Re: [board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Cor Nouws

[Cor Nouws]

Ah well, there should of course be only one Cor standing for the Board ;)

Cor Nouws wrote on 25/11/2021 22:45:
> Dear people, dear members,



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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Gábor Kelemen

[Gabor Kelemen]

  
  
 
Dear
  Community


My
  name
  is Gábor Kelemen, I'm a long time contributor as Hungarian
  translator &
  bugreport-generator; member of the Foundation since 2013. 
I'd
  like to run for membership in the Board of Directors for the first
  time.


During
  the last five years I had the opportunity to get in touch with a
  great cross-section of people working in the public administration
  of
  my country; and an even greater cross-section of files they create
  and use on daily basis.
Another
  huge experience was creating a small but talented in-house
  developer
  team from scratch, and seeing the great results they achieved in
  terms of
  interoperability of the formerly mentioned files.


In
  this
  project I was frequently reminded of common end users'
  expectations
  of a tool that aspires to replace the tool they use for doing
  their
  job: it is day-to-day reliability and interoperability with the
  outside
  world - because there is always a bigger fish that does not take
  "no"
  for an answer; maybe in the corner office, or in an independent
  institution or even in another country.
Let
  that thought sink in for a moment.


Based
  on this unique experience I'd like to serve in the Board to
  strengthen the communitys offering for similarly diverse user
  bases:

  Understanding users' needs is key. I was looking a lot at the
Bugzilla reports and in most cases it's hard to see what's the
actual
problem, let alone seeing the bigger picture: what popular
features
are missing/unreliable?
  
Therefore, I think the Foundation would need to put more
  manpower
  into the QA area, to get and present useful data out of
  Bugzilla -
  for internal and external use alike - for decisions about
  future
  development direction.
  
  Interoperability is a gate into our user base.
  
  
The
  Foundation might want to open this gate as wide as possible by
  both
  sponsoring and enabling further development/improvement of
  popular but missing/unreliably working
  features, identified by hard QA data.
  
  Further enhancement of the ODF standard is the logically
following
step, so that users that came through the interoperability gate
can
stay in the land of open standards.
  
Therefore I'd like to see the Foundation to be a supporter
  for
  standardization of new feature additions.
  

Based
  on my experience I think steps in these directions can help
  increasing the global relevance of the product and the community.



Formalities:
Full
  name: Gábor Kelemen
Email:
  kelem...@ubuntu.com
Corporate
  affiliation: allotropia GmbH


<75
  words candidacy:
"I
  would like to serve in the Board with patience and perseverance to
  strengthen the Foundations ability to understand both end users'
  and
  organizational users' needs and enable development decisions
  focusing
  on interoperability and to support the further development of the
  ODF
  standard."


I'm
  open to questions!


All
  the best
Gábor
  Kelemen


  
  




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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a board seat: Thorsten Behrens

[Thorsten Behrens]

Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee,

I currently serve as a director on the board of The Document
Foundation, and I would like to run again.

My full name is Thorsten Behrens, as of today I'm 47 years
old. Together with my wonderful wife & fellow LibreOffice hacker
Bubli and my 3 sons, we live in Hamburg, Germany.

My work with the project and codebase started in 2001 as a developer
(with the then-OpenOffice.org community), which we jointly took and
founded TDF & LibreOffice with in 2010. Since then, I was serving in
various roles, including my current one on the board of
directors. From 2008 to 2020, I was also a member of the OASIS ODF
technical committee. Since 2021, I'm honoured to lead a great team of
LibreOffice developers at my company allotropia software, helping
numerous customers to run LibreOffice reliably and securely.

Why am I running?

* quite a few things that I wanted to pursue during the past board
  term do show some progress - but there's just so much left to do:

* on the growing TDF impact and further professionalising front - the
  success story is us finally filling the developer mentor role. I
  helped with the interviews & selection process, and am looking
  forward to those efforts now bearing fruit. Still, my focus areas
  from last time remain almost unmodified, since I believe there's
  much left to be done:

   - further increase our mentoring & community building efforts
   - continue the push to have LibreOffice available everywhere it
 matters, especially on app stores
   - tap into grants and funding TDF is uniquely positioned to attract

* Diversity - sadly this is an area where this term again saw little
  progress. With dev mentoring capacity now revving up, I'm confident
  a next board has more opportunity there to lift people up though. I
  would like to continue pushing that. At the same time, we must not
  forget to retain, nurture and celebrate our existing contributors,
  and remain an attractive and fun place to contribute to for
  everyone.

* Integrity - I was talking about conflict of interest policy two
  years ago, and thanks to pushes from Marina and the MC, we now have
  explicit rules for both bodies in place. The topic remains very
  close to my heart, since its all about playing fair. At the same
  time, when it comes to displaying integrity as a charity to our
  donors and the outside world at large, more remains to be done. I'd
  love to continue pushing e.g. for TDF being occasionally audited,
  and eventually receiving a Charity Seal (certifying effectiveness &
  efficiency, as well as transparency).

If you have any questions, about my person or the ideas above, please
do reach out in public or in private!

Full name: Thorsten Behrens
Email: t...@libreoffice.org
Corporate affiliation: allotropia software GmbH (German software &
   consulting company, member of the advisory board
   since 2021), owner and CEO

75 words candidacy statement:

I'm leading a team of LibreOffice developers at allotropia software,
and am a long-time TDF contributor to both code and
organisation. Serving in the current board as a director, I would like
to offer my continued help for the next two years. Things I promise to
do: improve & professionalize organisation; grow & diversify
contribution; keep things fun, fair & sustainable; and help with the
largely-German administrative grunt work.

Kind regards,

-- Thorsten


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Cor Nouws

[Cor Nouws]

Dear people, dear members,

All good things come in threes: for the third time I would love to stand
for the elections of the Board of Directors.

Often I tell people about my enthusiasm and gratitude for our community.
What we have set up in 2010 with The Document Foundation, turned out to
be marvelous: a wonderful combination of all sorts of stakeholders.
Because we took advantage of the lessons learned in the years before,
diversity and inclusion of multiple vendors is anchored in our statues.
So we bring together people and organizations with all sorts of
backgrounds, with interest in free office software and open document
standards, in a community that respects the principles of meritocracy.

I love to continue working on further growth by again serving in a team
of board members. To that extend, I bring with me a wide experience in
all sorts of societies, foundations and representing bodies, helping
judging the balance in all situations. And not less important: a long
history in our community.
After having worked in the OpenOffice.org community, involved in a nice
mix of volunteering in QA, marketing, local activities, I had the honor
to be one of TDF's founders. Spending less time for QA etc - alas - but
having served many years in the MC and now two terms in the BoD. The
work for my small Dutch open source office service provider Nou
evolved as well. Still helping a rich set of small to large customers
around LibreOffice, most of my work is now for Collabora Productivity.

All good things come in threes: TDF Lives, that we are Free People, and
together we Pursuit Improving!


Full name: Cor Nouws
Email: c...@nouenoff.nl
Corporate affiliation: Nou, Collabora Productivity


<75 words statement:

It would love to continue continuing contribute to the Board and the
wider community for the third time. Using my long experience in the
LibreOffice community and using my broad background in other
foundations, groups etc. With an open mind for what our world of today
and tomorrow is asking for, respecting the foundations unique position,
great variety of interests, meritocratic nature and its principles of
freedom and inclusiveness.


warm greetings,

Cor

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Cor Nouws

[Cor Nouws]

Dear people, dear members,

All good things come in threes: for the third time I would love to stand
for the elections of the Board of Directors.

Often I tell people about my enthusiasm and gratitude for our community.
What we have set up in 2010 with The Document Foundation, turned out to
be marvelous: a wonderful combination of all sorts of stakeholders.
Because we took advantage of the lessons learned in the years before,
diversity and inclusion of multiple vendors is anchored in our statues.
So we bring together people and organizations with all sorts of
backgrounds, with interest in free office software and open document
standards, in a community that respects the principles of meritocracy.

I love to continue working on further growth by again serving in a team
of board members. To that extend, I bring with me a wide experience in
all sorts of societies, foundations and representing bodies, helping
judging the balance in all situations. And not less important: a long
history in our community.
After having worked in the OpenOffice.org community, involved in a nice
mix of volunteering in QA, marketing, local activities, I had the honor
to be one of TDF's founders. Spending less time for QA etc - alas - but
having served many years in the MC and now two terms in the BoD. The
work for my small Dutch open source office service provider Nou
evolved as well. Still helping a rich set of small to large customers
around LibreOffice, most of my work is now for Collabora Productivity.

All good things come in threes: TDF Lives, that we are Free People, and
together we Pursuit Improving!


