Candidate (James Henstridge)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Yet another candidacy statement

James Henstridge <james daa com au>
Currently on a contract with ActiveState (will send a message when this 
changes)

I have been working on gnome for over 3 years, working on various areas 
including the Python language bindings, and various parts of the gnome 
and gtk+ development platforms.

I have helped in the development of the new defs format which is 
designed to make writing language bindings for gnome easier to write, 
and make the APIs of the various language bindings more similar to make 
documenting them easier.

I served on the gnome steering committee before the formation of the 
gnome foundation, and was a candidate in the last foundation elections.

I am an Australian but unlike Jeff, I have been known to say "mate" 
(don't hold that against him though).

If elected, I will make it difficult to schedule conference calls due to 
living in the wrong timezone.


On a related note, it would be nice if the elections this year were held 
using a preferential system, which would give more fair results (voting 
for popular candidates wouldn't effectively decrease the value of your 
vote).  A description of the algorithm is at:

 http://www.aec.gov.au/pubs/factfiles/factsheet7.htm

James.

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Email: james daa com au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/