Name: Seif Lotfy
Email: seiflotfy (at) gmail.com
Affiliation: None

I have been a GNOME contributor since 2007. And served on the board of
directors the past year.

If elected, I would try to push for more initiatives to get communications
across all gnome teams solidified as well as push for more outreach
and marketing support from the community as well as the Advisory board.

cheers,
 Seif
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Name: Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Email: marinaz< at >redhat.com
Affiliation: Red Hat
Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/marina

Dear Foundation,

I have been working on GNOME for the last five years, as a developer of online-desktop and gnome-shell and as a lead of our outreach efforts. With the help of so many people in the community, three and a half years ago I created the Outreach Program for Women which enabled 49 women to do internships with GNOME and significantly increased participation of women in the community. This program has grown to include internships with 18 Free Software organizations this summer. I applied my experience in organizing outreach to women to improving our outreach and engagement with all new contributors. I made the mentors list we started for the program a general resource and introduced first patch and blogging requirements for our Google Summer of Code students. I follow other outreach efforts in Fr
 ee Software and try to bring the best practices to GNOME. For example, after seeing OpenHatch workshop participants learn a lot by following step-by-step missions, I created, with the help o
 f others, a newcomers tutorial for GNOME that 40 new contributors have completed so far.

I would like to serve on the board to have a broader view into how we can ensure that GNOME is thriving as a project and a community, and to find the most effective ways I can apply my abilities and experience to help make it happen.

Thanks,
Marina

Name: Ekaterina Gerasimova (kittykat)
Affiliation: none

I have experienced the difficulties that are encountered by our local teams
when organising events and I agree with Joanie that the Foundation's
processes need to become more efficient. These responsibilities need to be
clarified and followed to reduce friction and improve collaboration within
the GNOME community.

Our existing processes are missing defined fallbacks and resolution paths.
When decisions become stuck or blocked on, opportunities fall through and
the Foundation loses out when its members cannot attend conferences and
hackfests.

However, fallbacks and resolution paths should be a last resort. For
instance, GUADEC, our annual flagship conference, would benefit from more
continuity and consistency. This will help organisers, attendees and
supporters of GNOME events. My time as the GNOME Board liaison for the
Desktop Summit 2010 in Berlin and helping out with the GNOME booth at
events has given me an insight into the workings of events, which I want to
use to improve the experience for the community.
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Name: Sriram Ramkrishna
Email: sri< at >ramkrishna.me
Affiliation: Intel


I have decided this year to continue to increase my participation in
GNOME.  I joined GNOME in 1997, working on GNOME Summaries that led to the
GNOME Journal.  We expanded from a one man contributor to a full 4-5 person
team writing professional level articles on GNOME.

I am currently very active in the marketing team working on community
outreach and volunteer management.  I worked dilligently during the initial
two releases of the GNOME 3 release by presentations at Linuxcon America
and Northwest Linuxfest.  I worked as a community manager during this time
engaging with individuals from random people on the internet to pillars in
the Free Software community.  I've made people who criticized GNOME to
contributors.  I have helped  the marketing team by organizing regular
meetings, posting agenda, and following up on action items and making sure
things are on track.

I am also part of the sysadmin team, although Andrea does such a good job
that I don't really do much other than cheer lead.  

I have been a mentor for OPW for the past year as well will be working with
the current round of OPW.

I am standing for board elections because I believe that I can be an asset
in volunteer management and outreach.  In order for our project to continue
to succeed we need to be able to attract and keep talented people from all
walks of life to our project.  They are our life blood.  I want to continue
to improve volunteer experience in GNOME as well as make sure that GNOME
projects the right image to the community and beyond.  In these days of
social media a bad experience can be magnified a thousand fold without
proper engagement and communication.

My background - I am engineering manager at Intel Open Source Technology
Center in charge of release management of Tizen the open source Mobile OS.
Before that I worked in IT for 17 years in an embedded IT group that
directly supported Intel's microprocessor business.  In the past 5 years,
our IT environment was considered one of the top 500 supercomputers in the
world.
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