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<title>GNOME Foundation 2013 Elections Candidates</title>
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<h1>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation 2013 Elections</h1>
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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 elections details can be found on the
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<a href="http://foundation.gnome.org">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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</p>
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<h2>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Tobias Mueller</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00001.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I am passionate about Free Software and GNOME and advancing it satisfies
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me. I enjoyed the work during the last year and I hope to be able to
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continue doing so. Within the last year I helped revamping our bylaws
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and then got more and more involved in making our Friends of GNOME
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program more smooth. This is still ongoing and I also initiated contact
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with a European entity to collect funds for us to make us more
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indepedent from Paypal. Being on the board makes finishing that a lot
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easier.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 708 -->
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</li>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Max Huang</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em></em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00003.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00003.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I am working in National Center for High-performance
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Computing Taiwan(http://www.nchc.org.tw/en/). I
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have contributed to GNOME for the past 3 years.
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Promote open source, freeware and linux at school
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in Taiwan.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 842 -->
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</li>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Joanmarie Diggs</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Igalia, S.L.</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00004.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00004.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I have contributed to GNOME for the past six+ years
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as a developer and maintainer of the Orca screen
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reader and as a member of the GNOME Accessibility
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Team. This past year I have also served on the GNOME
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Foundation's Board.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 786 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Emmanuele Bassi</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Endless Mobile</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00005.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00005.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I have been a GNOME contributor for the past 10
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years, and served as secreatry on the board of
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directors for the past two years.
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I would love to continue serving as secretary on the
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board; I want to help facilitating the
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communications between teams, contributors, adboard
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members, ISVs that wish to target GNOME, as well as
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OSVs that wish to use GNOME as their platform of
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choice for their products.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 506 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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<li><strong>Andreas Nilsson</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00006.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00006.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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Designer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, involved in
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GNOME since 2005.
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I am part of the Marketing Team, mainly hacking on
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our websites and putting together printing materials
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for conferences. I also contribute to the Design
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Team, filing design bugs and doing some UX design.
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I've been an OPW mentor 2 times already, and
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hopefully will be a 3rd time this summer.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 544 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Sriram Ramkrishna</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Intel</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00007.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00007.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I have decided this year to continue to increase my
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participation in GNOME. I joined GNOME in 1997,
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working on GNOME Summaries that led to the GNOME
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Journal. We expanded from a one man contributor to
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a full 4-5 person team writing professional level
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articles on GNOME.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 193 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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<p>
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<li><strong>Ekaterina Gerasimova</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00008.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00008.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I have experienced the difficulties that are
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encountered by our local teams when organising
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events and I agree with Joanie that the Foundation's
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processes need to become more efficient. These
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responsibilities need to be clarified and followed
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to reduce friction and improve collaboration within
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the GNOME community.
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Our existing processes are missing defined fallbacks
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and resolution paths. When decisions become stuck or
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blocked on, opportunities fall through and the
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Foundation loses out when its members cannot attend
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conferences and hackfests.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 867 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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<li><strong>Marina Zhurakhinskaya</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00009.html">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00009.html</a>
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<blockquote>
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I have been working on GNOME for the last five
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years, as a developer of online-desktop and
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gnome-shell and as a lead of our outreach efforts.
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With the help of so many people in the community,
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three and a half years ago I created the Outreach
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Program for Women which enabled 49 women to do
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internships with GNOME and significantly increased
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participation of women in the community. This
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program has grown to include internships with 18
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Free Software organizations this summer.
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</blockquote>
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<!-- Verified Member: 739 -->
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</li>
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</p>
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</ol>
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<h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
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<p>
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Note, that according to the
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<a href="http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bylaws.pdf">Bylaws</a> Article VIII Section 2d
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there is a 2-person maximum on the number of people affiliated with any
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one company that can be on the board: if more than 2 persons from one
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company get elected, only the top 2 vote getters will get on.
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You will be able to vote for up to 7 candidates of your choice, with no
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restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once for the same
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candidate.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have any futher question, please consult the
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<a href="rules.html">Rules for this election</a> or write to
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<a href="mailto:elections@gnome.org">elections@gnome.org</a>.
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