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Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by vuntz on Mon, 2003-11-03 16:43. Gnome Foundation

We want the GNOME community to be involved in the GNOME Foundation, and one way to involve you is to allow you to ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections. Here's your chance to know what the candidates think about what is concerning you.

Please ask one question per post (and no more). Telsa will select the 10 best questions and we'll send them to the candidates.You may want to look at last year's questions.

Update: Note that you'll still be able to directly ask questions to the candidates by posting on foundation-list.Being on the board of the GNOME Foundation is not a technical job, so please try to avoid posting questions about developement and other hacking type stuff. The GNOME Foundation charter might also be of some interest.

Re: Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Founda

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2003-11-04 03:33.

To all candidates running now;

As an early adopter of Gnome i've seen the project progress in it's early stages with enthusiam and even though things weren't ground breaking, there simply needed to be a foundation on which to build. After the developers release 2.0 I expected Gnome to head into a more ground breaking direction. However, it seems to be repeating the same exact foundation issues over again and that's understandable as libs and functionality mature but is Gnome just going to continue to maintain the existing codebase or are any advancements going to be made in the desktop paradigm? Also (yeah I know more than one question) when is documentation going to become a priority? Not just for applications that come with Gnome but for developer libs etc. It seems the barrier for entry for a new developer requires a large investment of time still, it was my knowledge that 2.0 was released to address this. Also right now where are the majority of developers spending their time, what are they working on and are there any concise avenues or webpages somewhere where they ask for help?

It seems from the outset that there is no structure or direction currently and it's causing a massive loss in momentum, enthusiam and general fun involved with working with gnome. As candidates how do you propose to fix some of these problems; if you see them as issues at all, and if they aren't issues where do you see Gnome in the next 12 months?

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