Since I'm running for reelection, I'll start off with what I said last year: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-November/msg00017.html How did I do on encouraging the specific directions I listed there? Frankly, only so-so. To go through them point by point: 1. More interaction with the broader technical community: Not really any action on that one. 2. A development environment roadmap: progress here was prevented by factors largely outside the board's control. 3. An active and open system administration team: Not fully open, but definitely better than it was a year ago. We've brought some new people in and they are contributing. 4. Tackling problems beyond the narrow confines of the desktop: Seems to be going well, especially for multimedia and hardware integration. Some non-successes, some successes, but I wouldn't claim much credit for myself on the sucesses. That doesn't mean GNOME isn't going well. I think GNOME is going great at the moment ... we've churned out releases, we've had multiple succesful conferences, there's a huge amount of traffic on the lists, the deployment numbers keep on growing. But it's going great with a largely inactive board. So, considering that, why should you relect me to another term on the board? Because I do believe that the board has a role to play. That there are things that the board could be doing, that GNOME could be doing, that we aren't doing currently. And I am going to put effort into making sure we do those things. I think my points from last year are all still valid goals for GNOME. We still need more visibility in the broader technical world, we still need a clear direction for a development platform, and we need to grow the range of GNOME even more. This year, I want to give instead some specific action items; if you reelect me, and in one year, I haven't accomplished these items, you should not reelect me again. - I will make sure we have a generally agreed upon short one paragraph description of what the GNOME project is about. - I will work with the responsible parties to make sure we will have a definite plan for version control systems; the unified source repository of GNOME is one of its greatest assets, and we need to maintain that if we transition away from CVS. - I will clearly turn over leadership of the sysadmin team to someone with time to do the job properly before the end of this year. - I will make sure that the release and marketing teams are sufficiently coordinated that there is a press release for each bi-yearly GNOME release coordinated in advance.
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