Bjoern Michaelsen, candidate for the affiliate seat of the OSI board election 2020
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intro
| I'm Bjoern Michaelsen and I am a candidate in the 2020 OSI board election for an affiliate seat. I was nominated for this by the Document Foundation. |
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experience and background
Here is some relevant key data on professional background that should help you decided if I can make qualified contributions to OSI as a board member:
- 2008-2011 worked on the OpenOffice.org team at Sun Microsystems, later Oracle.
- 2011-2017 worked on the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical.
- 2012-2020 founded and served on the Board of The Document Foundation as Director and ultimately Deputy Chairman.
- 2011-2020 served on the Engineering Steering Committee of LibreOffice since even before the Document Foundation existed.
- since 2017: currently working at freiheit.com on e-commerce and cloud projects without an open source business model.
As you can see, I have:
- experience on the challenges and opportunities for volunteer contributors in open source projects.
- experience on the challenges and opportunities of open source for small and medium businesses.
- experience on the challenges and opportunities of open source for corporations.
- experience with coopetition in leading a major open source project both administratively and technically.
- experience with technical project community building, for example I was and am involved with the majority of Hackfests (community events) to bring together both commercial and volunteer contributors to the LibreOffice project.
- a low chance of conflict of interest as my current day job does not involve a business model using open source.