Hi. First of all thanks to all those who voted for me as new chair and PMC member. A special thank to Dennis for running as candidate, in my opinion Dennis is at least as, if not more, qualified than I am and I hope that will be acknowledged very fast.
Looking at the votes makes me a bit concerned. Had one candidate got e.g. 90% of the votes, it would have been a show of a united community. The current distribution of votes can have multiple causes: 1) Votes were cast due to the goal/work target of each candidate 2) Votes go to one candidate as a indirect -1 to the other candidate 3) Both candidates are equally good, so the project will benefit from both. I hope the cause is number 3. Because both 1 and 2 signal we have something to correct or reunite. The work as chair is simple and well defined, but the PMC work is a lot more open for definitions, therefore I ask those who feel like it, and especially those who voted for Dennis...please give me a mail if there is something I should do better or not do (as PMC). I cannot give promises, but to me it is important that we have a united community. We have challenging work ahead of us, which we must be able to concentrate on..so let us all start pulling and hopefully in the same direction. I for one, will start discussions about what we need to change to seriously attract people, and give our code a facelift...I do have some indications from elsewhere that are equally exciting and innovative, more about this later. jan I.
