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[Maren Hachmann <maren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Thanks Alex!
Ted will send out the complete candidate list and some instructions
for the voters to the mailing list soon :)

Kind regards,
 Maren

Am 19.08.2015 um 12:18 schrieb Alex Valavanis:
> 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: 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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