Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-22 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 05/21/2014 07:35 PM, Jeff Fortin wrote: Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 21:17 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova a écrit : With regard to comments in this thread on candidates' time involvement, and to Andreas Nilsson's earlier message on candidates "falling behind" for not having answered the 130+ (!) mes

Re: volunteer! (was Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler)

2014-05-21 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 22 May 2014 02:05, Karen Sandler wrote: > On 2014-05-21 13:35, Jeff Fortin wrote: > >> Not to say that candidates shouldn't have a minimum commitment/know what >> the heck they're getting into, but at the same time, there's only so >> much people can do *in their spare time* with their daily li

Re: volunteer! (was Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler)

2014-05-21 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 14:05 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote: > On 2014-05-21 13:35, Jeff Fortin wrote: > > > Not to say that candidates shouldn't have a minimum commitment/know > > what > > the heck they're getting into, but at the same time, there's only so > > much people can do *in their spare time

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-21 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 13:35 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: > Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 21:17 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova a écrit : > > > I am glad that so many of the candidates did take the time to respond > > to this question. Going by the current responses, I honestly think > > that some of the candida

volunteer! (was Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler)

2014-05-21 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-21 13:35, Jeff Fortin wrote: Not to say that candidates shouldn't have a minimum commitment/know what the heck they're getting into, but at the same time, there's only so much people can do *in their spare time* with their daily life commitments. As has been mentioned many times, i

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-21 Thread Jeff Fortin
Le mardi 20 mai 2014 à 21:17 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova a écrit : > I am glad that so many of the candidates did take the time to respond > to this question. Going by the current responses, I honestly think > that some of the candidates are underestimating the time that board > duties take and th

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 20 May 2014 19:35, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya > wrote: >> >> >> It's not just the time commitment we are looking for in the board members, >> but also experience. Karen has a tremendous amount of experience in free >> software non-profit

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > > > It's not just the time commitment we are looking for in the board members, > but also experience. Karen has a tremendous amount of experience in free > software non-profit space. In the last two months, she has been very generou

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Karen On 2014-05-20 12:27, Karen Sandler wrote: On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Indeed, and there is no reason that the immediate feedback cannot be gained from Karen as an adviser if she is invited to board meetings. I do not think that a board composed of some members who are able

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:42, meg ford wrote: Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: I am extremely busy. I was just reading through all of the emails to board candidates this morning, as the time I've had in the last few days for GNOME I've spent volunteering on time sensiti

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 11:30, David King wrote: Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional consulting. The board an

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread meg ford
Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: > I am extremely busy. I was just reading through all of the emails to board > candidates this morning, as the time I've had in the last few days for > GNOME I've spent volunteering on time sensitive things that I think must be > do

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 11:17, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: In my view, having immediate feedback and ideas from someone with lots of experience during the board meetings is very valuable, and can't be substituted with occasional consulting. The board and the Foundation benefit from a divers

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "David King" > To: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" > Cc: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" , "Foundation-List" > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:13:20 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candida

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Karen Sandler
On 2014-05-20 09:17, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of Th

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Marina On 2014-05-20 09:51, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > You are a very busy person with many responsibilities, if you get > elected to the Board do you feel confident that you can spend the > necessary time on Board work? While I think you do a lot for Free Software and your passion and

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" > To: "Oliver Propst" > Cc: "foundation-announce" , "Foundation-List" > , > electi...@gnome.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:17:26 AM > Subject: Re: Board of Direc

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Hi Karen, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Oliver Propst wrote: > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: >> Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel >> of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes >> help other or

Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler

2014-05-20 Thread Oliver Propst
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: > Affiliation: Software Freedom Conservancy. I'm also pro bono General Counsel > of QuestionCopyright.Org, and an advisor of The Ada Initiative and sometimes > help other orgs (like the FSF) on legal and other free software related > matters.