Self nomination for Membership Committee: Ahmad Haris

Dear members & Board of Directors of The Document Foundation,

I’m a candidate in the next elections to the Membership Committee.

Who am I:

I’m Ahmad Haris from Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. A family man, half musician and a director of technology in a private company. I’ve been in the FOSS community since 2007, active both in Ubuntu Indonesia and openSUSE Indonesia since I understand about FOSS until now. Become director of BlankOn Linux distribution for 5 years then retire to become leader of Ridon Project (Android based project) for 3 years. I also active in GNOME Foundation/GNOME Indonesia Community for last 6 years, and in LibreOffice Indonesia Community in last 4 years most of members know me as “supreme leader”.

In my daily life, both as professional and personal, I actively promote LibreOffice. I also became a Membership Committee for the last 2 years.

I’m willing to continue as a Membership Committee because I love to connect with the community around the world and continue my journey to promote FOSS, including LibreOffice.

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Full name: Ahmad Haris

Email address: haris@libreoffice.org / ahmadharis1982@gmail.com

Affiliation: Independent

My 75 words official candidacy statement:

I nominate myself as MC again to continue my idealism and my passion to promote FOSS including LibreOffice, helping newcomers to contribute to upstream projects with their different ways.

I want to encourage people joining LibreOffice both in the local community and International Community. Reach all communities who have in touch with me as possible even if it is not an IT based community. Also actively promoting LibreOffice in Asia, not only in where I live, Indonesia.