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<title>GNOME Foundation 2001 Elections Candidates</title>
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<h1>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation 2001 Elections</h1>
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<p>Nov 10, 2001</p>
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<p>
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Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the
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GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. A short summary statement from
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each candidate and a link to their full candidacy announcement is
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provided to help you learn more about them. We encourage all voters
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to read the full candidacy statements and related discussions on
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<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>.
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<p>
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When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider
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the various tasks the Board of Directors must perform. This
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<a href="../overview.html">overview</a> may be helpful. Keep in mind that
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the board will make a number of important decisions and will also have
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to perform many tasks which require a significant amount of time and
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effort and the ability to work and communicate with other people,
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companies, and the media. The board of directors will represent GNOME to
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companies and the world in a very real way. It is a good idea to strive
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for a well-balanced board consisting of people with various backgrounds,
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skills, and perspectives.
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<p>
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Additional elections details can be found on the
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<a href="../../">GNOME Foundation Web Site</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have any questions, please send them to either
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<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/">foundation-list@gnome.org</a>
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or to us at <a
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href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>.
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<h2>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
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<p>1. JONATHAN BLANDFORD<br />
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"
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I have been involved with GNOME since 1997. I have spent a lot of time
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working on many core parts of GNOME, and feel like I have a very good
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idea of how the project works. I very interested in helping to improve
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the desktop experience, I would like to see GNOME spend more time on the
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small, incremental improvements that make a desktop usable.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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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>
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<p>2. CHEMA CELORIO<br />
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"
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I have been contributing to GNOME over the past few years, I want to be
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on the board because I want to help GNOME even further. I have a very
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good relationship with a number of GNOME contributors as well as a very
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good understanding of the GNOME community and what drives GNOME forward.
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I am confident that we can make GNOME the best desktop available and I
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work hard everyday to make it happen.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>3. RHETT CREIGHTON<br />
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"
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The future is now, and that future is: Bowling Balls. Do you realize
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that if GNOME starts making bowling balls, we stand to net profit
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$11,000?! That's right, eleven big ones. Net profit, mind you.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>4. MIGUEL DE ICAZA<br />
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"
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Have been an active contributor to the free software movement since 1992.
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Started the GNOME project when various freedom issues arose that would
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threaten the future of a fully free system. I am one of the founders of
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Ximian, one of the GNOME companies, where we employ around 40 GNOME
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hackers that develop free software.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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<p>5. GLYNN FOSTER<br />
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"
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Easy going 23 year old from Dublin, Ireland seeks position on
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GNOME Foundation Board ono. Will trade communication, energy
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and commitment for an honest, hard working life with comfy
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seat. Will ensure that GNOME remains a happy go-lucky-project that
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people are excited to work on. Previous experience includes
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gnome-session hacks and being on GNOME Foundation Membership &
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Elections Committee. Loves Guinness & climbing. Hates celery.
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Answers to the name of Gman. Email glynn.foster@sun.com after
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8pm.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Sun Microsystems<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>6. NAT FRIEDMAN<br />
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"
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The foundation could be doing more to help GNOME be more unified,
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move faster, and have more visibility. Things I would like to see
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include more focus on the desktop itself, more in-person events
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and a coordinated GNOME Office.
