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