HI all,

Thank you all for stepping up to run for the board.

We now have 6 candidates for 7 board seats.   (in the order of
announcement)

Craig Latta
Tim Rowledge
Marcel Taeumel
Bert Freudenberg
David T. Lewis
Ben Coman

Squeak still needs you.  You can help by running for the board or by
getting someone you know that is active in the Squeak community to run!
Now is the time to reach out and get others to run!

Don't forget to vote!  The ballots will be coming out next week.  When you
see the ballot please vote right away!  Don't leave it for later.  You will
have 2 weeks to vote so that we don't miss anyone but please look for the
email and vote as quickly as possible.  If you are not on the voter list
now is the time to register.  Let me know and I'll add you to the list.
Also if you have a new email address let me know so we can fix it before
voting starts.

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum


On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:23 AM Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 00:24, Ron Teitelbaum <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> It's that time again.
>>
>
> After years of watching, this year I signed up to vote for the first
> time!
> A personal development program I'm involved in made me realize I've been
> keeping myself on the sidelines
> since the election normally takes care of itself - but my complacency
> disconnects me from my community.
>
> So I signed up. I would encourage anyone else lurking to also do so.  It
> really didn't hurt.
>
>
> And then someone encouraged me to nominate.
>
> My first thought was "no, I'm more involved with Pharo".
> Then after consideration I realized who I am is someone concerned with the
> continuation of Squeak
> and with a foot in both camps I may have something of value to offer the
> Squeak community.
>
> While the two dialects are diverging significantly at the UI level, my
> interests lie
> at the lower levels where there doesn't "necessarily" need to a lot of
> differences.
> Notwithstanding opposing design decisions, the natural enemy is isolation.
>
> So should the Squeak community see value in it, I would:
>       * quantify the low level Squeak/Pharo differences referenced against
> Pharo's headless build
>       * promote low level homogenization of dialects (and I'll be glad to
> learn something new from any dissent around design decisions)
>       * promote a headless version of Squeak to run on the same
> minheadless VM that Pharo is targetting
>       * work to reduce dialect specific IFDEFS in the vm code
>
> I offer my candidacy for the 2019 Squeak Oversight Board on that
> platform.
> If you see the possibility of that benefiting Squeak, please let your
> opinion
> be known by voting, particularly if you've not voted before.
>
> cheers -ben
>
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