[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat

Hello everyone,

hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors 
seat at the Document Foundation.

My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few 
hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a 
seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm 
also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered 
association that is active in the electronic sports area.
So I have quite an experience regarding German laws.

I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian 
convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that 
I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems 
(unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then.

I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very 
beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little 
tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and 
attachments and called it pymime.py.
Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown 
steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced 
scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available 
after being striped from the original mail.

I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of 
FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic 
structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most 
imporant FOSS-projects.
I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help 
the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive 
and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free 
software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these 
to worlds.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Thank you,
Alex

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