X.org board election position statement

Dear x.org membership:

Given a position on the board of the X.org foundation, I will bring not only thirty years of experience as both an amateur and professional computer programmer, but an appreciation of the virtues of change control and documented process from professional experience and classroom theory from an MBA program.

My position on the question of interoperability with closed-source vendors is, we should not do anything to withhold interoperability.

My position on introduction of new features to the underlying protocol is, I'm for it and have a short wish list. My position on potential use of a position on the foundation's board to promote pet projects is "against" however; I will not abuse my position to unduly promote research into inter-server client migration protocol extensions.

My position on the foundation being cash-positive is subject to modification as I do not know many details. Off the cuff, I would like to see a general open source bounty clearinghouse done correctly, and I have some strong ideas about what "correctly" means in that space. Since operating such a clearinghouse would be outside the scope of X.org's mission, perhaps X.org could join with other similar foundations to help create, or endorse an existing, bounty clearinghouse in addition to offering bounties and/or development or research grants.

I have been an active participant in electronic discussion forae since the 1980s, and my position on the range of rhetorical positions I have held on various issues is that I have tended to be less antagonistic as I have matured. How main-stream of me.

My contribuitions to perl porters and to the anti-spam research group may be researched to see samples of my discussion style.

Please write to me at both davidnicol ;p~ gmail.com and xorg ;p~ davidnicol.otherinbox.com with any specific questions or concerns. I will be glad to expand on anything mentioned in this position statement, for example.

Yours truly,

David L. Nicol

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