[2015 X.Org BoD Election] List of Candidates

[Egbert Eich]

Dear Members,

The nomination period for the 2015 Election for the X.Org Foundation
Board of Directors has ended on February 16th 23:59 UTC (11:59 PM UTC).

The Election Committee for the 2015 Election is happy to announce this 
years candidates (in alphabetical order):
- Rob Clark
- Peter Hutterer
- Stuart Kreitman
- Martin Peres
- Emil Velikov
- Daniel Vetter

Please find below the information disclosed by the candidates.
There will be a 3 week QA period where you as a Member can ask
questions for the candidates.
The election will start on  March 09, 2015 at 00:00 UTC.

Best Regards,
  The X.Org Foundation Election Committee
  Egbert Eich (Chair),
  Alex Deucher,
  Matt Dew,
  Keith Packard

------------- Information on the candidates ----------------------

Name:
Peter Hutterer

Current affiliation:
Red Hat

Statement of contribution:
XServer input maintainer, maintainer for most of the input drivers,
plibinput maintainer, etc.

Personal Statement:
I'm running for re-relection on the X.Org Foundation Board. IMO the main
purpose of the board these days is to provide assistance to
members and X.Org and its associated projects. To me this means XDC and
travel sponsorship and developer programs such as EVoC, GSoC and OPW
(now Outreachy). As the Secretary of the BoD I've been trying to
increase transparency on all our dealings by posting regular meeting
minutes with quick-to-read summaries. If re-elected I will continue to
do so, providing members with a quick and easy window into our work.

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Name:
Stuart Kreitman

Current Affiliation:
Oracle Systems

Statement of Contribution:
Continuing incumbent board member, treasurer.

Personal Statement:  
I hold some institutional memory which may be usefull
during the anticipated transition to SPI administration.

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Name:
Rob Clark

Current professional affiliation:
Red Hat

Statement of contribution to X.Org or related technologies:
freedreno: mesa, ddx, libdrm, kernel

various other (mostly arm related) stuff: omap ddx, various core and
helper bits in gallium and kernel

Personal Statement:
With open src grapics on arm starting to become a thing, perhaps it is
useful to have a board member with an arm perspective?  At any rate,
if I can help, I'd be more than happy to.

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Name:
Martin Peres

Current Affiliation:
Intel Finland

Statement of Contribution:
Power management on Nouveau, Organiser of the XDC2014, EVoC/GSoC mentor 
(2012-2014) and organiser (2014-2015), Google+ X.Org page maintainer, 
Wayland Security

Personal Statement:
I have been a contributor to the Nouveau project for almost 5 years 
already. Most of these contributions have been on the reverse 
engineering of the power management on NVIDIA GPUs and implementation 
work in Nouveau. During those 5 years, I have tried to bring in more 
people to the graphics stack. For instance, I mentored 4 projects in the 
Google Summer of Code and X.Org's Endless Vacation of Code. From 2013 to 
2015, I have been part of the board of directors of the X.Org Foundation 
where I helped managing the Foundation's side of the GSoC and EVoC. I 
also started improving the communication on what our members are doing 
by posting articles on our Google+ page which went from 0 subscribers to 
569 in 1.5 years. In 2014, I organised the X.Org Developer Conference in 
Bordeaux (instead of focusing on writing my thesis). In 2015, I started 
working at the Intel Open Source Technology Center in Finland on the 
performance of their GPU. I also became an administrator for 
freedesktop, handling account requests. All my X.Org-related 
presentations are available here: 
http://phd.mupuf.org/publication/categories/x-org/

If re-elected, I will continue to work on the communication around the 
Open graphics stack, help organising the GSoC for the foundation (I 
already signed up for 2015) and help with the organisation of the next XDCs.

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Name: 
Emil Velikov

Professional affiliation: 
Collabora Ltd

Statement of contributions to X.org:
As of around 2011 I've made around 700+ contributions towards the
graphics stack as a whole. I focus on beating distribution hacks into
shape and upstreaming them, messing around with mesa and libdrm build
systems fixing and breaking the builds, plus the occasional code
de-duplication and cleanups. Recently I've been keeping mesa's release
schedule in place, and digging through the mailing lists for patches
worthy in the stable branch.

Personal statement:
I appreciate the evolution of the graphics stack through the years and
I find it worrying that the number of contributors, albeit growing is
low comparing to other aspects of (F)OSS development. As a member of
the BoD I'm aiming to continue the social presence of the Xorg
Foundation and work towards getting more developers interested and
contributing to the stack.

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Name:
Daniel Vetter

Current Affilation: 
Intel

Statement of Contribution:
drm/i915 kernel maintainer since about 3 years. I also occasionally
manage to write a few patches for better testing, better documenation
and fewer dragons hiding in the crufty dark corners of drm.

Personal Statement:
I first interacted the X.org community because kernel modesetting
broke my laptop, and I tried to fix it. But what made me stick around
wasn't so much the endless stream of bugs to tackle than collaborating
with a bunch of awesome people all over the world. And eventually
meeting them at conferences in great places. The Xorg Board does a lot
of work to facilitate that by organizing conferences and sponsoring
travel. And also to make sure new people can join the community easier
by running programs like evoc or gsoc. Thus far I've mostly
concentrated on technical topics and keeping the code in good shape,
but if I elected I will work to support these important functions the
board serves in our community.
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