On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst <oliver.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> >> On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst <oliver.pro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Name: Oliver Propst >> > Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com >> > Affiliation: None >> > >> > Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME >> > Board of Directors. >> > >> > I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, >> > recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and >> > the Annual Report. >> > >> > I think that free software never have more important then now and if >> > we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the >> > greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. >> > >> > I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS >> > board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen >> > keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be >> > found here [1]. >> > >> > In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations >> > opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a >> > possible WC3 membership [2]. >> >> In early 2013, the board briefly investigated W3C membership, > Interesting, any notes about this? > >> The cost of a W3C membership is 7,900 USD and there is >> extensive information available on their website at >> http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership . > >> What benefits do you feel >> that joining the W3C will bring to GNOME and how would you approach >> sustainable raising the funding for the membership fees? > > While I have not done any extensive investigation about benefits, I have some > thoughts about this. > > If more free software entities where to join WC3, proponents of a open > unrestricted and Web would have a stronger voice thus be able to making > a lager impact and ultimately shaping the future of the Web in a free > software friendly direction (for those who wants to have more info about > WC3 and its work I recommend this video [1]). > > Right now to my knowledge Mozilla are only the free software foundation > that are a W3C member[2], as the events of the past week have showed > fighting for a Open Web in that environment is hard [3], They have > to carry a very heavy load. > > Its also brings up a point that we as a free software project are > used to tell a story from a outside perspective when there is value of > to join others and collaborate across organizational boundaries > (something are very used to do within the project and on the technical > side ). > > Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit > implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those > efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other > members.
Have you checked whether those contributors are interested, or have the time for this? > I understand of course a that a membership fee should never threaten the > financial situation of the foundation. With that said I hope that the > Foundation will have larger revenue in the future, thus be able to pay > the membership fee or find other founding opportunities. > > 1 http://www.w3.org/2011/11/w3c_video.html > 2 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List > 3https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ > 4 http://webkitgtk.org/ > 5 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
