Re: Questions to the candidates

["Lionel Dricot" <ploum ploum net>]

That's perfect for me.

Thanks Susana :-)


> Viva!
>
> Here is my proposed list of questions. What do you think?
> The last question is new, it was sent to me by email. I'm sorry for
> the confusion that I caused.
>
>  1. For outgoing board members: what have been the upsides/good things
> from your previous stint at the Board which you would  like to see
> carried forward into this term ?
>
>  2. If you are a new candidate: what specific SMART
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_(project_management)) goals would
> you like to put for yourself? Or, in other words, how would you like
> to measure yourself and, let others know how you are doing ?
>
>  3. What part of being a board member do you think will be most
> difficult for you? How do you plan to compensate for that?
>
>  4. Do you have any experience on management teams or boards at
> non-profits? If so, can you give an example of a change you affected
> in that role? If not, what makes you think that you will be a good
> board member? What single change do you want to affect during your
> term?
>
>  5. What are the specific areas of the Foundation's focus and strategy
> where you think you can contribute as a change agent ?
>
>  6. Do you think we need to make the being a member of the Foundation
> feel more valuable, and how do you think we should do that? What would
> you change about the Foundation to make it more useful to members.
>
>  7. Do you have any plans on how can the board help bring the GNOME
> platform and desktop in the top of opensource desktop and mobile
> application development?
>
>  8. Do you think the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME projects get
> enough representation at events? If not, how would you fix that?
>
>  9. What, in your view, are the top 5 requirements (from a strategic
> perspective) for the GNOME communities world-wide ?
>
> 10. For you, what are the most important values in free software?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Susana
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:37 AM, sankarshan (স���র�ষণ)
> <sankarshan randomink org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Susana Pereira
>> <susana pereira gmail com> wrote:
>>
>>> I found this on the wiki:
>>>
>>> "Someone then selects the 10 best questions and send them to the
>>> candidates. We usually ask a previous Board member to select the
>>> questions."
>>>
>>> So I should ask the current board to select 10 questions, is that it?
>>
>> The relevant 10 (10 was always an arbitrary number chosen for
>> providing a sense of completeness) questions are generally selected by
>> the Membership and Elections Committee.
>>
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