[Mageia-dev] Team elections

Wed Mar 13 13:18:42 CET 2013

Hi everyone,
+
+Since there seems to be an overall low motivation to have candidates, I 
+wish to propose myself as one of the 3 packaging team leaders.
+The aim for my application is that I want to improve and develop the 
+mentoring process. I am ready to take responsibilities with respect to 
+that. Note that I want to work and help on the mentoring process 
+irrespectively of the team leaders choice.
+The reasoning behind my application is that it might be better to have 
+some team leaders that have an aim (and take some responsibilities), 
+than some who are just designated by default.
+Anyway, as we all know, free software projects work by do-ocraty, where 
+the people who decide are the people who do something, quite 
+independently of the election of any team leader :-).
+
+Some words about who I am: I'm a French man living in London, UK, where 
+I work as a University lecturer in Computer Science. It means that I am 
+quite time-constrained from October to March, and more free of my 
+schedule from April to September. I am not an old-time Mandriva packager 
+(Although I am a long time user): I joined Mageia in its early phases 
+and went through the mentoring process. I now maintain a lot of the 
+OCaml stack as well as random packages (overall 150ish packages).
+I also was the one annoying everyone with the RPM group changes.
+
+If I may help my fellow packagers with some pluses and minuses of my 
+application:
++ recent member, fresh eye on Mageia without much Mandriva heritage
+- less experienced packager,
++ focus on mentoring
+- would work on mentoring even if not elected
++ lives in UK (a bit of diversity)
+- French (weak diversity, we don't want too many French team leaders)
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+
+