Hi all, I, Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> (GPG key 3CED7EFD, which this mail is signed with), do hereby nominate myself for the position of ordinary committee member on the Linux Australia committee. I have been rather active and visible within the community for a while now, and am very excited about the possibilities Linux Australia holds in the next couple of years - a crucial time for LA and Linux in general, IMHO. First, a bit about myself, and where I've been. I'm currently a member of a couple of projects - I'm a Debian Developer (maintaining dbus, dbtcp and apache2's mod-xslt; co-maintaining XFree86 and apache2), an inactive KDE developer (no bandwidth at home with which to keep up to date with CVS, and can't really do GUI work remotely), and an active worker on a number of facets (both technical and organizational) of the KDE-Debian project[1]. I'm a LUV ordinary committee member (voted in again after my 2002-2003 term), and an administrator/queue monkey on Debian Planet. I was formerly an IRCop with both OPN (now Freenode) and OFTC, and I used to maintain KDE for Debian, and also used to hack on Kopete[2]. I work for a FLOSS-friendly organization, who have supported my work, and indeed funded my work on XFree86 4.3[3], and a few other projects. I have just recently finished school, which has meant that I'm now coming to a stage where I have the time to fulfill my commitments. While I have been an OCM of LUV, I have not been active since the AGM in August (my platform stated that I would not be able to really step up until this year - I have no such restrictions with LA), but am starting to step up now. I've been able to stay afloat within Debian, and of late (the past couple of weeks), dedicate huge amounts of time to KDE-Debian. Now, where I see LA as going, and where I think I fit in to that end. I am incredibly excited by LA: I've seen it go from Anand, to what it is today, and can only see it going even further (!) in the future. It parallels my experience with Linux; in July 2000, I was working at a multinational, and I had to fight tooth and nail to get "this Linux thing" in as a backroom server. Now that same multinational is participating in OSDL, and others are queuing up to be associated with it. I have a reasonably penetrative reach into quite a few FLOSS projects, which I believe is a great asset; also, I have experience in what I perceive to be the next big step for LA - LUGs. LA have made some first steps in increasing LA<->LUG<->LUG collaboration, such as the joint LA/LUG committee meetings (LUV has the pleasure of hosting Pia and Stweart at a committee meeting in 2003), and the lug@ mailing list, and generally being more active. However, I believe this can be taken even further, and am prepared to take this on as a personal burden to see it through. I also see Linux as being increasingly adopted in the corporate world, as it is increasingly perceived as a mature solution, evolved from a cool new toy. Again, I have experience here, having overseen a gradual rollout within a multinational, and being involved in KDE-Debian/KDE::Enterprise (which involves collaboration with Debian Enterprise, etc). I will be more than willing to effect anything that makes Linux more corporation-friendly (as long as it doesn't compromise our core goals), as much as possible within LA's framework. I'm willing to carry through, from my initial ramblings here, to functioning as a LA committee member. I look forward to serving the entire community. So, having read through all that (or if you just skimmed to the interesting part), here's what I'm offering LA: * Enthusiasm and optimism, tinged with pragmatism. * Contacts within many projects, including (but not limited to), Debian, KDE and LUV. * LUG experience, and experience heading up projects and working both unilaterally, and part of a team ("team" varing from 2 to 950 people). * Committee (1.5 years) and corporate (2.5 years at a multinational, the last few weeks immersed[4] within enterprise-targeted subprojects) experience. * Committee experience. * A willingness to get hands-on and commit myself to a task. * Height to compensate for Pia's lack thereof, and a stunning[5] fashion sense. If you want to know more about me, you can peruse my (truncated, due to an accident with 'cp', as detailed in the bottom entry) blog at http://www.fooishbar.org/daniel/blog; unfortunately, I don't maintain a webpage at present. Cheers! :) d [1]: The distribution side of http://desktop.kdenews.org/strategy.html; unfortunately, that document is quite badly out of date and does not represent us properly. [2]: http://kopete.kde.org: the Jabber plugin, and some core code. [3]: Packaging it for Debian, which was no small task. [4]: And I do mean immersed. [5]: ... ly good. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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