Name: Behdad Esfahbod Email: behdad gnome org Affiliation: Red Hat, Inc.
Summary: I run for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, because I care about GNOME and I think the Board is very important. I contribute to GNOME on a daily basis, and the board is yet another area of the project I want to challenge myself with. Why: GNOME is People. So is the Board too. I look at the board as a group of trusted people caring about GNOME, elected to make sure the Foundation, and GNOME consequently, performs as good as it can. Most of us prefer to be hacking instead. I would have been happily watching the elections if the current Board members were mostly running again. But seeing many "pass it on", I feel like I should offer my share. The current board has done a marvelous job so far, and a lot of their work is still going on. As a board member I like to see we get the revamped website online, and the online store become a reality. I also want to see the Foundation have better writers, possibly funded by the foundation. I want to help better documenting board's events and procedures, and make sure incoming board email is processed as fast as possible. I like to help make a broader and more successful Summer of Code experience next year (I will do regardless). Last but not least, I want to note that in light of the the powerful Ultra-20 machine I was given by the board recently (thanks to Sun), I will be joining the release-team if I'm not elected to serve on the board. GNOME Background: I've been around for a few years, but got seriously involved since last summer. I do a lot of coding and maintenance (although I like to do more!). I maintain Pango, vte, and gucharmap, co-maintain cairo, and hack around glib and gtk+. I also joined the Accounts Team this past January and helped keeping the account request queue short for a couple of months. I still do accounts work from time to time, mostly when someone needs help on IRC. During the summer, I helped the board manage, what I call, a successful Google Summer of Code presence of GNOME. I also mentored a SoC and a Women Summer Outreach Program student. Both finished their project successfully. I was in GUADEC 2006, running a couple of sessions, and Boston Summit 2006, coordinating the very successful Text Layout Summit. I was a candidate last year. I have never been on the Board before. behdad _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list