Re: GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Emmanuele Bassi

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

[I'm removing a couple of addresses from the Cc:]

hi Zeeshan;

On 20 May 2013 14:04, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Emmanuele,
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > name: Emmanuele Bassi
> > email: ebassi (at) gnome.com
> > affiliation: Endless Mobile
> >
> > I have been a GNOME contributor for the past 10 years, and served as
> > secreatry on the board of directors for the past two years.
>
> Same question as for Seif: Could you kindly provide a brief summary of
> your work/contributions as board member in the past year? It would
> greatly help the members in deciding to vote for you.

that's an absolutely fair question — I was distinctively succinct.

my role in the Board, this year like last year, has been the
Secretary; I've kept the minutes for the meeting conference calls
every two weeks, as well as the advisory board meetings (if I could
travel), and the face to face meetings at GUADEC.

the minutes have been published on the wiki and on foundation-announce
— though, in the last couple of months I had to travel more than I
expected to last year, or even in January, so I skipped a couple of
meetings and the minutes took a bit longer to be edited and published.

last year, Tobi all but took over the handling of the Friends of GNOME
duties from me: he's been *awesome*, and has done a lot to improve the
automation of this incredibly time-consuming task. make sure to buy
him a beer at GUADEC.

I'll be the first to admit that I've done less than I intended to do
when I submitted my candidacy last year; I did stay as the secretary,
and managed to get the role more under control after spending a year
learning how to actually do it. :-)

I have also been working with the GUADEC local teams, both in my role
as chair of the papers committee for GUADEC 2013 and as a director of
the Foundation.

if I am re-elected, I plan to continue working in the administrivia of
the board meetings: it's something that I actually enjoy doing, and
I'm sure it frees up time for other directors as well; I want to keep
interacting with the advisory board members (both during the official
adboard meetings and "offline") so that we are always engaged in a
meaningful conversation as to where GNOME is going, and what it needs
to get there; and, finally, I want to help the GUADEC local teams
interact with the Foundation's board — especially in the transition
between the 2013 team and the 2014 one.

hope this answers your question.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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