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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>
Adding list of candidates for the Foundation Board
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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
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<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
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>
<P><BR><BR>
<P>1. DANIEL VEILLARD
&quot;
I am French, long time Gnomer and Linux addict, maintainer of
libxml, libxslt and rpmfind. I served on the Gnome Board for last
year and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negotiation
needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focus 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;
Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00001.html">
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00001.html</a>
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<P>2. BASTIEN NOCERA
&quot;
I'm a relative newcomer to the Gnome world as a programmer, with my main
interests in multimedia, all ease-of-use concerns (accessibility
included), and portability. I've never run for any elections on such a
Board, but I have some experience in strongly opinionated discussions (with
politics, and not hackers ;), and being French, I have a big mouth as well.
Hmm, couple of words to go...I like bitter ale.
&quot;
No affiliations. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00002.html">
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00002.html</a>
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<P>3. CHRIS PHELPS
&quot;
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...
&quot;
No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00004.html">
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00004.html</a>
</P>
<P>4. GEORGE LEBL
&quot;
I have been with the GNOME project since '97, maintain several packages, and
have been 'half-part' of the steering committee. I also pretended to work for
Eazel for over a year. I want the GNOME community to stay as chaotic and
open as it has always been. So elect me or I'll smack you with a GEGL.
&quot;
No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00005.html">
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00005.html</a>
</P>
<P>5. RHETT CREIGHTON
&quot;
The future is now, and that future is: Bowling Balls. Do you realize that
if GNOME starts making bowling balls, we stand to net profit
$11,000?! That's right, eleven big ones. Net profit, mind you.
&quot;
No affiliation. Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00007.html">
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00007.html</a>
</P>
<P>6. HAVOC PENNINGTON
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
<P>7. GLYNN FOSTER
&quot;
Easy going 23 year old from Dublin, Ireland seeks position on
GNOME Foundation Board ono. Will trade communication, energy
and commitment for an honest, hard working life with comfy
seat. Will ensure that GNOME remains a happy go-lucky-project that
people are excited to work on. Previous experience includes
gnome-session hacks and being on GNOME Foundation Membership &
Elections Committee. Loves Guinness & climbing. Hates celery.
Answers to the name of Gman. Email glynn.foster@sun.com after 8pm.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>8. BILL HANEMAN
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>9. ANDY TAI
&quot;
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 :-)
&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>
</P>
<P>10. MICHAEL MEEKS
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>11. CHRIS LYTTLE
&quot;
Expatriate Kiwi living in the USA. Been involved with running non-profit
businesses. Contributor to the Gnome Documentation Project and GnuCash.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>12. JEFF WAUGH
&quot;
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. :)
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>13. ARIEL RIOS
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>14. MIGUEL DE ICAZA
&quot;
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. &quot;
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>
</P>
<P>15. JAMES HENSTRIDGE
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>16. JONATHAN BLANDFORD
&quot;
I have been involved with GNOME since 1997. I have spent a lot of time
working on many core parts of GNOME, and feel like I have a very good
idea of how the project works. I very interested in helping to improve
the desktop experience, I would like to see GNOME spend more time on the
small, incremental improvements that make a desktop usable.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>17. CHEMA CELORIO
&quot;
I have been contributing to GNOME over the past few years, I want to be
on the board because I want to help GNOME even further. I have a very
good relationship with a number of GNOME contributors as well as a very
good understanding of the GNOME community and what drives GNOME forward.
I am confident that we can make GNOME the best desktop available and I
work hard everyday to make it happen.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>18. NAT FRIEDMAN
&quot;
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. &quot;
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>
</P>
<P>19. JIM GETTYS
&quot;
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.&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>20. JODY GOLDBERG
&quot;
I have been a free software advocate since the early 90s, and have
contributed to several projects, from G++ and Wine, to Nethack and a
pager for CDE. As the current maintainer of Gnumeric I'm on the
front lines of what users like and dislike in GNOME. Our
technologies are good. Our integration could use some work. I'd
like to work towards improving communication between the far flung
elements of GNOME to improve that.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>21. IAN MCKELLAR
&quot;
I'm an ex-Eazel hacker from Australia who is living in California. I
have some experience running anarchic organizations like GNOME (on a
smaller scale) and a strong belief in Free Software.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>22. TIM NEY
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>23. RICHARD STALLMAN
&quot;
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.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>24. FEDERICO MENA-QUINTERO
&quot;
I'd like to see the GNOME hackers focus more on the desktop and,
in particular, the user experience now that the GNOME 2.0 platform is almost complete.
I am a co-founder of the GNOME project, and prior to that I was the
maintainer of the GIMP. I worked at Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
(RHAD Labs) for a year and a half, and have been working for Ximian
since January 2000 on the Evolution Calendar.
&quot;
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>
</P>
<P>25. TELSA GWYNNE
&quot;
I do docs, bugs, and hassling developers. I don't code. I also make last
minute decisions.
&quot;
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>
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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.</P>
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