On 12/03/2017 03:04 PM, Marcus wrote:
With the past October board meeting I'm the project Chair since 13
months. So, when we follow our own (unwritten) rule to change the
Chair every ~12 month, then it's again time to find a new one.
Therefore I'm asking for PMCs and committers to step up to become our
new PMC Chair.
I want to follow this timeline to finish the vote process to make it
in time for the December Board meeting on 20th Dec:
Nomination: now until 08th Dec
Vote: 08th until 15th Dec
Resolution for Board meeting: 16th Dec
What is it about?
The Chair is like the referee in a football game. He should keep an
eye on everything, but go mostly unnoticed in doing so.
The primary task of a Chair is to report to the Board. On one side,
this requires a constant monitoring of the project and some
familiarity/experience with all aspects of OpenOffice as a project. On
the other side, this requires patience, discovery of the processes to
follow, reading some procedural documentation in English that is often
full of Apache jargon or legal terminology.
The work itself is thus a bit boring and clerical. The typical paper
work. Consider that the Chair will often be active in the project in
some other way: he/she is still an ordinary committer after all, and
the title does not make him/her special in the day-to-day activity.
But a Chair will definitely have to allocate time for monitoring the
various lists and staying informed about all ongoing issues. The most
time consuming job is maybe the creation of the Board report every 3
months.
Or in other words:
It's not to represent officially the project to the outside. It's more
an Apache internal job and even this is limited. For details please
see here [1].
Now please speak up if you want to suggest someone - or maybe yourself
- you want to see as the new Chair.
[1] https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair
Thanks in advance for your participation.
Marcus
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I'll volunteer for the Chair duties.
For those that may not know me, a little bit of project background.
My primary focus has been on developer tools especially those related to
AOO clients apps and extensions.
I was a committer and PPMC member during our incubation period. I was
invited to be a PMC member in 2016.
Most of my original contributions involved updating the Netbeans AOO
plugin for new versions of one or the other.
Later work involved packaging the Java UNO jars for avalibility from
Maven repositories and a Apache Groovy UNO extension.
Due to my job and software business I haven't been able to contribute as
much as I would like but this is an area
where I may be able to help out since I'm not a AOO source code developer.
Thanks,
Carl
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