Le samedi 30 août 2008, à 10:23 +0200, Stephan Binner a écrit : Oh, and it'd be awesome if some of the current board members could actually write a small document explaining exactly what being a board member involves? (Are there meetings? How are they done? How often? What kind of topics are discussed? Does it require a lot of time? Do you need to travel? etc.) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

Hi Folks, although people might say about me that they do not believe i am able to run (roll might fly with them) i would like to express my intent to run for the openSUSE Board membership. I am active in the openSUSE community since before the dark ages, around 1999 AFAIR, and a SUSE employee since beginning of 2001. My history with this project/company is very diverse and includes things from representing SUSE Linux in national German TV to util-linux maintainer. But who cares about the past. Its a foreign country, they do things differently there :) My day job here at the mother ship is to care lovingly for the SUSE base system. Me and my team (hey kids!) maintain a lot of the basic under-the-hood utilities from sysvinit to X. Personally i care for around 100 packages in FACTORY, mostly network related. Apart from that i do also a lot of tasks of the same quality for the project. I'm one of the packman seniors keeping that repository kickin' since 2002, run together with Pete and the operators the #opensuse/#suse IRC channel and maintain all of the opensuse mailing lists and the corresponding server. I of course also somehow participated in most of the important steps the openSUSE project took in the last years. The start of openSUSE out of the SUSE Linux community, the BuildService, Guiding Principles and so on. Working under-the-hood and let my actions speak rather then my blog would also be my approach to the board member task. I like the board to become the guiding entity we imagined it to be in the guiding principles. This, i think, is only possible if you are not afraid to take your mandate, step up and throw yourself into the nasty areas of uncertainty and dispute. Settle things with the willingness to decide in the best interest of the whole openSUSE project. I also imagine the board to be a more pro-active one that involves itself into all areas of the project. Therefore i think the board needs people that have seen it all and understand that a project like this is built on hard work, compromises and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. With the understanding of how things work around here, my network of contacts inside and outside the project and my ability to calmly pick up people and get them enthusiastic about things i would be able to help taking the board to where it belongs. See you at the ballot box :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org