Re: It's time again for pants nominations
Thanks Nirbheek :) I think the rule is because the board choose them, so me being on the board would stop that. In any case, I got enough credit for the GitLab effort (thanks all), it's my hope that the pants goes to someone else that has done as much or more for GNOME but goes more unnoticed. Cheers On Wed, 30 May 2018 at 11:53, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:23 PM Didier Roche wrote: > > The only > > requirements are that the person is attending GUADEC to receive the > > pants, and that it's not a current or outgoing board member. > > I really wanted to nominate Carlos Soriano for all the work done with the > migration to GitLab, but he's a board member! Why does this requirement > exist? I don't remember :) > > I also want to nominate: > > * Christian Hergert for his work on end-user developer tooling, such as > GNOME Builder and Sysprof > * Sriram Ramkrishna for his community work, which is a list too long to > summarize here > > Cheers, > Nirbheek > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Allan Day
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Allan Day wrote: * Foundation expansion. The big news is that, thanks to the amazing support of an anonymous donor, the Foundation will soon be in a position to expand its operations. This will be a major shift for both the Foundation and the GNOME project. My priority will be to ensure that we establish an environment in which new staff members and contractors can fulfil their maximum potential. I'll also work to ensure that the Foundation continues to be transparent and fully integrated with the GNOME community, as it expands. Hi, How do you intend to ensure that the Foundation expansion occurs in a sustainable manner? It would be unfortunate if this donation becomes just a temporary windfall. Michael ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Robert McQueen
Name: Robert McQueen E-Mail: ra...@gnome.org Corporate Affiliation: Endless IRC, Twitter, etc: ramcq Dear Foundation members, I would like to put my name forward as a candidate to serve as a director on the GNOME Board in 2018/19. I’ve been a GNOME and freedesktop.org technical contributor in one form or another for around 13 years. Most recently I've become the main sysadmin behind the Flathub "app store" and build service for distro- agnostic Linux desktop software. I believe Flatpak is the most promising and commercially-agnostic technology to allow the free desktop to provide a stable target for both FOSS and commercial app developers, without harming our ability as a community to innovate on the core OS and desktop. Professionally, I have worked on the commercial adoption of GNOME and our technologies for almost as long. Originally as the founder and CTO of Collabora, and currently as the VP of Deployment at Endless, I've worked on 8 (at least!) different commercial platforms based on the GNOME stack, across a range of desktop, mobile and other embedded industry segments. I sat on the GNOME Advisory Board for several years while I was at Collabora, and have appeared there on behalf of Endless on a few occasions. I think the combination of my professional background and direct technical contributions gives me a great perspective on what makes for successful cooperation between Free Software projects and commercial entities from both sides. I would like to use my experience as a manager and a company executive to contribute to the project in non- technical ways. I believe I can help the GNOME Board adopt a more supervisory role, while the GNOME Foundation can take advantage of its recently-pledged donation, experienced ED, and initiatives such as the GNOME Internships to get more actively involved in both project activities and fundraising programmes than was previously possible. In terms of my agenda, I would like to see the Foundation use its resources to continue to pushing for the important software freedom priorities that brought the project together. For example, GNOME should produce a desktop which is a first-class home for developers and other creators, without corporate restrictions on what can be built or for whom. It’s more important than ever that the GNOME project gets support to provide a desktop for all, which respects users privacy and allows people to control their data without undue corporate influence or intrusion. Some of this work is best addressed in a non-profit context to ensure the individual user freedom remains paramount. That said, as well the importance of remaining true to its goals, I believe that a Free Software project needs a diversity of users and contributors to stay healthy and impactful. I would love to see the GNOME Foundation continue to build on and expand the commercial partnerships that it has, to ensure that there are many robust partnerships which help to further GNOME’s mission and reach as many people as possible with our free desktop. Thanks for your time considering my candidacy, and I hope to have the opportunity to serve the Foundation members as a director on the Board. Many Thanks, Rob ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2018 – Candidacy – Benjamin Berg
Full name: Benjamin Berg Email: benja...@sipsolutions.net Corporate affiliation: Red Hat I have decided to submit my candidacy for the Foundation Board as I feel that the Board has not been able to sufficiently represent me in the last few years. The Foundation needs to empower individuals in their work on GNOME and in the community. As every project, GNOME has its share of issues, and we always need to work on identifying and understanding them. Only then can we work on improving ourselves, our policies, our community and the software we create. In the end, GNOME is about software, and it is through this software that we improve the lives of millions of people worldwide who rely on all of us every day. The interest to advance GNOME is what unites us as a project, independent of each person's motivations. Some issues I see and some ideas about them: * Accessibility: As far as I know we currently still have major accessibility issues on Wayland. This is one issue that may need to be addressed with the Advisory Board and possibly an area for which we can use Foundation money. * Community: The Foundation membership seems to have declined in recent years. Numbers go down from 349 (2011) to 252 (2016) to 236 (today, current list on the website). This one has no easy solution but it is an issue that the Board will need to face in some way. I don't think we can consider it a success if we use the recent donation to boost our spendings if our membership stagnates at the same time. * Project Management: I believe that GNOME is currently lacking a strategy and coordination. To a certain degree this is expected considering the individual freedoms that maintainers enjoy. However, the Foundation could likely become more active in coordinating the long term development of the project. Strategies could include facilitating meetings between Advisory Board members or creating a separate team for the purpose of project planning. We need a forum where larger development efforts can be efficiently coordinated. I do believe GNOME has a large impact on the (F/LOSS) world. Lets make sure we remain relevant for years to come. Benjamin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Allan Day
