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Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for the The Document Foundation Membership Committee. A short summary statement from each candidate is provided to help you learn more about them.
When deciding who you should vote for, please carefully consider the various tasks Membership Committee seat holders must perform. This overview may be helpful. Keep in mind that the committee will decide on granting membership, and renewal thereof, and also plays an important role as a counter-balance to the board of directors. It is a good idea to strive for a well-balanced committee, consisting of people with various backgrounds, skills, and perspectives.
Additional elections details can be found in the Document Foundation Statutes.
If you have any questions, please send them to either board-discuss@documentfoundation.org (public list) or to us at elections@documentfoundation.org (private).
I hereby announce my candidacy for the upcoming Membership Committee elections. I've been contributing to LibreOffice since the beginning of the project on various areas like marketing, localization, documentation and Q-A also i've been working on to build an active Turkish LibreOffice community from scratch. The reason that i announce my candidacy is to take such duties and serve the Foundation as a diligent member.
I took part in the LibreOffice project since its first public day, and was already in the OOo community before since 2005. I served as Google Summer of Code administrator for LibreOffice during several years and thus help students come to the project. I wish to propose my humble knowledge of the LibreOffice ecosystem to serve in the membership committee.
I want to work with the Membership Committee because I believe that I could be helpful there. I have a long experience with working in the OOo project and now the LibreOffice project. I have the time and the wish to serve in this position, to give something back to this great community.
I have been a member of the LibreOffice project (and from its ancestor) from day one, starting to work in the legacy project in 2001. I have been a member of the Board of Directors, developer, translator, community manager and also helped organizing events and bring students to the project. I think my knowledge of how many things work can be useful in the membership commitee.
I really would appreciate to help TDF in the Membership Committee, because I have a good overview about TDF and LibreOffice, and what can we do to spread the use of the LibreOffice. I'm with LibreOffice and TDF since the beginning, and I helped also with OOo previously. I'm developer, translator, research team coordinator and lecturer, always promoting FLOSS. I really will be honored to help TDF and the LibreOffice community in this activity.
Why: because the job must be done and I think I can help. In the OOo time I was the lead of the French Native-Lang project since 2008 and the lead of the FR QA-team. I am member of the Foundation since April 2011. Currently I am maintening the FR website, moderator of the FR mailing-lists and do bugs triaging.
I have been working in the project since the Version 2.0 of OpenOffice. And I started at the first official days of LibreOffice. I began with translations of the documentation and the UI in German. At the moment I do some user support and QA. Now I want to do more in the project again, so I candidate for the membership committee.
I'd like to serve in the Membership Committee, because I have a good overview of what TDF and LibreOffice is, and where it is heading. I am with LibreOffice from the very beginning, and was with OOo previously; now for more than 11 years. I am primarily a developer, but reach out to the other groups too – I've been translating to Czech, work with the designers, and in marketing. I am a regular GSoC mentor.
I'm current member of the committee and would be proud to continue my work. I have been working with localization of Open Office since 2005 and was one of the founding members of The Document Foundation. I am one of the non-developers that operates mainly with business development, project management and education.
As a volunteer, I am a long-time contributor of LibreOffice project. Knowing the development and the community, also getting positive feedback and encouragement from the other community members, I would like to help also the community work of LibreOffice in the next two years, as a committee member.
I like to spend some of my time for the Membership Committee. From the past years I know pretty well how it works and how important it is to both encourage people to apply for membership and also to look at applications very well. I am with LibreOffice from the very beginning, and was with OOo before. Main activities are in QA, marketing, and our local Dutch language community. My daily work is that of director of a small Dutch firm delivering support and consultancy for LibreOffice.
I'd like to become a member of the committee to slowly gain a role inside TDF and better contribute to the project. I've been part of the LibreUmbria project and I hope to be soon a certified trainer and participate to more migrations.
I am interested in serving at the Membership Committee of the Document Foundation. I have been one of the co-founders of the LibreOffice project and used to be a contributor of the OpenOffice.org project. These days I am mostly involved in comms and marketing for the community. I will be happy to help the community and the foundation members by participating to the committee' s work and sessions.
In the upcoming Membership Committee Election, please vote for me, the ideal candidate. I have been involved in OpenOffice.org, then LibreOffice for 12 years, I know a lot of people from the community, and I have a good overview of development and localization. I have time and desire to serve in this position.
I want to work with the MC because I'm a volunteer with no nexus to professional developer or support stuff but with users' normal experiences and expectations in professional and private way. I'm an official member of the Board of Trustees since mid 2011, working for LibO almost in Design, De-community and DE-documentation, Website and Wiki.
Note, that according to the regulations around avoidance of a conflict of interest in §8 (4) of the Statutes, there is a 2-person maximum on the number of people affiliated with any one company that can be on the committee and their deputies: if more than 2 persons from one company get elected, only the top 2 vote getters will get on. You will be able to vote for up to 7 candidates of your choice, with no restrictions, except that you cannot vote more than once for the same candidate.
If you have any futher question, please consult the Rules for this election or write to elections@documentfoundation.org.