Full name: Cor Nouws
Email: c...@nouenoff.nl
Corporate affiliation: Nou, Collabora Productivity


<75 words statement:

It would love to continue continuing contribute to the Board and the
wider community for the third time. Using my long experience in the
LibreOffice community and using my broad background in other
foundations, groups etc. With an open mind for what our world of today
and tomorrow is asking for, respecting the foundations unique position,
great variety of interests, meritocratic nature and its principles of
freedom and inclusiveness.


warm greetings,

Cor


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Emiliano Vavassori

[Emiliano Vavassori]

Hi all,

I’m Emiliano and I would like to run as candidate for the next Board of 
Directors.


I’m a FOSS advocate since 2001. To me, what makes open source shine, is 
its community and the interactions between the people behind.


In my daily job, I work as a senior system administrator for a small 
company, called BgWorld, that is based in Bergamo, in the North of 
Italy. We provide IT services and support to small and medium sized 
companies. While my roots in the community are in infrastructure, event 
organization and documentation, I know they are just three out of the 
many pillars our project stands on. My goal for the next term is 
therefore to strengthen the relationship between all our native language 
communities and the Foundation through shared goals, and work with all 
of you on a brighter perspective on where we want to bring TDF in the 
next years.


Let me express my respect and appreciation to our broad and inspiring 
community. I have also to be thankful to fellow Directors in this and 
previous terms and to our team, as every single one of them was kind 
enough to explain and drive me through the learning curve of being a new 
Director. Thanks truly for this. In the same community spirit, I will be 
happy to help to mentor community members who wish to apply, for the 
first time, for a seat inside the governing bodies of TDF.


I commit myself to put what I learned at the service of the Foundation 
for another term.


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: BgWorld Srl

75 words statement:

I’d like to put my knowledge, energies and heart at the service of our 
Foundation, for a second term in the board. My focus will be on 
safeguarding the sustainability of the project, by working on a healthy 
environment for all current and future volunteers, all corporate 
citizens and in general all stakeholders, with the goal to further grow 
the project in all areas. I want to ensure that their contributions have 
equal positive impacts.


Regards,
--
Emiliano Vavassori
syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org




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[board-discuss] Candidacy for the BoD elections: Paolo Vecchi

[Paolo Vecchi]

Hi!

My name is Paolo Vecchi. I candidate for a second term in the board, to 
further improve its transparency and governance.


My goals for the next two years are:

1. Increase transparency from the board a lot. I will work on a real 
interaction between the community and the board. One thing I propose is 
to take and explain many more decisions in public and not any more 
behind closed doors.
2. Keep a good balance between the companies and the volunteers. We need 
a good and healthy environment where we all can work together on 
LibreOffice as equals, where contributions in all areas matter.
3. Publish the LibreOffice Community version in the app stores directly 
by TDF.
4. For the above, create a core team of developers directly at the 
foundation. This will also help us to further improve LibreOffice in key 
areas that are decided by the community and to fix long standing bugs.
5. Promote the adoption of ODF to local governments and institutions. We 
need to remove the interoperability barrier for LibreOffice that has 
been created by proprietary formats which are perpetuating vendor lock-ins.
6. Work with governments and European institutions, to create more 
opportunities for our community and make LibreOffice better known and 
adopted.


Many of my activities during this board term were with the legal group. 
Due to the nature of this, not all of them were visible in public. They 
included work to help investigate issues found with the long discussed 
business entity. During this effort, we determined that TDF itself has 
more options than previously thought. We should take this as an 
opportunity and this leads to my proposed goals for the next two years.


Also, just this week, you have seen a Conflict of Interest Policy 
published by my colleague Emiliano. It was originally started by the MC 
and is now also approved by the board. This was the result of many 
months of work of the legal group. It is an important milestone to keep 
a good balance between the corporate citizens and the volunteer 
contributors, for a diverse and sustainable community.


Some of my more publicly visible activities during this board term 
included contributions to the marketing plan. I've recently also worked 
with the European Commission to have an official bug bounty program for 
LibreOffice. This will strengthen our relation with them and makes TDF 
being heard also on this level. I also host a PeerTube instance with 
LibreOffice videos for those who, like me, are keen to have their 
privacy respected.


I’m based in Luxemburg, where I advocate for open source, open standards 
and interoperability both locally and at European level participating to 
various projects, initiatives and groups such us Gaia-X, Coalition for 
competitive digital markets, Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Alliance, 
etc. I am active in the local Hackerspace, too. I created the startup 
Omnis Cloud Sarl to deliver Cloud services and create Private and Hybrid 
Cloud infrastructure based on Open Source software to demonstrate that 
now it is possible to decentralise services and take back ownership of 
data using technologies we can control.


Full Name: Paolo Vecchi
E-mail: pa...@omniscloud.eu
Affiliation:  Omnis Cloud Sarl

75 words statement:
“During my first term, I started working on improvements to ensure that 
the foundation represents all contributors of LibreOffice as equals. I 
candidate for a second term to establish a real interaction between the 
community and the board, to work together much more in public. I want to 
extend the reach of LibreOffice into public and private sectors, speed 
up improvements and setup our app stores presence by employing a team of 
developers within TDF.”


Ciao

Paolo

--
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The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Caolán McNamara

[Caolán McNamara]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I'm Caolán McNamara, full time developer on LibreOffice and member of
the ESC. I'm employed as a Principal Engineer by Red Hat as part of the
Desktop Team and have been involved with LibreOffice since its
inception and had involvement with its predecessors back to a stint as
a Sun Microsystems employee on StarOffice. I'm currently living on the
damp and windy west coast of Ireland.

For LibreOffice the type of things I currently work on are the existing
Gtk3 port and the work-in-progress Gtk4 port. I also act in the
LibreOffice security team as the liaison for LibreOffice's CVE
Numbering Authority, helping to turn security reports into fixes and
managing the admin work required. I oversee the oss-fuzz continuous
fuzzing of LibreOffice and maintain our continuous document
import/export crashtesting process, discovering and fixing crashes
close to the time of their introduction. 

Full name: Caolán McNamara
Email: caol...@redhat.com
Corporate affiliation: Red Hat, Inc.

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"I'm a long term contributor to LibreOffice on the development front
and I would like to serve in the Board to help represent the
perspective of contributors to our project in order to aid the Board in
making decisions that sustain existing contribution sources and
encourage growth"


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Board of Directors: Gabriel Masei

[Gabriel Masei]

Hi there,



I would like to run as candidate for the Board of Directors.


My name is Gabriel Masei and I’m a senior C/C++ developer at 1&1 company,

Mail & Media department, Free Products team, Bucharest - Romania. My main

task is to integrate Collabora Online / LibreOffice Online into our Online 
Office

products which I’m successfully doing for more than three years. Three years ago

we integrated LibreOffice Online (LOOL) into our Online Office products and 
later,

a year ago, we migrated to Collabora Online. As far as I know we were/are the

biggest deployer of LOOL/COOL with hundreds of instances in production deployed

through Kubernetes and tens of thousands of documents edited on a daily basis.

During the time of working on this project I contributed, and I’m still 
contributing,
as developer to COOL/LOOL/LibreOffice Core with focus on Online projects,

although the volume of contribution is by far not so consistent as I would like

because I need to split my work time between my company and community.

Currently I’m contributing to LibreOffice community as a developer, as a TDF

member and as a member of Engineering Steering Committee (ESC).


While reading about some of the current members of TDF I feel somehow

overwhelmed when I learn about their FLOSS experience which, in many cases,

is practically a lifetime experience. This is not the case on my side. I’m 
relatively

new to FLOSS (for more than 3 years), and, so far, my only experience with FLOSS

is through LibreOffice/Linux. With more than 17 years of experience as developer

of which about 14 years as developer at different companies focused mainly on

Windows platform I was pleasant surprised when I came in contact with FLOSS

and Linux platform and my interest in it grew in time. As an argument for this

I confess that I replaced Microsoft Office on my personal computer with 
LibreOffice :)

and I’m more than satisfied. Although I’m still using Windows on it, for 
historical

reasons, on my office computer I’m using Linux platform (Ubuntu) and , again,

I’m more than satisfied.

Since 2018 I attended all the LibreOffice conferences where I met a lot of 
welcoming,

passionate, highly skilled and open-minded people with whom is a pleasure to 
work and

cooperate and I’m looking forward to continue to expand this experience. 
Wherever I go

I share this experience and encourage people to get involved into FLOSS, 
something I

wouldn’t have imagined a few years ago. Also, I’m doing this inside my company 
by

trying to lobby to the deciders to get more involved into the TDF at as many 
levels as

possible including development, promotion and donations. In my home country, 
Romania,
the community is almost non-existent and this also could be a direction of 
improvement.

My FLOSS experience as developer combined with what I’ve learned about other’s

experience encouraged me to get more involved into FLOSS and one of the ways to 
do

that is to understand how it works at organizational level and get involved in 
other ways

than just as developer, and, since my only experience is with LibreOffice, I 
decided

to stand for TDF BoD as a way to achieve that. I count on your support!



