LinuxJournal: “Motion raised by Alf Tupper that the 3 Tux plush dolls received by FOOLUG from Eazel(r) (with the “Eazel(r) Forever” logo on their chests) with the sample CDROMs be distributed as prizes to the top finishers of FOOLUG’s Code
Wars 2001.”

eeTimes.com: “More than a dozen Indian software companies have begun developing wireless
solutions based on the Bluetooth spec, seizing on the short-range wireless standard as a catalyst for
innovation in a domestic industry that thus far has focused on low-cost programming services.”

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for xinet, windowmaker, sendmail, fetchmail, xli, telnetd, rmuser, NetBSD kernel, and fts. The vendors include
Conectiva, NetBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE. Mandrake users are especially encouraged to update this week because there is such a great number of
advisories.”

ABCNews: “Red Hat Inc., a Durham, N.C.-based distributor of the competing Linux operating system, praised the
move to accelerate toward a resolution.

“That is good because it will help the technical industry focus more on growth instead of things like
this,” said James Neiser, Red Hat’s chief marketing officer.

Stephen Scott, a Los Angeles entrepreneur in Redmond for business, said he thinks the Justice
Department had a good case, but that the litigation was proving to be a damper on the technology
sector.

Scott offered a blunt assessment of the government’s decision: “Wimps. They folded.”

“We didn’t manage to get the decision for the new Gnome
Coordinator. We will however make this decision before the next
meeting since it’s urgent. Tim will followup on the work of getting fonts based since Jim’s
won’t be able to pursue it in the next months for personal reasons.”

Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 4 September 2001
From: Daniel Veillard 
To: foundation-announce@gnome.org
Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:10:23 -0400


Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 4 September 2001
          ===================================================


Presents:
=========

    Havoc Pennington (chairing)
    Daniel Veillard  (minutes)
    Jim Gettys       -> 3pm EST
    Owen Taylor
    Dan Mueth        
    Raph Levien
    Federico 
    Miguel de Icaza  -> 3:30pm EST
    Tim Ney          (director)
    Maciej Stachowiak 


Regrets:
========
    Bart Decrem (regrets)
    John Heard

Decisions:
==========
    - We didn't managed to get the decision for the new Gnome
      Coordinator. We will however make this decision before the next
      meeting since it's urgent.
    - Tim will followup on the work of getting fonts based since Jim's 
      won't be able to pursue it in the next months for personal reasons.

Action Done:
============

  ACTION: Havoc to send mail introducing Kjartan to Leslie
    and the mystery guest so that we can get feature list
   for 1.4.1 press release.
   => Done

  ACTION: Owen to check details of email/shell-account/cvs policy.
   => Done but still on the agenda

  ACTION: Mjs to build the "release coordinator duties"
   => Done

  ACTION: Havoc to send mail seeking a release coordinator
   => Done


Actions:
========

  ACTION: Havoc to sent the Advisory Board list to the Board,
          looking for completion of the member liason.
   => Tim is working on this.

  ACTION: John to try to get a copyright assignment form and procedure
          for the GNOME Foundation.
   => Still pending.

  ACTION: Maciej to email the Board the current draft of the platform
          license policy for review.
   => Still pending.

  ACTION: Tim to send a mail to Rob Gingell to get the lawyers paid
   => Talk to John, pending until feedback from the lawyers

New Actions:
============

  ACTION: Federico to make a summary of the account policy suggestions

  ACTION: Owen try to summarize the issues on the font situation

  ACTION: Havoc to add Tim to board list

  ACTION: Jim to provide Tim all the informations about the fonts state

Discussion:
===========

 - approved minutes from last meeting
   => approved

 - account policies, see:
   http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/gnome-org-policies/index.html
   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-September/msg00000.html

   The account policy is not completely fixed.
   We should check what new projects get added, account are usually requested
   for a given projects.
   Anything added for an existing project is usually approved by the maintainer
   and that fixes the question.
   The real problem is when new project (and associated accounts) need to
   be added.
   Rough consensus should be sufficient to include a new project after
   discussion on the fondation list.
   We should have a mail based request tracker for those requests.

   => followup on foundation list is needed

 - interoperability conf
   on the 7th of November the day before the X Technical conference.

