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<title>GNOME Foundation 2004 Election Candidates</title>
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<h1>Candidates for 2004 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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<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 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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</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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</p>
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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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<p>
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I am a long-time member of the GNOME community, and an employee of Red
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Hat, Inc. I have been active on the Board for the past three years. I
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also have previously been on the release team, and am currently on the
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sysadmin team.</p>
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I am primarily interested in continuing to work with Tim and Jody to
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ensure that our finances remain in good shape. We've had a better year
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financially, this past year, and I expect that we'll be able to continue
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this trend. We have made great strides in our ability as a foundation
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to hold and fund conferences, and we should be able to do even more this
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year. I'd also like to make our budgeting more transparent and public.</p>
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.joorg/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00013.html</a>
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<p>2. Bryan Clark<br />
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SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00011.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>3. Murray Cumming<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: None <br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00007.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>4. Rodney Dawes<br />
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<p>I agree with Tim. As far as contributions to GNOME go, I maintain
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intltool, gnome-icon-theme, evolution-webcal, and the background
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portion of control-center. I've also contributed code to most other
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GNOME modules as well.
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00009.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00009.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>5. Miguel de Icaza <br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00005.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00005.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>6. Christian Schaller <br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: Fluendo S.L.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00006.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>7. Jody Goldberg<br />
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<p>Who am I
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- Maintainer of Gnumeric, libgsf, gnome-control-center,
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libgnomeprint{ui}* and long time contributor throughout the stack
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- Advocate for developing software on the GNOME platform and
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building bridges to expand the user base of that platform.
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- Board Member for the last three years, sometimes as secretary,
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and assistant treasurer.
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00020.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00020.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>8. Bill Haneman<br />
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<p>IMO Board issues for the next year will include leveraging grassroots
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GNOME support around the world, and facilitating use of the GNOME
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"brand" while defending GNOME and Free Software. Forging and
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strengthening relationships is important too.
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I work on GNOME software every day; as maintainer of multiple cvs
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modules, and as an architect of the GNOME Accessibility Project.
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"GNOME is for everybody!".
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Affiliation: Sun Microsystems<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00019.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00019.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>9. Dom Lachowicz<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: None<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00024.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00024.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>10. Michael Meeks<br />
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<p>At last count, Gnome was suffering from a lack of clear, well
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articulated, technical leadership, with no mechanism for generating
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technical consensus (particularly where this requires compromise).
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This in general leads to directional atrophy, wasted effort, and
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violence towards domestic pets.
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The board shouldn't provide this leadership, but can encourage it.
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Furthermore it seems obvious that the Gnome environment should be
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further strengthened by compromise, alignment & code-sharing with other
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projects eg. Mozilla & OpenOffice.org.
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00016.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00016.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>11. Federico Mena-Quintero<br />
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<p>My interest is in propagating the use of Gnome in Latin America: help
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local groups make the best use of Gnome and free software in general.
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I want to ensure that Gnome has a clear direction from the viewpoint
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of regional efforts: that it can be integrated into local GNU/Linux
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distributions easily, that it provides a good technology base for
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custom setups, that it is easy for developers to learn, and that it is
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adequately localized.
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</p>
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00010.html"><http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00010.html/a>
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</p>
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<p>12. David Neary<br />
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<p>Even though I'm probably an unknown to most of the GNOME developers, I have been
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around for quite a while, primarily in the GIMP project. Last year, I was
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involved in organising GUADEC, and also brought the GIMP under the GNOME
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Foundation umbrella, with help from Tim Ney and the current board. I'm more an
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organiser than a coder, and I actually like doing board-type activities.
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The board has a lot to offer to the community, especially in the realm of
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communication and organisation - being on the board doesn't mean running
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things, so much as letting other people know what needs running, and harnessing
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that enthusiasm.
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Affiliation: Nonve<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00008.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>13. Tim Ney<br />
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<p>I nominate myself for a seat on the 2005 GNOME Foundation Board of
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Directors: For the GNOME Foundation to fulfill its mission, it needs the
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combined efforts of hackers and non-hackers alike. One of my main
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contributions to GNOME has been to organize and raise funds for GUADEC,
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the Summit and now other regional events in Brazil and Spain. For GNOME
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to scale to the widest geography of development, recognition and use, we
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need to assemble more resources to help provide training accessible to
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all.
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Affiliation: GNOME Foundation<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00013.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>14. Anne Østergaard<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: None<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00003.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00003.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>15. Germán Poó-Caamaño<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: None<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00015.html"><http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00015.html/a>
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</p>
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<p>16. Leslie Proctor<br />
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<p>I've been involved with GNOME since the
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beginning, doing marketing, organizing trade show
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presence, helping to organize GUADEC and other stuff
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like that. I'm an incumbent member of the board.
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Affiliation: None<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00001.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00001.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>17. Owen Taylor<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00004.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00004.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>18. Daniel Veillard<br />
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<p> 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 three
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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 GNOME presence
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worldwide in mindshare, users and developpers is the next challenge
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of the Board.
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Affiliation: Red Hat<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-November/msg00011.html</a>
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</p>
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<p>19. Luis Villa<br />
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<p>SUMMARY NEEDED
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Affiliation: Novell, Inc.<br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00012.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-November/msg00012.html</a>
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</p>
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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 Friday, November 21th, 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 8th.
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</p>
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<p>
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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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