El lun, 21-11-2005 a las 20:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Hi, > > With the recent announcement of candidates, questions for candidates to > discuss during these week is here. Questions are gathered from previous > years' questions, from foundation-list, and this and previous years' > discussions on gnomedesktop.org. > > Candidates are encouraged to answer questions to give ideas to Foundation > Members why they should vote for them. And members can direct their > questions to candidates different than these questions if they want. > > Good luck to all candidates and let the discussion begin: > > 1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or > better than previous years Boards have done?
Because I'd like to contribute with another perspective. I can't say I will do better than previous boards, but obviously I'll do my best effort to do a good job. > 2) How familiar are you with the day-to-day happenings of GNOME? How much > do you follow and participate in the main GNOME mailing lists? I am subscribed to 41 lists from gnome.org, between major and minor lists, that I usually read (some of them doesn't have any traffic, so don't get surprised about the amount of lists). Also I follow in a regular base what is happening in GNOME Hispano and GNOME Chile. I follow different sources such as footnotes, plantet's, and some media that have information about what is happening with GNOME, desktop and Free Software in general. So, I feel that I'm familiar with the day-to-day happenings of GNOME, even I hadn't been good writing a lot of emails in these lists. > 3) What sources of funds do you as a candiate try do establish? And what > will you spend it on? Not counting revenue from the shop and Friends of > GNOME. Think more like the recent move by Mozilla or a subscription based > bounty system. > (olafura from gnomedesktop.org) Probably I'm not good on that task. I've been in the other side: how to achieve goals with a very reduced budget. I can help there. Furthermore, I don't think the whole board must have skills for everything, because people can be a complement each other. > 4) Gnome is mostly a european and US based project, but seems to have > some following in Latin America and India. How will you as a candidate > grow the contribution base, especially in Asia, Africa and South America? > (olafura from gnomedesktop.org) > Or in general what would you do to increase community participation in the > GNOME community and GNOME elections? I'm from South America :-) We have a big amount of users there, but no so many contributors to the core. There is a gap between local programmers (probably they don't feel self confident about their own skills) and the core hackers. I'll promote activities that promotes interchange of experiences and knowledge between them. > 5) The board meets for one hour every two weeks to discuss a handful of > issues. Thus, it is very important that the board can very quickly and > concisely discuss each topic and come to consensus on each item for > discussion. Are you good at working with others, who sometimes have very > differing opinions than you do, to reach consensus and agree on actions? > How flexible is your time; can you dedicate extra time one week and > less the next? I'm flexible on this. A longer answer could be found in the answer of this question in my previous message [1]. > 6) Do you consider yourself diplomatic? Would you make a good > representative for the GNOME Foundation to the Membership, media, public, > and organizations and corporations the GNOME Foundation works with? I'm diplomatic when is needed. But, I must recognize that sometimes I've been opinionated when there was not good argument against a real fact. It's not common anyway. I try to listen all opinions and viewpoints given and I consider myself open minded. > 7) What do you see as current threats to the future of a complete Free > Software desktop? And what would you like the GNOME Foundation to be doing > to address these issues? I did answer this question in my previous message [1] > 8) What one problem could you hope to solve this year? I won't speak as a problem, but as a opportunity to improve. I would like to improve the transparency about the board works and improving the communication between different actors. > 9) Please rank your interests: > a. GNOME evangelizing to government, enterprise, small > business, and individuals > b. GNOME marketing and merchandising of branded items > nationally and internationally > c. GNOME legal issues like copyright and patents > d. GNOME finances and fund raising > e. Alliance with other organizations. I did answer this question in my previous message [1]. In short it was a, d, e, b, c. > 10) One of the ingredient for success in Free Software project such as GNOME > is committed and dedicated memberships. How would you propose to promote new > membership, and encourage commitment of existing membership to make the > GNOME desktop the desktop of choice? [ Hints: the number of Foundation > members have reduced from 460 in 2001 to approximately 300 in 2002 ] > (this question is taken from questions of year 2002. I wanted to include > this because our member count is around 350 today) Nowadays there is a feeling the work is get done by the board and the fountation's members are just observers. One way to start delegating a job is asking for easy and not demanding (not so much time) taks, as the same fashion of gnome-love. Let's make the membership useful, not only for vote. If it's useful, people will want to join us (or makes formal their contribution). > 11) (only to those who are running for reelection) Name one of your > accomplishments. And we were told that the board in the last years had > huge problems being pro-active. Any issue which was slightly contentious > had an opposition in the board. As a consequence there was no resolution. > How do you intend to behave differnetly this year to avoid a repetition of > that problem. I've never been part of the board. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00105.html -- Germán Poó Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ Concepción - Chile _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
