Jos, As I wrote in your blog, I hope you have a very long and productive life with us as openSUSE community manager. Jos, just look around and deep inside our community and see by yourself that we are in a very good and strategic team, we have great tools, brilliant developers, wonderful openSUSE derivables and the most exciting and energetic team of ambassadors out there. Just let's put all together with the same vision improve our communication and spread to the world that long time and used phrase that we are so proud to love, use and maintain. "Have a lot fun!" PS: If you really like samba, sun, futebol, and needs to meet people that are very friendly, welcome and committed with openSUSE ecosystem, please pick up any of the Brazilian Ambassadors and ping him to guide you through the #opensuse-pt irc channel for a quickly interview and welcome message. best luck, see you around!
Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> 28 Julho, 2010 >>>
We*re proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With Jos we*ve found a leader with excellent community building experience combined with a very welcoming nature, many fresh, promising ideas and a strong drive to grow the openSUSE Project. Jos holds a degree in Organisational Psychology from the University of Utrecht and has gained valuable experience in several professional roles ranging from Project Manager at KPN to Service Level Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland. Last but not least, Jos is a leading member of the KDE Marketing Team and has helped Akademy and the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit attract a vibrant and collaborative audience. Jos commented, *The opportunity to become part of the international openSUSE community is very exciting. There are a great number of interesting developments going on in the free software world, and openSUSE plays a major role in many of them. I look forward to working with the community on these, helping it grow, finding new directions and ways of developing, and delivering its innovative technologies to users and developers around the world.* We enthusiastically welcome Jos and look forward to his working with the openSUSE community to shape the future of the openSUSE project. After his start he will be deeply involved in the openSUSE conference, other community events and activities, and of course he will have the pleasure of promoting openSUSE wherever possible. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org