Name: Allan Day Email: a...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: Red Hat Hi all, I'm announcing my candidacy for the upcoming Board of Directors elections. I've served on the board since 2015. If I were elected, it would be my forth term on the board. I feel that I've been an effective member of the board during my time as a director. My achievements include: * Serving as vice-president and recently as secretary. I've also acted as line manager for our Executive Director. * Helping to set up the legal and financial arrangements so we could hire Neil * Doing a fair bit of work on our Advisory Board meeting preparations * Documenting a lot of our procedures and policies, particularly around trademarks and expenditure Were I to be elected, I'd have the following priorities as a director: * Foundation expansion. The big news is that, thanks to the amazing support of an anonymous donor, the Foundation will soon be in a position to expand its operations. This will be a major shift for both the Foundation and the GNOME project. My priority will be to ensure that we establish an environment in which new staff members and contractors can fulfil their maximum potential. I'll also work to ensure that the Foundation continues to be transparent and fully integrated with the GNOME community, as it expands. * Policy-making and transparency. Over the past year, the Foundation Board has worked to take a more legislative approach, so that we are increasingly setting policies and budgets rather than making lots of one-off decisions. However, there is a lot of work still to do - our existing policies can be improved, and it's not always easy to find out which policies exist. * Code of conduct. I'm committed to ensuring that initiatives in this area are supported by the Board of Directors. I'm aware that this can be a divisive issue and I want to make sure that it is handled in as an inclusive and fair manner as possible. I'm not sure that I'll be able to find the time to make substantial contributions to the Foundation, but I can commit to doing the necessary routine work. I should note that I'm unable to attend GUADEC this year, so won't be able to attend the annual in-person meetings. Thanks, Allan ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Meg Ford
*Name: Meg FordEmail: megf...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: MitelHi Foundation Members,I am running for a third term as a member of the Foundation Board of Directors.I have been a Foundation Member since 2011. I joined after participating in the second round of the Outreachy (formerly Outreach Program for Women) internships. This year I worked on an initiative with the Mozilla Foundation's Open Source Clubs to teach college students to contribute to GNOME. We are currently working on setting up A/B testing using the Newcomers Guide, and in the coming year we will continue to work with clubs on campuses to study how to best interest, educate, and retain new contributors. I am particularly excited about this initiative since it will provide us with in-depth data about how to engage and retain contributors.I have also worked this year on various trademark and licensing issues, finding grants to provide the community with more servers, and negotiating a contract with MapBox so GNOME Maps can avoid future service interruptions.If I am reelected I hope to continue to work on increasing diversity and making GNOME a welcoming project for everyone. There are many changes coming as a result of the new influx of grants, and the resultant expansion. I hope to help provide continuity through the changes, and to represent the best interests of the community in the coming year.Thanks,Meg* ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Candidacy statement for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors - Didier Roche
Name: Didier Roche Email: didro...@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: Canonical Hello everyone, I've served on the Foundation Board of Directors for half a year now, filling a vacant position, and would like to continue for 2018-19. I am a GNOME user since 2004 and starting packaging GNOME in Ubuntu starting 2008. I've submitted and contributed some patches over the years, while staying close to the french GNOME conspiracy, participating at local events and attending GUADEC. More recently, I've helped on the migration from Unity to GNOME Shell in Ubuntu and blogged about it in a series of posts to inform both our users and the GNOME folks about our decisions: why we did some tweaking, which kind of experience we deliver ensuring that we still provide a vanilla GNOME session experience as well… I feel that I can continue on the Board of Directors adding a positive impact, especially in the following sectors: * Travel policy and sponsorship I'm acting as a liaison to the Travel Committee for some months now. There is a lot to do to make our process more flexible and easier for everyone (requesters for sponsorship and Travel Committee members). We started working on it, but it needs refinements, and we have some plan of actions going this way (see the recent board meeting minutes about it). * Development CI and infrastructure This is something which I didn't participate yet on the GNOME side, but which is dear to my heart. I have extensive experience in this area for other projects, like ubuntu Touch, where I built the CI process to deliver hundreds of projects to the distribution archive. I think a solid CI, backed by systematic unit and integration testing is a must have and a gap we have to fill, building on the step of continous. Gitlab provided us a serious first step in the right direction throughout that process, helping on peer reviews, code contributions. I think ensuring that breaking the general build is something that is immediately seen by the whole community as a read flag, and help transitions, is the next major step in that direction. The expansion of the foundation will surely trigger some great challenges, but it's exciting to be part of it when those kinds of fundamental shift is happening. Cheers, Didier Roche ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
