Re: Term duration for board members (was GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates)

[meg ford]

Hi,
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Alexandre Franke 
wrote:

> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Michael Catanzaro
>  wrote:
> > Here's another question: what do the candidates think about switching to
> > using two-year terms?
>

I think this is an interesting idea, but I think we'd have to know why
people aren't running in the first place to know if it would be an
effective solution. For example, if few people are running because they are
hesitant about the time commitment, then having two year terms might
exacerbate that. I agree that there haven't been enough candidates the past
few elections, and some action should be taken to solve the issue. I'd like
to hear why people who considered running didn't do so, and what would make
them consider running in the future.

Thanks,
Meg
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Re: Term duration for board members (was GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates)

[Alexandre Franke]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Alexandre Franke  wrote:
> You can also notice by looking up [the list of former
> directors](https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard) that it’s not
> uncommon to serve for more than one term.

That should have been https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/History

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Term duration for board members (was GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections 2017 - Candidates)

[Alexandre Franke]

Hi Michael,

I’m starting a new thread by taking out of your mail the question you
ask to candidates as the other part was already covered in the other
thread.

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Michael Catanzaro
 wrote:
> Here's another question: what do the candidates think about switching to
> using two-year terms?

That is an interesting idea. We remotely touched on the topic on
occasion, like during the in person meetings at GUADEC last year where
the handover from one board to the next happens, and the consensus
seemed to be that it takes a while to get up to speed when joining the
board for the first time, and one is usually more efficient on their
second term. You can also notice by looking up [the list of former
directors](https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard) that it’s not
uncommon to serve for more than one term.

There was also a consensus about the fact that having people that were
not on their first term alongside people who were was a good way to
impart knowledge.

Taking all of this into consideration, we could switch to a system
where directors are elected for two years, and half of the board gets
replaced every year. I’m adding that to the agenda for the in person
meeting at this year’s GUADEC and maybe we’ll have a referendum in
fall of this year?

Thanks for raising this.

Cheers,

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Re: Board of Directors Elections 2017 - Candidacy - Alexandre Franke

[Alexandre Franke]

Hi Philip,

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Philip Van Hoof  wrote:
> Interesting, indeed. You plan to bring decentralisation to GNOME's
> political and ethical values of the board, too?

I tried to understand how you went from what I said to this, but I
couldn’t. While you used the same keywords I had in my original
statement, you wrote something that is quite unrelated to what I said.

> If so, how would that look like? A confederation of areas of expertise
> with each a small hierarchy of decision making?

The board does not make people do anything, so it would be difficult
for it to force a structure or hierarchy. There already is a structure
in place and I really can’t see where you’re going with this.

> Which areas would there be? Marketing, technical, organisational,
> conference and hackfests, documentation, i8an, financial, etc?

How is that different from the current teams we have?

Regards,

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Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

[Carlos Soriano via foundation-list]

Hello Max,

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

I expect the board to take between 3-5h per week in a normal situation. Of 
course if some task requires it, dedicating more time is expected. I don't have 
an specific upper limit for that, as long as it's not something necessary to be 
done every week.
Fortunately I have support from my employer for the board work.

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

I didn't think about some specific plan for Asia, I think the same initiatives 
that could serve for any other continent would help. For example support local 
people for doing hackfest, conferences, etc. as it has been done on the past. 
Or do you have a specific idea?

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 :) "

Is not GNOME great already? :)
I'm not sure what you mean by "wow it's GNOME", you mean how to make people 
excited about the technologies GNOME delivers; or more about brand identity?
In the former, I think it's more like a technical discussion, and in my opinion 
our initiatives with gtk4, Flatpak, etc. are going in a more than good 
direction.
Of course we need more work on some places, but that would be more in the 
technical and community level. What the board can do is to support initiatives 
that comes from the community to improve those modules.

Best,
Carlos Soriano

 Original Message 
Subject: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
Local Time: May 26, 2017 6:13 PM
UTC Time: May 26, 2017 4:13 PM
From: sakana...@gmail.com
To: foundation-list 

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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