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[Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maren,

Responses below!

Best wishes,


Alex

== Name ==
Alexander (Alex) Valavanis

== Professional affiliation ==
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

== Statement of contribution to Inkscape ==
I have been an Inkscape developer since May 2011, with over 550
contributions committed to the project's code.  My main involvement
has been in improving the quality and maintainability of the code, and
making the best use of the programming language features and software
libraries available on the many different operating systems used by
Inkscape's diverse user community.  Specifically, I led the migration
of Inkscape to the new GTK+ 3 graphical user interface library, which
will "future-proof" our code, allow us to make much better use of
touchscreens, and provide better support for OS X.  I set up and
maintain the Inkscape personal package archives (PPAs), which enable
Ubuntu and Debian users to access both the latest stable version of
Inkscape and daily builds of our experimental code.  I have also taken
a lot of interest in improving the build systems, which are used for
building the Inkscape program from its source code. I have aimed to
ensure that Inkscape can be built reliably on a wide range of systems,
and I have liaised closely with the downstream Ubuntu and Debian
package maintainers to make sure that we receive user bug reports and
distribute new versions of Inkscape to users as efficiently as
possible.  I was very grateful for the opportunity to attend the
Inkscape Hackfest in 2015, and to meet with other developers and board
members to work on the code and discuss the future roadmap for the
project.

== Personal statement ==
It is a true honour to have been nominated as a board member for
Inkscape.  I fully appreciate the high regard in which the project is
held by its users, and the wider free software community.  My role in
Inkscape has, so far, focused mainly on the technical side of
improving the quality and longevity of the project, and I am eager now
to support the project at board level. It was a real pleasure to meet
some of the other board members in person at the Hackfest earlier this
year and I look forward to the opportunity to work together with them.
As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, I have experience
in the financial planning of small to medium-scale ($1000 - $1.5
million) technical projects, and am confident in my ability to take on
board responsibilities for Inkscape.  I am also interested in the
inter-project collaboration aspects of board membership, particularly
in promoting the development of shared libraries and resources for
common use with other free-software projects.



On 17 August 2015 at 11:02, Maren Hachmann <maren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Alex,
>
> Great :D - and, yeah, it's holiday time... I hope you had some nice
> days, cause now, we've got a task for you ;).
>
> But I guess you already know that the next thing that you'll need to
> do in this process is write up the set of statements about yourself
> for the
> mailing list (which we will put there when it's time):
>
>       * Name (legal name required when elected):
>       * Current professional affiliation
>       * Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies
>       * A personal statement
>
> (The statements need not be long, a few sentences for each should
> suffice - we want voters to read through them and to not frighten the
> candidates ;))
>
> Please send your answers out soon, so we can stick to our
> (new) schedule (voting can start on 20th or 21st).
>
> Thank you very much and kind regards,
>  Maren
>
>
>
>
> Am 17.08.2015 um 11:49 schrieb Alex Valavanis:
>> Dear Maren,
>>
>> Sorry for the slow reply. I just got back from vacation. I'm
>> honoured to have been nominated, even if I have been rather absent
>> from the project recently! I'll certainly accept candidacy.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 15 Aug 2015 11:12 am, "Maren Hachmann" <maren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:maren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> a fellow Inkscaper has nominated you as a candidate for the
>> Inkscape Board elections.
>>
>> Would you accept candidacy?
>>
>> For more info about board duties and the election process, please
>> refer to https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/board-duties/.
>>
>> Please let us know if you are interested in running for this
>> position, or if you have any questions or concerns please contact
>> the elections committee at
>> inkscape.elections.committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:inkscape.elections.committee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> .
>>
>> If you choose not to run, for any reason, no worries - and thank
>> you very much for giving it your consideration.
>>
>> Best regards, Maren Hachmann (member of Inkscape elections
>> committee)
>>
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