Re: [tdf-discuss] candidacy for BoD seat

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:01 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> hereby, I'd like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat 
> at The Document Foundation. Following-up the post to 
> steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org, I'd like to give some more 
> details and background about myself, and am happy to answer any 
> questions you may have.
>
> My name is Florian Effenberger, am 28 years of age, and I live in the 
> very south of Germany, in the beautiful Allgäu, 100 km southwest of of 
> Munich. I have been with TDF from the very beginning, serving in the 
> Steering Committee, and mostly responsible for marketing and 
> infrastructure, a field of activity where I also would like to 
> contribute in the future. Previously, I have been involved with 
> OpenOffice.org for seven years, for a long time being the marketing 
> contact for Germany, and in the end the lead of the international 
> marketing project and the distribution project.
>
> I am also in the Board of Directors of the German association "Freies 
> Office Deutschland e.V." (translated "Free Office Germany association", 
> previously OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.), an entity set-up to 
> organize and arrange local events and activities, where I have been 
> serving since April 2008. FrODeV is also the interim legal entity for TDF.
>
> In my "real life", so to say, I am in the process of finishing my 
> studies and -- you may have guessed it given the long e-mails I usually 
> write :) -- work part-time as a freelancer for marketing and as a 
> freelance journalist, so I have no corporate affiliation at the moment.
>
> My main motivation for the candidacy is to ensure the daily operation of 
> the future Foundation, to provide a stable and secure framework not only 
> for our worldwide community, but also giving safety and confidence to 
> our corporate and private users around the globe.
>
> So, now it's your turn -- I am happy to answer any questions that may 
> occur. ;-)

Hello Florian

Thanks for the time and effort you have put in here and over the years,
I place great value, and am assured that others do as well, in your
contributions.

As background for my question to you:

During some SC meetings, you have referred to FrODev.org as "the head
association". 

Recently in an email thread on this list dealing with the question of a
donation a button on LibreOffice web pages for FrODev you and I had this
exchange:

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Drew:
I would not be in favor of handing out literature with LibreOffice
branding that asked for FrODeve specific donations.

Florian:
When FrODeV was the publisher, accountant, bank and legal entity behind 
all of that, <snip>
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I would like to ask your opinion on how you see the relationship between
FrODev.org and TDF evolving after TDF becomes a legal entity.

Best wishes,

Drew Jensen


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