Name: Felipe Borges Email: felipebor...@gnome.org Nick: feborges Company affiliation: Red Hat
Dear Foundation, I am announcing my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation board of directors election. I have been involved with GNOME since 2009, contributing translations, code, and outreach. I summarized my GNOME journey in my "Ten Years Contributing to GNOME" blog post [0]. The GNOME project has been a constant in my personal growth in the past decade, not only professionally but also personally. It has enabled me to get to know other cultures and the challenges of building and nurturing a healthy community over time. My involvement in Google Summer of Code [1], Outreachy, the Newcomers initiatives [2], and the Code of Conduct Committee, has been essential for my realization that we can only sustain a prosperous community by continuing investing in diversity and outreach. Therefore whether a director in the board or a foundation member, I am passionate and committed to furthering our diversity and inclusion efforts. Wearing my downstream hat as a Fedora developer, I have learned the challenges of reaching out to other communities and conciliating the agendas between different projects. Therefore whether a director in the board or a foundation member, I am interested in improving and advancing our relationship with downstream communities and with other projects, to promote software freedom and make FOSS technologies prosper. In the modern world of increased mass surveillance, I believe we must continue and further our positioning as a community that produces safe and privacy-oriented software. I consider it a civic duty to advocate that our freedom must be shared among all human beings, and we must use our privilege to help those living under oppression and censorship. In a world where software controls more and more aspects of daily life, we have the means and knowledge to achieve that. Thanks for your consideration! I am sure we will have an excellent board of directors regardless of the results of this election. Cheers, Felipe Borges. [0] https://feborg.es/ten-years-contributing-to-gnome/ AND https://feborg.es/about [1] https://feborg.es/gsoc2020-welcome/ [2] https://feborg.es/newcomers-workshop-guadec-2019/ _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce