[Ffmtech-board-election] FFmtech board elections

[Alex Converse]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Benjamin Larsson <banan at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
> Candidates for the FFmtech board:
>
> 1, Stefano Sabatini
> 2, Diego Biurrun
> 3, Reinhard Tartler
> 4, Michael Niedermayer
> 5, Luca Barbato
> 6, Reimar Döffinger
> 7, Alex Converse
> 8, Carl Eugen Hoyos
> 9, Benjamin Larsson
>
> 9 candidates for the 7 board positions.
>
>
> Voting procedure:
>
> Each person who votes are to cast 7 votes for the people they want to be
> part of the board. Each person should then chose a token and encode it
> with "echo 'token' | shasum", the resulting hash and votes are then to
> be sent to the voting secretary. When all votes are in or the voting
> time is over the secretary publishes the votes, hashes and result.
>
> The voting secretary is Baptiste Coudurier, baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com.
>
> The vote will start Thursday 9th of June and end on Thursday 16th of June.
>
> Wednesday 8th of June will be available for the candidates to present
> themselves if they choose to do so. Presentations should be sent to this
> mailing-list.
>

I'll keep this short and sweet:

I started contributing to FFmpeg in 2008, quit in January 2010, and
shortly thereafter became involved in the effort that is now libav. My
largest contributions have been in the AAC/HE-AAC decoder.

The primary reason I'm running is to use the money we have collected
to fund viable project proposals. In the past I think we have erred on
the conservative side when it comes to this. I don't think we should
hold back on any useful feature waiting for a specific new corporate
contribution for that specific purpose if it can be reasonably paid
for by the general fund. We should especially encourage proposals to
correct notable wholes in the functionality of libav/FFmpeg especially
where no good open source alternatives exist.

I do think communicating in meat-space can be useful and am happy to
say that I've met several of my fellow candidates and many of the
voters. I hope to attend either FOSDEM or LinuxTag in 2012 and am
always available to meet anyone visiting the Silicon Valley area.