Boston Summit* and Grace
Hopper overlap, the latter being 3-6 October and Columbus Day weekend
being 6-8 October. Also, as I understand it, there will be a FLOSS day
associated with Grace Hopper taking place on 7 October. My initial
reaction was to just forget about Boston Summit. But then I remembered
the lesson from last year: Traditions can be broken. ;) ;)

So.... I realize it's still quite early, but are we planning on having
the Boston Summit in Boston and over Columbus Day weekend?

Take care.
--joanie

* Assuming we continue the Columbus Day tradition

Introduction

Hi,

I was recently accepted in the GNOME Foundation and this is my
introduction letter.

I studied SW Engineering at the University of Coruña from 2000 to
2006, at the very same faculty that will host the GUADEC this year. I
carried out my final year project as an Erasmus student at the
University of Stuttgart, working on improvements to a BPEL engine
built on J2EE. After that, I stayed in Germany for another 7 months as
an intern at IBM Deutschland, writing and managing web sites.

I joined Igalia in 2007. Joining a company with a flat structure and
focused on innovating on Free SW was too good an offer to miss 

My first assignment was on the ringschart widget for Baobab, the GNOME
disk usage visualizer. Most of my work since then has been on mobile:
the email system, application manager and input methods for Maemo, and
the (Qt-based) MeeGoTouch widget library for MeeGo.

In 2009–2010, I got a MSc. in Human-Centred Interactive Technologies
(with distinction) at the University of York, UK. I have started to
collaborate in the design of GNOME during the past months, adding
content on live.gnome.org/Design. At this moment, I am collaborating
with colleagues at Igalia on accessibility and web browsing on GNOME.

You are welcome to have a look at my blog here:

  https://blogs.igalia.com/femorandeira/

And some of my sketches here:

  https://github.com/felipeerias/sketches

I hope to meet many of you at my home town for this year's GUADEC!

Best,

Felipe

Fwd: Someone uses the logo for their service

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Og Maciel joins the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce that Og Maciel [1] has joined the GNOME 
Foundation Membership Committee replacing Christer Edwards.

We now have a full quorum and we're looking forward to process any 
renewal or new application in the fastest way possible to avoid any 
delay at the upcoming elections.

I would like to thank Christer for his contributions and commitment 
and wish him all the best for his future activities.

cheers,

Andrea,
GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Chairman

[1] https://live.gnome.org/OgMaciel

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Next board elections and candidacies

I am *not* running for the next board elections; maybe you should.

Why I am saying this? Because if I was one of your candidates in any of
the previous elections, I think it is good you know in advance that I am
not running.

I encourage you to run for the next board elections if you have not
thought in that already.  In particular, if you would like to see
something fixed or improved (as it was my case when I ran the first time
I became elected).

You should be aware that as in patches, your ideas might be well
received and approved, or they might need some extra work or they could
be rejected (the decisions are taken by 7 directors).  However, the
discussions help to bring food for thoughts and awareness.

Do not be afraid if you think you are not 'popular', the board of
directors is not a popularity contest (I was elected even though I am
low profile).

If you have any question, plan or idea you would like to discuss before
sending your candidacy, do not hesitate to bring them here or directly
to me (or the current/former board member you feel more comfortable to
talk with).  As you, I want the best for our project.

Regards,

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Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2012

Dear Foundation Members,

The GNOME Foundation board of directors and the GNOME Foundation
Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming
elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2012.

The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following:

                           *GNOME Board Elections 2012*
                     2012-05-20:  List of candidates closed
                     2012-05-27:  Voting Begins
                     2012-06-10:  Voting Ends
                     2012-06-19:  Challenges End

ELECTIONS
=========

The seven members of our current Board of Directors have been ruling
GNOME for 12 months now.  We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have
to elect a the board of directors for the next year.

CANDIDACY
=========

If you want to run for one of the seven positions on The GNOME
Foundation Board of Directors, then send an email to
foundation-announce gnome org and elections gnome org with your full
name, e-mail, corporate affiliation (if any), and your reasons for
wanting to serve as a director.

Candidacies must be announced prior to 2012-05-20, 23:59 UTC.

All discussion related to the elections should be held on
foundation-list.  Members are invited to ask questions to one or all
candidates on that list (see below).

A list of candidates will be announced on 2012-05-23.

At this point, you are invited to ask the candidates questions by
sending them to foundation-list.  These candidates might become your
representative, so do not hesitate to ask them questions.

Please try to avoid asking duplicate questions that others have
already asked.  Also, bear in mind that the candidates invest a lot of
time answering questions, so please be reasonable with the amount and
scope of the questions.  You can also send your questions to
membership-committee gnome org instead, so that the committee can
collect, sift and sort the questions before sending them to
foundation-list for the candidates to respond.  Though, if you
prefer to ask your questions directly, please do so.

ELECTORATE
==========

Every GNOME foundation member whose membership is valid in the range of
the full voting period, including challenges (2012-05-27 - 2012-06-19)
is eligible to vote.

If you are not a member yet, please consider applying for membership 
ASAP.  Late applications will most likely not be processed in time.

The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee will inform
those people who might need to renew via email. We recommend that
members also double check this to avoid a missed opportunity to vote.
Please verify that the email address that is associated with your GNOME
Foundation membership is valid and that you are able to read emails sent
to this address.

VOTING
======

The Electorate will receive complete instructions on how to vote by
2012-05-27 via email.

The 7 candidates who receive the most votes as counted by a single
transferable vote system (Scottish STV) will be elected, except that no
more than two individuals affiliated with any one corporation may be
elected.

In the event of a tie for the final slot on the board, the Elections
Committee will schedule run-off elections as soon as possible.

           May 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
       1   2   3   4   5   6
  (7)  8   9  10  11  12  13   Announcements and list of candidates opens
(7th)
  14  15  16  17  18  19 (20)  List of candidates closed (20th)
  21  22 (23) 24  25  26 (27)  List of candidates announced (23rd)
                               Instructions to vote are sent (27th)
  28  29  30  31

          June 2012
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
                   1   2   3
   4   5   6   7   8   9 (10)  Votes must be returned (10th)
  11 (12) 13  14  15  16  17   Preliminary results are announced (12th)
  18 (19) 20  21  22  23  24   Challenges to the results closed (19th)
  25  26  27  28  29  30

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More information about The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee
and the voting process can be found here:

   https://live.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee
   http://vote.gnome.org

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Happy Voting,

Brian