Thanks Stef!

Anyone else? I realize most of the candidates don't have a webpage with 
all this prepared beforehand... but short statement of your intentions 
would still be useful.

Daniel

stéphane ducasse wrote:

>> Dear SqF board candidates.
>>
>> While we know all of you to some extent (some more than others), we  
>> dont know you as elected representatives. If you can write a few  
>> words about what goals the board should accomplish, and how you're  
>> going to help those happen, it would be helpful for at least this  
>> Squeaker in his difficult decisions ahead...
>>
>> Daniel Vainsencher
>
>
> Sure! This is the right moment to ask!
>
> Here is what I would like to see done: (I took basically what we  
> wrote on the squeakfoundation web site long time ago).
>
> - create an independent legal entity to which companies and  
> individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources  
> will be used for the public benefit; this entity should be the  
> representative of the community for
> legal actions (such as the crypto package registration or  
> participation to Google Summer of code actions).
> - provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from  
> legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects;
> - protect the 'Squeak' brand, as applied to its software products,  
> from being abused by other organizations;
> - enable the communication between all the projects related to Squeak  
> such as tweak, croquet, etoy, smallland...;
>     (this is why I'm ***really*** happy to get yo and bert as 
> candidates  because they represent a bit tweak, croquet and squeakland)
>     I'm really pleased to see the smallland anf squeakland fixes  
> retrofitted in 3.9
> - support the promotion of Squeak media (video, books, presentations);
>     (I would really like to see how we can help the book of diego  
> translated in english or french but I do not read spanish)
> - support educators, developers, teachers to achieve their dream  
> around Squeak.
> - make squeak really sexy and fun for educators, developers...
>
> These were the simple goals we set up with marcus when we started
> - having a better web site (done)
> - having a way to promote some changes (for example using a bounty  
> mechanism)
> - supporting the fixes harvesting and enhancements
> - supporting people to write books, CD/DVD, tutorials
> - supporting people making presentations of Squeak
> - supporting the development of architectural tools that all the  
> community will benefit from (enhancing Monticello, Squeaksource for now)
>
> Once we will have done that. We will be done :)
>
> Stef
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