Re: Squeak Oversight Board Election 2020

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

We are off to a great start.  One week down and one more to go.  So far we have 4 candidates for 7 board seats.

In the order they announced:

Marcel Taeumel
David T. Lewis
Tim Rowledge
Bert Freudenberg

We could use at least THREE more candidates!  Hello hello? Is this thing on? I can hear you breathing! 

If you are going to run this year, please announce soon!  If you are not going to run please talk to people you know that you think would make a good board member and ask them to run!  It's always nice to have more than 7 candidates!  

Also if your email has changed please let me know!  We want to get as many people voting as possible! If you want to vote this year I encourage you to let me know so I can get you on the voters list.  Be sure to get to know the candidates and ask them questions!

Thank you for your participation in this year's election!

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum 

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 12:14 PM Ron Teitelbaum <[hidden email]> 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!

Squeak wants you!

Every year we elect the SOB (Squeak Oversight Board) consisting of seven members from our community. The current board members are:

1. Bert Freudenberg
2. Craig Latta
3. Tim Rowledge
4. David T. Lewis
5. Marcel Taeumel
6. Chris Muller
7. Ben Coman

For more info on the board please see:

https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/our-mission/

Everything about the election, including schedule and more, can be tracked here:
               http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6636

Now until Monday 20th of January 3 PM (20.00 UTC): Nominations of SOB members and campaigning!

Candidates should nominate themselves and start their campaign on the squeak-dev mailing list. Or if you nominate someone else, make sure that person really wants to run. :) I will not put anyone on the candidate list until that person makes it known on squeak-dev that he/she intends to run.

During this period, the candidates should ideally present themselves on squeak-dev, unless they have already done so, and the community can ask questions.

I encourage you to reach out to potential candidates, people that are active in the community and represent your views, and ask them to run. Some people will not run without encouragement.  Also, I know that some people wait to the last minute to run for the board to see if others will run but please consider getting this year off to a faster start and just jump right in!

The schedule and process are as follows:

Now until Monday 20th of January 3 PM (20.00 UTC): Nominations of SOB members and campaigning!
Monday 20th of January 2020 3 PM (20.00 UTC): Candidate list is finalized.
Monday 20th of January 2020 4 PM (21.00 UTC): Online election starts.
Tuesday 4th of February 2020 4 PM (23.00 UTC): Online election ends.
Results will be announced immediately after the election ends.

The voting period is two week long and ballots are sent out via email.

And how do you end up on the voter list? See below. :)

IMPORTANT: New voters will NOT be added once the election is started. You MUST try to get on the voter list before the 20st of January 2020 or you will NOT be able to vote. If your Email has changed please try to make sure it is changed on the list of voters before the election starts.

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If you were invited to vote last year you are already on the voter list, no worries! If you are a new Squeaker and wish to vote you should do ONE of the following:

      * Get a "known" Squeaker to vouch for you. If a known Squeaker sends an email to voters (at) squeak.org giving me a name and email for you, then I will add you.

      * Send an email to voters at squeak.org yourself (and CC to squeak-dev if you like) with information/arguments showing me that you are indeed serious about voting and that you are indeed a Squeaker.

When the voting period starts all voters will receive an email with instructions and a link to the voting website.

If there are any further questions, just reply *in this thread* and I will closely track it - or send email to voters (at) squeak.org which points to me.

...so let's get on with it!

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

Ron,

Interesting that there is an 'oversight' board but we have to wonder what
oversight is actually applied? There are many queries on here (one or two
from me) showing that there are issues with finding appropriate and up to
date docs covering basic setup and operating issues. As an example, much of
that points to the squeakbyexample.org site which seems to have been taken
over. As well as that, there are many versions of Squeak on the web, and not
much guidance as to which docs and guides work with what versions. There
seems an overall cleanup project missing? I also wonder why there are so
many expert-level queries on a list supposed to support beginners, perhaps
some of that is off-putting to newbies?



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