Hi guys, Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.
Who am I ? I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 36 years old, affiliated with Collabora. My day job is to try to rapidly grow the economic ecosystem around LibreOffice for the benefit of all including Collabora. I also love to hack on the code where I can, and to mentor and include new hackers. I started poking at the code-base before it was open-sourced in 2000, and have served with the team creating LibreOffice from the very beginning in various technical and non-technical roles: inside the Engineering Steering Committee, as a Board member, and primarily as a code contributor and evangelist. Why am I running? I'd like to offer whatever benefits a whole career's worth of experience of mistakes, blunders, failures (mostly my own) and occasional successes (mostly other people's) can bring to the daily life of running TDF. I've also had the privilege of being involved in the creation, hiring, management & bootstrapping of several teams of both paid and unpaid developers over the years - which is perhaps useful as TDF continues to grow and invest. I also believe it is critical for us to continue to safeguard our can-do and relational culture, empowering individuals to make friends and get things done while resisting un-necessary process creep as we grow. One of my priorities is working to ensure that we remain a fluid and adaptive organisation, always open to new and better ideas, new participants and new and better ways of doing things. Finally - I'm a believer in Free Software; while I am critically interested in ensuring that TDF remains a great place for companies to invest and sell services around the software I'm committed to ensuring that the right conditions remain in place for companies to contribute effectively back to the project and work well together with volunteers around the common codebase. Happy to answer any questions of course. -- [email protected] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
