<quote who="Dave Neary"> > What do you see as the best way to spend this money?
Getting GNOME contributors together, face-to-face, to nut out the difficult problems that are tough to solve in a distributed fashion. > In terms of hiring, do you prefer hiring a sysadmin, or an executive > director? We must have a full time staff member to manage any further hires, as there is no way our part time administrator should have to deal with any duties related to management. So, of the two, I'd prefer a full time, management capable hire before a sysadmin hire. Alternatively, we can contract for the sysadmin position. (I would not describe my priority for the first full time hire as an "executive director", either -- GNOME is not an art gallery.) > A second question to all candidates: what do you see as the weak points of > the current board, and how do you propose addressing those weak points? The biggest weak point is that we were unable to function as a coherent team for much of the past two, perhaps three, years. The major reason for this is not going to be a problem next year (and is thus not worth discussing), the secondary issue will be solved for the 2009-2010 Board (GUADEC at the start of the year), and I intend to focus on team-building and goal-setting for the first six months of the year, to get everyone focused and *ROCKING* for the rest of the 18 month term. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 100% Pure Slashdot Wisdom: "Source code gives a whole new meaning to free software." _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list