+ Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the + GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. A short summary statement from + each candidate and a link to their full candidacy announcement is + provided to help you learn more about them. We encourage all voters + to read the full candidacy statements and related discussions on + foundation-list@gnome.org. +
+ ++ When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider + the various tasks the Board of Directors must perform. This + overview may be helpful. Keep in mind that + the board will make a number of important decisions and will also have to + perform many tasks which require a significant amount of time and effort + and the ability to work and communicate with other people, companies, and + the media. The board of directors will represent GNOME to companies and + the world in a very real way. It is a good idea to strive for a + well-balanced board consisting of people with various backgrounds, + skills, and perspectives. +
+ ++ Additional elections details can be found on the + GNOME Foundation Web Site. +
+ ++ If you have any questions, please send them to either + foundation-list@gnome.org + or to us at elections@gnome.org. +
+ +
+ 1. Jonathan Blandford
+ Affiliation: Red Hat
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00007.html
+
+I am a long-time member of the GNOME community. I am also an employee +of Red Hat, run a desktop team there, and have been active on the Board +for the past four years. I know what being on the board entails, and +will bring continuity for the next board. Most importantly, I have the +time to be an effective board member. + ++ +
+ 2. Behdad Esfahbod
+ Affiliation: Sharif FarsiWeb
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00012.html
+
+I've been a member of GNOME foundation since 2001, but never called myself a +GNOME developer until recently, when I found myself well inside, and I believe +I am here to stay. I started as a hacker, but found a great family that is +much more valuable than the sum of the parts. So I'm trying to get more +involved in other aspects of the project. + ++ +
+ 3. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
+ Affiliation: Fluendo S.L.
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00008.html
+
+ I have been a long term member of the GNOME community and this last year +also served on the board. I am also an employee of Fluendo S.L., a +company doing products and consulting around the GStreamer framework. +If I get re-elected to the board I want to continue making it platform +for talking to other open source groups and companies, pulling them +closer to GNOME and eventually increase our corporate membership. + ++ +
+ 4. Quim Gil
+ Affiliation: Interactors s.coop.
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00002.html
+
+ GNOME is technically ready for the general public. Does the general +public know this? Ask your neighbour. In order to make GNOME a +mainstream desktop we need to focus in the social aspects of software as +much as in the technical development. If the mountain doesn't go to +GNOME, GNOME goes to the mountain. + +Actions recommended to be promoted by the board in which I possibly +could play a useful role: gnome.org megawebsite, GUADEC & smaller +events, smartketing, strengthen our brand, extend The GNOME Experience +to proprietary desktops, start discussing seriously GNOME 3.0. ++ +
+ 5. Dominic Lachowicz
+ Affiliation: Teragram Corporation
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00013.html
+
+I promise to be a helpfully pedantic board member, ensuring that things get done on time and that they get done right. I believe in forming rough consensus and acting by convention. My contribution will be one of mediating the board's many goals, injecting realism, building a roadmap to those goals, making sure that we succeed, and making our successes/failures transparent. These traits will become increasingly important with the transition from 11 to 7 board members. + ++ +
+ 6. Federico Mena-Quintero
+ Affiliation: Novell, Inc.
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00011.html
+
+ I have been working on GNOME since it began in August 1997. Since then, +I've maintained or done substantial work on several modules. I have +served as a Foundation Board member for two periods, once four years ago +and once this year. I also acted as treasurer of the Foundation three +years ago. ++ +
+ 7. David Neary
+ Affiliation: None
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00001.html
+
+ I have very much enjoyed my year on the board, and I would like to continue working on aspects of the board's communication and reactivity. + +I am also eager to continue and bring to completion work to generate revenue for the foundation through merchandising, and increased partnership with companies supporting GNOME. + ++ +
+ 8. Bastien Nocera
+ Affiliation: Red Hat
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00010.html
+
+ I am a long-time member of the GNOME community, first as a user, then a +package maintainer and finally a developer (I've also been known as a +"machete hacker"). + +I work for Red Hat as a software maintenance engineer, meaning that I +get to support and fix bugs in our old versions of GNOME, among other +things. ++ +
+ 9. Germán Poó Caamaño
+ Affiliation: Universidad del Bío-Bío
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00039.html
+
+I would like to contribute to the board giving more transparency +about its internal process as much as possible. + +Also, I would like to contribute defining and promoting +differents teams, looking for the same success than has +been reached by teams as release, membership, etc. + +I'm convinced that can advance and get more contributors +if we can keep the things simple and clear, and I will go +for that. + ++ +
+ 10. Vincent Untz
+ Affiliation: Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00006.html
+
+I'm running for the elections for three reasons: I want to make more +Foundation members involved in the Foundation, I want to enable the +local groups to do more than what they can do right now, I want to see +that we care about our users. I believe I can help achieving at least +one of these items and that it will make GNOME even better than it is +now. ++ +
+ 11. Luis Villa
+ Affiliation: Harvard Law School
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00031.html
+
+ In the past, candidacy statements have been of the form of 'I will get +the board to do X', which I now believe is wrong. The board should be +about encouraging people to do X, giving advice on X, and exercising +oversight to make sure X is done well. When I'm done with this term, +the board should be a group of people whose main role is oversight, +inquiry, and delegation, not doing. ++ +
+ 12. Jeff Waugh
+ Affiliation: Canonical Ltd
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00014.html
+
+ I love GNOME. I am passionate, motivated, and dedicated to building our +success, both outwardly - a foot on every desktop; and inwardly - making +sure our developer and user communities are rocking all the time. I believe +I've earned the trust of the GNOME community to represent it, both as a +communicator outside the project, and as a mediator and leader within our +community. I am here to help GNOME rock. ++ +
+ 13. Anne Østergaard
+ Affiliation: Easterbridge.dk
+ Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00028.html
+
+ I was a volunteer at the 2nd GUADEC in Copenhagen in 2001. - Where I was +"sold" to GNOME and the GNOME Community because of the passionate, +motivated, warm, and dedicated atmosphere among the developers and in +fact everyone. We had a full house on user day. + +Since that time I have followed the foot prints and contributed to the +conferences and the community. + ++ + +
+ Ballots will be sent out via e-mail to everyone who's registered to vote + on Friday, November 19th, to the address provided with registration. If + you need to change the address to which you want your ballot sent, please + contact elections@gnome.org + as soon as possible. People will vote by returning the ballot via e-mail. + A public archive of the ballot returns will be available after the + elections end on December 8th. +
+ ++ Also, keep in mind that there is a 4-person maximum on the number of + people affiliated with any one company that can be on the board: if more + than 4 persons from one company get elected, only the top 4 vote getters + will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 11 candidates of your + choice, with no restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once + for the same candidate. +
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