All,

There were two things that I didn't like about the election.  

First, there should have been more written by the candidates about why they
wanted to be on the board, and what they wanted to accomplish.  (I believe
Daniel pointed that out already)

Second, there was not enough support for candidates from existing board
members.  I would have liked to see write ups from board members and others
supporting their favorite candidates.  There are a number of people that I
feel could have had a lot of influence on the election if they had actively
supported candidates.  It would have been helpful for people to come out and
say who they supported and why.

Maybe during the next election there could be a debate, questions submitted
to each candidate collated and presented as a platform comparison.  We might
also have individual pages where people could write comments so that we have
a better idea of the current level of support that each candidate has from
the community.  Gauging the community support is a very important aspect of
why each candidate should be elected.  

I spent a great deal of time trying to encourage people to run
(unsuccessfully).  I also spent some time writing up a post to support my
favorite candidates.  I finally decided against sending it out because I
didn't feel my standing in the community was strong enough for it to make a
difference.  Thinking back now I guess I should have sent it.

I think the board is made up of very good people.  I can say also that Ken
was instrumental in getting our cryptography group going and I would like to
personally thank you Ken for your support and would hope that you continue
to participate in this community no less then before.  

We might also consider Board Member Emeritus status, which might include
rights to the board list and encouragement to participate in discussions but
with no voting rights.  Just a thought.

Ron Teitelbaum
President / Principal Software Engineer
US Medical Record Specialists
Ron at USMedRec.com 
Squeak Cryptography Team Leader
Squeak News Team Member

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Cees De Groot
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 3:01 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Election results
> 
> On 2/24/06, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> > Thank you Göran for your vote of encouragement.  But actually I'm pretty
> > happy to be able to turn to other things for a while.
> 
> To be frank, I wouldn't have minded at all not to be re-elected :-).
> But still, I don't like this particular bit of the outcome at all -
> one of the hardest-working guys on the board didn't get re-elected.
> That means that either the community does not want hard-working people
> on the board, or - more likely - that there's a disconnect here. It'll
> be an important item on the agenda for the coming board to work on
> that.
>