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Leslie Proctor | 3 Nov 2004 23:04

Candidacy - Leslie Proctor

I didn't want to leave this to the last minute and
also wanted to get the ball rolling for others to
throw their hats into the ring.

Leslie Proctor
proctors <at> pacbell.net
Corporate Affiliation (as they say in the Hollywood
Reporter) Non-pro (in other words, I don't work for an
IT company)

Description:  I've been involved with GNOME since the
beginning, doing marketing, organizing trade show
presence, helping to organize GUADEC and other stuff
like that. I'm an incumbent member of the board.

Guess that's it - now let's clog our inboxes with
other announcements of candidacy everyone!!!

LP
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Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation | 4 Nov 2004 18:18
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Help Support GNOME in South America

Greetings,

Last month, GNOME Foundation sponsored the successful GNOME Summit at
MIT. With the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC)
held annually in Europe, we are now trying to encourage regional
events in other parts of the world.

The first "Forum GNOME" will take place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil from 
November 11 to 12 featuring, among many talented speakers from Brazil, 
Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and the US, are Federico Mena-Quintero,
German Poo Caaman~o and Jon 'Maddog' Hall. <forumgnome.com.br>

While GNOME Foundation has received financial support for this event
from CELEPAR and Novell, we have received many requests from young
developers and teachers from telecenters who are in need of travel
subsidy to participate.

The purpose of Forum GNOME is to:
-1- provide local GNOME developer training
-2- demonstrate the success of networks using the GNOME desktop,
    (telecenters in Sao Paolo alone have over 400,000 users of GNOME) 
    for government and businesses
-3- build a cooperative GNOME user and developer base in Brasil and 
    neighboring South American countries.  

You may support this effort with a contribution today at
<http://gnome.org/friends/> or by sending a check to:

GNOME Foundation
Eight Cambridge Center - 5th Floor
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Anne Østergaard | 6 Nov 2004 23:29
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Candidacy Announcement- Anne Østergaard


From: Anne Østergaard <anne <at> oestergaard.nu>
To: foundation-announce <at> gnome.org
Subject: Candidacy Announcement, Anne Østergaard
Date: 02 Nov 2004 16:23:07 +0100

Candidacy Announcement

Name: Anne Østergaard
Mail: anne AT oestergaard DOT nu
Affl: None

Summary:

I was a volunteer at the 2nd GUADEC in Copenhagen in 2001. - Where I was
"sold" to GNOME and the GNOME community because of the passionate,
motivated, warm and dedicated atmosphere among the developers.

Since that time I have followed the foot prints and contributed to the
conferences and the community.- I was in Seville learning and in Dublin
and Kristiansand to try to make a difference by starting a dialog
between decision makers, developers and users.

I invited the EU Commission and civil servants from state
administrations in EU, who uses Free Software as pioneers, to get
acquainted with GNOME. They liked it and came again to Kristiansand and
hopefully they will come to Stuttgart next year.

I encouraged Kristiansand to host this years GUADEC to get a big foot
print planted in Norway and Scandinavia. It started a discussion in
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Daniel Veillard | 8 Nov 2004 10:36
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Candidacy Daniel Veillard

Name:                   Daniel Veillard
Email:                  veillard <at> 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 three
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 GNOME presence
worldwide in mindshare, users and 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
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Tim Ney | 8 Nov 2004 16:49
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Candidacy - Tim Ney

This concept has continued value: For the GNOME Foundation to fulfill
its mission, it needs the combined efforts of hackers and non-hackers
alike. One of my main contributions to GNOME has been to organize and
raise funds for GUADEC, the Boston Summit and now other regional events
in Brazil and Spain.  For GNOME to scale to the widest geography of
development, recognition and use, the board needs to assemble more
resources to help provide training and outreach accessible to all.  

Name: Timothy Ney
Email: ten at gnome org
Affiliation: GNOME Foundation
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Dave Neary | 8 Nov 2004 18:06
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Candidacy: David Neary


Putting my money where my mouth is, I'm throwing my hat into the ring.

