Candidacy: Pockey Lam

[Pockey Lam <pockey softwarefreedomday org>]

Name: Pockey Lam
Email: pockeylam(at)gnome(dot)org
Nick: pockeylam
Blog: http://pockey.dao2.com
Affiliation: None

Summary

As a founding member of the GNOME.Asia committee，Beijing GUG and Taiwan 
GUG I strive to promote GNOME in Asia. I am one of the lead organizers 
of the GNOME.Asia Summit since its inception (China, Vietnam, Taiwan, 
India) as well as assisting numerous groups to start and grow their GUGs 
in their area. I also organized the first GNOME Hackfest in Asia 
supported by the release and marketing teams, to work on preparing the 
GNOME 3.0 release.

Within 4 years GNOME.Asia committee has been growing from organizing an 
annual conference to running different projects. One of those successful 
initiatives was to put together the GNOME 3 launch parties campaign and 
ensure people would know about it. With 141 parties worldwide I feel 
this has been a tremendous success.

Who?

* Founding member of GNOME.Asia committee, Beijing GUG and Taiwan GUG
* GNOME.Asia committee lead
* GNOME marketing team member
* GUGmasters mailing list admin and moderator
* GNOME.Asia site admin
* Software Freedom International Board Director and Secretary
* Chinese OSS Promotion Union, SFDChina.org and Greenboard.org Board 
Director
* Ex-president of Beijing GNU/Linux User Group
* Based in South China

Why?

Being an advocate of Software Freedom and the GNOME project since 2004 I 
believe that becoming a GNOME board director would give me leverage to 
grow the GNOME community further in Asia and replicate our successes in 
other parts of the world which GNOME has not yet reached. I also feel it 
is important to have someone from Asia represented.

If elected as a GNOME board director, I plan to:
* Lead the GNOME.Asia Committee to work on more generic projects to 
benefit the GNOME community at large such as GUGs meeting kit, local 
event volunteers how-tos and GNOME booth setup guide
* Organize more GNOME Hackfests in Asia
* Expand the GNOME communication channels to reach more local communities
* Attract more contributors through GNOME User Groups promotion
* Be a coordinator and help to strengthen the GNOME Community in parts 
of the world needing it

Thank you for considering me.

Pockey