Name: Andrea Veri Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://people.gnome.org/~av Affiliation: None
GNOME Involvement ================= I started my GNOME adventure around three years ago while I was working on uploading GNOME 2.28 into Debian Unstable as a member of the awesome Debian’s GNOME Team. After a few months I decided to apply to join the GNOME Foundation and on the 12th of November ’09 I had the great announcement that my application was accepted. During that period both the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee and the Accounts Team weren’t having good times , the queues were huge, most of the members were inactive and didn’t have enough time to cover all the items that were coming in. I decided to start contributing and time by time I cleaned up the whole queues [1], updating team’s Wiki pages, setting up meetings and discussions to renew our guidelines and policies. I am proud to say that within two years both the Membership Committee and the Accounts Team are on top of the requests, everything is processed in a timely manner and finally this is no more a bottleneck like it was in the past. Why am I running? ================= I have been silently following all the issues and problems GNOME has been encountering during this year from the Canonical side and the arrival of Unity. And well, I think we should start working on this specific issue to make the big change happen. We need to thicken our relationships with the major distributions around, we need to have a strong and trusted GNOME team in every distribution, we need to find a deal with contributors and developers having problems; the Board need to be the main reference point for everyone out there wanting to propose a new idea or project that could befenit our beloved Foundation. I am a law student and I am actually not affiliated with any company, that means I will alwais act and take decisions being neutral and having just one thing in mind: improving and sponsoring GNOME all over the world. GNOME 3 is out and it’s awesome, but let’s not stop dreaming, let’s look ahead and improve: GNOME will alwais make the difference around Open Source’s galaxy. I am a get-things-done guy and if elected, I’ll try to do my best to reproduce the great things I did over these three years on the projects I’ve been working at in GNOME. Thank you for considering me, Respectfully, Andrea Veri [1] http://www.paulcutler.org/blog/?p=1281 _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
