GNOME Foundation Board candidacy: Sriram Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Name: Sriram Ramkrishna

Email: sri ramkrishna me

Affiliation: Intel

I have decided this year to continue to increase my participation in GNOME.  I joined GNOME in 1997, working on GNOME Summaries that led to the GNOME Journal.  We expanded from a one man contributor to a full 4-5 person team writing professional level articles on GNOME.

I am currently very active in the marketing team working on community outreach and volunteer management.  I worked dilligently during the initial two releases of the GNOME 3 release by presentations at Linuxcon America and Northwest Linuxfest.  I worked as a community manager during this time engaging with individuals from random people on the internet to pillars in the Free Software community.  I've made people who criticized GNOME to contributors.  I have helped  the marketing team by organizing regular meetings, posting agenda, and following up on action items and making sure things are on track.

I am also part of the sysadmin team, although Andrea does such a good job that I don't really do much other than cheer lead. :-)

I have been a mentor for OPW for the past year as well will be working with the current round of OPW.

I am standing for board elections because I believe that I can be an asset in volunteer management and outreach.  In order for our project to continue to succeed we need to be able to attract and keep talented people from all walks of life to our project.  They are our life blood.  I want to continue to improve volunteer experience in GNOME as well as make sure that GNOME projects the right image to the community and beyond.  In these days of social media a bad experience can be magnified a thousand fold without proper engagement and communication.

My background - I am engineering manager at Intel Open Source Technology Center in charge of release management of Tizen the open source Mobile OS.  Before that I worked in IT for 17 years in an embedded IT group that directly supported Intel's microprocessor business.  In the past 5 years, our IT environment was considered one of the top 500 supercomputers in the world.