Name: Josh Triplett Email: j...@joshtriplett.org or jtripl...@gnome.org Affiliation: Intel, but not speaking for Intel or wearing my Intel hat except when explicitly stated as such.
I've been a Free Software developer for 15 years, and a GNOME user since the early 1.x days, running GNOME with Sawfish and Window Maker. I've seen the transition to 2.0, with its massive improvements in usability and sensible defaults (especially by 2.2 and 2.4 when the zeal towards change tempered a bit), as well as the crowd of people saying the sky was falling and that they were switching to another environment. I've seen the transition to 3.0, with its massive improvement in usability and user experience (especially by 3.2 and 3.4 when the zeal towards change tempered a bit), as well as the crowd of people saying the sky is falling and that they are switching to another environment. I run and depend on GNOME 3 every day, and it's one of the few projects whose release notes I eagerly anticipate to hear about the next dose of awesome coming my way. I originally got involved with GNOME development as part of working on OpenOffice.org; GNOME hosted the cross-distribution "ooo-build" patchset, which later became go-oo and then LibreOffice. My first FOSS contribution was to make OO.o build without the then-proprietary Java. I'm primarily a plumbing developer; I work on the Linux kernel, low-level libraries and daemons, and distribution glue. I'm a prolific bug reporter for several projects, often with patches; I like working to get bugs fixed rather than worked around, even when working around them would be easier or require changes in fewer places. More recently, I've worked on several policy issues: I worked with Sriram Ramkrishna and Andrea Veri to help address the Groupon issue, and I wrote what is now the GNOME Foundation's official policy for depicting GNOME in film/video. I enjoy working on policy and enablement issues in addition to development. As with my goal of seeing bugs fixed rather than worked around, I prefer to tackle difficult policy issues head-on rather than avoiding them. If elected as a Board member, I plan to take that as "here's your mop and plunger, get to work". GNOME has a difficult challenge ahead, carefully balancing the goals of the GNOME user community, the GNOME developer community, the broader community of people using and building on GNOME technologies, and the ultimate goal of building the best possible Free Software desktop environment. In the GNOME 3 timeframe especially, GNOME often helps drive improvements in the full stack, from the kernel on up, and vice versa. This makes it possible for GNOME to tackle difficult technical goals that could not be solved with changes to GNOME alone. However, it also requires increased collaboration among plumbing developers, as those components must serve the needs of many different users and environments. In addition, GNOME's own components are increasingly used in environments other than GNOME, requiring the same improvements to collaboration. I look forward to helping GNOME better address this and other challenges. - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list