Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 2013-05-21 09:16, Brian Cameron wrote:
> My question to the candidates:
>
> For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the
> board that you are most proud of?  How many action items did you accept
> over your last term and what percentage were completed?  If things did
> not get done or tended to get done very late, please explain why. If
> you were to give your own performance a grade, what would it be?

I am mostly happy about:
* Keeping the meetings on time and on topic.
- In theory meetings could go on forever, but board members have other 
meetings to attend and one hour slots fits most schedules. Last period 
we were able to keep most meetings in one hour. On occasions spilling 
over 5 or 10 minutes.

* Creating the Annual Report.
It was really unfortunate that we had to create a 2010-2011 report 
instead of two single ones and it gives the impression of a sloppy 
Foundation to the foundation members, the advisory board and the wider 
community. While the 2012 report is late, it is in progress.

I also want to take the opportunity to highlight a accomplishment by 
Joanie, who came up with the very creative resolution to the fact that 
we had two really good GUADEC bids from teams that had applied several 
times before to accept both of them, but for different years (and at the 
same time solving the issue that teams have asked for more time to 
prepare the conferences). I like these kind of creative soultions from 
her a lot!

> For all candidates, how do you see being on the board will enhance or
> facilitate the volunteer work you already do in the commutity? How
> many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to
> working on the board on a regular basis?

It ties into it, and if I wasn't on the board, I would do about the same 
volunteer work anyway.
10 hours a week.
- Andreas