I'd like to also voice my appreciation to Ron for handling the election **so well**! The two-week duration, reminders, etc. IMO, made for a transparent and fair which is very refreshing, even if its a small election.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 04:46:21PM -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Hello Everyone!
First a big thank you to everyone that ran for a board seat and all of you that voted! This is a great community and we are looking forward to a great year ahead!
And now please help me welcome the new 2019 Squeak Board Members!
Thanks Ron, and thanks to all who volunteered to run for the board, and all who voted.
I'd particularly like to thank John for throwing your hat in the ring. I know what its like to be new in the arena. Hope to see you on the list more, and even more fresh blood running in next years election.
John-Reed isn't new, I met him at Smalltalk Solutions in 2013. He was my top vote for his vision of making and using Squeak applications.
A special welcome to new board member Ben Coman, and return member Chris Muller.
Ben, if I am not mistaken you are based in Western Australia,
spot on!
which is great because we have many under-represented Squeakers in Japan about one hour away from you on the time zone map.
As luck would have it, we have a Squeak oversight board meeting scheduled for tomorrow, not too many hours from now. It's probably too late to coordinate all the incoming and emeritus members, but we do have an open agenda item to pick a new and better meeting time for our meetings.
I can make that time (if I haven't missed it already this morning past). Can you send me connection details?
Given that we now have a GMT+08:00 member on the board, I would like to suggest a board meeting time of 22:00 GMT for future meetings:
That time is nearly ideal for me.
- Chris