Full Name: Gabriel Masei

Email: gabriel.ma...@1and1.ro

Corporate affiliation: 1&1

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

“With 17+ years of experience in software engineering and as a relative 
newcomer to FLOSS

I’m eager to get more involved in it. One of the ways to do that is by getting 
involved in TDF

and helping at decision level. By supporting my candidacy you’ll support my 
efforts of contribution

to and promotion of the principles and goals of the TDF as stated in its 
Statutes. I count on your support!”


Thank you,


Gabriel Masei

Senior C/C++ Developer, Free Products Development Romania

Phone: +40 31 223 90 62

Mobile: +40 721 934 131
gabriel.ma...@1and1.ro


1&1 Internet Development Romania SRL
Sky Tower, 246C Calea Floreasca,
13th Floor, 014476, RO Bucharest

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Ayhan Yalçınsoy

[ayhanyalcinsoy]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I am Ayhan Yalçınsoy, 43 years old, married,
father of a girl, living in the Turkey.  I am working in public sector as a Technician, graduated doctorate on Management and Administration and I have been contributed (as a developer and packager) Pisi GNU/Linux project since 2013. 

In the LibreOffice community, I have been translated ui and help documents to Turkish since 2010. Resently, I study for localization of the user guides of LibreOffice compenents and coordinate it. In addition, I have been fixed easy hacks since 2019. However, an important part of my contribution in LibreOffice is localization.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Ayhan Yalçınsoy
Email: ayhanyalcinsoy@pisilinux.org
Corporate affiliation: Pisi GNU/Linux

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in
the Board to help make decisions that support contributors in their
work and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I
want to offer my experience from localization work, because LibreOffice is an important part of my
life."

All the best,
Dr. Ayhan YALÇINSOYManagement and Organization05072315779  

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan "Kendy" Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation (again).

I am Jan Holešovský, known as "Kendy" to many, 44 years old, married,
father of two girls, living in the Czech Republic.  I work for
Collabora as an Engineering Manager, but still love to be close to the
code whenever possible.

In the LibreOffice community, I used to serve in the Board of Directors
as a member and a deputy, but have a gap of one term.  While not in the
Board, I was attending many of the public parts of the Board meetings,
not to lose contact.  Otherwise I am a developer contributing to the
LibreOffice codebase, member of the Engineering Steering Committee and
member of the Developer Certification group.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring.  I
often help the team members with their code, or review patches in
gerrit.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in
the Board to help make decisions that support contributors in their
work and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I
want to offer my experience from cross-team work and from the past
years in the Board, because LibreOffice is an important part of my
life."

All the best,
Kendy

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for the Board of Directors: Sam Tuke

[Sam Tuke]

## Personal details

Full name: Samuel John Wilson Tuke
Email: m...@samtuke.com
Corporate affiliation: None

## 74 words statement

The Document Foundation has proven that independent, community-centric 
organisations can thrive. However LibreOffice faces significant 
challenges regarding product competitiveness, commercial investment, 
and ecosystem diversity. If elected, I will use my influence to 
increase the variety and competitiveness of LibreOffice businesses, 
encouraging jobs and new products, to better serve our community’s 
needs. I bring experience and qualifications in business, marketing, 
and product management, 16 years in Free Software, and have led for and 
non-profit organisations.


## Full statement

As § 2 of its statutes say, The Document Foundation’s goals are 
achieved first by providing software. This software faces new 
competition on every platform, from both Free and non-Free 
alternatives. Through generous donations from the community, the 
Foundation is able to sponsor feature development a few times each year.


But to be competitive, a thriving ecosystem of LibreOffice companies 
and products need to be cooperatively investing in improving the 
applications we know and love. I believe that more can be done to 
harness the benefits of such an ecosystem for LibreOffice users current 
and future, and if elected I shall work to that end.


Simultaneously I will encourage additional support of communities which 
are of strategic significance to LibreOffice, in particular relating to 
quality assurance, localisation, and documentation, all of which 
contribute work which is critical for reaching new LibreOffice users.


Finally, as an independent candidate in this election, not involved 
with any LibreOffice company or the upcoming Document Collective (TDC), 
I am well positioned to represent long term community interests, 
mediate between parties, and pursue sustainable strategic goals.


## Personal background

Four years ago I ceased marketing LibreOffice products full time and 
took over management of phpList -- a Free Software marketing automation 
company. Since then I have remained a contributor to the LibreOffice 
marketing team, and occasionally delivered LibreOffice talks at events.


I have experience leading my own firms, as well as having previously 
supported the board of the Free Software Foundation Europe, and served 
on the board of the OpenSpace Cooperative in England.


Berlin has been my home since 2010, where I live with my girlfriend (we 
met at the Open Source Albania conference in Tirana in 2016). I'm also 
a startup mentor to entrepreneurs in Ghana, Nigera, and Egypt, and 
graduated last year with an MBA as Entrepreneurial scholar at the 
European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.


Thanks!

Sam.

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Michael Meeks

[Michael Meeks]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat
on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. Self-nomination
feels uncomfortable as a concept, but here goes:

* Who am I ?

I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 42 years old, I try to
shepherd Collabora Productivity. My day job tries to rapidly grow the
economic ecosystem around LibreOffice for the benefit of all,
including Collabora. That means encouraging more people to pay for
more features, fixes, testing, translation, UX design & other goodness
to go into LibreOffice and to accelerate the virtuous circle of its
growth. This also involves encouraging TDF to leave space for the
ecosystem to flourish, to build a fair and consistent level playing
field for companies, and to celebrate all of our varied contributors
and their contributions.

In common with many, I'm most excited when hacking on the code and
making positive changes there, as well as mentoring and including new
people. Having started poking at the code-base before it was
open-sourced in 2000, I have served with the team creating LibreOffice
from the very beginning in various technical and non-technical roles:
inside the Engineering Steering Committee, as a Board member, but
primarily as a code contributor, mentor and evangelist.

* Why am I running?

I'd like to continue to offer the benefits of a whole career's worth
of mistakes, blunders, mis-understandings, failures (mostly my own)
and occasional successes (mostly other people's). I can also type at a
reasonable speed, and scribe interactive minutes of calls with
reasonable accuracy, helping to make Board decisions somewhat clearer
in retrospect. I've also had the privilege of being involved in the
creation, hiring, management & bootstrapping of several teams of both
paid and unpaid developers over the years - which is perhaps useful as
TDF continues to grow and invest.

I also believe it is critical for us to continue to safeguard our
open, can-do and relational culture. That means helping to empower
individuals to make friends and get things done while resisting
distrust. It also means keeping TDF as a fun place, that is
distictively different from the ossification, risk aversion and
bureaucracy that grows in many companies. I'm eager to retain those
youthful, fluid and adaptive traits in TDF: always open to new and
better ideas, new participants and new and better ways of doing
things.

Building on that, one of the things I love about LibreOffice is our
diversity of contributors with all manner of different and interesting
backgrounds, experiences and opinions. I'm eager to create space for
people to respectfully build strong relationships with others in the
project, even when they profoundly disagree with those that are
different or think differently to them.

Finally - I'm a believer in Free Software, while being critically
interested in ensuring that TDF remains a great place for companies to
invest and to sell services around improving the software. I'm
committed to making sure the right conditions remain in place to help
companies contribute effectively back to the project and work well
together with volunteers around the common codebase.

Full name: Michael Meeks
Email: michael.me...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

* 75 word formal candidacy:

I'd love to serve you again on the board: as a FLOSS advocate, with
passion for LibreOffice, deep TDF board knowledge, lots of generic
business experience: legal, budgeting, interviewing, management, yet
also eager to keep LibreOffice's spirit of fun, fairness and
freedom. I've a long experince of contribution to different FLOSS
communities in various ways, am currently betting the business on
LibreOffice and its success, but also want to help growing our
volunteer participation.

* Happy to answer any questions of course.

Regards,

Michael.

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Board of Directors : Philippe Hemmel

[Philippe Hemmel]

Hi all,

I'm Philippe Hemmel and as a TDF member I would like to run as candidate 
for the Board of Directors.


I'm based in Paris. I founded Arawa almost 4 years ago, a french company 
specialised in open source office and collaborative software. We are a 
Collabora partner. We are helping enterprises and organisations (from 
100 to 7 seats) to migrate to LibreOffice and to deploy Collabora 
Online (and Nextcloud). We developed an open source connector between 
Alfresco (an ECM software) and LibreOffice Online, with a great 
partnership with Collabora.


Before that, from 2003 to 2012, I was CTO of another open source IT 
company, with almost the same specialities. I personally worked on many 
OpenOffice then LibreOffice migrations, mainly for big public 
organisations.


In the meantime, I was CIO at the Dauphine University in Paris.

So, on the one hand, I am aware of the challenges facing companies 
working in the field of free software, on the other hand, I am 
personally a strong advocate of free software and I like to work with 
communities.


I have been working in the OpenOffice and LibreOffice community since 
2002. In the last few years, I helped to organise workshops and a 
hackfest in Paris, to translate a bit, to file bugs, to promote 
LibreOffice (events, talks, social network). I lead the project of the 
LibreOffice Online connector for Alfresco. Before that, I lead the 
french QA team for a while.


