Membership Committee

The role of the Membership Committee is defined in the Foundation's Statutes.

The mission of the MC is to administer membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation's Statutes.

Membership Committee 2012 Election Results

Membership Committee Members

	Fridrich Štrba Chairman of the Membership Committee Developer, Trained Monkey, GSoC Mentor Fridrich is a Christian and enthusiastic participant in Free Software. He has worked with the LibreOffice code-base for many years improving many aspects of file filters, starting with the Wordperfect filter. After making that a beautiful thing, he moved onto security issues and filters for other formats such as wordperfect graphics, Works, Visio, and more. In his spare time he works for SUSE, and maintains the Windows packages of LibreOffice. He also excels at mentoring, nurturing and including new programmers in the project.

	Sophie Gautier FR Localization, Certification Committee Member Deeply involved in the previous OpenOffice.org Community, founding member of The Document Foundation, Sophie is now active in the LibreOffice French speaking community and several areas of the overall projects such as the Certification Committee, localization or QA.

	Jean Hollis Weber Technical Writer, Editor, Publisher Jean is a retired technical writer and editor. She lives in Australia. Her main activity in The Document Foundation is leading the LibreOffice documentation team, producing user guides. She also participates in marketing, including promotional activities at conferences, and contributes in other ways. Jean is also an officer of an Australia-based not-for-profit community association, Friends of OpenDocument, Inc., which publishes the printed editions of the LibreOffice user guides.

	Cor Nouws Member Certification Committee, QA, Trainer, Migrations manager Cor Nouws is one of the founding members of The Document Foundation. Before starting with LibreOffice, Cor Nouws has contributed for years to OpenOffice.org, among others as community representative in the Community Council. For LibreOffice he continues supporting marketing, QA and other areas, as he did before the free-making of OpenOffice.org. His involvement in the free office community is a natural combination with his position as founder of the Dutch consulting firm Nou&Off, leading in training and migrations for OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

	Eike Rathke Developer, Hacker, Transpositionizer Eike is a StarOffice/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice hacker since the early days at Star Division, later Sun Microsystems, one other company and now Red Hat, Inc. He was also a member of the OASIS technical committee for the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) and an editor of the OpenFormula part(aka ODFF) of the ODF standard. His main areas of expertise are the Calc spreadsheet core, formula compiler and interpreter, number formatter/scanner, the i18n framework and locale data. Eike is an ardent supporter of Free Software and the idea that unlike religion spreading knowledge is the only possible rescue of mankind.

MC Deputy Members

	Leif Lodahl Project Lead Danish Native Lang Project, OpenOffice.org Community Council Deputy (Native Lang Representative) Leif Lodahl has been working with localisation of Open Office since 2005 and was one of the founding members of The Document Foundation. He is one of the non-developers that operates mainly with business development, project management and education.

	Simon Phipps Open Source Consultant Simon Phipps is an open source consultant who has been promoting and using LibreOffice (and its predecessor OpenOffice.org) since 2000. Find out more at his web site, http://webmink.com

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