On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 12:14:59PM -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
Hi All,
It's that time again. Time to raise your voices and elect your leaders! Can you believe it's been a year already?
It's a time for you to stand up, help your community and volunteer to serve!
I am running for the Squeak Oversight Board this year.
I am a hobby programmer who has participated in the Squeak community for quite a few years on a strictly amateur basis. In my professional life, I have done technology management, supervisory roles, and a range of system integration and specialty programming project work. For Squeak, I have done a few interesting projects such as OSProcess and TZ-Olson (see SqueakMap package loader) and some VM support work.
I have grown rather fond of Squeak over the years, and I am committed both to preserving its heritage and to advancing its ongoing development.
My most recent contribution to Squeak was the UTC time enhancements that are now in Squeak 5.3, and I hope to make more contributions in the future. But more importantly, I want to encourage and support the amazingly great new work that I see coming from university students (esp. HPI), the mind-bending internet and JS work coming from Craig and Bert and others, and the cutting edge VM development coming from Eliot's growing base of oscog developers. I view it as a critical technology management problem to make sure that Squeak continues to be an open, effective, and respected platform for advancing these complementary goals.
Last but definitely not least, I want Squeak to provide great support for art and education, including music, graphics, and projects such as Etoys and Scratch.
Dave