In September, I was elected president of the La Mouette association, the 
french association in charge of promoting open source office tools 
(namely LibreOffice) and open office format (there is only one! ODF) in 
French speaking countries.


Full name : Philippe Hemmel

E-mail : phem...@arawa.fr

Affiliation : Arawa (CEO) and La Mouette (President)

75 words statement:

"If I am elected as member of the board, my goal will be to grow and 
strengthen the community.


I also want to help individual or corporate users to better understand 
the challenges of the project and to help France local governments and 
administrations, as well as the private sector, to use LibreOffice and 
contribute (or better contribute...). And I wish to develop the synergy 
between companies involved in the project and the community."


Please don't hesitate to contact me for any questions you may have.

Kind regards,

Philippe


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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a board seat: Thorsten Behrens

[Thorsten Behrens]

Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee,

I currently serve as a director on the board of The Document
Foundation, and I would like to run again.

My full name is Thorsten Behrens, as of today I'm 45 years
old. Together with my wonderful wife & fellow LibreOffice hacker
Bubli and my 3 sons, we live in Hamburg, Germany.

My work with the project and codebase started in 2001 as a developer
(with the then-OpenOffice.org community), which we jointly took and
founded TDF & LibreOffice with in 2010. Since then, I was serving in
various roles, including my current one in the board of
directors. Since 2008 (with a brief hiatus in 2014), I'm also a member
of the OASIS ODF technical committee. As a day job, I lead a great
team of LibreOffice developers at CIB software, helping numerous
customers to run LibreOffice reliably and securely.

Why am I running?

* TDF is now a mature organization - with a certain risk of plateauing
  in its initiative and impact. I said that already in 2017, and
  Florian & his team (cheered on by the current board) have meanwhile
  implemented a number of measures to make TDF more resilient &
  professional (recurring donation income streams, administrative
  assistant for the executive director, spin-off TDC as a for-profit
  entity, etc.). We continue to liaise with similar-minded
  organisations (like FSFE, KDE, Gnome or OSB Alliance), where we are
  represented e.g. on advisory boards, or - in the case of the OSB
  Alliance - we're active in lobbying for more FLOSS use in the public
  sector.

  I'd like to offer my continued help here, with two focus areas:
   - further increase our mentoring & community building efforts
   - continue the push to have LibreOffice available everywhere it
 matters, especially on cloud and app stores.

* Diversity - while our user base is amazingly diverse, and so is our
  community around translation, marketing, and native language
  projects - our QA and development community is still rather uniform,
  in a number of metrics (gender, ethnicity, geography). Sadly we
  didn't make much progress here during the ongoing board term, but
  I'm glad nonetheless about the small steps: like community
  contributor interviews showing & signalling our diversity, or a
  dedicated diversity travel fund for our conferences. Still, there's
  a lot of unfinished work here, that I'd like to continue pushing.

* Integrity - another topic I'm rather passionate about is preventing
  unfair advantages: the board has a conflict of interest policy that
  excludes directors from decision-making on items they might benefit
  from. Additionally, no more than one-third of the members of any TDF
  body (like the board, or the ESC) can be affiliated with a single
  company - therefore hopefully preventing any capture or take-over of
  TDF. I'd like to help keeping things that way, both in spirit and in
  letter.

If you have any questions, about my person or the ideas above, please
do reach out in public or in private!

Full name: Thorsten Behrens
Email: t...@libreoffice.org
Corporate affiliation: CIB software GmbH (German software & consulting
   company, member of the advisory board since
   2015)

75 words candidacy statement:

I'm leading a team of LibreOffice developers at CIB, and am a
long-time TDF contributor to both code and organisation. Serving in
the current board as a director, I would like to offer my continued
help for the next two years. Things I promise to do: improve &
professionalize organisation; grow & diversify contribution; keep
things fun, fair & sustainable; and help with the largely-German
administrative grunt work.

Kind regards,

-- Thorsten


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Nicolas Christener

[Nicolas Christener]

Hi all,

As a LibreOffice user since the very first day and long term member of
different F/OSS organizations and communities I'd like to give something back
to the LibreOffice project and therefore stand for elections to the Board of
Directors of The Document Foundation.

I'm Nicolas Christener, living in Switzerland, married, love skiing & music
and I was born between RFC 812 and 813 :)

I currently work for Adfinis SyGroup which is a company delivering services
(engineering, managed services, development) around F/OSS software. We partner
with Collabora and together with them we brought LibreOffice to iOS.

I helped to organize LibreOffice Conference 2014 in Switzerland, the company I
work for hosts some TDF servers and lately I was busy to help make the iOS app
a reality. I contributed comment translations (de -> en) in the code, filled
many bugs and convince user and organizations to use LibreOffice.

I was also appointed by the current Board (which I'm not part of) to help
start the The Document Collective (TDC). This transitional group only
bootstraps the legal entity and I won't automatically be involved in the
future entity.

I believe that I have a good understanding of the enterprise requirements and
am very community oriented which gives me a well balanced view where and how
we could improve LibreOffice for the good of all of us.

Full name: Nicolas Christener
E-Mail: nicolas.christe...@adfinis-sygroup.ch
Corporate affiliation:
* Adfinis SyGroup (CEO/CTO, Member of the Board)
* WineBarrel GmbH (CEO, my pet project, buy & sell rare wines)
* Medelexis AG (Member of the Board)

For my past engagements please also see:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christener/

75 words statement:

"I'd like to serve the Board to help to grow the project and its global
impact. LibreOffice has a huge potential and I would like to help getting
things done more quickly and enable and motivate as many individuals as
possible to grow the community. My goal is to help shape common goals and
bring my experience to the table to actually reach them."

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me :)

All the best,
Nicolas

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Board of Directors: Emiliano Vavassori

[Emiliano Vavassori]

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,
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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation again.

I am Jan Holešovský, known as "Kendy" to many, 42 years old, married,
father of two girls, living in the Czech Republic.  I work for
Collabora as an Engineering Manager, but also hack whenever possible.

In the LibreOffice community, I currently serve in the Board of
Directors as a deputy, and I would like to continue my duty
there.  Otherwise I am a developer contributing both to the LibreOffice
core and the Online, member of the Engineering Steering Committee and
member of the Developer Certification group.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring and
onboarding of new community members.  Every year I mentor a student or
two via the Google Summer of Code - this year it was a LibreOffice for
Android related project.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to continue
serving in the Board to help make decisions that support contributors
in their work and that lead to having more people involved in the
project. I want to offer my experience from cross-team work and from
the past years in the Board, because LibreOffice is an important part
of my life."

All the best,
Kendy

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for BoD

[Daniel A. Rodriguez]

Hello, everybody,

I have been working voluntarily with TDF since January 2011 and I am a
member since 2013. Whenever possible I try to evangelize regarding the
advantages of adopting the ODF standard and LibreOffice as an office
suite.
Considering the number of people living in this region of the world, I
consider the need to add more volunteers to the community and,
eventually, more members to the foundation to be a continuous effort.
A significant weakness has to do with the language barrier as the
number of English speakers in this part of the continent is relatively
low. For this reason, I translate and publish on the Hispanic blog
press releases, interviews and articles that help raise awareness of
the strategic importance of adopting free tools and open standards.
I work in a high school with technical orientation all day. I live in
Misiones, Argentina (northeast of the country), an small province
between Paraguay and Brazil.
I'm averaging the 40's, father of two, a boy and a girl, and live and
I've been living in a couple for almost 20 years.

Full name: Daniel Armando Rodriguez

E-mail address: drodrig...@libreoffice.org

Affiliation: None

Declaration of candidacy:
If I am elected as a member of the Board of Directors, my goal is to
get more people involved in the project on a regular basis. I pledge
to continue to do my best for the benefit of the project and to work
hard to make the regional conference a recognized event.



Greetings

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat: Thorsten Behrens

[Thorsten Behrens]

Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee,

I currently serve as a director on the board of The Document
Foundation, and I would like to run again.

My full name is Thorsten Behrens, as of today I'm 43 years old, and a
father of three boys. Together with my wonderful wife & fellow
LibreOffice hacker Bubli, we live in Hamburg, Germany.

My work with the project and codebase started in 2001 as a developer
(with the former OpenOffice.org community), which we then jointly took
and founded TDF & LibreOffice with in 2010. Since then, I was serving
in various roles, including my current one in the board of
directors. Since 2008 (with a brief hiatus in 2014), I'm also a member
of the OASIS ODF technical committee. As a day job, I lead a great
team of LibreOffice developers at CIB software, helping numerous
customers to run LibreOffice reliably and securely.

Why am I running?

* TDF is now a mature organization - with a certain risk of plateauing
  in its initiative and impact. I'd like to help professionalize the
  core operations further: towards more impact, a broader fundraising
  base, and more intense partnering with other, similarly-motivated
  NGOs. What I want is to have TDF stay for the long run; which also
  includes adapting to changes in the software landscape like cloud
  and app stores.

