Bryan Lunduke for openSUSE Board

I, Bryan Lunduke, am officially running for a seat on the openSUSE Board.

Consider this post to be my campaign platform.

The short, short version:

“openSUSE rules.  Not enough people know that.  Let’s change that.”

Seriously.

Leap?  Crazy cool.  Tumbleweed?  Best rolling-release distro available.  And the tools that surround openSUSE are simply amazing.   I think more people should know about — and use — all of it.

Now, let’s be honest.  I have very little to offer the openSUSE community.

My organizational “skills” are roughly equivalent to that of a drunk grizzly bear.
I’m never on time to anything.  Ever.  I’m pretty sure I have no internal clock.
If anyone ever gave me full control over the openSUSE budget… I’m fairly confident I would spend every penny on small, green Chameleon plushies.  Just to see how big a pile of them I could make.
My decision making abilities are highly questionable.  I once paid full price for a non-matinee ticket to “Dude, Where’s my car?“.
My taste is also questionable.  I saw it twice that week.

But I do have one skill — I know how to make noise about Linux.  A lot of noise.  Here’s a few examples:

I recorded a video, about Linux, with a crummy camera and got over a million views.
I wrote the lyrics for the SUSE “Uptime Funk” music video.
I’ve been a professional tech journalist — writing for Network World, Linux.com and a handful of Linux magazines — for 3 1/2 years.
Been the Social Media guy for SUSE for over 2 years (holy cow… it’s been 2 years?).
And I can’t seem to go more than 5 minutes without being on a Linux-oriented podcast.
I even wrote a kids book about Linux.

Noise.  Noise I can make.  And, on the openSUSE board, I would do exactly that.  (Along with attempting to do all the other things that we’ve already covered I really suck at.)

If you’re an openSUSE Member, you can vote for me (or any of the other candidates) when voting opens later this month.