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<h1>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation 2005 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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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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Additional elections 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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<strong>1. Jonathan Blandford</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00007.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00007.html</a>
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I am a long-time member of the GNOME community. I am also an employee
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of Red Hat, run a desktop team there, and have been active on the Board
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for the past four years. I know what being on the board entails, and
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will bring continuity for the next board. Most importantly, I have the
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time to be an effective board member.
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<strong>2. Behdad Esfahbod</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Sharif FarsiWeb</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00012.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00012.html</a>
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I've been a member of GNOME foundation since 2001, but never called myself a
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GNOME developer until recently, when I found myself well inside, and I believe
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I am here to stay. I started as a hacker, but found a great family that is
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much more valuable than the sum of the parts. So I'm trying to get more
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involved in other aspects of the project.
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<strong>3. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Fluendo S.L.</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00008.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00008.html</a>
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I have been a long term member of the GNOME community and this last year
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also served on the board. I am also an employee of Fluendo S.L., a
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company doing products and consulting around the GStreamer framework.
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If I get re-elected to the board I want to continue making it platform
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for talking to other open source groups and companies, pulling them
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closer to GNOME and eventually increase our corporate membership.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>4. Quim Gil</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Interactors s.coop.</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00002.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00002.html</a>
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GNOME is technically ready for the general public. Does the general
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public know this? Ask your neighbour. In order to make GNOME a
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mainstream desktop we need to focus in the social aspects of software as
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much as in the technical development. If the mountain doesn't go to
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GNOME, GNOME goes to the mountain.
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Actions recommended to be promoted by the board in which I possibly
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could play a useful role: gnome.org megawebsite, GUADEC & smaller
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events, smartketing, strengthen our brand, extend The GNOME Experience
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to proprietary desktops, start discussing seriously GNOME 3.0.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>5. Dominic Lachowicz</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Teragram Corporation</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00013.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00013.html</a>
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I promise to be a helpfully pedantic board member, ensuring that things get done on time and that they get done right. I believe in forming rough consensus and acting by convention. My contribution will be one of mediating the board's many goals, injecting realism, building a roadmap to those goals, making sure that we succeed, and making our successes/failures transparent. These traits will become increasingly important with the transition from 11 to 7 board members.
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<strong>6. Federico Mena-Quintero</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Novell, Inc.</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00011.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00011.html</a>
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I have been working on GNOME since it began in August 1997. Since then,
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I've maintained or done substantial work on several modules. I have
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served as a Foundation Board member for two periods, once four years ago
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and once this year. I also acted as treasurer of the Foundation three
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years ago.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>7. David Neary</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Cegelec SA</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00001.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00001.html</a>
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I have very much enjoyed my year on the board, and I would like to continue working on aspects of the board's communication and reactivity.
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I am also eager to continue and bring to completion work to generate revenue for the foundation through merchandising, and increased partnership with companies supporting GNOME.
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<strong>8. Bastien Nocera</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00010.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00010.html</a>
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I am a long-time member of the GNOME community, first as a user, then a
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package maintainer and finally a developer (I've also been known as a
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"machete hacker").
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I work for Red Hat as a software maintenance engineer, meaning that I
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get to support and fix bugs in our old versions of GNOME, among other
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things.
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<strong>9. Germán Poó Caamaño </strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Universidad del Bío-Bío</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00039.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00039.html</a>
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I would like to contribute to the board giving more transparency
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about its internal process as much as possible.
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Also, I would like to contribute defining and promoting
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differents teams, looking for the same success than has
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been reached by teams as release, membership, etc.
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I'm convinced that can advance and get more contributors
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if we can keep the things simple and clear, and I will go
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for that.
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<strong>10. Vincent Untz</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00006.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00006.html</a>
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I'm running for the elections for three reasons: I want to make more
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Foundation members involved in the Foundation, I want to enable the
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local groups to do more than what they can do right now, I want to see
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that we care about our users. I believe I can help achieving at least
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one of these items and that it will make GNOME even better than it is
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now.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>11. Luis Villa</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Harvard Law School</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00031.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00031.html</a>
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In the past, candidacy statements have been of the form of 'I will get
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the board to do X', which I now believe is wrong. The board should be
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about encouraging people to do X, giving advice on X, and exercising
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oversight to make sure X is done well. When I'm done with this term,
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the board should be a group of people whose main role is oversight,
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inquiry, and delegation, not doing.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>12. Jeff Waugh</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Canonical Ltd</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00014.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00014.html</a>
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I love GNOME. I am passionate, motivated, and dedicated to building our
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success, both outwardly - a foot on every desktop; and inwardly - making
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sure our developer and user communities are rocking all the time. I believe
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I've earned the trust of the GNOME community to represent it, both as a
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communicator outside the project, and as a mediator and leader within our
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community. I am here to help GNOME rock.
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</blockquote>
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<strong>13. Anne Østergaard</strong><br />
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Affiliation: <em>Easterbridge.dk</em><br />
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Full statement at <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00028.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2005-November/msg00028.html</a>
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I was a volunteer at the 2nd GUADEC in Copenhagen in 2001. - Where I was
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"sold" to GNOME and the GNOME Community because of the passionate,
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motivated, warm, and dedicated atmosphere among the developers and in
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fact everyone. We had a full house on user day.
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Since that time I have followed the foot prints and contributed to the
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conferences and the community.
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<h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
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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 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 23rd.
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Also, keep in mind that there is a 2-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 2 persons from one company get elected, only the top 2 vote getters
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will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 7 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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