Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

2017-05-26 Thread Max 
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 know there will be more people ask questions about all domain with
GNOME, so I ask 1 question with Asia first.
I have 3 questions to all candidates ( sorry for my poor English )

1)  How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate
to working on the board on a regular basis?

 for 2nd or 3rd ( or more ) term candidacy:
 last year,  every one plan 5-10 or 5-15 hours per week,
what's average hours per week when you become board? do you think it's
good hours for life and work balance with you?( I think it might be
good reference for fist term candidacy and let us know your loading )(
Thanks again work and make GNOME forward )

 for 1st term candidacy:
 Please let us know your plan :)

2)  What's your plan and view with GNOME in Asia? How do you think
about grow GNOME in Asia?


3)  How do you make GNOME great again? ( Sorry for my poor English again )
 Any idea about let everyone say " Wow!! it's GNOME " " I know GNOME :) "


* We start to have sponsors from Asia with GUADEC.
* There are some open source events related and co-work with GNOME
Users Group or Members in Asia.
** Hong Kong Open Source Conference  ( https://opensource.hk/events/ )
** openSUSE.Asia Summit ( https://events.opensuse.org/conference/summitasia16 )
** FUDCon ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon?rd=Fudcon )  We
held GNOME.AsiaSummit 2014 together with FUDCon.
** FOSSASIA ( http://fossasia.org/ )


Thanks again for all candidates volunteering to the Foundation Board.



Max Huang
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Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

2017-05-26 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova 
On 26 May 2017 at 14:17, Florian Müllner  wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:24 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:
>>
>> It's that time of the year again! I'm happy to announce the following
>> candidates for this year's Board of Directors elections:
>>
>> [list of 7 candidates for 7 board positions]
>>
>
>  Is it really useful to go through with the election process when the
> outcome is already known beforehand?

The outcome is not known yet: it is possible for there to be anywhere
up to 7 candidates who get in because we use the single transferable
vote system.

For the system to work correctly, it relies on people voting only for
the candidates that they want on the board (which is not necessarily
all 7 candidates) in their order of preference. This means that if one
only wants 5/7 candidates to be on the board, then one should only
vote for 5 people, not for 7 people. As there is a minimum number of
votes that each candidate has to get before they make it onto the
board, this could mean that some candidates do not reach than
threshold.

Here is an example of how the vote counting works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Example

> Cheers,
> Florian
>
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Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates

2017-05-26 Thread Florian Müllner 
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:24 AM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> It's that time of the year again! I'm happy to announce the following
> candidates for this year's Board of Directors elections:
>
> [list of 7 candidates for 7 board positions]
>
>
 Is it really useful to go through with the election process when the
outcome is already known beforehand?

Cheers,
Florian
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Travel assistance for GUADEC 2017

2017-05-26 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova 
The GNOME Foundation can offer travel sponsorship to individuals who
want to attend GUADEC and need financial assistance.

We are happy to announce that the Travel Committee is processing
applications for sponsorships to attend to GUADEC 2017.

Application deadline: 2017-05-31. Send in your applications now, do
not wait until the deadline.

I would also like to take this opportunity to encourage you, and
especially soon-to-be-sponsored attendees, to volunteer during GUADEC
(you can sign up when registering).

The instructions for sponsorship applications are at
https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel

If you need a visa invitation letter, please also read:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel/Invitations

Some additional comments:
* If you are offered help with accommodation, the Travel Committee
will book your accommodation. You should state that you need
accommodation, and leave the cost blank.
* Look for the most economical reasonable option (i.e. through a
service like kayak.com). If we find a cheaper price, that will be the
cost considered during the evaluation and you will make a kitten sad
because you didn't do your research properly.
* Any information you send to the Travel Committee will be private.
* Asking for sponsorship *does not* guarantee that you will be sponsored.
* A good application with good information will be processed faster.
* No personal emails. Keep travel-committee CCed on all of your
replies. Neglecting to do this will delay your application.
* How to get to Manchester: https://2017.guadec.org/travel/
* Preference will be given to Foundation members.
* Preference will be given to people presenting/organising talks,
BoFs, hackfests or workshops at GUADEC.
* Preference will be given to GSoC or Outreachy interns and mentors.
* The Travel committee should confirm that we have received your
application within 2-3 days. After that, we will process them
together. Regardless of whether your application is accepted or
rejected, you will always receive a response. If you have not received
a response by the 4th of June, please do follow up by email to
travel-commit...@gnome.org
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