* Product versus project - while the world outside looks at us and
  mostly sees the product 'LibreOffice' - the reason most of us are
  here is because of the project. Because we like to work on our
  specific areas, be that translation, marketing, QA, UX, development
  or all the other sub-projects TDF is running. We should get the word
  out that using software produced by a community provides unique
  values, and make sure we provide effortless entries into the
  community experience for every user out there.

* Diversity - while our user base is amazingly diverse, and so is our
  community around translation, marketing, and native language
  projects - our QA and development community is rather uniform, in a
  number of metrics (gender, ethnicity, geography). That's a bit sad,
  and I'd like to try if we cannot gain many more contributions by
  encouraging under-represented people in those areas.

* I want to keep TDF a friendly & welcoming place - by improving on
  e.g. the Code of Conduct, encouraging friendly debate, and bridging
  the occasional cultural gap or language barrier. After all, for most
  of us here while writing in English, this is only our 2nd or 3rd
  language. TDF also has a strong culture of operating by consensus,
  that I helped to shape, and would like to keep continue encouraging.

* Integrity - another topic I'm rather passionate about is preventing
  unfair advantages: the board has a conflict of interest policy that
  excludes directors from decision-making on items they might benefit
  from; TDF now also has an established process to award contracts via
  an open tendering, allowing everyone to apply.

I'd like to offer my continued help, going after the above. If you
have any questions, about my person or the ideas above, please do
reach out in public or in private!

Full name: Thorsten Behrens
Email: t...@libreoffice.org
Corporate affiliation: CIB software GmbH (German software & consulting
   company, member of the advisory board since
   2015)

75 words candidacy statement:

I'm leading a team of LibreOffice developers at CIB, and am a
long-time TDF contributor to both code and organisation. Serving in
the current board as a director, I would like to offer my continued
help for the next two years. Things I promise to do: improve &
professionalize organisation; grow & diversify contribution; keep
things fun, fair & sustainable; and help with the largely-German
administrative grunt work.

Kind regards,

-- Thorsten


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Marina Latini

[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

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[board-discuss] Candidacy BoD elections: Eike Rathke

[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

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Osvaldo Gervasi

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,

with the present message I want to express my wish to participate in the
elections for the next BoD

*Who am I*

Osvaldo Gervasi, 60 years, married, 1 daughter (28) and 2 sons (26,17).

Associate Professor (Information Processing Systems) at Perugia
University, Italy.

Presently Director at TDF and member of the LibreOffice Documentation Team.

From 2007 to 2013 President of the Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) of
Regione Umbria, as such promoter of the LibreUmbria project.

Member of TDF since 2013, Migration and Trainer Certified Professional.


Fan of LibreOffice since the beginning of the Project (before fan of
OpenOffice,
which I promoted in particular since 2007) and of FLOSS in General.

Member of the Team of LibreDifesa project.


*Why I apply for the new BoD seat:*

**

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director,
to have the chance to further contribute to the project.

I want to promote LibreOffice among University students, in particular
Engineers and Computer
Scientists in order to let them approach the development of such a great
software with the moral
incentive of TDF, removing the barriers that they may encounter and
facilitating their work.

I would also stimulate students and teachers to select, for the Bachelor
and Master Thesis,
a task related to LibreOffice development, with a special attention to
CODE and LibreOffice On Line.

In fact,I thinkwe have toincreasethe number of developers.

I think that is necessary to stimulate and promote donations.

Furthermore, I think that it is necessary to morally support local
communities in promoting LibreOffice
and Open Formats, particularly among young generations


Full name: Osvaldo Gervasi

Emails: ogerv...@libreoffice.org ,
osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com 

Affiliation: The University of Perugia, Italy


*My official Candidacy Statement:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director, to have the
chance to further contribute to the project. In particular I want to
promote LibreOffice among University students,
in particular Engineers and Computer Scientists in order to let them
approach the development of such a great
software with the help of TDF, removing the barriers that they may
encounter and facilitating their work.


If you have any question, please feel free to contact me (mobile phone:
+39 3485109938)

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Director, The Document Foundation
Dip. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia (Italy)
skype: osvaldo.gervasi
hangout: osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com 

[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Osvaldo Gervasi

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Hi,

with the present message I want to express my wish to participate in the
elections for the next BoD

*Who am I*

Osvaldo Gervasi, 60 years, married, 1 daughter (28) and 2 sons (26,17).
Associate Professor (Information Processing Systems) at Perugia University,
Italy.

Presently Director at TDF and member of the LibreOffice Documentation Team.

>From 2007 to 2013 President of the Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) of
Regione Umbria, as such promoter of the LibreUmbria project.

Member of TDF since 2013, Migration and Trainer Certified Professional.

Fan of LibreOffice since the beginning of the Project (before fan of
OpenOffice,
which I promoted in particular since 2007) and of FLOSS in General.

Member of the Team of LibreDifesa project.


*Why I apply for the new BoD seat:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director,
to have the chance to further contribute to the project.

I want to promote LibreOffice among University students, in particular
Engineers and Computer
Scientists in order to let them approach the development of such a great
software with the moral
incentive of TDF, removing the barriers that they may encounter and
facilitating their work.

I would also stimulate students and teachers to select, for the Bachelor
and Master Thesis,
a task related to LibreOffice development, with a special attention to CODE
and LibreOffice On Line.
In fact, I think we have to increase the number of developers.

I think that is necessary to stimulate and promote donations.

Furthermore, I think that it is necessary to morally support local
communities in promoting LibreOffice
and Open Formats, particularly among young generations


Full name: Osvaldo Gervasi

Emails: ogerv...@libreoffice.org, osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com

Affiliation: The University of Perugia, Italy


*My official Candidacy Statement:*

I want to run for a seat in the next BoD after two years of the exciting
experience as Director, to have the
chance to further contribute to the project. In particular I want to
promote LibreOffice among University students,
in particular Engineers and Computer Scientists in order to let them
approach the development of such a great
software with the help of TDF, removing the barriers that they may
encounter and facilitating their work.


If you have any question, please feel free to contact me (mobile phone: +39
3485109938)

-- 
Osvaldo Gervasi
Director, The Document Foundation
Dip. Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia (Italy)

Mobile: +393485109938
hangout: osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com

[board-discuss] Candidacy: Bjoern Michaelsen

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi all,

I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with
The Document Foundation.

Im Bjoern Michaelsen and I am currently serving on the Board of Directors as an
unaffilated individual. Before that I ensured LibreOffice to be properly
released and maintained through half an alphabet on Ubuntu: from the first
LibreOffice release (3.3) on Ubuntu Natty to LibreOffice 5.3 on Ubuntu Zesty.

My current job is unrelated to LibreOffice. This unfortunately also limits the
time I can donate to the project in various roles: as a developer, as a member
of the ESC, as an organizer of events or fullfilling an administrative on the
Board of Directors. But it also allows me to claim to be a truly independent 
voice.

I spare you providing a long list of my prior contributors to the project, as
they are a bad prediction of those in the future. Instead I will try to provide
you with what I can bring to the role on the Board and what goals I am going to
aim for:

I served as a Director or Deputy on the Board of Directors of TDF since it was
first incorporated, and along the way I learned insights in the finer details 
of the
decisions and experiences made by TDFs Board of Directors. The hard core of
these involve the allocation of the foundations resources: Its brands and
donations. But I also understand and contributed to the softer points: TDF
carefully using its public voice as a NGO for the greater good and its stated
mission.

I hope I will be able to bring this experience into the next term of the Board
of Directors. I am encouraged to see strong contributors to the project as
new candidates in this election and hope to share the duty of serving with
them, together providing a strong and reasonable voice of independent and
unaffiliated input in the Board.

Ultimately, I hope after this one last term can confidently leave TDFs Board
with many new diverse and independent voices in all parts of the project anf
foundation and retire back to spend my contributions more on e.g. the code of
the project again.

Beyond that my goals for the TDF projects, LibreOffice and the Document 
Liberation
Project are:

- focus on growth for the whole project cycle:
  The project obviously provides a product (releases of software). Those
  products in turn need to provide the project -- esp. with contributors as
  more helping hands are always needed in all areas of the project
- growth and diversity:
  The project should continue to grow and diversify: geographically, socially
  and by affiliations. Both will help hardening the project against external
  forces. 
- experience is key:
  Product and project need to come closer, and using the former should be a
  temptation to also take part in the latter wherever possible. We should
  2always look for opportunities to improve here.
- sharing knowledge:
  LibreOffice/DLP have grown to use more and more bleeding edge development and
  project tools and proccesses. We should offer to showcase and make them
  accessible to observers, researchers and teachers in education and elsewhere.
  Those learning from us might very well benefit us with their contributions.

