unsubscribe On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 12:46, Thibault Martin <thibaultamar...@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello GNOME Foundation, > > I am announcing my candidacy for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. > You will find below the key points of who am I in the GNOME Community and > what I would like to help with. For the full length wall of text, please > have a look at the blog post announcing my candidacy > <https://blog.ergaster.org/post/20210524-running-for-gnome-board-of-directors/> > . > > Like many, I started my involvement in the GNOME community as an end-user. > I eventually started helping with translations. For this activity I have > regularily been chasing maintainers for string freezes, or to ask for > explanations when strings didn’t make sense for me. > > This helped me to *blend in, meet the more general community, and finally > take interest in higher level issues* such as our infamous chat platforms > split > <https://discourse.gnome.org/t/irc-matrix-and-thanks-for-all-the-kicks/6482>, > or co-organising the GSoC 2021. I have a very strong interest in people, > groups of them, ethics, how software impacts them all and how proper > governance can help to achieve goals. > > As a member of the board, I would focus on our internal and external > communication, where we have a lot of room for improvement. *Attracting > new contributors is essential*: our public face and the messages we send > must resonate with their values. Once they are here, the bottleneck for > their contributions must be removed: what they can do and where to do it > must be clear, how to do it as well. While getting new recruits is > extremely important for a project to stay in good shape, *sustainability > cannot be achieved without taking care of long time contributors*. > > I am strongly biased towards *think for a bit but start doing quickly, > ask around how it impacted others, and adapt* rather than overthinking. I > believe KPIs are necessarily biased and get circumvented all the time. *Human > interactions is how you measure success*. > > As the head of digital identity of a large organisation, I am experienced > in projects aiming to lower the friction for customer onboarding. Quite > counter-intuitively, many parallels can be drawn between corporate > customers and non-profit contributors. > > Open-source software communities used to despise designers and thought > they knew better. Now we welcome them and see the positive impact they > have. A second mentality change needs happen: *we must allow the persons > who are good at hyping others to help*. > > Regards, > Thib > _______________________________________________ > foundation-announce mailing list > foundation-annou...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce >
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