Membership Committee Members

Gabriele Ponzo

An early adopter from the StarOffice days, he joined Progetto Linguistico Italiano OpenOffice during the 2009 Conference in Orvieto, and has been part of OpenOffice.org community until LibreOffice was born. Training and support are his most common activities and he's been working on LibreUmbria and LibreDifesa projects as a teacher.

He is a founder of LibreItalia, where he's also been in the Board of Directors. His contributions are mostly speaking at conferences, some translations, and user support on the Italian and international mailing lists, G+ community. Certified Trainer and Migration Expert from February 2015.

Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco

Gustavo worked as consultant for OpenOffice.org, BrOffice.org (the Brazilian version of OpenOffice.org) and LibreOffice for 12 years. As consultant, he has been involved in more than 200 migration projects in Brazil. During this time, he contributed as a voluntary in many areas of the project (documentation, marketing, digital inclusion,...). At present, he is working as systems analyst at the IT Foundation of the Municipality of Canoas and his collaborative work is related with some extensions that he has developed. He is also the hand behind of two instances of ODF Validators and the @opendocument account on Twitter.

Muhammet Kara

Muhammet Kara is from Turkey, member/translator/developer/advocate of various FOSS projects since early 2000s, and he has been contributing to LibreOffice in various ways since 2016, including code contributions, translation, QA work, marketing/advocacy, taking part in the Design Team as a developer.

Ahmad Haris

Haris is the founder of BlankOn, an Indonesian Linux distribution based on Debian testing.  He led the Indonesian FOSS community for some years.  In early years he had run business providing (FOSS) system building and services for government.  During that time they resided WebODF in their system successfully. In March 2018 Haris hosted the LibreOffice Conference Indonesia very successfully.

Marina Latini - Chairperson of the MC

Marina Latini studied Computer Science at the University of Perugia, and is a free software advocate since 2007, promoting free software and open standards. In 2010, she was one of the first Italian members of the LibreOffice community and from 2016 until February 2020 she served as board member of The Document Foundation. From September 2020 she is a member of the Membership Committee of The Document Foundation. She has also been an active member of the Fedora Project from 2009 to 2013, and she is an openSUSE advocate since October 2011.
Marina co-founded Associazione LibreItalia and has been involved in several events, migrations and training related to LibreOffice. She worked previously at Studio Storti and CIB at migrations and trainings to LibreOffice for the Italian Public Administrations and as a senior migrations and deployments engineer.
Since 2020, Marina works at SUSE as a Maintenance Release Coordination Engineer.

Membership Committee Deputies

Jona Azizaj

For the past two years and a half Jona has been part of the LibreOffice community helping jumpstart and nurture the local Albanian community. Her contributions range from localization and community building to marketing and organizing LibOCon 2018. She will use the experience gained during the years to make our community more inclusive and diverse. Jona values freedom as one of the keys to a successful community worldwide and believes that this is something that distinguishes LibreOffice from other projects.

Dennis Roczek

Dennis lives in Munich, Germany, and is a volunteer in the LibreOffice project since 2013 – mainly in administration, and doing “background” tasks for the wiki, working on the content of the wiki itself, and many more “hidden” tasks for most community members. An open and free community is the key goal and he wants to help to reach that goal.

Shinji Enoki

Shinji is a founding member of the LibreOffice Japanese Team and started in 2011. His activities are organizing events, building communities, community marketing, QA, and various Japanese team tasks. He in also in the business of providing consulting support for LibreOffice, to promote enterprise use in Japan. He joined a local Linux user group in 2001 and began to actively contribute to OpenOffice.org in 2008. He is active in several open source events, open source user groups, and open data communities.

Uwe Altmann

Uwe has been engaged for around 15 years in the German-speaking OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice communities, starting with QA on macOS (X11 version) and helping to represent the project at CeBit, later as a member of the Freies Office e.V. (the founder of TDF) and working in several areas over time. Today, he's mostly engaged in governance of The Document Foundation; besides his job on the MC (which is actually mostly building a new tooling for application and member administration), he's helping the Board to develop a successor for the "Next Decade Manifesto", which served well for the first ten years as a vision for the community.