Re: Some questions for the candidates
Tobias: On 06/ 7/13 04:51 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: On 06.06.2013 23:04, Brian Cameron wrote: Advisory board members are encouraged to join when there is clear value in doing so. What work has been done over the past year to increase this value or effectively communicate such values? Off the top of my hat, I don't know any actions that were done pro-actively to increase value for the advisory board. But I may well be corrected. We are primarily a Free Software community, after all. So the bigger part of our focus shall be our community and our software. I would say that the Annual Report is a primary vehicle for communicating value, which is why it has always been important to make sure that existing and potential advisory board members get copies to help them justify their contributions with their management. I have noticed the GNOME Foundation continues to do a good job in making the report, but it has always a struggle to put together. The GNOME Foundation has always done very work-intensive and professional-looking glossy reports thanks to volunteer effort. Using it to effectively helping advisory board members understand the value and values of the community is a hard thing to properly attract advisory board membership, and this only one aspect of what such reports need to do. If you have any suggestions as to how to increase the value, I am confident that all current and running members of the board are interested to hear them. Or better: Seeing them implemented ;-) I do not have any particular suggestions beyond keep up the good work with marketing efforts like the Annual Report and FoG programs. I was more just curious to hear more about the relations between the board and advisory board these days and to generally discuss. --- Brian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Some questions for the candidates
Hi :) On 06.06.2013 23:04, Brian Cameron wrote: Advisory board members are encouraged to join when there is clear value in doing so. What work has been done over the past year to increase this value or effectively communicate such values? Spontaneously, I remember that proper user testing was a desire which was addressed by relevant members of the community at an in person meeting¹. I did not lead that effort and I neither did nor do know the details of that; I hope that someone more knowledgeable chimes in if you have any further questions. But IIRC the user testing still running. Off the top of my hat, I don't know any actions that were done pro-actively to increase value for the advisory board. But I may well be corrected. We are primarily a Free Software community, after all. So the bigger part of our focus shall be our community and our software. If you have any suggestions as to how to increase the value, I am confident that all current and running members of the board are interested to hear them. Or better: Seeing them implemented ;-) Cheers, Tobi ¹ https://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20130122 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Some questions for the candidates
Tobias: On 06/ 5/13 05:39 PM, Tobias Mueller wrote: Can you be an advocate for more corporate support? Yes. We should try to find out what it is that keeps companies from joining the advisory board, despite recent years being economically tough. Another area is better service to sponsors for our conferences. We had some discussions in the advisory board that will hopefully continue to identify areas of improvement. Advisory board members are encouraged to join when there is clear value in doing so. What work has been done over the past year to increase this value or effectively communicate such values? For example, how many times have advisory board members had issues where membership helped to resolve their problem? What efforts have been made to include advisory board members in Foundation event planning (e.g. Hackfests) and making sure that such events have clear benefits to advisory board member needs? Brian ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Some questions for the candidates
Hello folks, What are your plans to encourage and enable participation by more women in the GNOME community? How do you plan to support the demand for accessibility infrastructure opened up by recent changes in the environment such as Debian's inclusion of text to speech in its installer? Orca and atk are great, but they haven't gotten as much love recently as they did before Oracle RIF'd the Sun developers supporting them. Can you be an advocate for more corporate support? Such corporate support has been waning in recent years. There are many enterprise companies who, intentionally or inadvertently, are benefiting from GNOME in their environment. Shining a light on these situations and encouraging a sense of social responsibility will help our community to grow and thrive. Thank you for your service, C.J. Adams-Collier ccoll...@gnome.org +1 360 298 7790 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Some questions for the candidates
Hi :) On 02.06.2013 16:11, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote: What are your plans to encourage and enable participation by more women in the GNOME community? I don't have any. Besides continuing our Outreach Program for Women which I think is running great (thanks to everyone involved). It has even been adopted by various other organisations. How do you plan to support the demand for accessibility infrastructure opened up by recent changes in the environment such as Debian's inclusion of text to speech in its installer? Hm. We just had a fund raiser for accessibility. From my limited understanding I assume that we are fairly good at providing accessibility. I welcome any efforts towards enhancing that support as I believe that it is important provide Free Software to everybody, regardless of their abilities. Can you be an advocate for more corporate support? Yes. We should try to find out what it is that keeps companies from joining the advisory board, despite recent years being economically tough. Another area is better service to sponsors for our conferences. We had some discussions in the advisory board that will hopefully continue to identify areas of improvement. Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
