Hi :) Once again almost all candidates who have put themselves forwards to be on the "Board of Directors" (BoD) of TDF look like white, male, European.
Only 2 of 12 so far are female, afaik. Yet many of the most committed volunteers, who give an inordinate amount of their time and resources to the project are women. We all know at least 1 here who is utterly fantastic. I know at least a couple in "The Documentation Team" who put in tons of voluntary work into this and a few on the User Support mailing list. I'm sure you know many others too and many on this mailing list could probably step forwards to help redress the current gender imbalance. Again wrt Europeans there are a few already who are from other places, such as Brasil - but LibreOffice is used world-wide and i'm sure there are many people on this mailing list who could help people outside of Europe identify with people on the BoD. I know i am asking a lot, especially since the IT industry is heavily weighted against any kind of diversity, but we really do have a lot more in LibreOffice than in any other IT project and it might help encourage youngsters to become more involved if they could see more people who looked more familiar, rather than just a sea of white male faces. Regards from Tom :) On 2 November 2015 at 16:38, Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Dear candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation, > > I would first like to thank you for running as candidates for the board of > directors. At this time, not every candidate has declared his or her > candidacy. However, I would like to ask a few questions about your views and > intentions regarding the Document Foundation and your plans as potential > directors of the entity. I hope they will be helpful in englightening our > membership and hopefully, all of you will be able to answer them. > > 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary > technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled board > calls? > > > 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main items > and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been attributed to > you by the board? > > > 3. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money be > spent, besides our fixed costs? > > > 4. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both > technical and non-technical? > > > 5. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice project > or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its influence and > promoting and defending Free Software and Digital Freedom? It is, after all, > an integral part of its mission per its very Statutes. If yes, do you have > ideas on what should be done about this? > > > 6. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of > directors, given that this position does not give you any specific > functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects? > > > 7. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What is > its biggest opportunity? > > > Thank you for your answers, > > Charles-H. Schulz. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
