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Great questions.\r\n\r\n> 1. How did you get involved in the Node Project?\r\n\r\nI started using Node in 2010. When looking for help- I went to IRC. I eventually started helping answer more questions than I asked! I spent many years assisting others in the community this way and only monitored the action on the Node Project... but that changed just over a year ago. I shifted to actively participating within the Node.js GitHub organization with a focus on making it easier for others to do the same.\r\n\r\n> 2. What does inclusivity and diversity within the Node project look like to you?\r\n\r\nAt the Project's level, I believe the way to increase inclusivity and diversity is to continue to increase openness and transparency. We should strive to remove the concept of \"insiders\" (select individuals with non-public/historical context). I want to lower the barrier to get involved by making as much information available as possible (more on this in the Answer to 3).\r\n\r\n> How would you work with the board to increase inclusivity and diversity within the Node project?\r\n\r\nA board's role is to identify issues, investigate solutions, and to support solutions. The Board has started gaining awareness, is in the process of assigning experts (via the Community Committee), and now needs to make sure the Committee has the resources and support it needs to be successful. I will drive _proactive_ communication... a vital pillar to avoiding delays and setbacks on initiatives that can quickly deflate momentum. I want to ensure there is an adequate budget dedicated to initiatives and that is not hindered by any technical constraints.\r\n\r\n> 3. How would you work with the board to increase international participation in the Node project?\r\n\r\nI want to advocate for more financial support for international events and to host Code and Learn _type_ of events along side them that are focused on the website and documentation. I think improving these resources will significantly increasing the international user base.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, I am a big advocate for providing captions for video/audio content. I write and add them to videos I make public. I do not speak other languages well enough to provide them in anything other than English- but by providing an accurate English version, I extend the audience to the hearing impaired and I open the _possibility_ that they can be translated. The Node Foundation produces many professional videos that are great resources of information for the community. I want to push them to provide these same efforts to all of their videos and to promote this initiative throughout the community.\r\n\r\n\r\n> 4. What do you think are the pros/cons about the separation of powers/responsibility between the TSC/CC and the Board?\r\n\r\nI think this separation is a great thing. I think having dedicated groups of people that are focused on their individual topic's needs-- is a win.\r\n\r\nMy hope is that there will be a significant amount of people that are involved across the groups to help avoid the concept of \"us\" and \"them.\" @nebrius-- I think you will serve as a great example of this!\r\n\r\n> 5. What do you think is the greatest weakness in the Node Project? How would you work with the board to fix it?\r\n\r\nThe lack of communication is the Achilles heel of the project. While the Technical side of the project goes to great lengths to publish their work in an open and transparent way- Board's hasn't put much of an emphasis on it.\r\n\r\nHere's some things I'd like to assist making better:\r\n- Getting the published version of our governing documents up-to-date\r\n- Limiting the topics that can be discussed outside of a public meeting\r\n- Having the Board meeting times and agendas published ahead of time\r\n- Making sure the Board meeting audio is made available and of adequate quality\r\n- Getting the meeting minutes published\r\n\r\n> 6. What do you think is the greatest strength in the Node Project? How would you work with the board to preserve it?\r\n\r\nThe amazing adoption and ease-of-use! Many of the initiatives above will help preserve and/or increase these... but additionally, being on the board will allow me to work with the Marketing Committee to offer more efforts to the Board that will promote Node and attract more people to try it out!\r\n\r\n"}}
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