Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya Emails: [email protected] and [email protected] Affiliations: Community Engagement Lead at Red Hat, Advisor and Director at the Ada Initiative Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina
Dear Foundation, I'm running for a second term on the board to lend my organizing skills and my interest in reaching out to people to the Foundation and ensure its growth. We have an amazing community and high quality technology. My interests as a board member are to enable face-to-face work, development in the areas of interest to donors and advisory board members, and better external visibility of GNOME. Most recently, I've been helping organize sponsorship materials and process for GNOME.Asia and GUADEC, and contacting prospective sponsors. Running the Outreach Program for Women, in which 30 Free Software organizations have participated so far, has helped me connect with and learn about the work and community of these organizations. Knowing how other organizations advance Free Software is helpful in charting our own course. For GNOME, organizing the Outreach Program for Women allows us to be a leader in advancing the inclusivity of all Free Software. I'm also on the board of directors for the Ada Initiative, an organization dedicated to promoting women in open technology and culture, which gives me insights into how another well-managed non-profit is run. My other accomplishments in the last year include improving the way we keep track of incoming and outgoing payments related to the Outreach Program for Women, reviewing all the Google Summer of Code applications GNOME received, and running several GNOME newcomers workshops. Thanks, Marina _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
