Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
Thanks for all the info and your input Shaun. -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. In early 2013, the board briefly investigated W3C membership, Interesting, any notes about this? The cost of a W3C membership is 7,900 USD and there is extensive information available on their website at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership . What benefits do you feel that joining the W3C will bring to GNOME and how would you approach sustainable raising the funding for the membership fees? While I have not done any extensive investigation about benefits, I have some thoughts about this. If more free software entities where to join WC3, proponents of a open unrestricted and Web would have a stronger voice thus be able to making a lager impact and ultimately shaping the future of the Web in a free software friendly direction (for those who wants to have more info about WC3 and its work I recommend this video [1]). Right now to my knowledge Mozilla are only the free software foundation that are a W3C member[2], as the events of the past week have showed fighting for a Open Web in that environment is hard [3], They have to carry a very heavy load. Its also brings up a point that we as a free software project are used to tell a story from a outside perspective when there is value of to join others and collaborate across organizational boundaries (something are very used to do within the project and on the technical side ). Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. I understand of course a that a membership fee should never threaten the financial situation of the foundation. With that said I hope that the Foundation will have larger revenue in the future, thus be able to pay the membership fee or find other founding opportunities. 1 http://www.w3.org/2011/11/w3c_video.html 2 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List 3https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ 4 http://webkitgtk.org/ 5 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On 2014-05-20 09:48, Oliver Propst wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. In early 2013, the board briefly investigated W3C membership, Interesting, any notes about this? The cost of a W3C membership is 7,900 USD and there is extensive information available on their website at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership . Actually, I was able to get most of the way towards the discounted fee for the fist years of WC3 membership when I was Executive Director, but we just didn't have the bandwidth to participate in it. If the new board thinks it's valuable, I can help pick up that conversation (whether I am on the board or not of course). karen What benefits do you feel that joining the W3C will bring to GNOME and how would you approach sustainable raising the funding for the membership fees? While I have not done any extensive investigation about benefits, I have some thoughts about this. If more free software entities where to join WC3, proponents of a open unrestricted and Web would have a stronger voice thus be able to making a lager impact and ultimately shaping the future of the Web in a free software friendly direction (for those who wants to have more info about WC3 and its work I recommend this video [1]). Right now to my knowledge Mozilla are only the free software foundation that are a W3C member[2], as the events of the past week have showed fighting for a Open Web in that environment is hard [3], They have to carry a very heavy load. Its also brings up a point that we as a free software project are used to tell a story from a outside perspective when there is value of to join others and collaborate across organizational boundaries (something are very used to do within the project and on the technical side ). Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. I understand of course a that a membership fee should never threaten the financial situation of the foundation. With that said I hope that the Foundation will have larger revenue in the future, thus be able to pay the membership fee or find other founding opportunities. 1 http://www.w3.org/2011/11/w3c_video.html 2 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List 3https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ 4 http://webkitgtk.org/ 5 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web ___ 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 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 13:19 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi Oliver, On 15 May 2014 20:51, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. In early 2013, the board briefly investigated W3C membership, Interesting, any notes about this? The cost of a W3C membership is 7,900 USD and there is extensive information available on their website at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership . What benefits do you feel that joining the W3C will bring to GNOME and how would you approach sustainable raising the funding for the membership fees? While I have not done any extensive investigation about benefits, I have some thoughts about this. If more free software entities where to join WC3, proponents of a open unrestricted and Web would have a stronger voice thus be able to making a lager impact and ultimately shaping the future of the Web in a free software friendly direction (for those who wants to have more info about WC3 and its work I recommend this video [1]). Right now to my knowledge Mozilla are only the free software foundation that are a W3C member[2], as the events of the past week have showed fighting for a Open Web in that environment is hard [3], They have to carry a very heavy load. Its also brings up a point that we as a free software project are used to tell a story from a outside perspective when there is value of to join others and collaborate across organizational boundaries (something are very used to do within the project and on the technical side ). Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. Have you checked whether those contributors are interested, or have the time for this? I understand of course a that a membership fee should never threaten the financial situation of the foundation. With that said I hope that the Foundation will have larger revenue in the future, thus be able to pay the membership fee or find other founding opportunities. 1 http://www.w3.org/2011/11/w3c_video.html 2 http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List 3https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ 4 http://webkitgtk.org/ 5 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014 14:48, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Also as you (and others) may know GNOME are maintaining its own WebKit implementation and browser [4] [5], I'm sure contributors to those efforts could provide valuable inputs to WC3 and learn much from other members. Have you checked whether those contributors are interested, or have the time for this? As I have stated I intend to to do a investigation,I have not done any so far. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014 15:00, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote: Actually, I was able to get most of the way towards the discounted fee for the fist years of WC3 membership when I was Executive Director, but we just didn't have the bandwidth to participate in it. If the new board thinks it's valuable, I can help pick up that conversation (whether I am on the board or not of course). Great, thanks for the info! foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Oliver Propst
Name: Oliver Propst Email: oliver.pro...@gmail.com Affiliation: None Dear foundation members I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I have been contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the Annual Report. I think that free software never have more important then now and if we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us. I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be found here [1]. In the upcoming year I like to continue explore growth/collaborations opportunities for the foundation and investigate the benefits of a possible WC3 membership [2]. I would also want to work for the Board to have a stronger and more public profile (especially in light of the current situation where we have no ED). 1 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-April/msg00116.html 2 http://www.w3.org/ -- -mvh Oliver Propst ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
