[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat

2011-09-27 Thread Andras Timar
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 so

[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for Board of Directors seat -- Bjoern Michaelsen

2011-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Dear all, after formally announcing my candidacy on the steering-discuss mailing list, here are a few more details about me to give you a better picture. Who am I? I am Bjoern Michaelsen, and have been working on the codebase of Libreoffice since 2008. I started as a developer on the OpenOffice.

[steering-discuss] Candidacy for a Board of Directors seat

2011-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Dear Members of the TDF, I'd like to hereby announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat with The Document Foundation. My name is Bjoern Michaelsen, my email address is bjoern.michael...@canonical.com and I am employed by Canonical. Why am I running? I believe Libreoffice is the most pro

[tdf-discuss] Diploma thesis: a survey about OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice

2011-09-27 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, yesterday we received a request for participation in a survey at the German LibreOffice list. As the survey's target is the LibO/OOo community in general, I'm forwarding this to the related lists. I'd be happy to see many community members participating (but please don't crash the survey ser

[steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board of Directors

2011-09-27 Thread Olivier Hallot
I thereby announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation My name is Olivier Hallot, I am a 53 old electronic engineer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am a former researcher and executive of IBM and Oracle. I am involved with open source software since 2001, whe

[tdf-discuss] Postal address of TDF Members

2011-09-27 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi all, TDF members *this message is exclusively intended to TDF members* For the set-up of the Foundation, we need the postal address (no P.O. boxes) of the members to send them to the authorities. If you agree, send it directly to me (gautier.sop...@gmail.com) and signify explicitly your approv

Re: [tdf-discuss] Postal address of TDF Members

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, let me jump in with some explanations, as I can imagine that this notice might irritate some people. Since you know from our bylaws, the members of TDF play a very central role and have lots of powers inside the future foundation -- just like what we promised, a community-driven proje