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December 17th, 2012 by

As of 23:00 UTC on 16 December, 2012, the openSUSE Project’s members completed the Fifth election of the openSUSE Board.  At stake were two seats of the five electable seats.  With 8 candidates, the community definitely had a broad choice of qualified candidates to choose from.

In the end, the two top vote-getters were Raymond Wooninck (tittiacoke) and Robert

Robert Schweikert

Robert Schweikert

Schweikert, (robjo) respectively.  They will join the openSUSE Board on January 9th during the transitional meeting of the regularly scheduled Project meeting heldon the Freenode IRC Channel at 17:00 UTC.

The Election Officials would like to congratulate all of thecandidates for a great campaign season.  These candidates included Matt Barringer, Richard Brown, Carl Fletcher, Manu Gupta, Chuck Payne and Stefan Seyfried.  All of these candidates demonstrated a commitment to the Project and exemplified the Guiding Principles which the Project, as a whole, is founded upon.

We join the rest of the community in looking forward to an exciting year to come as

Raymond Wooninck

Raymond Wooninck

the new Board embarks on new initiatives and directions.  And we thank the community for giving us the opportunity to serve as members of the election committee.

Sincerely,
The openSUSE Election Committee
  • Izabel Valverde
  • Thomas Schmidt
  • Bryen M Yunashko

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  • Posted: 2012-12-17 - 13:56
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11 Responses to “openSUSE’s 2013 New Board Members are…”

  1. December 29, 2012 at 15:21 |

    Congratulations Robert and Raymond! I trust that our brand of Linux is in good hands with you. I wish you, and the openSUSE Board, and contributors a happy, and fruitful New Year. Again, Congratulations.

    Rod Donovan
    Texas

  2. Clarence Donath
    January 3, 2013 at 15:21 |

    Schweikert!!!

  3. erlang
    January 4, 2013 at 06:45 |

    Congrats guys! I hope OpenSuSE will be better in the future.

  4. RONY
    January 5, 2013 at 15:03 |

    Hi, i’m a fun with opensuse X86_64, but I have a little problem with my HP Pavilion dv6-6172nr Entertainment Notebook PC, the only problem is Validity Fingerprint Sensor isn’t work on Linux , can you help me please?

  5. RSoger
    January 13, 2013 at 15:38 |

    I just had a feeling Mr. Schweikert was going to be elected. That mustache is epic!

  6. January 21, 2013 at 23:16 |

    Congratulations Robert and Raymond!

  7. Gerald
    January 22, 2013 at 12:54 |

    Congratulations to you both, thank you for all the efforts you’ve already spend over the time!

  8. balkrishna
    January 24, 2013 at 12:22 |

    Congratulations, hope to see some more logical changes in open suse.

  9. January 24, 2013 at 16:04 |

    Congrats,

    we are supporting you

    Opensuse should again lead the Linux world

  10. gdawg
    February 1, 2013 at 03:19 |

    Congratulations men.