On 12/02/2010 03:23 PM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
> Hello world
> I would like you to know that I want to run as a candidate for the
> board of openSUSE. I am a seasonal forest firefighter in my 'day' job,
> so as you can understand, contributing for the common good is all I do
> in my life.
>
> I am into FOSS for a couple of years now but I am a man of action so
> I do most of the things I plan and do not stay in plans.I am currently
> the event manager of Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS /
> OSS (GREEKLUG) and I was responsible for organizing the host and
> speech of Richard Stallman here in Thessaloniki, which was a huge
> success. I spend four days with him and I learned many things about
> the meaning of Free Software, among other things, and got deeply
> effected and motivated by his words.
>
> I started working with openSUSE almost a year ago and I became
> ambassador on that summer. Since I became ambassador I made quite a
> few things about it, as I said a man of action. Me along with Stathis
> 'Diamond_gr' Iosifidis organized the Greek openSUSE community from
> scratch. We re-activated the Greek IRC channel which was almost dead.
> We started the http://amb.opensuse.gr so that the world can see our
> actions as ambassadors. We were the openSUSE team at the 75th
> International Trade Fair of Thessaloniki. We made a call for all Greek
> Geekos to gather and for a community, although at that time (a few
> months ago) almost every 'expert' told us that it would end up a great
> failure, we never stopped fighting and finally we prove them wrong. We
> recently started translating the openSUSE Weekly news and I am
> responsible for gathering and checking the translation. We started
> re-organize and translating the Greek wiki. We went to Athens were we
> actually met suseRocks and spoke with him about several matters about
> the community and the project.I went to several city’s all over Greece
> in order to meet in person people of the Greek community because I
> strongly believe that face to face communication builds actual trust
> and I do whatever is possible to prove people that I truly deserve
> their trust. Greek ambassador team trusted me to be the one
> communicating the board if needed in order to separate jobs inside the
> Greek community. I participated in several innovating events for
> openSUSE like the Xariseto Free festival. I represented openSUSE to an
> event at primary school in Thessaloniki for celebrating Software
> Freedom Day 2010.
>
> Beyond the Greek community I participate actively in the marketing
> and the ambassador teams and I am trying to do the same at other teams
> too. Andreas Jaeger recently trusted me to be the one of three at the
> Ambassador Welcome Team. I probably forgot some of the things I do but
> the general idea about me as a person and also my moto for my campaign
> is 'Planning is good, but acting is better'. I totally believe in
> team working and I think that I co-operate great with others. I am a
> Hacker in life more than I am a hacker in programming,in fact I don't
> know almost no programming at all nor I am good at solving technically
> nature problems. I tend to like my disadvantages and use them as
> actual advantages. I think outside of the box and try to think with as
> much playful cleverness as I can get. I believe deeply in evolution
> and I am not afraid to bleed my ego for evolution to come. I don't
> stare at targets, I hit them till I get them and I never give up.
>
> If you read the whole text above I truly thank you,if not I can
> understand you ;-)
> I hope for your support
>
> Kostas Koudaras (Warlordfff)
>
You can count on my vote & trust Kostas !
Keep the action high ! Another version of Kick your Ass :D
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