Name: Carlos Soriano
Email: csoriano@gnome.org
Corporate affiliation: Red Hat
Hello all,
I would like to announce my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation board of directors for the second term.
I've
been contributing to GNOME since 2014 as GSoC student for two years in
GNOME Shell and then joined Red Hat as maintainer of Nautilus until now.
In
the last board term I tried to look after GNOME as a whole while being
close to every person in our community. I enjoyed reaching out to the
different people that creates GNOME and tried to create initiatives and
took the lead of those that I believe have a good impact on the project
and organization.
More notoriously, I have been working as partnership contact with
GitLab.
Being part of the board gave me the ground and position to be able to
agree on a deal after 6 months of work and discussions. That work
included making part of their product free software, removing the CLA,
supporting GNOME on our transition, influence their product decisions
and finally, getting sponsorship.
Lately, I also created the
GNOME Internship program
by setting up the instructions, processes, requirements, contract,
legal framework and contacting community members needed to make it
successful. This effort allowed us to unblock the privacy campaign funds
recollected in 2013 and allows the foundation to channel funds towards
critical topics from now on.
If I get
reelected, I will continue trying to steer the GNOME project in the
direction I believe it's most beneficial for the project and that aligns
with what the members of GNOME would like for the GNOME project to be.
I don't know how the path will look like, as we are expanding the
foundation the challenges ahead are great. However, these challenges are
just another motivation to be part of the board.
Best,
Carlos Soriano
