Announcing Board of Directors Elections 2011

Dear Foundation Members,

As part of the Membership and Elections Committee, I am pleased to
announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2011.

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

                          *GNOME Board Elections 2011*
                    2011-05-22:  List of candidates closed
                    2011-05-29:  Voting Begins
                    2011-06-12:  Voting Ends
                    2011-06-21:  Challenges End

ELECTIONS
=========

The seven members of our current Board of Directors are ruling GNOME for
12 month now. We, the GNOME Foundation Members, will have to either
replace or reelect current members.

CANDIDACY
=========

If you want to run for one of the seven places in the Board of
Directors, send an email to foundation-announce <at> gnome.org and
elections <at> gnome.org with your full name, e-mail, corporate affiliation
(if any), and a description of your reasons for wanting to serve as a
director.

Candidacies must be announced prior to 2011-05-22, 23:59 UTC.

Meeting Minutes Published - April 26th, 2011

The meeting minutes for the April 26th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published.  Refer here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110426

Other past board meetings are archived here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of April 26th, 2011

Next Meeting

     * May 10th, 2011

Attending

     * Andreas Nilsson
     * Bastien Nocera
     * Brian Cameron
     * Germán Póo-Caamaño
     * Og Maciel
     * Paul Cutler
     * Rosanna Yuen

Regrets

Future plans for new versions of Orbit2

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Re: Future plans for new versions of Orbit2

On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:13 +0300, Peter Penzov wrote:
>    I'm planning to use Orbit2 for a big project written in C. What are
> the plans for Orbit2? Are there plans for new releases and support? 

Might be the wrong mailing list, anyway:
ORBit2 is pretty dead. http://git.gnome.org/browse/ORBit2/log/
I'd rather use D-Bus.

andre
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Call for volunteers on GUADEC

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Announcing our brand new Foundation Members

Hi everyone!

The GNOME Membership and Elections Committee is proud
to announce our new Foundation Members approved during April-May.

Please welcome them into our great community! But here they are: * 

1. Tiffany Antopolski (GNOME Documentation, Bug Triaging)
2. Laurent Bigonville (Debian GNOME packages) 
3. Luca Invernizzi (Getting Things GNOME, Google Summer of Code 2010)
4. Jens Georg  (co-maintainer of Rygel, Anjuta patches)
5. Luciana Fujii Pontello (GNOME Outreach Program, Cheese maintainer) 
6. Sebastian Keller (Users support on GNOME channels on Freenode, GNOME Marketing)
7. Chris Kühl (GNOME System Monitor and cluttermm maintainer, Vino GNOME 3 port) 
8. Alexander Kojevnikov (co-maintainer of Banshee, GNOME GSoC mentor 2009 and 2010) 
9. Emilio Pozuelo Monfort  (GNOME Debian Team, Empathy)
10. Henri Bergius (Midgard and GeoClue)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)

For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at membership-committee <at> gnome org. (or me directly)

At your service,

Andrea Veri,
on behalf of the GNOME Membership Committee

Membership Committee Meeting Minutes

hi,

the GNOME Membership Committee had a meeting on 04/05/2011,
all the details will follow:

Attending:

• Andrea Veri
• Bruno Boaventura
• Pedro Villavicencio
• Tobias Mueller

Regrets:

• Christer Edwards

Agenda for the meeting and items discussed:

• preparing elections
• discussions about the current status of the committee to track down problems and issues I've been
reporting since some time to specific members of the Committee.

Decisions:

• Elections schedule has been decided and mailed to foundation-list/announce already. Mail available
at [1]
• foundation.gnome.org/elections has been updated with the upcoming elections material. Everything
can be found at [2]  (it still needs to be updated with all the relevant bits as soon as the candidacies
timeline will end)
• new policies and procedures have been explained again to the whole Committee to avoid future problems
and issues while processing new applicants.

Logs available at [3].

