xorg/ BoardOfDirectors/ Elections/ 2010

The X.Org Foundation is holding elections for the BoardOfDirectors. The Elections overview page describes the voting methods and process. Members may vote by logging in to the web app on https://members.x.org/

For the 2010 elections, the regular 4 seats are open for 2 year terms, and one additional seat is open for a 1 year term to finish the term vacated by Daniel Stone's resignation.

  1. Election Dates
  2. Candidates

Election Dates

Candidates

Eric Anholt

Current Affiliation
Intel
Statement of Contribution
My role in X.Org has largely been as a developer, including contributions to the EXA acceleration architecture, RandR 1.2 development, and developing native Intel modesetting.
Personal Statement
I got my start in X working on Mesa and 2D drivers back in the early days of DRI, and later moved on to working in the X Server on acceleration architectures. I've since been working at Intel on the X Server, the 2D driver, and the 3D driver and Mesa. On the board this past term, I've primarily contributed by working on minor administration tasks. In particular, I made touchups on the members system (failing at my plan to replace it), and was the point person approving new members as they applied.

Alex Deucher

Current Affiliation
AMD
Statement of Contribution
I've been working on Xorg video drivers for many years. I now work at AMD supporting the open source driver stack and helping provide chipset documentation for AMD hardware.
Personal Statement
The X Window System has interested me since I first saw screen shots of X window managers back in 1997. I got actively involved in X around 2000 and my interest and participation has grown from there. I now work for AMD supporting open source software on AMD graphics hardware. Prior to starting at AMD, I worked in telecom engineering and intellectual property risk management. My current focus has been on 2D and 3D driver support and documentation for AMD hardware. I have previously contributed to a number of other X drivers including drivers for hardware from S3 and Siliconmotion and mentored several Google and Xorg summer of code projects. Sitting on the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors would give me a chance to lend my unique expertise and skill set to the future direction of the X Window System and related technologies. I would like to focus on increasing new user participation and finding solutions to legal obstacles to handling new technologies in the open source X graphics stack.

Matthieu Herrb

Current Affiliation
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Statement of Contribution
Long time X contributor. Current focus: Security, *BSD support
Personal Statement
I'm 46 years old and work for a French research lab in Toulouse, in the south-west of France. I've been contributing to X since the XFree86 2.x era. I'm maintaining the OpenBSD port of X.Org and trying to help other BSD projects to get the support they need too. I've also been handling security issues in X.Org since The X.Org foundation has a very important role to play in education and animation of the community around X.Org, in particular by organizing X developer conferences and providing support for people to participate to these events. As a member of the board I will continue to support these efforts to promote the X technology. I strongly believe that the multi-platform nature of X is one of its key strength and will continue to work with the board to support portability towards a wide range of operating systems, as well as the MIT style licensing of the core X.Org server and libraries.

Matthias Hopf

Current Affiliation
SuSE GmbH
Statement of Contribution
Working on radeonhd (one of the principal authors), R[67]xx bringup, RandR (1.3, specifically), general Xserver fixes.
Personal Statement
I'm active in X development for over 5 years now. For SUSE I'm working on stabilizing the Xserver and drivers to get enterprise quality in our products, upstream I'm trying hard to foster new and fancy developments that do not conflict with backwards compatibility too much. I'm a strong advocate of Google SoC and X.org's participation therein.

Stuart Kreitman

Current Affiliation
Sun Microsystems
Statement of Contribution
Xorg promoter to the OpenSolaris community, hacker, DevConf organizer, board member for several terms.
Personal Statement
I am current co-treasurer, former board member, early co-architect of the Xorg Foundation and dis-architect of the late X Consortium. My contributions to the Foundation and the Xorg community include Conference organization, donations of funds and equipment from Sun, and education within Sun to promote alignment and transition to a pure-Xorg based product set. My technical interests are in the areas of input handling, thin clients, and large scale multiuser deployments. As of Feb 15, 2010, I will be an employee of Oracle Corporation, advocating for Xorg desktop to a wider but less *nix-centric user community, an uphill task that really needs the support of this Xorg community.

David Nicol

Current Affiliation
tipjar LLC
Statement of Contribution
Coding since 1980, dot-com since 1996.
Personal Statement
If elected to the X.Org foundation Board of Directors, David Nicol will participate in the bi-weekly meetings on IRC and attend the annual face-to-face. David Nicol brings decades of experience as a software consultant, and recent credentials from a top entrepreneurship program, to add value to the organization by verifying that our activities continue to further our mission in an ever-improving way.

Keith Packard

Current Affiliation
Intel
Statement of Contribution
Have written a bit of X server code over the years, designed and wrote a few extensions that add nice features to the window system.
Personal Statement
The X.org board continues to perform an important role in the X community. Over the last couple of years, the primary activities of the board have involved organizing technical conferences and providing funding for developers to attend both those conferences and other important free software conferences around the world. I've been involved in the board since the reformation of the X.org foundation, as treasurer for the whole time and as an intermittent board member. If elected, I will offer my services as treasurer again and work to continue offering opportunities for X developers to meet around the world.

Carl Worth

Current Affiliation
Intel
Statement of Contribution
I was lured into the world of X by an invitation to implement trapezoid rasterization for the software implementation of Render in the server. From there I moved up the stack implementing the cairo graphics library so there would be an easier way to get interesting graphics in X without coding XRender directly. More recently, I've come back down the stack working to improve the xf86-video-intel drivers so that cairo will be reasonably accelerated.
Personal statement
The X Window System has an essential role in an increasing number of mobile and desktop platforms built with Free Software. Of course, the X.Org Foundation has no technical role in the development of the system. But the Foundation does have a unique position to be able to facilitate the workings of the community. Examples of Foundation activities include hosting developers' summits and attracting new developers by funding students. I have contributed time and effort by serving on the X.Org Foundation Board over the past two years and would be happy to contribute similarly in the future.