##language:en == Egbert Eich == Email: <> === X.Org Board Elections === I've been involved in the development of the X Window System since 1995.<
> I helped bootstrapping the X.Org Foundation. In the past two years I served on the Board of Directors of the X.Org Foundation. There I helped to ensure that the Boards focuses as an overseer on organizational issues and abstained from undue involvement in technical matters.<
> I was involved in drafting in our new By-Laws and Membership Agreement and I drafted the 2006 budget. My strong focus rests in development. As a Board Member I see my most important duty to support our community of contributors and bring its issues to the attention of the Board. A number of issues need to be addressed urgently: 1. Create a Membership Committee to promptly deal with reviewing and accepting Membership applications thru an open process. 1. Establish a sponsorship program <
> This involves identifying funding opportunities and budget for them: * Event Funding * Set up travel fund program for X related events and coordinate with event organizers. * Individual funding * Set up Budget and policies to sponsor travel for X-related presentations * Budget for and develop polices for sponsorship of individual contributors to attend meetings relavant to their area of contribution. * Marketing * Determine if and in which marketing activeties X.Org should be involved in and what their goals and intended target audiences are. From this develop a policy to fund such events. 1. Put X.Org server infrastructure fully in place: i. Installation of the donated machines from SUN. i. Identify services that can be shared with freedesktop.org. i. Establish a backup and mirroring system for the freedesktop.org infrastructure. i. Make sure that the administrational workload can be dealt with effectivly. ---- CategoryHomepage