Candidacy: 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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Candidacy: 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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod
Name: Behdad Esfahbod Email: behdad gnome org Affiliation: Red Hat, Inc. Summary: I run for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, because I care about GNOME and I think the Board is very important. I contribute to GNOME on a daily basis, and the board is yet another area of the project I want to challenge myself with. Why: GNOME is People. So is the Board too. I look at the board as a group of trusted people caring about GNOME, elected to make sure the Foundation, and GNOME consequently, performs as good as it can. Most of us prefer to be hacking instead. I would have been happily watching the elections if the current Board members were mostly running again. But seeing many pass it on, I feel like I should offer my share. The current board has done a marvelous job so far, and a lot of their work is still going on. As a board member I like to see we get the revamped website online, and the online store become a reality. I also want to see the Foundation have better writers, possibly funded by the foundation. I want to help better documenting board's events and procedures, and make sure incoming board email is processed as fast as possible. I like to help make a broader and more successful Summer of Code experience next year (I will do regardless). Last but not least, I want to note that in light of the the powerful Ultra-20 machine I was given by the board recently (thanks to Sun), I will be joining the release-team if I'm not elected to serve on the board. GNOME Background: I've been around for a few years, but got seriously involved since last summer. I do a lot of coding and maintenance (although I like to do more!). I maintain Pango, vte, and gucharmap, co-maintain cairo, and hack around glib and gtk+. I also joined the Accounts Team this past January and helped keeping the account request queue short for a couple of months. I still do accounts work from time to time, mostly when someone needs help on IRC. During the summer, I helped the board manage, what I call, a successful Google Summer of Code presence of GNOME. I also mentored a SoC and a Women Summer Outreach Program student. Both finished their project successfully. I was in GUADEC 2006, running a couple of sessions, and Boston Summit 2006, coordinating the very successful Text Layout Summit. I was a candidate last year. I have never been on the Board before. behdad ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Candidacy: Behdad Esfahbod
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://behdad.org/ Affiliation: Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. to change soon, but none of R, N, S, or any other GNOME company. What I like to see the board doing in the coming term: * Continue focusing on areas that are less fun than hacking, like keeping the website alive, marketing, etc. * (More) Proactively looking for sponsors and other sources of income, to support the community. * Commit to the 10x10 plan. Support massive marketing plans to get the word out. Stickers, free CDs, tshirts, getting the word to the LUGs, etc. Like the Ubuntu guys are doing. * Building a team-oriented community. Ad hoc teams are good, but documented teams make it easier for newcomers to join in. Both long-term teams like current release-team and membership committee, and short-term teams to solve an specific problem at hand. Look at the Ubuntu launchpad for example. * Make each foundation member a voice of GNOME. Lead activities in the community, making a more socially active membership. Support programs like bug-fixer of the month, documenter of the month, etc, again, with real prizes sent out. Who I am: I've been a member of GNOME foundation since 2001, but never called myself a GNOME developer until recently, when I found myself well inside, and I believe I am here to stay. I started as a hacker, but found a great family that is much more valuable than the sum of the parts. So I'm trying to get more involved in other aspects of the project. I am a Fedora user and have been following the Fedora marketing team since it was formed. Like everybody else, I was observing how Ubuntu rose, and admired that. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend the Ubuntu Below Zero conference. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to GUADEC so far. :( I am an internationalization expert in Free Software, and GNOME specifically. I hack on and co-maintain Pango, gucharmap, and dasher. I have been an active member of the Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew free software communities via email, and recently discovered the Toronto community as well. I have been evangelizing the GNU and GNOME projects since 2000. I'm from Iran, moved to Canada in 2003. --Behdad Esfahbod November 14, 2005 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
