Name: Brian Cameron Email: [email protected] Nick: yippi Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/yippi/ Web: http://live.gnome.org/BrianCameron Affiliation: Oracle
I have great passion for advocating free software. I think this is a common bond that ties all of the different people in the GNOME community together. I am excited to run for a 4th term on the GNOME Board of Directors. The past year has been busy as the board has been working hard to make the GNOME 3 release exciting and successful. Now it is time for some follow through, and I anticipate that this will keep us busy the coming year. Who? * I have been a part of the GNOME community since January, 2001 (almost 10 years!) * I have over 18 years of experience as a UNIX programmer and technical documentation writer. * I am affiliated with Oracle where I work as a senior engineer on the OpenSolaris Desktop team. * I have served on the GNOME Foundation board since December, 2008 and acted as secretary the past two terms. * I have been the maintainer/co-maintainer of GDM since 2005. * I have regularly attended GUADEC and Boston Summit conferences since 2002. * I live in Chicago in the United States. Why? I am highly motivated and have time to invest to make The GNOME Foundation successful. I have passion for working with the GNOME community, and I have a good working relationship with many people in the GNOME and free software communities. I am especially proud of the following accomplishments over the past term on the board: * I have been effective acting as secretary, keeping quality minutes of GNOME Foundation meetings that seem to encourage good discussion. I have worked to keep The GNOME Foundation Wiki better organized. * I encourage the humanitarian aspects of the GNOME project, such as accessibility and creating the developing-world mailing list. At last year's GUADEC, for example, I worked with the OLPC and Sugar projects to create and distribute a co-branded t-shirt highlighting how GNOME and free software really helps people in need. * I act as the legal contact for The GNOME Foundation and am the point of contact for the pro-bono lawyers who work with us. This involves things like taking care of contracts, and other documents that require legal involvement. * I acted as Stormy's manager until she left the position, and have worked on the ED Hiring Committee with Stormy, Og, and others since. * I have helped to ensure that GNOME events continue to be scheduled and run smoothly. I was involved with making the GNOME.Asia Summit and GNOME 3 hackfest a success, for example. * I have been active on many community mailing lists to help keep things moving smoothly in a positive direction. If elected, I will continue to work hard to ensure that GNOME provides the best free desktop accessible to everyone. Thank you for considering me. GNOME Rocks, Brian Cameron _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
