Hello fellow Geekos! After 10 months serving on the Board, my current tenure on the Board is due to end this year. It's been a busy 10 months, during which time I've been involved in progressing the reform of the Ambassador/Advocate & Local Coordinator Programmes, monitoring the improvements to the Travel support programme, countless copyright requests and much more besides, all while maintaining my contributions to other parts of the project as a regular Geeko (GNOME & Branding in particular). With all that said, there is lots more work that remains to be done, which is why I'm announcing my intention to stand for (re)election to the openSUSE Board If you choose to re-elect me, my priority will be to continue to represent you all, our community of contributors, and to address the issues of greatest concern to you and our Project. I hope to encourage further empowerment of both the Board and the wider Community to take on responsibilities 'traditionally' held only by SUSE employees. I also wish to improve the working relationship between the Board and the openSUSE Team. As you may already know, as of last week I have become a SUSE employee. As I am working in QA, my 'day job' will continue to have relatively little to do with openSUSE, but given that openSUSE has been my hobby and my passion for something like 7 years, I am not intending to let my new employment change how I serve this community; Though obviously being surrounded by so many of our contributors in Nuremberg will hopefully make it easier for me to hear what's of interest to you :) I hope you trust me with your votes in a few weeks time. Thanks for all the fun, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org