Name: Tristan Van Berkom E-Mail: t...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: Codethink IRC: tristan
Dear foundation, I would like to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation board of directors in this election. I have been a GNOME contributor for well over 15 years now in the capacity of a developer, and have been a maintainer and core developer on various projects including Glade, GTK, Evolution and now BuildStream. I have spent the larger part of my career in startup companies and have some entrepreneurial experience, as such I hope that my spirit of ambition and experience starting initiatives from the ground up can be a useful addition to the board. I do not have the experience of serving on a board for any non profit organization, so if I am elected, I expect to lean on current and previous board members for assistance in getting familiar with the tasks and duties expected of me. I'd like to thank our previous boards for putting their efforts into ironing out the necessary policies and ensuring that we are a strong and healthy organization. Their efforts have allowed us to thrive as a community, and to focus on the fun part of making software that works very well and is a pleasure to use. While I have been happy with others filling this role, after many years working within and around GNOME I cannot help but be emotionally invested in the overall success of the project, and would like to do my part in every way I can to help GNOME continue as a successful project. In my vision of GNOME, I believe that we need to recognize that while our community remains volunteer driven, we need to maintain strong ties with the rest of the software industry. I believe that Free Software thrives when individuals and corporations alike converge on a common set of goals and realize that we can create something more resilient and powerful when working in collaboration and in the open. We need the participation of companies who embrace our software stack to build their own interesting products, and help us to push our software to the limits of perfection, by both providing more engineering work and also by providing use case scenarios we had not considered ourselves. If I am elected, I hope to further this vision by ensuring GNOME is perceived as a safe place to contribute for individuals and companies, work towards building strong ties in the software industry, and hopefully further diversify our contributor base. Thanks, -Tristan _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list