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2001-11-11  Glynn Foster  <glynn.foster@sun.com>

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2001-11-11 Glynn Foster <glynn.foster@sun.com>
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<H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Candidates for GNOME Foundation Elections</H3>
<P ALIGN=CENTER>Oct 26, 2000</P>
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<P>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
(<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/</A>).</P>
<P>When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider
the various tasks the Board of Directors must perform. This overview
(<A HREF="/overview.html">http://foundation.gnome.org/overview.html</A>)
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.</P>
<P>Additional election details can be found at the end of this
message and on <A HREF="/">http://foundation.gnome.org</A>
(where you can also find this document).</P>
<P>If you have any questions, please send them to either
foundation-list@gnome.org or to us at elections@gnome.org.</P>
<P>The elections committee.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
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<P><B>CANDIDATES FOR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS</B>
</P>
<P>1. MARTIN BAULIG. &quot;I'm a 24 years old student and working for
SuSE on GNOME. * Gnome-libs 2.0 - it is very important to be
attractive to developers of other Free Software, to have
well-designed, well-documented APIs which are a pleasure to use. *
GNOME is official part of the GNU Project and it becomes more and
more important to know where we're coming from and to stick to our
roots. * Doing Talks and Shows in Germany.&quot; Affiliated with
SuSE. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00076.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00076.html</A>.</P>
<P>2. CHEMA CELORIO. &quot;I have been doing unpaid work for GNOME on
a daily basis for the last year. Mainly in gedit and gnome-print. And
I LOVE IT ! I have developed very good personal relationships with
different members of the GNOME community. I want GNOME to remain a
community effort, a fun project to work on and a project that has
healthy relationships with the companies it interacts with. I want
GNOME to continue being widely open to new contributors.&quot; Full
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00056.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00056.html</A>.</P>
<P>3. KENNETH CHRISTIANSEN. &quot;I will work on making Gnome work
better with internationalization, so that people in non-english
speaking countries can start using Gnome for real. This requires a
lot of work, and everyone in the Gnome community will have to settle
on some common guidelines for dealing with this. Due to my long
involvement in Gnome Translation Project I have quite some idea of
how we can do this, and is personally interested in working hard for
archieving this. No corporate affiliations!&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00067.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00067.html</A>.</P>
<P>4. RHETT CREIGHTON. &quot;I am a Jr. undergrad student at MIT, and
I'd like to see Gnome succeed, like all of you. If I win, I don't
promise to do a better job than most of you could do, but I do
promise to do it while eating a truckload of bananas. Really, I want
to use the position to impress chicks, I mean, help guide the
direction of Gnome toward what I think will make it the ideal
computing platform.&quot;. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00237.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00237.html</A>.</P>
<P>5. BART DECREM. &quot;As the Foundation's coordinator, I have
helped build a structure that maintains the power in GNOME with the
hackers while providing ways for corporate partners to have their
voice heard. I see my role as a facilitator who ensures that the
foundation will function in an open and effective manner, and to help
bring corporate partners on board who will bring GNOME to many
millions of new users without violating our principles.&quot;
Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00047.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00047.html</A>.</P>
<P>6. MIGUEL DE ICAZA. Co-founder of the GNOME project; one of the
principal contributors to gnome-libs, Bonobo, and Gnumeric, among
many other modules; currently serves on the board of directors of the
Free Software Foundation; pushed to create both the interim Steering
Committee and the GNOME Foundation: sees his role in the foundation
as &quot;to continue doing the same work I have been doing for free
software and GNOME in the future, with the backup of the Foundation.&quot;
Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00194.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00194.html</A>.</P>
<P>7. CHRISTOPHER GABRIEL. &quot;I'm a 22 years old fellow born in
Italy. * Completely dedicated to free software, following GNOME since
some times in the first few months. * No affiliation with any company
making money from GNOME. * Official maintainer of GNU packages. *
Largely responsible for much of the free software grass-roots
community effort in Italy. Having me on the board, you will have
someone who will remind other board members of the importance of
things.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00064.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00064.html</A>.</P>
<P>8. JUANTOMAS GARCIA. Spent last three years promoting GNU/Linux
and free software in Spain, to companies and the Spanish government,
among others: &quot;GNOME needs more than code, it needs lots of
input and work on and over it... The board needs to have a real
criticism from the inside that's brave enough to point out whatever
is wrong with GNOME... I'm Spanish and European (and very proud of
it) and Europe needs more GNOME action indeed.&quot; Full statement
at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00077.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00077.html</A>.</P>
<P>9. JIM GETTYS. Co-wrote X Window System, upon which GNOME is
built; currently pushing Linux and X on handhelds. Experience with X
Consortium, W3C, IETF. Worked on the GNOME Foundation announcement
and startup this summer: &quot;In short, I'd really like to see open
source desktops succeed. Interoperability is a key to this, and
applications (both open source and commercial) are another. We MUST
avoid the GUI wars that crippled UNIX desktops in the 1980's to
change the world.&quot; Affiliated with Compaq. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00193.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00193.html</A>.</P>
<P>10. BERTRAND GUIHENEUF. &quot;I am CEO of Henzai, Paris, a company
dedicated to making Gnome the standard GUI for small Internet
Appliances. I am co-maintainer of gnome-objc but was more known to
have started Evolution, in particular the camel library. My job at
Henzai gives me particular skills for project managment. Once on the
board I want to push the creation of the European foundation. I also
plan to lobby for a complete cross-platform Gnome.&quot; Affiliated
with Henzai. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00062.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00062.html</A>.</P>
<P>11. THOMPSON HAYNER. &quot;I am an independent thinker. I make my
living charging high fees to companies to run web-based free software
for them (primarily Latin American hospitals). I invest half my money
primarily in underprized fiber optic companies, give myself an
allowance of $64,000 a year, and give the rest to various charities,
and do Random Acts of Kindness (for example, recently hired an
attorney to help a Vietnamenese girl I barely know fight to bring her
