http://news.opensuse.org/2010/12/14/alan-clark-new-opensuse-board-chairman/
As you know, Michael Loeffler has left the openSUSE Board to pursue
new opportunities, we are sad to see him go and wish him well. With
his departure and with the upcoming Board elections, we have a desire
to see a new Chairperson selected. The election rules state that the
Chairperson be appointed by Novell and yesterday Markus Rex, General
Manager of Novells Open Platform Solutions, presented Alan Clark to us
as the new Chairperson.
As you may be aware, we have focused a significant amount of our time
on the creation of an openSUSE Foundation to be independent and to be
able to collect and spread funds. And Novell has been very supportive
with our desire to see this come to fruition. Markus told us that one
of the reasons he selected Alan is that he has a lot of expertise in
setting up foundations. Alan helped to form the Open Source
Development Labs (OSDL) and the Linux Foundation, as well as several
other open source projects and organisations. We, along with Markus,
believe that Alan’s experience and expertise will be an asset of
immense value to the Board, and we welcome that as we, and Novell,
partner together in forging ahead on an exciting and promising future
for the openSUSE Project.
Alan has already been working with us on the foundation work, but most
of you probably don’t know him, so we asked Alan to introduce himself:
Having the opportunity to work closely with the openSUSE community
is an exciting endeavour. My work assignments over the past few years
have enabled me to work directly with members of the community. By
attending the recent openSUSE conference I was able to make many more
friends and acquaintances. As always it was a great experience. One of
my personal goals from this role will be to get to know and to work
with as many members of the community as possible.
A bit about me: Though my engineering roles have varied throughout
the years, I am a software developer at heart. I began my career
writing Unix based network protocols. Anybody remember LAT? My past
projects have helped me develop a broad technical base across the
spectrum of software development, from device drivers, to file
systems, to network protocols, to identity and security, to developer
SDKs and across multiple operating systems. I remember that the first
day I was able to do my work on Linux was a great day.
I am extremely optimistic for the future of openSUSE, the
potential growth of the community, delivery of the openSUSE strategy
and the advancement of Linux in general. Our community has a great
future! My goal is to help facilitate the many ambitions of the
openSUSE community members and advance the openSUSE Guiding
Principles.
Please join us in welcoming Alan to his new role! Alan will begin his
position at the next openSUSE Board meeting tomorrow at 19:00 UTC in
the #opensuse-project channel on the Freenode network. All of our
meetings are open to the public and we welcome you to our meeting to
meet Alan.
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