RE: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Allan Day
Cheers Allan! Glad you announced candidacy.All the best! Warm Regards, ---Sahil Sareen(#ssareen)Foundation Member and Game Dev, GNOME Software Engineer, Arista Networks Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:35:49 +0100 Subject: Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Allan Day From: allanp...@gmail.com To: foundation-annou...@gnome.org Foundation Members, I'm announcing my candidacy for the Foundation Board of Directors election. I have worked on the GNOME Project for around 6 years, first as a volunteer, and currently as a Red Hat employee. I've always been deeply appreciative of the work done by the Board of Directors; now seems like a good time for me to help out in this important area. As a member of the Board, I would work to ensure that the Foundation is both efficient and effective. I'm pretty good when it comes to organisational matters, and tend to get things done. One of my main interests would be to ensure that we successfully engage our Advisory Board members, as well as develop new partnerships wherever possible. Also, I think that I have good awareness of where GNOME's strengths and weaknesses are right now - which would be helpful if I'm elected. Allan ___ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-annou...@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Foundation Membership status verification
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Hey, I don't even remember/know whats my username. Did you try your GNOME email alias? Thanks. yeah that is it. I better drink more tea. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Jeff Fortin Tam
Name: Jean-François Fortin Tam Email: nekohayo at gmail Affiliation: unaffiliated Web/bio/blog/etc.: http://jeff.ecchi.ca Hi everybody, I am offering my candidacy to serve on the Foundation Board for a second term. I have been involved in various areas of GNOME since 2004 or so, including testing, triaging, marketing, mentoring, coding, public speaking and advocacy, user interaction UX design, etc. I am a business developer and manager. Besides running my branding management consulting company, I have been serving you as president of the board since last year. A report on activities accomplished during that time can be found here: http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2015/05/07/presidents-report-the-state-of-the-gnome-foundation/ With the experience gained throughout the years, I hope to continue serving GNOME to the best of my abilities. You can learn more about me on my personal website above. Thank you for your consideration, Jean-François Jeff Fortin Tam ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Foundation Membership status verification
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Hey, I don't even remember/know whats my username. Did you try your GNOME email alias? -- Alexandre Franke ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Ryan Lortie
karaj, I am announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. If elected, this would be my second time on the board. I have been a GNOME developer during many years, mostly on lower-level things. I am currently affiliated with Canonical where I am in the desktop team, mostly in context of working on the GNOME technologies that are also used in our products. I am happy to answer any questions that you may have about how I would represent you on the board of directors. Cheers ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Shaun McCance
Name: Shaun McCance Email: sha...@gnome.org Affiliation: Red Hat Foundation Members, I'm announcing my candidacy for the board of directors. I'm a long-time GNOME developer and enthusiast, because I believe GNOME does important work in ensuring free software is usable for everybody. I spent ten years as the docs team lead. I've stepped down from that role, but I still maintain our docs tools and try to remain active. I work for Red Hat, though I do not work in the department that works on GNOME. I work on the Open Source and Standards team as the Community Documentation Liaison. Basically, my job is to build communities around documentation in various upstream open source projects. I served two terms on the board already, from 2011 to 2013. I'd like to serve again. The board does important work. It's not always glamorous, but board work is an important piece of the puzzle for maintaining a healthy ecosystem around GNOME. I think the activities of the current board have proven just how vital the board is to GNOME. It also showed just how overtaxed the board has become in the absence of an Executive Director. If elected, my first priority will be to bring a new Executive Director on board. I understand there are difficulties in hiring somebody new, as well as financial considerations. I'm willing to hunt down those yaks for a good clean shave. -- Shaun ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Carlos Soriano