Some past items were discussed into our mailing list:

Agenda:

• changing the requirements for approving a request. (e.g two MC members ACKs for a request to be approved
and not just one like now. I would like to be sure most of us are okay when a new GNOME contributor is going to
join the Foundation.
• application's page [4], are we ok with that? I guess no, the application form should be updated and
renewed like we agreed at our latest meeting.
• setting up a private membership committee mailing list. (for future updates, doubts about
applications, meetings organization and everything else that should be kept private)

Decisions:

• two Membership Committee members acks are needed for an application to be accepted.
• membership-committee-private mailing list is up and running.
• The application.php page has been updated and renewed (it now asks less but more specific questions to
grab all the details we really need to process an application succesfully)
• quite all the Wiki pages under the MembershipCommittee area renewed and updated. Now everything
should be ordered in a correct and good way. (easy to read, browse, search through)

Andrea,
on behalf of the GNOME Membership and Elections Committee

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-May/msg00000.html
[2] http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/2011/
[3] http://people.gnome.org/~av/mc-logs/04-05-2011-meeting.log
[4] http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/application.php

GNOME booth at LinuxTag 2011 - openSuSE DVDs

Hey folks 

On 07.04.2011 12:50, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> On 11.02.2011 16:35, Tobias Mueller wrote:
>> > I wanted to know whether anybody actually has taken any actions to get a
>> > booth at LinuxTag.
>> >
>> > If not, I'm going to do that.
>> >
> So I did.
> 
LinuxTag just finished and I wanted to follow up quickly. We had a great
booth, thanks to Canonical for the EventsBox 2.0, which we internally
bumped to 3.0 because we used it very successfully to show off the new
GNOME 3 bling.

Also many thanks to openSuSE for their Live DVDs. They were highly
appreciated and we could use them very efficiently to attract people and
start conversations.
If you happen to want a box of DVDs, contact me or Vincent. We'll
somehow arrange shipping.

I also want to thank all the helping people that built the booth, ran it
or tear it down.

Cheers,
  Tobi

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Candidacy: Rodrigo Moya

Name: Rodrigo Moya
Email: rodrigo <at> gnome.org
Nick: rodrigo
Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/rodrigo
Affiliation: Canonical

Summary
=======
I joined the GNOME project in 1998 and have since then worked on several
projects (Evolution, GNOME-DB, Control Center, gnome-settings-daemon and
others) both on my free time and while working for some GNOME-related
companies (Ximian, Novell and Canonical now).

Details
=======
The main reason for my candidacy is the relationship between GNOME and
companies (specifically my current employer), which I would like to
improve, trying to get both sides of the problem fixed so that a healthy
and cooperative relationship can be built to make GNOME rock more than
what it's been rocking in all these years.

Also, based on recent discussions, I would like to help define the
message we give to 3rd parties about what GNOME is, so there is no
confusion as to what those 3rd parties should expect from GNOME.

Apart from that, I would like to help in spreading more the GNOME love,
which I used to do a lot some years ago, when I was one of the most
active persons in the GNOME Hispano group, but now with a more
international scope. That is, I would like to help local groups get more
people to become contributors to GNOME in whatever ways the Foundation
can use to make that happen.

As for my experience in this kind of role, it's not that much, but I've
been part of the GNOME Hispano board since its creation, in 2003/2004,
where, even though the big work there has always been done by other
people (like Jose Angel Díaz and Chema Casanova), I've learnt a lot of
things that might be helpful to my position in the Foundation Board if I
get elected.

If you are still wondering whether I would be a good fit for the board,
just wanted to say that my 1st task if I get elected will be to
increment everyone's salary  

Re: Candidacy: Rodrigo Moya

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:23:47AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Also, based on recent discussions, I would like to help define the
> message we give to 3rd parties about what GNOME is, so there is no
> confusion as to what those 3rd parties should expect from GNOME.

Do you think GNOME means GNOME shell or not?
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