<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm announcing my candidacy for squeak foundation board.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I currently derive all of my income from Seaside application development working out of my home.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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. <A href="http://badpage.net">http://badpage.net</A></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I blog about stuff I care about at <A href="http://blackbagops.net">http://blackbagops.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would like to accomplish:</DIV><DIV>1) Reconciliation between the two very different goals of research and production ready system. Both are important.</DIV><DIV>2) Work for funding for purpose of bounties/stipends for core facilities that will benefit the core platform.</DIV><DIV>3) Improve relations/communication among the various forks of squeak.</DIV><DIV>4) Raise awareness of Squeak as a serious open source platform for application development. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Todd Blanchard</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:35 AM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">All,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As a reminder today is the last day to announce your candidacy for the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Squeak Foundation Board.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you are interested in running in the election then please announce today</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">by sending an email to Squeak-dev.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thank you all for your participation in this process.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We encourage you to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">stay in touch and monitor this list and the Weekly Squeak</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com">http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com</A> for articles and information about the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">election and the candidates.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Remember to be eligible to vote you must have</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">an account on SqueakPeople <A href="http://people.squeakfoundation.org">http://people.squeakfoundation.org</A>/ with a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">certification of Apprentice or higher.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you have any trouble getting your certification please feel free to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">contact the list or email me off-line.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Your vote counts!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Please plan to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">vote.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The voters list will be finalized on the 3rd of March, and the CIVS<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(<A href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html</A> ) election started. The election</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">will run for 3 days, and the results announced on March 7th, 2007.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ron Teitelbaum</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Squeak Elections Team Member</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>