I would love to see more people running for the elections. Do it!
Summary (75 words) I am running for re-election for the board because I love GNOME, the community, and free software. I also believe that I can help make the GNOME foundation and community successful. I have done work with GNOME accessibility and feel strongly that the community needs to further outreach to meet the free desktop needs for all people, regardless of income, location, gender, or level of ability. I am affiliated with Sun Microsystems, Inc. Who? I have been a part of the GNOME community since January, 2001 and have experience as a UNIX programmer and technical documentation writer for over 17 years. I have been the maintainer of GDM and have had the honor of serving my first term on the board this past year. I have regularly attended GUADEC conferences since 2002. My nickname on IRC is yippi. I live in Chicago in the United States. Why? I am highly motivated and have time to invest to make the Board successful. I have passion for working with the GNOME community, and would like to further expand the ways I am involved. I have a good working relationship with many people in the community. Aside from the day-to-day work of being on the board, I have had a number of accomplishments in my past term: * A significant amount of work to organize the first GNOME.Asia summit. * I have been working closely with Stormy, the Foundation CEO, and have been acting as her manager. * Have been responsible for getting the Foundation covered under D&O and General Liability insurance policies. * Many tasks relating to the GNOME Marketing improvements over the past term. I frequently highlight the humanitarian and accessibility aspects in marketing discussions since I think it is important to not lose focus on these aspects. * Worked with the accessibility community to establish the weekly IRC meetings to improve communication between the a11y community and the larger GNOME community. That said, I think that it takes more than one term for a person to really become a productive member of the board. It takes a fair bit of time just to get one's head around what needs to be done. Now that I have more experience, I would like to expand my involvement and serve as an officer in my next term, perhaps as secretary or treasurer. I believe that my experience serving the board in the past term will be helpful in the next term. Also, GNOME rocks. Thanks, Brian Cameron _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list