75-words version:
I bring lot of experience from prior work on TDFs governance and am an
unaffiliated contributor to LibreOffice. I think the key to the success of
LibreOffice is in the project and seeking growth for it by improving the
experience for contributors and raising the visibility of our community and the
opportunities for contribution.

Best,

Bjoern


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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I am Jan Holešovský, 40 years old, married, father of two girls, living
in the Czech Republic.  Many people know me under my nickname "Kendy".
I work for Collabora as an Engineering Manager.

In the LibreOffice community, I currently serve in the Board of
Directors, and I would like to continue my duty there.  Otherwise I am
primarily a developer, and contribute both to the LibreOffice core and
the Online.  I am a member of the Engineering Steering Committee.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring and
onboarding of new community members.  Every year I mentor a student or
two via the Google Summer of Code.  I am also actively trying to lower
the barriers to entry for non-developers, currently around help content
authoring.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

(Less than) 75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to continue
serving in the Board to help make decisions that support doers in their
work, and that lead to having more people involved in the project. I
can offer my experience from cross-team work, and from the last two
years in the Board. I am deeply committed to LibreOffice and its
success."

All the best,
Kendy

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for BoD election: Eike Rathke

[Eike Rathke]

Hello dear members,

I'm currently a Deputy 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, and from 2013 to 2015 a Deputy of the Board
of Directors. 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.


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

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for the Board of Directors

[Eliane Domingos de Sousa]

Dear members of the Board of Trustees

I am Eliane Domingos de Sousa, 42, Brazilian member of The Document
Foundation and currently member of the Board of Directors. I run for
re-election.

I have my small company that does services around LibreOffice technology
and ecosystem. My company also deals with other open source
technologies. I teach classes on LibreOffice and my associates do
consulting in LibreOffice for my customers.

What have I done for LibreOffice

In the last couple of years I acted as member of the BoD of TDF, but I
am involved with LibreOffice and TDF since the beginning.

I employed all the means I had to develop the use and the brand of
LibreOffice in Brazil. Since 2011 I managed to run social networks
around LibreOffice. In Brazil, and with the help of the community we
have Google Plus, FaceBook, Youtube and Twitter dedicated to LibreOffice
and in Portuguese. Links for social networks:
https://www.facebook.com/libreofficebr [3] |
https://twitter.com/libreofficebr [4] |
https://www.youtube.com/libreofficebrasil [5] |
https://plus.google.com/50711502630826613 [6]

LibreOffice Magazine is one of the achievements I am proud to be the
main editor and diagrammer. This bi-monthy e-magazine is completely done
in LibreOffice and is covers all aspects of the LibreOffice community,
including how-to's, case studies, interviews and also on FOSS. In
december, its 18th edition will be released. Link for magazines:
http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/projetos/revista [7]

I also participated in almost every open source business event in
Brazil, either sponsored by the private industry as well as from the
government, representing LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. In the
last 5 years, I gave lectures on LO in events, schools, I participated
in round tables and workshops, and managed LibreOffice booths in almost
45 business events in Brazil.

I also manage and publish news in the Brazilian LibreOffice blog, as
well as our pt-BR portal. Many of you have already seen all the graphic
designs I did for the blog posts as well as the social networks I manage
with the community. Link for blog: http://blog.pt-br.libreoffice.org/ [8]

What I intend to achieve in the Board Of Directors.

The BoD position is an important position for the community.

I intend to be an active voice of the community inside the Board. A
careful mix between non-developers and developers in the board is
important to bring TDF close to its users and supporters.

So, this is what I do for the project in Brazil. I have an enormous
passion for the project, an enormous pride to be part of TDF and I'll
try to do my best.

I'm available to answer any questions.

75-words version:
My name is Eliane Domingos de Sousa, 42. I am currently member of the
Board and of the Brazilian community since 2010. I am a free software
entrepreneur and activist in Brazil, and also editor of the LibreOffice
Magazine. In the TDF Board I want to be the voice of the community and
bring TDF closer to LibreOffice users and advocates. I also think TDF is
in the crossway to address its growth and its institutional challenges,
which is a healthy business ecosystem to enhance LibreOffice adoption
worldwide.

Best

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the BoD elections: Jan Holešovský

[Jan Holesovsky]

Dear Members,

I would like to stand for elections to the Board of Directors of The
Document Foundation.

I am Jan Holešovský, 38 years old, married, father of two girls, living
in the Czech Republic.  Many people know me under my nickname "Kendy".
I work for Collabora as Engineering Manager.

In the LibreOffice community, I currently serve in the Membership
Committee.  Regarding my contributions, I am a developer with deep love
of the user interface - hacking it, improving it, measuring it.  I am
active in the Design team, organize the calls there, and take & send
minutes to the appropriate mailing lists.  I represent the Design team
in the Engineering Steering Committee.

An important part of my involvement in LibreOffice is mentoring and
onboarding of new community members.  Every year I am a mentor of a
student or two via the Google Summer of Code.  I am also actively trying
to lower the barriers to entry for non-developers, either in the Design
team, or recently in the Documentation team too.

Should I be elected into the Board of Directors, I will resign from
the Membership committee.  Also, I recuse myself from overseeing the
elections due to conflict of interest.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

Full name: Jan Holešovský
Email: ke...@collabora.com
Corporate affiliation: Collabora

75 words candidacy statement:

"As a long-time contributor to LibreOffice, I would like to serve in the
Board to help making decisions that support doers in their work, and
that lead to having more people involved in the project. I can offer my
experience from cross-team work: I am primarily a developer, but very
active in the Design team, and recently interested in the work of the
Documentation team too. I am deeply committed to LibreOffice and its
success."

To answer Charles' questions:

Charles-H. Schulz píše v Po 02. 11. 2015 v 17:38 +0100:

> 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary 
> technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled 
> board calls?

Yes.

> 2. Do you commit yourself to follow up and work on (at least) the main 
> items and actions you have volunteered to oversee or that have been 
> attributed to you by the board?

Yes.

> 3. What are your views on the foundation's budget? How should the money 
> be spent, besides our fixed costs?

>From my point of view, the main reason of existence of the foundation is
to support people doing (fun) stuff; ie. on top of the tools that are
necessary for the day-to-day operation, it has to offer & improve tools
that lead to more people being involved.  I think it is wise to spend
money on lowering the barriers: Like eg. developing infrastructure for
easier editing of help files, and similar. 

> 4. Should we work towards broadening our pool of contributors, both 
> technical and non-technical?

Definitely.

> 5. Should the Foundation -as an entity distinct from the LibreOffice 
> project or the Document Liberation project- engage into growing its 
> influence and promoting and defending Free Software and Digital Freedom? 
> It is, after all, an integral part of its mission per its very Statutes. 
> If yes, do you have ideas on what should be done about this?

As LibreOffice and Document Liberation projects grow, The Document
Foundation itself has to grow too of course.  Having said that, the
focus on _documents_ and their relation to Software and Digital Freedom
has to stay; we have it in the name, and there is no need to become a
general Free Software foundation - there already is one :-)

> 6. How do you view your (potential) role as a member of the board of 
> directors, given that this position does not give you any specific 
> functional role inside the LibreOffice or Document Liberation projects?

I suspect it will mean more of the invisible or "boring" work, like
attending more meetings, writing minutes, finding consensus between two
(or more) competing ideas, and similar.  But that is something I am used
to, and willing to do; after all, I am prepared to _serve_ in the board.

> 7. What is the biggest problem of the foundation in your opinion? What 
> is its biggest opportunity?

I don't think we have any particularly big problem at the moment from
the foundation point of view.  We just must not forget that we are still
at the beginning of the journey - there is still so much to do for the
LibreOffice growth.

All the best,
Kendy




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[board-discuss] Candidacy: Bjoern Michaelsen

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi all,

I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with
The Document Foundation.

Im Bjoern Michaelsen, the Ubuntu maintainer for LibreOffice and am working for
Canonical. I have been elected to be a deputy to the board of directors of the
Document Foundation in the first election, and am serving as a
full member of the board since November 2013.

I have been a contributor to LibreOffice since long before the Document
Foundation became incorporated to be its steward and a contributor to this
codebase even longer. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal
bodies (the Board of Directors, the Engieering Steering Committee, the
Certification Committee) I try to keep up at least casual code contributions to
LibreOffice itself. OpenHub tells me that -- at least by commit count as of
today -- I continue to be in the Top Twenty of code contributors over the last
12 months. Beyond coding I had a role in a wide set of efforts and projects in
LibreOffice, for example:

- I helped LibreOffice getting rid of the old OOo build system
- I started bibisect to allow QA to pinpoint regressions more quickly
- I helped with administrative task needed for the Document Foundation, e.g.
  interacting with authorities, representing the Stiftung and boring
  banking administration
- I helped kickstarting the LibreOffice QA community that these days thankfully
  going strong all by itself
- I helped organize and coordinate LibreOffice events, from conferences to
  Hackfests
- represented and advertised LibreOffice at a wide range of events
- steamlined EasyHacks to be easily found and maintained and kept up-to-date
  for mentors via Bugzilla
- helped the execution of tendering the Android work from the foundations side,
  navigating quite a few challenges this posts to an NGO
- helped setting up other tenders and job positions, interviewing candidates
- contributed in kickstarting some of TDFs employees into the crazy world of our
  project
- encouraged, supported and pushed to get LibreOffice to use tools and means to
  improve the onboarding for newcomers: e.g. the recent TDF hiring of a mentor, 
but
  also gerrit code-review and CI

To biggest challenge for LibreOffice as a project continues to be bridging the
gaps from end users and enterprise users over casual contributors to core
developers and helping everyone to strive towards our common goals. As
LibreOffice grows, I will continue to support efforts to bring together
contributors from different backgrounds to ensure we push LibreOffice, the
product and the project, to new heights.

