X.Org Foundation Election Candidates

[Matt Dew]

To all X.Org Foundation Members:

The election for the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors will begin on
18 Mar 2013 and will come to a close 7 Apr 2013.  We have
five candidates who are running for four seats. They are (in no
particular order):

     1. Alan Coopersmith
     2. Bart Massey
     3. Martin Peres
     4. Peter Hutterer
     5. Stuart Kreitman


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/2013

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, 11 March 2013, and will end 17 March 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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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 four years, including two years as a 
secretary. 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, as did last year's EVoC program 
for student mentorship, so the board now needs to begin work on finding 
ways to replenish its funds so it can continue to fund these programs. I 
am glad to have been able to serve the X.Org membership over these past 
four years, and am willing to continue to serve, should you choose to 
elect me.

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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 am honored to be serving as Secretary of the X.Org Foundation 
Board, and would feel privileged to do so again if once again elected 
and chosen by the Board. Over the last few years, I have helped to start 
efforts to encourage student developers (Endless Vacation of Code) and 
to produce documentation for new developers (Book Sprints). I have also 
helped to recruit new developers and Board Members, and helped a bit 
with the effort to get 501(c)3 US Nonprofit status for the Foundation. 
This year, I will be hosting the 2013 X.Org Developers Conference at my 
home institution, Portland State University. If elected, I will continue 
to help to address key X.Org issues: fix the X.org web infrastructure 
and documentation; stabilize the Foundation's finances at a sustainable 
level; assure that the Foundation has broad impact across the X 
ecosystem, including such projects as Mesa and Wayland; and regularize 
the Bylaws and operations of the Foundation consistent with current 
practice and IRS requirements. The mission of the Foundation is to 
support and sustain X and X-related development. I would be honored to 
be able to continue to help support this mission.

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Martin Peres

Current Affiliation
     University of Bordeaux - LaBRI

Statement of Contribution
     I am originally a system security engineer but I am currently 
furthering my studies by doing a Ph.D. at LaBRI, a research center in 
Bordeaux. My Ph.D. thesis is about power consumption and security in 
Wireless Networks.

     My involvement in X.org really started in 2010 by mainly working on 
power and thermal management in the reverse-engineered NVidia driver 
(Nouveau). However, I have also decided to help improving communication 
relative to the Nouveau driver and the whole graphics stack. The 
communication is either aimed towards developers or the end-users. All 
my presentations are available here: 
http://phd.mupuf.org/publication/categories/x-org/

Personal Statement
     I introduced myself to the X.org community because I wanted to make 
my radeon card work. After sticking to the proprietary driver for a bit, 
I checked out radeon and fell in love with open graphics-driver 
development. However, the lack of communication and documentation was 
daunting and I didn't feel like I could be of any help. After a year or 
so, I finally got involved but I feel like it took me around 1.5 years 
to really get up to speed. Knowing how hard it is to get involved, I've 
been trying to lower the entry barrier by communicating towards 
potential new comers through presentations about the graphics stack at 
my university or user-oriented Linux conferences. I also try to improve 
communication around the Nouveau project towards both the end-users and 
developers of other components. I have also been involved in the EVoC 
program as a mentor and I am willing to keep on being one. I have been 
in contact with the board of directors mostly because of the EVoC 
program and have been following (silently) most of their meetings on 
IRC. If elected, I will work harder on documentation and getting new 
talents to X.org.

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Peter Hutterer

Current affiliation
     Red Hat

Statement of contribution
     XServer input maintainer, maintainer for most of the input drivers 
including evdev and synaptics. Co-maintainer for the out-of-tree wacom 
driver.

Personal Statement
     I got involved with X.Org during around 6 years ago. I've focused 
on the input subsystem, adding the odd feature here and there (device 
properties, MPX, multitouch) and maintaining the various drivers. Now I 
spend most of my time on maintenance. Despite the buzz around newer 
technologies, X will stay with us for a long time yet, and the 
developers will likely be involved with multiple projects. As a member 
of the board I will aim to ensure that the developers have the full 
support of the Foundation across the multiple communities.

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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. Most recently liasoned with 
SFLC to complete the application for 501(c)3 status, Treasurer.

Personal Statement
     As longterm treasurer and current board member of X.org, I attend 
the bimonthly meetings and fulfill the two functions. This past year I 
liasoned with SFLC to complete the filing for the 501(c)3 application, 
which we have been granted. I'm thankful be a part of X.org and help in 
any way I can. My technical life includes Xorg server and kernel driver 
work, and advocacy within Oracle and its user community. Occasionally I 
get to commit Oracle resources for the benefit of the Xorg community.