Hi Thorsten, as I already replied to Eike - thanks a lot for your answers! I linked on the same page, but in the section "Product Development Representative": http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Elections/2010-03#Product_Development_Representative
Have a nice day! Christoph Am Freitag, den 26.03.2010, 01:37 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: > Christoph Noack wrote: > > I would like to start - so please answer the following questions: > > * What is your idea by the work/tasks of the council? > > > Hi Chris, all, > > so Eike already linked to the definitive, authoritative page about > the council charta - to paraphrase, the council is largely a place > where arbitration happens, in terms of (interpersonal) conflicts, > funds, and overall project interests. > > Overall, the council has limited powers, so the trick is to be quite > persuasive - I'm at least not extremely bad at that. Plus, I'm > patient. ;) > > > * Do you have any special areas of interest/ideas? > > > Besides being a code contributor since almost nine years (in areas > like gui toolkit, applications, build system & filters), a focus on > testability & code quality, and working in the relevant > standardization committees for office file formats, I'm actually > passionate about connecting OOo with other free software projects, > ideally sharing the work, and code. > > Events like FOSDEM or LGM are excellent opportunities to connect > with other projects, and I make it a priority to attend there. > > Other than that, I find it very rewarding to mentor people for > doing OOo hacking, and have used countless occasions to do so (like > GSoC, new hires, and of course education project students). I'm > personally convinced that getting pupils and students in touch with > FLOSS is the biggest single opportunity we're facing. > > > * Is there enough spare time for the work in the council? > > > I can safely say that most of my spare time goes into OOo already, > so this will only shift tasks towards doing less coding/mentoring > and more talking/mailing; I've personally no doubts that I'll be > able to invest the time over the course of the election period. > Apart from that, it seems, since my employer (Novell) endorses my > nomination, I might even be able to do this on company time. :) > > A few words about my person: > > I work on OOo code since 2001, first for Sun, now sponsored by > Novell. I'm a computer scientist by education, and a free software > enthusiast by heart. I have two kids, and live close to Hamburg in > Germany. > > My blog: http://blog.thebehrens.net/ > My (mostly incoherent) dents: http://identi.ca/thb > > I was hopefully able to at least convey a rough idea about who I am, > but please don't hesitate to ask me for further details, either > here, via PM, or on irc. You find me hanging out on channels like > #dev.openoffice.org, #education.openoffice.org and #go-oo (all > freenode.net). I'm thorsten there. > > Cheers, > > -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
