Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

Hi Emily,

On 17 May 2014 19:42, Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com> wrote:
> Name: Emily Gonyer
> Email: emilyyrose gmail com
> Affiliation: None
>
> Dear Foundation,
>
> I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first
> time, in order to help steer GNOME in a more open and community led
> direction. It is my opinion that GNOME has strode too far towards a
> corporate-driven project and away from its community-led roots. As of
> now, GNOME is, in my opinion too beholden to a small handful of large
> corporations which forces the project to ignore large swaths of our
> users in preference to them. The end result being that GNOME has lost
> a tremendous portion of its respect and goodwill in the wider free
> software community. As a member of the GNOME board of directors I will
> actively work against this tide and towards the more open,
> community-driven project that GNOME once was and I hope will be again.

I understand your concerns with regards to corporate involvement in
the project direction.

Based on the available financial information, the corporate
sponsorship enables the Foundation to employ an executive director and
an administrative assistant. Without this sponsorship, much of the
administrative work would need to be taken over by the Foundation
membership and the current board is already facing the challenges
resulting from having only one employee at this time.

How do you aim to achieve your goals without alienating the companies
that enable the Foundation to have employees to do the administrative
work and offer financial support to our membership?

GNOME is Free software, with a broad base of unpaid and paid
contributors. It seems that you wish to change the proportions of
GNOME contributors from the two backgrounds, how do you aim to achieve
this?

> I have been a long time user of GNOME since the 1.x days, and an
> active contributor for the last 2+ years, primarily in
> Marketing/Engagement with limited development and design
> contributions. I actively promote free
> software whenever and wherever I can, and feel strongly that it is
> only through free software that we will be able to keep the freedoms
> that we all cherish both online and off. Those freedoms are being
> actively obstructed and eroded by corporations and governments around
> the world. As a member of the board of directors I will actively work
> against these forces, in order to ensure a free and open internet for
> everyone.
>
> Good luck to all!
>
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