Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
On 05/21/2013 10:46 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to stay in the race. I am pleased to say that the candidates we already have are *all* exceptionally strong. I feel that I should point out that there are one or two people who would probably join the race as well if we extended the deadline. As I said, though, the current candidates are pretty awesome and they all got their announcements in on time :) True, but the announcement period this time was shorter. In 2012, the announcement went out 17 April with a deadline of 20 May. [1] This time, the announcement went out 6 May with a deadline of 19 May. [2] Given Richard's observation that we have a lack of choice combined with the shorter announcement period, I wonder if it would be worth extending the call for candidates for, say, another week. Take care. --joanie [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-April/msg00015.html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2013-May/msg00032.html ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: New Foundation Members
Hi, Sri! Thank you :) I am always on the look out to fix a bug ;) So am pretty much put with GNOME for a long time from now :) Thank you for the support and good words, I hope to pass this on if I were given a change to mentor anybody in the upcoming rounds. -Sindhu On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote: Welcome folks! Especially Sindhu who decides to stay on even after her internship. Awesome! As well folks writing apps, and other cool things. Thank you for joining! sri On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to announce our newly approved Foundation Members. Please welcome and thank them for their great and valuable contributions over the GNOME Foundation. They are: * 1. Stefan Westerfeld (beast contributor, gst123 maintainer) 2. Daiki Ueno (caribou and gettext maintainer, IBus developer) 3. Sreerenj Balachandran (GStreamer contributor, commits to several GNOME modules) 4. Michael Hasselmann (GTK+ contributor, EDS and Rygel contributions) 5. Hau Heng Haggen So (GNOME.Asia organization, GNOME Hong Kong organizer) 6. Balasankar C (GNOME Malayalam translator and reviewer) 7. Sindhu S (GNOME Documentation contributor, gitg contributor) 8. Vladimír Beneš (GNOME tester, GUADEC '13 Organizer) 9. Andres G. Aragoneses (Banshee maintainer, GSoC mentor) 10. Antonius Riha (Tasque maintainer) * Syntax is Name Surname (area of involvement) For any further question you may have, feel free to mail us at membership-commit...@gnome.org. (or me directly) -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
2013/5/22 Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com On 05/21/2013 10:46 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to stay in the race. I am pleased to say that the candidates we already have are *all* exceptionally strong. I feel that I should point out that there are one or two people who would probably join the race as well if we extended the deadline. As I said, though, the current candidates are pretty awesome and they all got their announcements in on time :) True, but the announcement period this time was shorter. In 2012, the announcement went out 17 April with a deadline of 20 May. [1] This time, the announcement went out 6 May with a deadline of 19 May. [2] Given Richard's observation that we have a lack of choice combined with the shorter announcement period, I wonder if it would be worth extending the call for candidates for, say, another week. Yearly the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee has a meeting to decide when and how the elections should take place. It seems that both on the past [1] and the current year [2] the timeline for proposing candidacies was 13 days. Apparently on 2012 the Board didn't coordinate with the committee and decided to send out the announcement earlier on the 17th of April. While I agree we should send out the announcement a bit earlier the next year (maybe moving the Announcements and list of candidates opens to April?) I feel there's no real reason to postpone the last date for proposing new candidacies given the fact that no one expressed an interest in sending out a candidacy after the 20th of May neither publicly or privately to me or to any other member of the membership committee. 13 days is a good amount of time for thinking deeply about running or not and for writing a little sum up of what the candidate has achieved in term of contributions during the past months / years. -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2013 - The candidates
Dear Foundation Members, I am glad to announce the following list of candidates for the Board of Directors: * Marina Zhurakhinskaya * Ekaterina Gerasimova * Sriram Ramkrishna * Andreas Nilsson * Emmanuele Bassi * Joanmarie Diggs * Max Huang * Tobias Mueller Please see http://vote.gnome.org/2013/candidates.html for details. You are invited to ask the candidates questions by sending them to foundation-list. But please try to avoid duplicates and bear in mind, that the candidates invest a lot of time answering questions, thus please be reasonable with the amount and scope of the questions. You might want to send your question to membership-commit...@gnome.org instead, so that we can collect, sift and sort the questions before we send them out shortly after the ballots were sent. But again: if you feel the need to ask your question directly, please do so. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask them at membership-commit...@gnome.org or electi...@gnome.org. -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)
