Hi all, > On 20 Jan 2015, at 15:37, Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Voting Yes (binding). > > Louis definitely has the passion. > > Whomever takes the reins, the project has much to improve. A re-energized > PMC and community is critical.
Thanks, Don. I feel I should speak of myself in the 3rd person. :-) More seriously… let's presume that a new election will be held, if not really soon then sooner than later. The question, then, is what do we want for the chair to do? Recall, the chair must operate within certain constraints we've agreed to as an Apache project. But the PMC is able, indeed basically (t)asked, to act as something more than, uhm, electrons, and *do*. (Note, I was more or less raised in cooperatives and led one when I hadn't yet started to shave, back as a frosh @ UC Berkeley. I was schooled in the idea that any position of responsibility, especially executive, necessarily obligated its holder to routine work, of the sort that kept the whole thing, of which he was a part going. I still believe it and though I, like many others, seek to find ways *not* to do the boring stuff, still, you know, it's kind of fun and I do it. And, for all my complaints, it's also simply satisfying. So, I like thinking that one very likely unpopular way of looking at the PMC—and not just ours—is through the lens of a cooperative. In our case, for those of us who, like me, can code as well as he can sing, that can mean anything from mentoring to marketing and all the alphabetical letters in-between and around.) cheers, Louis > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to >> resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor >> could be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in the end we >> have one candidate available to be the next OpenOffice PMC Chair: Louis >> Suárez-Potts. It's now time to vote. >> >> Do you approve that, in his capacity as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair, >> Andrea Pescetti submits a resolution to the Board asking to be replaced by >> Louis Suárez-Potts as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair? >> [X] +1 Yes >> [ ] 0 Abstain >> [ ] -1 No >> >> Vote opens now and it will last one week (and a few hours), until 22 >> January 2015 10:00 AM GMT, to give all community members the opportunity to >> participate. If vote passes, the resolution will be submitted to the Board >> in time for the February meeting (18 February 2015). >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
