Hi everybody, openSUSE elections are just around the corner and I decided to step forward and run for the seat in The Board. For those who don’t know me and would like to know why consider me as an option, here is my platform.
Who am I?
I’m about 30 years old, live in Prague and I love openSUSE (and Gentoo 😉 ). SUSE 6.3 was my first Linux distribution, I went through som more and I actively joined the openSUSE community more than six years ago. I was for five years working for SUSE as openSUSE Boosters and package maintainer. I was also part of the Prague openSUSE Conference organization team. Nowadays I work for company called Eaton (in open source team), but I still love openSUSE, have plenty of friends in both SUSE and openSUSE, poke some packages from time to time and I’m spreading open source in general and openSUSE in particular wherever I go (we have few openSUSE servers at work now, yay).
What I see as a role of board and what I would like to achieve there?
I see the role of board as a supporter and caretaker. Board is here to do the boring stuff and to enable everybody else to make amazing things within the project. To encourage people to do new things, to smoother rough edges, remove obstacles, listen to the people and try to bring them together. Also if needed, defend the project from possible threats, but I don’t see any at the horizon currently 🙂
What would I like to achieve? Wold domination? Probably not as I don’t think that the board is here to choose direction. But if you have a cunning and ethical plan how to do that, I think board should do everything possible to support you. But on more serious note, openSUSE as a distribution had a challenging year, went through some changes lately and I believe that thanks to the current board we managed to go through it quite well. But I alsi think there are more challenges in front of us and I would like help to make our future path as smooth as possible.
Why vote for me?
Why vote for me especially if I don’t promise pink ponies and conquering the world? Well, I promise that I will do my best to support you and help project to move in whatever direction it wants. Even if it means pink ponies and conquering the world 😉 I always listen to the others and I’m trying to resolve everything peacefully. I’m almost always smiling and it’s hard to piss me off. So almost no matter what I’ll keep calm, patient and will try to resolve challenges peacefully and to satisfy all interested parties.