Re: Board of Directors Elections 2018 - Candidacy - Nuritzi Sanchez

[Nuritzi Sanchez]

Hi everyone, my affiliation has changed to currently having no affiliation.

Best,
Nuritzi

Nuritzi Sanchez
GNOME Foundation 
President, Board of Directors

2018-05-23 16:11 GMT-07:00 Nuritzi Sanchez :

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> *Name: Nuritzi SanchezEmail: nuri...@gnome.org
> Corporate affiliation: EndlessHello Foundation members,
> I'd like to announce my candidacy for a third term as a GNOME Foundation
> Board member. As President and Chairperson of the Board for the last two
> years, I have played an active role in setting the pace for the Board’s
> work. For example, I suggested and pushed for a Foundation hackfest to
> happen so that we could get together and create infrastructure to
> streamline our decision process around various issues that often slow us
> down in meetings. One of the many things we streamlined during our hackfest
> in Berlin 
> [1] is the budgeting and spending processes. As a Board member who actively
> participates in the Engagement team, I also advocated for a larger budget
> to support our community and increase our efforts to promote GNOME around
> the world. The enablement of TransferWise as a payment option was also
> something that I pushed, which allows more community members to receive
> funds with fewer fees. This year, I also started to do more public speaking
> about GNOME and worked on increasing engagement in more regions of the
> world. As President, I was invited to represent the Foundation in a number
> of conferences and events in Asia and Latin America, such as GNOME.Asia,
> COSCon’17, and FLISoL in Bogotá. Since participating in those events, I
> have acted as a bridge to try to bring global and regional teams together,
> and to get some newcomers I met to become active members of GNOME. While we
> have been able to increase our contributor base in traditionally less
> represented locales this year, there is still a lot to be done to stimulate
> growth in these areas. If elected, I’ll continue to advocate for policies
> that support our growth and make participating in this awesome community
> more accessible to all. Thanks for your consideration, and if elected, I
> look forward to serving on the Board again!Best, NuritziIRC: nuritzi*
> [1] https://nuritzis.com/2017/10/21/2017-gnome-foundation-hackfest/
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Re: Board of Directors Election 2018 - Candidacy - Federico Mena Quintero

[Oliver Propst]

Your agenda, especially the part about development infrastructure looks
very interesting, excellent.

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Federico Mena Quintero 
wrote:

> Candidacy statement for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors
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> Name: Federico Mena Quintero
> Email: feder...@gnome.org
> Corporate affiliation: Suse
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> Hello, everyone,
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> My candidacy is around two things: the Code of Conduct for GNOME, and
> our development infrastructure.
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> * Code of Conduct
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> Over the past year or so, I have been a support member of the Code of
> Conduct Working Group.  While the group's task of drafting and
> proposing the Events Code of Conduct are done, the CoC is not in place
> yet.  If I am elected as a member of the Board, I would like to help
> put the Events Code of Conduct in place, along with its enforcement
> guidelines.  Along with the other members of the CoC Working Group, I
> attended one training session about CoC enforcement by Sage Sharp from
> Otter Tech.  As part of the Board, I would like to make it possible
> for GNOME conference organizers to attend such training sessions and
> set up the infrastructure for having Code of Conduct enforcement in
> all of GNOME's events.
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> As an extension of that, I would like to help with updating GNOME's
> Code of Conduct at large, not just for events.  Think of our online
> interactions within the project - gitlab, mailing lists, etc.  Our
> current CoC has obsolete form and practices, and with all the
> knowledge there is now about how to have a good Code of Conduct - and
> all the organizations that can assist us in making one and validating
> it - I think we can have a modern CoC that will make GNOME friendlier
> to a diverse set of people.
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> * Development infrastructure
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> Several things are converging in GNOME to make it a much more
> attractive to new contributors: we now have Gitlab, which makes it
> easy for people to submit changes, and Flatpak, which makes it easy to
> ship applications and SDKs.
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> However, there are some parts of our development infrastructure which
> have gotten stale.  My pet peeve is developer's documentation.  We
> have a mixture of DocBook, gtk-doc, Markdown, and a disparate set of
> tools.  Our devel docs get rendered to HTML versions of DocBook
> documents, which is... very last decade.  It shows up in
> developer.gnome.org and in tools like Devhelp, and it is outdated in
> both.
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> I think we can make use of the new GNOME Internships program to tackle
> some problems.
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> - Improving our documentation tools so they use more modern
>   documentation formats, or that render and aggregate docs to more
>   useful versions.
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> - Do an editing pass over all of GNOME's developer documentation.  I
>   want to take inspiration from the Rust docs project, which has found
>   a good way to parallelize huge editing/writing tasks like these by
> humans.
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> - Finish the necessary work to integrate something like Bors/Homu into
>   our Gitlab instance, so that we have repositories that never break,
>   and so that it is possible to automate many menial tasks around
>   rebasing, integration testing, and reviewing merge requests.
>
> * Reaching out to underrepresented language communities
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> Last year, as an Outreachy project I tried and failed to recruit
> people to translate GNOME to indigenous languages from Mexico -
> Náhuatl, Mayan, Mixe, etc.  I think GNOME could set the example by
> funding people to translate our desktop to these languages.  This
> cannot be done by unpaid volunteers, as they generally live within
> several layers of marginalization.  We need translations (and new
> vocabularies for concepts that we cannot borrow from other software,
> since they are untranslated to these languages), keyboard maps, and
> outreach in general to these communities.
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>   Federico
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Re: It's time again for pants nominations

[Carlos Soriano]

Thanks Nirbheek :)

I think the rule is because the board choose them, so me being on the board
would stop that.

In any case, I got enough credit for the GitLab effort (thanks all), it's
my hope that the pants goes to someone else that has done as much or more
for GNOME but goes more unnoticed.

Cheers

On Wed, 30 May 2018 at 11:53, Nirbheek Chauhan 
wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:23 PM Didier Roche  wrote:
> > The only
> > requirements are that the person is attending GUADEC to receive the
> > pants, and that it's not a current or outgoing board member.
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> I really wanted to nominate Carlos Soriano for all the work done with the
> migration to GitLab, but he's a board member! Why does this requirement
> exist? I don't remember :)
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> I also want to nominate:
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> * Christian Hergert for his work on end-user developer tooling, such as
> GNOME Builder and Sysprof
> * Sriram Ramkrishna for his community work, which is a list too long to
> summarize here
>
> Cheers,
> Nirbheek
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