All,
It's election season and time to vote for the Community Contributor
Representative to the Community Council. It's been a while. The CCR
holds a seat on the Community Council for one year (more or less) and
represents you. Laurent Godard has been the most recent CCR.
Voting begins immediately (now) and ends Saturday 22 December at 23:59
UTC. To vote, follow the instructions below, right after the candidate
statements.
There are two candidates for the CCR office. The candidate is supposed
to be someone who is familiar with OpenOffice.org (project and
product) and familiar to the community. He or she should be able to
speak to the needs of endusers, non-coding contributors, businesses,
as well as the Incubator project leads and members. Both candidates
are qualified. They are:
* Kazunari Hirano
I am Kazunari Hirano from OpenOffice.org Japanese Native Language
Project, working as Marketing Contact for Japan and Japanese language.
I have been the deputy for CCR, leading OpenOffice.org CJK (Chinese,
Japanese, Korean) Group. My focus is the localization of
OpenOffice.org. I want to help localize OpenOffice.org to as many
languages as possible. I and my team are starting Ainu and Klingon
localizations. I write articles for OpenOffice.org Newsletter.
Community is all about Communication and Motivation. I would like to
open up a daily channel between Community Council and Community Members.
Thanks.
* Cor Nouws
It's a honour for me that I've been asked to be a candidate. I am 48
yrs, Dutch, maried, three children, and - as far as time allows - do
hobbies like sports and making music. I got involved in the
OpenOffice.org community in 2004. The reason fits in the open source
tradition: I run a small business supporting our great program and
want to spent some energy to make it flourish even more.
My activities for the project are various (marketing, qa, ux, Duth
NL,...) which gives me a pretty good feeling of what is going on. I'm
quite well aware of the special qualities of the OpenOffice.org
project, such as the technical complexity, variation in background of
people involved, vast interest of big players in the market, different
needs for various groups and so on. I do have some experience in
committees, which might be helpful to do some good work in the
community council.
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To vote, you must be a registered OpenOffice.org community member.
Here is how to vote:
Log in to OpenOffice.org if you are not already logged in. Go to "My
start page," and click on the "Vote!" hyperlink on the right hand
side. You will be taken to a page where you can cast your vote.
(My start page is at : <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/StartPage>)
If you are not a member, now is the time to join. To register and
join, go to <http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join>. Then follow the
instructions above.
If you are curious about the Community Council, go to <http://council.openoffice.org/
> to learn more.
** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.**
Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have
volunteered their time to set this poll up.
-Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
Chair, Community Council
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