Hello everyone,

Our deadline for announcing your candidacy to the Squeak Foundation Board has passed, which means we have a final list of 12 candidates.  They are:

Cees de Groot

Tim Rowledge

Bert Freudenberg

Craig Latta

Stéphane Ducasse

Giovanni Corriga

Keith Hodges

Andrew P. Black

Todd Blanchard

Yoshiki Ohshima

Tansel Ersavas

Brad Fuller

We have a short time to find out more about these candidates before the election.  I will be sending the same questions to each candidate and will publish a final article on http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com .  I will post a link here when the article is finished.  The answers will be published in the order that I receive them back.  Which could mean you should start reading at the bottom!

In the mean time I encourage people to support your favorite candidate!  Please post a recommendation for your favorite candidate, include details about that candidate that people may not know.  It is sometimes difficult for people to talk about themselves so I encourage you to help.  I say support your favorite candidate and not a group of candidates for a reason.  Many people support all the candidates and feel that if they post something about someone they need to post something about everyone.  So let's take posts about someone as a positive thing and not a vote against others.  Help us learn about the people running by sharing what you know about them.

If you support a foundation platform now is a good time for you to tell us that.  Submit your ideas and let candidates comment about your platform suggestions on-list.  The more we can make this an open discussion the better.

Remember voting starts on March 3rd, 2007.

Thank you everyone for participating!

Ron Teitelbaum

Squeak Elections Team Member