Now that the push for corporate desktop is on in earnest I believe I can
help the GNOME community of volunteer hackers feel empowered by
providing a genuinely independent voice on the Board. I can do this
because I have no financial stake in any company. I contribute to
AbiWord and GNOME for the love of hacking and the desire to be part of
the project to make the World's best desktop.
"<br/>
Affiliation: University of Melbourne.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00006.html</a>
</P>
<P>2. RICHARD STALLMAN<br/>
"
I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME. In
1983, while formulating plans for the GNU operating system, I decided
it should include a window system. After two desktop initiatives that
didn't pan out, I found Miguel, who launched our third desktop
project--GNOME.
<br/>
As president of the Free Software Foundation and Chief GNUisance of
the GNU Project, I have had years of experience working with
contributors both individual and corporate.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Free Software Foundation.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00007.html</a>
Have been an active contributor to the free software movement
since 1992.
<br/>
Started the GNOME project when various freedom issues arised
that would threaten the future of a fully free system.
<br/>
I am one of the founders of Ximian, one of the GNOME
companies, where we employ around 40 GNOME hackers that
develop free software.
<br/>
Have been actively involved for the past year in the
development of Mono and the Gtk bindings for C#.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00008.html</a>
I am active not only in the accessibility project work,
but also am actively working with the groups doing Mozilla,
OpenOffice, and Java integration with GNOME. My goals for GNOME:
a great developer platform, a complete user desktop environment
that is not only free but fully accessible to everyone.
I am a also Sun Microsystems employee, but would serve as an
"individual contributor" and always keep the "big picture" for GNOME
paramount.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Sun Microsystems.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00000.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00000.html</a>
</P>
<P>5. MIKE NEWMAN<br/>
"
I'm standing as an independant, experienced committee worker with the
international and democratic interests of GNOME as my prime concerns,
along with transparent and accessible board activity. Having been
involved in GNOME for two years working with the membership committee,
and with a great deal of experience in similar roles I feel I have a
wide view of GNOME's goals and the capabilities and time to serve as an
effective board member.
"<br/>
Affiliation: None.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00001.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00001.html</a>
</P>
<P>6. GLYNN FOSTER<br/>
"
I do GNOME hacking at Sun. I don't do celery. I do motivation
and energy. I don't do philosophy, politics or vegemite. I do
random documentation. I don't do cucumber. I do weekly release
team meetings. I don't do toilet cleaning. I do climbing and beer.
I don't do chewing gum. I do opinions, sleep and campus boards. I
don't do veruccas. I do mobile phones badly. I don't do cocktails
and hard liquor.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Sun Microsystems.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00002.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00002.html</a>
I've been a GNOME developer for more than 2 years now, starting as an
independant application developer, and finding myself more and more
involved in work on the core desktop.
<br/>
I have never before been part of such a board, but I understand the
requisites for such a position, and will do everything to represent
the people voting for me.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Red Hat.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00003.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00003.html</a>
Have done a reasonable amount of API documentation, along with writing a few
standalone documents aimed at helping developers use GNOME more easily. I am
interested in seeing GNOME be pitched as viable desktop platform to developers
and would like to see more events such as Sun's developer courses and the
tutorials planned for next year's GUADEC. Experience serving on committees
both at state and national level.
"<br/>
Affiliation: None.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00004.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00004.html</a>
</P>
<P>9. MICHAEL MEEKS<br/>
"
- Pushing for closer integration with other parts of the desktop;
OpenOffice particularly.
<br/>
- Ensuring that Gnome stays a Meritocracy
<br/>
- Keeping our vision wider than a file manager and control panel, and
on a complete Free software desktop.
<br/>
- Ensuring the hackers make the coding / code inclusion decisions, the
artists make the art / art inclusion decisions, the UI team decide
the UI, the i18n team in charge of i18n, and the release team
co-ordinating releases.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00005.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00005.html</a>
</P>
<P>10. DANIEL VEILLARD<br/>
"
I am French, long time Gnomer and Linux addict, maintainer of
libxml, libxslt and rpmfind. I served on the Gnome Board for two
years and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negociations
needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focuse on the reuse
of standards, internationalization and keeping trust relationship at an
individual level. I think those are needed to keep hacking on Gnome fun
and getting acceptance in new communities. Growing the foundation to
get acceptance by program developpers is the next challenge of the Board.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Red Hat.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00006.html</a>
</P>
<P>11. JAMES HENSTRIDGE<br/>
"
I am an Australian GNOME hacker. I have been working on the project
since 1998, focussing on language bindings (I am maintainer of the
Python bindings) and the platofrm libraries (I maintain libglade). I am
currently serving on the 2002 board.
