Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

From: Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>

To: foundation-list <foundation-list gnome org>

Subject: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Emily Gonyer

Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:32:31 -0400

Name: Emily Gonyer Email: emilyyrose gmail com Affiliation: None Dear Foundation, I'm interested in serving on GNOME's board of directors for the first time, in order to help steer GNOME in a more open and community led direction. It is my opinion that GNOME has strode too far towards a corporate-driven project and away from its community-led roots. As of now, GNOME is, in my opinion too beholden to a small handful of large corporations which forces the project to ignore large swaths of our users in preference to them. The end result being that GNOME has lost a tremendous portion of its respect and goodwill in the wider free software community. As a member of the GNOME board of directors I will actively work against this tide and towards the more open, community-driven project that GNOME once was and I hope will be again. I have been a long time user of GNOME since the 1.x days, and an active contributor for the last 2+ years now. I actively promote free software whenever and wherever I can, and feel strongly that it is only through free software that we will be able to keep the freedoms that we all cherish both online and off. Those freedoms are being actively obstructed and eroded by corporations and governments around the world. As a member of the board of directors I will actively work against these forces, in order to ensure a free and open internet for everyone. Good luck to everyone! Emily Gonyer -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein