I would like to nominate Eric Bachard (ericb) for code contributor representative as a member of the education project he has done a remarkable job getting involved with students that want to contribute to the core of OpenOffice.org and also give the "classrooms" where experts in OOo give talks about coding for the people that want to learn the technical specifics of OpenOffice.org. Also is enterprising with his organizations such as OOEduc the OOo4Kids project which is basically a most needed in the education market. He would be a big asset to the CC in moving to growing the developers which is most needed by this project.
I would also like to nominate myself for product development, being the lead of several products including the newly created certification project, bizdev project and OpenOffice.org ES (spanish) project as well as co-leading the education project. I have the experience in the community and network to guide and contribute even more to this project with a good understanding of the current goals for many of these projects and more. Finally for language a +1 to Charles Schulz. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > All: > > A new election cycle for the Community Council begins now. We, the Council > members, hope that we can meet the new members in Orvieto, Italy, at OOoCon > 2009 early this November. To do that, however, we may have to bend the > timing rules a little and accelerate things when possible. But for now..... > > This election cycle inaugurates a new Community Council. Not only will we > have one more member (to 10) but what we do has changed over the year and we > have now a greater ability to promote OpenOffice.org around the world. Being > part of the Council is to be part of the governing board of what is widely > understood to be one of the most important Free and Open Source Software > projects in the world. We urge you to join us. > > > **Call for Nominations** > > On behalf of the Community Council, I would like to announce the new round > of elections for the Council and start the process by asking the > OpenOffice.org Community members to nominate those they think would best > contribute both to the Council and to the OpenOffice.org Community. > > You may nominate yourself. We define membership in our Guidelines. [0] This > election cycle, one of several, begins with this call for nominations. After > a week, candidates will present themselves and then we will vote. We detail > all this in the Election Process wiki. > > A copy of this message will be posted > tohttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/council/items/call_for_nominations_20091013. > > *** The period for nominations ends 24:00 UTC 20 October.*** > > > **About the Council** > > The Council is our governing board and among other things, it helps resolve > conflict among projects and people and develop guidelines for the smooth > operation and growth of the Community. Our charter explains what we can and > cannot do.[1] The current members are lighted on the Council's home page. > [2] > > Until now, the Council's work has been fairly quiet and its scope limited. > But as the OOo project has matured and grown, our focus has evolved. For > instance, we now have in place procedures for budgeting and allocating funds > for a variety of Community-sponsored events and doings. (These funds derive > from donations given by users as they download OpenOffice.org or otherwise > independent expressions of support and satisfaction; the funds are the > Community's, held in trust by the Council.) > > For this cycle, two standing Council members need to be replaced and one > fresh member to be elected. > > * Sophie Gautier and André Schnabel, both exemplary contributors to the > Project and Council and members of OpenOffice.org almost since its > inception, have resigned, effective upon their replacement. I do not think > that we, the Council and the Community, can thank them enough for their > achievements in makingOpenOffice.org the community and global force that it > is. My thanks to them both. > > > **Rules** > > The rules for the process are detailed in a wiki on the subject. [3] This > election inaugurates a new Council, as the number of members has changed, > from nine to ten, as has their characterization. > > Several categories of OpenOffice.org contributors make up the Council > membership. Those categories cover the breadth of OpenOffice.org. All but > one, the permanent Sun representative, are elected by community vote. In > this cycle, one of the Native Language Confederation Representative (aka > "Lang") seats (there are two) is up for election. As well, we are asking for > nominations for one Code Contributor Representative and one Product > Development Representative. > > ** The point of the categories of representatives is to ensure that the > breadth of OpenOffice.org is represented and that its key constituencies > find a voice on the Council. We are not saying nor do we wish to imply that > you can only nominate and vote for someone in your constituency. Rather, we > hope and anticipate that the work done by developers, marketers, > translators, document writers, localizers, business people and so many of > the other contributors constituting our varied constituencies is represented > on the Council. We will thus strive to promote the election process on the > relevant public lists, as I detail below.** > > The nomination process starts now and ends 20 October (24:00 UTC). > Nominations and the attendant discussions should be conducted on popular > public lists, such as [email protected], [email protected] and so on. > > We will be using tried and true technology for the actual voting: the Survey > machine; only Community Members will be allowed to vote. Results will be > posted in accordance with the published Election Process; the address will > be on the Council wiki, as well as sent to the various lists below. > > The details for the process demand attention and we ask that you spend some > time going over the Election Process wiki. > > * As I mentioned above, we are hoping to conclude this cycle by early > November. That will mean shortening part of the process a little, but which > part has not been determined yet. If we cannot shorten the process and still > keep everything satisfactory, then we won't. > > * Note: We have yet to identify our observers but for the purposes of this > election, I shall serve as commissary. > > This announcement will be posted to the relevant public lists, as detailed > in the Election Process wiki: [email protected], > d...@native_lang.openoffice.org, [email protected] as well as > [email protected] [email protected]. > > > Regards, > > Louis > > [0] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html > [1] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#PowersoftheCouncil > [2] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers > [3] > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal > > > > -- > Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > OpenOffice.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
