Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño Mail: gpoo gnome org Nick: gpoo Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://calcifer.org/blog/ (for Spanish speakers) Affiliation: None Summary I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for re-election for the Foundation Board because I am confident there is plenty of room where I can help to GNOME and its community, as in the two previous years, bringing a different perspective and an independent voice. My involvement in GNOME I have been involved in GNOME since the beginning of the current century, and I have been working with Unix since 1991 and Linux since 1995. I have attended GUADEC since 2002. I also have attended to other GNOME events, such as GUADEC-ES (Hispanic Guadec), Forum do GNOME (Brazil), GNOME Day (Chile), Involucrate (Peru). When I was young I was coordinator of Spanish translation team and I wrote gnome-nettool. Since then, I helped here and there. Since July 2009, I have served to the board as treasure. Promotion of GNOME and Free Software I have spent a lot of my spare time promoting GNOME and FLOSS in conferences, I have given more than 60 talks on GNOME and related topics. I have been involved in local communities since its beginnings, such as GNOME Hispano and GNOME Chile. I founded and organized the biggest Linux (as the kernel) conference in Chile, but also I organized other events related with Free Software and GNOME. I have helped and encouraged several developers to get involved in GNOME. I feel I am accessible to many people of our community, which in some way or another, I can help to get their ideas discussed openly in the board. Motivations: I think I have had an acceptable role as director in my two terms where I have served as treasure. Since I started, I have worked in improving the way the financial information is presented in order to take better decisions based in promptly and good quality information. I have promoted to spend GNOME funds wisely as much as possible. As the previous year, I think there is plenty of room to improve in this and other areas and I plan to continue working on this as treasure or mentoring the future treasure. On the other hand, we have new challenges we must approach in order to succeed as platform for developing applications to make our desktop appealing for third parties, improving our infrastructure to attract new developers, and so on. I have had the experience of working in a board with and without an Executive Director, and I can say there is a difference in the workload and how many directors can perform, in particular because directors are volunteers at the end of the day. I think I can help the new Executive Director productive and getting the best of the elected directors in order to accomplish our goals as community. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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