Even though I'm probably an unknown to most of the GNOME developers, I have been
around for quite a while, primarily in the GIMP project. Last year, I was
involved in organising GUADEC, and also brought the GIMP under the GNOME
Foundation umbrella, with help from Tim Ney and the current board. I'm more an
organiser than a coder, and I actually like doing board-type activities.

The board has a lot to offer to the community, especially in the realm of
communication and organisation - being on the board doesn't mean running
things, so much as letting other people know what needs running, and harnessing
that enthusiasm.

Name: David Neary
Email: bolsh at gimp dot org
Affiliation: None - my company does not support free software work.

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Dave Neary
Lyon, France
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Miguel de Icaza | 8 Nov 2004 16:26
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Candidacy Miguel de Icaza



Hello everyone,

    I would like to run for the Gnome Foundation Board of Directors.
I submit my application for the consideration of the elections
committee and the Foundations' membership:

Name: 			Miguel de Icaza
E-Mail: 		miguel <at> gnome.org
Corporate Affiliation: 	Novell, Inc.

* Summary of my application for 

	Have been an active contributor to the free software movement
	since 1992.

	I am one of the founders of Gnom, Ximian and the Mono
	project and currenty working for Novell. 

	Have been actively involved for the past three years in the
	development of Mono and the Gtk bindings for C# to simplify
	the development of applications for Gnome, as well as enabling
	developers from Windows to migrate to free systems more
	easily.

	Since the release of Mono and Gtk# 1.0 there has been a nice
	growth of desktop-based applications using Mono, and I
	continue to believe that Mono fills in nicely the gap that the
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Owen Taylor | 8 Nov 2004 18:45
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Candidacy: Owen Taylor

Since I'm running for reelection, I'll start off with what I 
said last year:

 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-November/msg00017.html

How did I do on encouraging the specific directions I listed there? 
Frankly, only so-so. To go through them point by point:

 1. More interaction with the broader technical community: Not 
 really any action on that one.

 2. A development environment roadmap: progress here was prevented
 by factors largely outside the board's control.

 3. An active and open system administration team: Not fully open, 
 but definitely better than it was a year ago. We've brought some 
 new people in and they are contributing.

 4. Tackling problems beyond the narrow confines of the desktop:
 Seems to be going well, especially for multimedia and hardware
 integration.

Some non-successes, some successes, but I wouldn't claim much
credit for myself on the sucesses.

That doesn't mean GNOME isn't going well. I think GNOME is going great
at the moment ... we've churned out releases, we've had multiple
succesful conferences, there's a huge amount of traffic on the lists,
the deployment numbers keep on growing. But it's going great
with a largely inactive board.
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Rodney Dawes | 8 Nov 2004 20:49
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Candidacy - Rodney Dawes

I agree with Tim. As far as contributions to GNOME go, I maintain
intltool, gnome-icon-theme, evolution-webcal, and the background
portion of control-center. I've also contributed code to most other
GNOME modules as well.

Name: Rodney Dawes
EMail: dobey at novell dot com
Affiliation: Novell
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Michael Meeks | 8 Nov 2004 22:42

Candidacy: Michael Meeks


Name: Michael Meeks
E-mail address: mmeeks <at> novell.com
Affiliation: Novell, Inc.
Summary:
	At last count, Gnome was suffering from a lack of clear, well
articulated, technical leadership, with no mechanism for generating
technical consensus (particularly where this requires compromise).
This in general leads to directional atrophy, wasted effort, and
violence towards domestic pets.
	The board shouldn't provide this leadership, but can encourage it.
Furthermore it seems obvious that the Gnome environment should be
further strengthened by compromise, alignment & code-sharing with other
projects eg. Mozilla & OpenOffice.org.

	Or something,

		Michael.

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 michael.meeks <at> novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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