Author: John Sullivan
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Nominations are now open for the F-Droid board of directors! The
all-volunteer board serves the F-Droid community of users, developers, and
contributors, working to advance the cause of mobile device user freedom.
There are potentially four seats open on the board. These seats are open
because the term lengths for last year’s initial cohort of directors were intentionally staggered, so that
only approximately half the seats would be open each year. The directors
whose terms are ending in this cycle may either step down or choose to seek
re-election. Newly elected directors will serve two-year terms.
Please send your candidate nominations by email to
board-nominations@fdroid.net no later
than March 19th Anywhere On Earth. You may nominate yourself or others. If
nominating others, please first confirm that the nominee is in fact
interested, send one email per nominee, and copy that nominee on the email
you send to us. In the nominations, please include a description of why you
think the candidate would make an excellent board member – links to work
online may be helpful to include. We will confirm receipt of each
nomination.
Candidates do not need to be developers. In fact, we need a diverse set of
backgrounds and life experiences on the board, with a range of skills and
perspectives, in order to succeed. Current areas of board focus include
organizational governance and legal affairs, fundraising and financial
management, and community conduct and mediation.
Board members are expected to attend a monthly meeting by free software
video call, of about an hour in length, and to do a few hours of work
related to specific projects and subcommittees between those meetings. The
first meeting that newly elected board members will attend will be on April
18, 2024 (meetings are currently on the third Thursday of each month at
16:00 UTC).
Nominations will be reviewed and voted on by the current board members. More
information about the process and the organization’s other policies can be
found in our statutes with Commons
Conservancy.
Please submit your nominations by
March 19th, and share this invitation widely, to help inspire many other
nominations. The board can do a lot to help F-Droid grow as a technical
project and a global community, but we need people passionate about the
cause of freedom on mobile devices to take on the challenges we face. With
all of the public attention currently on the ways Apple and Google run their
mobile app stores, this is an incredibly exciting – and important – time
to get involved!
John Sullivan, Vice Chair, F-Droid Board of Directors
