Hi all, I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation.
Im Bjoern Michaelsen and I am currently serving on the Board of Directors as an unaffilated individual. Before that I ensured LibreOffice to be properly released and maintained through half an alphabet on Ubuntu: from the first LibreOffice release (3.3) on Ubuntu Natty to LibreOffice 5.3 on Ubuntu Zesty. My current job is unrelated to LibreOffice. This unfortunately also limits the time I can donate to the project in various roles: as a developer, as a member of the ESC, as an organizer of events or fullfilling an administrative on the Board of Directors. But it also allows me to claim to be a truly independent voice. I spare you providing a long list of my prior contributors to the project, as they are a bad prediction of those in the future. Instead I will try to provide you with what I can bring to the role on the Board and what goals I am going to aim for: I served as a Director or Deputy on the Board of Directors of TDF since it was first incorporated, and along the way I learned insights in the finer details of the decisions and experiences made by TDFs Board of Directors. The hard core of these involve the allocation of the foundations resources: Its brands and donations. But I also understand and contributed to the softer points: TDF carefully using its public voice as a NGO for the greater good and its stated mission. I hope I will be able to bring this experience into the next term of the Board of Directors. I am encouraged to see strong contributors to the project as new candidates in this election and hope to share the duty of serving with them, together providing a strong and reasonable voice of independent and unaffiliated input in the Board. Ultimately, I hope after this one last term can confidently leave TDFs Board with many new diverse and independent voices in all parts of the project anf foundation and retire back to spend my contributions more on e.g. the code of the project again. Beyond that my goals for the TDF projects, LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project are: - focus on growth for the whole project cycle: The project obviously provides a product (releases of software). Those products in turn need to provide the project -- esp. with contributors as more helping hands are always needed in all areas of the project - growth and diversity: The project should continue to grow and diversify: geographically, socially and by affiliations. Both will help hardening the project against external forces. - experience is key: Product and project need to come closer, and using the former should be a temptation to also take part in the latter wherever possible. We should 2always look for opportunities to improve here. - sharing knowledge: LibreOffice/DLP have grown to use more and more bleeding edge development and project tools and proccesses. We should offer to showcase and make them accessible to observers, researchers and teachers in education and elsewhere. Those learning from us might very well benefit us with their contributions. 75-words version: I bring lot of experience from prior work on TDFs governance and am an unaffiliated contributor to LibreOffice. I think the key to the success of LibreOffice is in the project and seeking growth for it by improving the experience for contributors and raising the visibility of our community and the opportunities for contribution. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
