[foundation-web] Land additional candidates for 2021 elections

[Andrea Veri <averi src gnome org>]

commit 185b85fc0cbff58f834fecba7e9da6fda1da19fb
Author: Andrea Veri <averi redhat com>
Date:   Tue Jun 1 00:10:46 2021 +0200

    Land additional candidates for 2021 elections

 foundation.gnome.org/vote/2021/candidates.wml | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2021/candidates.wml b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2021/candidates.wml
index ce90329..edc61d2 100644
--- a/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2021/candidates.wml
+++ b/foundation.gnome.org/vote/2021/candidates.wml
@@ -92,6 +92,40 @@ I'm keeping this pitch short & simple, if you would like to learn more about me,
                 </blockquote>
             </li>
         </p>
+        <p>
+            <li><strong>Tobias Bernard</strong><br />
+                Affiliation: <em>Purism</em><br />
+                <blockquote>
+I've been using GNOME for over a decade, and actively contributing on the design team since 2016. Over the 
past 5 years I've worked on most new user-facing features and initiatives, such as the 2019 app icon redesign 
and the GNOME 40 shell refresh. As part of my work for Purism I've also been heavily involved with porting 
apps to mobile form factors, and improving our developer story in the process with Libhandy/Libadwaita.
+
+I believe my deep involvement with many different parts of our product and various sub-communities within 
the project would be an asset when it comes to communication with our developer community as well as the 
broader public.
+
+If elected I'd like to help improve communication both internally and externally, and work on outreach to 
potential new contributors outside the traditional open source demographics. I have not served on a 
non-profit board before, but I'm excited about learning everything necessary to be an effective board member.
+                </blockquote>
+            </li>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+            <li><strong>Nick Richards</strong><br />
+                Affiliation: <em>Lucid</em><br />
+                <blockquote>
+I’ve been involved in the GNOME community for a long time (I became a foundation member in 2012), both as a 
volunteer and someone paid to work on GNOME and create products from GNOME. Initially on the design side 
whilst working for Intel on products such as Moblin/MeeGo Netbook but also specifying and selling consulting 
services at Collabora (did you know there are medical devices with their interfaces written in GTK?) before 
managing product at Endless, where not only did we create experimental, scalable interfaces using GTK and 
GNOME (emeus, the constraints manager in GTK came out of this) but we also did a lot of work on helping GNOME 
based computing reach entirely new audiences.  I’m thrilled to see that a lot of those insights have made it 
to everyone else in GNOME 40. These days I’m a full time Product Manager at a Software as a Service company 
called Lucid and also spend a lot of my free software volunteering time trying to improve the ecosystem of 
apps on Linux as part
  of the Flatpak and Flathub communities. I recently saw <a 
href="https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05/24/gnome-foundation-board-elections-2021/";>Allan's blog post</a> 
about the evolving role of the GNOME board of directors and was interested to see that the current board are 
looking for new candidates who can bring some different perspectives. I believe that I can help. Other than 
my skills as a Product Manager and experience explaining the value of software (and very specifically the 
value of contributing non trivial features into GNOME upstream first) to non-professional audiences I have 
also been a trustee of a small nonprofit in the UK for the last five years so I understand deeply the 
responsibilities of trustees and some of the pressures of balancing impact vs explanation to donors in that 
ecosystem. The most urgent challenges I see for the GNOME foundation are binding more people and 
organisations into our community who either benefit from our work already, should benefit fro
 m it or are aligned with our mission and values. Some of this needs to be commercial and expand our pool of 
significant donors that can help fund strategic work such as the accessibility rewrite that for one reason or 
another hadn’t risen up the priority list for our existing contributors. We have an opportunity to help guide 
the foundation to a position where we can make more GNOME, have more people making GNOME, and make GNOME work 
for more people. Or we can kind of do what we've been doing for a while which is fun and useful but maybe not 
as impactful as it could be.
+                </blockquote>
+            </li>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+            <li><strong>Ken VanDine</strong><br />
+                Affiliation: <em>Canonical</em><br />
+                <blockquote>
+I’ve been a long-time GNOME contributor and Foundation member, but never served on the board.  I got started 
as an end-user of GNOME more than 20 years ago and got involved as a contributor with GNOME Journal in 2004.  
Around the same time, I joined the GNOME marketing team as well as the GNOME Love project.  I traveled to 
conferences and numerous LUGs around the US giving talks on GNOME, specifically GNOME Love, and how new 
contributors could get involved.  During this time I was also the maintainer of the GNOME live isos as well 
as the GNOME Developers Kit.
+
+For the past 12 years, I’ve been on the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical, and am now managing the desktop 
team.  I think my position at Canonical gives me a valuable perspective on what OEM partners and enterprise 
customers are looking for in a commercial offering.
+
+Also, for the past 7 years, I’ve been a volunteer at Kramden Institute, serving on the Volunteer Leadership 
Team where we refurbish computers for underprivileged children as well as provide computer literacy programs 
for those families.  At Kramden, we provide GNOME as the desktop environment on the computers we award to 
children in need.  I think my service at Kramden gives me an interesting perspective on the use of GNOME in 
educational environments.
+
+I would be honored to serve the GNOME Foundation, leveraging my experiences to help GNOME continue to grow 
and thrive.
+                </blockquote>
+            </li>
+        </p>
     </ol>
 
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