Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Andrea Veri

Name: Andrea Veri
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: GNOME Foundation

Dear Foundation Members,

I would like to throw my hat in for this year elections and bring my 
expertise and passion to fulfill Board's duties and challenges.

I've been part of the Foundation since late 2009 participating and 
contributing in many GNOME teams and fields. While it's usually common 
among applicants during elections (them being either political 
or private for a certain foundation or association) to promise or 
propose what they plan to do (in case of them being elected) for the 
next term, I'd like to focus on my involvement on the GNOME Project 
and my past work on the Foundation instead. This to let everyone know 
how deeply I've been caring about GNOME and the awesome community 
behind it.

Since the very beginning I revamped the Accounts Team bringing the 
total number of open tickets to zero, at the same I made sure all the 
relevant wiki pages with the policies and procedures were taken back 
into an up-to-date status to avoid confusion between account 
applicants.

Lately when I joined the GNOME Foundation Membership Committee I 
firstly helped the team as a member processing the queue and reducing 
the huge gap there was between new (tickets never being looked at) and 
resolved (tickets that have been looked at and processed either 
resulting in an approval or refusal of the applicant). The suggestions 
and the huge passion I put on the team rewarded me with the Chairman 
status. Since then the whole subset of wiki pages under the 
/MembershipCommittee hat were updated and completely rebuilt. Lastly 
but not last the Emeritus status [1] was born helping past members to 
not lose some of the benefits they've been contributing hard to achieve.

But that's not all, thanks to Sriram Ramkrishna I lately joined the 
GNOME Sysadmin Team revamping the GNOME Infrastructure from its 
ground. I don't want to annoy you more about my contributions on this 
field given the huge amount of announcements and blog posts I made 
about the great work the GNOME Sysadmin Team has made during the past 
year. (huge kudos goes to Patrick Uiterwijk as well for helping out 
the team and providing support to users and developers on the various 
support channels (IRC, mailing lists, Request Tracker) we provide)

Joining the Board of Directors would give me a chance to take my 
passion and willingness aboard making sure my action items will be 
taken care of in the fastest and best way as possible.

Thanks for your attention and have an awesome day,

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MembershipCommittee/EmeritusMembers

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Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av

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