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I'm positively surprised that I've been nominated as candidate. Big thanks to |
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Steve, but you're crazy, man :) |
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What surprised me in the other direction was the rather inflammatory response |
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from some people. It's not nice to attack like that when I'm not even |
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subscribed to the list. On the upside it has made it easier for me to decide |
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wether I should accept - if people feel that strongly about me they should |
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have a chance to vote on it. So yes, I accept the nomination. |
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A few words about me, maybe, to help you decide why you shouldn't vote for me? |
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I'm a 26-year-old research assistant slash PhD student at the University Berne |
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in neutral Switzerland. I've been managing gentooexperimental.org for some |
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time and as far as I can tell too many people depend on that. As Steve |
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mentioned I also file lots 'o bugs and do silly things like Not the GWN. |
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I guess at the moment my motto is "Be excellent to each other", I'm a follower |
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of drobbins' philosophy of "It's supposed to be fun". If that includes lots |
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of paper pushing so be it, as a mixed european I have already too much |
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experience fighting silly bureaucracy. Can't be worse than resolving a |
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three-country deadlock ... |
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There have been lots of good suggestions what the new trustees should or |
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shouldn't do. I have some ideas about that too, but opinions are cheap. |
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Getting a consensus and then getting things done is the tricky part. So I |
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guess that's what I would focus on, but if anyone feels the need to extract a |
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long-winded monologue from me just throw some questions at me, on-list or |
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off-list and I'll do my best to play politician. |
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Seeing all the nominations I feel that there's at least one person still |
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missing from the candidate list. Knowing him there's a good chance he'll |
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decline, but maybe sending him a keg of beer or two will help. As one of the |
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more active people in gentooland who interacts with users on a daily basis |
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our bugwranglerman Jakub Moc seems to be a perfect candidate. |
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He's reliable, well known for his low tolerance of stupidity and |
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uncompromising - which has gotten him into fights with other devs a few |
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times. Also there are rumors that Jakub has lots of legal experience (but |
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I'll let him elaborate on that if he wishes). So instead of a legal checkmate |
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you'll have a czech mate handling things. And if you ever need to discuss the |
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finer points of beer he'll be your perfect discussion partner! |
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Executive summary: |
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I accept. Don't vote for me unless you have a good reason. I nominate Jakub. |
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Be excellent to each other, |
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Patrick |
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aka bonsaikitten, Evil Compile Person etc. etc. |
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