brother and sister over).&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00143.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00143.html</A>.</P>
<P>12. JOHN HEARD. &quot;jheard@eng.sun.com. * Initiated and manage
the Sun GNOME Project. * Initiated and manage the OpenOffice.org
initiative and making it a fully integrated part of the GNOME Office
suite. * Working to establish the GNOME Accessibility project. *
Participant in the establishment of the GNOME Foundation on behalf of
the Sun GNOME team, working closely with quite a few GNOME members. *
A 14+ year open systems &quot;bigot&quot; in Sun (with T-shirts to
prove it :-)).&quot; Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement
at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00221.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00221.html</A>.</P>
<P>13. JAMES HENSTRIDGE. &quot;I am from Australia and have been
hacking on GNOME since 1998. I have worked on various parts of GNOME
ranging from some of the base libraries used by many applications to
language bindings (python) to applications (dia). I hope to represent
these views on the foundation board. I am a member of the current
GNOME Steering Committee. I am not currently employed by any GNOME
company at present -- I am a student finishing off my honours year.&quot;
Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00053.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00053.html</A>.</P>
<P>14. KEVIN KNERR. &quot;Is a GNOME user and contributor (AquaX,
sawfish lisplets, etc.) * has nearly 25 years experience w/ computing
(programming, system administration, tech support, data processing) *
is experienced in the administrative tasks the Board will perform *
is committed to GNOME and Free Software, and wishes to see GNOME
flourish in the midst of commercial software * has no corporate
affiliation with GNOME (employed in tech support for an ISP that
won't support Linux).&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00063.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00063.html</A>.</P>
<P>15. TUOMAS KUOSMANEN. &quot;I have been involved in the GNOME
community from the very beginning, working on the user interface. I
have very big interest in making the GNOME friendly and easy for both
new and experienced users. This is not easy, but I still want to
offer my help and try my best. I have good relationships towards
others and I try to live in peace with different kinds of people.
They say I have good patience.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00204.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00204.html</A>.</P>
<P>16. GEORGE LEBL. &quot;I am George (Jiri in Czech) Lebl. I am a
long time GNOME developer, and maintainer of gnome-core,
gnome-applets, pong, gob, grapevine, dr-genius, and have hacked on
many other things including gnome-libs. I'm an undergraduate at SDSU
trying to finish a CS and a Math degree, and have a part time
position at Eazel. I'm also a half member of the interim GNOME
steering comittee. cHickeN ChIckeN ChIckeN ChIckeN ChIckeN cHicKeN
ChickEn ChickEn ChickEn ChicKEn.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00025.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00025.html</A>.</P>
<P>17. ELLIOT LEE. &quot;You, the people who have made GNOME happen,
deserve the best possible help in getting GNOME where you want it to
go. Using my knowledge of software development and project
coordination, my goal will be to help you out with all the
distractions, problems, and boring work that GNOME and its foundation
need doing, so that you can focus on having fun contributing.&quot;
Affiliated with Red Hat.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00222.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00222.html</A>.</P>
<P>18. RAPH LEVIEN. &quot;I am Raph Levien, author of Libart and
current maintainer of Ghostscript. I've been involved in Gnome since
the beginning, particularly in areas of 2D graphics and imaging. I do
consulting through my company, artofcode LLC, including work for
Eazel, and commercial licensing of Ghostscript, but consider myself a
strong independent voice against corporate interests. I did not
invent the Internet, but did take the initiative in developing it to
its current degenerated state.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00220.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00220.html</A>.</P>
<P>19. KJARTAN MARAAS. &quot;My name is Kjartan Maraas and I have
been involved with the GNOME project since late 1997. I'm Norwegian
and translations was what got me tangled up in this project. Since
march this year I have been a member of the steering committee as
coordinator of GNOME's internationalization project, and this area is
what I'd spend my time working on improving if I were to be elected
for the board.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00197.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00197.html</A>.</P>
<P>20. MICHAEL MEEKS. &quot;Having enjoyed working with many Gnome
contributors, I would be delighted to represent their interests on
the board. * Soon Bonobo ( which I help maintain ) will be everywhere
and vital to the Gnome release schedule, as well as to everyone
building on it. * I have loved presenting the ethics of free software
and selling the Gnome vision to many different groups of people at
various conferences. * I will push what is best for Gnome, over
HelixCode.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00078.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00078.html</A>.</P>
<P>21. DAN MUETH. &quot;I am the GNOME Documentation Project
coordinator and a steering committee member. I have a strong personal
interest in seeing GNOME succeed and providing users with a powerful,
easy-to-use free desktop. As a boardmember I will: (1)Ensure GNOME
leverages the contributions of individuals and corporations to
produce the best desktop possible. (2)Identify and address GNOME's
weaknesses. (3)Improve communication with other projects,
corporations, and the public. After finishing my physics PhD I will
work at Eazel.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00071.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00071.html</A>.</P>
<P>22. ESKIL HEYN OLSEN. &quot;I'm Eskil, one of the two gnome-pilot
maintainers (meaning I've been hacking gnome since June 1998), Being
snatched up by Eazel, I moved from Denmark to USA, and therefore now
hack Nautilus related stuff fulltime. Other merits must speak for
themselves.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00069.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00069.html</A>.</P>
<P>23. HAVOC PENNINGTON. &quot;My goal as a GNOME hacker is to make
free OS's a viable alternative for all users. At Red Hat Labs our job
is to make sure the Linux development platform facilitates that. On
the board, I'd like to work on infrastructure to make the project run
more smoothly: bug tracking, roadmaps, task lists, communication
between maintainers. I want to see GNOME get bigger, better, and more
fun, always remaining focused on technical excellence.&quot;
Affiliated with Red Hat. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00058.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00058.html</A>.</P>
<P>24. ETTORE PERAZZOLI. &quot;Who: Hacker, Project Manager for
Evolution. Other major contributions: gnome-libs, Bonobo, gnome-vfs,
Nautilus. Contributor since pre-1.0. * Program: Make GNOME a
successful standard without betraying the original ideals. Convey
energy from all the various parties involved, making sure the
commercial needs of the companies involved don't cripple the
technical qualities. Pay attention to the needs of hackers, to make
sure the fun factor isn't lost. Value volunteer contributions. Make
GNOME a success outside the US.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code.
Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00131.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00131.html</A>.</P>
<P>25. BRUCE PERENS. &quot;Please read <A HREF="http://www.perens.com/Bio.html">http://www.perens.com/Bio.html</A>
and other material at www.Perens.com to learn who I am and how I have
helped Free Software since 1987 and Unix since 1981. The board should
leave GNOME's technical direction to the developers. As a GNOME
Foundation director, I plan to concentrate on: Soliciting for
government and corporate grants to fund Free Software development,
_especially_documentation_. Building relationships between business
and Free Software. Public Relations and Publicity. Getting people to
release more code!&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00022.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00022.html</A>.</P>
<P>26. LESLIE PROCTOR. &quot;I oversaw PR for the GNOME launch in
1999. My efforts resulted in NY Times, Wired, Newsweek, etc.
articles. I've conducted media relations for GNOME at subsequent
conferences and ongoing, as needed. I coordinated the FSF/GNOME
booths at every LinuxWorld Expo, among others - on a shoestring
budget. I'm a senior resource executive at Alexander Ogilvy PR, a
top-tier agency. I offer strategic direction to account teams across
three different agencies. I can bring PR, marketing and
conferences/events expertise.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00236.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00236.html</A>.</P>
<P>27. FEDERICO MENA QUINTERO. Co-founder of the GNOME project;
maintained the GIMP, split off GTK+ from the GIMP for use in other
applications (including GNOME); wrote large portions of the GNOME
libraries (including the GNOME Canvas), the original GNOME Panel,
gnomecal, GMC; currently maintain parts of gnome-libs, gdk-pixbuf,
EOG, the GNOME Programming Guidelines, and the Evolution calendar; &quot;I
have given several GNOME-related talks at local and international
conferences.&quot;; &quot;I am neurotic about software and
documentation quality.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00140.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00140.html</A>.</P>
<P>28. ARIEL RIOS. Currently maintain gnome-guile, guile-gtk, galway,
glibwwww, gnumeric guile plugin; has given numerous speeches
advocating GNOME and Free Software in Canada, USA, and Mexico: &quot;I
am from Mexico so I can represent the Hispanoamerican region... I do
not work for any corporation and I wish to represent no other
interests besides GNOME and those of Free Software. I do believe in
freedom and equality among all of the members of the GNOME
community.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00160.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00160.html</A>.</P>
<P>29. ARLO ROSE. &quot;I'm the Human Interface lead for the Nautilus
project, and am in the process of forming a GNOME HI group that will
raise community and developer awareness of usability and visual
issues with GNOME projects. I'd like to have a seat on the board so I
can strengthen awareness for good human interface design, raise the
standards for the GNOME desktop look and feel, and act as the voice
for usability issues in our community.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel.
Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00219.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00219.html</A>.</P>
<P>30. JOE SHAW. &quot;I have been involved in the GNOME community
from the start, contributing to several modules. I'm the maintainer
of Achtung and author of Helix's installer and updater. I'm outspoken
against corporate dominance of the foundation, but know they need to
be well-represented. I feel that the board needs a good
hacker/non-hacker mix. GNOME needs to become more aggressive with its
conference/show policies and GNOME 2.0 development needs to take hold
now.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00060.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00060.html</A>.</P>
<P>31. MACIEJ STACHOWIAK. &quot;While I have hacked on many free
software projects (most notably Nautilus, see
<A HREF="http://advogato.org/person/mjs">http://advogato.org/person/mjs</A>
for others), I think the strongest qualifications I have are
non-technical. First, I have a talent for making processes more
transparent, as with my work on GNOME 1.4 coordiation. Second, I am
good at communicating both inside and outside the project. Finally, I
believe in free software, openness and honesty, and I'm willing to
stand up to anyone for these beliefs.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00024.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00024.html</A>.</P>
<P>32. OWEN TAYLOR. &quot;As co-maintainer of GTK+ and the designer
of Pango, I think I'm in a good position to handle coordination of
GNOME with these important core technologies. I also have a strong
interest in language bindings and component technology, as
represented by the CORBA::ORBit Perl bindings for CORBA. If I am
elected to the board, I will continue to push GNOME in the areas of
internationalization and an easy-to-use development platform.&quot;
Affiliated with Red Hat.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00049.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00049.html</A>.</P>
<P>33. DANIEL VEILLARD. &quot;I am French, a long time Gnomer and
Linux addict, the maintainer of libxml and rpmfind. I work for W3C
and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negociations needed
to get a group to reach consensus. 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.&quot; Affiliated with
W3C. Full candidacy statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00093.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00093.html</A>.</P>
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<P><B>ADDITIONAL ELECTION-RELATED INFORMATION</B>
</P>
<P>Anyone who's contributed to GNOME (beyond just being a user or
occasional bug-filer) may participate in the elections. To register
to vote, send e-mail to membership@gnome.org. with your name, email
address, and a short list of how you contributed to GNOME. [eg: Havoc
Pennington (GConf, GTK+, gnome-libs, odd jobs)]. The deadline to
register to vote is Monday, October 30.</P>
<P>Ballots will be sent out via e-mail to everyone who's registered
to vote on Wednesday, November 1, 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 ASAP. 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 November
8.</P>
<P>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
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<P>Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the <P>Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the
GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. A short summary statement from GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. A short summary statement from
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<P><B>CANDIDATES FOR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS</B> <P><B>CANDIDATES FOR THE GNOME FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS</B>
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<P>1. MARTIN BAULIG. &quot;I'm a 24 years old student and working for
SuSE on GNOME. * Gnome-libs 2.0 - it is very important to be <P>1. DANIEL VEILLARD
attractive to developers of other Free Software, to have &quot;
well-designed, well-documented APIs which are a pleasure to use. * I am French, long time Gnomer and Linux addict, maintainer of
GNOME is official part of the GNU Project and it becomes more and libxml, libxslt and rpmfind. I served on the Gnome Board for last
more important to know where we're coming from and to stick to our year and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negotiation
roots. * Doing Talks and Shows in Germany.&quot; Affiliated with needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focus on the reuse
SuSE. Full statement at of standards, internationalization and keeping trust relationship at an
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00076.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00076.html</A>.</P> individual level. I think those are needed to keep hacking on Gnome fun
<P>2. CHEMA CELORIO. &quot;I have been doing unpaid work for GNOME on and getting acceptance in new communities.
a daily basis for the last year. Mainly in gedit and gnome-print. And &quot;
I LOVE IT ! I have developed very good personal relationships with Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00001.html">
different members of the GNOME community. I want GNOME to remain a http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00001.html</a>
community effort, a fun project to work on and a project that has </P>
healthy relationships with the companies it interacts with. I want
GNOME to continue being widely open to new contributors.&quot; Full <P>2. BASTIEN NOCERA
statement at &quot;
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00056.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00056.html</A>.</P> I'm a relative newcomer to the Gnome world as a programmer, with my main
<P>3. KENNETH CHRISTIANSEN. &quot;I will work on making Gnome work interests in multimedia, all ease-of-use concerns (accessibility
better with internationalization, so that people in non-english included), and portability. I've never run for any elections on such a
speaking countries can start using Gnome for real. This requires a Board, but I have some experience in strongly opinionated discussions (with
lot of work, and everyone in the Gnome community will have to settle politics, and not hackers ;), and being French, I have a big mouth as well.
on some common guidelines for dealing with this. Due to my long Hmm, couple of words to go...I like bitter ale.
involvement in Gnome Translation Project I have quite some idea of &quot;
how we can do this, and is personally interested in working hard for No affiliations. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00002.html">
archieving this. No corporate affiliations!&quot; Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00002.html</a>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00067.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00067.html</A>.</P> </P>
<P>4. RHETT CREIGHTON. &quot;I am a Jr. undergrad student at MIT, and
I'd like to see Gnome succeed, like all of you. If I win, I don't <P>3. CHRIS PHELPS
promise to do a better job than most of you could do, but I do &quot;
promise to do it while eating a truckload of bananas. Really, I want GNOME is the smoothest desktop I've ever used, and I intend to do
to use the position to impress chicks, I mean, help guide the anything and everything I can to keep our development rolling. My
direction of Gnome toward what I think will make it the ideal personal peeve is that GNOME is an awesome development environment
computing platform.&quot;. Full statement at without a respectable IDE. I intend to work on this to make GNOME more
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00237.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00237.html</A>.</P> attractive to all kinds of developers. Yeah, that's about it...
<P>5. BART DECREM. &quot;As the Foundation's coordinator, I have &quot;
helped build a structure that maintains the power in GNOME with the No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00004.html">
hackers while providing ways for corporate partners to have their http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00004.html</a>
voice heard. I see my role as a facilitator who ensures that the </P>
foundation will function in an open and effective manner, and to help
bring corporate partners on board who will bring GNOME to many <P>4. GEORGE LEBL
millions of new users without violating our principles.&quot; &quot;
Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at I have been with the GNOME project since '97, maintain several packages, and
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00047.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00047.html</A>.</P> have been 'half-part' of the steering committee. I also pretended to work for
<P>6. MIGUEL DE ICAZA. Co-founder of the GNOME project; one of the Eazel for over a year. I want the GNOME community to stay as chaotic and
principal contributors to gnome-libs, Bonobo, and Gnumeric, among open as it has always been. So elect me or I'll smack you with a GEGL.
many other modules; currently serves on the board of directors of the &quot;
Free Software Foundation; pushed to create both the interim Steering No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00005.html">
Committee and the GNOME Foundation: sees his role in the foundation http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00005.html</a>
as &quot;to continue doing the same work I have been doing for free </P>
software and GNOME in the future, with the backup of the Foundation.&quot;
Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at <P>5. RHETT CREIGHTON
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00194.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00194.html</A>.</P> &quot;
<P>7. CHRISTOPHER GABRIEL. &quot;I'm a 22 years old fellow born in The future is now, and that future is: Bowling Balls. Do you realize that
Italy. * Completely dedicated to free software, following GNOME since if GNOME starts making bowling balls, we stand to net profit
some times in the first few months. * No affiliation with any company $11,000?! That's right, eleven big ones. Net profit, mind you.
