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<h1>Candidates for 2002 GNOME Foundation Elections</h1>
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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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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 to
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perform many tasks which require a significant amount of time and effort
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and the ability to work and communicate with other people, companies, and
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the media. The board of directors will represent GNOME to companies and
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the world in a very real way. It is a good idea to strive for a
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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 election details can be found on the
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<a href="../../">GNOME Foundation Web Site</a>.
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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. MARTIN SEVIOR<br />
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"
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Now that the push for corporate desktop is on in earnest I believe I can
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help the GNOME community of volunteer hackers feel empowered by
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providing a genuinely independent voice on the Board. I can do this
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because I have no financial stake in any company. I contribute to
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AbiWord and GNOME for the love of hacking and the desire to be part of
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the project to make the World's best desktop.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: University of Melbourne<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00006.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>2. 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.
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<br />
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As president of the Free Software Foundation and Chief GNUisance of
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the GNU Project, I have had years of experience working with
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contributors both individual and corporate.
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"<br />
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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/2002-October/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00007.html</a>
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<p>3. MIGUEL DE ICAZA<br />
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"
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Have been an active contributor to the free software movement
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since 1992.
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Started the GNOME project when various freedom issues arised
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that would threaten the future of a fully free system.
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<br />
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I am one of the founders of Ximian, one of the GNOME
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companies, where we employ around 40 GNOME hackers that
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develop free software.
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<br />
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Have been actively involved for the past year in the
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development of Mono and the Gtk bindings for C#.
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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/2002-October/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-October/msg00008.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>4. BILL HANEMAN<br />
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"
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I am active not only in the accessibility project work,
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but also am actively working with the groups doing Mozilla,
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OpenOffice, and Java integration with GNOME. My goals for GNOME:
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a great developer platform, a complete user desktop environment
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that is not only free but fully accessible to everyone.
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I am a also Sun Microsystems employee, but would serve as an
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"individual contributor" and always keep the "big picture" for GNOME
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paramount.
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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/2002-November/msg00000.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00000.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>5. MIKE NEWMAN<br />
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"
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I'm standing as an independant, experienced committee worker with the
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international and democratic interests of GNOME as my prime concerns,
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along with transparent and accessible board activity. Having been
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involved in GNOME for two years working with the membership committee,
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and with a great deal of experience in similar roles I feel I have a
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wide view of GNOME's goals and the capabilities and time to serve as an
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effective board member.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: North Somerset Council<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00001.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00001.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>6. GLYNN FOSTER<br />
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"
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I do GNOME hacking at Sun. I don't do celery. I do motivation
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and energy. I don't do philosophy, politics or vegemite. I do
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random documentation. I don't do cucumber. I do weekly release
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team meetings. I don't do toilet cleaning. I do climbing and beer.
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I don't do chewing gum. I do opinions, sleep and campus boards. I
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don't do veruccas. I do mobile phones badly. I don't do cocktails
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and hard liquor.
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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/2002-November/msg00002.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00002.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>7. BASTIEN NOCERA<br />
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"
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I've been a GNOME developer for more than 2 years now, starting as an
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independant application developer, and finding myself more and more
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involved in work on the core desktop.
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<br />
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I have never before been part of such a board, but I understand the
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requisites for such a position, and will do everything to represent
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the people voting for me.
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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/2002-November/msg00003.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00003.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>8. MALCOLM TREDINNICK<br />
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"
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Have done a reasonable amount of API documentation, along with writing a few
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standalone documents aimed at helping developers use GNOME more easily. I am
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interested in seeing GNOME be pitched as viable desktop platform to developers
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and would like to see more events such as Sun's developer courses and the
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tutorials planned for next year's GUADEC. Experience serving on committees
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both at state and national level.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: CommSecure Pty Ltd.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00004.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00004.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>9. MICHAEL MEEKS<br />
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"
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- Pushing for closer integration with other parts of the desktop;
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OpenOffice particularly.
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<br />
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- Ensuring that Gnome stays a Meritocracy
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<br />
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- Keeping our vision wider than a file manager and control panel, and
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on a complete Free software desktop.
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<br />
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- Ensuring the hackers make the coding / code inclusion decisions, the
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artists make the art / art inclusion decisions, the UI team decide
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the UI, the i18n team in charge of i18n, and the release team
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co-ordinating releases.
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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/2002-November/msg00005.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00005.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>10. 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 two
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years and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negociations
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needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focuse 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. Growing the foundation to
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get acceptance by program developpers is the next challenge of the Board.
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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/2002-November/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00006.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 am an Australian GNOME hacker. I have been working on the project
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since 1998, focussing on language bindings (I am maintainer of the
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Python bindings) and the platofrm libraries (I maintain libglade). I am
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currently serving on the 2002 board.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Data Analysis Australia<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00007.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>12. JEFF WAUGH<br />
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"
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I am passionate about GNOME and Free Software, and have committed a large
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amount of my time and energy to helping our exceptional hackers do their
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magic. This year my primary contribution to GNOME was leadership of the
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Release Team to help our hackers pull off the amazing GNOME 2.0 release.
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I will work to build upon GNOME's contributor base, maintain our casual,
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personal community, ensure a transparently operated Foundation, and to
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promote our project and achievements aggressively.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Independent consultant<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00008.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>13. JIM GETTYS<br />
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"
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I'm announcing myself as a candidate for the 2002 elections of the
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GNOME Foundation board of directors.
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<br />
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The largest value I bring to Gnome is one of perspective to the operation
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of a number of different styles of organizations. Specifically, GNOME
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needs to continue to be open to contributions of all sorts, whether code,
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or translations, or web work, to UI design and graphics, to name a few.
