Name: Lionel Dricot Nick: ploum Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Homepage: http://ploum.net Affiliation : Lanedo
About my GNOME involvement ================== My GNOME journey started in 2004. I wrote documentation, did a lot of bug triaging and helped to spread the word about GNOME. Slowly, I started to contribute small patches everywhere while, at the same time, doing usability testing. My contributions became bigger with my involvement in some GNOME conferences (as a speaker or as a booth helper) and the development of Getting Things GNOME!. In 2009, I became a GNOME foundation member in order to have a rebate on the GNOME FOSDEM t-shirt. Why am I running? =========== I believe that the current board is doing a great job and that GNOME is an amazing project which carries a lot of business opportunities. There are, usually, three kind of contributors to the GNOME project: individuals, big companies that use GNOME (or part of it) in their products and small companies that earn their living by supporting the whole GNOME stack. I consider that those small companies are an important part of the GNOME ecosystem and should be represented on the board of directors. I propose myself as the voice for those small companies, existing or yet-to-come and represent all the GNOME entrepreneurs. My employer, Lanedo, support this initiative. My bosses agreed that I, as a board member, would try to be as neutral as possible. I will defend the interests of every GNOME companies and even encourage the creation of new GNOME companies. I will abstain in votes where my neutrality cannot be guaranteed. I want to achieve to make obvious to anybody that all the GNOME technologies (including GTK+) are technologies adapted to a commercial product and that high quality commercial support exist for them. I hope this will help GNOME to become a flourishing market and a source of job opportunities for many hackers. _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
