On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 23:52 +0100, Anne Østergaard wrote: > Questions to the candidates: > > Will you apply for the position as new Executive Director for GNOME?
I don't expect to change job during next term of the board. > Will you apply for any paid position within GNOME while serving as board > member? I don't expect to change job during next term of the board. > Will you attend at least 90% of the board calls? I don't expect to miss more than three or four of the board calls a year (do the math). That said, I think a member that attends 100% of the board calls but is totally silent in between conf calls on the board list is most probably less effective than an otherwise active umember that attens only 50% of the calls. > Can you accept competing official ISO standards? So many levels I can answer (or not) this. I'll give a few a try: - Yes, I accepted all of Fortran (ISO 1539), Ada (ISO 8652), C (ISO 9899), BASIC (ISO 10279), C++ (ISO 14882), C# (ISO 23270) as standard and competing programming languages in my Programming Languages course back in college. I welcome accepting more in the future, Python, Java, and JavaScript particularly. - ISO is irrelevant. Governments or companies are not mandated to use its standards. National standardization bodies on the other hand matter for governmental requirements. It's true that most national bodies copy ISO standards, but its by no means the only way to give a spec the Standard stamp. - How are we as an industry are going to move on if we are bound by obsolete "official ISO standards" without adding competing (and superior) ones? > What is your position towards official standards that do not meet the > gennerally accepted definition of a free and open standard. Such as > Microsoft OOXML? Mild. > Kind regards > > Anne -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list