Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño Mail: gpoo gnome org Nick: gpoo Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/ http://www.calcifer.org/~gpoo/ (for Spanish speakers) Affiliation: None Summary I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for the Foundation Board because I want to help Gnome and its community from a different perspective and bringing an independent voice. I want to see the communication from Foundation Board's to its community improved. I will work to empower contributors, work groups and local communities. 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 from 2002 to 2008, but also 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. I usually give a hand whenever I am asked for. 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[1] 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. Motivations: I want to be on the Foundation's board because I want to improve the communication from the board to its community. I think It has improved trough the years, but I am confident it could be better. I want to help to getting things done as quick as possible whenever its related to conferences, hackfest and events from local communities, in order to improve the use of foundation's budget and communication. [1] Yes, the kernel. Regards, -- Germán Póo-Caamaño Concepción - Chile http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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