Christoph Noack wrote: > I would like to start - so please answer the following questions: > * What is your idea by the work/tasks of the council? > Hi Chris, all,
so Eike already linked to the definitive, authoritative page about the council charta - to paraphrase, the council is largely a place where arbitration happens, in terms of (interpersonal) conflicts, funds, and overall project interests. Overall, the council has limited powers, so the trick is to be quite persuasive - I'm at least not extremely bad at that. Plus, I'm patient. ;) > * Do you have any special areas of interest/ideas? > Besides being a code contributor since almost nine years (in areas like gui toolkit, applications, build system & filters), a focus on testability & code quality, and working in the relevant standardization committees for office file formats, I'm actually passionate about connecting OOo with other free software projects, ideally sharing the work, and code. Events like FOSDEM or LGM are excellent opportunities to connect with other projects, and I make it a priority to attend there. Other than that, I find it very rewarding to mentor people for doing OOo hacking, and have used countless occasions to do so (like GSoC, new hires, and of course education project students). I'm personally convinced that getting pupils and students in touch with FLOSS is the biggest single opportunity we're facing. > * Is there enough spare time for the work in the council? > I can safely say that most of my spare time goes into OOo already, so this will only shift tasks towards doing less coding/mentoring and more talking/mailing; I've personally no doubts that I'll be able to invest the time over the course of the election period. Apart from that, it seems, since my employer (Novell) endorses my nomination, I might even be able to do this on company time. :) A few words about my person: I work on OOo code since 2001, first for Sun, now sponsored by Novell. I'm a computer scientist by education, and a free software enthusiast by heart. I have two kids, and live close to Hamburg in Germany. My blog: http://blog.thebehrens.net/ My (mostly incoherent) dents: http://identi.ca/thb I was hopefully able to at least convey a rough idea about who I am, but please don't hesitate to ask me for further details, either here, via PM, or on irc. You find me hanging out on channels like #dev.openoffice.org, #education.openoffice.org and #go-oo (all freenode.net). I'm thorsten there. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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