Hey Max! Max <sakana...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > I have 3 questions to all candidates ( sorry for my poor English ) > > 1) How many hours per week do you expect you will be able to dedicate > to working on the board on a regular basis? > > ---- for 2nd or 3rd ( or more ) term candidacy: > -------- last year, every one plan 5-10 or 5-15 hours per week, > what's average hours per week when you become board? do you think it's > good hours for life and work balance with you?( I think it might be > good reference for fist term candidacy and let us know your loading )( > Thanks again work and make GNOME forward )
The number of hours that I've put into board work has fluctuated, depending on what needs doing. At quiet times it's possible to just spend a couple of hours a week. There are other times when it has taken a lot more time, such as when we were hiring Neil, or preparing for Advisory Board meetings. That works well for me, since my other work also fluctuates in how much time it requires, and I'm generally able to fit my different roles around each other. > 2) What's your plan and view with GNOME in Asia? How do you think > about grow GNOME in Asia? There are a lot of areas of the world where it would be good to grow the GNOME community. One thing that I'd like to see the Foundation do more is actively promote the use of funds for small local events, for distributing GNOME merchandise, and to allow people to have GNOME booths at conferences. In terms of Asia specifically, GNOME.Asia is obviously a great thing, and I'd like the Foundation to support that effort as much as possible. That means helping to coordinate between the different events, including GNOME.Asia in our sponsorship-raising efforts, and having our staff do support work where possible. The Foundation can only do so much to promote GNOME in Asia, of course. The Engagement Team also has a crucial role to play, and is a good place to discuss promotion. > 3) How do you make GNOME great again? ( Sorry for my poor English again ) > ---- Any idea about let everyone say " Wow!! it's GNOME " " I know GNOME :) " That's a big question! In my view, the Foundation doesn't really do things on its own. Instead, it's primary role is as an enabler for the rest of the GNOME community, as well as a contact point for partners. Regarding the former, it's important that, when opportunities come along, the community has the resources to take advantage of them. One critical thing is therefore that the community knows what support is available, knows how to get it, and feels comfortable approaching the Foundation for assistance. I think that's something we can improve and is something I'd like to work on if I'm reelected. The other thing that the Board of Directors can do is make more active interventions in how the project is running, so that weaknesses are addressed. This isn't something that the board has traditionally done, and our capacity to act is often limited, but it is something that we've started to try and do a bit in the past 12 months. It's still not entirely clear what the outcome of these efforts will be, but I do think that it's a worthwhile experiment. I'm particularly interested to see how the board can help to plug any gaps around continuous integration, QA, bug triage and translation. Allan _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
