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CANDIDATES
== Name ==
Krzysztof Kosiński
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
University of Warsaw (until end of September), Intel
(probably until end of August), Google (starting in late
        November)
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related
        technologies ==
long time contributor starting in 2008, 4x
GSoC participant, 2x GSoC mentor. Responsible for clipboard
        rewrite,
multipath capabilities in the node tool, Cairo rendering,
        render
caching, bitmap image handling improvements, recently focusing
        on
lib2geom - general refactoring and Boolean operations.
== Personal statement ==
Inkscape is a special project for me. It has offered me lots
        of
opportunities to build my experience, earn money through
        Summer of
Code, and has indirectly prompted me to seek a career in
        software
engineering. By serving on the board of Inkscape, I hope to be
        able to
reciprocate some of the positive influence that Inkscape has
        had on my
professional development over the years.
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== Name ==
Martin W.F. Owens
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
- Freelance programming contractor, Free Software focus.
- Some past inkscape contracting; perl python/django websites,
        other.
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related
        technologies ==
I state I have contributed to Inkscape evident in the commit
        logs
of the bazaar repository for the master branch and am the
        principal author
of the inkscape-web project.
== Personal statement ==
Inkscape is an important tool for the Free Software community,
being its primary graphical design and user interface tool as
        well as
its most advanced web standards compliant authoring tool. Its
availability and
ease of use make it also important in being able to promote
        Free
Software and the wider understanding of Free Culture as a
        whole.
A large portion of Inkscape's future is in organising and
        inviting
users who participate in the wider community and I wish to be
        able to
help manage the interfaces that serve the community in both
        their
support and involvement in the large landscape of Inkscape's
        uses.
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== Name ==
Nicolas Dufour
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
Sysadmin for the French civil aviation.
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related
        technologies ==
I first used Inkscape in 2007 to create waypoints and airports
        icons for
aviation maps and it rapidly became the main tool for almost
        all my
personal and professional creative work. So I found it natural
        to give
back to the project in 2008 (first contribution: the Printing
        Marks
extension, in collaboration with Aurium) and never left the
        project
since then.
Some of my favorite areas are extensions,
internationalization/localization, documentation, triaging bug
        and
fixing forgotten low priority bugs.
I have some blueprints pending (extensions presets, multiple
        preferences
management and crash recovery dialog), but unfortunately
        there's too
much to be done in the other areas and I have difficulties
        finding time
to be a real developer.
Apart from Inkscape, I also contribute to the Floss Manuals
        project as
technical writer (very occasionally now) and as webmaster of
        the French
FM server.
== Personal statement ==
I feel there's a real need for non-developer contributions. A
        FOSS
project is not only a question of code, and bringing it to
        users is
basically why we're contributing. That's the reason why I
        first focused
on documentation and internationalization/localization tasks.
Answering questions on LP, the Inkscape forum or IRC and
        helping with
the website content are crucial, too (unfortunately it's very
        time
consuming and I can't contribute as much as I'd like).
Being on the Board is different, but also helps developers
        meet other
developers and users, and legal and financial issues are very
        important
to keep the project safe. I'd be very happy to help Inkscape
        that way, too.
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== Name ==
Alexander (Alex) Valavanis
== Current Professional Affiliation ==
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
== Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related
        technologies ==
I have been an Inkscape developer since May 2011, with over
        550
contributions committed to the project's code.  My main
        involvement
has been in improving the quality and maintainability of the
        code, and
making the best use of the programming language features and
        software
libraries available on the many different operating systems
        used by
Inkscape's diverse user community.  Specifically, I led the
        migration
of Inkscape to the new GTK+ 3 graphical user interface
        library, which
will "future-proof" our code, allow us to make much better use
        of
touchscreens, and provide better support for OS X.  I set up
        and
maintain the Inkscape personal package archives (PPAs), which
        enable
Ubuntu and Debian users to access both the latest stable
        version of
Inkscape and daily builds of our experimental code.  I have
        also taken
a lot of interest in improving the build systems, which are
        used for
building the Inkscape program from its source code. I have
        aimed to
ensure that Inkscape can be built reliably on a wide range of
        systems,
and I have liaised closely with the downstream Ubuntu and
        Debian
package maintainers to make sure that we receive user bug
        reports and
distribute new versions of Inkscape to users as efficiently as
possible.  I was very grateful for the opportunity to attend
        the
Inkscape Hackfest in 2015, and to meet with other developers
        and board
members to work on the code and discuss the future roadmap for
        the
project.
== Personal statement ==
It is a true honour to have been nominated as a board member
        for
Inkscape.  I fully appreciate the high regard in which the
        project is
held by its users, and the wider free software community.  My
        role in
Inkscape has, so far, focused mainly on the technical side of
improving the quality and longevity of the project, and I am
        eager now
to support the project at board level. It was a real pleasure
        to meet
some of the other board members in person at the Hackfest
        earlier this
year and I look forward to the opportunity to work together
        with them.
As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, I have
        experience
in the financial planning of small to medium-scale ($1000 -
        $1.5
million) technical projects, and am confident in my ability to
        take on
board responsibilities for Inkscape.  I am also interested in
        the
inter-project collaboration aspects of board membership,
        particularly
in promoting the development of shared libraries and resources
        for
common use with other free-software projects.
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