To all X.Org Foundation Members:
The election for the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors will begin on 14 March
2019. We have 6 candidates who are running for 4 seats. They are (in
alphabetical order):
Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
Arkadiusz Hiler
Manasi Navare
Lyude Paul
Daniel Vetter
Trevor Woerner
Attached below are the Personal Statements each candidate submitted for your
consideration along with their Statements of Contribution that they submitted
with the membership application. Please review each of the candidates'
statements to help you decide whom to vote for during the upcoming election.
If you have questions of the candidates, you should feel free to ask them here
on the mailing list.
The election committee will provide detailed instructions on how the voting
system will work when the voting period begins.
Harry, on behalf of the X.Org elections committee
# Nominees
## Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
__Current Affiliation:__ Igalia
__Personal Statement:__
I have been contributing to Mesa for 5 years, specifically to the Intel
drivers for OpenGL and Vulkan. I was one of the organizers of XDC 2018
in A Coruña, Spain. If I am elected, I will use my experience on XDC
2018 to improve the organization of future XDC, help to spread X.Org
technologies and help X.org project as much as possible.
## Arkadiusz Hiler
__Current Affiliation:__ Intel
__Personal Statement:__
My main interest is in quality and automated testing throughout the
graphics stack. Especially helping the areas that are lagging behind: testing
the kernel and KMS plumbing.
I would like to focus on building open source testing toolbox so that anyone
can mix and match bits of it to build their testing infrastructure.
There are a lot of exotic setups and edge cases that are hard to exercise
locally by developers due to lack of hardware. Automating those cases by
software faking it or by granting access to the testing infrastructures
benefits the whole community. It also a good way of lowering the bar for
new contributors and enables refactoring with confidence.
## Manasi Navare
__Current Affiliation:__ Intel
__Statement of Contribution:__
I am a lead contributor to Intel's Open source graphics kernel driver i915 as
well as to the Linux Kernel DRM subsystem. One of my most widely used
contributions is the Display Port Compliance code in i915, DRM as well as in
Xserver and IGT to make the entire graphics stack Display Port compliant and
reward the end users with black screen free displays. Most recently I have been
involved in upstreaming Display Stream Compression feature across DRM i915 to
enable high resolutions like 5K@120. I also have commit rights to several
upstream projects like drm-intel, drm-misc and Intel GPU Tools.
__Personal Statement:__
I have been Linux Open Source contributor for last 4 years since I joined
Intel's Open source technology center. I have presented several talks at Linux
Graphics conferences like Embedded Linux Conference, XDC and FOSDEM on several
graphics display features like Display Port compliance and Display Stream
Compression. I have been already actively involved in IRC discussions with DRM
and i915 maintainers to constantly provide any solution on display port
questions and work on improving the kernel documentation and code quality.
I have proactively started attending X.org board meetings on IRC to better
understand working of X.org and at XDC 2018, I also volunteered in the Code of
Conduct committee during the conference and I was the point of contact for
this. I am also currently a mentor for the KMS project in Outreachy winter
program and committed to mentor the Google summer of code program as well.
If I get elected, I would like to contribute by helping organize the X.org
foundation conferences, screening the papers and any help needed in terms of
public relations, working with the sponsors or code of conduct on the day of
the conference to make the events a huge success. I would also like to leverage
my open source working knowledge on any technical help required for the X.org
events.
## Lyude Paul
__Current Affiliation:__ Red Hat
__Personal Statement:__
One of the people who helped start Panfrost! Also a
contributor to nouveau, i915, amdgpu, radeon, weston, Xorg, multiple X DDXs,
libinput, the wayland protocol, various other non-graphics related bits in the
kernel, and probably more!
__Statement of Contribution:__
I originally found out about Linux through a rather
unexpected place: an Ubuntu booth at an Anime convention. I was in awe of the
beauty of the all-mighty Compiz workspace switching cube and ended up deciding
to give it a shot on my own computer. I ended up loving Linux, and quickly found
I couldn't go back to other operating systems. I also wanted to become involved,
but didn't really know how to at first. After years of being a user throughout
high school and the start of my college career, I ended up taking on the
challenge of trying
