Self-nomination for next Board

Hi! I’m Paolo Vecchi and I want to run as candidate for the next board.

I’m based in Luxemburg and my two organisations, Omnis Systems Ltd (UK) and Omnis Cloud Sarl (LU), are specialised in the promotion of Open Source and Free Software platforms. During the last years, I wrote many articles promoting Open Source, Free Software and naturally LibreOffice.

Many of you may know me also from FOSDEM and LibOCon. I’ve been a part of the working group that succeed in convincing the UK Government to adopt ODF as their standard file format, convinced the City Council of Reggio Emilia to upgrade to LibreOffice and contributed in writing the Manifesto for Technological Sovereignty with the City Council of Barcelona - just to mention some of the activities.

I’m contributing to the LibreOffice project by investing time and resources to work with the private and public sector organisations showing them the social, ethical and economical benefits of replacing proprietary products with Open Source platforms and open standards.

With my new venture in Luxembourg I decided to lead by example, so I’ve setup a new “Sovereign Cloud”, providing resources and a set of free services to individuals and local non-profits. I want to show to local institutions that with Open Source platforms it’s possible to compete directly against the big players and that this change is not as difficult and expensive as they want us to believe. The services I’m providing will also be used to further promote LibreOffice, both desktop and On-Line.

I want to share my expertise with the board and bring in my passion for Open Source and Free Software.

Full Name: Paolo Vecchi
E-mail: paolo@omnis-systems.com and paolo@omniscloud.eu
Affiliation: Omnis Systems Ltd and Omnis Cloud Sarl

75 words statement:
“If I am elected as member of the board, I will bring the official voice of the Foundation to the local Governments and the European Institutions that are very near to me, now that I moved to Luxembourg. It is my intention to work with those institutions to help them adopting LibreOffice as their main office suite and ODF as the standard file format for the EU.”

Best regards

Paolo Vecchi

Hello Paolo,

Self-nomination for next Board (...)

Full Name: Paolo Vecchi
E-mail: paolo@omnis-systems.com and paolo@omniscloud.eu
Affiliation:  Omnis Systems Ltd and Omnis Cloud Sarl

I want only to ask a short question. I looked on the Omnis Systems
website and wonder, if you are providing NextCloud and Koprano with text
editing as a service, aren't you?

Kind regards,
Andreas

Hi,

Hello Paolo,

Self-nomination for next Board (...)

Full Name: Paolo Vecchi
E-mail: paolo@omnis-systems.com and paolo@omniscloud.eu
Affiliation:  Omnis Systems Ltd and Omnis Cloud Sarl

I want only to ask a short question. I looked on the Omnis Systems
website and wonder, if you are providing NextCloud and Koprano with text
editing as a service, aren't you?

because there is no answer to my question, I assume the answer would
disclose an affiliation to one company with a lot of candidates
(including partners) in this voting.

Kind regards,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

  I for one am grateful for all candidates that stand in the
election. I expect each of them to act as individuals in the best
interest of TDF and for all of them to have a shared primary
affiliation to LibreOffice. I also think we should be encouraging
those people that stand, and not trying to create tribal wedges.

  At Collabora we encourage our staff to do what they think best
in LibreOffice & TDF - and we have no say at all over what our
partners do there; I thoroughly dislike your implication to the
contrary. However, if people are worried by that (as apparently you
are) they should have all the information they need to vote
accordingly.

Full Name: Paolo Vecchi
Affiliation: Omnis Systems Ltd and Omnis Cloud Sarl

...

I want only to ask a short question. I looked on the Omnis Systems
website and wonder, if you are providing NextCloud and Koprano with
text editing as a service, aren't you?

...

because there is no answer to my question, I assume the answer would
disclose an affiliation to one company with a lot of candidates

  So this is the second person you've made an unreasonable
public assumption about on this list, in this election. Personally I
like Paolo, he's a nice guy - I hope being friendly is not also a
grounds for suspicion (?)

  However I can confirm that Omnis is not a Collabora partner -
otherwise I would expect Paolo to have mentioned that. If Omnis is
distributing and contributing to the software (both things people
should be encouraged to do) it does so as its own participant in the
ecosystem,

  HTH,

    Michael.

Andreas: it’d be worth checking if Paolo is a member of this list first.

Sam.

Hi Sam,

Andreas: it'd be worth checking if Paolo is a member of this list first.

Sam.

I'd expect a board candidate on this list. This is the list for the
communication from and with the board. It's the list where all decisions
were published (and sometimes done) and public discussions of the board
take place. It's necessary to follow this list, if you intend to run for
the board.

Kind regards,
Andreas

Hi Michael,

Hi Andreas,

  I for one am grateful for all candidates that stand in the
election. I expect each of them to act as individuals in the best
interest of TDF and for all of them to have a shared primary
affiliation to LibreOffice. I also think we should be encouraging
those people that stand, and not trying to create tribal wedges.

  At Collabora we encourage our staff to do what they think best
in LibreOffice & TDF - and we have no say at all over what our
partners do there; I thoroughly dislike your implication to the
contrary. However, if people are worried by that (as apparently you
are) they should have all the information they need to vote
accordingly.

I'd not expect or assume something different. But there is § 8 IV of the
TDF statutes with clear rules.

Thus the affiliation is an important criterion and not any (positive)
subjective element (e.g. doing best in the interest of TDF).

Kind regards,
Andreas