:) El mar, 01-06-2010 a las 23:30 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió: > 1) Why are those tasks/ideas things you cannot work on while not being > on the board? >
>From experience I know that being in the Board opens a lot of small and/or unseen opportunities to help in the topics of your interest. But for the ideas I mention in my motivation I wouldn't really need to be /in/ the Board, but of course that helps a lot. > 2) What are your non-usual (ie, not code, not translations, not > documentation, etc.) contributions as a GNOME Foundation member? > (organizing events, pushing people to do things, finding sponsors, > etc. are all possible answers) I give talks sporadically and try to push new contributors into the project, this one has turned out to be harder than I thought ;). > 3) What is your opinion on the co-location of Akademy and GUADEC in > 2011? And if you think it was not the best choice, will you still be > able to help it happen? It's an interesting opportunity, but we should try to have better integration in the conference. I wouldn't agree to do it yearly though, I think GUADEC (separately) serves as a way to foster a closer community. > 4) How much free time per week do you think you will be able to allocate > for the board? (I'm very well aware that this could be 0 for some > weeks, and 100% of your time for other weeks; I'm just asking in > general) > I'm bad with hour numbers, but I think I can keep my fluxing 10~20h a week. I estimate I usually do between 10 and 15 hours weekly, but that's hard to tell. Sometimes just chatting with a friend is related to the Board, for example when trying to get feedback on ideas. > 5) Are you okay giving up some of your current GNOME > responsabilities/activities to join the board? (give up a maintainer > hat, or hack less, or participate less in a specific team) Or do you > think it won't be necessary and why? > (I know it's a bit related to the previous question :-)) I gave up some hats time ago already ;). Currently I only do sporadic promotion (talks, mini booths) that doesn't take much time and code for Igalia, mainly Epiphany, Epiphany Extensions and some WebKitGTK+. Luckily none of this tasks would break the stack if I stop for a day or two to focus full time on Board work or something, so I feel it's all cool on this topic :). > 6) Will you be interested in being treasurer, president or secretary if > elected? If yes, which role and why? Not at first thought at least. > 7) What do you think of the current GNOME Foundation budget? Had you > read it at least once before reading this mail? > (it's okay if you didn't look at it before, btw) We have a much better financial situation, we should look forward to improve it even further! We could try to promote hackfests a bit more perhaps, maybe suggesting some of them to the teams and not just waiting passively. > 8) What do you think our next fundraising campaign should be about? > (I'd love to not read 11 times the same answer, thanks :-)) I'd like to finish defining roles for companies acting as donors (happening on marketing list), the so called "FoG for companies". I think with that in place we could reach a lot more companies that could donate yearly and sum up a considerable amount. For a specific topic, I'm wondering about some kind of "mosaic", like a one-time big gnome-mosaic with pictures of our donors for that campaign. I think more visual things like these could be attractive for casual donors. That said, our thematic campaigns have worked nicely. > 9) Will you be at GUADEC this year? (there's a board meeting and an > advisory board meeting there) Yes, I only have to apply for my visa, which will happen next week probably. > 10) Make or break question: what's your favorite french expression? The old about:epiphany: Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I've always assumed this is French, although it's not strictly an expression but a quote. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list