[foundation-web] vote: 2013: Created candidacy list



commit 9af61132e24b4846133b6cd11311e50dac4ff2a2
Author: Tobias Mueller (ideabox) <tobiasmue gnome org>
Date:   Fri May 17 22:04:09 2013 +0200

    vote: 2013: Created candidacy list

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             </li>
         </p>
 
-
         <p>
-          <!--
-            <li><strong>Bastien Nocera</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>Red Hat UK Ltd</em><br />
-            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>
-                <blockquote>
-                    I intend to carry on being a point of contact for developer relations,
-                    and a technical advisor within the Board itself. I'm also the one asking
-                    naive questions about US employment law and accountancy rules.
-                </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
-            </li>
-        </p>
-        
-        
-        
-        <p>
-            <li><strong>Emmanuele Bassi</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>Intel Corporation</em><br />
-            Full statement at <a 
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00002.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2013-May/msg00002.html</a>
-                <blockquote>
-                    I have contributed to GNOME for the past 10 years as a developer and
-                    maintainer; I served on the GUADEC papers committee multiple times, as
-                    well as a Director of the Foundation's Board for the past year in the
-                    role of Secretary.
-                </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
-            </li>
-        </p>
-        
-        <p>
-            <li><strong>Andreas Nilsson</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
+            <li><strong>Max Huang</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em></em><br />
             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>
                 <blockquote>
-                     I've been involved in GNOME since 2005 doing a variety of things. Mainly graphics and 
websites. I served on the Board of Directors between 2010 and 2011. If I get elected, I want to primary focus 
on two things. Fundraising and getting new developers. I want to make our fundraising campaigns really 
effective and make it as fun and rewarding to make donations to the GNOME project as possible. I'm happy that 
we have now been able to release the new, more effective Friends of GNOME site, but there is more we can do 
in this area. For new developers, I'm happy with the outcome of the GSOC and WOP's we've been running, and we 
should continue to do these, but I also want to make sure the inroads for potential contributors who visit 
our website is as clear as possible. I'm sure I will get very much tangled up in whatever pops up during the 
way for the board (as things tend to do), but I will keep these two items in mind as goals for the term. 
+                
+                    I am working in National Center for High-performance 
+                    Computing Taiwan(http://www.nchc.org.tw/en/).  I 
+                    have contributed to GNOME for the past 3  years. 
+                     Promote open source, freeware and linux at school 
+                    in Taiwan.
+                    
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
+                <!-- Verified Member: 842 -->
             </li>
         </p>
+        
 
         <p>
             <li><strong>Joanmarie Diggs</strong><br />
             Affiliation: <em>Igalia, S.L.</em><br />
             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>
                 <blockquote>
-                    I have contributed to GNOME for the past five+ years as a developer and
-                    maintainer of the Orca screen reader and as a member of the GNOME
-                    Accessibility Team. For most of those years, my GNOME-related work had
-                    to be done evenings, weekends, and holidays as a community contributor.
-                    Joining Igalia in October 2011 has made it possible for GNOME
-                    Accessibility to become part of my DayJob, which in turn has given me a
-                    very precious commodity: spare time. I would like to spend some of that
-                    time serving on the GNOME Foundation Board.
+                    I have contributed to GNOME for the past six+ years 
+                    as a developer and maintainer of the Orca screen 
+                    reader and as a member of the GNOME Accessibility 
+                    Team. This past year I have also served on the GNOME 
+                    Foundation's Board.
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
+                <!-- Verified Member: 786 -->
             </li>
         </p>
         
         <p>
-            <li><strong>Tobias Mueller</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
+            <li><strong>Emmanuele Bassi</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em>Endless Mobile</em><br />
             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>
                 <blockquote>
-                    I am a Free Software enthusiast and GNOME activist for about 5 years now. I mainly 
worked in the Bugsquad and the Membership Committee.
-                    Now, I want to do something new and help making GNOME a successful Free Software project.
-                    I have experience with working with people, i.e. by organising events like a GNOME 
party, various booths at conferences or by hosting a (mid-size) conference at our university.
-                    I want to improve the Bylaws and the visibility of Teams within GNOME.
+                    I have been a GNOME contributor for the past 10 
+                    years, and served as secreatry on the board of 
+                    directors for the past two years.
+                    
+                    I would love to continue serving as secretary on the 
+                    board; I want to help facilitating the 
+                    communications between teams, contributors, adboard 
+                    members, ISVs that wish to target GNOME, as well as 
+                    OSVs that wish to use GNOME as their platform of 
+                    choice for their products.
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
+                <!-- Verified Member: 506 -->
             </li>
         </p>
         
