Hi all, Name: Lucas Rocha E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Affiliation: Nokia
Who am I? --------- I've been an active GNOME contributor since 2005. Since then I got involved in a bunch of different (technical and non-technical) activities inside the project by maintaining (Eye of GNOME and zenity) and contributing to some of our software modules, co-coordinating projects (Google Summer of Code in GNOME, GNOME Journal, GNOME Roadmap, GNOME Brasil, ...), side-contributing to some teams (Web, Marketing, ...), organizing events, and other misc stuff. In the specific GNOME Foundation scope, I've been a member the Membership Committee for more than 1 year, from which a resigned some time after I became part of the current Board in July. Currently, I work for Nokia on the development of GNOME Mobile related stuff such as Maemo and Hildon. I'm from Brazil, I have a beautiful mustache, a small beard and big smile in my face. Why? ---- I was very lucky to have this opportunity to become a Board member for some months because I had the chance to get to know how the actual work of the Board happens. Naturally, it took some time until I felt confortable as a Board member but now that I have a more clear picture of what it means to Board member in practice, I think I'll be able to contribute much more and better. As a GNOME contributor, I've been trying to help the community to find out its own direction and I think that as a Board member, I'll be able to facilitate the right people to get together and push the project forward. Goals as Board member --------------------- I have some major goals in mind. Some of them are about keeping the good current work, others are proposed improvements and others are both. :-) Reactive perspective: - Respond quickly to requests about sponsorships, partnerships, general questions, etc. Proactive perspective: - Incremental production of annual report to make it easier to have something in the end of the year; - Take care of transparency, provide useful information about current Board activities, and bring topics for discussion to membership when applicable; - Organize and/or facilitate topic-based summits with relevant contributors for boosting, hacking, setting direction of diffents parts/aspects of our desktop and platform. Those summits could be self-contained or take place on existing FLOSS conferences. The topics could be things like: "real-time communication", "panels and applets", "GNOME mobile", "eye candy", "online desktop", "python bindings", "multimedia experience", etc. - Keep in touch with user groups to know what they need for their local activities. Musical perspective: - Organize the biggest concert ever of "The Drooling Macaque" band in Istambul! Radiohead and Jamiroquai were already invited as the opening bands. I guess we'll need to save some money to pay them. Woohoo! :-P _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
