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Baris Cicek | 1 Nov 2006 21:56
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Announcement of 2006 Board of Directors Election

Who can vote?
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To be able to vote, you need to be a member of the GNOME Foundation and
your membership needs to be valid at least until the end of the
elections. For example, a member whose membership ends on November 30th
2006 won't be able to vote for the elections. A notification e-mail for
those memberhip had been expired will be sent before renewal deadline. 

If you're not a member of the GNOME Foundation or if you need to renew
your membership, you have to apply at
http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/application.php before November
8th 2006 (23:59 UTC).

If you have applied before this date and if you are accepted, then you
will be able to vote for these elections.

Being a candidate
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If you are a member of the GNOME Foundation and are interested in
running for election, you may nominate yourself by sending an e-mail to
foundation-announce gnome org with your name, e-mail address, corporate
affiliation (if any), and a description of why you'd like to serve
before November 16th 2006 (23:59 UTC).

You should also send a summary of your candidacy announcement (75 words
or less) to elections gnome org  If you are not yet a GNOME Foundation
member and would like to stand for election, you must first apply for
membership and be accepted to be eligible to run. (You may, however,
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Anne Østergaard | 11 Nov 2006 00:13
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Candidacy Announcement GNOME Board 2007: Anne Østergaard

Candidacy Announcement

Name: Anne Østergaard
Mail: aoe AT gnome DOT org
Affl: Easterbridge.dk
Nationality: Danish

I run for the Gnome Foundation Board of Directors.

Things I will work for as board member:

* Explaining the mission, the values, and the goals of the GNOME
  foundation more clearly to the general public. Visitors of
  the GNOME website should be well informed in order to attract new
  and active members and help visitors make new contacts.

* Work for the GNOME website to be a natural place to find clear
  information about the goals and direction of both the positions
  of our organization and our new initiatives.

* Building an including community where everyone regardless of gender,
  race, abilities, age, religion etc. feels welcomed and a place
  where the tone is polite and "flaming" is not accepted.

* More "teach" and "hands-on" parties / demonstrations in connection
  with conferences world wide to make it easier for newcomers both
  females and males, to get involved. Seeing is believing.

* Make sure "GNOME is for everyone and ready for the desktop" becomes a
  reality through out all parts of the world.
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Quim Gil | 11 Nov 2006 00:37

Candidacy: Quim Gil

Name: Quim Gil
E-mail: qgil AT desdeamericaconamor DOT org

Corporate affiliation: currently none (but see below) 

Why: I joined the board in June in substitution of Luis Villa. It took
me a while to know the basics of boarding and now that I kind of feel
comfortable comes the end of the year... I think I can do more and
better in 2007.

There are some things I would like to help improving from the board:

- Transparency of the board activities. Yeah, the old topic. After being
outside and inside a pre-diagnose could be made and some measures could
start being applied in 2007. I'm obsessed about transparency.

- Delegation and collaboration with non-board contributors. Another old
topic, connected to the previous one. We keep discussing and some
progress is done, but there is still a long way to go. I enjoy
team-working.

- Areas and board members responsible of each area. Although there is
some specialization in board tasks, the areas are not well defined. A
lot of discussion and work could be optimized if there would be i.e. a
responsible for legal stuff, responsible of events, responsible of local
groups etc.

- Advisory Board. We can get a lot more (from both sides). Also, the
advisory board activity is totally unknown by the membership. Of course
there is a concern about confidentiality but probable we all can find a
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Glynn Foster | 14 Nov 2006 23:26
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Candidacy :: Glynn Foster

Name:  Glynn Foster
Nicks: Gman
Email: glynn.foster <at> sun.com
Corporate Affiliation: Sun Microsystems

Background:

I've been working for the Sun desktop group and involved in GNOME for the past 6
years. I've been a past Foundation board member during 2002 and 2003. My focus
has generally been on community development and communication between Sun and
GNOME, though I have been known to write some code from time to time. I have
previously been involved in the GUADEC organizing committee for several years,
and was a member of the Elections and Membership committee. I am also an active
member of the OpenSolaris community.

