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Joanmarie Diggs | 6 Sep 2011 22:19
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The Boston (or "Boston") Summit?

Hey all.

The other day I heard an interesting rumor, which I've since been able
to confirm [1]: There's a small chance that the Boston Summit might be
the Montreal Summit.

Montreal is all kinds of charming awesomeness, and if that is where the
Summit is going to be this year, that's great. But it does of course
mean that some people who didn't have to travel will now have to, and
that some "meetings of convenience" with non-GNOME local folks might
need to be rescheduled. Thus, for the purpose of managing logistics, I
would find it extremely helpful to know where the Summit will be this
year and if it will be held on the traditional date (i.e. only one month
from now).

With apologies to all for being a noodge (and especially to Emmanuele
for my impatience after he suggested we might know something today.)

Thanks in advance!
--joanie

[1] https://live.gnome.org/Boston2011
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Ryan Lortie | 7 Sep 2011 19:26
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Boston Summit: We're going to Montréal!

Hello foundation members,

Despite some heroic efforts by Colin and Karen, we were unable to
acquire a venue in Cambridge for this year's Boston Summit.

Fortunately, some kind folks from Collabora jumped in and offered to
help organise the event in Montréal.  We've been furiously phoning
around to hammer out the details over the past couple of days and I'm
happy to announce that it's now official.

The summit will occur, in Montréal, over the usual Canadian Thanksgiving
(US Columbus Day) long weekend.  Book your tickets now.

The dates are Saturday October 8 to Monday October 10.

There was some talk about a Gtk hackfest being co-located with the
summit, but this will not happen.

The venue for the summit is the École Polytechnique de Montréal.  The
venue is well served by the Metro (station "Université-de-Montréal‎" on
the blue line).  The hotels are very inexpensive compared to Cambridge
(many available for less than $100/night and almost nothing over $200). 

Montréal Trudeau Airport (YUL) is the natural choice for those arriving
by plane.  Montréal is also about a 5 hour drive from the Boston area.
As of 2009, a passport is required for those entering Canada by car.

Montréal is a beautiful city with a lot of history.  Anyone who has some
vacation time to burn would be well-advised to stay a few days extra.
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Brian Cameron | 7 Sep 2011 19:30
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Re: The Boston (or "Boston") Summit?


Joanie:

The announcement was just made today that the summit is October 8-10
in Montreal:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2011-September/msg00000.html

Brian

> The other day I heard an interesting rumor, which I've since been able
> to confirm [1]: There's a small chance that the Boston Summit might be
> the Montreal Summit.
>
> Montreal is all kinds of charming awesomeness, and if that is where the
> Summit is going to be this year, that's great. But it does of course
> mean that some people who didn't have to travel will now have to, and
> that some "meetings of convenience" with non-GNOME local folks might
> need to be rescheduled. Thus, for the purpose of managing logistics, I
> would find it extremely helpful to know where the Summit will be this
> year and if it will be held on the traditional date (i.e. only one month
> from now).
>
> With apologies to all for being a noodge (and especially to Emmanuele
> for my impatience after he suggested we might know something today.)
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --joanie
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/Boston2011
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Diego Escalante Urrelo | 8 Sep 2011 00:13
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Re: Boston Summit: We're going to Montréal!

Just wanted to highlight:

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ryan Lortie <desrt <at> desrt.ca> wrote:
>
> As of 2009, a passport is required for those entering Canada by car.

Don't forget your passport.

:)
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Richard Stallman | 8 Sep 2011 15:36
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Re: Re: Boston Summit: We're going to Montréal!

Don't forget the danger of unprovoked beatings while leaving the US
at the Canadian border.  Remember Peter Watts!

If you're not coming from the US, don't go through the US to Canada.
Flight connections in the US are nasty.  If you are not a US citizen,
they demand your fingerprints!

--

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/
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Andrea Veri | 11 Sep 2011 22:14
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New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

Hi,

I'll split this e-mail into two parts:

New Foundation Members

The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our 
newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.