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I've been contributing to GNOME since 1998 and co-maintained
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Bonobo for a while. I wrote the first draft of the foundation's
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charter. I co-founded Ximian, and these days, I'm in charge of our
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product development.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>7. JIM GETTYS<br />
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"
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I'd like to continue to be on the board to help Gnome reach its
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potential. I feel that we are about a year from having the ingredients to
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make open source desktops viable for the mass market and would like to do
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what I can to help make this happen. As part of this, I believe
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interoperability is a key ingredient, and will work to encourage Gnome to
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invest in this area.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Compaq<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>8. JODY GOLDBERG<br />
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"
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I have been a free software advocate since the early 90s, and have
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contributed to several projects, from G++ and Wine, to Nethack and a
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pager for CDE. As the current maintainer of Gnumeric I'm on the
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front lines of what users like and dislike in GNOME. Our
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technologies are good. Our integration could use some work. I'd
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like to work towards improving communication between the far flung
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elements of GNOME to improve that.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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<p>9. TELSA GWYNNE<br />
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I do docs, bugs, and hassling developers. I don't code. I also make last
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minute decisions.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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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</p>
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<p>10. BILL HANEMAN<br />
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"
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Bill Haneman AKA 'that Accessibility guy'. "I've been programming over
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20 years, an active Gnome hacker since Dec. 2000. I maintain the Gnome
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Accessibility Project (atk, at-spi), co-moderate
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gnome-accessibility-list, and contribute to Gtk+, libglade,
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libbonoboui. I'm employed by Sun Microsystems Ireland. While wearing
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the 'Gnome Board hat' I would work hard to take a broad view of what's
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best for Gnome. My hopes for Gnome's future include platform
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development/maturation, universal accessibility, interoperability, and
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extensibility.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Sun Microsystems<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>11. JAMES HENSTRIDGE<br />
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"
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I have been hacking on gnome for over 3 years, and have been involved in
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language binding development, gtk/gnome platform library development and
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also some work on apps. I am Australian, which may be a good or bad thing,
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depending on your point of view :) If elected I can represent these
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interests on the board. I served on the GNOME Steering committee from its
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creation until the Foundation elections last year, where I was one of the
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unsuccessful candidates.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>12. GEORGE LEBL<br />
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"
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I have been with the GNOME project since '97, maintain several packages,
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and have been 'half-part' of the steering committee. I also pretended to
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work for Eazel for over a year. I want the GNOME community to stay as
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chaotic and open as it has always been. So elect me or I'll smack you with
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a GEGL.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>13. CHRIS LYTTLE<br />
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Expatriate Kiwi living in the USA. Been involved with running non-profit
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businesses. Contributor to the Gnome Documentation Project and GnuCash.
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>14. IAN MCKELLAR<br />
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"
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I'm an ex-Eazel hacker from Australia who is living in California. I
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have some experience running anarchic organizations like GNOME (on a
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smaller scale) and a strong belief in Free Software.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>15. MICHAEL MEEKS<br />
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"
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Lots of experience of Gnome both technically and relationally, I
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continue to promote Gnome widely at conferences and to companies.
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We must finance and encourage small interest group meetings as
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well as GUADEC to increase real contact time.
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We need to bifurcate the project - the core environment and
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the applications built on top of it, so we can release core
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improvements more quickly, with a stable API, yet rapidly innovate in
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the applications.
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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<p>16. FEDERICO MENA-QUINTERO<br />
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"
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I'd like to see the GNOME hackers focus more on the desktop and,
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in particular, the user experience now that the GNOME 2.0 platform is
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almost complete.
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I am a co-founder of the GNOME project, and prior to that I was the
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maintainer of the GIMP. I worked at Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
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(RHAD Labs) for a year and a half, and have been working for Ximian
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since January 2000 on the Evolution Calendar.
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Affiliation: Ximian<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>17. TIM NEY<br />
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"
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I've presented GNOME to government officials on several continents;
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built public awareness of GNOME around the world through the media,
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seminars and trade shows; secured funding, hardware and services
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to support GNOME. I see 2002 as the year GNOME reaches beyond the
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hacker community and to schools, corporations and governments.
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My contribution is to build bridges, develop strategy, policy and
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projects that are inclusive and appeal to a wider geography of
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developers and users.
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Affiliation: GNOME Foundation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>18. BASTIEN NOCERA<br />
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I'm a relative newcomer to the Gnome world as a programmer, with my main
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interests in multimedia, all ease-of-use concerns (accessibility
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included), and portability. I've never run for any elections on such a
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Board, but I have some experience in strongly opinionated discussions
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(with politics, and not hackers ;), and being French, I have a big mouth
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as well. Hmm, couple of words to go... I like bitter ale.
