Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee, I'd like to hereby state that I'll be running again for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation.
My name is Thorsten Behrens, I'm 39 years old, and for my contributions here at TDF, I'm unaffiliated. In my day job, I'm a Linux engineer at SUSE. My work with this project and codebase started in 2001 (with the then-OpenOffice.org community), which we then jointly took and founded TDF & LibreOffice in 2010. Since then, I was serving in various roles, including my current one in the Board of Directors. Why am I running? Since the announcement of TDF, and after the Foundation came to life, we've covered so much ground, and jointly achieved so much, that I'm incredibly proud of what we have today. Out of nothing, all of you have created an organisation that attracts unprecedented contribution to and around a code base, others have labelled intractable & unattractive for mere volunteers. That is fun to work for, and not only generates enough voluntary donations to pay the occasional travel and server, but now permits us to start hiring staff. I'd like to offer my help pushing things even further for the next two years, and apart from that continue doing what I did so far: having eyes and ears open for the community, run things like accounting & taxes (or at least oversee outsourcing that properly), and help with the largely-German administrative grunt work. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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