Of these, it appears we are down to these people who have not yet
received any renewals or grants elsewhere, and would thus lose their
vote - but I've also not seen any requests from any of them to renew
their At-Large Grants:
alhopper Al Hopper
ian Ian Collins
(Not including Roy Fielding, who I believe asked not to be renewed.)
-alan-
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> The grants database currently shows these Core Contributor grants
> from the OGB are expiring before the elections:
>
> alhopper Al Hopper Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> bochnig Martin Bochnig Expires: 2009-03-01 13:27:50
> brushmor Bill Rushmore Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> fielding Roy T. Fielding Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> gdamore Garrett D'Amore Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> gisburn Roland Mainz Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> ian Ian Collins Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> jkeil J?rgen Keil Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
> joerg J?rg Schilling Expires: 2009-03-02 15:13:52
> mrym Masayuki Murayama Expires: 2009-03-09 11:48:55
> swalker Shawn Walker Expires: 2009-02-24 15:30:16
> webmink Simon Phipps Expires: 2009-02-24 00:32:45
>
> Other than the OGB members themselves (automatically given grants by
> the constitution) I believe these have mostly been given when there
> was not an appropriate Community Group in place to recognize the
> contributions of these members.
>
> Since these were given, there have been communities formed and new
> grants given, so I don't believe we need to renew most of these,
> preferring to leave them up to the individual community groups.
>
> My initial individual recommendations (though since I don't know
> all of what everyone is done, I'd be glad to hear more information
> on these people & their contributions):
>
> - Al Hopper - while he continues to contribute to the community in
> several ways, most notably genunix, he doesn't seem to have any
> other grants. I'd like to suggest the Advocacy community consider
> his work, but would vote to renew his at-large grant if no community
> steps forward.
>
> - Martin Bochnig - has since been made a Core Contributor of the X
> Window System community. (I also expected to also see one
> from the Distros community, but do not see him in their list.)
>
> - Bill Rushmore - I believe his recent contributions would fall under
> the purview of the Website community, but don't see him in their
> contributor list. I would vote to renew his at-large grant if no
> community steps forward.
>
> - Roy T. Fielding - while we appreciate his past contributions, it's
> my understanding he no longer wishes to be involved with OpenSolaris
> governance. If he wants to participate again, I would vote to renew
> his grant.
>
> - Garrett D'Amore - has since been named a Core Contributor of ON, Laptop,
> and Drivers community groups, and was just nominated last night in the
> ARC community group - I think he's well enough covered.
>
> - Roland Mainz - has no other Core Contributor grants. I'd like to suggest
> the ON community consider one for his large contributions on ksh93 and the
> related AST libraries/commands, but would vote to renew his at-large grant
> if no community steps forward.
>
> - Ian Collins - has no other Core Contributor grants. Was recognized by
> the initial OGB for his contributions to discussion forums. I don't know
> of other contributions that would make him better fit any specific
> community group, so would vote to renew as an At-Large Core Contributor.
>
> - J?rgen Keil - has since been named a Core Contributor of Drivers, ON, and
> Power Management, so he's also well covered.
>
> - J?rg Schilling - has since been named a Core Contributor of Distributions,
> so doesn't need our grant renewed.
>
> - Masayuki Murayama - has since been named a Core Contributor of Drivers,
> so doesn't need our grant renewed.
>
> - Shawn Walker - has since been named a Core Contributor of Distribution
> (and I believe has been nominated for Install/Packaging), so doesn't need
> our grant renewed.
>
> - Simon Phipps - his OGB grant should be automatically extended until the end
> of
> the OGB term. He also has an Advocacy community grant, so I don't think we
> need to take any action here.
>
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
