Hi Folks,
I would like to announce my intention to seek a board seat on the openSUSE
Community Board.
While I may not be as well known to the community as others, I will bring to
the board significant OSS experience along with a viewpoint which I think will
help to enhance openSUSE in the future. As "upstream", I see areas where
distributions do well and where they can improve through better
communications.
Briefly my open source experience includes:
Founding team member of Scribus (
www.scribus.net) since 2001. Within Scribus I
share responsibility for the project management and infrastructure, as well as
acting as coordinator with other OSS projects, groups and media.
Started and organized with others in the community, the Libre Graphics Meeting
conference, LGM brings together open source graphics developers from all over
the world to hack, plan and increase cooperation between the projects. LGM 4
will be held in Mid-2009.
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org
Started OpenICC, on
freedesktop.org to have a common workspace to develop
open source color management tools and to work together on common
standards.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
Other projects I work on include:
Fontmatrix (
http://fontmatrix.net) - A powerful new cross platform/open source
font manager. Podofo, Inkscape, Uniconverter and other graphics tools I test
and package.
Within the openSuse community, I started as one of the first non-Novell
employees to test and use OBS - one of the community's unique assets. I have
been active on IRC on a number of channels. along with project meetings and
have been actively packaging applications and tools which have never been
available before for openSuse or the enterprise versions. This is for both KDE
and Gnome communities.
Professionally I use and support both openSuse and SLES for clients over the
world and appreciate its technical excellence and polish.
Prior to re-entering the IT world, I worked in the international conference
and events industry for almost ten years which involved working with multi-
national staff and clients. This gives me a background in marketing and events
which will help setting up (hopefully) a future openSUSE conference for the
community.
I will be blogging on
http://lizards.opensuse.org in the future more of my
thoughts on the future of openSuse.
Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to your votes!
Peter Linnell
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