Name: Vincent Untz Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 help the board to be more effective by focusing on small things (see next section). What really decided me to run is that there are not enough candidates yet. If a lot of candidates appear in the last hour before the deadline, I might withdraw my candidacy (it will of course depends of who's running). What? Here's what I want to do if I'm elected. It's no big things, but important stuff: make sure that people who mail the board have an answer in less than 2 days, send as much informations as possible to the membership about what's happening (I do not feel the minutes we send are enough), push to delegate stuff. I've no magical recipe for all this, and I might fail. But I'll try hard. Concerns My biggest concern is time. I've been more busy than expected this year, and I've worked less than I would have liked on the modules I maintain and for GNOME-FR. I honestly don't know how much free time I will have next year, and the fact that my work situation will also most probably change doesn't help here. I hope I will be able to seriously consider resigning if my time gets too limited for the board. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
