Erwin Tenhumberg is community development and marketing manager
Sun Microsystems Inc. He is a member of the Open Source Group at Sun Microsystems, which is led by Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps. Among his roles and responsibilities are community development and marketing for OpenOffice.org. In addition, Erwin Tenhumberg focuses on open source business models and open source in the public sector. Besides his role in the Open Source Group, Erwin is also co-chairing the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) Adoption TC (Technical Committee). As part of his work, he is involved in various ODF efforts like at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the US or within the European Union. In addition, he collaborates with the OASIS OpenDocument Format TC, the ODF Alliance and the OpenOffice.org open source community.
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energy resource, we have
also become dependent on
a single vendor solution
for saving our digital
history - in the form of
our word processing,
presentation, and
spreadsheet documents.
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