Hi,
On sam, 2005-11-19 at 09:04 -0500, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> 1. How much time can you dedicate to the board each week?
My time is quite flexible. But I think I can give ~1 hour per day. There
are obviously some days where I won't be able to have time for the
board, and some other where I'll have
> What do you think of the composition of the current board, where a couple
> of big companies hold half of the chairs?
I trust those individuals as members of the GNOME Foundation and community,
*and* as representatives of companies that contribute a great deal to GNOME
(in development resource
Anne Østergaards answers to the 11 questions:
> 1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or
> better than previous years Boards have done?
I believe that GNOME is the best choice for people and businesses to run
a modern operating system build on Free Software. I see t
Questions 1, 2, 3 and 5 answered in previous mail.
> 4. Explain how you expect to meet you goals.
* I will more effectively communicate the role and scope of the Board among
the directors, Foundation members and Advisory Board.
* I will encourage the adoption of an elected executive as part
> How important are desktop standards for you. How will you attempt to let
> the GNOME developers cooperate even more with the freedesktop.org
> movement? Or do you dislike that movement? In in general: What should
> GNOME "do" with fd.org?
I'd like to make sure that our relationships with other
Some additional questions for the board candidates.
As you guys will also represent the developers behind the GNOME desktop.
I have a few questions coming from such a developer. Not that I'm a big
contributor. But I'm guessing that, like me, are many of the people in
the GNOME development team (w
> 1) Why are you running for Board of Directors? What will you do more or
> better than previous years Boards have done?
I've had a year off after two years on. So I understand the workings of the
Board from the inside and have watched it from the outside with and without
that experience. I'm ru
