Jos Poortvliet named openSUSE Community Manager

We're proud to announce today that Jos Poortvliet will join the openSUSE 
project and Novell as openSUSE Community Manager starting on August 1. With 
Jos we've found a leader with excellent community building experience 
combined with a very welcoming nature, many fresh, promising ideas and a 
strong drive to grow the openSUSE Project. Jos holds a degree in 
Organisational Psychology from the University of Utrecht and has gained 
valuable experience in several professional roles ranging from Project 
Manager at KPN to Service Level Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland. Last but 
not least, Jos is a leading member of the KDE Marketing Team and has helped 
Akademy and the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit attract a vibrant and 
collaborative audience.

Jos commented, "The opportunity to become part of the international 
openSUSE community is very exciting. There are a great number of 
interesting developments going on in the free software world, and openSUSE 
plays a major role in many of them. I look forward to working with the 
community on these, helping it grow, finding new directions and ways of 
developing, and delivering its innovative technologies to users and 
developers around the world."

We enthusiastically welcome Jos and look forward to his working with the 
openSUSE community to shape the future of the openSUSE project. After his 
start he will be deeply involved in the openSUSE conference, other 
community events and activities, and of course he will have the pleasure of 
promoting openSUSE wherever possible.

Andreas
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