Re: Board of Directors Election 2018 - Candidacy - Federico Mena Quintero

Your agenda, especially the part about development infrastructure looks
very interesting, excellent.

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Federico Mena Quintero <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Candidacy statement for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors
>
> Name: Federico Mena Quintero
> Email: [email protected]
> Corporate affiliation: Suse
>
> Hello, everyone,
>
> My candidacy is around two things: the Code of Conduct for GNOME, and
> our development infrastructure.
>
> * Code of Conduct
>
> Over the past year or so, I have been a support member of the Code of
> Conduct Working Group.  While the group's task of drafting and
> proposing the Events Code of Conduct are done, the CoC is not in place
> yet.  If I am elected as a member of the Board, I would like to help
> put the Events Code of Conduct in place, along with its enforcement
> guidelines.  Along with the other members of the CoC Working Group, I
> attended one training session about CoC enforcement by Sage Sharp from
> Otter Tech.  As part of the Board, I would like to make it possible
> for GNOME conference organizers to attend such training sessions and
> set up the infrastructure for having Code of Conduct enforcement in
> all of GNOME's events.
>
> As an extension of that, I would like to help with updating GNOME's
> Code of Conduct at large, not just for events.  Think of our online
> interactions within the project - gitlab, mailing lists, etc.  Our
> current CoC has obsolete form and practices, and with all the
> knowledge there is now about how to have a good Code of Conduct - and
> all the organizations that can assist us in making one and validating
> it - I think we can have a modern CoC that will make GNOME friendlier
> to a diverse set of people.
>
> * Development infrastructure
>
> Several things are converging in GNOME to make it a much more
> attractive to new contributors: we now have Gitlab, which makes it
> easy for people to submit changes, and Flatpak, which makes it easy to
> ship applications and SDKs.
>
> However, there are some parts of our development infrastructure which
> have gotten stale.  My pet peeve is developer's documentation.  We
> have a mixture of DocBook, gtk-doc, Markdown, and a disparate set of
> tools.  Our devel docs get rendered to HTML versions of DocBook
> documents, which is... very last decade.  It shows up in
> developer.gnome.org and in tools like Devhelp, and it is outdated in
> both.
>
> I think we can make use of the new GNOME Internships program to tackle
> some problems.
>
> - Improving our documentation tools so they use more modern
>   documentation formats, or that render and aggregate docs to more
>   useful versions.
>
> - Do an editing pass over all of GNOME's developer documentation.  I
>   want to take inspiration from the Rust docs project, which has found
>   a good way to parallelize huge editing/writing tasks like these by
> humans.
>
> - Finish the necessary work to integrate something like Bors/Homu into
>   our Gitlab instance, so that we have repositories that never break,
>   and so that it is possible to automate many menial tasks around
>   rebasing, integration testing, and reviewing merge requests.
>
> * Reaching out to underrepresented language communities
>
> Last year, as an Outreachy project I tried and failed to recruit
> people to translate GNOME to indigenous languages from Mexico -
> Náhuatl, Mayan, Mixe, etc.  I think GNOME could set the example by
> funding people to translate our desktop to these languages.  This
> cannot be done by unpaid volunteers, as they generally live within
> several layers of marginalization.  We need translations (and new
> vocabularies for concepts that we cannot borrow from other software,
> since they are untranslated to these languages), keyboard maps, and
> outreach in general to these communities.
>
>   Federico
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-mvh Oliver Propst

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