Re: Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Foundation :),

To clarify: the membership committee email call for nominations this year 
didn't have any instructions about sending a nomination note to 
foundation-list.  However, some of us have done that so far.  I suggest others 
do too, but the final list of nominees will be determined by the membership 
committee based on messages their address received.  Don't forget CC'ing them!


behdad

On 05/21/2009 11:31 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

Name: Behdad Esfahbod
Mail: behdad behdad org / behdad gnome org
Nick: behdad
Home: http://behdad.org/
Blog: http://mces.behdad.org/
More: http://live.gnome.org/BehdadEsfahbod
Affiliation: Red Hat

Summary:

I've been serving on board for 2.5 years now and have been holding the
title of President of the Foundation and Chairman of the board for the
current term. Fortunately the experience is not as painful as it used to
be, thanks to Stormy. I think we are in a very good shape on the
organization side, but there's a storm coming (no pun), with all the
GNOME 3 planning, messaging, marketing, etc. So I like to stay on board
to help with it all.


Details:

I've been heavily involved in GNOME since about 2005. These days my
hacking can be summarized as:

- Keeping an eye on everything Unicode
- Developing everything font and text related
- Trying to keep GNOME lean

In more programmer-friendly terms, that means I (co-)maintain and
develop on: fribidi, harfbuzz, fontconfig, cairo, pango, vte, and hack
here and there further up the stack every once in a while.

On the non-hacking side, previously I served on the Accounts Team. More
recently, I've chaired GUADEC program committee for the past couple of
years. While on board this year, I've done (and if elected, plan to
continue doing):

- Hackfest / conference organization
- Worked on the a11y outreach program
- Making sure Stormy find the information / people she needs to get
work done
- Make sure decisions are made / things move forward


Cheers,
behdad

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Candidacy: Og Maciel

[Og Maciel]

Name: Og Maciel
Mail: ogmaciel gnome org
Nick: OgMaciel
Affl: rPath Inc 
Blog: http://ogmaciel.com (en_US) / http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR)


Summary
---

The GNOME Project has allowed me to take my first steps into the world
of collaborative projects and long nights of translation sprints. Due
to my open minded attitude, I have been able to get involved in many
different projects and work with a great number of interesting people.

My passion is in the community aspect of these projects and how to
better integrate new comers and volunteers with the rest of the
community. I am also extremely interested in how we, the open source
community as a whole, can leverage this immense pool of ideas and
projects, and use it to the benefit of all.

If elected to the board, I will bring in my experience of building
communities and guiding/enabling users to become more active in the
GNOME Project. After all, the GNOME Project IS about people! I will
also push to make accessibility a high priority for the project.

Biography
-

For the last 48 months I have been deeply involved with the planning
and organization of several open source collaborative projects, mostly
related to the localization and translation for the Brazilian
Portuguese (pt_BR) language.  During this process I eventually became
a "full time" member of several organizations, most notably becoming
the leader for the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translation Team,
Foresight Linux, Xfce, LXDE and a member for the GNOME Foundation.

My ideals have always led me to maintain a very generic,
non-distribution specific approach to my projects, which in my opinion
allows for a "create once, use it anywhere" methodology.  For
instance, the Brazilian Portuguese translation process for GNOME was
showing a 73% completion rate prior to the 2.18 release.  I initiated
and organized the collaborative effort between the Brazilian Ubuntu
and GNOME teams that led to the successful completion and release of
GNOME 2.18, completely translated in only a few months.  This process
was a delicate one, since the Ubuntu team had direct access to
Launchpad's Rosetta translation system and were not used to having
their work reviewed by non-Ubuntu staff.  I believe I have played an
important role in keeping everyone's egos out of the equation and
making sure that everyone focused on what was most important:
delivering a 100% translated product.  When Ubuntu Feisty Fawn was
delivered, it contained our translations from upstream, plus the minor
tweaks needed to accommodate Ubuntu's own code changes.  Moreover, all
the distributions that released GNOME 2.18 were also able to take
advantage of our collaborative effort, another major factor that
attracted our volunteers.

The process described above also served as the jumping point for some
other multi-collaborative projects I have initiated, such as the
unification of a standard and common knowledge repository for
Brazilian localization teams, currently in development and supported
by the GNOME, LXDE, XFCE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Documentation Project
Brazilian branches teams!

I have also spearheaded and organized the creation of several
communities and projects, such as the creation of the Ubuntu Brazilian
Documentation Team and Planet Blog aggregator, vital source of
information for the ever so expanding Brazilian presence in the open
source world!  I am also present in pretty much all of the active
Linux distributions communities in Brazil, such as Gentoo, Arch,
Slackware, Fedora, and Debian, to name a few.

