[foundation-web] vote: candidates for the 2014 elections
- From: Tobias Mueller <tobiasmue src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [foundation-web] vote: candidates for the 2014 elections
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 08:55:22 +0000 (UTC)
commit def43bc863e0c458c96e4b5afa73790470e53ce9
Author: Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de>
Date: Mon May 19 10:51:48 2014 +0200
vote: candidates for the 2014 elections
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diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/candidates.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/candidates.wml
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@@ -45,173 +45,232 @@
href="mailto:elections@gnome.org";>elections@gnome.org</a>.
</p>
-<!--
-
<h2>Candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors</h2>
<ol>
<p>
<li><strong>Tobias Mueller</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>SAP</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00001.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00001.html</a>
<blockquote>
- I am passionate about Free Software and GNOME and advancing it satisfies
- me. I enjoyed the work during the last year and I hope to be able to
- continue doing so. Within the last year I helped revamping our bylaws
- and then got more and more involved in making our Friends of GNOME
- program more smooth. This is still ongoing and I also initiated contact
- with a European entity to collect funds for us to make us more
- indepedent from Paypal. Being on the board makes finishing that a lot
- easier.
+ I have served on the Board of the GNOME Foundation for two years now and as I
+ enjoy my duties I would like to continue doing so. I promote Free Software and
+ GNOME wherever I can. I am regularly speaking at conferences and making contact
+ with new users, contributors, or other organisations that help us to advance
+ GNOME, spread the word about Free Software, and ultimately make the world a
+ better place.
+
+ I am running for the Board because I think I can be an asset in making GNOME
+ better. I think we need to restructure our Friends of GNOME programme to make it
+ cost us much less time or upgrade our Bugzilla instance. If elected, I would try
+ to steer resources towards those goals.
</blockquote>
<!- - Verified Member: 708 - ->
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><strong>Max Huang</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em></em><br />
+ <li><strong>Oliver Propst</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00003.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00003.html</a>
<blockquote>
-
- 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.
-
+ I want to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Board of Directors. I
+ have contributing as part of the Engagement Team since 2010, recently
+ I have been involved with the GUADEC 2015 Gothenburg bid and the
+ Annual Report.
+
+ I think that free software never have more important then now and if
+ we as a community can get together and do the necessary work the
+ greatest future of GNOME lay ahead of us.
+
+ I have two years of experience of being on the non-for profit FSCONS
+ board (FSCONS, the free software conference in Gothenburg that Karen
+ keynoted last year). More info about me (including occupation) can be
+ found here [1].
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 842 - ->
+ <!- - Verified Member: 1024 - ->
</li>
</p>
-
+
<p>
- <li><strong>Joanmarie Diggs</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em>Igalia, S.L.</em><br />
+ <li><strong>Jean-François Fortin Tam</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00004.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00004.html</a>
<blockquote>
- 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.
+ I have been involved in various areas of GNOME
+ since 2004 or so, including testing, triaging,
+ marketing, mentoring, coding, public speaking and
+ advocacy, UI/UX design, etc. I also graduated from
+ business & management school, so I would like to
+ put that background to good use. I'm keeping this
+ description short & simple (as I suspect many of
+ you will know me); you can learn more about me at
+ http://jeff.ecchi.ca
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 786 - ->
+ <!- - Verified Member: 799 - ->
</li>
</p>
-
+
<p>
- <li><strong>Emmanuele Bassi</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em>Endless Mobile</em><br />
+ <li><strong>Karen Sandler</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>Software Freedom Conservancy</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00005.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00005.html</a>
<blockquote>
- 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.
+ As promised when I left the position of Executive Director, I'd like
+ to throw my hat in the ring for the Board of Directors. I think I can
+ help bring continuity to the board (Stormy was incredibly helpful on
+ the board when I started as ED). Also, as a lawyer I sometimes have an
+ additionally useful perspective. I'm still doing volunteer work for
+ GNOME both as pro bono counsel and as a volunteer on nonlegal matters
+ for GNOME. I've been helping with fundraising, collecting on
+ outstanding invoices and generally wherever I can.
</blockquote>
<!- - Verified Member: 506 - ->
</li>
</p>
-
+
<p>
- <li><strong>Andreas Nilsson</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
+ <li><strong>Andrea Veri</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00006.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00006.html</a>
<blockquote>
- 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.
+ I've been part of the Foundation since late 2009 participating and
+ contributing in many GNOME teams and fields. While it's usually common
+ among applicants during elections (them being either political
+ or private for a certain foundation or association) to promise or
+ propose what they plan to do (in case of them being elected) for the
+ next term, I'd like to focus on my involvement on the GNOME Project
+ and my past work on the Foundation instead. This to let everyone know
+ how deeply I've been caring about GNOME and the awesome community
+ behind it.
