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About two years ago, I wrote a mail titled "Another openSUSE Board candidate". These two years passed quickly, and I really enjoyed being part of the Board and helping the community whenever needed.

I'd like to continue this "job", and therefore decided to run for re-election.

I use openSUSE since years (it was still named „SuSE Linux“ with lowercase „u“ back then) and started annoying people in bugzilla, err, started betatesting in the 9.2 beta phase. Since then, I reported more than 1300 bugs. Nowadays, OBS ruins my bugzilla statistics by introducing the option to send a SR ;-)

One of my current activities in openSUSE is working in the Heroes team, where I started with moving and upgrading the wiki. I also help out on various *.opensuse.org servers since someone was evil enough to give me root permissions on lots of them ;-) (Transparency note: I helped to setup the elections.opensuse.org server before last year's elections - but will of course not touch it until the elections finish.)

My other openSUSE hobbies ;-) are AppArmor and PostfixAdmin, where I'm active in upstream development and as packager. AppArmor also turned out to be a good opportunity for cross-distribution collaboration.

You can find me on several mailinglists and on IRC (nickname "cboltz"), and of course I still scare people in bugzilla. I‘m also a regular visitor and speaker at the openSUSE Conference, and visit other conferences as time permits.

My day job has nothing to do with computers. I produce something you can drink that is named after a software we ship in openSUSE ;-)

Oh, and I collect funny quotes from various mailinglists, IRC, bugzilla etc. that then end up as random [1] signatures under my mails, so be careful what you write ;-)

There are some things I‘ll never do (you might remember them from two years ago):

• use a stable release on my main computer – Tumbleweed is just too good ;-)
• open a bugreport if fxing the bug and sending a SR is faster
• be too serious – hey, our motto is „Have a lot of fun...“ ;-)
• drink beer ;-) (sorry, not even openSUSE beer)

If you want to read more from or about me, have a look at

• https://blog.cboltz.de (some more posts would be nice, but I prefer actually doing something over writing about it ;-)
• https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/profile/cboltz
• https://en.opensuse.org/user:cboltz

I wish all candidates good luck, and hope that we‘ll see some more candidates and lots of voters!

[1] sometimes I hand-pick signatures, and this is one of these cases with a non-random signature ;-) (yes, I know it's unusual for a blog post to have a signature at all, so this will stay a rare exception)
--
Christian, there are times you are a pain in the ass, there are times I really like you.
This is one of both of those times ;)
[Richard Brown]