75-words version:
Im a longtime contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and maintain LibreOffice
packages on Ubuntu. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal
bodies, I am still regulary active on the code. Beyond that I did take part and
led various efforts beyond pure code at both TDF and for LibreOffice:
from administration, training to organization and coordination. I aim to help
LibreOffice to continue to grow organically.

Best,

Bjoern

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[board-discuss] Candidacy

[Joel Madero]

Dear Members,

I have been honored to serve nearly two years as a Director of TDF and
will be seeking another two year term.

I've been a volunteer for the project since late 2011, early 2012. I
began my journey into the project as a relatively early member of the
Quality Assurance team. There I found a home and colleagues who embraced
me, showed me the ropes, and encouraged me to take on more
responsibility within the project as time passed. Due to this
encouragement and camaraderie, I see it as my responsibility to pass on
the skills that I've learned, to encourage others to take on more
responsibility, and to encourage an overall community feeling. In the
early days of Quality Assurance I remember a number of very talented
individuals largely working individually - today we have a thriving
community, a busy chat, and a friendly environment for new comers with
any background.

Today, as a member of the BoD, much of my time goes to oversight of
multiple projects (QA, Marketing, Documentation, Certification) but I
still try to find time to work within QA and make sure that I'm giving
my time where it is needed most. As a member of the Board I was quite
involved in the Android tender which led to the release of the Android
based editor, encouraged and was involved with hiring a Quality
Assurance Contractor, involved in several other tenders, the new grant
request available to members to request funds from the Foundation, and a
list of other things.

My main mission is to create an environment where contributors thrive.
It's that simple. I believe in funding tools that are requested, in
encouraging and actively participating in our community to ensure that
new comers feel welcome, and in thinking about "how can we do better."

I am unaffiliated, that is, I do not work for a company doing business
on or around LibreOffice. In fact, I think I bring a unique perspective
as I have no formal background in software at all, nor do I work in the
industry. Instead, my background is in US Law, I will be taking the
California BAR exam next July and will be a practicing attorney
(crossing fingers) by August of next year. Given my background (both my
location and my professional expertise) and my proven dedication over
the years to building a strong community, I believe I am in a good
position to continue representing the interest of you (our wonderful
members).

My goals moving forward:
+ Continue to help QA as much as feasible;

+ I would like to get more involved with Documentation, to help the
process of building long term goals and listen for feedback about what
tools would help move us forward;

+ Education - I'd like to see some movement in education, in particular
in the United States, for getting fresh blood in the project. I've said
this publicly before but I do believe that there is a big opportunity to
build a community within higher ed in the US;

+ UX - I've been thrilled to see the UX/Design team make huge strides,
I'll be reaching out to their team asking them how the BoD can continue
what those "doers" have been doing over the past few months;

+ Blog/Transparency: This has been an ongoing issue with myself and
unfortunately, I did not get there this year. I hope to write more blogs
and help members approach the BoD with questions/concerns/etc... with
regards to transparency and decision making generally.

I'm happy to field questions if any of you have some. I can be contacted
at this email or on IRC at #libreoffice-qa (jmadero).


Warmest Regards,
Joel Madero

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[board-discuss] Candidacy of Osvaldo Gervasi to the BoD elections

[Osvaldo Gervasi]

Name:


Osvaldo Gervasi

75 words statement:
--

Hi, I am a University researcher, I inspired LibreUmbriaand 
co-foundedLibreItalia. My candidacy is aimed to pursuethe 
extraordinarily successful TDF activity, contributing with new ideas 
forthe near challenging future. I believewe have to still increasethe 
number of developers, collecting contributions from technicians 
attracted by FLOSS and LibreOffice, and reinforce the role of local 
communities, extending the aims and the successful actions LibreItalia 
has achievedin the last two years.




Email addresses:
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ogerv...@libreoffice.org osva...@libreitalia.it 
osvaldo.gerv...@gmail.com osvaldo.gerv...@unipg.it


Organization:
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy

[board-discuss] Candidacy for the Board of Directors

[Eliane Domingos de Sousa]

Dear members of the Board of Trustees

I am Eliane Domingos de Sousa, 42, Brazilian member of The Document 
Foundation and currently member of the Board of Directors. I run for 
re-election.


I have my small company that does services around LibreOffice technology 
and ecosystem. My company also deals with other open source 
technologies. I teach classes on LibreOffice and my associates do 
consulting in LibreOffice for my customers.


What have I done for LibreOffice

In the last couple of years I acted as member of the BoD of TDF, but I 
am involved with LibreOffice and TDF since the beginning.


I employed all the means I had to develop the use and the brand of 
LibreOffice in Brazil. Since 2011 I managed to run social networks 
around LibreOffice. In Brazil, and with the help of the community we 
have Google Plus, FaceBook, Youtube and Twitter dedicated to LibreOffice 
and in Portuguese. Links for social networks:

https://www.facebook.com/libreofficebr [3] |
https://twitter.com/libreofficebr [4] |
https://www.youtube.com/libreofficebrasil [5] |
https://plus.google.com/50711502630826613 [6]

LibreOffice Magazine is one of the achievements I am proud to be the 
main editor and diagrammer. This bi-monthy e-magazine is completely done 
in LibreOffice and is covers all aspects of the LibreOffice community, 
including how-to's, case studies, interviews and also on FOSS. In 
december, its 18th edition will be released. Link for magazines:

http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/projetos/revista [7]

I also participated in almost every open source business event in 
Brazil, either sponsored by the private industry as well as from the 
government, representing LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. In the 
last 5 years, I gave lectures on LO in events, schools, I participated 
in round tables and workshops, and managed LibreOffice booths in almost 
45 business events in Brazil.


I also manage and publish news in the Brazilian LibreOffice blog, as 
well as our pt-BR portal. Many of you have already seen all the graphic 
designs I did for the blog posts as well as the social networks I manage 
with the community. Link for blog: http://blog.pt-br.libreoffice.org/ 
[8]


What I intend to achieve in the Board Of Directors.

The BoD position is an important position for the community.

I intend to be an active voice of the community inside the Board. A 
careful mix between non-developers and developers in the board is 
important to bring TDF close to its users and supporters.


So, this is what I do for the project in Brazil. I have an enormous 
passion for the project, an enormous pride to be part of TDF and I'll 
try to do my best.


I'm available to answer any questions.

Best

--
Eliane Domingos de Sousa, Deputy Chairman of the Board
Tel: +55 2509-1609 | Mobile: +55 9 9837-6149
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
LibreOffice é a súite office livre que mais cresce no mundo. Baixe já: 
http://pt-br.libreoffice.org


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[board-discuss] Candidacy for the Membership Committee elections

[Cor Nouws]

Hi all,

I would like to announce my candidacy to the Membership Committee of The
Document Foundation.
I am a member of the Membership Committee at the moment.

Full name: Cor Nouws
Email: cor.no...@documentfountation.org / oo...@nouenoff.nl
Corporate affiliation: NouOff


Candidacy statement:

I like to spend some of my time for the Membership Committee.
From the past years I know pretty well how it works and how important it
is to both encourage people to apply for membership and also to look at
applications very well.
I am with LibreOffice from the very beginning, and was with OOo before.
Main activities are in QA, marketing, and our local Dutch language
community.
My daily work is that of director of a small Dutch firm delivering
support and consultancy for LibreOffice.

Like to know more? please do ask :)

Kind regards,
Cor


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- The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member

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[board-discuss] candidacy – membership committee election

[Németh László]

full name: László Németh
e-mail: nem...@numbertext.org
corporate affiliation: Csevej Bt. (own company)
reasons: As a volunteer, I am a long-time contributor of LibreOffice
project. Knowing the development and the community, also getting
positive feedback and encouragement from the other community members,
I would like to help also the community work of LibreOffice in the
next two years, as a committee member.

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[board-discuss] Candidacy to the Membership Committee

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi all,

I would like to announce my candidacy to the Membership Committee of The
Document Foundation.

The Membership Committee is an important part of the structure of TDF,
and I would like to serve there, to maintain the high standard, and
diversity that we have among members.

