X.Org Foundation Election Candidates

[Alex Deucher]

To all X.Org Foundation Members:

The election for the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors will begin on
21 February 2011 and will come to a close 28 February 2011.  We have
six candidates who are running for four seats. They are (in no
particular order):

   1. Eric Anholt
   2. Alan Coopersmith
   3. Stuart Kreitman
   4. Bart Massey
   5. Tiago Vignatti
   6. Carl Worth

Attached below are the Personal Statements each candidate submitted
for your consideration along with their Statements of Contribution
that they submitted with the membership application.  Please review
each of the candidates' statements to help you decide whom to vote for
during the upcoming election.  You can read more about the candidates
here and the election schedule here:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/2011

If you have questions of the candidates, you should feel free to ask
them here on the members at x.org mailing list.  The Q&A period starts
today, 14 February 2011, and will end 21 February 2011.

The election committee will provide detailed instructions on how the
voting system will work when the voting period begins.

The Election Committee
X.Org Foundation


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Candidates
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Eric Anholt

Current Affiliation
    Intel
Statement of Contribution
    My role in X.Org has largely been as a developer, including
contributions to the EXA acceleration architecture, RandR 1.2
development, and developing native Intel modesetting.
Personal Statement
    Eric Anholt has been active in the X community for the last 5
years as an Intel graphics driver developer, and before that as a
general DRI driver and FreeBSD DRM hacker. As an X.Org board member,
Eric has managed the member application process, done minor system
administration on the X.Org server, and passed messages on to the
freedesktop.org sysadmin when it has been out of his scope.

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Alan Coopersmith

Current Affiliation
    Oracle
Statement of Contribution
    X11 R6.9, 7.5, + 7.6 Release Manager, Modularization Task Force +
Security Coordination Team, Maintainer of xdm + Solaris/OpenSolaris
port of Xorg
Personal Statement
    I am running for re-election to the X.Org Foundation Board, having
served as a member for the past two years, and the Secretary for the
past year.
    The role of the X.Org Board is to manage the resources of the
foundation and use them to support the developers, both current and
new. Travel sponsorships for developers and Summer of Code students to
come to X.Org conferences have worked well, and the board has also
funded some targeted hackfests, and have accepted proposals for a
couple more still in the planning stages. The Board should encourage
more proposals for other ways to make use of the foundations
resources.
    When I last ran, I said that members should have greater
visibility into the workings of the X.Org Board, including more
frequent reports from the board of the tasks it is working on. This
has happened over the past two years, with information on board
meetings now regularly provided to the members, and should continue.
    I am glad to have been able to serve the X.Org membership over
these past two years, and appreciate the opportunity to continue to
serve.

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Stuart Kreitman

Current Affiliation
    Oracle
Statement of Contribution
    Xorg promoter to the Open Solaris community, hacker, DevConf
organizer, board member for several terms
Personal Statement
    As current treasurer and former board member of X.org, I am
thankful to be considered for re-election to the board.  I generally
attend the bimonthly board meetings already, so this added role would
allow us to reach a quorum more often, which would expedite business.
    My technical life has included Xorg maintenance and advocacy
within my organization and user community (Sun, now Oracle), and
occasionally committing resources from that organization for the
benefit of the Xorg community.

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Bart Massey

Current Affiliation
    Portland State University
Statement of Contribution
    I am a member of the X.Org Foundation Board, an Associate
Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, and an X
geek with 20 years experience. I'm the architect, advisor, and
sometimes implementor to the XCB project, which provides a modern
replacement to Xlib. I've also tried to help out with design and
algorithms for Xft, Render, Cairo, and various other projects. PSU
hosts freedesktop.org's infrastructure, and PSU students have
contributed to X in substantial ways. I am currently investigating X
in Haskell and GUI toolkit design.
Personal Statement
    I've had the privilege of serving the X.Org Foundation Board as a
Board Member over the last four years, as Secretary for three.
    In the last two years, the X.Org Foundation has consolidated many
of the gains that we made previously. The Foundation was successful in
supporting and encouraging communication in the X community, and in
deploying our resources to support X technical development.
    We have been working harder to recruit new developers. I recently
helped to initiate an effort to collect, reorganize and rationalize X
developer documentation. We plan to push forward in the coming year
with new developer documents, for which I am organizing a book sprint.
I have continued to be involved with the Google / X.Org Summer of
Code, and have continued to contribute to various X projects such as
XCB that are new-developer friendly.
    There's still a lot to do. The end of our interminable corporate
and financial reorganization is in sight. We need to understand how
the Foundation should support transitions to "post-X.Org" technologies
such as Wayland. I'd like to continue with the Board and help with
these activities. I humbly ask for your support in doing so.

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Tiago Vignatti

Current Affiliation
    Nokia
Statement of Contribution
    Following Linux graphics open communities since 2006. My interests
are on X Window System development and implementation, processes of
open source development, and any other graphics technologies that
enable embedded system development.
Personal Statement
    As a university student, back in 2006, I got involved with X.Org
when I started my contribution with X development; the time was great,
I was doing it as a hobby and for fun, and I had the pleasure to
attend a couple of X conferences.
    Nowadays I do the same, but working for Nokia; besides being paid
(which is good), the difference now is that I try push the resources
of the company to keep the open source implementation of X, in which I
believe and think it can be shaped in a beneficial way for everyone,
technically and politically speaking.
    Also, I believe I can give a step further, using my experience and
knowledge to help the Foundation in all the possible ways, attracting
more developers and contributors for the development of X. I would be
quite happy to do my best for X.Org.

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Carl Worth

Current Affiliation
    Intel
Statement of Contribution
    I was lured into the world of X by an invitation to implement
trapezoid rasterization for the software implementation of Render in
the server. From there I moved up the stack implementing the cairo
graphics library so there would be an easier way to get interesting
graphics in X without coding XRender directly. More recently, I've
come back down the stack working to improve the xf86-video-intel
drivers so that cairo will be reasonably accelerated.
Personal Statement
    The X Window System has an essential role in an increasing number
of mobile and desktop platforms built with Free Software. Of course,
the X.Org Foundation has no technical role in the development of the
system. But the foundation does have a unique position to be able to
facilitate the workings of the community. Examples of foundation
activities include hosting developers' summits and attracting new
developers by funding students. I would be happy to contribute of my
time and effort to help with these and other appropriate foundation
activities.

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