On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:01 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > hereby, I'd like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat > at The Document Foundation. Following-up the post to > [email protected], I'd like to give some more > details and background about myself, and am happy to answer any > questions you may have. > > My name is Florian Effenberger, am 28 years of age, and I live in the > very south of Germany, in the beautiful Allgäu, 100 km southwest of of > Munich. I have been with TDF from the very beginning, serving in the > Steering Committee, and mostly responsible for marketing and > infrastructure, a field of activity where I also would like to > contribute in the future. Previously, I have been involved with > OpenOffice.org for seven years, for a long time being the marketing > contact for Germany, and in the end the lead of the international > marketing project and the distribution project. > > I am also in the Board of Directors of the German association "Freies > Office Deutschland e.V." (translated "Free Office Germany association", > previously OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.), an entity set-up to > organize and arrange local events and activities, where I have been > serving since April 2008. FrODeV is also the interim legal entity for TDF. > > In my "real life", so to say, I am in the process of finishing my > studies and -- you may have guessed it given the long e-mails I usually > write :) -- work part-time as a freelancer for marketing and as a > freelance journalist, so I have no corporate affiliation at the moment. > > My main motivation for the candidacy is to ensure the daily operation of > the future Foundation, to provide a stable and secure framework not only > for our worldwide community, but also giving safety and confidence to > our corporate and private users around the globe. > > So, now it's your turn -- I am happy to answer any questions that may > occur. ;-) >
Hello Florian Thanks for the time and effort you have put in here and over the years, I place great value, and am assured that others do as well, in your contributions. As background for my question to you: During some SC meetings, you have referred to FrODev.org as "the head association". Recently in an email thread on this list dealing with the question of a donation a button on LibreOffice web pages for FrODev you and I had this exchange: ----------------------- Drew: I would not be in favor of handing out literature with LibreOffice branding that asked for FrODeve specific donations. Florian: When FrODeV was the publisher, accountant, bank and legal entity behind all of that, <snip> ---------- I would like to ask your opinion on how you see the relationship between FrODev.org and TDF evolving after TDF becomes a legal entity. Best wishes, Drew Jensen -- Unsubscribe instructions: 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/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
