Re: [Candidacy] Thomas Thurman
On 19/11/2007, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:07:27PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > I did send this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > > foundation-list@gnome.org, but in a conversation a short while later I > > was convinced that I could best help the Foundation by not being on > > the BoD; I cancelled the foundation-list posting and asked on > > #sysadmin for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ticket to be killed, but clearly it > > didn't happen in time. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not standing > > in this election. Sorry for the confusion. > > I asked what it was about when I saw your message (a few hours later). > However, I don't have access to the elections queue (not that I knew > what queue it was in), nor do I want to possibly override some team (of > course I've used a different account with access). Most people in > #sysadmin actually do not have access to these queues. Ah, sorry, I didn't realise. I would say "I'll know for next time", but presumably there won't be a next time :) Sorry for all the confusion. Thomas ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
Hello there, Had a pretty long day at the office and didn't get a chance to work on this all day... so here it goes. [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board have on your current contributions to GNOME ? Up until now all of my contributions have been in the form of translations to Brazilian Portuguese and bringing more contributors to the Brazilian translation team. Because of my involvement with Foresight Linux and the fact that it is very GNOME-y-centric, I have also been involved with bug reports and in a way advocating for its simplicity of use and (yet) powerful features. However, I have always wanted to reach a broader audience and not only be confined within the Brazilian or translation arena. I believe that my ideas and plans, should I be elected as a member of the Board of Directors, will allow us to get our (GNOME) foot on the door of many new and exciting opportunities and promote GNOME as a great desktop environment, development platform, and a symbol of technological innovation. [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next large step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and Services and how would you measure them ? As many of the other candidates mentioned here, the Online Desktop could be the one thing that will tip the scale when users choose their desktop environment. I've had the opportunity to see a few demos and was fairly impressed with its potential. I believe that it is not up to the Board to decide on the implementation or even which tools/languages to use, but serve as a facilitator and guiding light to make sure that the project stays on track and focused... GNOME users have become used to expect innovation and great software in every release, so the Online Desktop could definitely provide that extra buzz! [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself should you be elected to the Board ? a) Promote, Promote, Promote! Everybody now! :) I feel that there isn't enough marketing going on for quite some time now. I feel that every single achievement and milestone deserves to be shout out in every single venue! Major releases? Minor releases? New developers joined in? A new school started using GNOME as their preffered desktop environment? Everything should be promoted, no matter how small some people may deem it. It is all about making people recognize the GNOME name and product!; b) Pay extra attention to making sure current and previous collaborators are properly credited and acknowledged for their contributions. Every little bit counts! And because GNOME is about people, I'd like to see us grow as a strong community. c) Bring the GNOME Fun Wagon to newer places! Fund smaller, localized events so that people get to experience the GNOME goodness! Big events like GUADEC are cool (I assume since I haven't been to one yet) and we should definitely market it a bit more, but smaller events are probably the best bang for your buck as far as attracting new users and collaborators. d) Expand our collaborative relationships to encompass other projects and distros, to help promote better communication channels and ensure that our partners and distributors have a place to get what they need, as well as provide us with usefull information and feedback on ways to improve. Often patches and improvements seem to travel on a one-way street, and we could improve our chances of making it a two-way road by opening newer communication channels. e) Revisit our build methodology and work new ways to automate and validate the tedious building process for our releases. f) Have I said that GNOME is people yet? :) Let us tickle that GNOME foot and make the whole user experience fun and rewarding! [4] If you are a candidate for the first time, what are the areas that you think you can do better ? I feel that I can help improve marketing and exposure. I also feel that I can bring in my community building experience to solidify what we currently have and make sure we can bring in more people and bridge gaps with other projects. Finally, make sure everyone has fun too! [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders in the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the Board be in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? Absolutely! It is my opinion that any type of governance body has as its utmost responsibility the education of those you serve. I have always believed that a manager is not only the person that gets a team to deliver a product, but also someone who will guide you and help you grow as a professional. Sadly, you don't see that happening everyday and most people forget their own issues and turmoils once they've reached some type of managerial position. As the leader for the Ubuntu Brazilian Translation team, I took upon myself to coach and guide several individuals (who were genuinely committed to our project) on how to make sure the project worked smoo
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On 11/19/07, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit > questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years > prospective Board of Directors. > > The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each > candidate's candidacy can be found at: > > http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/candidates.html > > Here we'll go: > > [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board > have on your current contributions to GNOME ? > It won't have a big impact, right now my main activity is minor bug fixing and a good bunch of bug triaging. As I said on my candidacy statement, I'm planning on devoting a bigger part of my GNOME time to Board activities, but given that my GNOME work is anyway not really time consuming or absorving I don't think my usual GNOME contributions will be hurt, I'm not a rockstar and I'm not planning on becoming one for the next 18 months. > [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next > large step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and > Services and how would you measure them ? > I think OD is really a cool project, I have heard lots of opinions saying it's great and others saying it's just an Active Desktop copy (hah!). There are other not directly related projects that make me dream of great innovation in the short term, for example Telepathy and "tubes". Having that kind of integration between communication and collaboration is going to make us rock. OD is a great opportunity to innovate freely and go a step further, the vision behind it is quite realistic for our time: "stuff is happening online, let's integrate with it". After all, one of our killer features is being an integrated desktop :). I'm sure OnlineDesktop will produce some interesting new ideas and applications. Talking about the role of the Foundation with this project, I'd say that it's important to support this and other initiatives with the resources they need -as long as it's realistic and reasonable-. > [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself > should you be elected to the Board ? > - Support initiatives in Latin America for getting people involved as users and developers. Concretely, I would like to "deploy" 2 or 3 of our rockstars next year to a LA-tour, as seen on marketing-list[0] and later gugmasters[1] the idea has had a positive response. I would like to serve as a direct link to this initiative and hopefully other similar ones. - Help on showing the Board as a more transparent group, it's not that today it's not transparent, but I would like to make it as crystal clear as possible so people does know what happens in the Board and how the work is done (of course, as long as it doesn't disrupt the privacy of the matters discussed, common sense implied). I think this can have a positive impact on the number of people approaching with ideas and initiatives, also at the end of the term I would like to see a good number of candidates given that the doubt about what would it take to be on the board would be then a lot smaller, if not gone. - Putting attention to details, I confess I'm a perfectionist and I'm not planning on stop being one on the next 18 months :). - I would also be glad to be a channel for people to communicate with the Board, I feel that given my age and friendly attitude people won't feel inhibited from talking to me. > [4] If you are a candidate for the first time, what are the areas that > you think you can do better ? > I think that my context is quite different to other people already working on the Board, not that it's better but it's just different. I'm quite young (20), I'm peruvian, and silly as this sounds I think that gives me a totally different set of ideas and ways of thinking that can complement perfectly with the other members of the Board. Some of the things I see room for improvement are the ones on question (3). As for skills to offer, I feel that my work over the last year and a half with my local LUG organizing conferences and workshops have given me a good knowledge of how to work with people and have made me immune to the boredom of administrative tasks. I also enjoy doing public relations and marketing. > [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders > in the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the > Board be in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? > This is really important, I think one of the key factors to the success of a group is producing new leaders and developing their leadership. Leadership is not limited only to being on top of a committee or being a Board member, leadership should be present on every single aspect of an organization through its people. We should think of everyone as possible leaders and encourage them to not be afraid of taking the first step into something. Leadership is one of the factors of
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 22:16 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > Please do stick to the regular routine. But I guess it's too late for > that now. May I suggest that all further questions be sent to the election committee (no CC to foundation-list!) for a second round? -- 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