They are: *

* David King (Vino's and Vinagre's Maintainer)
* Arx Henrique Pereira da Cruz (Zenity's Maintainer)
* Alberto Garcia Gonzalez (2010 GTK+ Hackfest organizer, Hildon/GTK+ 
  developer for Maemo 5, Vagalume maintainer, Debian Maintainer for 
  some GNOME-related packages) 
* Robert Bragg (Clutter and Mutter developer)
* Efstathios Iosifidis (Marketing and conferences within the GNOME 
  Greek community)
* Antonio Fernandes C. Neto (Brazilian Portuguese translations, GNOME 
  events in Brazil) 
* Bin Li (GNOME China, NetworkManager in OpenSUSE)
* Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (GNOME port to OpenBSD) 
* Jim Nelson (Shotwell Photo Manager)
* Ekaterina Gerasimova (GNOME Outreach Program for Women as a documentation
  writer, Desktop Summit organisation)

* Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement)
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Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse | 11 Sep 2011 22:46
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Introduction

Hi,

I'd like to use this opportunity to quickly introduce myself; my name is
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse and I'm proud to have been accepted as a GNOME
Foundation member. My main area of work is porting and maintaing GNOME to    
the OpenBSD project, for which I've been a developer since 2006. This means
that right now I co-maintain roughly 200 GNOME related ports in OpenBSD.

In the past years I have been trying to help on Bugzilla with projects'
portability to non-Linux platforms, and to OpenBSD in particular.
One of my main contributions has been to implement a separate OpenBSD
backend for libgtop, as well as committing various patches to various 
non-Linux backends in libgtop.

Finally I'd like to thank Colin Walters, Frederic Peters and German Poo
Caamano for trusting me to do the right thing here ;-)

--

-- 
Cheers,
Jasper

"Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them."
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Allan Day | 14 Sep 2011 13:00
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Re: New Foundation Members & News from the Membership Committee

Welcome to our new foundation members, and thanks to the membership
committee for their work!

I'm wondering - would it be possible to post these membership
announcements on the Foundation blog? New members to the Foundation
are really valuable and it would be great to do more publicity around
it.

Allan

2011/9/11 Andrea Veri <av <at> gnome.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I'll split this e-mail into two parts:
>
> New Foundation Members
>
> The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our
> newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them
> for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation.
>
> They are: *
>
> * David King (Vino's and Vinagre's Maintainer)
> * Arx Henrique Pereira da Cruz (Zenity's Maintainer)
> * Alberto Garcia Gonzalez (2010 GTK+ Hackfest organizer, Hildon/GTK+
>  developer for Maemo 5, Vagalume maintainer, Debian Maintainer for
>  some GNOME-related packages)
> * Robert Bragg (Clutter and Mutter developer)
> * Efstathios Iosifidis (Marketing and conferences within the GNOME
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Frederic Peters | 14 Sep 2011 16:15
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On git.gnome.org and gitorious

Hello,

GNOME migrated to Git two years ago but there are a few long standing
issues that have not been addressed yet, it's certainly not too late
but with the design team moving to github, it's certainly time to do
something about it.

http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration had it written down already, "For
the future, enable Gitorious or some other Git-based collaboration
tool". Is this something we can handle by ourselves? Or should we,
just like the bugzilla upgrade a few years ago seek the foundation
help to hire someone? [this is why this is posted to foundation-list]

With a gitorious instance set up, we'd achieve both a place for
personal branches, stopping the "delete work-in-progress branch from
git.gnome.org, then create it again, pushing all commits because I
rebased" dance, and a place where it's easier to set up accounts for
newcomers (which is a reason why the design work doesn't happen on
git.gnome.org).

Cheers,

        Fred

[PS: working on git infrastructure would also be a good opportunity to
fix https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599066]
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Andreas Nilsson | 14 Sep 2011 16:34
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Re: On git.gnome.org and gitorious

On 09/14/2011 04:15 PM, Frederic Peters wrote:
> http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration had it written down already, "For
> the future, enable Gitorious or some other Git-based collaboration
> tool". Is this something we can handle by ourselves? Or should we,
> just like the bugzilla upgrade a few years ago seek the foundation
> help to hire someone? [this is why this is posted to foundation-list]
If we don't have enough money, I think this could be a great 
fund-raising campaign.
- Andreas
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