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<h1>Candidates for GNOME Foundation Elections</h1>
<p>Oct 26, 2000</p>
<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 <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>.
</p>
<p>
When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider the
various tasks the Board of Directors must perform. This <a
href="../overview.html">overview</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 on the
<a href="../../">GNOME Foundation Web Site</a>.
</p>
<p>
If you have any questions, please send them to either
<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>
or to us at <a
href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>.
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<h2>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
<p>
1. MARTIN BAULIG. "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."
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. "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." 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. "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!" 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. "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.". 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. "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." 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 "to continue doing the same work I have been doing for free
software and GNOME in the future, with the backup of the Foundation."
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. "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." 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: "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." 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: "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." 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. "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." 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. "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)." 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. "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 "bigot" in Sun (with T-shirts to
prove it :-))." 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. "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."
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. "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)." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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."
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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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."
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. "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." 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. "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!" 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. "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." 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; "I
have given several GNOME-related talks at local and international
conferences."; "I am neurotic about software and
documentation quality." 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: "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." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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." 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. "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."
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. "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." 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>
<h2>Additional Election-related Information</h2>
<p>
Anyone who's contributed to GNOME (beyond just being a user or occasional
bug-filer) may participate in the elections. To register this vote, send
e-mail to <a
href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>
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 1st, to the address provided with registration. If
you need to change the address to which you want your ballot sent, please
contact <a
href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>
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 November 8th.
</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 cannot vote more than once
for the same candidate.
</p>
<p>
Additional election-related materials are available the <a
href="../../">GNOME Foundation Web Site</a>.
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