Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño Mail: gpoo gnome org Nick: gpoo Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://calcifer.org/blog/ (for Spanish speakers) Affiliation: None Summary I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for re-election for the Foundation Board because I am confident there is plenty of room where I can help to Gnome and its community, as in the last year, bringing a different perspective and an independent voice. My involvement in Gnome I have been involved in Gnome since the beginning of the current century, and I have been working with Unix since 1991 and Linux since 1995. I have attended GUADEC since 2002. I also have attended to other Gnome events, such as GUADEC-ES (Hispanic Guadec), Forum do Gnome (Brazil), Gnome Day (Chile), Involucrate (Peru). When I was young I was coordinator of Spanish translation team and I wrote gnome-nettool. Since then, I helped here and there. Since last July, I have served to the board as treasure. Promotion of Gnome and Free Software I have spent a lot of my spare time promoting Gnome and FLOSS in conferences, I have given more than 60 talks on Gnome and related topics. I have been involved in local communities since its beginnings, such as Gnome Hispano and Gnome Chile. I founded and organized the biggest Linux (as the kernel) conference in Chile, but also I organized other events related with Free Software and Gnome. I have helped and encouraged several developers to get involved in Gnome. Motivations: I think I have had a more than acceptable role as director in my first term where I have served as treasure. I have worked in improving the way the financial information is presented in order to take better decisions based in promptly and good quality information. There is plenty of room to improve in this area and I plan to continue working on this as treasure or mentoring the future treasure. I have pushed and encouraged contributors with good ideas to make them happen, such as the Webkit hackfest. Also, I have worked as facilitator for people getting involved in upstream (for instance, pushing a quick and depth contact between Gnome Foundation and companies in Andalucía working in accesibility). On the other hand, we have new challenges we must approach in order to succeed as platform for developing application, in particular in the mobile world where we need to be more proactive. I think the board can have an active role on this matter. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño Concepción - Chile http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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