Re: Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Foundation :),

To clarify: the membership committee email call for nominations this year 
didn't have any instructions about sending a nomination note to 
foundation-list.  However, some of us have done that so far.  I suggest others 
do too, but the final list of nominees will be determined by the membership 
committee based on messages their address received.  Don't forget CC'ing them!

behdad

On 05/21/2009 11:31 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Name: Behdad Esfahbod
> Mail: behdad behdad org / behdad gnome org
> Nick: behdad
> Home: http://behdad.org/
> Blog: http://mces.behdad.org/
> More: http://live.gnome.org/BehdadEsfahbod
> Affiliation: Red Hat
>
> Summary:
>
> I've been serving on board for 2.5 years now and have been holding the
> title of President of the Foundation and Chairman of the board for the
> current term. Fortunately the experience is not as painful as it used to
> be, thanks to Stormy. I think we are in a very good shape on the
> organization side, but there's a storm coming (no pun), with all the
> GNOME 3 planning, messaging, marketing, etc. So I like to stay on board
> to help with it all.
>
>
> Details:
>
> I've been heavily involved in GNOME since about 2005. These days my
> hacking can be summarized as:
>
> - Keeping an eye on everything Unicode
> - Developing everything font and text related
> - Trying to keep GNOME lean
>
> In more programmer-friendly terms, that means I (co-)maintain and
> develop on: fribidi, harfbuzz, fontconfig, cairo, pango, vte, and hack
> here and there further up the stack every once in a while.
>
> On the non-hacking side, previously I served on the Accounts Team. More
> recently, I've chaired GUADEC program committee for the past couple of
> years. While on board this year, I've done (and if elected, plan to
> continue doing):
>
> - Hackfest / conference organization
> - Worked on the a11y outreach program
> - Making sure Stormy find the information / people she needs to get
> work done
> - Make sure decisions are made / things move forward
>
>
> Cheers,
> behdad