making money from GNOME. * Official maintainer of GNU packages. * &quot;
Largely responsible for much of the free software grass-roots No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00007.html">
community effort in Italy. Having me on the board, you will have http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00007.html</a>
someone who will remind other board members of the importance of </P>
things.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00064.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00064.html</A>.</P> <P>6. HAVOC PENNINGTON
<P>8. JUANTOMAS GARCIA. Spent last three years promoting GNU/Linux &quot;
and free software in Spain, to companies and the Spanish government, I have several years of experience with GNOME, and want to help ensure
among others: &quot;GNOME needs more than code, it needs lots of continuity between the current board and the new one. My main goal on
input and work on and over it... The board needs to have a real the board is to build up GNOME as a self-sufficient and long-term
criticism from the inside that's brave enough to point out whatever organization with solid infrastructure for keeping things running
is wrong with GNOME... I'm Spanish and European (and very proud of smoothly. I work on GTK+, GConf, packaging GNOME for Red Hat, and
it) and Europe needs more GNOME action indeed.&quot; Full statement various less important projects.
at &quot;
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00077.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00077.html</A>.</P> Affiliated with Red Hat. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00008.html</a>
<P>9. JIM GETTYS. Co-wrote X Window System, upon which GNOME is </P>
built; currently pushing Linux and X on handhelds. Experience with X
Consortium, W3C, IETF. Worked on the GNOME Foundation announcement <P>7. GLYNN FOSTER
and startup this summer: &quot;In short, I'd really like to see open &quot;
source desktops succeed. Interoperability is a key to this, and Easy going 23 year old from Dublin, Ireland seeks position on
applications (both open source and commercial) are another. We MUST GNOME Foundation Board ono. Will trade communication, energy
avoid the GUI wars that crippled UNIX desktops in the 1980's to and commitment for an honest, hard working life with comfy
change the world.&quot; Affiliated with Compaq. Full statement at seat. Will ensure that GNOME remains a happy go-lucky-project that
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00193.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00193.html</A>.</P> people are excited to work on. Previous experience includes
<P>10. BERTRAND GUIHENEUF. &quot;I am CEO of Henzai, Paris, a company gnome-session hacks and being on GNOME Foundation Membership &
dedicated to making Gnome the standard GUI for small Internet Elections Committee. Loves Guinness & climbing. Hates celery.
Appliances. I am co-maintainer of gnome-objc but was more known to Answers to the name of Gman. Email glynn.foster@sun.com after 8pm.
have started Evolution, in particular the camel library. My job at &quot;
Henzai gives me particular skills for project managment. Once on the Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00010.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00010.html</a>
board I want to push the creation of the European foundation. I also </P>
plan to lobby for a complete cross-platform Gnome.&quot; Affiliated
with Henzai. Full statement at <P>8. BILL HANEMAN
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00062.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00062.html</A>.</P> &quot;
<P>11. THOMPSON HAYNER. &quot;I am an independent thinker. I make my Bill Haneman AKA 'that Accessibility guy'. "I've been programming over
living charging high fees to companies to run web-based free software 20 years, an active Gnome hacker since Dec. 2000. I maintain the Gnome
for them (primarily Latin American hospitals). I invest half my money Accessibility Project (atk, at-spi), co-moderate
primarily in underprized fiber optic companies, give myself an gnome-accessibility-list, and contribute to Gtk+, libglade,
allowance of $64,000 a year, and give the rest to various charities, libbonoboui. I'm employed by Sun Microsystems Ireland. While wearing
and do Random Acts of Kindness (for example, recently hired an the 'Gnome Board hat' I would work hard to take a broad view of what's
attorney to help a Vietnamenese girl I barely know fight to bring her best for Gnome. My hopes for Gnome's future include platform
brother and sister over).&quot; Full statement at development/maturation, universal accessibility, interoperability, and
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00143.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00143.html</A>.</P> extensibility.
<P>12. JOHN HEARD. &quot;jheard@eng.sun.com. * Initiated and manage &quot;
the Sun GNOME Project. * Initiated and manage the OpenOffice.org Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00011.html</a>
initiative and making it a fully integrated part of the GNOME Office </P>
suite. * Working to establish the GNOME Accessibility project. *
Participant in the establishment of the GNOME Foundation on behalf of <P>9. ANDY TAI
the Sun GNOME team, working closely with quite a few GNOME members. * &quot;
A 14+ year open systems &quot;bigot&quot; in Sun (with T-shirts to I have been a strong supporter for the GNU Project and
prove it :-)).&quot; Affiliated with Sun Microsystems. Full statement a long time observer of the GNOME Project. I maintains
at the advocacy site free-soft.org and the GUI Toolkit
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00221.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00221.html</A>.</P> and Framework Page, the definite reference for GUI
<P>13. JAMES HENSTRIDGE. &quot;I am from Australia and have been toolkits on the Internet. I understand the major
hacking on GNOME since 1998. I have worked on various parts of GNOME weakness of the GNOME architecture at this stage. If
ranging from some of the base libraries used by many applications to I am elected, the first thing I will push is to merge
language bindings (python) to applications (dia). I hope to represent gnome-specific widgets into gtk+, so there are less
these views on the foundation board. I am a member of the current number of libraries to link against :-)
GNOME Steering Committee. I am not currently employed by any GNOME &quot;
company at present -- I am a student finishing off my honours year.&quot; No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00013.html</a>
Full statement at </P>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00053.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00053.html</A>.</P>
<P>14. KEVIN KNERR. &quot;Is a GNOME user and contributor (AquaX, <P>10. MICHAEL MEEKS
sawfish lisplets, etc.) * has nearly 25 years experience w/ computing &quot;
(programming, system administration, tech support, data processing) * Lots of experience of Gnome both technically and relationally, I
is experienced in the administrative tasks the Board will perform * continue to promote Gnome widely at conferences and to companies.
