Announcement: 2025 X.Org Foundation Election Candidates

[Mark Filion]

To all X.Org Foundation Members:

The election for the X.Org Foundation Board of Directors will begin on
30 April 2025. We have five candidates who are running for four seats.
They are (in alphabetical order):

 * Andres Gomez
 * Arkadiusz Hiler
 * Megan Knight
 * Lyude Paul
 * Harry Wentland

Attached below are the Personal Statements each candidate submitted for
your consideration along with their Statements of Contribution that
they submitted with the membership application. Please review each of
the candidates' statements to help you decide whom to vote for during
the upcoming election.

If you have questions of the candidates, you should feel free to ask
them here on the mailing list.

The election committee will provide detailed instructions on how the
voting system will work when the voting period begins.

PLEASE NOTE: To participate in this election you MUST renew your
membership by 28 April 2025! Please go to the Members page for your
membership application or renewal.

Best,

Mark Filion, on behalf of the X.Org elections committee

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Nominees (in alphabetical order)

Andres Gomez
Current Affiliation: Igalia

Personal Statement:

I have been an active Open Source contributor since 2003, participating
in projects like GNOME, and FreeDesktop, among others. I started to be
actively involved with OSS graphic drivers in 2014, where I continue
devoting much of my time, although from a coordination perspective for
our team of developers at Igalia.

By joining X.Org board I hope to give a bit more back to the community,
helping to get things done. Among other things, I've contributed to
create the graphic design for the public image of some past OSS events.
I'll be happy to work in other tasks, including the organization of
XDC. I could take part in the CfP committee, for example, or anything
else the board could need help with.

Arkadiusz Hiler
Current Affiliation: CodeWeavers

Personal Statement:

Gaming on Linux is one of the main driving forces for the development
of a lot of the technologies under the X.Org umbrella. I would like to
represent the gaming part of the user space.

During my 2 years on the board I've helped with finances and planning
for the freedesktop.org migration, assuring that it's sustainable.

I also have experience with running conferences and I'm more than happy
to help any future XDC organizers on the ground and with streaming the
events.

Megan Knight
Current Affiliation: Director of Software Communities, Arm

Personal Statement:

I am very new to the X.Org community, but eager to help out! I’ve been
in open source for over a decade and have extensive experience planning
large scale OS events, engaging with communities, delivering on
Advocacy initiatives and being the translator between technical and
business decision makers. Currently, I am working on a proposal to
organize the upcoming 2026 edition of XDC and alsop plan to attend XDC
2025.

I currently serve as the Advocacy Chair for Yocto Project and in the
last four years have improved developer relations, improved
documentation and onboarding processes, increased their website SEO,
migrated/redesigned their website to increase traffic, produce(d) 5+
events a year from start to finish, and increased revenue by attracting
new members/upleveling existing members.

If elected, I look forward to diving deep into X.Org and will apply
these skills so developers can focus on building great tech.

Lyude Paul
Current Affiliation: Red Hat

Personal Statement:

Hi! My name is Lyude Paul, and I'm currently employed at Red Hat as a
Software Engineer. I'm also currently on the X.org Board of Directors
as X.org's Secretary, and am also a member of the CoC team. I've also
been a member of X.org for multiple years now and have contributed to a
plethora of various projects in the X.org/freedesktop.org/linux kernel
space such as: nova, nouveau, i915, amdgpu, the wayland protocol, igt-
gpu-tools, libinput, and more.

I've had a pretty long tenure on the board where I've accomplished a
number of cool things For instance, I restarted X.org's relationship
with VESA in order to give X.org members access to various VESA
specifications that they might not have access to otherwise without a
prior VESA membership. I worked to help enable X.og to provide funding
for professional CoC training for any X.org/freeesktop.org project that
requests it, and I've assisted through the transition of parent
foundations for X.org from SPI to SFC. I love working in this
community, and will do my best to serve the community throughout my
tenusre if re-elected to the board of directors.

Harry Wentland
Current Affiliation: AMD

Personal Statement:

I've been lucky to be paid to help improve the Linux Desktop experience
on AMD HW and in that capacity align with X.Org's mission to further
the state of the open-source desktop. A healthy, diverse, open-source,
and general-purpose desktop provides tremendous value to many people
and is a bulwark against corporate silos.

I've also been lucky to have previously served on X.Org's Board of
Directors. If I am elected I am happy to support the board wherever
needed, whether in supporting infrastructure, chasing sponsors, or
organizing the conference.

Statement of Contribution:

I maintain AMD's DRM/KMS driver and have lately been exploring beyond
that. I have also recently found myself helping to drive the color/HDR
effort forward in small ways.
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