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Andrea Veri | 14 Jun 2011 22:50
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GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2011 - Preliminary Results

Dear Foundation Members,

the GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.

We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify
their ballot (see below).

These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
elections gnome org  The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday,
2011-06-21, 23:59 UTC. Please note that these results should not be
considered final until any challenge have been resolved.

Candidates in order of (first) votes received, with affiliations:

      Stormy Peters                     (38 votes)     -      Mozilla
      Germán Póo-Caamaño    (22 votes)     -      None
      Emmanuele Bassi             (18 votes)     -      Open Source Technology Center, Intel UK Ltd
      Shaun McCance                (15 votes)     -      Syllogist LLC
      Brian Cameron                   (14 votes)     -      Oracle
      Bastien Nocera                   (14 votes)     -      Red Hat UK
      Diego Escalante Urrelo     (12 votes)     -      Igalia
      Ryan Lortie                          (10 votes)      -     Codethink Limited
      Lionel Dricot                        (9 votes)        -     Lanedo
      Andre Klapper                     (9 votes)        -     Openismus GmbH 
      Rodrigo Moya                      (7 votes)        -     Canonical
      Pockey Lam                         (6 votes)        -     None
      Andrea Veri                          (3 votes)        -     None

The results can be found at:
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Og Maciel | 14 Jun 2011 17:50
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GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: June 15th, 2011

Howdy fellow GNOMErs!

I'd like to invite you all to join us once again for another GNOME
Foundation IRC Meeting!

When: Wednesday, June 15th, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (your local time)
Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation

Foundation IRC meetings are just that, meetings held on #foundation in
irc.gimp.org to discuss current matters related to the GNOME
Foundation.

Any GNOME Foundation member or non member are welcome. As long as you
contribute positively to the discussion you are welcome. The meeting
is moderated by Board members that are present, and they will guide
the discussion through all the Agenda topics. Everyone can comment and
speak at any time, just remember to be respectful and concise so it's
easy for everyone to follow the discussion.

Tthis is a great opportunity to discuss the topics you care about, or
to get more information from the Board if you think we're not
communicating enough on some topics ;-) The agenda of the meeting is
really up to you!

So please add the agenda items you'd like to discuss to
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MembersAgenda
Your topics will automatically appear on the meeting page:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/MeetingAgenda
For reference, the minutes of the last meeting are available at:
http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/
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Brian Cameron | 7 Jun 2011 07:57
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Meeting Minutes Published - May 24th, 2011


The meeting minutes for the May 24th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published.  Refer here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110524

Other past board meetings are archived here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of May 24th, 2011

Next Meeting

   June 7th, 2011

Attending

  * Andreas Nilsson
  * Bastien Nocera
  * Brian Cameron
  * Emily Chen
  * Germán Póo-Caamaño
  * Rosanna Yuen

Regrets

  * Og Maciel
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Bharath Acharya | 30 May 2011 10:28
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[Reminder] Deadline for Desktop Summit Travel assistance applications is due on May 31

Dear Hackers,

The deadline for sending your Desktop Summit travel assistance
application is due on May 31, 19:00 UTC, that is 34½ hours from now.

The earlier announcement is at,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2011-May/msg00008.html

The instructions are detailed at http://live.gnome.org/Travel

Regards,
Bharath

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Tobias Mueller | 27 May 2011 00:52
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GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011 - Voting Instructions sent


Dear Foundation Members,

we have just sent the ballots to the registered email addresses of the
electorate.

If you have not received your voting instructions, have a look on the
list of eligible voters on
<http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/members.php> and check the email
account that is associated with you. Also check the SPAM folder.

In case you are not on the list of eligible voters but think you should
be, write us an email (see below).

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them at
membership-committee <at> gnome.org or elections <at> gnome.org

Happy Voting,
  Tobi
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Tobias Mueller | 25 May 2011 17:08
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GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2011 - The candidates

Dear Foundation Members,

I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of
Directors.
    * Shaun McCance
    * Andrea Veri
    * Rodrigo Moya
    * Emmanuele Bassi
    * Pockey Lam
    * Stormy Peters
    * Bastien Nocera
    * Brian Cameron
    * Lionel Dricot
    * Germán Póo-Caamaño
    * Andre Klapper
    * Ryan Lortie
    * Diego Escalante Urrelo

Please see <http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2011/candidates.html>
for details.

We are having discussions on foundation-list already. That's fine.
You are invited to ask questions by sending them to foundation-list. But
please try to avoid duplicates and bear in mind, that the candidates
invest a lot of time answering questions, thus please be reasonable with
the amount and scope of the questions.
You might want to send your question to membership-committee <at> gnome.org
instead, so that we can collect, sift and sort the questions before we
send them out shortly after the ballots were sent. But again: if you
feel the need to ask your question directly, please do so.
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Brian Cameron | 24 May 2011 03:44
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Meeting Minutes Published - May 10th, 2011


The meeting minutes for the May 10th GNOME Foundation board
meeting is now published.  Refer here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20110510

Other past board meetings are archived here:

              http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --
Minutes for Meeting of May 10th, 2011

Next Meeting

     * May 24th, 2011

Board Meeting Private Agenda

Attending

     * Andreas Nilsson
     * Bastien Nocera
     * Brian Cameron
     * Emily Chen
     * Og Maciel
     * Rosanna Yuen

Regrets
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Diego Escalante Urrelo | 23 May 2011 02:01
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Candidacy: Diego Escalante Urrelo

With a more experienced point of view, a record of stuff done, and a
new background in communication, I'd like to join the Board again to
help.