is committed to GNOME and Free Software, and wishes to see GNOME We must finance and encourage small interest group meetings as
flourish in the midst of commercial software * has no corporate well as GUADEC to increase real contact time.
affiliation with GNOME (employed in tech support for an ISP that We need to bifurcate the project - the core environment and
won't support Linux).&quot; Full statement at the applications built on top of it, so we can release core
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00063.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00063.html</A>.</P> improvements more quickly, with a stable API, yet rapidly innovate in
<P>15. TUOMAS KUOSMANEN. &quot;I have been involved in the GNOME the applications.
community from the very beginning, working on the user interface. I &quot;
have very big interest in making the GNOME friendly and easy for both Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00014.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00014.html</a>
new and experienced users. This is not easy, but I still want to </P>
offer my help and try my best. I have good relationships towards
others and I try to live in peace with different kinds of people. <P>11. CHRIS LYTTLE
They say I have good patience.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full &quot;
statement at Expatriate Kiwi living in the USA. Been involved with running non-profit
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00204.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00204.html</A>.</P> businesses. Contributor to the Gnome Documentation Project and GnuCash.
<P>16. GEORGE LEBL. &quot;I am George (Jiri in Czech) Lebl. I am a &quot;
long time GNOME developer, and maintainer of gnome-core, No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00015.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00015.html</a>
gnome-applets, pong, gob, grapevine, dr-genius, and have hacked on </P>
many other things including gnome-libs. I'm an undergraduate at SDSU
trying to finish a CS and a Math degree, and have a part time <P>12. JEFF WAUGH
position at Eazel. I'm also a half member of the interim GNOME &quot;
steering comittee. cHickeN ChIckeN ChIckeN ChIckeN ChIckeN cHicKeN We need to improve the project's outreach, both within the Free Software
ChickEn ChickEn ChickEn ChicKEn.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full community and outside it, through documentation, publicity, and making
statement at good information easy to get to. Some work on infrastructure can make
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00025.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00025.html</A>.</P> other tasks and goals easier, such as contributing and releasing. We need
<P>17. ELLIOT LEE. &quot;You, the people who have made GNOME happen, more GNOME love and better cooperation. All of this, openly and
deserve the best possible help in getting GNOME where you want it to transparently, without interrupting our awesome hacker's hacking time! I'm
go. Using my knowledge of software development and project wacky enough to believe we can do it, too. :)
coordination, my goal will be to help you out with all the &quot;
distractions, problems, and boring work that GNOME and its foundation No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00016.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00016.html</a>
need doing, so that you can focus on having fun contributing.&quot; </P>
Affiliated with Red Hat.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00222.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00222.html</A>.</P> <P>13. ARIEL RIOS
<P>18. RAPH LEVIEN. &quot;I am Raph Levien, author of Libart and &quot;
current maintainer of Ghostscript. I've been involved in Gnome since My experience ranges from developing on Guile to numerous other contributions
the beginning, particularly in areas of 2D graphics and imaging. I do including technical reviews for Gtk+ and GNOME related books. I have been hacking
consulting through my company, artofcode LLC, including work for in GNOME since the first years of the project. I have attended many conferences
Eazel, and commercial licensing of Ghostscript, but consider myself a as a promoter of Free Software and GNOME. My main goal is to seek that GNOME will
strong independent voice against corporate interests. I did not turn into a feasible solution against proprietary software turning into a powerful
invent the Internet, but did take the initiative in developing it to stable API that will be available for everyone.
its current degenerated state.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full &quot;
statement at No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00017.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00017.html</a>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00220.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00220.html</A>.</P> </P>
<P>19. KJARTAN MARAAS. &quot;My name is Kjartan Maraas and I have
been involved with the GNOME project since late 1997. I'm Norwegian <P>14. MIGUEL DE ICAZA
and translations was what got me tangled up in this project. Since &quot;
march this year I have been a member of the steering committee as Have been an active contributor to the free software movement since 1992.
coordinator of GNOME's internationalization project, and this area is Started the GNOME project when various freedom issues arose that would
what I'd spend my time working on improving if I were to be elected threaten the future of a fully free system. I am one of the founders of
for the board.&quot; Full statement at Ximian, one of the GNOME companies, where we employ around 40 GNOME hackers
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00197.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00197.html</A>.</P> that develop free software. &quot;
<P>20. MICHAEL MEEKS. &quot;Having enjoyed working with many Gnome Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00018.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00018.html</a>
contributors, I would be delighted to represent their interests on </P>
the board. * Soon Bonobo ( which I help maintain ) will be everywhere
and vital to the Gnome release schedule, as well as to everyone <P>15. JAMES HENSTRIDGE
building on it. * I have loved presenting the ethics of free software &quot;
and selling the Gnome vision to many different groups of people at I have been hacking on gnome for over 3 years, and have been involved in language
various conferences. * I will push what is best for Gnome, over binding development, gtk/gnome platform library development and also some work on
HelixCode.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at apps. I am Australian, which may be a good or bad thing, depending on your point
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00078.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00078.html</A>.</P> of view :) If elected I can represent these interests on the board. I served on
<P>21. DAN MUETH. &quot;I am the GNOME Documentation Project the GNOME Steering committee from its creation until the Foundation elections last
coordinator and a steering committee member. I have a strong personal year, where I was one of the unsuccessful candidates.
