Re: Membership Committee, it's time to work!

[Susana Pereira <susana pereira gmail com>]

Hello,

Since nobody was against the timeline I will send it to the board for comments.

Please remember that if the board does not object to it, the
announcement should be made on May 15th (tomorrow).

Lionel: Will you be able to do the announcement?

Bruno: Can you take care of the tasks that require having accounts?

Cheers,

Susana



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Bruno Boaventura
<brunoboaventura gmail com> wrote:
> Just CC'ing Baris (other mail) and Membership Committee.
>
> Baris, can you help us with elections? The wiki pages are so
> deprecated and I have no previous experience (and neither of others, I
> think).
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue gnome org> wrote:
>> Hey Vincent :)
>>
>> Vincent Untz wrote:
>>>
>>> A few comments:
>>>
>>>  + any reason to have this private thread instead of having it on
>>>   membership-committee?
>>
>> Dunno. Bruno started that ;-)
>>
>>> Le mardi 12 mai 2009, à 01:20 +0200, Tobias Mueller a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Created commit 1d674ff: Added page for the elections in 2009
>>>>  [...]
>>>>  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/mkical.py
>>>
>>> Hrm. This file (mkical.py) shouldn't be in foundation.gnome.org. It can
>>> live in foundation-web, but it's really better if it stays outside of
>>> foundation.gnome.org (unless you want to use it on the website)
>>>
>> Hm. Well, the best solution is to generate that timeline.ics out of the
>> Python script, IMHO. As I've said: My automake skills are too weak.
>>
>> (interchanging quotes)
>>>>
>>>> Please check the timeline file for correctness. Ideally, make the server
>>>>  generate the timeline.ics out of the mkical.py I have just introduced.
>>>
>>> (I doubt we want to run a python script on the website -- the sysadmins
>>> won't like it)
>>
>> I understand. As the script currently belongs to the 2009 elections, I feel
>> it has a great place right now, although it's not meant to be shipped out.
>> But as it neither leaks any sensitive information nor is linked from any
>> site, I don't see an urgent problem.
>>
>> But I don't have a problem moving it to, say, a newly created "bin" or
>> "tools" directory. Alas, next years committee might not find it.
>>
>>>>  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/rules.wml
>>>>  create mode 100644 foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/timeline.ics
>>>>
>>>> Added page for the elections in 2009
>>>>
>>>> This was mostly a copy&paste job from 2007 with updating some data,
>>>> especially the year.
>>>> Note, that most of the sites need an update! Especially rules.wml should
>>>> be updated.
>>>> Also note, that timeline.ics could be generated with mkical.py, but I
>>>> don't know Automake or the server setup good enough to make that happen.
>>>
>>> If things need an update, then you should probably do it ASAP: pushing
>>> to foundation-web means things are live. See
>>> http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2009/
>>>
>> Which is why I removed all links which might create confusion or commented
>> problematic areas. Right now, not even the upcoming elections are linked
>> from the elections page :)
>> But still: Updating ASAP would be nice. Unfortunately, it's too late for me
>> now and I can't do anything GNOMEy earlier than tomorrow 21:00 UTC.
>>
>> So, everybody feel encouraged to update the websites :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback :)
>>  Tobi
>>
>>
>