| <boardmember id="lenz" type="addin"> |
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| <name>Dr. Mario Lenz</name> |
| <title>Chief Technology Officer, empolis</title> |
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| <image>lenz.jpg</image> |
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| <email>mario.lenz@empolis.com</email> |
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| <eclipse_affiliation><![CDATA[ |
| For empolis, Eclipse is firstly a mature and powerful tool provider in that a lot of components and tools |
| of eclipse are in intensive use in product development at empolis, e.g. IDE as well as RCP. This is where |
| empolis does not really contribute but rather *consume* only. |
| Secondly, even more important, Eclipse is an intrinsic element of empolis' technology portfolio when |
| it comes to developing a new platform and solutions based on and in cooperation with the open source |
| community. empolis in particular appreciates the unique technological expertise provided by the members |
| combined with the technical flexibility and economical promises of an open source platform |
| that can open the space for commercial applications beyond what is possible in the traditional closed world |
| in particular for a company the size of empolis.]]> |
| </eclipse_affiliation> |
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| <vision> <![CDATA[ |
| My vision as a candidate for the Eclipse Board is: |
| - Support the growth of the Eclipse Ecosystem as a pervasive industrial strength |
| software platform for building runtime solutions with a specific focus on |
| Semantic Web technology and unstructured data management. This is the main |
| area of empolis and we feel this is generally still a white spot that should |
| be occupied by open source even before commercial vendors could claim that space. |
| - Help to establish Eclipse in research and education to make sure graduates can |
| seamlessly be integrated into industrial SW production. This also includes |
| provisioning of reday-to-use components and framworks to R&D such that research |
| institutes can truly focus on their expertise rather than having to develop |
| infrastructure technology. |
| - Strengthen the influence of European Solution Members in the community |
| - Help to drive more technology-focussed projects inside eclipse to delivering |
| real value in the sense of customer-oriented solutions |
| ]]> </vision> |
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| <bio> <![CDATA[ |
| Dr. Mario Lenz completed his Doctorate in Computer Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin, |
| majoring in Knowledge Management and minoring in Psychology. During his studies, numerous |
| industrial cooperation projects took place. In 1999 Mario became Director of Development |
| at tec:inno. After the integration of tec:inno into empolis and several management positions |
| in product development, Dr. Lenz was appointed CTO and became a member of the |
| empolis management board in 2006. |
| ]]> </bio> |
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| <affiliation> |
| empolis GmbH |
| </affiliation> |
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| </boardmember> |
