[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: extra members for GA

[James Almer]

On 11/9/2023 7:00 PM, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> On 2023-11-09 12:55 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:44:12AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>> As nobody expressed a preference, the vote will start next Monday
>>> (2023-11-13). It should run for a week, and will be followed by TC/CC
>>> elections.
>>>
>>> The only extra GA candidate I see proposed so far is Ronald. If anyone
>>> wants to suggest further people, please do so in this thread ASAP.
>>
>> IMHO the question of the relation of the list of people who could vote
>> in the last GA vote and the people who where in the general assembly
>> in 2020 should be awnsered before further votes.
>> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-November/316609.html
>>
>> If the current GA stays as it is, then i propose the following people
>> (this list was quickly made and certainly has omisions and possibly errors,
>> check anything thats important to you!)
>>
>> The presumed 2020 General assembly as well as people who have subtantial
>> contributions over the lifetime of the project where the source of this list
>>
>> Fabrice Bellard    (Founder of the project over 600 commits in FFmpeg)
>> Aman Karmani       (17 authored commits in 2020-2023, recently active in 2023-June and work all over the codebase)
>> Baptiste Coudurier (Pays for our fate server since forever, maintains 15 things in MAINTAINERs, is the the copyright of 56 files, over 1900 commits in FFmpeg)
>> Moritz Barsnick    (Member of the 2020 GA but was not on jbs list)
>> Lauri Kasanen      (Linux / PowerPC maintainer)
>> Dale Curtis        (14 commits in 2020 was in the 2020-GA)
> 
> 
>> Alexander Strasser (Root admin, just recently reported that he could not vote even though he was in teh 2020-GA, 3 things in MAINTAINERs)
> 
> I want to be an additional (extra) member in the GA.
> 
> I have
> * commits in FFmpeg and reviewed patches (authored myself and applied for others)
> * spent time and effort in discussions on the mailing lists, issue trackers and IRC channels
> * admin rights to some infra structure of the project
> 
> I also took part and helped organize FFmpeg representation in quite some FOSS
> conferences in Germany. Also was a few times at VDD.
> 
> My first contact to the general multimedia community was around 2000.
> The first interaction with open source multimedia projects was around
> 2004.
> 
> In the recent times I have not participated on the MLs (and IRC) much
> as I don't have much spare time after work.
> 
> I'm hoping to continue supporting the project and help it stay alive
> and as awesome as it has been already over the many years since it
> took off.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your consideration,
>    Alexander Strasser

Of course.