Hi all, I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation.
Im Bjoern Michaelsen, the Ubuntu maintainer for LibreOffice and am working for Canonical. I have been elected to be a deputy to the board of directors of the Document Foundation in the first election, and am serving as a full member of the board since November 2013. I have been a contributor to LibreOffice since long before the Document Foundation became incorporated to be its steward and a contributor to this codebase even longer. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal bodies (the Board of Directors, the Engieering Steering Committee, the Certification Committee) I try to keep up at least casual code contributions to LibreOffice itself. OpenHub tells me that -- at least by commit count as of today -- I continue to be in the Top Twenty of code contributors over the last 12 months. Beyond coding I had a role in a wide set of efforts and projects in LibreOffice, for example: - I helped LibreOffice getting rid of the old OOo build system - I started bibisect to allow QA to pinpoint regressions more quickly - I helped with administrative task needed for the Document Foundation, e.g. interacting with authorities, representing the Stiftung and boring banking administration - I helped kickstarting the LibreOffice QA community that these days thankfully going strong all by itself - I helped organize and coordinate LibreOffice events, from conferences to Hackfests - represented and advertised LibreOffice at a wide range of events - steamlined EasyHacks to be easily found and maintained and kept up-to-date for mentors via Bugzilla - helped the execution of tendering the Android work from the foundations side, navigating quite a few challenges this posts to an NGO - helped setting up other tenders and job positions, interviewing candidates - contributed in kickstarting some of TDFs employees into the crazy world of our project - encouraged, supported and pushed to get LibreOffice to use tools and means to improve the onboarding for newcomers: e.g. the recent TDF hiring of a mentor, but also gerrit code-review and CI To biggest challenge for LibreOffice as a project continues to be bridging the gaps from end users and enterprise users over casual contributors to core developers and helping everyone to strive towards our common goals. As LibreOffice grows, I will continue to support efforts to bring together contributors from different backgrounds to ensure we push LibreOffice, the product and the project, to new heights. 75-words version: Im a longtime contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and maintain LibreOffice packages on Ubuntu. While I do work in quite a few of TDFs formal and informal bodies, I am still regulary active on the code. Beyond that I did take part and led various efforts beyond pure code at both TDF and for LibreOffice: from administration, training to organization and coordination. I aim to help LibreOffice to continue to grow organically. Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@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/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
