2015-01-26 1:48 GMT+01:00 Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]>: > It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on > Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure > the conversations and discussion are of value. > > I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache > OpenOffice PMC Chair. > > RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR > My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the > responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation. > > APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE > > With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to > serve as an effective member of that community and with particular > attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the > cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project. > As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers > and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am > also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among > ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache > OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as > slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be > broadened and materials brought current and highly-available. > > WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN? > > Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I > was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top > Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to > administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers > and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the > preservation of the OpenOffice Forums. > > I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters. > My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on > the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative > resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time. > > Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and > cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last > year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the > final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also > did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that. > > It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF > interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My > participation has increased to the current level over the past few months. > I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and > PPMC member of that newborn podling. > > NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN? > > I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I > went through the usual progression of development from programmer to > becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including > assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also > did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work > at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania > during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I > did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once > when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a > consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software > architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and > finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement > as a career. > > I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL > 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of > interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of > consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in > my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various > kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those > standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both > of those specifications. > > SO WHAT? > > Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met > others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting. > > More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say > what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And > please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not > happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its > Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community > has. > > I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever > the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached > to being PMC Chair. I am offering to take on those duties as a means for > us to move forward onto other priority challenges for the Project. >
Hi Dennis and all, I'm really grateful to you for both your decision to nominate yourself and to have written such a nice nomination. I just feel sorry I didn't nominate you, only reason is that I didn't know you were actually open to do so. Your dedication to Apache and Apache OpenOffice are admirable, I'm glad we eventually got the chance to meet in person at OSCON last year, and I'd really love to see you as AOO Chair, I'm sure you'd do a fantastic job! Best, > > > -- Dennis E. Hamilton > [email protected] > [email protected] +1-206-779-9430 > https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A > X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