As you can see I'm a strong believer in working with people from
different projects, empowering users to become contributors, and
collaboration and sharing of resources. If elected I will strive to
apply the principles mentioned above to every single area that makes
up GNOME and make sure that people are acknowledged for their
contributions and hard work.

Sincerely,
-- 
Og B. Maciel

omac...@foresightlinux.org
ogmac...@gnome.org
ogmac...@ubuntu.com

GPG Keys: D5CFC202

http://www.ogmaciel.com (en_US)
http://blog.ogmaciel.com (pt_BR)
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Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Name: Behdad Esfahbod
Mail: behdad behdad org / behdad gnome org
Nick: behdad
Home: http://behdad.org/
Blog: http://mces.behdad.org/
More: http://live.gnome.org/BehdadEsfahbod
Affiliation: Red Hat

Summary:

I've been serving on board for 2.5 years now and have been holding the title 
of President of the Foundation and Chairman of the board for the current term. 
 Fortunately the experience is not as painful as it used to be, thanks to 
Stormy.  I think we are in a very good shape on the organization side, but 
there's a storm coming (no pun), with all the GNOME 3 planning, messaging, 
marketing, etc.  So I like to stay on board to help with it all.



Details:

I've been heavily involved in GNOME since about 2005.  These days my hacking 
can be summarized as:


  - Keeping an eye on everything Unicode
  - Developing everything font and text related
  - Trying to keep GNOME lean

In more programmer-friendly terms, that means I (co-)maintain and develop on: 
fribidi, harfbuzz, fontconfig, cairo, pango, vte, and hack here and there 
further up the stack every once in a while.


On the non-hacking side, previously I served on the Accounts Team.  More 
recently, I've chaired GUADEC program committee for the past couple of years. 
 While on board this year, I've done (and if elected, plan to continue doing):


  - Hackfest / conference organization
  - Worked on the a11y outreach program
  - Making sure Stormy find the information / people she needs to get
work done
  - Make sure decisions are made / things move forward


Cheers,
behdad
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Candidacy: Srinivasa Ragavan

[Srinivasa Ragavan]

Name : Srinivasa Ragavan (call me Srini)
Irc  : srag  (in GIMPNet/FreeNode)
mail : sragavan gnome org (or) sragavan novell com
Web  : http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan 
Affiliation : Novell, Inc.

Short Summary:

I love GNOME, free software and the community. I care for it. I'm
contributing to GNOME for the last 6 years, by means of code, bugs,
patches and features. I want to contribute more in non-code terms being
in the board. I'm confident I can do it. Every GNOME board I have seen
is awesome, unique and ever-improving. I'm sure, I would add my best to
it. 

Me ?

I'm 28 years old, computer science engineering graduate from India. Out
of college, I joined Novell, and 8 years on, still there. First 2 years,
I was working on BIND and Apache projects. Since 2003, I'm with GNOME,
contributing to various GNOME projects and OpenOffice.org. Notably, I'm
the project maintainer for Evolution (and friends) for the last ~3
years. I'm the author of Anjal, the mailer for Netbooks. 


What have I done till now in GNOME?

I have been writing code for ~6 years. Mostly patches, bugs
enhancements. I'm maintain Evolution. I have contributed to create a
self-sustaining Evolution community. I have brought new module
maintainers in Evolution, who were active contributing. I have
streamlined patch reviews in Evolution, and enabled more contributions
to Evolution .Evolution adds to at least 50 new contributors every major
release. I have been the top patch reviewer in GNOME for the last two
years. I'm currently writing (Anjal) new mail client for low-power, low
memory devices and mobile devices. I manage an Open Source Internship
program in India (through Novell & GNOME Bangalore chapter), which
enable students to contribute to Open source projects in GNOME, Open
Office, LDTP and Mono. I still mentor few students in contributing to
GNOME and other open source projects. 


What will I do if I'm on the board?

 - The release team has done an amazing road map and schedule for
GNOME3. I would stand by and support release team when required and then
GNOME to have a successful in GNOME 3.0 release.
 - We have an amazing Desktop, great hackers,  a wonderful community and
users. We have good marketing as well. But I feel, there a lot of room
for improvement. I would give more focus on GNOME marketing.
 - I love GNOME, the community and the users. I'm would keep my ears
wide open and listen to everyone and be a people representative on the
board.
 - I would do my best for arranging hack fests, meetings and
conferences.
 - I was successful with the open source internship program that I
started in India. It helped in adding a few consistent contributors to
GNOME. But India has a lot more potential contributors to GNOME and free
software. Being part of the board, I would strive hard towards making
more GNOME contributors from India. 

When I first told my friends, some of them asked me, 'Do I have time?'.
Time is something that everyone lacks. I swear, I'll do better planning
and dedicate necessary time for the board activities.


If I win, this will be my first term for the GNOME board. Vote for me.

Thanks,
Srini.



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