Name: Carlos Soriano Sanchez Email: csori...@gnome.org Affiliation: Red Hat Hello everyone, I would like to announce my candidacy for the Foundation Board of Directors. I have been working on Gnome since 3 years ago, starting as a volunteer on October of 2012 for gnome-shell and accomplishing successfully Gsoc on gnome-shell the years 2013 and 2014, joining Red Hat as maintainer of Nautilus after the end of the 2014 Gsoc. I have been interested in lower the barrier for newcomers to contribute to Gnome. In that matter I have reworked part of the GnomeLove wiki. Also I have been always trying to help newcomers on IRC and make the Gnome community feel a welcomed place for those people. As myself, I'm a enthusiastic person, I do what I do because I love it. I like teaching and helping people, and learn from them at the same time. I try to be patient, listen and understand what every person has to say. What can I add to Gnome from the Board? I want Gnome to be reached by more people. And I will try from different ways, as I tried until now: - Community: They want to be listen. They want communication. They want to know how we take decisions. We need to improve that communication while being focused and loyal to Gnome goals and vision. Example of specific solutions I have in mind are: *Encouraging maintainers to create short blog posts communicating important changes. *Reach an agreement and explain the way we take decisions both in the projects and in the foundation. *Reach an agreement and explain how to have a voice on Gnome decisions in the projects and foundation as well. *Ensure we have a guideline for good behavior about taking decisions and how to communicate them to users. - New developers (aka newcomers): How many people do you think are searching for nice projects to be involved with, live new experiences and learn at the same time? We need to reach those people (I was one of them), and the first step is lowing the barrier to contribution and understanding of the platform. Some of the most important projects I want to push here are GnomeLove initiative and gnome-builder as a developer tool for Gnome. - Platform reaproachment: I think the current platform around Gnome is a little hidden and difficult to contributors. Initiatives like a Github mirror have been taken, but they are only partly good or not enough. We need to think about how to be more approachable by the people who are already used to other workflows from other open source projects that are using famous tools like Github for code, issues, and contribution or Wikimedia for the wiki, toolkits like Node.js, etc. without giving up on Gnome vision and goals. - Focus: We need to focus more and more on the important issues that can make Gnome have a bigger impact. Luckily, what I saw on the last years, is that Gnome is focused and we are doing well here. But I think there is room for improvement, taking some decisions to encourage people to do certain things or for example using more projects from outside Gnome with well established maintenance and community around it. Hope you like my ideas. Cheers, Carlos Soriano ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
Hello all, First, thanks to all candidates for volunteering to the Foundation Board. Max come from GNOME.Asia team and thanks GNOME and board support Asia. I have 2 questions to all candidates 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to working on the board on a regular basis? 2) What's your plan and view with GNOME in Asia? How do you think about grow GNOME in Asia?( ecosystem / contribute / sponsor / volunteer ... ) * Maybe you already notice -- there start to have sponsors from Asia with GUADEC.( There are 2 in 2015 and 1 in 2014 ) * There are some open source events related and co-work with GNOME Users Group or Members in Asia. For example ** Hong Kong Open Source Conference ( http://opensource.hk/event ) After GNOME.Asia Summit 2012, there are more GNOME and open source related activities in Hong Kong. They start Hong Kong Open Source Conference at 2013. ** openSUSE.Asia Summit ( https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia14 ) ** FUDCon ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon?rd=Fudcon ) We held GNOME.Asia Summit 2014 together with FUDCon. I know there will be more people ask questions about all domain with GNOME, so I ask question with Asia first. Thanks again for all candidates volunteering to the Foundation Board. (_ _) Max Huaug ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2015 - Candidacy - Alexandre Franke
Name: Alexandre Franke Affiliation: none Foundation members, I have been involved in many areas of GNOME over the past decade, amongst which are advocacy, translations and GUADEC organization. It has given me a good overview of how the different areas and teams within the Foundation function, as well as many occasions to exercise my coordination, organisational and problem solving skills. I have enjoyed my time working on GNOME and would like to use what I have learnt to contribute on a higher level. Being on the board is not a piece of cake and our past directors have done a good job. I am now humbly presenting my candidacy, hoping that I'll be able to serve as well as others have done in the past. Regards, -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