Why:

I believe there are a number of significant improvements to the GNOME Foundation
board (and consequently a lot less frustration) over the last year or two that
have encouraged me enough to run again. I hope to be able to continue on the
*fantastic* progress the board has made this year, and work with the wider free
software community.

Concerns:

I do intend to run for the OpenSolaris governing board elections early next year
which would obviously split my interests and time if elected.

I'm also concerned that we get the right selection people on the board this year
as I feel that GNOME is more strategically important than ever, and I would very
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Baris Cicek | 16 Nov 2006 17:20
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Reminder and correction for closing candidates

Hi;

16st of November, Thursday 2006 is the last day for closing election
candidates. Please send your candidacy statements before 23:59 UTC/18:59
EST. (Don't forget to CC to membership-committee <at> gnome.org)

Correction is, Timeline has wrong day names, so it's not Wednesday which
is last day for candidacy statements, it's Thursday (ie. Today). (Thanks
Vincent for pointing out)

Corrected timeline is below (beware that dates are not changed):

Timeline
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 (all deadlines are 23:59 UTC/18:59 EST)

    November 2006
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
           1  2  3 (4)  list of candidates open (4th)
  5  6  7 (8) 9 10 11   applications/renewals closed (8th)
 12 13 14 15(16)17(18)  list of candidates closed (16th)
                        list of candidates announced (18th)
 19 20 21 22 23 24(25)  instructions to vote are sent (25th)
 26 27 28 29 30

    December 2006
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                 1  2
  3  4  5  6  7  8 (9) votes must be returned (9th)
(10)11 12 13 14 15 16  preliminary results announced (10th)
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Dave Neary | 16 Nov 2006 12:28
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Candidacy: Dave Neary


Name: Dave Neary
Email: dneary <at> free.fr
Affiliation: Wengo

Hi,

I have spent a lot of time thinking about whether I will run for the 
board this year. In the end, I feel very invested in the success of the 
foundation, and I feel like we have made huge progress in the past two 
years. I really want to be part of keeping and growing the momentum we have.

Over the past two years, I've played a part in increasing the 
transparency of the board's functions, improving our relations with the 
advisory board, getting new members on that board, and in event 
organisation and fundraising.

All of that is ground work for fulfilling the role I would like to see 
the foundation have in the community - we are looking for a business 
development director, who will work to increase the budget through 
fundraising and partnerships. With that increased budget, I would like 
to see the foundation grow - I would like to see us hire a bugmaster to 
ensure that downstream distros benefit from their collective work. I 
would like to hire a full-time editorial resource for our user and 
developer websites. I would like to see the foundation invest heavily in 
documentation, and ensure that high-quality, up-to-date, printed 
documentation exists for the platform and for users. I would like to see 
the foundation invest also in marketing, listening to ISDs, distributors 
and users and ensuring that that feedback gets fed back into the 
development cycle.
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John (J5) Palmieri | 16 Nov 2006 19:03
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Nominating myself for the board

Name:         John (J5) Palmieri
E-Mail:       johnp <at> redhat.com
Affiliations: Red Hat, Inc. and OLPC

I am running for the board because I believe GNOME needs to reach out
and get more people involved, not just in development of code. We are
already really good at that and though there is always room for
improvement there are areas that need a bit more push to get going.
Areas such as marketing, art and outreach, while having been growing
recently, need to be brought up and given more visibility within the
community.  I believe it is the boards job to identify areas where we
need resources and to identify leaders and catalysts who can utilize
those resources to build subprojects like gnome-love or the release
team.  It is also the boards job to help remove obstacles which hinder
these subprojects.

