Position statement for Gordian Edenhofer

I have been involved in the Free and Open Source Software community for more than eleven years, primarily through Arch Linux. I am currently part of the Arch Linux support staff, contribute to the ArchWiki, and maintain packages in the Arch User Repository.

Open source has also been an important part of my work life. In my previous life as an academic, I released my research software and associated work openly, contributed to several open-source projects, including JAX, and served as a reviewer for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS).

Since moving from academia into industry, I have had less opportunity to contribute code to open-source projects directly. I would therefore like to contribute more of my time and experience through organizational and administrative work. Serving on the SPI board seems like a particularly meaningful way to support the broader open-source ecosystem and the projects that depend on SPI.