Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws (The Netherlands) is director of the leading Dutch LibreOffice / OpenOffice consulting firm Nou&Off. He is one of the founding members of The Document Foundation and was a long time contributor to the OpenOffice.org community.
Cor Nouws (The Netherlands, 1959) originally is naval architect, and with studies MBA and Java Software Engineering he entered the world of business and software. After working as consultant in larger projects with Microsoft Office, he was catched by open source software. In 2004 he starts his company Nou&Off, supplying various support for OpenOffice.org. Nowadays Nou&Off is the leading Dutch LibreOffice / OpenOffice consulting firm.
As a logic combination with commercial services, Cor contributes to the OpenOffice.org community. He helps in the fields of marketing, QA and localization. In 2008 he is chosen as a member of the community council. In 2010 he is one of the founding members of The Document Foundation where he continues to contribute to various aspects of the LibreOffice-project.
Cor Nouws is married and father of three children. He is vegan since many years, and loves good food, nature, people, music, cycling, running, (ice and in-line) skating and sailing.