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 544 - ->
- </li>
+ <!- - Verified Member: 774 - ->
+ </li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><strong>Sriram Ramkrishna</strong><br />
- Affiliation: <em>Intel</em><br />
+ <li><strong>anish patil</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00007.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00007.html</a>
<blockquote>
-
- 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.
-
+ This is the first time i have been running for any
+ election (you can't win over your friends) Since
+ last few years, i have been talking at various
+ conferences making awareness about Free Software and
+ GNOME, input methods and how one can make money from
+ free software.
+
+ The reason i would like to run for this election is
+ because I think would be the right person to promote
+ GNOME specially in Asian region. If I get elected,i
+ would try to have more hackfests in Asia region and
+ try to raise fund for GNOME.
+
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 193 - ->
+ <!- - Verified Member: 953 - ->
</li>
</p>
-
+
+
<p>
- <li><strong>Ekaterina Gerasimova</strong><br />
+ <li><strong>Emily Gonyer</strong><br />
Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00008.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00008.html</a>
- <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>
+ I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first
+ time, in order to help steer GNOME in a more open and community led
+ direction. It is my opinion that GNOME has strode too far towards a
+ corporate-driven project and away from its community-led roots. As of
+ now, GNOME is, in my opinion too beholden to a small handful of large
+ corporations which forces the project to ignore large swaths of our
+ users in preference to them. The end result being that GNOME has lost
+ a tremendous portion of its respect and goodwill in the wider free
+ software community. As a member of the GNOME board of directors I will
+ actively work against this tide and towards the more open,
+ community-driven project that GNOME once was and I hope will be again.
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 867 - ->
+ <!- - Verified Member: 952 - ->
</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/2014-May/msg00009.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00009.html</a>
<blockquote>
+ I'm running for a second term on the board to lend my organizing skills and my interest
in reaching out to
+ people to the Foundation and ensure its growth. We have an amazing community and high
quality technology. My
+ interests as a board member are to enable face-to-face work, development in the areas of
interest to donors
+ and advisory board members, and better external visibility of GNOME. Most recently, I've
been helping
+ organize sponsorship materials and process for GNOME.Asia and GUADEC, and contacting
prospective sponsors.
+ </blockquote>
+ <!- - Verified Member: 739 - ->
+ </li>
+ </p>
- 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.
+ <p>
+ <li><strong>Ekaterina Gerasimova</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>None</em><br />
+ Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00010.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00010.html</a>
+ <blockquote>
+ I am currently working towards the Foundation being able to be more
+ transparent again with its finances, as it used to be. This will help
+ our sponsors and supporters see how we are using their donations to
+ further the goals of GNOME and will help the membership, especially
+ the volunteers, to keep contributing to the project. The board will
+ also need to keep making challenging decisions for the benefit of the
+ Foundation, to make sure that our spending is in areas that are of
+ most importance. I feel that I have done this well over the last year
+ and would like to be able to keep doing it. In the upcoming year, I
+ want to be able to offer our sponsors better value for their financial
+ support.
+ </blockquote>
+ <!- - Verified Member: 867 - ->
+ </li>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ <li><strong>Sriram Ramkrishna</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>Intel</em><br />
+ Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00011.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00011.html</a>
+ <blockquote>
+ I'm running for a second term as Director of the GNOME Foundation. I
+ plan on continuing my efforts in outreach both inside of GNOME
+ Foundation and to external. There is still many things to do in order
+ to make our platform and desktop attractive to everyone and I wish to
+ continue talking about our story. I can continue to be effective in
+ leveraging what I've learned as Director as well as the extensive set
+ of contacts I have as part of my day job and the open source project I
+ am involved there as well.
</blockquote>
- <!- - Verified Member: 739 - ->
+ <!- - Verified Member: 193 - ->
</li>
</p>
-
- </ol>
--->
+ <li><strong>David King</strong><br />
+ Affiliation: <em>Red Hat</em><br />
+ Full statement at <a
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00012.html";>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2014-May/msg00012.html</a>
+ <blockquote>
+ My goal on the board is to be an effective director. As a visible portion of
+ the Foundation's role is providing financial support to its members, I think
+ that lots more work will be needed by the board to ensure that GNOME is
+ financially secure, and will remain so in the future. I think that my
+ experience on the travel committee will be helpful in making challenging
+ decisions regarding finances.
+ </blockquote>
+ <!- - Verified Member: 863 - ->
+ </li>
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
+ </ol>
+
<h2>Additional Elections-related Information</h2>
diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/index.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/index.wml
index 0da6253..12160f0 100644
--- a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/index.wml
+++ b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2014/index.wml
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
<li>
<a href="../../vote.php?election_id=21">Interface to vote</a>
</li>
+-->
<li>
<a href="candidates.html">List of candidates for Board of Directors</a>
</li>
--->
<li>
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/?date=2014-05-30";>List of registered
voters</a>
</li>
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