Dear Community, Members of the TDF, and Membership Committee,
I hereby state that I will be running again for a Board of Directors seat with
The Document Foundation.
Im Bjoern Michaelsen, the Ubuntu maintainer for LibreOffice and am working for
Canonical. I have been elected to be a deputy to the board of directors of the
Document Foundation in the previous (and first) election, and am serving as a
full member of the board starting this month.
In the LibreOffice project and at the Document Foundation I am not the master
of any one trade (except maybe the packaging of LibreOffice on Ubuntu) and
rather tried myself as a jack of all trades, helping whereever I am needed at a
given moment.
As such, during the last two years I at one point or another:
- helped moving LibreOffice completely to the new gbuild build system
- helped integrating LibreOffice in Unity, PackageKit
- initiated, build and updated bibisect to hunt down regression hard and
mercilessly
- did various bugfixes
- sometimes helped out with LibreOffice packaging on Debian
- helped investigating investment opportunities for the TDF funds
- organized, led and helped kickstarting the regular LibreOffice QA calls
- being the liason engineer between Ubuntu and LibreOffice (esp. for QA, but
also preparing ~all official releases of LibreOffice on Ubuntu)
- helped coordinate and organize LibreOffice conferences
- initiated and helped organizing the various LibreOffice Hackfests and events
(e.g. Hamburg, Freiburg, Dresden, Munich, Silicon Valley)
- represented LibreOffice on various conferences and events (e.g. FISL in BR,
FOSDEM, Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin/Hamburg, LinuxTag, countless
Ubuntu Development Summits ...)
- helped steamlining the EasyHacks idea into bugzilla for onboarding of
newcomers
- did my part in coordinating and starting gerrit to make code review on
LibreOffice a lot easier and clearing the road for more CI in LibreOffice
- administrated the TDF QA Budget
- did my duty on the ESC, took part in almost all calls, resolved countless
action items, stepped in to lead and minute that call a few times
- represented TDF and LibreOffice as a Stiftung in Germany on various
occasions
- some work on LibreOffice certification, esp. on the developer certification
committee
- ...
And likely a lot of other things I forgot to mention here. As a member of the
board, I plan to continue to push the project forward as I did as a deputy.
Best,
Bjoern
P.S.: If you want to crosscheck what I said before my election years ago, and
if the actions I took after being elected as an deputy are consistent with
that, here is a reference:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Candidacy-for-Board-of-Directors-seat-Bjoern-Michaelsen-tp3372142.html