"<br/>
Affiliation: None.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00007.html</a>
I am passionate about GNOME and Free Software, and have committed a large
amount of my time and energy to helping our exceptional hackers do their
magic. This year my primary contribution to GNOME was leadership of the
Release Team to help our hackers pull off the amazing GNOME 2.0 release.
I will work to build upon GNOME's contributor base, maintain our casual,
personal community, ensure a transparently operated Foundation, and to
promote our project and achievements aggressively.
"<br/>
Affiliation: None.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00008.html</a>
</P>
<P>13. LESLIE PROCTOR<br/>
"
I'd like to more closely tie GNOME marketing
with the Foundation Board, and being part of the board
will be a good way to accomplish that goal.
"<br/>
Affiliation: GNOME Foundation.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00010.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00010.html</a>
</P>
<P>14. NAT FRIEDMAN<br/>
"
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00011.html</a>
</P>
<P>15. JONATHAN BLANDFORD<br/>
"
"<br/>
Affiliation: Red Hat.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00013.html</a>
</P>
<P>16. JODY GOLDBERG<br/>
"
Who :<br/>
- Jody Goldberg<br/>
- Affiliation Ximian<br/>
- Maintainer of Gnumeric and Control-Centre<br/>
- Current board member<br/>
- Member of Release Team<br/>
What :<br/>
- Advocate for GNOME Office<br/>
- Apply lessons learned in developing a large application with
GNOME toward finding common areas with other projects.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00014.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00014.html</a>
</P>
<P>17. TIM NEY<br/>
"
GNOME Foundation needs the combined efforts of hackers and non-hackers.
Since I first worked with GNOME four years ago, getting machines and
setting up booths and presentations, the developer community and user
base has grown tremendously.
<br/>
My contribution is to build bridges and obtain resources needed for
GNOME to successfully continue its growth. Working with the GNOME
community is a great experience and I'd like to continue pushing for
more adoption by governments and schools.
"<br/>
Affiliation: GNOME Foundation.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00015.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00015.html</a>
</P>
<P>18. LUIS VILLA<br/>
"
I want to get involved with the board for three reasons. First, to
improve communications between the board and /all/ volunteers,
including, but not just, hackers. Second, to increase the board's
activity level in areas where the board is GNOME's most effective organ,
like marketing, infrastructure, and fundraising. Finally, to ensure that
the board does not interfere with more direct community leadership in
areas where that leadership is already providing effective guidance.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00017.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00017.html</a>
</P>
<P>19. AMY KAHN<br/>
"
I, Amy Kahn, am running for election for the Gnome Foundation Board on the
following platform:
<br/>
I intend to establish better and more accessible usability standards in
for the future of the GNOME desktop and related applications. I plan to do
this by using my experience and expertise in the usability field,
researching the way users do their jobs and providing that data to the
hacker community, providing a forum for usability gurus and hackers to
communicate, and helping said persons to organize themselves so a real
review process can happen.
"<br/>
Affiliation: GNOME Foundation.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00018.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00018.html</a>
</P>
<P>20. MARTIN BAULIG<br/>
"
I've been hacking on GNOME almost since its early beginnings. However,
about a year ago I took a longer break to concentrate more on
university.
<br/>
This spring, I became a Mono hacker and since then, I've been hacking on
the compiler and the new Mono Debugger.
<br/>
As an European guy and Mono hacker, my main focus is helping GNOME
moving forward in Europe and integrating GNOME and Mono nicely so that
people can quickly and easily design their coolest GNOME apps with Mono.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00019.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00019.html</a>
</P>
<P>21. SRI RAMKRISHNA<br/>
"
I'm running for the GNOME Foundation board in order to help GNOME and
in the process better myself own helps by making GNOME problems, my
problems. While I'm not a serious coder I can code; I think my talents
really lie in facilitating and attacking problems from a high level. I
would like to help the GNOME project grow further by encouraging the
use of GEP, help get documentation complete, and establish more desktop
standards. I've had experience in leading a diverse engineering team,
worked on projects that spanned many physical locations, and had some
management experience. All of which requires critical thinking and
planning. Thanks.
"<br/>
Affiliation: None.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00020.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00020.html</a>
</P>
<P>22. FEDERICO MENA QUINTERO<br/>
"
We lack complete developer's documentation for our 2.0 platform. The
documentation I have written in the past has been useful to people, so I
want to work with the different developers of GNOME libraries to ensure
that their code has proper documentation. Also, I want to help in
coordination between the GNOME and OpenOffice.org teams --- OO.o needs
to integrate well into the GNOME environment, and they may also be able
to use some of our cool technologies to avoid duplicated work.
"<br/>
Affiliation: Ximian.<br/>
Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00021.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00021.html</a>
