Hi all, My name is Emiliano Vavassori and as a fellow LibreOffice contributor and TDF member I would like to run as candidate for the Board of Directors.
I am a senior system administrator, employed in a small company based in Bergamo, in the North of Italy, with its core business in providing ICT services for SMB companies. In my job, I’m mostly without any relation to LibreOffice - we install it on some customer’s PCs, but at least for the moment we don‘t have any migration process/anything bigger planned. My operating system of choice is GNU/Linux since 2001 and from the same days I advocate FOSS and openness whenever possible, both in public events and in the business. Lately I was convinced that also open formats should have their own share of advocating so I am trying to do that as well. I am actually in the Board of both BgLUG (Bergamo Linux Users Group) and LibreItalia (Italian local “chapter” of TDF), but I am/was involved in a lot of other organizations, mostly with goals in FOSS advocacy. In the last few years, I was involved in FOSS advocacy also inside schools, founding and leading the LibreSchool Project (www.libreschool.org) with a group of friends and colleagues from my LUG. I hope my experience would be of help inside TDF Board of Directors; I am pretty sure that I will also learn a lot. As soon as I have been involved with TDF, I have been greeted by a full lot of passionate and welcoming people who worked hard to make yourself feel at home inside TDF and, sharing the same spirit, I would like to drive the efforts on the next two years within the BoD to make LibreOffice and The Document Liberation Project shine even more. My goals inside the Board will be mostly facilitating community interactions and activities, community inclusion and lowering the initial barriers to becoming a community member and contributor, which I can feel is still pretty high. I would like to provide my direct help inside the TDF Board of Directors dealing with infrastructure (as it may seem legitimate by my job), marketing, event organization and native language projects. I am surely available for any questions that will arise from community members about my candidacy. Please feel free to contact me for anything you want to ask. Full Name: Emiliano Vavassori Email: syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: non affiliated 75 words statement: I am sure the community should be leading the activities of The Document Foundation; I will be available for the next term of the Board of Directors as community’s spokesperson, to lower the entry barriers on involvement with TDF projects and activities and to make TDF even more inclusive and welcoming. I feel that my more than decennial experience within other FOSS communities may be of some help to the Board. Cheers, -- Emiliano Vavassori syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org
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