Hi *, expanding a bit on my brief announcement to steering-discuss@, here's a slightly more verbose introduction of myself and my motivations.
Who am I? I'm one of the guys who brought you this funny project (being one of the founding members), and also the hacker to blame for a bunch of Impress bugs. I help Florian and the admin team a bit with the server infrastructure, and I usually press the buttons for doing the LibreOffice releases. In a previous life, I worked on OOo for Sun Microsystems, mostly on low-level graphics stuff and the Impress slideshow. Currently I'm a happy employee of the SUSE desktop team, working fulltime on LibreOffice. On a more personal basis, I'm 37, have two kids, and live close to Hamburg, in the northern part of Germany. What motivates me to work for TDF? It is my firm belief that an independent, open, and meritocratic organisation is the right home for a project the size, and the diversity, of LibreOffice. Being one of the founding members, I consider it my duty to help creating, shaping, and maintaining such an organisation. What will I be doing, should I get elected? Since I'm based in Germany, I'd help with the daily operations of the Foundation. Beyond that, being a self-confessed hacker, I'd represent the developers at the board level, and keep sticking to my bad old habit of signing up for more action items than I could process in due time. ;) I hope this answers at least a few questions - if you've more, please don't hesitate to ask! Cheers, -- Thorsten -- 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
