Application received from Sven Herzberg (herzi gnome-de org)

[GNOME Foundation Membership Committee Script <gnome-membership gnome org>]

Contact Information:
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Name: Sven Herzberg
E-mail: herzi gnome-de org
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): herzi
cvs.gnome.org username (if any): herzi

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
* german GNOME website (www.gnome-de.org)
* german GNOME company (GNOME Deutschland GbR)
* german GNOME promoting
* maintaining the GNOPPIX project


Detailed description:
german GNOME website (www.gnome-de.org)
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  I am maintaining the german GNOME website for more than 18 months now. It's on its way to a german GNOME 
community and news page which requires a large PHP framework because there is lots of dynamic content there.

  I'm currently working on these two steps:
1. community news
  I'm extending our system to provide a news system similar to what www.gnomedesktop-de.org provides (I do 
this with the maintainer of gnomedesktop-de.org) to be able to close gnomedesktop-de.org and have one 
centralized news/support website for germany.

2. translation services
  I'm going to integrate a glossary for the german translation (this is something that Christian Neumair the 
translation maintainer wants to have).



german GNOME promoting
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  I'm promoting GNOME on lots of linux events in germany to show that "GNU/Linux" is not equal to "KDE". This 
year I've to events in Hamburg, Chemnitz, Madgeburg, Hannover and Karlsruhe (including CeBIT and the Linuxtag 
2003). I drove more than 3000km by car for this and spent lots of moneys to do this.



german GNOME company (GNOME Deutschland GbR)
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  Together with Benedikt Christopeit if founded the "GNOME Deutschland GbR" which is a company that aims to 
make money to sponsor GNOME people on linux events. Our main goal is to get this money by merchandising to 
have 2 positive effects:

1. Have money to sponsor GNOME people here.
2. Have other people wearing GNOME shirts etc. to promote GNOME.



maintaining the GNOPPIX project
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  Since June/July I am the maintainer of the GNOPPIX project (www.gnoppix.org) which aims to create a linux 
live cd that just works (tm) and that aims to bring the targets of GNOME ("computing made easy") with a linux 
live cd. Our goal is to put a cd into the drive and have one really good configured, high-quality desktop for 
the user. To get a high-quality desktop I also do some small fixes to the GNOME code (and I plan to do more 
for GNOME 2.6).


Contacts:
Christian Meyer (chrisime gnome-de org) coordinator of gnome activities in germany; former coordinator of the 
german translation team

Matthias Warkus (mawa gnome-de org) author of the german GNOME 2.0 developer manual; former coordiantor of 
the german translation team

Roman Beigelbeck (star gnome-de org) former member of the art.gnome.org team

Christian Neumair (chris gnome-de org) coordinator of the german translation team

Jörgen Scheibengruber (mfcn gnome-de org) netspeed applet, gnomeradio, gppp


Other comments:
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I still plan to work on criawips a GNOME presentation program, but this is ATM less important than 
gnome-de.org and gnoppix are.

[Application received at Fri Sep 12 9:35:40 2003 (Eastern time)]