Re: A few questions for the candidates

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

 On 06/01/2010 02:30 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I originally wanted to have some questions included in the list of
> questions sent by the membership committee, but I feel like waiting for
> Friday while the voting period is already opened is waiting a long time
> and I'm not being patient here :-)
>
> I apologize because some of those questions are most likely a bit easier
> to answer for people who are already on the board...
>
> 1) I've read with interest the mails from the candidates announcing
>     they're running, and most (if not all -- I didn't double-check)
>     include some motivations with examples of what they'd be interested
>     in working on.
>     Why are those tasks/ideas things you cannot work on while not being
>     on the board?
When you asked me this previous years, I've ended up not running. 
However, as I want to focus on upstream and downstream relationship this 
year, talking with advisory board partners while on the board as part of 
that will be what I'll do.
> 2) What are your non-usual (ie, not code, not translations, not
>     documentation, etc.) contributions as a GNOME Foundation member?
>     (organizing events, pushing people to do things, finding sponsors,
>     etc. are all possible answers)
I've helped organize release parties in the Gothenburg area for GNOME 
and Ubuntu in order to bring more excitement around those projects and 
connect local free software people. I've also been trying to push GNOME 
marketing stuff, and at other times, others have pushed me.
> 3) What is your opinion on the co-location of Akademy and GUADEC in
>     2011? And if you think it was not the best choice, will you still be
>     able to help it happen?
What I found it difficult with the GCDS conference was that even though 
they were co-localized, from my experience, interaction between the 
teams were not as common as it could have been. KDE people went to KDE 
talks, GNOME people went to GNOME talks... And people are lazy and hang 
out with their old buddies anyway.
Do I still think it's worth another shot and are willing to help it 
happen? Sure, but we need to make sure to keep those social bits in mind.
> 4) How much free time per week do you think you will be able to allocate
>     for the board? (I'm very well aware that this could be 0 for some
>     weeks, and 100% of your time for other weeks; I'm just asking in
>     general)
10 hours per week.
> 5) Are you okay giving up some of your current GNOME
>     responsabilities/activities to join the board? (give up a maintainer
>     hat, or hack less, or participate less in a specific team) Or do you
>     think it won't be necessary and why?
>     (I know it's a bit related to the previous question :-))
I would give up some of the GNOME website hacking if we got new, kickass 
contributors so I could lean back and just point in the air. ;)
> 6) Will you be interested in being treasurer, president or secretary if
>     elected? If yes, which role and why?
For president, I don't have enough experience, and know others I would 
like to see fill that role.
Treasurer means I would need to keep good track of cash, so no.
Secretary, yes, if needed.
> 7) What do you think of the current GNOME Foundation budget? Had you
>     read it at least once before reading this mail?
>     (it's okay if you didn't look at it before, btw)
Being frank here. No, I did not read it before (it is slightly tricky to 
find).
> 8) What do you think our next fundraising campaign should be about?
>     (I'd love to not read 11 times the same answer, thanks :-))
We need a sysadmin next year too, so I would say that. However, in the 
long run, it would probably be better to have enough breathing room to 
fund that through other means. Asking for help with funding for printed 
material (including t-shirts) for local events and events box is a good 
idea I think.
> 9) Will you be at GUADEC this year? (there's a board meeting and an
>     advisory board meeting there)
Of course.
> 10) Make or break question: what's your favorite french expression?
Le français est la langue des dieux [1]

1. 
http://translate.google.com/#en|fr|French%20is%20the%20language%20of%20gods

- Andreas