interest in seeing GNOME succeed and providing users with a powerful, &quot;
easy-to-use free desktop. As a boardmember I will: (1)Ensure GNOME No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00019.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00019.html</a>
leverages the contributions of individuals and corporations to </P>
produce the best desktop possible. (2)Identify and address GNOME's
weaknesses. (3)Improve communication with other projects, <P>16. JONATHAN BLANDFORD
corporations, and the public. After finishing my physics PhD I will &quot;
work at Eazel.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at I have been involved with GNOME since 1997. I have spent a lot of time
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00071.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00071.html</A>.</P> working on many core parts of GNOME, and feel like I have a very good
<P>22. ESKIL HEYN OLSEN. &quot;I'm Eskil, one of the two gnome-pilot idea of how the project works. I very interested in helping to improve
maintainers (meaning I've been hacking gnome since June 1998), Being the desktop experience, I would like to see GNOME spend more time on the
snatched up by Eazel, I moved from Denmark to USA, and therefore now small, incremental improvements that make a desktop usable.
hack Nautilus related stuff fulltime. Other merits must speak for &quot;
themselves.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. Full statement at Affiliation Red Hat. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00020.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00020.html</a>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00069.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00069.html</A>.</P> </P>
<P>23. HAVOC PENNINGTON. &quot;My goal as a GNOME hacker is to make
free OS's a viable alternative for all users. At Red Hat Labs our job <P>17. CHEMA CELORIO
is to make sure the Linux development platform facilitates that. On &quot;
the board, I'd like to work on infrastructure to make the project run I have been contributing to GNOME over the past few years, I want to be
more smoothly: bug tracking, roadmaps, task lists, communication on the board because I want to help GNOME even further. I have a very
between maintainers. I want to see GNOME get bigger, better, and more good relationship with a number of GNOME contributors as well as a very
fun, always remaining focused on technical excellence.&quot; good understanding of the GNOME community and what drives GNOME forward.
Affiliated with Red Hat. Full statement at I am confident that we can make GNOME the best desktop available and I
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00058.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00058.html</A>.</P> work hard everyday to make it happen.
<P>24. ETTORE PERAZZOLI. &quot;Who: Hacker, Project Manager for &quot;
Evolution. Other major contributions: gnome-libs, Bonobo, gnome-vfs, Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00021.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00021.html</a>
Nautilus. Contributor since pre-1.0. * Program: Make GNOME a </P>
successful standard without betraying the original ideals. Convey
energy from all the various parties involved, making sure the <P>18. NAT FRIEDMAN
commercial needs of the companies involved don't cripple the &quot;
technical qualities. Pay attention to the needs of hackers, to make The foundation could be doing more to help GNOME be more unified,
sure the fun factor isn't lost. Value volunteer contributions. Make move faster, and have more visibility. Things I would like to see
GNOME a success outside the US.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. include more focus on the desktop itself, more in-person events
Full statement at and a coordinated GNOME Office.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00131.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00131.html</A>.</P> I've been contributing to GNOME since 1998 and co-maintained
<P>25. BRUCE PERENS. &quot;Please read <A HREF="http://www.perens.com/Bio.html">http://www.perens.com/Bio.html</A> Bonobo for a while. I wrote the first draft of the foundation's
and other material at www.Perens.com to learn who I am and how I have charter. I co-founded Ximian, and these days, I'm in charge of our
helped Free Software since 1987 and Unix since 1981. The board should product development. &quot;
leave GNOME's technical direction to the developers. As a GNOME Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00022.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00022.html</a>
Foundation director, I plan to concentrate on: Soliciting for </P>
government and corporate grants to fund Free Software development,
_especially_documentation_. Building relationships between business <P>19. JIM GETTYS
and Free Software. Public Relations and Publicity. Getting people to &quot;
release more code!&quot; Full statement at I'd like to continue to be on the board to help Gnome reach its potential.
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00022.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00022.html</A>.</P> I feel that we are about a year from having the ingredients to make open
<P>26. LESLIE PROCTOR. &quot;I oversaw PR for the GNOME launch in source desktops viable for the mass market and would like to do what I
1999. My efforts resulted in NY Times, Wired, Newsweek, etc. can to help make this happen. As part of this, I believe interoperability
articles. I've conducted media relations for GNOME at subsequent is a key ingredient, and will work to encourage Gnome to invest in this
conferences and ongoing, as needed. I coordinated the FSF/GNOME area.&quot;
booths at every LinuxWorld Expo, among others - on a shoestring Affiliation Compaq. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00024.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00024.html</a>
budget. I'm a senior resource executive at Alexander Ogilvy PR, a </P>
top-tier agency. I offer strategic direction to account teams across
three different agencies. I can bring PR, marketing and <P>20. JODY GOLDBERG
conferences/events expertise.&quot; Full statement at &quot;
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00236.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00236.html</A>.</P> I have been a free software advocate since the early 90s, and have
<P>27. FEDERICO MENA QUINTERO. Co-founder of the GNOME project; contributed to several projects, from G++ and Wine, to Nethack and a
maintained the GIMP, split off GTK+ from the GIMP for use in other pager for CDE. As the current maintainer of Gnumeric I'm on the
applications (including GNOME); wrote large portions of the GNOME front lines of what users like and dislike in GNOME. Our
libraries (including the GNOME Canvas), the original GNOME Panel, technologies are good. Our integration could use some work. I'd
gnomecal, GMC; currently maintain parts of gnome-libs, gdk-pixbuf, like to work towards improving communication between the far flung
EOG, the GNOME Programming Guidelines, and the Evolution calendar; &quot;I elements of GNOME to improve that.
