Hi,
The AOLserver Team has decided to set up the AOLserver Core Team (ACT) which will act as the main decision making body for the AOLserver Open Source project going forward. The ACT will be made up of 4 community members, and 3 from here at AOL. Each ACT member will serve a term of one year, after which time we'll do this all over again. ;-)
The voting process will be very simple. Everyone who is interested in voting should send me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) an email with their top 4 picks. You are only allowed to vote once for any particular person. I will then tally the votes and announce the 4 community core team members, along with the 3 that have been chosen here at AOL. Everyone is eligible to vote. The "polls" will be open until next Wednesday, Nov. 20. The results will be announced at the next AOLserver chat, that following Thursday.
Below is some information about each of the nominees who has indicated an interest in being a member of the ACT:
Dossy Shiobara
Jeff Hobbs
Scott Goodwin
Simon Millward
Zoran Vasiljevic
Tom Jackson
Look forward to receiving everyone's votes!
- Nathan
Dossy Shiobara
I started working with AOLserver back in 1999--2000, when it was
first released as open source under the 3.0 release.
I've since developed two database drivers (nsmysql and nsfreetds)
and the beginnings of a session manager as well as an initial
implementation of WebDAV extensions for AOLserver in pure Tcl.
I also worked to package up the Win32 binary distribution of
AOLserver 3.4. I plan to continue to work with the AOLserver
community to ensure that Win32 support continues to be available in
some form for AOLserver into the future.
I now have AOLserver instances in production, the most significant
of which is receiving more than 300K page views a day to a single
instance. I now have a vested commercial interest in AOLserver
development and continued enhancement.
Outside of AOLserver development, I've worked in Tcl since 1998,
primarily with Vignette's application servers, and have been working
in web technologies since 1994. My programming background spans C,
Perl, Tcl, Ruby as well as other languages. I've also helped
implement Extreme Programming as the software development
methodology in my current organization to help improve the software
we build here.
I believe I would make a good addition to the AOLserver Core Team
because I will work towards ensuring that AOLserver remains a
high-quality and reliable platform for application development.
This means being sensitive to the community's desires while
being aware of the impacts of the changes to the core software.
Jeff Hobbs
Jeff is the Core Release Manager for the Tcl language. He has maintained the TK Usage FAQ since 1996 and is a program committee member for the USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference. Jeff comes to ActiveState from Scriptics, where he was a Tcl Ambassador, responsible for communications liaison between Scriptics and the Tcl community and managing development of the Tcl core. Previously Jeff was also a software engineer at both Siemens AG and CADIX International. At ActiveState, Jeff is the tech lead for Tcl technologies.
Jeff is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Internet Society and USENIX. He holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Sciences and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Scott Goodwin
I have been involved with the AOLserver community since 2000. Since that time I have built and continue to maintain the nsopenssl module as a replacement for nsssl, adding outgoing SSL connections and a C and Tcl API. I have supported users of nsopenssl in figuring out problems and fixing bugs they've found. I've also documented nsopenssl fairly well at http://scottg.net.
I updated the AOLserver 4.x nsv commands to use Tcl objects, have fixed bugs in the core, and have contributed to the managing of SourceForge, importing modules into AOLserver's SourceForge area and help ing maintain some of them, including nsexpat, nsxml, and nsldap.
I have been vocal about AOLserver from the beginning, have worked both quietly and on the discussion list to bring about an AOL / Community relationship that is positive, focused and beneficial. I am committed to the AOLserver project and the community. I have a long-term vision of what AOLserver with modules can become, and all of it is good :)
Simon Millward
I feel that the core team definitely needs an OpenACS oriented member. The two projects have a lot in common and can be of great benefit to each other. I'm not aware of a larger community outside of AOLServer itself that makes such extensive use of AOLServer. As OpenACS is also inherently intertwined with AOLServer (it just couldn't work with anything else) that means the OpenACS community is in for the long term. I don't think the relationship has been close enough in the past, and I personally
