Community, Election Committee, I herewith announce my candidacy for Board Member of the openSUSE Community Board. My name is Rupert, I'm 28 and I'm currently on the home stretch of studying business administration and electrical engineering at Darmstadt University of Technology. I have been involved with the openSUSE Project for several years. I started using Linux with the release of SUSE Linux 9.1 and became an active contributor to the Project during my Internship in Product Management at Novell/SUSE in 2007/2008. In January 2008, I have been approved as an official openSUSE member. As an employee and afterwards as a community volunteer, I served as the Project Manager of the openSUSE forums merge and contributed as a moderator to the openSUSE community until May 2009. As a Workstudent for Community Architecture, I worked on several forums-internal projects and contributed to the openSUSE Weekly Newsletter in 2008/2009. Currently I'm involved in the efforts to come up with a sufficient usability concept for the openSUSE Wiki in co-work with the Wiki- and Booster Teams. My contributions to the openSUSE Project so far imho reflect clearly that I'm an organizing and coordinating kind of person and that I'm focused on the social components of building and growing an Open-Source Community. From my perspective, having a strong marketing focus and thus providing sufficient support- and documentation resources to the end user is just as important to the success of the openSUSE Project as contributing to the distribution in a developing capacity actually is. Just to make clear where I'm coming from. Thanks, Rupert -- Rupert Horstkötter openSUSE Community Assistant http://en.opensuse.org/User:Rhorstkoetter Email: rhorstkoetter@opensuse.org Jabber: ruperthorstkoetter@googlemail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org