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 20:07 +0200, Baris Cicek wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > > I think the members can propose questions and send them to the > > Membership Committee select the best questions. Can the others members > > of MC say something about this? > That's possible, however it doesn't look like necessary. Membership can > direct their questions if they really look for answer, that's why it's a > debate at all. Candidates are free to ignore questions, though they > should consider that would affect membership votes. This generally leads to chaos. Questions will be duplicated, and it won't be easy to see what questions each candidate has actually answered because they will choose not to swamp us with duplicate answers, but they won't reply to the same duplicates. Or they will swamp us. Please do stick to the regular routine. But I guess it's too late for that now. > Current set of questions cover general BoD responsibilities and they are > mostly aggregated questions over years with some popular topics. Voting > will begin in a week so getting questions through gnomedesktop.org or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list can be time consuming. I > think this should be noted for next elections and preparing question set > should be started earlier than this year so that necessary channels of > communication could be used. > > Either way, we're in a period of knowing prospective board members more, > and it's best to use this time with more productive manner. That means > polemics and things that do not relate with Foundation or Board of > Directors should be avoided during the debate. If you have some > questions you can just wait some days, and/or elaborate on topics in the > middle of this week. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [Candidacy] Thomas Thurman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:07:27PM -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote: > I did send this email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > foundation-list@gnome.org, but in a conversation a short while later I > was convinced that I could best help the Foundation by not being on > the BoD; I cancelled the foundation-list posting and asked on > #sysadmin for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ticket to be killed, but clearly it > didn't happen in time. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not standing > in this election. Sorry for the confusion. I asked what it was about when I saw your message (a few hours later). However, I don't have access to the elections queue (not that I knew what queue it was in), nor do I want to possibly override some team (of course I've used a different account with access). Most people in #sysadmin actually do not have access to these queues. -- Regards, Olav ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
Thanks for the thoughtful questions. > With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit > questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years > prospective Board of Directors. > > [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board > have on your current contributions to GNOME ? I anticipate that spending time on the GNOME Foundation would augment the current work that I am involved with, and help me to find new and more exciting ways to be involved with the community. I do not think it would detract from my current involvements in any significant way. Now that I am sharing GDM maintainership duties with William Jon McCann, I am expecting to have more free time to invest with the GNOME community in general. > [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next > large step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and > Services and how would you measure them ? I think the GNOME Online Desktop is an important initiative, but one of many. I think it needs to be balanced against other important projects. But I do think that it adds value to the GNOME desktop experience to have an easy interface for using online tools. I agree with Jeff Waugh that it is a good goal for the GNOME Foundation to provide online services which can be used with the client applications that the GNOME community is intending to provide. I also think it would be valuable to outreach to other popular online desktop tools and develop partnerships, if possible, to make the GNOME Online Desktop a premier and supported interface for accessing their tools from the GNOME desktop. > [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself > should you be elected to the Board ? I think the most important goal is to make myself available to get the tasks presented to the board completed in a timely fashion, and to take responsibility for enough tasks that my contributions adds value to the process. Other goals include - My goal would be to foster a stronger community of volunteers to help with making GNOME the best desktop for users with accessibility needs and to better encourage new people to get involved with the community via gnome-love. - Ensure that the Foundation provides the services needed for the GNOME Online Desktop project to add value to the community. - I have been involved with the roadmap project, and plan to take on more roadmap responsibilities and work over the next year. - I plan to be involved with making next year's GUADEC successful. I was previously involved with helping to make the Dublin GUADEC happen, so I have some experience with this. - I would like to get more involved with legal topics surrounding GNOME, especially in the media arena. - Getting the Foundation more focused on process improvement so that we deliver the highest quality desktop with minimal effort. > [4] If you are a candidate for the first time, what are the areas that > you think you can do better ? I have a great deal of experience with interface stability, accessibility, with multimedia legal issues, and with the GNOME community in general, which I bring to the table. > [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders > in the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the > Board be in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? I agree that delegation is important for organizations to work effectively, and mentorship is a part of delegation. I think it is an important part of the Foundation to encourage new people