Hi OASIS ODF TC,

I would like to welcome Claus Agerskov, who will be joining the TC, representing the OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. Claus has been a very active contributor, and highly persuasive member of both the OpenDocument Fellowship and OpenOffice.org community, with experience on many different projects involving ODF. I've known Claus through years of OOo list serves and discussions, so i'm really looking forward to working with him on something that long ago captured both our passions and our determined commitment - the success of ODF.

What a great way to start the new year!

~ge~

~Self Introduction from Claus Agerskov~

I am a Danish open standard and Free & Open Source Software evangelist.

I am currently active in OpenDocument Fellowship, OpenOffice.org Project

Management Tool Project, Open Project Management Exchange Format, SQL-Finans/Saldi (Danish FOSS accounting software project) and the unofficial Danish OpenDocument site OpenDocument.dk.

I work as a system administrator at the Technical University of Denmark

and part time teaching FOSS.

Previously I have been active in the OpenOffice.org community with translating to Danish and marketing, I also suggested to put the future development of the document format in an independent standardization body

in October which was one of the reasons that the office TC was created.

I hope and work for that the future OpenDocument formats will so free and open that they can be implemented in free, open and closed software which

mean it doesn't contain patented technology which isn't free for everyone to use (read: that future formats can be implement under software with a GNU General Public License).

The most enjoyable greetings