As most of you know, Daniel Vainsencher retired recently as one of the six Squeak Guides.

The remaining Guides discussed what we should do to find a replacement Guide. We decided that, since this was the first replacement, we'd go the simpler route and choose someone that we all agreed on, as opposed to having some sort of election. At some point in the future, we would like to have a more formal election process, or possibly even re-think the current scheme of having exactly six Guides who rotate every 6-24 months. Some brainstorming on this topic would be welcome. (For example, one possible tool for voting in elections would be the trust metrics from the Squeak People site.)

Anyway, for choosing the next Guide, we wanted someone who we thought was competent and had also been doing Guide-related work as a volunteer. Several people could probably fill this role, but we decided to offer it to Marcus Denker, who has been doing a lot of work as a harvester, working on incorporating larger items such as SmaCC, maintaining the BaseImageTests package, etc.

So, welcome Marcus!

Marcus' exact role as a Guide has not been explicitly mapped out, but it could certainly include the work he's already doing with harvesting and testing infrastructure.

I've updated the Guides page at:

http://swiki.squeakfoundation.org/squeakfoundation/70

Note that the Guides are a group of unpaid volunteers, and one certainly does not have to be a Guide to do important volunteer work for Squeak. :-)

- Doug Way & the Guides