Candidacy: Brian Cameron
- From: Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>
- To: foundation-announce gnome org, elections gnome org
- Subject: Candidacy: Brian Cameron
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 21:15:42 -0500
Name: Brian Cameron
Email: brian cameron oracle com
Nick: yippi
Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/yippi/
Web: http://live.gnome.org/BrianCameron
Affiliation: Oracle
I have great passion for advocating free software. I think this is a
common bond that ties all of the different people in the GNOME
community together.
I am excited to run for a 4th term on the GNOME Board of Directors. The
past year has been busy as the board has been working hard to make the
GNOME 3 release exciting and successful. Now it is time for some
follow through, and I anticipate that this will keep us busy the coming
year.
Who?
* I have been a part of the GNOME community since January, 2001 (almost
10 years!)
* I have over 18 years of experience as a UNIX programmer and
technical documentation writer.
* I am affiliated with Oracle where I work as a senior engineer on the
OpenSolaris Desktop team.
* I have served on the GNOME Foundation board since December, 2008 and
acted as secretary the past two terms.
* I have been the maintainer/co-maintainer of GDM since 2005.
* I have regularly attended GUADEC and Boston Summit conferences since
2002.
* I live in Chicago in the United States.
Why?
I am highly motivated and have time to invest to make The GNOME
Foundation successful. I have passion for working with the GNOME
community, and I have a good working relationship with many people in
the GNOME and free software communities.
I am especially proud of the following accomplishments over the past
term on the board:
* I have been effective acting as secretary, keeping quality minutes
of GNOME Foundation meetings that seem to encourage good
discussion. I have worked to keep The GNOME Foundation Wiki
better organized.
* I encourage the humanitarian aspects of the GNOME project, such
as accessibility and creating the developing-world mailing list. At
last year's GUADEC, for example, I worked with the OLPC and Sugar
projects to create and distribute a co-branded t-shirt highlighting
how GNOME and free software really helps people in need.
* I act as the legal contact for The GNOME Foundation and am the
point of contact for the pro-bono lawyers who work with us. This
involves things like taking care of contracts, and other documents
that require legal involvement.
* I acted as Stormy's manager until she left the position, and have
worked on the ED Hiring Committee with Stormy, Og, and others
since.
* I have helped to ensure that GNOME events continue to be
scheduled and run smoothly. I was involved with making the
GNOME.Asia Summit and GNOME 3 hackfest a success, for example.
* I have been active on many community mailing lists to help keep
things moving smoothly in a positive direction.
If elected, I will continue to work hard to ensure that GNOME provides
the best free desktop accessible to everyone. Thank you for
considering me.
GNOME Rocks,
Brian Cameron
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