## Egbert Eich

Email: eich AT SPAMFREE freedesktop DOT org 


### X.Org Board Elections

I've been involved in the development of the X Window System since 1995.  
 I helped bootstrapping the X.Org Foundation. In the past two years I served on the Board of Directors of the X.Org Foundation. There I helped to ensure that the Boards focuses as an overseer on organizational issues and abstained from undue involvement in technical matters.  
 I was involved in drafting in our new By-Laws and Membership Agreement and I drafted the 2006 budget. 

My strong focus rests in development. As a Board Member I see my most important duty to support our community of contributors and bring its issues to the attention of the Board. 

A number of issues need to be addressed urgently: 

1. Create a Membership Committee to promptly deal with reviewing and accepting Membership applications thru an open process. 
1. Establish a sponsorship program   
 This involves identifying funding opportunities and budget for them: 
      * Event Funding 
            * Set up travel fund program for X related events and coordinate with event organizers. 
      * Individual funding 
            * Set up Budget and policies to sponsor travel for X-related presentations 
            * Budget for and develop polices for sponsorship of individual contributors to attend meetings relavant to their area of contribution. 
      * Marketing  
            * Determine if and in which marketing activeties X.Org should be involved in and what their goals and intended target audiences are. From this develop a policy to fund such events. 
1. Put  X.Org server infrastructure fully in place: 
         1. Installation of the donated machines from SUN. 
         1. Identify services that can be shared with freedesktop.org. 
         1. Establish a backup and mirroring system for the freedesktop.org infrastructure. 
         1. Make sure that the administrational workload can be dealt with effectivly. 


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