Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. A short summary statement from each candidate and a link to their full candidacy announcement is provided to help you learn more about them. We encourage all voters to read the full candidacy statements and related discussions on foundation-list@gnome.org.
When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider the various tasks the Board of Directors must perform. This overview may be helpful. Keep in mind that the board will make a number of important decisions and will also have to perform many tasks which require a significant amount of time and effort and the ability to work and communicate with other people, companies, and the media. The board of directors will represent GNOME to companies and the world in a very real way. It is a good idea to strive for a well-balanced board consisting of people with various backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.
Additional elections details can be found on the GNOME Foundation Web Site.
If you have any questions, please send them to either foundation-list@gnome.org or to us at elections@gnome.org.
1. Máirín Duffy
Affiliation: Red Hat
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-November/msg00064.html
I believe quite strongly in GNOME's design philosophy of simplicity and ease-of-use; as an interaction designer I apply the same philosophy to my professional work and understand its importance.
2. Behdad Esfahbod
Affiliation: Red Hat
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-November/msg00065.html
I run for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, because I care about GNOME and I think the Board is very important. I contribute to GNOME on a daily basis, and the board is yet another area of the project I want to challenge myself with.
3. Glynn Foster
Affiliation: Sun Microsystems
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00042.html
I've been working for the Sun desktop group and involved in GNOME for the past 6 years. I've been a past Foundation board member during 2002 and 2003. My focus has generally been on community development and communication between Sun and GNOME, though I have been known to write some code from time to time. I have previously been involved in the GUADEC organizing committee for several years, and was a member of the Elections and Membership committee. I am also an active member of the OpenSolaris community.
4. Quim Gil
Affiliation: None
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00017.html
I joined the board in June in substitution of Luis Villa. It took me a while to know the basics of boarding and now that I kind of feel comfortable comes the end of the year... I think I can do more and better in 2007.
5. Sara Khalatbari
Affiliation: None
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00068.html
I want to run for the Board election. I have very strong communications skills and am not swamped by hacking. On the board, I want to help on every single issue that makes progress as smoothly as possible in a timely manner.
6. David Neary
Affiliation: Wengo
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00061.html
I have spent a lot of time thinking about whether I will run for the board this year. In the end, I feel very invested in the success of the foundation, and I feel like we have made huge progress in the past two years. I really want to be part of keeping and growing the momentum we have. Over the past two years, I've played a part in increasing the transparency of the board's functions, improving our relations with the advisory board, getting new members on that board, and in event organisation and fundraising.
7. Joachim Noreiko
Affiliation: None
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00012.html
In December 2005 I wandered into the GNOME Documentation Project and stayed. That's the simple version of why I'm here. The longer story is that getting involved in GNOME has actually been frustrating, annoying, and infuriating. It's had me tearing my hair out and yelling at the screen. Frankly, I think it's only because of my bloody-mindedness that I didn't just walk away, on countless occasions.
8. John (J5) Palmieri
Affiliation: Red Hat
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00155.html
I am running for the board because I believe GNOME needs to reach out and get more people involved, not just in development of code. We are already really good at that and though there is always room for improvement there are areas that need a bit more push to get going.
9. Vincent Untz
Affiliation: Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-November/msg00066.html
I've contributed in various ways to GNOME, and since the beginning I've been interested in helping the Foundation. This year I want to help the Foundation be more effective and more open to the membership. This means better reactiveness to queries, more informations on what's happening and trying to get more people involved in the Foundation. Don't vote for me if you want to be a passive member of the Foundation :-)
10. Jeff Waugh
Affiliation: Waugh Partners
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2006-November/msg00069.html
I love GNOME. I am passionate, motivated, and dedicated to building our success, both outwardly - a foot on every desktop; and inwardly - making sure our developer and user communities are rocking all the time. I believe I've earned the trust of the GNOME community to represent it, both as a communicator outside the project, and as a mediator and leader within our community. I am here to help GNOME rock.
11. Anne Østergaard
Affiliation: Easterbridge.dk
Full statement at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-November/msg00016.html
I was a volunteer at the 2nd GUADEC in Copenhagen in 2001. - I was "sold" to GNOME and the GNOME Community because of the passionate, motivated, warm and dedicated atmosphere among the developers, and in fact everyone. We had a full house on user day. Since that time I have followed the foot prints and contributed to the conferences and the community. In the past year I have served as board member.
Ballots will be sent out via e-mail to everyone who's registered to vote on Friday, November 25th, to the address provided with registration. If you need to change the address to which you want your ballot sent, please contact elections@gnome.org as soon as possible. People will vote by returning the ballot via e-mail. A public archive of the ballot returns will be available after the elections end on December 23rd.
Also, keep in mind that there is a 2-person maximum on the number of people affiliated with any one company that can be on the board: if more than 2 persons from one company get elected, only the top 2 vote getters will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 7 candidates of your choice, with no restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once for the same candidate.