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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<p>19. HAVOC PENNINGTON<br />
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"
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I have several years of experience with GNOME, and want to help ensure
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continuity between the current board and the new one. My main goal on
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the board is to build up GNOME as a self-sufficient and long-term
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organization with solid infrastructure for keeping things running
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smoothly. I work on GTK+, GConf, packaging GNOME for Red Hat, and
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various less important projects.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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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>
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<p>20. CHRIS PHELPS<br />
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GNOME is the smoothest desktop I've ever used, and I intend to do
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anything and everything I can to keep our development rolling. My
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personal peeve is that GNOME is an awesome development environment
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without a respectable IDE. I intend to work on this to make GNOME more
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attractive to all kinds of developers. Yeah, that's about it...
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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<p>21. ARIEL RIOS<br />
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"
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My experience ranges from developing on Guile to numerous other
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contributions including technical reviews for Gtk+ and GNOME related
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books. I have been hacking in GNOME since the first years of the
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project. I have attended many conferences as a promoter of Free Software
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and GNOME. My main goal is to seek that GNOME will turn into a feasible
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solution against proprietary software turning into a powerful stable API
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that will be available for everyone.
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>22. RICHARD STALLMAN<br />
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"
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I've been working for GNOME since years before there was a GNOME. In
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1983, while formulating plans for the GNU operating system, I decided
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it should include a window system. After two desktop initiatives that
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didn't pan out, I found Miguel, who launched our third desktop
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project--GNOME. As president of the Free Software Foundation and Chief
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GNUisance of the GNU Project, I have had years of experience working with
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contributors both individual and corporate.
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Affiliation: Free Software Foundation<br />
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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>
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</p>
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<p>23. ANDY TAI<br />
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"
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I have been a strong supporter for the GNU Project and
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a long time observer of the GNOME Project. I maintains
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the advocacy site free-soft.org and the GUI Toolkit
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and Framework Page, the definite reference for GUI
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toolkits on the Internet. I understand the major
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weakness of the GNOME architecture at this stage. If
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I am elected, the first thing I will push is to merge
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gnome-specific widgets into gtk+, so there are less
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number of libraries to link against :-)
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"<br />
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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<p>24. DANIEL VEILLARD<br />
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"
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I am French, long time Gnomer and Linux addict, maintainer of
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libxml, libxslt and rpmfind. I served on the Gnome Board for last
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year and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negotiation
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needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focus on the reuse
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of standards, internationalization and keeping trust relationship at an
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individual level. I think those are needed to keep hacking on Gnome fun
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and getting acceptance in new communities. Affiliation Red Hat.
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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Full statement at <a
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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>25. JEFF WAUGH<br />
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"
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We need to improve the project's outreach, both within the Free Software
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community and outside it, through documentation, publicity, and making
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good information easy to get to. Some work on infrastructure can make
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other tasks and goals easier, such as contributing and releasing. We need
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more GNOME love and better cooperation. All of this, openly and
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transparently, without interrupting our awesome hacker's hacking time! I'm
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wacky enough to believe we can do it, too. :)
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No affiliation<br />
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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>
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<h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
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<p>
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Ballots will be sent out via e-mail to everyone who's registered to vote
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on Tuesday, November 13th, to the address provided with registration. If
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you need to change the address to which you want your ballot sent, please
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contact <a
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href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>
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as soon as possible. People will vote by returning the ballot via e-mail.
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A public archive of the ballot returns will be available after the
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elections end on November 20th.
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Also, keep in mind that there is a 4-person maximum on the number
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of people affiliated with any one company that can be on the board:
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if more than 4 persons from one company get elected, only the top 4
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vote getters will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 11
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candidates of your choice, with no restrictions, except that you
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cannot vote more than once for the same candidate.
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