I believe I qualify for the position because of my experience within the
GNOME community and in building bridges to other communities.  I have
been part of the release team for a year, been a GNOME representative to
the LSB and and a GNOME ambassador to KDE.  I can also take credit for
helping the formation of the GNOME Women subproject by discussing it
with Máirín Duffy after coming back from GUADEC in 2005.

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp <at> redhat.com>

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Máirín Duffy | 16 Nov 2006 21:23
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Candidacy: Máirín Duffy

Candidacy Announcement

Name:         Máirín Duffy (mizmo)
E-mail:       duffy <at> redhat.com
Affiliation:  Fedora & Red Hat, Inc.

Why:

I believe quite strongly in GNOME's design philosophy of simplicity and 
ease-of-use; as an interaction designer I apply the same philosophy to 
my professional work and understand its importance.

I think as a result of following this philosophy, GNOME as a desktop and 
platform is quite solid today and improves quite markedly with every 
release. Where I think we need some work is in applying the same 
principles that govern GNOME's software design to our marketing and 
communication efforts in order to increase awareness of and recognition 
for GNOME.

More specifically, as a Board member I would like to focus on the GNOME 
Brand - the verbal and visual manifestation of what GNOME is all about - 
GNOME's personality. I will continue to drive our brand's definition via 
the brand book (regardless) and once finished, make it easy for others 
to use and spread GNOME by driving the development and organization of 
consistent collateral. I would also love to help in any way I can to 
fully address our trademark concerns so we can confidentially make use 
of our brand.

Background (Who am I?):
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Behdad Esfahbod | 16 Nov 2006 22:01
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Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod


Name: Behdad Esfahbod
Email: behdad gnome org
Affiliation: Red Hat, Inc.

Summary:

I run for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, because I care about
GNOME and I think the Board is very important.  I contribute to GNOME on
a daily basis, and the board is yet another area of the project I want
to challenge myself with.

Why:

GNOME is People.  So is the Board too.  I look at the board as a group
of trusted people caring about GNOME, elected to make sure the
Foundation, and GNOME consequently, performs as good as it can.  Most of
us prefer to be hacking instead.  I would have been happily watching the
elections if the current Board members were mostly running again.  But
seeing many "pass it on", I feel like I should offer my share.

The current board has done a marvelous job so far, and a lot of their
work is still going on.  As a board member I like to see we get the
revamped website online, and the online store become a reality.  I also
want to see the Foundation have better writers, possibly funded by the
foundation.  I want to help better documenting board's events and
procedures, and make sure incoming board email is processed as fast as
possible.  I like to help make a broader and more successful Summer of
Code experience next year (I will do regardless).  Last but not least, I
want to note that in light of the the powerful Ultra-20 machine I was
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Vincent Untz | 16 Nov 2006 23:23
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Candidacy: Vincent Untz

Name: Vincent Untz
Email: vuntz <at> gnome.org
Affiliation: Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)

75 words summary
I've contributed in various ways to GNOME, and since the beginning I've
been interested in helping the Foundation. This year I want to help the
Foundation be more effective and more open to the membership. This means
better reactiveness to queries, more informations on what's happening
and trying to get more people involved in the Foundation. Don't vote for
me if you want to be a passive member of the Foundation :-)

Who?

I'm a GNOME contributor since 2002. I've started working on bug triage,
and soon joined the membership & elections committee, which I chaired
from late 2002 until last year. The bug triage I did in bugzilla led me
to submit patches, and I became maintainer of a few modules. I'm also
deeply involved in the GNOME-FR community, and a member of the release
team, where I send "tarballs due" mails and sometimes launch scripts to
release GNOME.

Why?

I've said yesterday that I probably wouldn't run and here I am,
announcing that I'm running for the board. Sounds ironic. One part of me
doesn't want to run because the job can be frustrating and because I do
not feel I've done a really good job this year (I hope it was not that
bad ;-)). And one part of me wants to run because the job is fun and
interesting. I'm not more qualified than other to run, but I hope I can
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