I already have experience with selecting applications, as I am a member
of the Certification Committee that selects the Certified Developers.  I
believe that this ongoing responsibility will help me if I manage to
convince you, the members, that I am the right choice for the Membership
Committee.

I am primarily a developer, who loves improving the User Interface, and
works mostly on interoperability for a living (and love that too,
actually).  I am with LibreOffice from the very beginning, and have been
involved with OOo previously - I have started contributing in 2003, more
than 11 years ago.  Over the years, I worked on the KDE integration (my
first contribution), 64bit porting, DOCX export, git conversion, many
User Interface-related hacks, and various other things.

I am always trying to reach out to other groups, too.  I did quite some
translations to my native language (Czech), and work with the designers.
In marketing, I am managing our AdWords.  I am a regular Google Summer
of Code mentor; my recent students for example implemented the new Start
Center.

Full name: Jan Holešovský

IRC nick / people know me as: kendy

Email: ke...@collabora.com

Corporate affiliation: Collabora

~75 words candidacy statement:

I'd like to serve in the Membership Committee, because I have a good
overview of what TDF and LibreOffice is, and where it is heading. I am
with LibreOffice from the very beginning, and was with OOo previously;
now for more than 11 years. I am primarily a developer, but reach out to
the other groups too – I've been translating to Czech, work with the
designers, and in marketing. I am a regular GSoC mentor.

That's it about me - if you need to know more, please do ask!

All the best,
Kendy


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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat - Eliane Domingos de Sousa

[Eliane Domingos de Sousa]

Hi all,

I am Eliane Domingos de Sousa, 40, Brazilian member of The Document 
Foundation.


I have my small company that does services around LibreOffice technology 
and ecosystem. My company also deals with other open source 
technologies. I teach classes on LibreOffice and my associates do 
consulting in LibreOffice for my customers.


What have I done for LibreOffice

Since the birth of LibreOffice, I was myself involved with it. It was 
important to feed this little baby and let it grow and find its place in 
the open source marketplace.


I employed all the means I had to develop the use and the brand of 
LibreOffice in Brazil. Since 2011 I managed to run social networks 
around LibreOffice. In Brazil, and with the help of the community we 
have Google Plus, FaceBook, Youtube and Twitter dedicated to LibreOffice 
and in Portuguese. Links for social networks: 
https://www.facebook.com/libreofficebr | 
https://twitter.com/libreofficebr | 
https://www.youtube.com/libreofficebrasil | 
https://plus.google.com/50711502630826613


LibreOffice Magazine is one of the achievements I am proud to be the 
main editor and diagrammer. This bi-monthy e-magazine is completely done 
in LibreOffice and is covers all aspects of the LibreOffice community, 
including how-to's, case studies, interviews and also on FOSS. In 
december, its 8th edition will be released. Link for magazines: 
http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/projetos/revista


I also participated in almost every open source business event in 
Brazil, either sponsored by the private industry as well as from the 
government, representing LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. In the 
last 3 years, I gave lectures on LO in events, schools, I participated 
in round tables and workshops, and managed LibreOffice booths in almost 
20 business events in Brazil. Link for some pictures: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/yourphotos


I also manage and publish news in the Brazilian LibreOffice blog, as 
well as our pt-BR portal. Many of you have already seen all the graphic 
designs I did for the blog posts as well as the social networks I manage 
with the community. Link for blog: http://blog.pt-br.libreoffice.org/


Recently I got nominated to coordinate the translation of ODF1.2 
standards to Portuguese so that the Brazilian National Standard Board 
can use it as standards for electronic documents.


What I intend to achieve in the Board Of Directors.

The BoD position is an important position for the community. It requires 
time and dedication.


I intend to be an active voice of the community inside the Board. A 
careful mix between non-developers and developers in the board is 
important to bring TDF close to its users and supporters.


So, this is what I do for the project in Brazil. I have an enormous 
passion for the project, an enormous proud to be part of TDF and I'll 
try to do my best.


I'm available to answer any questions.

Best

--
Eliane Domingos de Sousa
Comunidade LibreOffice Brasil
Brazilian LibreOffice Community
Liberte-se, para editar textos, planilhas e apresentações
use http://pt-br.libreoffice.org/ é totalmente de graça.
Experimente o sistema de perguntas e respostas da Comunidade LibreOffice 
Brasil:http://ask.libreoffice.org/pt-br/questions/

[board-discuss] Candidacy for a seat in the TDF Board of Directors

[Eike Rathke]

Hello,

I herewith nominate myself as a candidate for the TDF Board of Directors
elections.

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
locales, and lately implemented the language tag support; 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 since 2012 from which
I recently resigned to candidate for the board elections. 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. Been that much time around, LibreOffice to me is almost
like a child that is now grown up and still evolving ;-)

I'm an ardent supporter of Free Software, in the TDF board I see my
responsibility to continue the excellent work the current board has
achieved 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.


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

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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat -- Michael Meeks

[Michael Meeks]

Hi guys,

Just a quick note to say that I intend to run again for a seat on the
Board of Directors of The Document Foundation.

Who am I ?

I'm Michael Meeks: Christian, Husband, Hacker, 36 years old,
affiliated with Collabora.  My day job is to try to rapidly grow the
economic ecosystem around LibreOffice for the benefit of all
including Collabora. I also love to hack on the code where I can, and
to mentor and include new hackers.

I started poking at the code-base before it was open-sourced in 2000,
and have served with the team creating LibreOffice from the very
beginning in various technical and non-technical roles: inside the
Engineering Steering Committee, as a Board member, and primarily as a
code contributor and evangelist.

Why am I running?

I'd like to offer whatever benefits a whole career's worth of
experience of mistakes, blunders, failures (mostly my own) and
occasional successes (mostly other people's) can bring to the daily
life of running TDF. I've also had the privilege of being involved in
the creation, hiring, management  bootstrapping of several teams of
both paid and unpaid developers over the years - which is perhaps
useful as TDF continues to grow and invest.

I also believe it is critical for us to continue to safeguard our
can-do and relational culture, empowering individuals to make friends
and get things done while resisting un-necessary process creep as we
grow. One of my priorities is working to ensure that we remain a fluid
and adaptive organisation, always open to new and better ideas, new
participants and new and better ways of doing things.

Finally - I'm a believer in Free Software; while I am critically
interested in ensuring that TDF remains a great place for companies to
invest and sell services around the software I'm committed to ensuring
that the right conditions remain in place for companies to contribute
effectively back to the project and work well together with volunteers
around the common codebase.

Happy to answer any questions of course.

-- 
 michael.me...@collabora.com  , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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[board-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat -- Bjoern Michaelsen

[bjoern]

Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee,

I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with
The Document Foundation. 

Im Bjoern Michaelsen, the Ubuntu maintainer for LibreOffice and am working for
Canonical. I have been elected to be a deputy to the board of directors of the
Document Foundation in the previous (and first) election, and am serving as a
full member of the board starting this month.

In the LibreOffice project and at the Document Foundation I am not the master
of any one trade (except maybe the packaging of LibreOffice on Ubuntu) and
rather tried myself as a jack of all trades, helping whereever I am needed at a
given moment.

As such, during the last two years I at one point or another:
 - helped moving LibreOffice completely to the new gbuild build system
 - helped integrating LibreOffice in Unity, PackageKit
 - initiated, build and updated bibisect to hunt down regression hard and
   mercilessly
 - did various bugfixes
 - sometimes helped out with LibreOffice packaging on Debian
 - helped investigating investment opportunities for the TDF funds
 - organized, led and helped kickstarting the regular LibreOffice QA calls
 - being the liason engineer between Ubuntu and LibreOffice (esp. for QA, but
   also preparing ~all official releases of LibreOffice on Ubuntu)
 - helped coordinate and organize LibreOffice conferences
 - initiated and helped organizing the various LibreOffice Hackfests and events
   (e.g. Hamburg, Freiburg, Dresden, Munich, Silicon Valley)
 - represented LibreOffice on various conferences and events (e.g. FISL in BR,
   FOSDEM, Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin/Hamburg, LinuxTag, countless
   Ubuntu Development Summits ...)
 - helped steamlining the EasyHacks idea into bugzilla for onboarding of
   newcomers
 - did my part in coordinating and starting gerrit to make code review on
   LibreOffice a lot easier and clearing the road for more CI in LibreOffice
 - administrated the TDF QA Budget
 - did my duty on the ESC, took part in almost all calls, resolved countless
   action items, stepped in to lead and minute that call a few times
 - represented TDF and LibreOffice as a Stiftung in Germany on various
   occasions
 - some work on LibreOffice certification, esp. on the developer certification
   committee
 - ...

And likely a lot of other things I forgot to mention here. As a member of the
board, I plan to continue to push the project forward as I did as a deputy.


Best,

Bjoern

P.S.: If you want to crosscheck what I said before my election years ago, and
if the actions I took after being elected as an deputy are consistent with
that, here is a reference:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Candidacy-for-Board-of-Directors-seat-Bjoern-Michaelsen-tp3372142.html

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