[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Hello everyone, hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation. My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered association that is active in the electronic sports area. So I have quite an experience regarding German laws. I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems (unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then. I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and attachments and called it pymime.py. Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available after being striped from the original mail. I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most imporant FOSS-projects. I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these to worlds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Dear All, I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation. Who am I? I am Andras Timar, a 37-year-old software engineer and technical translator, father of 2 children. I live in Budapest, Hungary. During my professional career I worked on various software localization projects and besides my paid job I took part of the work of free software community as a volunteer. I have been working on LibreOffice since the first day, but I was also contributor of OpenOffice.org and Go-OO before. Currently I am employed by Novell Hungary and I am working with the SUSE LibreOffice Team fulltime as a "franchise worker". What have I done for TDF? I have helped to build the infrastructure and workflow for LibreOffice localization. I managed that FSF.hu Foundation – a Hungarian non-profit organization for promoting free software – donated a fast, dedicated server + hosting to TDF for running Pootle (http://translations.documentfoundation.org). I am one of the Pootle administrators, I help localizers to get started, and I am the one who commits their work to git. I am member of the Engineering Steering Committee, representing localizers and being responsible for localization related issues. Why do I candidate for a seat in BoD? Majority of LibreOffice users use the suite in their native language. Therefore localization is very important and I think that it should be represented in the Board of Directors. Enabling and helping localization to many languages, including minority languages – that our competitors do not deal with – should be a strategic goal of TDF. Your questions are welcome. Best regards, Andras Timar -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] candidacy for BoD seat
Hi Drew, drew wrote on 2011-09-24 17:04: Thanks for the time and effort you have put in here and over the years, I place great value, and am assured that others do as well, in your contributions. thank you very much for your kind words! In fact, it's really the community spirit and the feeling of a big, worldwide family that keeps all of us going every day. So it's not the merit of individual contributors, but the overall community that does so well, and I'm proud of being a part of it. :-) I couldn't do what I do if there was not such strong support and positive feelings from the community. I would like to ask your opinion on how you see the relationship between FrODev.org and TDF evolving after TDF becomes a legal entity. (I'm speaking with my TDF hat on here, not with my FrODeV hat) In fact, the German situation is somewhat special, since 1. the Foundation is about to be established in Germany and 2. the German association acts as legal interim entity. As soon as the Foundation stands on its own feet, being a legal entity, all assets including trademarks, domains but also the money on the dedicated bank account will be handed over to the association. From that point on, TDF itself has full legal and organizational responsibility, so FrODeV and TDF will be two totally independent entities. Especially for Germany, but also for all other countries, we need to work together on defining clear profiles on who does what. For the Paris conference, a discussion about local NGOs is planned, where some policies and thoughts will be discussed. It makes absolute sense to have local entities involved, as collecting and spending money inside your own country is much easier than doing that from another country. If, for example, in South Africa a LibreOffice event takes place, it makes much more sense to have a local association coordinate that legally and monetary, rather than a German foundation. So, we will need to define responsibilites, and also see how donations on behalf of LibO/TDF will be handled. While other countries have it a bit easier -- if someone from France wants to donate, going to the local NGO is a logical step, rather than to a German Foundation -- for Germany, it will always be a bit more complicated. If a German resident wants to donate, who should he donate to? FrODeV or TDF? To answer that question, we need to define the profiles, so we can tell what money will be used for, so donors know which activities they support. My idea is that local associations engage themselves for local projects, like FrODeV does for the QA weekend, project's weekend, local contests and conference, while TDF engages for global activities, like Hackfests, the Conference, central infrastructure and the like. In a nutshell: It's something we indeed all have to work on for making TDF as well as local NGOs grow. Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] candidacy for BoD seat
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:01 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > hereby, I'd like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat > at The Document Foundation. Following-up the post to > steering-disc...@documentfoundation.org, I'd like to give some more > details and background about myself, and am happy to answer any > questions you may have. > > My name is Florian Effenberger, am 28 years of age, and I live in the > very south of Germany, in the beautiful Allgäu, 100 km southwest of of > Munich. I have been with TDF from the very beginning, serving in the > Steering Committee, and mostly responsible for marketing and > infrastructure, a field of activity where I also would like to > contribute in the future. Previously, I have been involved with > OpenOffice.org for seven years, for a long time being the marketing > contact for Germany, and in the end the lead of the international > marketing project and the distribution project. > > I am also in the Board of Directors of the German association "Freies > Office Deutschland e.V." (translated "Free Office Germany association", > previously OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.), an entity set-up to > organize and arrange local events and activities, where I have been > serving since April 2008. FrODeV is also the interim legal entity for TDF. > > In my "real life", so to say, I am in the process of finishing my > studies and -- you may have guessed it given the long e-mails I usually > write :) -- work part-time as a freelancer for marketing and as a > freelance journalist, so I have no corporate affiliation at the moment. > > My main motivation for the candidacy is to ensure the daily operation of > the future Foundation, to provide a stable and secure framework not only > for our worldwide community, but also giving safety and confidence to > our corporate and private users around the globe. > > So, now it's your turn -- I am happy to answer any questions that may > occur. ;-) > Hello Florian Thanks for the time and effort you have put in here and over the years, I place great value, and am assured that others do as well, in your contributions. As background for my question to you: During some SC meetings, you have referred to FrODev.org as "the head association". Recently in an email thread on this list dealing with the question of a donation a button on LibreOffice web pages for FrODev you and I had this exchange: --- Drew: I would not be in favor of handing out literature with LibreOffice branding that asked for FrODeve specific donations. Florian: When FrODeV was the publisher, accountant, bank and legal entity behind all of that, -- I would like to ask your opinion on how you see the relationship between FrODev.org and TDF evolving after TDF becomes a legal entity. Best wishes, Drew Jensen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] candidacy for BoD seat
Hello, hereby, I'd like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation. Following-up the post to steering-disc...@documentfoundation.org, I'd like to give some more details and background about myself, and am happy to answer any questions you may have. My name is Florian Effenberger, am 28 years of age, and I live in the very south of Germany, in the beautiful Allgäu, 100 km southwest of of Munich. I have been with TDF from the very beginning, serving in the Steering Committee, and mostly responsible for marketing and infrastructure, a field of activity where I also would like to contribute in the future. Previously, I have been involved with OpenOffice.org for seven years, for a long time being the marketing contact for Germany, and in the end the lead of the international marketing project and the distribution project. I am also in the Board of Directors of the German association "Freies Office Deutschland e.V." (translated "Free Office Germany association", previously OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.), an entity set-up to organize and arrange local events and activities, where I have been serving since April 2008. FrODeV is also the interim legal entity for TDF. In my "real life", so to say, I am in the process of finishing my studies and -- you may have guessed it given the long e-mails I usually write :) -- work part-time as a freelancer for marketing and as a freelance journalist, so I have no corporate affiliation at the moment. My main motivation for the candidacy is to ensure the daily operation of the future Foundation, to provide a stable and secure framework not only for our worldwide community, but also giving safety and confidence to our corporate and private users around the globe. So, now it's your turn -- I am happy to answer any questions that may occur. ;-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
