Dennis, Thank you for this... the project will be well served.
+1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on > Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure > the conversations and discussion are of value. > > I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache > OpenOffice PMC Chair. > > RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR > My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the > responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation. > > APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE > > With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to > serve as an effective member of that community and with particular > attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the > cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project. > As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers > and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am > also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among > ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache > OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as > slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be > broadened and materials brought current and highly-available. > > WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN? > > Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I > was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top > Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to > administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers > and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the > preservation of the OpenOffice Forums. > > I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters. > My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on > the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative > resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time. > > Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and > cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last > year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the > final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also > did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that. > > It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF > interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My > participation has increased to the current level over the past few months. > I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and > PPMC member of that newborn podling. > > NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN? > > I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I > went through the usual progression of development from programmer to > becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including > assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also > did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work > at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania > during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I > did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once > when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a > consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software > architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and > finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement > as a career. > > I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL > 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of > interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of > consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in > my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various > kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those > standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both > of those specifications. > > SO WHAT? > > Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met > others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting. > > More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say > what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And > please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not > happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its > Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community > has. > > I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever > the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached > to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for > us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project. > > > -- Dennis E. 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