[board-discuss] No Candidacy To The Next Board
Hello, I have thought a lot during the last time, if I should run again for the next board and came from a mixture of reasons to the conclusion that I will not run again. I have been (deputy) member of the board for about six years now and from my personal view it's time to take a break or a change. I have been involved in other volunteer projects for a while now and got the offer to work further within them. I'll take this offer. I also got a change in my paid work that leads me to some interesting new topics, but needs some extra energy to get on speed. That are only two of my reasons. Kind regards, Andreas -- ## Infrastructure Developer LibreOffice ## Freie Office-Suite für Windows, Linux, Mac ## http://LibreOffice.org ## Support the Document Foundation (http://documentfoundation.org) ## Mein Blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Marina Latini
Who am I: Dear Community, my name is Marina Latini, Italian and 33 years old. I studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia. I’m a free software advocate since 2007, promoting free software and open standards. In 2010, I was one of the first Italian members of the LibreOffice community. I’ve been an active member of the Fedora Project from 2009 to 2013, and an openSUSE advocate since October 2011. I’m involved in several events, migrations and trainings related to LibreOffice both in the public sector and in schools. Starting from 2013 I’m working at Studio Storti as team lead of the LibreOffice Division. In the past 2 years I was honored to be a member of the TDF Board of Directors and I’m thankful to all the people that rely on me for this important role. Why you should vote me: From the very beginning of my career, I was focused on the relationship between society and technologies, remarking where was possible, the importance of free software and open standards adoption. I had the opportunity to get a job where I can share my passion and the knowledge acquired during these years. Thanks to TDF community and the election as member of Board of Director, I had the possibility to maximize my efforts and working hard for one of the biggest community projects in free software history. A lot of things have been done, but is not still enough; together we can achieve more, spreading all over the world all the good things that this project has been able to realize. I feel that I have still a lot to offer to TDF, for the people of the community and for the ones that will come. Our project is growing fast with contributors from several countries and we need to focus much more on lowering the threshold barrier, being a real welcoming community. Keeping in mind our charitable entity we can’t forget to interact with schools and university, spreading the knowledge and mentoring new contributors. Finally, I would like that our community will become as much as possible inclusive, and never let out who, just in appearance, looks like different from us; openness is a state of mind. What are your question about the future of TDF and LibreOffice? Feel free to keep in touch with me. Full name: Marina Latini Email: marina.lat...@libreoffice.org Corporate affiliation: Studio Storti Srl (Italian company member of the Advisory board) 75 words candidacy official statement: In the last 2 years, I’ve been honoured to serve in TDF BoD. We have done a lot and to achieve our purpose we can do much more. I will put all the gained experience in order to make our community more inclusive and open, lowering the entry barrier and avoiding exclusion. Freedom and inclusivity are the keys of a successful community and I would see a TDF inspired by these values. Regards, Marina -- Marina Latini IRC: deneb_alpha on Freenode GPG key "ID" 0xF010C774 - DAEC 51E7 4316 5FAE EAE0 F256 3DB8 2837 F010 C774 Better use 64-bit 0x3DB82837F010C774 here is why: https://evil32.com/ 0xF010C774.asc Description: application/pgp-keys signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Candidacy BoD elections: Eike Rathke
Hello dear members, I'm currently a Member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation and I candidate again for another term on the board. My name is Eike Rathke, I live in Hamburg, Germany, and I work full time on LibreOffice, employed by Red Hat, Inc. Being a code developer (or hacker by heart..) I'm mainly engaged in the areas of the Calc spreadsheet core engine, internationalization and locale data; some may know my nick erAck on IRC. I have been active in the LibreOffice project since 2011 and was in the TDF Membership Committee from 2012 to 2013, from 2013 to 2015 a Deputy of the Board of Directors, and from 2015 to 2017 a Director of the board. My traces with the code and project go back to the very beginning of OOo when I was with Sun Microsystems and even earlier when I worked for Star Division on StarOffice. I'm also an ardent supporter of Free Software in general. In the TDF board I see my responsibility to continue the excellent work the board has achieved so far and further grow the foundation and support its purposes and provide LibreOffice the home it deserves as a project, code base and community of different cultures. Speaking of cultures, I hope the board will represent a balanced mix of aspects of the LibreOffice project, not only across regions but also across different activity fields such as engineering, design, quality assurance, marketing and administration. This to ensure that the foundation and its projects are seen as a place of professionalism worth to invest in and work with. I'd also like to see that more people in regions of the world that are not represented in TDF yet will join us. Full name: Eike Rathke Email address: er...@redhat.com Corporate affiliation: Red Hat, Inc. ~75 words candidacy text: I, Eike Rathke, candidate for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. I am a LibreOffice core code contributor, working full time on the code base employed by Red Hat, Inc. I have been around with the project and TDF since 2011. I want TDF to grow and continue to be a prosperous community that creates and maintains the framework and conditions for a successful LibreOffice development in all its aspects. Regards Eike -- GPG key 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Eike Rathke, Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: PGP signature
