OK, right down to the wire. What I said last year pretty much applies this year, but I'll put my hat in the ring anyway. Here's what I said last year, with annotations (in brackets): I'll admit it. My day job*s* consume most of my time now. This is the full-on opposite of the situation when I put my hat in the ring for the 2008 board. I was broke (no income) and broken (arm) and bummed (the market crash reduced the value of my house by a full third, putting me heavily underwater, and my dad and uncle had both recently passed away). But I had rediscovered this thing from my younger days. Smalltalk, particularly in the form of Squeak, and the Seaside framework that made it a whole lot easier to debug webapps and carry state around. And GLASS, which gave me access to commercial-grade VMs when I wanted to scale. In the midst of so much sadness, this made me happy. So I created a blog, and spoke out about Squeak on a dozen podcasts (including my own). And I spoke bravely of the "year of squeak", inspiring others (including many of my fan base) to take a look at that silly little toy language with decades of history. Lots of action back then. Lots of inspiration. This past year, my work schedule has interrupted my attending about 20% of the bi-weekly board meetings, and it seems like I have not much to offer except making promises that never find time to complete, which I regret later. [This is still true, even this year.] However, I'm still inspired by Squeak. I have a client that has committed to a major code rewrite of their customer-facing site in Seaside and jQuery before the end of this year, so I'll be dusting off the old images soon. I'm also working to migrate the squeak.org websites to a more accessible platform (running jailed in a FreeBSD VM, on ZFS so point-in-time snapshotting and journaling are all available). [Neither of which happened, although we now have a working freebsd VM, so we're a bit closer.] I also still have a voice and a following, and whether or not I'm reelected to this year's board, I will still speak fondly of Squeak. [And I still do.] So, I beg you, if you find a candidate that's likely to make more than 80% of the meetings (and have time to take on more outside tasks), please choose them. But otherwise, I'm there, and will continue to do what I can, even if it's not everything I want. [And this is still true... I'll serve, if elected, but if you want new blood, I won't be offended in the slightest.] The rest of the board also said that if I don't run again this year, the meetings will be far more boring, since I'm also the jester in the group. [They didn't urge me to run this year, because I missed the last three meetings.] Consider this my official announcement. If y'all have questions, I'll watch for them here in squeak-dev. Thank you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[hidden email]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion |
Randal!
As someone who escaped the trappings of static systems by way of a young (older than me) CEO who insisted that I read Learning Perl to fix the bugs in my head, a long time ago: I might not be here now if I hadn't read your books. With the 4.0 release, I know what it's like to work with you. It doesn't suck. I'd like to urge the community to consider this individual for the board, even if his time/bandwidth may be limited. Randal has a LOT to offer our community, even if his time is limited. That's my view, anyway. --Casey On Jan 28, 2013, at 7:05 AM, [hidden email] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > OK, right down to the wire. What I said last year pretty much applies > this year, but I'll put my hat in the ring anyway. Here's what I said > last year, with annotations (in brackets): > > I'll admit it. My day job*s* consume most of my time now. This is the > full-on opposite of the situation when I put my hat in the ring for the > 2008 board. I was broke (no income) and broken (arm) and bummed (the > market crash reduced the value of my house by a full third, putting me > heavily underwater, and my dad and uncle had both recently passed away). > > But I had rediscovered this thing from my younger days. Smalltalk, > particularly in the form of Squeak, and the Seaside framework that made > it a whole lot easier to debug webapps and carry state around. And > GLASS, which gave me access to commercial-grade VMs when I wanted to > scale. > > In the midst of so much sadness, this made me happy. So I created a > blog, and spoke out about Squeak on a dozen podcasts (including my own). > And I spoke bravely of the "year of squeak", inspiring others (including > many of my fan base) to take a look at that silly little toy language > with decades of history. > > Lots of action back then. Lots of inspiration. > > This past year, my work schedule has interrupted my attending about 20% > of the bi-weekly board meetings, and it seems like I have not much to > offer except making promises that never find time to complete, which I > regret later. > > [This is still true, even this year.] > > However, I'm still inspired by Squeak. I have a client that has > committed to a major code rewrite of their customer-facing site in > Seaside and jQuery before the end of this year, so I'll be dusting off > the old images soon. I'm also working to migrate the squeak.org > websites to a more accessible platform (running jailed in a FreeBSD VM, > on ZFS so point-in-time snapshotting and journaling are all available). > > [Neither of which happened, although we now have a working freebsd VM, > so we're a bit closer.] > > I also still have a voice and a following, and whether or not I'm > reelected to this year's board, I will still speak fondly of Squeak. > > [And I still do.] > > So, I beg you, if you find a candidate that's likely to make more than > 80% of the meetings (and have time to take on more outside tasks), > please choose them. But otherwise, I'm there, and will continue to do > what I can, even if it's not everything I want. > > [And this is still true... I'll serve, if elected, but if you want new > blood, I won't be offended in the slightest.] > > The rest of the board also said that if I don't run again this year, the > meetings will be far more boring, since I'm also the jester in the > group. > > [They didn't urge me to run this year, because I missed the last three > meetings.] > > Consider this my official announcement. If y'all have questions, I'll > watch for them here in squeak-dev. Thank you. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[hidden email]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion > |
>>>>> "Casey" == Casey Ransberger <[hidden email]> writes:
Casey> With the 4.0 release, I know what it's like to work with you. It Casey> doesn't suck. I'd like to urge the community to consider this Casey> individual for the board, even if his time/bandwidth may be Casey> limited. Randal has a LOT to offer our community, even if his Casey> time is limited. That's my view, anyway. Thank you, sir. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[hidden email]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion |
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