Dear All, I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation.
Who am I? I am Andras Timar, a 37-year-old software engineer and technical translator, father of 2 children. I live in Budapest, Hungary. During my professional career I worked on various software localization projects and besides my paid job I took part of the work of free software community as a volunteer. I have been working on LibreOffice since the first day, but I was also contributor of OpenOffice.org and Go-OO before. Currently I am employed by Novell Hungary and I am working with the SUSE LibreOffice Team fulltime as a "franchise worker". What have I done for TDF? I have helped to build the infrastructure and workflow for LibreOffice localization. I managed that FSF.hu Foundation – a Hungarian non-profit organization for promoting free software – donated a fast, dedicated server + hosting to TDF for running Pootle (http://translations.documentfoundation.org). I am one of the Pootle administrators, I help localizers to get started, and I am the one who commits their work to git. I am member of the Engineering Steering Committee, representing localizers and being responsible for localization related issues. Why do I candidate for a seat in BoD? Majority of LibreOffice users use the suite in their native language. Therefore localization is very important and I think that it should be represented in the Board of Directors. Enabling and helping localization to many languages, including minority languages – that our competitors do not deal with – should be a strategic goal of TDF. Your questions are welcome. Best regards, Andras Timar -- 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
