xorg/ BoardOfDirectors/ Elections/ 2013

The X.Org Foundation is holding elections for the Board of Directors. 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 2013 elections, the regular 4 seats are open for 2 year terms.

  1. Election Dates
  2. Candidates

Election Dates

Candidates

Please note that even though we only have 4 candidates for the 4 seats, we still need a ballot for verification that enough members find the selection acceptable.

Alan Coopersmith

Current Affiliation
Oracle
Statement of Contribution
X11 R6.9, 7.5, + 7.6 Release Manager, Modularization Task Force + Security Coordination Team, Maintainer of xdm + Solaris/OpenSolaris port of Xorg
Personal Statement
I am running for re-election to the X.Org Foundation Board, having served as a member for the past four years, including two years as a secretary. The role of the X.Org Board is to manage the resources of the foundation and use them to support the developers, both current and new. Travel sponsorships for developers and Summer of Code students to come to X.Org conferences have worked well, as did last year's EVoC program for student mentorship, so the board now needs to begin work on finding ways to replenish its funds so it can continue to fund these programs. I am glad to have been able to serve the X.Org membership over these past four years, and am willing to continue to serve, should you choose to elect me.

Martin Peres

Current Affiliation
University of Bordeaux - LaBRI
Statement of Contribution
I am originally a system security engineer but I am currently furthering my studies by doing a Ph.D. at LaBRI, a research center in Bordeaux. My Ph.D. thesis is about power consumption and security in Wireless Networks. My involvement in X.org really started in 2010 by mainly working on power and thermal management in the reverse-engineered NVidia driver (Nouveau). However, I have also decided to help improving communication relative to the Nouveau driver and the whole graphics stack. The communication is either aimed towards developers or the end-users. All my presentations are available here: http://phd.mupuf.org/publication/categories/x-org/
Personal Statement
I introduced myself to the X.org community because I wanted to make my radeon card work. After sticking to the proprietary driver for a bit, I checked out radeon and fell in love with open graphics-driver development. However, the lack of communication and documentation was daunting and I didn't feel like I could be of any help. After a year or so, I finally got involved but I feel like it took me around 1.5 years to really get up to speed. Knowing how hard it is to get involved, I've been trying to lower the entry barrier by communicating towards potential new comers through presentations about the graphics stack at my university or user-oriented Linux conferences. I also try to improve communication around the Nouveau project towards both the end-users and developers of other components. I have also been involved in the EVoC program as a mentor and I am willing to keep on being one. I have been in contact with the board of directors mostly because of the EVoC program and have been following (silently) most of their meetings on IRC. If elected, I will work harder on documentation and getting new talents to X.org.

Peter Hutterer

Current affiliation
Red Hat
Statement of contribution
XServer input maintainer, maintainer for most of the input drivers including evdev and synaptics. Co-maintainer for the out-of-tree wacom driver.
Personal Statement
I got involved with X.Org during around 6 years ago. I've focused on the input subsystem, adding the odd feature here and there (device properties, MPX, multitouch) and maintaining the various drivers. Now I spend most of my time on maintenance. Despite the buzz around newer technologies, X will stay with us for a long time yet, and the developers will likely be involved with multiple projects. As a member of the board I will aim to ensure that the developers have the full support of the Foundation across the multiple communities.

Stuart Kreitman

Current Affiliation
Oracle
Statement of Contribution
Xorg promoter to the Open Solaris community, hacker, ?DevConf organizer, board member for several terms. Most recently liasoned with SFLC to complete the application for 501(c)3 status, Treasurer.
Personal Statement
As longterm treasurer and current board member of X.org, I attend the bimonthly meetings and fulfill the two functions. This past year I liasoned with SFLC to complete the filing for the 501(c)3 application, which we have been granted. I'm thankful be a part of X.org and help in any way I can. My technical life includes Xorg server and kernel driver work, and advocacy within Oracle and its user community. Occasionally I get to commit Oracle resources for the benefit of the Xorg community.