         <p>
-            <li><strong>Max Huang</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
+            <li><strong>Andreas Nilsson</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
             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>
                 <blockquote>
-                    I am a freelancer who teach linux in the training center, also a
-                    Novell CNI instructor. I have contributed to GNOME for the past 2
-                    years for GNOME.Asia. Teaching linux at school and have workshop with
-                    open source and linux at school.
+                    Designer based in Gothenburg, Sweden, involved in 
+                    GNOME since 2005.
+                    
+                    I am part of the Marketing Team, mainly hacking on 
+                    our websites and putting together printing materials 
+                    for conferences. I also contribute to the Design 
+                    Team, filing design bugs and doing some UX design. 
+                    I've been an OPW mentor 2 times already, and 
+                    hopefully will be a 3rd time this summer.
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
-            </li>
+                <!-- Verified Member: 544 -->
+            </li> 
         </p>
 
-
-
-        
         <p>
-            <li><strong>Shaun McCance</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>Syllogist LLC (freelance)</em><br />
+            <li><strong>Sriram Ramkrishna</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em>Intel</em><br />
             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>
                 <blockquote>
-                    If elected, I want to work to make our treasurer duties simpler and
-                    more understandable, whether as the treasurer again or as an advisor
-                    to a new treasurer. The treasurer role is inevitably difficult for
-                    somebody without a background in accounting. We need to make sure we
-                    can smoothly transition year to year, because handling GNOME's money
-                    is one of the most important things the Foundation does.
+                
+                    I have decided this year to continue to increase my 
+                    participation in GNOME.  I joined GNOME in 1997, 
+                    working on GNOME Summaries that led to the GNOME 
+                    Journal.  We expanded from a one man contributor to 
+                    a full 4-5 person team writing professional level 
+                    articles on GNOME.
+                    
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
+                <!-- Verified Member: 193 -->
             </li>
         </p>
         
         <p>
-            <li><strong>Seif Lotfy</strong><br />
-            Affiliation: <em>Collabora Ltd.</em><br />
+            <li><strong>Ekaterina Gerasimova</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
             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>
-                <blockquote>                   
-                Currently, I spend nearly 50% of my working time on GNOME-related projects, thanks to 
Collabora. I also spend a lot of my time working on deploying Zeitgeist into some smaller projects like Gedit 
(the dashboard plugin), which greatly benefited from design collaboration with Hylke Bons and Garrett LeSage.
+                <blockquote>                    
+
+                    I have experienced the difficulties that are 
+                    encountered by our local teams when organising 
+                    events and I agree with Joanie that the Foundation's 
+                    processes need to become more efficient. These 
+                    responsibilities need to be clarified and followed 
+                    to reduce friction and improve collaboration within 
+                    the GNOME community.
+                    
+                    Our existing processes are missing defined fallbacks 
+                    and resolution paths. When decisions become stuck or 
+                    blocked on, opportunities fall through and the 
+                    Foundation loses out when its members cannot attend 
+                    conferences and hackfests.
+                
+                </blockquote>
+                <!-- Verified Member: 867 -->
+            </li>
+        </p>
+
+
+
+        
+        <p>
+            <li><strong>Marina Zhurakhinskaya</strong><br />
+            Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
+            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>
+                <blockquote>
+
+                    I have been working on GNOME for the last five 
+                    years, as a developer of online-desktop and 
+                    gnome-shell and as a lead of our outreach efforts. 
+                    With the help of so many people in the community, 
+                    three and a half years ago I created the Outreach 
+                    Program for Women which enabled 49 women to do 
+                    internships with GNOME and significantly increased 
+                    participation of women in the community. This 
+                    program has grown to include internships with 18 
+                    Free Software organizations this summer.
 
-                Sometimes misunderstandings and miscommunication happen in the community, especially between 
different teams who may share similar goals but different viewpoints. This blurred vision was evident in 
mailing-lists over the past few weeks. (Thankfully Olav did a great job moderating the lists to not let it 
get too out-of-hand.) 
                 </blockquote>
-                <!-- NOT YET Verified Member -->
+                <!-- Verified Member: 739 -->
             </li>
-          -->
         </p>
         
     </ol>


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