My main plans over the next few years would be to improve communications (and (more importantly?) openness), not just between developers, but also between herds, users, the Council, the Trustees, upstream and so on. I'd particularly want to ensure that there is better communication between us (Gentoo) and projects such as Sabayon Linux and Ainkaboot, as I believe that we can all make use of each other's skills and ideas to provide better distribution(s). I'd encourage "innovative" ideas and projects, such as the inclusion of, for example, XGL/Compiz/Beryl/Compiz-Fusion or whatever it's called these days. I'd also encourage the introduction of targets, as discussed by antarus on the -core ML. And all that kinda stuff. Now, I'm sure that a number of you would prefer everything to be closed, kept private within a number of individuals, but if that *is* the case, why on Earth are you involved with an *Open* Source project, such as Gentoo? Wouldn't you be better off using the likes of Adobe's products and Microsoft's products? Yes, I am quite young. Yes, I could be considered relatively new to the project. Yes, I might make mistakes, but I also *learn* from mistakes, which some people seem to find hard. Being young/relatively new to the project will allow me to potentially bring a fresh view on things, that some of you old fuddy-duddies may or may not have thought of before. And isn't that what Gentoo is about? New ideas, innovation, fresh views, etc, etc. Anyway. Meh. I'm starting to waffle on. ---- > 1) What you will do > 2) Why you will do it > 3) How you will do it Black magik. Encouragement of ideas such as project updates, at least some support and/or contributions to those who work on other Gentoo-based distros, taking their ideas and contributions into the tree, etc, etc. One possible idea would be to encourage people to use one channel for primary communications, currently, many people make decisions (in private?) on IRC, then "forget" to tell everyone else about the decision... If we were all encouraged to make decisions on relevant email aliases, on the right mailing list, etc, etc, there would be less people missing out. The -project, -dev-announce and -dev setup we've got at the moment seems to be a start in the right direction from what I can see so far. It does require more time to wear in before it can really be seen as a success or a failure. > 4) What is the timescale for doing it This depends on who is involved with the efforts, who agrees, who wants to bring up (potentially) silly arguments, etc, etc. It's not really possible to set a deadline for something when you don't know who you will be working with. > 5) What experience do you have with this or a similar role I'm the lead of the Gentoo/*BSD team, the Gentoo/Alt ATs and the Bugday team. The latter two teams do require quite a bit of user interaction, which could be useful for the implementation of some of my ideas. > 6) Why do you think you are qualified Hrm, how different is this question to the question above? Meh. Well, I suppose I am quite vocal - I speak to people a lot. I'm involved with a local LUG. See answer to question above... > 7) How you plan to balance a council role with your current Gentoo > role Council will take precedence over most/all of my other roles. I will probably also be dropping out of some of the teams/projects where I have been relatively inactive. > 8) How much time can you dedicate to the council role Hmm. Well, around 7.5hrs a day if needs be. I should be able to pull out more hours from the hat, dependant on my school timetable for the next academic year.