Hey Dave, On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was away last week travelling, so I'm coming late to the election > campaign. I have almost decided who I would like to vote for, but there are > still a few things which are important to me when considering a prospective > board member. > > 1. If elected, will you seek a named position (chairman/treasurer/secretary) > on the board? If so, why? >
Not specially interested, but I could help with any of the three. > 2. Board meetings are minuted, and these minutes are published regularly. > However, the board also increasingly makes decisions on board-list with the > Apache +1/0/-1 convention. Would you support the minuting of these votes, > including recording any -1 votes? > It was suggested on another thread, sure, not a bad idea. > 3. I think financial transparency is important. If you plan on applying for > the treasurer position, what changes (if any) would you propose for the > budgeting process? How often would you publish financial reports for the > foundation? Are you happy with the level of transparency in the board's > finances now? > I'm not thinking on applying for treasurer. I think Germán has done a really good job, and I'd like to give him no chance but to stay as the treasurer. Transparency has been good, I believe there's not much point in producing too many frequent reports, it's time consuming and doesn't really give people a lot of information they don't already have from the annual budget. > 4. Our relationship with a number of groups has suffered this year - and one > of the lesser known ones (but one I'm involvedd in) is the Libre Graphics > Meeting organisers (a group of people representing a couple of dozen "free > art" projects). Are you aware that the LGM organisers withdrew all the funds > that the GNOME Foundation was managing for them this year, because they have > been unhappy with the responsiveness and quality of communication with the > foundation over the past 2 - 3 years? Do you have any thoughts on why this > particular relationship degraded? And will you commit to handling or > delegating answers to all time-critical queries which come to the board > during your term? > I can't comment on the specifics, but if LGM has grown to a point where we can't help them timely, or we just have been too busy with other things... well, shouldn't they create a Foundation? ;) We should help other groups achieve their goals whenever we can, but our prime interest is still GNOME. > 5. In general, as a board member communication is vital to keep people > outside the board informed whenever there is a delay or when extra input is > needed on something they're working on. For incumbents, are you happy with > the level of communication & reactivity in the current board? For new > candidates, what would you like to do to ensure that the communication & > reactivity of the board improves in the coming term? > I haven't had much interaction with the Board during this period so I couldn't tell if they are more or less responsive, but I haven't seen or heard of any big omission from the Board this period. From previous experience, as I proposed in my candidacy, I'd like to make sure the Board has good internal feedback and things don't get stalled on slow responsiveness. This is something where I believe I can help. > 6. Board members are ambassadors for the foundation. I think it's important > that board members be social, and be nice. Are you nice? > Yes, I think I'm social and nice. At the very least, I'm approachable and anything but intimidating :). Diego _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
