Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html</a>
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html</a>
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I intend to carry on being a point of contact for developer relations,
and a technical advisor within the Board itself. I'm also the one asking
naive questions about US employment law and accountancy rules.
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<li><strong>Emmanuele Bassi</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>Intel Corporation</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00002.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00002.html</a>
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I have contributed to GNOME for the past 10 years as a developer and
maintainer; I served on the GUADEC papers committee multiple times, as
well as a Director of the Foundation's Board for the past year in the
role of Secretary.
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<li><strong>Andreas Nilsson</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00003.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00003.html</a>
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I've been involved in GNOME since 2005 doing a variety of things. Mainly graphics and websites. I served on the Board of Directors between 2010 and 2011. If I get elected, I want to primary focus on two things. Fundraising and getting new developers. I want to make our fundraising campaigns really effective and make it as fun and rewarding to make donations to the GNOME project as possible. I'm happy that we have now been able to release the new, more effective Friends of GNOME site, but there is more we can do in this area. For new developers, I'm happy with the outcome of the GSOC and WOP's we've been running, and we should continue to do these, but I also want to make sure the inroads for potential contributors who visit our website is as clear as possible. I'm sure I will get very much tangled up in whatever pops up during the way for the board (as things tend to do), but I will keep these two items in mind as goals for the term.
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<li><strong>Joanmarie Diggs</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>Igalia, S.L.</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00004.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00004.html</a>
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I have contributed to GNOME for the past five+ years as a developer and
maintainer of the Orca screen reader and as a member of the GNOME
Accessibility Team. For most of those years, my GNOME-related work had
to be done evenings, weekends, and holidays as a community contributor.
Joining Igalia in October 2011 has made it possible for GNOME
Accessibility to become part of my DayJob, which in turn has given me a
very precious commodity: spare time. I would like to spend some of that
time serving on the GNOME Foundation Board.
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<li><strong>Tobias Mueller</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00005.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00005.html</a>
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I am a Free Software enthusiast and GNOME activist for about 5 years now. I mainly worked in the Bugsquad and the Membership Committee.
Now, I want to do something new and help making GNOME a successful Free Software project.
I have experience with working with people, i.e. by organising events like a GNOME party, various booths at conferences or by hosting a (mid-size) conference at our university.
I want to improve the Bylaws and the visibility of Teams within GNOME.
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<li><strong>Max Huang</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00006.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00006.html</a>
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I am a freelancer who teach linux in the training center, also a
Novell CNI instructor. I have contributed to GNOME for the past 2
years for GNOME.Asia. Teaching linux at school and have workshop with
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00007.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00007.html</a>
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If elected, I want to work to make our treasurer duties simpler and
more understandable, whether as the treasurer again or as an advisor
to a new treasurer. The treasurer role is inevitably difficult for
somebody without a background in accounting. We need to make sure we
can smoothly transition year to year, because handling GNOME's money
is one of the most important things the Foundation does.
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<li><strong>Seif Lotfy</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>Collabora Ltd.</em><br />
Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00008.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00008.html</a>
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Currently, I spend nearly 50% of my working time on GNOME-related projects, thanks to Collabora. I also spend a lot of my time working on deploying Zeitgeist into some smaller projects like Gedit (the dashboard plugin), which greatly benefited from design collaboration with Hylke Bons and Garrett LeSage.
Sometimes misunderstandings and miscommunication happen in the community, especially between different teams who may share similar goals but different viewpoints. This blurred vision was evident in mailing-lists over the past few weeks. (Thankfully Olav did a great job moderating the lists to not let it get too out-of-hand.)
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<h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
<p>
Note, that according to the
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bylaws.pdf">Bylaws</a> Article VIII Section 2d
there is a 2-person maximum on the number of people affiliated with any
one company that can be on the board: if more than 2 persons from one
company get elected, only the top 2 vote getters will get on.
You will be able to vote for up to 7 candidates of your choice, with no
restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once for the same
candidate.
</p>
<p>
If you have any futher question, please consult the
<a href="rules.html">Rules for this election</a> or write to
