GNOME Foundation Board Elections

November 9, 2004 9:05 am General

It’s hard to describe my feelings about the GNOME Foundation Board Elections this year. I didn’t really have much time to think about putting myself forward for another year, and with a holiday and lack of access to mail I mostly forgot about the elections.

So I have mixed emotions. Mostly I completely sucked this year. I really, really sucked and had very little motivation to attend the early morning meetings. I’d like to think it was because I had less motivated people to bounce ideas off, and while most of the board would admit a similar lack of motivation, the buck needs to stop at someone to be that necessary kickstart. I’ll definitely miss the board emails – they were the source of many interesting discussions. I’ll miss the work for the most part too – since I don’t code that well, it’s a perfect opportunity to give something worthwhile back to the project. I’ll miss also the title it brought to me at Sun – quite often people would listen a bit closer to someone with such a title; sad but true.

But in the end, I just couldn’t justify going another year. While a new board would bring along new members that could potentially motivate me, I think I just need to stand aside and let some one else have a go and see how they do. It’ll be hard to stand back though.

So my slightly pessimistic election question is this –

How do you think you could motivate the rest of the board, if and when the other directors have other time pressures? What drives you to run for the board? What one problem could you hope to solve this year?

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