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<br />
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While I don't currently write Gnome code itself, I do hack on the X Window
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System, as I have for a long time; most recently on the RandR extension.
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I've been on the Gnome board the last two years.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: Hewlett-Packard<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00009.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00009.html</a>
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<p>14. LESLIE PROCTOR<br />
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"
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I'd like to more closely tie GNOME marketing
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with the Foundation Board, and being part of the board
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will be a good way to accomplish that goal.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: GNOME Foundation<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00010.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00010.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>15. NAT FRIEDMAN<br />
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"
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To date, the GNOME foundation has failed to be of any substantial
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benefit to the GNOME project. We are, however, reaching a level of
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momentum and organization at which the foundation can have a big
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impact. What we lack is resources: funds to subsidize in-person events,
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to fly people to conferences, to support our hardware and
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infrastructural needs, to promote the project, and to provide equipment
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to hackers who need it. I served as co-chair of the board this last
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year and organized the 90-person Boston GNOME Summit in July. If
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elected this year, my focus will be on ensuring that GNOME has the
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resources it needs to succeed.
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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/2002-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00011.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>16. JONATHAN BLANDFORD<br />
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"
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I started working on GNOME in 1997, and have been actively a part of it
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since. I initially wrote the AisleRiot solitaire program which appeared
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in GNOME 0.13. Since then, I've worked on several GNOME projects
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including GTK+, control-center, gmc, nautilus, gnome-libs, and most
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importantly, gfloppy. I also do a number of sysadmin tasks, and help
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with the running of the gnome.org boxes. I am a current member of the
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board.
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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/2002-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00013.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>17. JODY GOLDBERG<br />
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"
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Who :<br />
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- Jody Goldberg<br />
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- Affiliation Ximian<br />
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- Maintainer of Gnumeric and Control-Centre<br />
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- Current board member<br />
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- Member of Release Team<br />
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What :<br />
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- Advocate for GNOME Office<br />
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- Apply lessons learned in developing a large application with
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GNOME toward finding common areas with other projects.
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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/2002-November/msg00014.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00014.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>18. TIM NEY<br />
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"
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GNOME Foundation needs the combined efforts of hackers and non-hackers.
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Since I first worked with GNOME four years ago, getting machines and
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setting up booths and presentations, the developer community and user
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base has grown tremendously.
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<br />
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My contribution is to build bridges and obtain resources needed for
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GNOME to successfully continue its growth. Working with the GNOME
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community is a great experience and I'd like to continue pushing for
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more adoption by governments and schools.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: GNOME Foundation<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00015.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00015.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>19. LUIS VILLA<br />
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"
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I want to get involved with the board for three reasons. First, to
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improve communications between the board and /all/ volunteers,
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including, but not just, hackers. Second, to increase the board's
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activity level in areas where the board is GNOME's most effective organ,
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like marketing, infrastructure, and fundraising. Finally, to ensure that
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the board does not interfere with more direct community leadership in
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areas where that leadership is already providing effective guidance.
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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/2002-November/msg00017.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00017.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>20. AMY KAHN<br />
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"
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I, Amy Kahn, am running for election for the Gnome Foundation Board on the
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following platform:
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<br />
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I intend to establish better and more accessible usability standards in
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for the future of the GNOME desktop and related applications. I plan to do
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this by using my experience and expertise in the usability field,
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researching the way users do their jobs and providing that data to the
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hacker community, providing a forum for usability gurus and hackers to
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communicate, and helping said persons to organize themselves so a real
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review process can happen.
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"<br />
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Affiliation: GNOME Foundation<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00018.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00018.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>21. MARTIN BAULIG<br />
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"
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I've been hacking on GNOME almost since its early beginnings. However,
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about a year ago I took a longer break to concentrate more on
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university.
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This spring, I became a Mono hacker and since then, I've been hacking on
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the compiler and the new Mono Debugger.
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As an European guy and Mono hacker, my main focus is helping GNOME
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moving forward in Europe and integrating GNOME and Mono nicely so that
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people can quickly and easily design their coolest GNOME apps with Mono.
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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/2002-November/msg00019.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00019.html</a>
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<p>22. SRI RAMKRISHNA<br />
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"
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I'm running for the GNOME Foundation board in order to help GNOME and in
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the process better myself by making GNOME problems, my problems.
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While I'm not a serious coder I can code; I think my talents really lie in
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facilitating and attacking problems from a high level. I would like to
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help the GNOME project grow further by encouraging the use of GEP, help
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get documentation complete, and establish more desktop standards. I've
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had experience in leading a diverse engineering team, worked on projects
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that spanned many physical locations, and had some management experience.
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All of which requires critical thinking and planning. Thanks.
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Affiliation: Intel<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00020.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00020.html</a>
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<p>23. FEDERICO MENA QUINTERO<br />
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"
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We lack complete developer's documentation for our 2.0 platform. The
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documentation I have written in the past has been useful to people, so I
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want to work with the different developers of GNOME libraries to ensure
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that their code has proper documentation. Also, I want to help in
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coordination between the GNOME and OpenOffice.org teams --- OO.o needs
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to integrate well into the GNOME environment, and they may also be able
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to use some of our cool technologies to avoid duplicated work.
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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/2002-November/msg00021.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00021.html</a>
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<h2>Additional Election-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 Monday, November 25th, 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 December 2nd.
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Also, keep in mind that there is a 4-person maximum on the number of
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people affiliated with any one company that can be on the board: if more
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than 4 persons from one company get elected, only the top 4 vote getters
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will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 11 candidates of your
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choice, with no restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once
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for the same candidate.
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