Thanks for your very pertinent question. Apologies for the delay in responding I've been in the field all day - I tried to respond last night on my phone by replying to the email but it seems to have gone AWOL (so I won't be getting that Forum Badge!).
So I'll try to explain why I decided to apply again, but maybe more succinctly - in 3 words,: Support, Influence, Inspire
I've got a lot out of ODK so it's only reasonable to support it's growth and development - support those with the skills to make the changes and enhancements, and support those who want to use ODK as they are starting on their own journey (sorry if that sounds a bit corny, but hopefully you get what I mean);
I'd like to help influence its development with my 'small guy' hat on. People talk a lot about diversity, and that's good in my book. It's one of the many things where I fail - I've turned into the dreaded 'usual suspects'. So the only way I could add diversity is to 'represent' people who work independently, without the support of big teams or on global / emergency topics.
I hope that I can inspire people to get involved and contribute - it doesn't have to be folk that do this kind of thing for their day job. And hopefully inspire people to use ODK for their work to improve efficiency.
Hope that helps - maybe the other, even less coherent email response will turn up one day too...
CY.