(*Credit to Alan Coopersmith, as I've liberally re-appropriated the explanatory text from his helpful post to the X community.)
OGB election season is approaching again, so it's time to begin our annual review of Contributor & Core Contributor grants for the SMF community. (We can grant either of these statuses at any time, the election just serves as an annual reminder to go back and look at the past year's worth of work.) As a reminder, in the current system, anyone who contributes in either code or other activities is named a Contributor, which doesn't expire. Those who are deemed by the community to have contributed most, and who agree to it, can be named Core Contributors. Core Contributor status expires after two years, but can be renewed if the contribution level is still present. When formal votes are taken, either of the SMF community or of the OpenSolaris community as a whole (such as votes to name Contributors/Core Contribs, or the annual OGB elections), only Core Contributors get to cast ballots. (If this sounds overcomplicated, then you're in agreement with the OGB, who is working on a proposed overhaul to the OpenSolaris Constitution to simplify this, as well as splitting voting rights in a community group. See ogb-discuss mail & the OGB Agendas/Minutes for more details there.) The current Core Contributors of the SMF community are: bustos David G. Bustos Expires: 2009-02-24 dep David E. Powell Expires: 2009-02-24 fourctom Tom Whitten Expires: 2009-02-24 jwadams Jonathan W. Adams Expires: 2009-02-24 lianep Liane Praza Expires: 2009-02-24 rmanus Renaud Manus Expires: 2009-02-24 sch Stephen Hahn Expires: 2009-02-24 tonyn Truong Q. Nguyen Expires: 2009-02-24 The current Contributors of the SMF community: acruz Antonello Cruz amaguire Alan Maguire arushi04 Ganesh Hiregoudar bnsmb Bernd Schemmer ctran Christine Tran devnull Mark Martin dminer Dave Miner hshaw Harold N. Shaw jeanm Jean E. McCormack jkeil Jurgen Keil kathys Kathy Slattery mws Mike Shapiro nico Nicolas Williams richlowe Richard Lowe skamm Susan Kamm-Worrell stevep Steve C. Peng wesolws Keith M. Wesolowski westmore Tasha M. Westmore yannouch Yann POUPET plus all the above listed Core Contributors. I'd like to recognize the following new folks as Contributors: Sean Wilcox and, as all Core Contributor grants are expiring this year, nominate the following for Core Contributor given an ongoing level of contribution to the SMF community: acruz Antonello Cruz bustos David G. Bustos dep David E. Powell fourctom Tom Whitten lianep Liane Praza rmanus Renaud Manus sch Stephen Hahn tonyn Truong Q. Nguyen For Core Contributor approval, each nominee must receive +1's (votes in favor) from at least 3 existing Core Contributors, and no -1's (votes against) from any existing Core Contributors, as well as accept their election. I vote +1 for all eight. (Yes, I'm voting for myself.) Does anyone have any other nominations for either Contributor or Core Contributor? (Please nominate yourself either publicly or privately if I've overlooked you.) liane
