> 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