Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:39 -0500, Andy Tai wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/16/06, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:
>         Name: Joachim Noreiko
>         
>         As a board member, I want to work to lower the
>         barriers to entry that block potential GNOME
>         contributors. I hope that my work on the website and
>         documentation will play a part in that, but I also 
>         think more can be done socially. Efforts such as GNOME
>         Love and Patch Squad need more help, for example.
>         
>         I want to make GNOME more coherent. I'd like to see
>         GNOME Certification come about, and that will entail 
>         bringing the HIG up to date. I'd like to see more
>         GNOME marketing efforts, which will mean more planning
>         of our release right from the start of the development
>         cycle.


> You seem to contradict yourself.  You want lower the bar of entry but
> at the same time impose more bureaucratic work such as a certification
> scheme? 

Can't speak for Joachim, but I don't see any contradiction here.
Lowering the bar of entry mostly deals with individuals, where
certification involves projects, and is volunteerly, from my
understanding.

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeCertification

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