About me:
- I'm Diego Escalante Urrelo, contributor since 2007, living in Lima,
Perú (UTC-5).
- My main involvement has been hacking on Epiphany, but I've also sent
patches to few other modules, helped in the accounts team, busquad.
- I was a Board Director from December 2008 to July 2010
- Currently I work for Igalia as an intern, hacking on Epiphany
- I've attended every GUADEC since 2007, DíaGNOME in Chile since 2008
and GUADEC Hispana since 2009
- I'm on the third year of Social Communication at university
- I blog at http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/ (en) and
http://diegoe.blogspot.com/ (es).

Things I did while in the Board, in the past:
- Bootstraped the Travel Committee in 2009.
- Wrote the New Board Director HowTo in 2009, a guide to help new
Board members to be productive and participative as soon as possible.
- Defined and wrote the New Hackfest request process in 2010.
- Worked with Marina to get the Women Outreach Program re-started in 2010.
- Started an internal-review process to improve the performance of the
Board in 2010. It was internal to allow directors to express
themselves openly and provide accurate feedback, which not necessarily
would be understood publicly because of the lack of context.

Things I'd like to work on for this term:
- Enhance our fund-raising: create campaigns for Friends of GNOME with
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Ryan Lortie | 23 May 2011 02:00
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Candidacy: Ryan Lortie

name:          Ryan Lortie
nick:          desrt
affiliation:   Codethink Limited

I am announcing my intention to run as a candidate in the upcoming
election for the board of directors.

(( me ))

I've been around the GNOME project for a bit more than half a decade.  I
started in some rather user-facing parts of the desktop and quickly
moved down the stack.  Recently, I spend most of my days hanging out on
D-Bus and messing around with GLib.  I created GVariant, dconf and
GSettings and have had a hand in some other technologies used in GNOME
such as GVFS, the GIO networking APIs, GDBus, GApplication and many
others.

I've avoided running for the board in the past because I'm the sort of
person who doesn't like meetings and I've always been a bit
disorganised.  I'm generally happier when I'm hacking on something.  I'm
running now because I have a platform (that you may or may not agree
with).

(( the platform ))

The GNOME project is at a singularly interesting point in its history.
We just shocked the world with the level of quality of the GNOME 3.0
release.  Few would disagree that we are going through a period of
growth and change as a project, but it seems that there is some
disagreement on exactly what that means.
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Andre Klapper | 23 May 2011 01:59
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Candidacy: Andre Klapper

Name: Andre Klapper
Mail: ak-47 <at> gmx.net / aklapper <at> openismus.com
Nick: andre_ or andre
Affiliation: Openismus GmbH <http://www.openismus.com/>
Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Biography: https://live.gnome.org/AndreKlapper

Who am I?
---------
I've been active in GNOME since 2003 or 2004. I started with bugtriaging
Ximian Evolution bug reports and somehow ended up in the bugsquad,
release-team, two translation teams, the localization coordination team,
user support in various IRC channels and lots of other random stuff that
I am sometimes interested in. Also see the "Biography" link above.
In real life I work in MeeGo and maemo.org error management for
Openismus GmbH.

Why?
----
I don't have a grand plan or great thoughts to offer so feel free to
consider this a weak application, but with the great momentum that we
received by the release of GNOME 3.0 my main motivation is to help
pushing outreach and motivate more people to contribute and get
involved. Concretely this means "restarting" the gnome-love initiative
(Sri had some great ideas that I'd love to steal) and a better outreach
to downstream communities (e.g. with regard to translation upstreaming).
Plus sometimes I would have prefered to see more transparency in GNOME
with regard to decision making on our sometimes bumpy way to GNOME 3.0
so one task will be to find ways to facilitate.
Also I'd like to push continuing the quarterly reports that somehow seem
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Germán Póo-Caamaño | 23 May 2011 01:57
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Candidacy: Germán Póo-Caamaño

Name: Germán Póo-Caamaño
Mail: gpoo <at> gnome.org
Nick: gpoo
Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/~gpoo/
         http://calcifer.org/blog/ (for Spanish speakers)
Affiliation: None

Summary

        I am a contributor since 2000 and I am running for re-election
        for the Foundation Board because I am confident there is plenty
        of room where I can help to GNOME and its community, as in the
        two previous years, bringing a different perspective and an 
        independent voice.

My involvement in GNOME

        I have been involved in GNOME since the beginning of the current
        century, and I have been working with Unix since 1991 and Linux
        since 1995.

        I have attended GUADEC since 2002. I also have attended to other
        GNOME events, such as GUADEC-ES (Hispanic Guadec), Forum do
        GNOME (Brazil), GNOME Day (Chile), Involucrate (Peru).

        When I was young I was coordinator of Spanish translation team
        and  I wrote gnome-nettool.  Since then, I helped here and
        there.

        Since July 2009, I have served to the board as treasure.
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