Forgot the links: [1] https://vote.gnome.org/2012/rules.html [2] https://vote.gnome.org/2013/rules.html 2013/5/22 Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org 2013/5/22 Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com On 05/21/2013 10:46 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already stepped into the race, I think it would be good for more people to run. I encourage you, and everyone who has already run, to stay in the race. I am pleased to say that the candidates we already have are *all* exceptionally strong. I feel that I should point out that there are one or two people who would probably join the race as well if we extended the deadline. As I said, though, the current candidates are pretty awesome and they all got their announcements in on time :) True, but the announcement period this time was shorter. In 2012, the announcement went out 17 April with a deadline of 20 May. [1] This time, the announcement went out 6 May with a deadline of 19 May. [2] Given Richard's observation that we have a lack of choice combined with the shorter announcement period, I wonder if it would be worth extending the call for candidates for, say, another week. Yearly the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee has a meeting to decide when and how the elections should take place. It seems that both on the past [1] and the current year [2] the timeline for proposing candidacies was 13 days. Apparently on 2012 the Board didn't coordinate with the committee and decided to send out the announcement earlier on the 17th of April. While I agree we should send out the announcement a bit earlier the next year (maybe moving the Announcements and list of candidates opens to April?) I feel there's no real reason to postpone the last date for proposing new candidacies given the fact that no one expressed an interest in sending out a candidacy after the 20th of May neither publicly or privately to me or to any other member of the membership committee. 13 days is a good amount of time for thinking deeply about running or not and for writing a little sum up of what the candidate has achieved in term of contributions during the past months / years. -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A Question for New Candidates
Hi Allan On 21 May 2013 11:12, Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com wrote: […] It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find myself asking is: what do you think you will personally bring to the role if you are elected? In other words: why do you think that you will be a good board member? Besides the obvious necessities of time and commitment, I realise that a large part of the board work is not particularly glamorous yet is essential to the continued existence of the Foundation and the community which it supports. As you probably noticed, I did not put myself down for any specific role when I sent in my candidacy. I think that I would be well suited to take on the role of treasurer from Shaun, who has been doing an excellent job, as I have experience in the area through my current and previous work. In my candidacy statement, I listed some specifics, such as improving the events workflow, and I think that a position on the board would allow me to achieve this effectively. Kat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
On 21 May 2013 13:16, Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com wrote: For all candidates, how do you see being on the board will enhance or facilitate the volunteer work you already do in the commutity? I do not think that there is much overlap between the work I already do in the community[1] and the board, so it would be fair to say that I do not think that being on the board would enhance it. The GNOME project has goals that are common to all areas of the community, so I see the board work as complementing my existing involvement. How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to working on the board on a regular basis? Based on my conversations with current and past board members, I anticipate that I would need to dedicate a couple of hours per day to board work. I expect the workload to vary somewhat throughout the year and, because I have flexible working arrangements, I am able to spend considerably more time than that on board work when it is needed. [1] Documentation team, travel committee and Outreach Program for Women ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: A Question for New Candidates
- Original Message - From: Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com To: foundation-list foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:12:45 AM Subject: A Question for New Candidates Hi everyone, Big thanks to everyone who has put themselves forward as a board candidate. It's really awesome that you are willing to spend time on the foundation. It's also fantastic that we have so many fantastic new candidates this time around, and I have a question for you. One thing I find myself asking is: what do you think you will personally bring to the role if you are elected? In other words: why do you think that you will be a good board member? I think I'd be a good board member because I have * willingness to reach out to people - both newcomers and people in the wider Free Software / technology community * insight into the design and development process of GNOME * attention to detail * ability to come up with new solutions, plan things out, and follow through I don't expect an essay here, btw. :) Thanks again, Allan Thank you, Marina ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates
- Original Message - From: Brian Cameron brian.came...@oracle.com To: GNOME Foundation foundation-list@gnome.org Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:16:48 AM Subject: Question to GNOME Foundation Board candidates My question to the candidates: For returning board members, what are 3 conrete accomplishments on the board that you are most proud of? How many action items did you accept over your last term and what percentage were completed? If things did not get done or tended to get done very late, please explain why. If you were to give your own performance a grade, what would it be? For all candidates, how do you see being on the board will enhance or facilitate the volunteer work you already do in the commutity? How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate to working on the board on a regular basis? Being on the board would help me identify and help establish more outreach and engagement efforts that are relevant to GNOME. I'm particularly interested in seeing us move ahead on Joanie's idea of the Outreach Program for Professors. Beyond that, I'm interested in identifying some other way I can help the GNOME project and community thrive, which would inform my work outside the board. I would have 5-10 hours a week for my work on the board. Brian Thanks, Marina ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