have given several GNOME-related talks at local and international &quot;
conferences.&quot;; &quot;I am neurotic about software and Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00025.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00025.html</a>
documentation quality.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full </P>
statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00140.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00140.html</A>.</P> <P>21. IAN MCKELLAR
<P>28. ARIEL RIOS. Currently maintain gnome-guile, guile-gtk, galway, &quot;
glibwwww, gnumeric guile plugin; has given numerous speeches I'm an ex-Eazel hacker from Australia who is living in California. I
advocating GNOME and Free Software in Canada, USA, and Mexico: &quot;I have some experience running anarchic organizations like GNOME (on a
am from Mexico so I can represent the Hispanoamerican region... I do smaller scale) and a strong belief in Free Software.
not work for any corporation and I wish to represent no other &quot;
interests besides GNOME and those of Free Software. I do believe in No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00026.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00026.html</a>
freedom and equality among all of the members of the GNOME </P>
community.&quot; Full statement at
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00160.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00160.html</A>.</P> <P>22. TIM NEY
<P>29. ARLO ROSE. &quot;I'm the Human Interface lead for the Nautilus &quot;
project, and am in the process of forming a GNOME HI group that will I've presented GNOME to government officials on several continents;
raise community and developer awareness of usability and visual built public awareness of GNOME around the world through the media,
issues with GNOME projects. I'd like to have a seat on the board so I seminars and trade shows; secured funding, hardware and services
can strengthen awareness for good human interface design, raise the to support GNOME. I see 2002 as the year GNOME reaches beyond the
standards for the GNOME desktop look and feel, and act as the voice hacker community and to schools, corporations and governments.
for usability issues in our community.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. My contribution is to build bridges, develop strategy, policy and
Full statement at projects that are inclusive and appeal to a wider geography of
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00219.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00219.html</A>.</P> developers and users.
<P>30. JOE SHAW. &quot;I have been involved in the GNOME community &quot;
from the start, contributing to several modules. I'm the maintainer Affiliation GNOME Foundation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00027.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00027.html</a>
of Achtung and author of Helix's installer and updater. I'm outspoken </P>
against corporate dominance of the foundation, but know they need to
be well-represented. I feel that the board needs a good <P>23. RICHARD STALLMAN
hacker/non-hacker mix. GNOME needs to become more aggressive with its &quot;
conference/show policies and GNOME 2.0 development needs to take hold I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME. In
now.&quot; Affiliated with Helix Code. Full statement at 1983, while formulating plans for the GNU operating system, I decided
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00060.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00060.html</A>.</P> it should include a window system. After two desktop initiatives that
<P>31. MACIEJ STACHOWIAK. &quot;While I have hacked on many free didn't pan out, I found Miguel, who launched our third desktop
software projects (most notably Nautilus, see project--GNOME. As president of the Free Software Foundation and Chief
<A HREF="http://advogato.org/person/mjs">http://advogato.org/person/mjs</A> GNUisance of the GNU Project, I have had years of experience working with
for others), I think the strongest qualifications I have are contributors both individual and corporate.
non-technical. First, I have a talent for making processes more &quot;
transparent, as with my work on GNOME 1.4 coordiation. Second, I am Affiliation. Free Software Foundation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00028.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00028.html</a>
good at communicating both inside and outside the project. Finally, I </P>
believe in free software, openness and honesty, and I'm willing to
stand up to anyone for these beliefs.&quot; Affiliated with Eazel. <P>24. FEDERICO MENA-QUINTERO
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00024.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00024.html</A>.</P> &quot;
<P>32. OWEN TAYLOR. &quot;As co-maintainer of GTK+ and the designer I'd like to see the GNOME hackers focus more on the desktop and,
of Pango, I think I'm in a good position to handle coordination of in particular, the user experience now that the GNOME 2.0 platform is almost complete.
GNOME with these important core technologies. I also have a strong I am a co-founder of the GNOME project, and prior to that I was the
interest in language bindings and component technology, as maintainer of the GIMP. I worked at Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
represented by the CORBA::ORBit Perl bindings for CORBA. If I am (RHAD Labs) for a year and a half, and have been working for Ximian
elected to the board, I will continue to push GNOME in the areas of since January 2000 on the Evolution Calendar.
internationalization and an easy-to-use development platform.&quot; &quot;
Affiliated with Red Hat. Affiliation Ximian. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00029.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00029.html</a>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00049.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00049.html</A>.</P> </P>
<P>33. DANIEL VEILLARD. &quot;I am French, a long time Gnomer and
Linux addict, the maintainer of libxml and rpmfind. I work for W3C <P>25. TELSA GWYNNE
and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negociations needed &quot;
to get a group to reach consensus. I will focuse on the reuse of I do docs, bugs, and hassling developers. I don't code. I also make last
standards, internationalization and keeping trust relationship at an minute decisions.
individual level. I think those are needed to keep hacking on gnome &quot;
fun and getting acceptance in new communities.&quot; Affiliated with No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00030.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00030.html</a>
W3C. Full candidacy statement at </P>
<A HREF="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00093.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2000-October/msg00093.html</A>.</P>
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