 - news one the font front
   Jim sent mail about the proposal:
      - Jim will be away starting in 1 month need someone to take over
      - IBM is looking into getting money for this
      - get more font "how does this work"
   Still getting a link to their web site where extra fonts can be purchased.
   Raph suggests to look at his lastest advogato diary

 - Tim reported on LinuxWorld and administrative work:
   Booth nearby the .org pavillion with net connection and electricity
     donated by IDG and equipment loaned by Ian McKellar.
   Number of volunteers helped: 
     Steve M Bibayoff, Clay Claiborne, Kieran Hervold, Mike Higashi,
     Mae Ling Mak, Ian McKellar, Seth Nickell, Leslie Proctor, Alex Spehr,
     Maciej Stachowiak
     - technical difference between KDE and Gnome
     - technical difference between Ximian and Gnome
     - what are the technical advantage
     - where can I get Gnome
   Accessibility PR went out but it wasn't completely smooth, thanks
     to Havoc, Christian Schaller and Joakim Ziegler for updating the site.
   How to get more information on the project (not from an programmer
     point of view) ?
   Need to reshape the "selling" task force, gnome-press-contact@ is not
     handled in a predicatble way, nor the marketing list.
   We have Tax ID number, the bank forms are being signed.
   People don't want to see the KDE-Gnome opposition suggested by media
     being actaully reflected or accepted.

 - GNOME 2 release coordinator
   3 candidates Michael Meeks, Jeff Waugh, Maciej.
   We discussed this at length, and didn't had time to get to a decision
   (though we overrun the meeting).
   Since it is really urgent to get the decision we will finish it by
   mail and have the result available in the next few days without having
   to wait for the next Board meeting.

Daniel

-- 
Daniel Veillard      | Red Hat Network http://redhat.com/products/network/
veillard@redhat.com  | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

Kelly McNeill writes: “Technology is now fighting itself in an escalating global conflict, in which increasing amounts of information generates more system and network sales. This, in turn, leads to the creation of even more information that nobody can find when it really matters. The problem is that the computing environment is dominated by techies who have a drive for all things bigger, better and faster. Movie-quality graphics don’t answer complex questions, 10Gbps IP networks can’t intelligently offer the most relevant services, and terabytes of storage can’t apply past experience to a current problem. In a time when a company’s most valuable asset is its knowledge, today’s blind emphasis on bandwidth, processing and storage is completely missing the point.”

– by Tina Gasperson –
I knew there was a purpose for “about” pages. If you make a web page and forget to put an “about” page in there somewhere, someone like me will come along and really miss it. I think this Web site is based in Alaska. One of the editorials on the front page says something about the Matanuska Susitna Valley. Maybe the URL says it all: frozen-north-linuxonline.com.I enjoyed reading the editorials at frozen-north-linuxonline.com. There’s a short editor’s note by Greg Jetter letting me know they’re still searching for a good business accounting program for Linux. They’ve reviewed sql-ledger and decided it’s not time to give up Quicken just yet.

The second editorial, written by David Vernola, is the one that mentioned Matanuska Susitna Valley. He’s given us a nice rant about DSL techs in the area who don’t know what perl is, and who don’t understand the efficacy of firewalls. What’s amazing is how he’s done that and also managed to include some mini-rants about the public school system and marketeers, and still stayed on topic.

This site has hardware, software, and book reviews, all related to Linux. It seems to be a outgrowth of either the Susitna Linux Users Group or the Anchorage Linux Users Group.

If you check the archives, you’ll see as I did that the first issue contains a clue to the purpose of frozen-north-linuxonline.com. It says, “We are proud to announce the arrival of Frozen North Linux. A new and different periodical that seeks to chronical the happenings of the Linux community in the great land of Alaska.” Well, that’s a lot of territory to cover.

Also, if you read the back issues, you’ll see a column each month written by Tim Johnson. Tim doesn’t leave much doubt in the reader’s mind that he’s not completely thrilled with GUIs. He likes the command line. And he’s figured out a new way to say that each month in his column, Tim’s Bytes. It’s cute.

I looked really hard and I still found no trace of an “about” page. That’s the only thing I didn’t like about frozen-north-linuxonline.com. But that’s just me.

CNet reports on Gateway CEO Ted Waitt’s enthusiastic response to the HP-Compaq merger.

Kelly McNeill writes “Microsoft is set to unveil the Xbox video gaming system on November 8th with a price of US$299. One can’t help but wonder how Microsoft will attempt to use cloak and dagger tactics on this piece of hardware. The world is full of expensive, overpowered personal computers that most consumers purchase for such trivial tasks as writing letters and e-mailing friends. If there ever was at least one purpose for these overpowered home PCs, it can surely be found in the demanding requirements of games that so many of these machines are being used for. Could Microsoft be leveraging these usage patterns to its advantage?”

From MSNBC: “[Code Red] infected an estimated 975,000 servers in July and August 2001. But representatives of eEye Digital Security, which discovered the flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) exploited by the worm, say the FBI should have been more proactive in warning people about a “test” version of the worm to which it was alerted in April.”