I've been involved in Free Software for a long time now – since 1998 when I started using Linux and writing how-tos. Since then, I never left this great community and continuously strived to share its values wherever it was possible. I've been a Debian developer since 2002,  the creator of the awesome window manager in 2007, a maintainer at Freedesktop since 2009 and an OpenStack developer since 2011. That's a short list of only the biggest projects I've been digging into:  I also contributed to tons of other and smaller communities that make our grand family!I now work at Red Hat for a few years, hacking on Python projects all day long.

I now work at Red Hat for a few years, hacking on open source Python projects all day long, such as OpenStack.

OSI always has been on my path in the open source world, due to the job it did around licenses. I think it would be awesome to help driving this institution for the future of open source. Open software is now a key part of every business and solution out there, so the relevance of this organization is always increasing.

I won't lie – I don't have any particular agenda for the OSI organization. I've never seated at the board and I have no idea on what's going and what the current problematics might be. I could make up things on increasing the organization visibility or improving member participation, but I've no clue if that would be solving anything.

What I can say is that if I'm elected, I'll do my best to share and use the experience that 20 years of open source community building taught me, so the OSI can be helpful to the world it wants to represent.

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