Affiliation Red Hat. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00020.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00020.html</a>
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00021.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00021.html</a>
Have been an active contributor to the free software movement since 1992.
Started the GNOME project when various freedom issues arose that would
threaten the future of a fully free system. I am one of the founders of
Ximian, one of the GNOME companies, where we employ around 40 GNOME hackers
that develop free software. "
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00018.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00018.html</a>
Answers to the name of Gman. Email glynn.foster@sun.com after 8pm.
"
Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00010.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00010.html</a>
The foundation could be doing more to help GNOME be more unified,
move faster, and have more visibility. Things I would like to see
include more focus on the desktop itself, more in-person events
and a coordinated GNOME Office.
I've been contributing to GNOME since 1998 and co-maintained
Bonobo for a while. I wrote the first draft of the foundation's
charter. I co-founded Ximian, and these days, I'm in charge of our
product development. "
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00022.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00022.html</a>
I'd like to continue to be on the board to help Gnome reach its potential.
I feel that we are about a year from having the ingredients to make open
source desktops viable for the mass market and would like to do what I
can to help make this happen. As part of this, I believe interoperability
is a key ingredient, and will work to encourage Gnome to invest in this
area."
Affiliation Compaq. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00024.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00024.html</a>
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00025.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00025.html</a>
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00030.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00030.html</a>
Bill Haneman AKA 'that Accessibility guy'. "I've been programming over
20 years, an active Gnome hacker since Dec. 2000. I maintain the Gnome
Accessibility Project (atk, at-spi), co-moderate
gnome-accessibility-list, and contribute to Gtk+, libglade,
libbonoboui. I'm employed by Sun Microsystems Ireland. While wearing
the 'Gnome Board hat' I would work hard to take a broad view of what's
best for Gnome. My hopes for Gnome's future include platform
development/maturation, universal accessibility, interoperability, and
extensibility.
"
Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00011.html</a>
I have been hacking on gnome for over 3 years, and have been involved in language
binding development, gtk/gnome platform library development and also some work on
apps. I am Australian, which may be a good or bad thing, depending on your point
of view :) If elected I can represent these interests on the board. I served on
the GNOME Steering committee from its creation until the Foundation elections last
year, where I was one of the unsuccessful candidates.
"
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00019.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00019.html</a>
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00015.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00015.html</a>
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00026.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00026.html</a>
Lots of experience of Gnome both technically and relationally, I
continue to promote Gnome widely at conferences and to companies.
We must finance and encourage small interest group meetings as
well as GUADEC to increase real contact time.
We need to bifurcate the project - the core environment and
the applications built on top of it, so we can release core
improvements more quickly, with a stable API, yet rapidly innovate in
the applications.
"
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00014.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00014.html</a>
Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00029.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00029.html</a>
I've presented GNOME to government officials on several continents;
built public awareness of GNOME around the world through the media,
seminars and trade shows; secured funding, hardware and services
to support GNOME. I see 2002 as the year GNOME reaches beyond the
hacker community and to schools, corporations and governments.
My contribution is to build bridges, develop strategy, policy and
projects that are inclusive and appeal to a wider geography of
developers and users.
"
Affiliation GNOME Foundation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00027.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00027.html</a>
I have several years of experience with GNOME, and want to help ensure
continuity between the current board and the new one. My main goal on
the board is to build up GNOME as a self-sufficient and long-term
organization with solid infrastructure for keeping things running
smoothly. I work on GTK+, GConf, packaging GNOME for Red Hat, and
various less important projects.
"
Affiliated with Red Hat. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00008.html</a>
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<P>20. CHRIS PHELPS
"
GNOME is the smoothest desktop I've ever used, and I intend to do
anything and everything I can to keep our development rolling. My
personal peeve is that GNOME is an awesome development environment
without a respectable IDE. I intend to work on this to make GNOME more
attractive to all kinds of developers. Yeah, that's about it...
"
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00004.html">
My experience ranges from developing on Guile to numerous other contributions
including technical reviews for Gtk+ and GNOME related books. I have been hacking
in GNOME since the first years of the project. I have attended many conferences
as a promoter of Free Software and GNOME. My main goal is to seek that GNOME will
turn into a feasible solution against proprietary software turning into a powerful
stable API that will be available for everyone.
"
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00017.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00017.html</a>
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. 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.
"
Affiliation. Free Software Foundation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00028.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00028.html</a>
I have been a strong supporter for the GNU Project and
a long time observer of the GNOME Project. I maintains
the advocacy site free-soft.org and the GUI Toolkit
and Framework Page, the definite reference for GUI
toolkits on the Internet. I understand the major
weakness of the GNOME architecture at this stage. If
I am elected, the first thing I will push is to merge
gnome-specific widgets into gtk+, so there are less
number of libraries to link against :-)
"
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00013.html</a>
We need to improve the project's outreach, both within the Free Software
community and outside it, through documentation, publicity, and making
good information easy to get to. Some work on infrastructure can make
other tasks and goals easier, such as contributing and releasing. We need
more GNOME love and better cooperation. All of this, openly and
transparently, without interrupting our awesome hacker's hacking time! I'm
wacky enough to believe we can do it, too. :)
"
No affiliation. Full statement at <ahref="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00016.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00016.html</a>
