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Below you will find a list of candidates who are running for The Document Foundation Membership Committee. A short summary statement from each candidate and a link to their full candidacy announcement is provided to help you learn more about them. We encourage all voters to read the full candidacy statements and related discussions on board-discuss@documentfoundation.org.
When deciding whom 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 (and the non-binding English version).
If you have any questions, please send them to either board-discuss@documentfoundation.org (public list) or in private to the Board of Directors at elections@documentfoundation.org.
In random order:
I am hacking on LibreOffice since its birth, contributing features and fixes mostly around Writer. I would like to be part of the Membership Committee to ensure that every aspect of the TDF community is represented in the committee, including developers. Given my background, I'm happy to help the work of the committee also at a technical level (git, gerrit issues).
I would like to continue my work inside the Membership Committee for another term. I therefore declare my candidacy for the Membership Committee. I have been among the founders of the Document Foundation, a former board member and these days I'm mostly active in social networking and website edition for the LibreOffice project.
I would like to continue my work inside the Membership Committee for another term. I therefore declare my candidacy for the Membership Committee. I've been part of LibreUmbria and LibreDifesa projects as well as of other migrations as TDF Certified Trainer and Migration expert. It's been an interesting and challenging experience to be part of current MC and I'd like to continue serving our great community and Foundation.
I would like to continue my work inside the Membership Committee for another term. I therefore declare my candidacy for the Membership Committee. (I have been working as a deputy member of Membership Committee since 2014.) I have been involved in OpenOffice.org, then LibreOffice for 14 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.
Running for membership committee, 3+ years of contributing my own special brand of disruption to the LibreOffice codebase, 20+ years of experience in the software industry. 30+ years of programming.
I'm a long-time LibreOffice code contributor, working for CIB as a professional LibreOffice bug squasher. I'd like to put my connection with both code and design community (together with the knowledge of multiple languages) to good use in the Membership Committee. By serving there, I'd love to help building a diverse community, where everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity or disability has their say and where both code and non-code contributions are equally valued.
I would like to make available to all members of the Foundation my passion and my determination to consolidate and bring more people to the community LibreOffice. I think a large and cohesive group of members can only strengthen the project.
I would like to be a candidate for the Membership Committee (MC) with the upcoming elections. Since quite early (say 2004 ) I'm an active member of this community with some emphasis on QA, marketing but also contributions to UX, l10n and tiny bits for development. I help in the Dutch language community and run a small company dedicated to make organizations happy and smart users of LibreOffice. The great variety in our community inspires me; therefore as member of the MC (too), I try to help building a diverse, strong community.
I am a civil engineer and urban planner and therefore more familiar with the user side than with the development. For LibO I'm working e.g on some marketing stuff like the presentations and logos for our conferences and the badges for our Month of LibreOffice. Currently I'm a member of the Membership Committee and would like to continue my work there.
I've been around the LibreOffice (and formerly StarOffice/OpenOffice.org) ecosystem for nearly two decades now. And still feel excited about the enthusiasm of the LO community in my daily work. So I'd like to give back some of that enthusiasm by serving on the Membership Committee.
I'm from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have been working in our Community since 2003, mainly in the Brazilian project in many areas (documentation, digital inclusion, marketing, extensions,...). Currently, I'm the hand behind the @opendocument account on Twitter where I spread the news about LibreOffice, OpenDocument and Free Software around the World. I think our Membership Committee should continue to represent our global and plural project, so I would like to contribute with my colaborative experience.
I am an instructor in IT business, teacher in a distance learning school and social media manager. My collaboration with Open Office startet, when I made the membership administration for FrODeV, the entity that helped to create the TDF. Since then I represented Libre Office in various opportunities. Last was the Didacta Fair in Cologne. Under https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/03/02/libreoffice-didacta/ you can see our report (in English) and download in German, Spanish and French). Also I am taking care of the german account of Libre Office in Facebook, Twitter and Google+. I would like to contribute in the membership committee.
Note, that according to the Document Foundation statutes (and the non-binding English version), there is a 1/3 maximum on the number of people affiliated with any one company that can be on the committee or amongst the deputies. For details refer to the statutes. You will be able to vote for up to 9 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.