I'm announcing my candidacy for squeak foundation board.

I currently derive all of my income from Seaside application  
development working out of my home.

I have taken over maintenance of the GLORP port and am working with  
Alan Knight to make it every bit as slick as Rails for doing  
automatic schema migrations.  For Squeak, I've added connection  
pooling and basic schema migration.

I was previously the manager of Amazon.com's AJAX applications team  
and used Squeak to build an HTML/CSS validator to cut Amazon's error  
count from an average of 13 mismatched or unclosed tags to about one  
per page during 2005/2006.  http://badpage.net

I blog about stuff I care about at http://blackbagops.net

I would like to accomplish:
1) Reconciliation between the two very different goals of research  
and production ready system.  Both are important.
2) Work for funding for purpose of bounties/stipends for core  
facilities that will benefit the core platform.
3) Improve relations/communication among the various forks of squeak.
4) Raise awareness of Squeak as a serious open source platform for  
application development.

-Todd Blanchard

On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> All,
>
> As a reminder today is the last day to announce your candidacy for the
> Squeak Foundation Board.
>
> If you are interested in running in the election then please  
> announce today
> by sending an email to Squeak-dev.
>
> Thank you all for your participation in this process.  We encourage  
> you to
> stay in touch and monitor this list and the Weekly Squeak
> http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com for articles and information  
> about the
> election and the candidates.  Remember to be eligible to vote you  
> must have
> an account on SqueakPeople http://people.squeakfoundation.org/ with a
> certification of Apprentice or higher.
>
> If you have any trouble getting your certification please feel free to
> contact the list or email me off-line.  Your vote counts!  Please  
> plan to
> vote.
>
> The voters list will be finalized on the 3rd of March, and the CIVS
> (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html ) election started. The  
> election
> will run for 3 days, and the results announced on March 7th, 2007.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
> Squeak Elections Team Member
>

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