Name: Jeff Waugh Mail: jdub gnome org / jdub perkypants org Nick: jdub Affl: Waugh Partners <http://waughpartners.com.au/> Blog: http://perkypants.org/blog/ Biog: http://live.gnome.org/JeffWaugh
Summary ------- I love GNOME. I am passionate, motivated, and dedicated to building our success, both outwardly - a foot on every desktop; and inwardly - making sure our developer and user communities are rocking all the time. I believe I've earned the trust of the GNOME community to represent it, both as a communicator outside the project, and as a mediator and leader within our community. I am here to help GNOME rock. Why You? -------- First and foremost, I am passionate about and dedicated to GNOME. I have not contributed to GNOME by writing code because I found very rapidly that I was not going to be useful in that capacity. Embarrassing, yes. Useful, no. So, I have spent a long time contributing in every non-technical way I could. If there is one skill above all others that I bring to the Foundation, it is my ability to communicate and connect people together. For instance: * Representing GNOME at the OSDL Desktop Architects Meeting, making sure our needs (financial and community) are addressed, and major platform, system and infrastructural issues are dealt with across the development community. * I kicked off the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (to be formally announced in January 2007), which has brought together a surprising number of organisations and individuals focusing on mobile, handheld and embedded user experience development with GNOME. This initiative will have a massive impact on the uptake of GNOME technology as a developer platform, the visibility of GNOME in the 'real world' among 'real users' and direct development on the GNOME Platform. I hold in very high regard our capacity to thrive at the intersection of commercial and community development, so supporting GNOME developers who find commercial opportunities for their work is very important to me. I really get a kick out of projects such as this. :-) It's also satisfying to know that GNOME can put food on the table for GNOME hackers and their families. Why is everyone having babies at the moment? * Organising and chairing, with Chris Blizzard, the GNOME Boston Summit. Based the feedback I've received, this year's Summit raised the bar for face-to-face GNOME events in terms of getting things done, and making sure the wider community sees the results. The Summit was also a venue for more focused community meetings for the accessibility and text layout folks. Goals ----- While I believe the main function of the Board is to represent the GNOME community, it can often be an excellent platform for Getting Things Done. There are a number of things I want to do this year, for which a Board position would be advantageous... I document them here so you can decide whether or not to trust me with that role. :-) * Continue with GMAE and kickstart a couple of similar projects, focusing commercial interest on community/upstream development, ensuring the GNOME community is a strategic asset for the companies involved, and keeping our successes in the limelight. We need to make sure that the innovative GNOME community continues to be seen as a highly valued part of the Free Software ecosystem, and improve on that status. * Build a platform for advertisement of GNOME-related product, solution and service providers, and GNOME-related recruitment. * Fund focused face-to-face meetings, as I discussed with lots of GNOMErs during the Boston Summit. Specifically, I want to start with a UK-based meeting for "collaboration and communications" developers (ensuring we have a fantastic platform and integration for collaboration, presence and communications technologies), and a meeting for GNOME artists to coincide with the Libre Graphics Meeting in May (in Quebecistan). * Hire a business development manager for the GNOME Foundation, to raise funds and manage our organisational relationships. I am particularly keen on this, because a bizdev manager for the GNOME Foundation will be able to better manage the operational side of my crazy ideas. :-) Conclusion ---------- I believe I've earned the trust of the GNOME community to represent it, both as a communicator outside the project, and as a mediator and leader within our community. Here are a couple of my previous candidacy statements that are well worth reading if you want to know more about me and what I feel is important for the GNOME Foundation: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2005-November/msg00014.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2003-November/msg00010.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-November/msg00008.html - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "We live in a place where policy discussion is conducted with money." - Eben Moglen _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
