Hi Sarah, hi Richard! Though I rather tend to not get involved into a discussion that does not concern myself, I nonetheless like to say a few words. When I started contributing to translations, Sarah as a coordinator was the first to get in touch with me. Her warm welcome, help and guidance was great and I really appreciate the work she does for openSUSE as a distro as well as a community. Additonally I really like her as person with a great character as we had some good conversations in the past. Still, I think Richard has mentioned some valid concerns regarding your answeres to the election commitee's questions, Sarah. As a user and member I know that not everyone can be of the very same opinion. But we should be a bit more careful in how we express our very own opinion. openSUSE is a community with a common interest in our projects and I assume that everyone contributes to openSUSE as a project and community in the best way and with his/her best intentions towards openSUSE as both, project and community - no matter which background. So I highly respect and appreciate Sarah for keeping up the point of building a foundation for openSUSE to ease the sponsoring process. But this should be an effort in cooperation with the community and the board - not against anyone of them. This would be counter productive or in the worst case even toxic to the board, community and project. Especially as I think that no one of the community - no matter if he/she is working for SUSE or not - is working against what benefits openSUSE as a community and a project. We all have an interest in improving openSUSE, not harming or cutting it down in anything that would be beneficial to it. Therefore I want a board member to unite the community, help and guide it like you guided me through how translations are done best. You did great at that and I hope that you will focus more on that as a board member as well. Fight for what you think is great for openSUSE - but with everyone and not against. Good luck and kind regards Pierre -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org