to get involved with volunteer aspects of the community. I would like to encourage more participation from communities that are not so well represented today. For example, users with accessibility needs. I think having someone on the board with accessibility experience is important to foster these sorts of things. I mentioned as a part of my goals an interest to invest time making gnome-love a more successful avenue for getting people involved with the GNOME project. I believe that the Google Summer of Code also offers opportunities for the Foundation to get involved with encouraging mentorship within the community. > [6] Some of the tasks of a Board Member are mundane administrative > tasks, are you comfortable taking on such tasks as opposed to being > always involved in strategic and visionary thinking ? I am effective at getting mundane, but necessary, tasks completed. Within Sun, I have been effective working with processes like providing documentation for the Sun Architectural Review Committee (ARC). I am picky about good documentation and have done much of the documentation efforts for GDM and Solaris GNOME manpages. I'd like to be more involved with doing such tasks that benefit the GNOME community in general. > [7] What or which according to you, is the one "tipping point" move > for GNOME in the coming year ? Section 508 A
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as > > > in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. > > I've been posted to gnomedesktop too, but it's not appearing yet... is > there some type of moderation? > > > I ask only because if members do have questions, it becomes extremely > > time-consuming for candidates to answer 10 or 15 different emails, and > > difficult for members to follow. The idea of a call for questions was to > > reduce the amount of mail people have to reply to & read. > > I think the members can propose questions and send them to the > Membership Committee select the best questions. Can the others members > of MC say something about this? That's possible, however it doesn't look like necessary. Membership can direct their questions if they really look for answer, that's why it's a debate at all. Candidates are free to ignore questions, though they should consider that would affect membership votes. Current set of questions cover general BoD responsibilities and they are mostly aggregated questions over years with some popular topics. Voting will begin in a week so getting questions through gnomedesktop.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list can be time consuming. I think this should be noted for next elections and preparing question set should be started earlier than this year so that necessary channels of communication could be used. Either way, we're in a period of knowing prospective board members more, and it's best to use this time with more productive manner. That means polemics and things that do not relate with Foundation or Board of Directors should be avoided during the debate. If you have some questions you can just wait some days, and/or elaborate on topics in the middle of this week. > > Cheers! > > Bruno > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
> [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board > have on your current contributions to GNOME ? Not a huge amount -- most of what I do these days is either related in some way to the Board, or keeping things ticking as maintenance. While I've been on the Board, I've still had the time to do large projects such as creating blogs.gnome.org and massive repair work on our mail server. > [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next large > step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and Services and > how would you measure them ? GOD is only one of the many interesting opportunities we have right now, so I think there's a broader conversation to have here -- but it's also mostly outside the scope of what the Foundation does. GOD raises some interesting questions for the Foundation though, which I've commented on at GUADEC and on this list in the past: Should the Foundation start hosting services? What can we provide that supports our community and commercial ecosystem, without creating unnecessary competition? I want the Foundation to play a role here, but we have to figure out just what that is going to be -- where the GOD developers have an idea that is unrealistic without some kind of central support, I want them to know they can lean on the Foundation. I don't want our software to suffer because we don't have the organisational cajones to support great ideas. :-) > [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself should > you be elected to the Board ? Is 'SMART' a management acronym of some kind, or capitalised for emphasis? I wasn't expecting candidates to suggest DUMB goals... ;-) I think I'll answer this in question [8]. > [4] If you were part of the GNOME Board last year and a candidate again, > what would you like to put as your achievements as a Board member ? They may seem small, but I'm very glad to have fixed two outstanding issues with the operation of the GNOME Foundation: The position of 'President' has been held by someone who has not had an active role in the Foundation for a long time -- we've now established the convention that the President of the GNOME Foundation will be an elected director playing substantially the same role we've referred to as 'Chairman' for years. I also pursued a change to our bylaws that results in the next Board term starting with a face-to-face meeting at GUADEC. Towards the end of the year I've done quite a bit of outreach to companies considering participation in GNOME and the Foundation (which hopefully makes up for the start of the year when I was pretty burnt out after linux.conf.au 2007 -- I keep forgetting about that black hole). > [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders in > the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the Board be > in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? Yes, in both technology and community roles. I have some thoughts about how we can do better with technology mentorship, but they are not relevant to my candidacy (because the Foundation does not play a role in the technical side of the project other than handling emergencies and resolving disputes). Next year, I want to involve more contributors in Foundation activities as "delegates" of the Board, responsible for particular tasks or projects for the community. We've dabbled in this a bit in the past, but always in a very casual kind of way. I want to pursue it in a more robust fashion, ensuring that contributors are involved in things like the Board conference calls, to report on their activities and be a part of the team. If we make a real effort to do this well, we can grow the number of people who are contributing in community roles, and who might want to run for the Board in the future. I do see it as essentially a mentoring opportunity. > [6] Some of the tasks of a Board Member are mundane administrative tasks, > are you comfortable taking on such tasks as opposed to being always > involved in strategic and visionary thinking ? Yeah. Half my GNOME time is spent doing the relatively mundane anyway. :-) > [7] What or which according to you, is the one "tipping point" move for > GNOME in the coming year ? For GNOME in general I think the dovetailing of so much work in disparate little related projects is going to make one of 2.22-2.26 *really* shine. More needs to be done to encourage this dovetailing -- we need to be more proactive about it. For the GNOME Foundation (which is what is important here), I think that making a artful hire within the next 12-18 months may have a huge impact on the resources we have to hand, and our commercial ecosystem (whether that means the traditional big players or the recent influx of smaller companies involved in GNOME). I say "artful" because I strongly believe we can't rush in and hire "just anyone" so we can claim to have a warm body -- we need someone who can bring a very different skill set to
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Nov 19, 2007 5:39 AM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/candidates.html Note: I have a very unusual/atypical candidacy statement. I've sent one clarification in response to questions in IRC. If anyone has more questions, please *please* send them- don't sit on them. I'm eager to answer them, since what I'm doing is so unusual. > [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board > have on your current contributions to GNOME ? It would be purely positive. Currently I am able to do very little for GNOME; with more time (as I move into the second half of my course at school) and with better communication (as I work very closely with the board) I hope to be able to do much more. [Some of you may remember that I predicted at GUADEC '06 that I wouldn't be back until 2010; that changed in part because I decided not to take a fourth year at school; in part because my second year has proved less time-consuming than I thought it would; and in part because I see a unique opportunity to apply my skills right now. On the down side, as I'm now more aware of what I'll be doing after graduation, I expect that I'll disappear again for a while after graduation- they don't make it easy for first years at large law firms :) > [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next > large step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and > Services and how would you measure them ? Two things: (1) I think the board's role in technical/strategic issues like OD and Services should be fairly minimal, generally. The vision needs to come from the people designing and implementing the code; the board then needs to understand that vision and help grease the way for it- for example, by getting corporate partners on board. (2) I think it is inevitable that GNOME, or GNOME partners, will be offering web-backed services to GNOME users. My personal vision for that is to dot the i's and cross the t's on the legal parts- to make sure that as we sail into uncharted waters, the rights of GNOME users and contributors are being protected. > [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself > should you be elected to the Board ? I assume by SMART you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_(project_management) I prefer the related GTD, myself. ;) [Goal: beg someone to write a kick-ass GNOME-based GTD app. :) I'll repeat what I said in my candidacy statement: my goal is to be the legal facilitator for the board for 18 months, and create bridges between our legal partners (Wilson Sonsini and Software Freedom Law Center) and ourselves. These issues are basically 'unmaintained' in hacker-speak. Since they are unmaintained, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that I can pick once I'm elected. (If someone really wants to see them all listed, I can do that, but I'd prefer you just trust me on this one- I only have so many hours in the day ;) > [4] If you were part of the GNOME Board last year and a candidate > again, what would you like to put as your achievements as a Board > member ? This seems like the better question for me to answer, since I've been on the board before. Some of my primary goals in my last term were: * marketing: I put together a liveCD, and wrote some of the press releases. Could have done better on creating an infrastructure around this, though once I left the board I helped encourage the current liveCD work (thanks, rpath/foresight!) * employee/fund management: I pushed hard to make Tim's role more transparent, I think successfully, and some of our first published financial data came out during that time. * road map: with Dave Camp's help, I put together the first draft of the road map, and maintained it for a while. * GUADEC: I promised to get more involved in this, but did not, for a variety of reasons. > [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders > in the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the > Board be in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? Actually pushing the work to non-board members is the best way to bring new leaders into the fold, so I think the best thing the board can do is aggressively delegate outside the board and work with those folks to get them the skills, resources and contacts they need to complete the tasks. > [6] Some of the tasks of a Board Member are mundane administrative > tasks, are you comfortable taking on such tasks as opposed to being > always involved in strategic and visionary thinking ? I've already volunteered to do the most mundane task of all- secretary. So I think 'yes' :) > [7] What or which according to you, is the one "tipping point" move > for GNOME in the coming year ? For better or for worse, much of the world's most interesting software development is now being done on the web. This is a trend which shows no signs of slowing or reversing. This tipping point has already happened; the
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 08:30 -0300, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as > > > in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. > > I've been posted to gnomedesktop too, but it's not appearing yet... is > there some type of moderation? Yes. I acquired moderation rights at some time, so I can approve it. But you just re-posted your email text there, as if you are asking the candidates to answer on gnomedesktop.org. If you want to put a call-for-questions on gnomedesktop.org then you'll need to write appropriate text. > > I ask only because if members do have questions, it becomes extremely > > time-consuming for candidates to answer 10 or 15 different emails, and > > difficult for members to follow. The idea of a call for questions was to > > reduce the amount of mail people have to reply to & read. > > I think the members can propose questions and send them to the > Membership Committee select the best questions. Can the others members > of MC say something about this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
On Nov 19, 2007 8:22 AM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as > > in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. I've been posted to gnomedesktop too, but it's not appearing yet... is there some type of moderation? > I ask only because if members do have questions, it becomes extremely > time-consuming for candidates to answer 10 or 15 different emails, and > difficult for members to follow. The idea of a call for questions was to > reduce the amount of mail people have to reply to & read. I think the members can propose questions and send them to the Membership Committee select the best questions. Can the others members of MC say something about this? Cheers! Bruno ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Bruno Boaventura wrote: >> With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit >> questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years >> prospective Board of Directors. > > Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as > in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. I ask only because if members do have questions, it becomes extremely time-consuming for candidates to answer 10 or 15 different emails, and difficult for members to follow. The idea of a call for questions was to reduce the amount of mail people have to reply to & read. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
Hi, Bruno Boaventura wrote: > With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit > questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years > prospective Board of Directors. Don't the members get the opportunity to propose questions this year, as in past years? Usually there is a gnomedesktop story & comments. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME Foundation Elections 2007. Let's start the debate!
With the final list of candidates announced, it's time to submit questions about the GNOME Foundation and GNOME Project to this years prospective Board of Directors. The list, a summary of each candidate's statement and a link to each candidate's candidacy can be found at: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2007/candidates.html Here we'll go: [1] How much impact would being a member of the GNOME Foundation Board have on your current contributions to GNOME ? [2] Online Desktop and Services are being talked about as the next large step in GNOME - what is your vision for Online Desktop and Services and how would you measure them ? [3] What are the SMART goals that you desire to set for yourself should you be elected to the Board ? [4] If you were part of the GNOME Board last year and a candidate again, what would you like to put as your achievements as a Board member ? Or, [4] If you are a candidate for the first time, what are the areas that you think you can do better ? [5] Do you think it is important to mentor and coach potential leaders in the GNOME community ? If yes, what do you think the role of the Board be in this task ? If no, what are your thoughts on this ? [6] Some of the tasks of a Board Member are mundane administrative tasks, are you comfortable taking on such tasks as opposed to being always involved in strategic and visionary thinking ? [7] What or which according to you, is the one "tipping point" move for GNOME in the coming year ? [8] What do you think is the most important item on the Board's agenda right now ? What will you do more or better than the previous boards in that aspect ? [9] What is your positioning with respect to the issue of OOXML? [10] Why do you think we need a GNOME Foundation ? We hope a very good debate! GNOME Foundation Membership Committee ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
