[board-discuss] Self nomination to BoD
Hi all, --- Nov. 22, 2017 --- The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries. Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX." --- Oct. 22, 2019 --- The above paragraph was my candidacy statement when I first ran for BoD position. Thanks to the support from the community, I was very honoured to be elected that time. After joining the board, I surprisingly realized that there are so many works and tasks to run a foundation like TDF. I also realized how great the staffs behind TDF are. Without these people working so hard the LibreOffice community and TDF would not be such a great community. They also inspired me to keep going on the way to promote LibreOffice and ODF in Taiwan and other Asian countries. During these two years I've invited many great friends from Japan, Korean, Indonesia and Taiwan to join TDF as members. I held the first certification interview in Taipei, helped and attended LibreOffice Indonesia in Surabaya, LibreOffice Asia Conference and the second certification interview in Tokyo. I have kept promoting ODF and LibreOffice (and its derivatives) in Taiwan, where the KPI of our central government agencies in 2020 is to deliver 100% ODF/PDF files in digital document exchanging. Thanks to support and help from all the community friends. I'm proud to say I have delivered my commitment in my first term of BoD. Nevertheless during these two years I also see some problems and constraints of LibreOffice community and TDF. Some from the law, and some from the reality which we need to overcome. I'm not going to say in too much detail; rather just mention one thing here: IMHO we need more new blood getting involved into this beloved community. Therefore I started working on some programs, both in Asian community and TDF, to try attracting more people, especially young students to join us. Now I decide to run for another term of BoD. If I am elected again as a BoD member, I'll put more focus on 1) co-work with community friends from different countries -- not only Asian -- to try attracting more people to get involved in; 2) to further promote Open Document Format, which I think it the core spirit of LibreOffice, in more countries and areas; 3) to make the LibreOffice ecosystem more complete, by enhancing and completing the LibreOffice certification system. IMHO the above three things are highly related, even actually the same thing. I believe that's what we should do, and I'll keep doing it. --- My Candidacy --- Full name: Franklin Weng (Weng, Chia-Chi on my passport) E-mail address: frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw, frank...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: Software Liberty Association Taiwan The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, I'll keep the work to connect Asian communities together as in my first term, and furthermore I'll co-work with community friends to try attracting more new blood getting involved in this community. I'll also keep promoting ODF, which IMO is vital to enhance and complete the LibreOffice ecosystem." Regards, Franklin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Self nomination for BoD
Hi everybody :) My name is Uwe Altmann, I’m 60 years old male, married and living in Saarbücken (Germany) direct by the french border. I’m self-employed with a strong tendency to retirement. I joined the (then) OpenOffice community around 2004. Mostly in marketing activities as helping at CeBit fair as long as we had a booth there. Besides being engaged in german community I did some QA and documentation on Macs. In the past few years I was more concerned on giving (at least some) of the community a nudge to develop a vision of the future of LibreOffice as a product as well as a community. In “real live” - with an completed education as psychologist and statistician - I did mostly data analysis, statistics and consulting , both public administration and charitable organizations. So thus I‘m kind of experienced in German charity laws, managing organizations as well as internal revenue code, especially concerning charitable organizations. I’m not a coder anymore – my last programming experience lies back in the early 90ies (at least there is some). But besides this my last payed job was requirements engineer and managing a team of developers. The spare time I won by reducing my business activities I want to use to do more for the TDF. As Eike just stated I'd also like to see that more people from regions of the world not represented in TDF yet will join us as members of the TDF - as well as members of our bodies. So strengthen the community is one of my favorite goals. I may as well help in compliance with the german charity regulations and in organizational matters. Full name: Uwe altmann Email address: uwe.altm...@altsys.de Corporate affiliation: None ~75 words candidacy text: I, Uwe Altmann, candidate for a seat on the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation. I have been around with the project and TDF since the early beginning, mostly in german community and QA for the Mac version. Actually I’m more in the marketing trying to start a process to discuss a vision of TDFs future. Being more an administrative guy than a coder I would like to foster the TDF as organization. -- Regards Uwe Altmann -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[board-discuss] Self nomination for BoD
Hi all, Well, I have been struggling for a long time, thinking if I should self-nominate or not. Marina sent messages to me to strongly suggest me to run for the BoD. I have the will to contribute more to the community, but I told her that self-nomination is really not a part of our culture. In Eastern Asian culture (Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, ... most areas affected deeply by Confucius) self-nomination usually means arrogant. Especially I have just got involved more into TDF for only around 2 years, which means "running for BoD position" is really a bold decision (and it would usually be interpreted as arrogant by people here). You may feel strange or funny, but that is exactly why I'm struggling. Today I just finished the first version of subtitles of Bjoern's interview video in LibreOffice Conference 2017. (It's on Amara https://amara.org/en/videos/JzyUE4THGsVz/en/2028661/ it's still just a draft and please feel free to proofread it). I found that we have common thoughts and ideals. In my interview I said that, what LibreOffice needs is to make more people understand that, everyone can contribute to LibreOffice (or any FOSS). It's not an easy task as we've worked hard on it for more than a decade in Taiwan. Bjoern's interview made me think more and decide to self nominate for the BoD. IMO the position of BoD is not "leading" the community. Of course members of BoD need to make decisions for many important things but I don't think it as "leading". IMO the BoD should be "the intersection of the community", which means most people in the community agree, approve, and recognize the BoD to make decisions for the community. So an important part of BoD is to communicate with people. What I can (and have been doing) contribute to LibreOffice (either as a member of BoD or not) is to spread the words everywhere, and connect LibreOffice community to Asian people more closely. Also, I'd like to keep focusing on marketing both ODF and LibreOffice, especially to the governments, either in Taiwan or in other countries. Also, I'd like to communicate and make the UX of LibreOffice more close to Asian people, or say, make it more diverse. Currently there are some UI design not friendly to Asian people (for example, in Calc there's a shortcut key Ctrl-Space, which for us is to switch the input method and hence would never transfer to Calc). Currently in Taiwan I think we're in a historical high point of adopting ODF and (derivatives of) LibreOffice, which also means that we're now in a plateau period. We're still running for a new 3-year projects and setting more rules to governments. I'd like to connect closer with ODF committee, and share my experiences to different places about ODF and LibreOffice. As for myself, I own a small company in Taiwan running for training courses and migrating projects of FOSS. But actually in most occasions I'll use the identity of the President of Software Liberty Association Taiwan, which was founded in 2001 and is an NPO to promote FOSS. In the past decade we focused a lot more on education, which I think gives us a good base to promote FOSS/ODF/LibreOffice now. Phew, that's it. I hope to have the chance to contribute to the whole community in different ways. --- separate line --- Full name: Franklin Weng (Weng, Chia-Chi on my passport) e-mail address: frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw, frank...@libreoffice.org Affiliation: Software Liberty Association Taiwan The candidacy statement: "If I'm elected as a member of BoD, firstly I'll do my best to be the bridge between the community and Asian countries, and then I'll also focus on communicating with people and marketing ODF and LibreOffice to governments of different countries. Besides, I hope to make the products more friendly to Asian C/J/K people in the aspect of UI/UX." Regards, Franklin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
