Fwd: Candidacy (Daniel Veillard)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  forgot to Cc' elections gnome org,

Daniel

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> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:28:09 -0500
> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> Subject: Candidacy (Daniel Veillard)
> To: foundation-announce gnome org
>
> Name:                   Daniel Veillard
> Email:                  veillard redhat com
> Corporate Affiliation:  Red Hat, Inc.
>
> Summary:
>
> I am French, long time Gnomer and Linux addict, maintainer of
> libxml, libxslt and rpmfind. I served on the Gnome Board for two
> years and I am used to non-profit organizations and the negociations
> needed to reach consensus in a group. I will focuse on the reuse
> of standards, internationalization and keeping trust relationship at an
> individual level. I think those are needed to keep hacking on Gnome fun
> and getting acceptance in new communities. Growing the foundation to
> get acceptance by program developpers is the next challenge of the Board.
>
> Full candidacy statement:
>
>   Here are some of the points which I think make my candidacy relevant
> considering the work expected to be done in the Gnome Foundation Board:
>
>    - I think I know the Gnome project well, I came in shortly after
>      meeting the group during Linux Expo 98 and served on the board since
>      it's creation.
>    - I have some experience in non-profit organizations, I co-founded
>      the first French Linux User Group (Guilde), used to be a W3C 
>      employee for 5 years, and served on the Gnome Board for the last
>      two years.
>    - I don't know if I am an hacker but I am definitely a coder, I am not
>      a GUI expert but I designed and wrote libxml and libxslt, I also
>      designed and maintain the rpmfind servers and client code. I hold
>      a PhD in the field of operating systems and distributed computing.
>    - I think I have learnt how to try to get a group to build decisions
>      by consensus, I am also used to talk to representant of large
>      companies and handle coordination issues.
>    - Though I try to avoid too much travels, I can talk to large
>      audiences like I did in the past at Web or XML conferences.
>    - I am French, consequence as you may have noticed I can be stubborn
>      and even sometime convince people to change their mind. 
>    - I have managed to grow a community around the libxml2 and libxslt
>      libraries, including people using them on other platforms, or 
>      developping commercial software.
>
>   Here are the points I promised to focuse on when running for the previous
> Board elections [1] [2], and I think they still apply, though the I18N and
> standard point are now in place and don't need advocacy anymore:
>
>    - Reuse and respect of standards. I think interoperability and open
>      formats are keys to Gnome success. I also think I had some success
>      in this respect.
>    - Internationalization, this is in my opinion truely important to
>      be able to input, render and output seamlessly any language.
>    - Keep the trust relationship in the Gnome project at an individual
>      level. I can trust a person, not a name or a brand, though I will
>      act toward keeping "Gnome" a trusted name.
>    - Be strict about Licences, patents, IPR and related issues. For
>      example I think the Board should have a rule of not allowing Non
>      Disclosure Agreement when one person acts for the Foundation Board.
>    - Keep the Board decision process as transparent as possible while
>      still being efficient, this can be a real challenge in my experience.
>      I think I contributed reasonably to this, by maintaining
>      quickly updated minutes for the Board, I appreciated this seems
>      to have influenced positively other efforts in Gnome.
>    - Keep my independance while trying to guarantee that I will have
>      dedicated time for this task. Though I'm now working for Red Hat
>      I never had a problem keeping my freedom at the Board level. The
>      Board must stay a representation of individuals, companies are
>      invited to make suggestions at the Advisory Board level.
>
>   However, I think the challenges now faced by the GNOME project are slowly
> shifting. While I hope that at least a core group of people will be reelected
> from the previous Board to keep a minimal continuity needed for smooth
> operations, we clearly need fresh blood for a number of reasons:
>
>    - there is a new generation of GNOME developpers, new people have joined
>      and are very active in the community, they need to get on-Board. For
>      example I would prefer to see me not reelected than someone like
>      Jeff Waugh being blocked from the board.
>    - the board workload itself will have to change, the foundation setup
>      is mostly finished, it needs some refinement, but now the bulk of the
>      work is not in setting up the foundations but growing the organization,
>      financially, in term of awareness, make sure we can pay the salaries
>      of our fulltime employee(s), etc...
>    - the GNOME project itself is at a turn in its history, with the
>      completion of the GNOME2 platform we should gradually shift from a set
>      of framework developpers to application developpers. The platform is
>      here for the long term we need to make sure it will get maintained but
>      the challenge now is to convince application developpers to join
>      the project, whether they come from the free software community or
>      commercial venture.
>    - those changes makes even more crucial some aspects of the communication
>      with the community at large, keeping the website accurate and searchable,
>      good documentation, conferences like GUADEC with tutorials, etc...
>      We need to make the transition from keeping hacking on GNOME fun to
>      make hacking *with* GNOME fun (and efficient). It is a different effort.
>
>   In a nutshell the workload is changing, the board in the next years will
> be faced with different problems than the previous ones. I may not be the
> best and most motivated candidate to achive the new goals, but I can provide
> some experience and help doing the transition I perceive necessary.
>
>   More personal informations:
>
>    - Home page http://veillard.com/
>    - I'm DV on IRC and nearly always connected on #gnome and LinuxNet
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2000-October/msg00020.html
> [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-November/msg00001.html
>
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