Name: Jeff Waugh Mail: jdub gnome org / jdub perkypants org Nick: jdub Affl: Waugh Partners <http://waughpartners.com.au/> Blog: http://perkypants.org/ Biog: http://perkypants.org/about/
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. The Rest -------- 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 to the community in that capacity. Embarrassing, yes. Useful, no. So, I have spent a long time contributing in every non-technical way I could. If there's one skill above all others that I bring to GNOME and the Foundation, it is my ability to communicate and connect people together. Perhaps it's due to being in the thick of election season here in Australia, or perhaps it's due to having a hard year on the Board while creating a new company, or perhaps even because the Board should be facilitating more than doing: Whichever way, I'm not going to do the "election promises" thing this year. I will always have crazy projects to work on, but the most important contribution I can make to the Board this year is continuity, experience and continued representation of the community's values. Some thoughts: * Priorities change, but values don't. I vote for folks who represent my values in GNOME, knowing that they're more likely to make decisions based on those shared values, no matter what arises during their term. I hope members choose to vote for me on these terms more than anything else. :-) * It will be interesting to see whether the 18 month term will be a good thing for the Board. It's a necessary evil from my point of view, but it may actually have a good impact on some of the bigger decisions we have to make, such as what the next step is with regards to hiring full time staff (whatever the definition of that role ends up being). * This year has been pretty tough for me as a Board member, as I've been starting a new business which has required a lot of time, I have been travelling a lot, and conference calls have been at a particularly bad time for me in Sydney. * I'm very pleased to have driven the bylaws change that helped us ensure that the next Board will be able to begin its term with a face to face meeting, something that has been raised numerous times but never solved. Finally, my previous candidacy statements 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/2006-November/msg00011.html 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 -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "The worst vice is ad-vice." - Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
