Hello everyone, Today I'm happy to let you know that KDE e.V. has hired Eliza and Joseph, two great people who will support our work around the environmental sustainability of our software. This is part of the grant we received from the Bundesumweltamt around the Blauer Engel eco certificate.
Eliza Wieske will be taking on the role of project lead and event manager for the project. This means that she will be the liaison to the Bundesumweltamt and be available as an organizational contact for anyone interested in the project and help answer questions about its development. Her background is in the social sciences. Before moving to Gothenburg (where she lives now) she worked alongside her studies as an organizational assistant in a research group focused on the internationalization of engineering education in Germany. With the start of the project, she will be getting to know the free and open software community, which she is looking forward to learning more about while working with the team on getting this great digital sustainability project running, so we can share it with the whole community. Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss will be taking on the role of project and community manager. He has been volunteering in the free software community since 2013. Currently, he co-organizes the Berlin Freedombox User Group (BeFUG) and works on outreach for the mobilize.berlin event management service, for which he and colleagues gave a talk at the 37th CCC. Prior to KDE Joseph had worked professionally as a researcher in the field of theoretical linguistics at the Universität Potsdam. He is now excited to transition into the role of community manager for the "Blauer Engel for FOSS" project. If you'd like to learn more about the project and want to join the work on making this all happen please have a look at Cornelius' email here: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2021-June/000556.html Please join me in welcoming Eliza and Joseph to the KDE Community. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE e.V. Board of Directors http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org
